Duke Impact Investing Group
Duke Impact Investing Group
What We Do
Spreading Awareness
Creating a New Generation of Impact Investors
We spread awareness about the power of social entrepreneurship and impact investing. We make it easy for undergraduates to learn about these fields and get hands-on engagement. With a curated curriculum, speaker series, and more, we give students the tools they need to learn about and contribute to the growing impact investing movement.
Providing Capital
Empowering Impact
We seek to make impact investing opportunities more accessible and available to startups and small businesses across the Research Triangle Park area. By harnessing the enthusiasm of Duke undergraduates, we aim to allow for the efficient and socially beneficial distribution of capital, mentorship, and support to startups and business who need/desire it to grow their social impact.
Pro-Bono Consulting
A Helping Hand
We seek to provide 100% free business strategy and solutions consulting services for socially-minded businesses in the local community as well as for businesses that we have invested capital in. We aspire to set up businesses with capable and trained undergraduate consulting teams to help businesses grow and scale, with a major goal of generating significant positive social impact.
How We Can Help You
Students
A Rare Opportunity
At DIIG, students will be educated by our team on social impact investing. These students will also have opportunities to gain hands-on experience with consulting for and investing in a business through our state-of-the-art education system, which is fully supported by Duke University's Entrepreneurship and Innovation Department.
Businesses
Grow Your Business
DIIG will provide capital, mentorship, and access to a plethora of resources for any business that needs or desires it. Businesses that are a part of our portfolio will have access to capital, top-notch consultants, and mentors at their disposal for help with anything ranging from getting a website up to scaling their business.
Team
Michael Tan
Co-President
Saheel Chodavadia
Co-President
Hemanth Yakkali
Director of Technology
Jacob Young
Director of Consulting
Kevin Zhang
Co-Director of Finance
Dilan Trivedi
Co-Director of Finance
Peter Sun
Director of Research
Edward Coles
Director of Operations
Michelle Li
Creative Director
Chloe Gura
Social Media Manager
Matthew Nash
Advisor
Matthew T.A. Nash serves as the Managing Director for Social Entrepreneurship for Duke University. He designs and manages university-wide social innovation and entrepreneurship programming for the Duke Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative.
Eric Savage
Advisor
Eric Savage serves as the President and Co-Founder at Unitus Capital. A founding team member of Unitus Capital, Mr. Savage transitioned from the Capital Markets team at Unitus, which he joined in 2007 and has led the company in raising well over US$1 billion for various social businesses.
Isaac Fraynd
Advisor
Isaac (Trinity '15) serves as the DealFlow Manager at Aqua-Spark, a globally focused, mission-driven investment fund based in Utrecht, the Netherlands focused on the sustainable aquaculture ecosystem.
