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News and Stories About the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise
Cornell SC Johnson College of Business Research Paper, March 2025
Summary
Karolyi and his fellow authors study an emerging class of start-up organizations focused on biodiversity conservation and restoration and the challenges they face in financing these ventures. Using a novel machine learning method, they identify 630 biodiversity-linked start-ups in PitchBook. Comparing their financing dynamics to other ventures, these raise less capital but attract a broader coalition of investors from those focused on “value” to those motivated by “values”.
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Cornell University is located on the traditional homelands of the Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ’ (the Cayuga Nation). The Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ’ are members of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, an alliance of six sovereign Nations with a historic and contemporary presence on this land. The Confederacy precedes the establishment of Cornell University, New York state, and the United States of America. We acknowledge the painful history of Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ’ dispossession, and honor the ongoing connection of Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ’ people, past and present, to these lands and waters.
