Funding and advisory services for early-stage companies wanting to create sustainable solutions at scale for improved human dignity and productivity, at one with the environment.
“The impact you make today has a powerful rippling effect on every tomorrow.”
Are you…
Early-stage company founder looking for funding and partnership advice on social impact and climate action
VENTURE CAPITALIST OR AN ANGEL INVESTOR/PLATFORM IN SEARCH OF SUBSTANTIVE ADVICE
on sustainability and collaborative approaches
Like-minded investor wanting to grow network and share impact-investment ideas
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
Portfolio
Allstar
Platform enabling gamers to share best gaming clips with friends. Enables every gamer to become a content creator.
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anthropic
AI safety and research company working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
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apriora
AI platform that reduces recruiting overhead, allows for more interviews, and improves quality hiring decisions
AYAR LABS
Scales generative AI compute by moving data using light.
BYTERAT
Making battery R&D, production, and performance management more efficient, enabling EVs and electrification of storage and appliances.
CASS.AI
AI-enabled assistant that makes mental healthcare accessible for everybody.
CHARIOT
Payment network enabling donors to connect their Donor Advised Funds with preferred non-profits.
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Clean Capital
Renewables investor focused on the middle-market solar and storage industry.
EXIT - STOCK BUYBACK
Cyabra
Leverages AI to uncovers disinformation in social networks, protecting people and institutions.
D-ID
Platform bringing dynamic AI video narratives and interactive experiences featuring digital people.
DUCKIE
AI assistant that empowers IT support teams to resolve tickets 10x faster, without relying on engineering teams.
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Earthly
Triple benefit B2B solutions that remove carbon, restore nature, and improve livelihoods.
ELECTROTEMPO
EV charging network analysis and planning software for most efficient infrastructure development.
FitSkin
Add-on device for smartphones for virtual skin care assessment and advice.
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Flair Labs
Empowering real estate professionals through AI voice to maximize their outreach, sales funnel, deal conversion, and nurturing of customers.
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GATSBY
Options trading made straightforward and accessible.
EXIT - ACQUISITION
genvision
AI-enabled digital twin of nature that measures CO2 sequestration by forests for real-time sovereign and enterprise carbon offset analysis.
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GO CHARLIE
AI-enabled B2B marketing content assistant.
Groq
AI hardware and software platform that delivers exceptional compute speed, quality inference, and energy efficiency.
HotPLATE
Empowers chefs to market and sell own food creations.
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IQM
Building the next generation of quantum computers.
JUICY MARBLES
Plant based whole cut steaks that advance regenerative agriculture.
KNIGHTSCOPE
Autonomous robots providing advanced security detection capabilities.
EXIT - IPO
Lite LLM
Gateway to manage authentication, loadbalancing, and spend tracking across 100+ LLMs.
mesa quantum systems
Developing advanced chip-scale quantum sensing for next-generation position, navigation, and timing capabilities.
MINIMUM
Tracks and offsets individual emissions automatically at point of spend.
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nothing
Seamless digital connectivity through smart, open devices.
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NOTPLA
Sustainable packaging made from seaweed and plants that biodegrade in weeks, spearheading the circular economy.
One AI
Builds business capabilities to analyze and process text, audio and video through generative AI.
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PARADIGM
Perfectly human-in-the-loop AI-interns for sales and marketing, recruiting, data entry, and other.
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pear ai
Supercharges app development and editing by drawing on inventory of the best AI tools, natively integrated for effortless AI-powered coding.
PLEASE.AI
Personal AI agent, with sophisticated learning and decision-making processes to automate tasks and augment outcomes.
Prosights
AI-powered analyst for investment firms, automating sourcing, diligence, and portfolio monitoring.
quantum machines
Cloud infrastructure that speeds the performance and improves the reliability of quantum computing.
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QuEra Computing
Maker of advanced neutral-atoms based quantum computers, solving classically intractable problems for commercially relevant applications.
Ready player me
Cross-platform avatars to improve connectivity in VR worlds.
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REWIRE
Financial services for underbanked migrant workers.
EXIT - ACQUISITION
session ai
Real-time mobile messaging platform to help brands increase conversion rates based on customer preferences.
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Star cloud
Building a network of scalable data centers in space, powered by solar energy, to address energy demands back on earth, including for AI.
TYPE ONE ENERGY
Fusion energy transforming the clean energy sector while advancing a more abundant and equitable future for all.
VErse therapy
Empowers speech-language pathologists to launch and grow their practices with ease through AI-enabled management tools.
VIRTUIX
Omni-directional treadmill allowing users to walk and run inside popular games and virtual worlds.
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wave photonics
Light-based circuit technology for energy-efficient communications, wearable healthcare sensors, rapid diagnostic tools, and quantum computing.
“You want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripple for change”
Fernando Gutierrez-Eddy
With a career geared to financing gender equality and children’s capacity to lead safe and productive lives, in both UNICEF and UN Women, I partner with early-stage companies, principally in the US, that want to create sustainable solutions at scale for improved human dignity and productivity, with a focus on technology, as applied to life sciences, climate action, and human connectivity.
During close to 20 years at the UN, I raised over $2.5 billion from the public and private sectors. I am particularly interested in innovative business solutions at scale that leverage technology for the NOW and HERE to tackle significant societal and environmental pain points. Profitability within an adequate payback period is critical as a factor of sustainability. Positive early customer traction and retention is elemental.
Most important, I look for a passionate leadership team with traction in the start-up world. I welcome the opportunity to advise, especially on how to achieve sustainable social impact and bring tangible solution to the climate action agenda. I also leverage my network of likeminded investors to broaden support, including VCs, family offices, sovereign funds, accelerators, angel groups, and ultra/high net worth individuals.
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