Eoghan Mackie

Investors’ perspectives - Bridging the valley of death

A number of people writing about social investment have used the term ‘valley of death’, including Simon Desjardins, writing in Alliance in June 2011, who wrote of ‘the valley of death between concept stage and commercial funding that plagues the social enterprise sector globally’. The approach Challenges Worldwide offers to bridge this valley is a combination of business development and investment support for small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).