COURSE NUMBER: MBA292T.8

COURSE TITLE: Berkeley Impact Venture Partners (BIVP): Accelerate

UNITS OF CREDIT: 2

INSTRUCTOR: Jorge M. Calderon

E-MAIL ADDRESSES: jorgecalderon@haas.berkeley.edu

MEETING DAY/TIME: Tuesdays, Chou Hall, N540/544, 6:00 PM - 9:30 PM (12 weeks, February 4-April 21)

PREREQUISITE(S): As a new course, we will be flexible on prerequisites, but would encourage you to have already been in an impact investing, impact entrepreneurship, venture capital, traditional entrepreneurship course, related program (Launch, HIIN, GSVC, etc.) or have work experience in this field.

CLASS FORMAT: Hands-on management of accelerator program, activity based lectures, readings and flipped classroom media content to deliver instruction

REQUIRED READINGS: Combination of readings, video materials and market research

BASIS FOR FINAL GRADE: Group and individual deliverables, level of engagement & peer reviews

CAREER FIELD: This advanced course is most useful for students who are committed to a career in impact investing, impact entrepreneurship, impact management consulting or closely related field

ABSTRACT OF COURSE'S CONTENT AND OBJECTIVES:

Class Summary:

Berkeley Impact Venture Partners (BIVP) is a teaching platform that provides UC Berkeley faculty, students, alums and affiliates interested in impact investing and impact entrepreneurship an infrastructure for developing knowledge and receiving instruction. It builds upon the success of previous experiential learning assets founded at Haas, including the Berkeley Haas Social Venture Fund (BHSVF), Haas Impact Investing Network (HIIN) and Global Social Venture Competition (GSVC). BIVP is part of the broader Haas Sustainable and Impact Finance (SaIF) initiative.

Emulating a traditional fund manager model, BIVP (www.berkeleyimpact.com) is responsible for overseeing two funds with distinct investment strategies: the Amp Fund and the Scale Fund. Amp follows an early seed model, providing pre-formation Berkeley student-led impact startups with discovery grant capital and stewardship through an accelerator program. Scale follows an impact investment approach, providing equity capital and custom stewardship for post-formation, early stage impact start-ups. BIVP is governed by a steering committee, supported by SaIF staff and operationalized through a collection of courses, activities and a proprietary volunteer expert network.

Three BIVP related graduate level courses at Haas are part of the 2019-2020 academic year: BIVP-Portfolio (Fall 19), BIVP-Accelerate (Spring 20) and Investments (Spring 20). This current fall semester, BIVP-Portfolio student enrolled as venture partners learned how to provide custom stewardship of impact startups, design an accelerator program and make accelerator funding award decisions. For the upcoming Spring, new BIVP-Accelerate student venture partners will learn how to effectively steward a high volume of impact startups by leading and managing our new Amp accelerator designed largely by previous BIVP-Portfolio students.

The BIVP-Accelerate course will include weekly classroom lectures, accelerator activities, guest speakers and in-class workshopping. Curriculum leans heavily on several frameworks that including Purpose-Centered Design, Startup Readiness and other well-developed innovation methodologies/tools. Students will have an opportunity to engage directly with the impact startup founders, impact investors, accelerator managers and other experts who volunteer as coaches, mentors and judges.

Through this real-world experience, enrolled students will build or advance skills and knowledge in preparation for careers in impact investing, impact entrepreneurship, impact management consulting and/or related scalable impact field. On top of the core curriculum, we will also offer an optional career planning support track.

Class Objectives:

Leadership Development

● Learn how to be an effective impact fund, or accelerator, manager

● Learn how to lead and manage an impact startup accelerator model

Skill and Knowledge Development

● Learn how to provide effective stewardship to impact startups in the capacity of an external investor

● Learn the unique circumstances that help some impact startups grow

● (optional) Develop a personal career plan for Impact Investing and related roles

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH:

Jorge is a career entrepreneur, management consultant, venture investment professional & educator. Mr. Calderon is the Founder and CEO of Eddily, a skill building and campus recruiting software platform for college students that is directly powered by employers. He previously led Impact Strategy Advisors (ISA), a boutique impact venture & investment design consulting firm where he was the founding Managing Director. Jorge’s practice focused on helping capital sources & operating companies transform intentional social purpose into economic & positive impact value. Mr. Calderon has broad expertise in a variety of social themes, including education, economic development, diversity/inclusion, job creation, poverty alleviation, access to food, technology for change and the field of impact investing. Jorge is the author of Startup Discovery Method and Purpose-Centered Design frameworks. He is also a lecturer at the Berkeley Haas School of Business, where he developed the Impact Startup Launchpad, Startup Disco & portions of the BIVP curricula, is a Fellow within Berkeley’s Institute for Business and Social Impact (IBSI), founded the Berkeley Impact Venture Partners (BIVP), was formerly part of the faculty team for the LAUNCH accelerator, previously served as the Faculty Director for the GSVC, and is actively involved with campus based inclusive innovation programs. Through Berkeley Haas, he received the Richard H. Holton Teaching Fellow (2015-2016) Award and 2016 Berkeley-Haas Best Case Award. Mr. Calderon also previously founded Springworks, a program lab that was committed to developing paths for women and minorities in innovation related careers. Earlier he was the founding Director for the West Coast office of a tech focused seed stage venture capital firm and has had roles in top tier management consulting, banking and technology companies. Mr. Calderon is a University of Michigan graduate and received his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.