Capital, Markets and Economics

Increasing wealth and creating jobs in the United States begins by connecting investors with high-potential start-up and early stage companies. Kauffman Foundation research and programs have built the nation’s first network of angel investor organizations, trained future venture capitalists and future leaders of high-growth companies, and studied the history and performance of investments in minority-owned enterprises.

Initiatives

  • This study, funded in part by the Kauffman Foundation, examines the track record of women's business enterprises seeking access to corporate markets.

  • The Angel Capital Education Foundation (ACEF), founded by the Kauffman Foundation, is a charitable organization devoted to education of angel investors and to collecting and disseminating data and information on angel investors and angel investing groups.

  • The Business Dynamics Statistics is a data series that tracks the annual changes in employment for growing and shrinking businesses.

  • Knowing that entrepreneurs can accelerate the clean energy revolution if given access to the right networks, the Kauffman Foundation launched the Energy Innovation Network.

  • Kauffman's blog at growthology.org shares thoughts and ideas to enhance faster economic growth, greater individual opportunity, smart government policy, and the expansion of human welfare.

  • The Kauffman Fellows Program provides firsthand experience in the venture capital process for exceptional men and women.

  • This initiative provides for the development of one-stop economic empowerment centers to provide business training, counseling, financing, and procurement opportunities to minority and urban business owners.

Highlights

Featured Resources

  • The Ascent of Money, a PBS series produced with funding from the Kauffman Foundation, tells the compelling history of money, credit, bonds, stocks, insurance, real estate, globalization, hedge funds, computer models of investing, and behavioral finance.

  • cover_w_shadowIn this book, the authors document four different varieties of capitalism, some "Good" and some "Bad" for growth. The authors identify the conditions that characterize Good Capitalism—the right blend of entrepreneurial and established firms, which can vary among countries—as well as the features of Bad Capitalism.

  • Bob Litan, Vice President of Research and Policy at the Kauffman Foundation,  joins a panel of experts to tackle the impending budget crisis that entitlement spending could cause with an online forum on NewTalk.org. The debate includes the sustainability of Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security and possible solutions.