Oxford University StudentSaid Business School
Sean Peters has built his career supporting entrepreneurship as a tool to improve lives around the world.
Over the past three years Sean has been based out of Emory University, where he led the construction of the Entrepreneurship Database, the world's largest research program exploring entrepreneurship and accelerator models. In partnership with USAID, ANDE, Kauffman Foundation and others, this program has raised over $3M in seed funding and is implemented within over 80 accelerator programs worldwide.
Early in his career, Sean co-founded Riding to Break the Cycle, an adventure tourism social enterprise that conducted long-distance bike tours (Vancouver to Tijuana; Amsterdam to Istanbul) in support of microfinance initiatives around the world.
In 2011, after a year of research into gaps in impact investing markets, Sean co-founded Global Catalyst Initiative, a small early-stage fund focused on East African social venture startups too small to access the pools of impact investment capital that had emerged in the region. This program explored 200 ventures and invested in six businesses – all of which went on to receive further funding. In early 2012, Sean was also a co-founder of RADIUS Ventures, a Vancouver-based socially-focused venture accelerator.
Sean is currently an MBA student at Said Business School in Oxford.