November 13, 2011
Social-Venture Fund Matures and Thrives
Palo Alto, Calif.
During the tech bubble in the late 1990s, the young and rich technology entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley were sometimes derided as “the cyber-stingy.”
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, a philanthropist who teaches at Stanford, started the Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund in 1998 to encourage the newly minted millionaires to become more generous and to help them give effectively.
The fund, often called SV2, also was one of the early apostles of the venture-philanthropy
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