NESsT Enterprise Fund

NESsT Enterprise Fund

Interview with Loic Comolli, Co-CEO for the NESsT Fund At the Swift Foundation, Loic Comolli sought our support to launch their first NESsT Fund to complement their grant-based acceleration work with a loan fund for enterprises. NESsT impressed me as an enterprise...
Oweesta Corporation

Oweesta Corporation

Interview with Chrystel Cornelius, President and CEO of Oweesta Ann Whittemore of Highlands SRI introduced me to Chrystel at Swift Foundation’s San Francisco office. Chrystel struck me right away. She was a fast talking woman with numbers. She had an ingenious...
Raven Indigenous Capital Partners

Raven Indigenous Capital Partners

Interview with Paul Lacerte, Managing Partner for the Raven Indigenous Impact Fund  In 2017, I heard about Raven Indigenous Capital Partners from the McConnell Foundation. Elaine Rassmussen and I met with Stephen Nairne and Paul LaCerte in 2018 in Vancouver and...
Seed Commons

Seed Commons

Interview with Seed Commons Fund staff members Brendan Martin, Co-Director, Ed Whitfield, Board and Investment Committee Member and Senior Fellow, and Marnie Thompson, Senior Fellow Systems Strategist I met Brendan Martin through the Working World, his longtime...
Angels of Impact

Angels of Impact

Interview with Laina Raveendran Greene, Founder and CEO of Angels of Impact   Topher Wilkens introduced me to Laina at the Santa Cruz Impact Meetup. I was six weeks into launching Integrated Capital Investing and was intimidated by the circle of young, smart...