An advisory firm that builds positive impact venture funds and startups.

Necessary Ventures is an early-stage venture fund investing in what the world needs. Sectors: climate, health, edtech and financial inclusion.

The first investment vehicle for LGBT+ founders and executives. Now focusing on changing the lack of diversity across all cultures and backgrounds by investing in and supporting founders who are minorities and those who want help hiring minorities.

NEXUS is an international network of 6000+ young philanthropists, impact investors, social entrepreneurs, and influencers who gather at summits around the world to advance the potential of next generation leadership across nations and sectors. NEXUS offers NextGen insight on key initiatives at the UN, for heads of state, and for leading NGOs. NEXUS has hosted over 40 Summits and 80 topically themed salons over the past 8 years at the White House, the UN and in Europe, Latin America, Australia, Asia, the Middle East & the Caribbean.

Bastion meets the demand for institutional quality investment management and research in the digital asset market. www.bastion.financial

An early-stage psychedelics/mental health venture fund. www.empath.vc/

A long-term cryptoasset investment firm.https://idtheory.io

Flight Ventures is the largest group of online investors in the world. Using AngelList's platform, we source deals for a group of 3500+ investors and 30+ syndicates. The majority of Flight's partners live in San Francisco and NYC. I launched our international office out of London and ran that 2015-2017. Having recently moved back to the USA during COVID 2020, Nancy rejoined the partnership. She is leading Flight's early-stage, positive impact deals - Seed and Series A (US-based) companies, which are addressing the world's most pressing problems. More details below! ---------------Lead by Gil Penchina, Flight Ventures is a community of over 3000 investors and 100 portfolio companies. In the past, the backers of our syndicates have had the opportunity to invest in companies that have raised money from – to name a few – Andreessen Horowitz, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia, Founders Fund and Greylock.Flight Ventures UK is led by our London-based partner, Nancy Fechnay. We created this syndicate to give our backers the opportunity to invest in the best start-ups from the UK. Our network of entrepreneurs across the globe gives us access to grade A+ dealflow. Previous successes include Linkedin (IPO), Paypal (IPO), Ziprealty (IPO), Cafe.com (IPO) and Fastly (at ~40x initial round).Flight Ventures syndicates give investors the flexibility to participate in investment rounds in all stages and get returns on a deal-by-deal basis. Simultaneously, the core team allows quick decision-making. Compared to traditional financial investors, we are actively leveraging our community of backers to help our portfolio companies grow through an interactive platform developed in-house.

Notley's vision is a planet where transformational solutions and bold innovation solves the world' most challenging problems.

The Inspire Movement is a mental health non-profit, built around the idea of creating communities rooted in impactful storytelling, encouraging individuals to be vulnerable and share their lowest moments. http://www.theinspiremovement.com/“Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.” ~ Brené Brown, TED Speaker

The #1 startup accelerator in the world. We invest $118K in each company we fund through $18K in seed funding and an optional $100K convertible debt note. Techstars itself is backed by over 75 different venture capital firms and angel investors who are vested in their success. We also provide three months of intensive top-notch mentorship, incredible perks, and the chance to pitch to angel investors and venture capitalists at the end of the program. Our companies average over $1.4M in outside venture capital raised after leaving Techstars.

Kleiner Perkins, formerly Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), is an American venture capital firm which specializes in investing in incubation, early stage and growth companies. Since its founding in 1972, the firm has backed entrepreneurs in over 900 ventures, including America Online, Facebook, Amazon.com, Google, Tandem Computers, Compaq, Electronic Arts, Square, Genentech, Netscape, Sun Microsystems, Nest, Palo Alto Networks, Synack, Snap, AppDynamics, and Twitter. By 2019 it had raised around $9 billion in 19 venture capital funds and four growth funds.

Duke Ventures is a student-run organization that educates and trains students on deal evaluation and due diligence in early-stage venture investing. The team finds, conducts due diligence, and sources the best deals to a network of venture capitalists in Silicon Valley and New York City. My cofounder and I built this during my final year in Duke's dual-Masters program.

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