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Impact InvestingKate Courteau, Director of NonprofitsY Cominator

Date:Thursday, November 20th, 2014Time: 12:30-1:50 PM

Location: TCC 227

Free lunch! Amazing, inspiring speakers! What could be better? The USC Brittingham Social Enterprise Labinvites you to our Lunch & Learn event featuring Kate Courteau, Director of Nonprofits at Y Combinator.

Called Silicon Valleys start-up machine by the New York Times and consistently ranked as one of thetop startup incubator and accelerators, Y Combinator(YC) has funded companies such as Scribd, reddit,

Airbnb, Dropbox, Disqus, and Heroku. To date, they have funded over 700 startups, cultivated acommunity of over 1,400 founders, and their companies have a combined valuation of over $30B.

Recently YC opened its tech company incubation program to social entrepreneurs. By doing so, YC isincentivizing more entrepreneurs who are willing to tackle social challenges with the tools, creativeapproach, and dynamism of the tech sector. And YC is doing it at a time when the social sector needs morefunders and collaborators that are willing to take the chances and spend the resources necessary tocatalyze innovation. Bring your friends, enjoy a free lunch on us, and hear about the exciting collaborationbetween technology, social innovation, entrepreneurship, and funding.

Kate Courteauhas been a part of YC since its beginning in 2005. She is an architect by training and servedas YCs architect over the last 9 years. Kate also has a background in the nonprofit space, locally and in thedeveloping world. Through her experience at YC, her own architecture practice, and in the nonprofit space,she is strengthening the presence of social change startups as Director of Nonprofits

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The Brittingham Social Enterprise Lab provides opportunities for USC students, faculty, and other individuals touse business principles to create social and environmental impact. Through education, programs, events, and careerdevelopment, we inspire the next generation of enlightened business leaders and social entrepreneurs.

The Lunch & Learn series exposes the USC community to issues of social and environmental importance and howbusiness solutions can be used to approach these issues. They are open to Marshall undergraduate and MBA students,as well as faculty, staff, and students from the greaterUSC community.

Co-Sponsored by USC Sigma Eta Pi & Marshall Global Brigades

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