Bulbul Gupta, MPP

Bulbul Gupta is President & CEO of Pacific Community Ventures, where she previously served as a Board member. Bulbul is a mission-driven leader, passionate about making markets and technology work for social good, and the future of workers. She has 20 years of experience in funding and advising entrepreneurs, advancing quality jobs, and growing the field of impact investing for equity and inclusion.

She recently served as the Founding Advisor of Socos Labs, an artificial intelligence think tank innovating to make work and economies more inclusive and human-centric; an adjunct lecturer in Social Innovation & Impact Investing at both Hult International Business School and NYU; and a speaker and coach at Singularity Ventures, 500 Startups, and Village Capital.

Prior to her current roles, Bulbul led Entrepreneurship & Impact Investing at the Clinton Global Initiative, was a Global Entrepreneurship Policy Advisor to the Clinton Campaign, led private sector partnerships at The Asia Foundation, coordinated strategy and budget at USAID for the Asia bureau, Global Development Alliance; and worked on and off Capitol Hill on social safety nets and women’s human rights.

Bulbul has served on MacArthur Foundation’s Place-Based Investing and the Global Social Good/G8 Impact Investing task forces, advised the Open Road Alliance family office, and helped launch the White House National Advisory Board on Impact Investing in 2013.

She has a Masters in Public Policy & Economics from the University of Michigan and completed her undergraduate thesis on micro-lending at George Washington University.  An immigrant daughter of Indian entrepreneurs, she lives in California with her Jedi daughters.

Articles
Investing in Beloved Community: A Playbook for Place-Based Impactful Lending
How the U.S. can boost community financial institutions to counter bank consolidation and bridge racial wealth gaps

Decolonizing Capital: A Crucial Step Towards Racial and Economic Justice

Centering Civil Rights in Community Finance