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Join our impact investing and entrepreneurship ecosystem.
The Tarrson Fund is where impact investors and entrepreneurs at Booth get their start. With a focus on building an impact ecosystem, we take a partnership approach to all that we do: making investments, growing our portfolio companies, and building a pipeline of impact-oriented investing and startup talent.
How to Reach Us
We’re actively building our community and ecosystem, and encourage you to reach out. Choose the category that best fits you to find out how to get in touch.
Whether or not you’re actively raising capital, we’d love to get to know you. The sooner we connect, the better positioned we’ll be when the time is right to raise your next round. You don’t need a warm intro to get in touch with us. , and one of our Fund members will get in touch with you soon!
Incumbent funds are recognizing the value of building partnerships with emerging investors like the Tarrson Fund to broaden their reach and deepen their investment pipelines. With partners like us, you have more than just a co-investor—you have a diverse, well-rounded team of business and impact experts ready to offer portfolio support.
To explore opportunities to partner with us or augment your dealflow, reach out to us.
Booth’s unparalleled finance curriculum, coupled with the Rustandy Center’s top-notch experiential education in social sector innovation, is training the impact finance leaders of the future.
To explore opportunities to hire impact investing talent, reach out to us. Feel free to forward open roles, if you’d like!
We’re bullish on a future that marries profit and purpose, but are deeply aware of the nuance and rigor required when these two missions intersect. We love helping students get their feet wet, test this space, and become more knowledgeable about how to blend the two for greater impact and returns.
We love meeting students interested in Impact Investing and the work of the Tarrson Fund, whether you’re a potential applicant to Booth or a current Booth or other MBA student.
and how we can be helpful, and we’ll connect you with the right person from our team.
We deeply value mentorship in the dynamic, ever-evolving Impact Investing field and are so grateful for our alumni who give time and resources generously, professionals who take pride in mentorship and education, and faculty and staff who are committed to student success.
With demand from students outpacing the supply of opportunities to grow and learn, we’re always looking for more mentors, advisors, and supporters to help answer questions about the industry, give talks on their areas of expertise, guide student deal teams with industry-specific diligence, and share career insights.
If this sounds like you, please reach out to us and let us know how you’d like to be involved.
Standing up a fund is no small feat. Congrats on diving into this adventure! We believe that financial and impact returns are not mutually exclusive, and there鈥檚 no better time to learn how to invest than while in school. We leaned on the small community of existing , and we鈥檙e always looking to pay it forward.
Whether you鈥檙e considering launching a fund or already in the thick of it, we鈥檙e happy to share our thinking and lessons. Just send us a note at tarrsonfund@chicagobooth.edu.