A Founder’s Story With Laura Kimes

03/10/22 • 23 min

We're kicking off this season with the former founder of an impact investment, Laura Kimes. Laura shares how she first heard of impact investing and ended up co-founding Greenprint Partners, a project developer of green stormwater infrastructure in at-risk communities. She has since exited the firm and is moving onto new and exciting projects, including building out an ESG program for a PE-backed cleantech company.

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Investing Forward - A Founder’s Story With Laura Kimes

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Linda Rogers: [00:00:00] My name is Linda Rogers, and this is Investing Forward.

Linda Rogers: [00:00:21] Welcome to Season 2 of the Investing Forward Podcast. I'm your host, Linda Rogers, coming to you from Atsugi, Japan. We're kicking off this season with the former founder of an impact investment, Laura Kimes. I connected with Laura a couple of years ago and we had plans to get coffee in San Diego, but COVID got in the way, of course. We still haven't