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Jacqueline Novogratz
CEO - Acumen Fund
Jacqueline Novogratz is founder and CEO of Acumen Fund, a nonprofit global venture fund seed funded by Rockefeller and Cisco Foundations and several individuals.
Acumen Fund invests charitable contributions in breakthrough technologies, products and services that promise to improve the lives of the poor around the world.
Acumen Fund currently \"invests\" through three funds: bringing affordable health technologies to the poor; sustainable innovations in water technologies; and building economic and civic enterprises in the Muslim world.
The organization operates primarily in South Asia, the Middle East and Africa.Ê Since incorporating in April 2001, Acumen has raised over million from 54 partners, including foundations, corporations and individual philanthropists.
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