Phase 2: Capitalizing Indigenous Entrepreneurs

The main goal of this project is to research and develop new social finance instruments for Indigenous Entrepreneurs. This will involve talking with Indigenous entrepreneurs, capital providers, and ecosystem actors to understand their needs, challenges, and opportunities. The project also involves researching existing social finance instruments and traditional ones. These new instruments will complement, leverage, and/or improve, not compete with or replace, existing capital providers. These new instruments will also be culturally appropriate, not harm entrepreneurs, nor bind them into colonial ways of oppression that dominates the existing capital system – like traditional loans or equity.