The Impact Stories

Third Times a Charm: How Quantum Computing will help us do more good in the world An amazing conversation with an extraordinary mind. Founder and CEO of Strangeworks, Will Hurley aka "Whurley" is a serial entrepreneur using his past experience and connections to demonstrate just how much good tech can do in the world. From his start at Apple where he first answered phones (they then disc...

Deep Systemic Change - The Intersection of Consciousness, Capital, and Technology Charly Kleissner has never met a system he didn’t want to disrupt ….AND…. infuse with consciousness to bring it to its highest level of operation. Charly and his efforts operate at the confluence of technology, impact investing and consciousness with the latter being the key ingredient for true successful systemic ch...

Teaching Old Banks New Tricks Co-Founder of CNote, Cat Berman, is on a quest to diminish the wealth gap through democratized access to wealth creation - we’re talking financial security, not yachts, here. Core to CNote’s ethos is that we all can and must play a role in closing this wealth gap, and CNote provides the avenues and financial instruments to do so. What can truly change the game for not...

The Power of Patient Capital in Delivering Lasting Innovations When Co Founder of FiftyYears VC, Ela Madej, tells Tech Founders she feels their pain - she means it. Having founded a company or two herself, Madej has taken her own experience and puts it toward helping her League of Giants (her loving reference to the companies backed) by providing not just any capital, but patient capital. Listen t...

Exponential Acceleration - The Future of the Venture Model What happens when you combine thoughtful investment dollars with intentionally-minded Tech Founders? Success in building solutions to tackle some of the world’s trickiest problems. Katapult’s Accelerator Group CEO shares what the team looks for when selecting the companies that can deliver sustainable solutions… at scale. The Group is on t...

Living Redeux - can technology help us get to sustainable communities? Looking to the Mycelial network as inspiration, could we in turn write a software dialog with  the natural world that results in a Village OS? Imagine a neighborhood that has your back, where you experience “plenty”. Where you feel healthy and everyone has enough, including the planet. James Ehrlich and ReGen Villages are busy...

The Future of the Digital Divide: It’s Brighter than you Think Viola Llewellyn, CoFounder of Ovamba, is facing risk head on and helping banks to do the same along the way. The result: decrease of the digital and financial divide and a healthier ecosystem, as those who formerly were turned away when requesting funding are better seen as promise rather than risk. Juggling multiple cultures has given...

The Future of Work and Systems Change and the Influence of Art How do we create a business system as a living system inspired by nature versus the current models based on mechanization? In our conversation with Futurist and Systems Artist Adah Parris, we cover this idea as well as human blockchain, art as technology, the beauty in chaos, and the link between capitalism, colonization, and climate c...

Systems Change through Mobilizing Capital, Technology, and People Tharald Nustad, Co-Founder of the Katapult System had a dream five years ago, mobilizing capital, business, technology and people to build solutions to solve the biggest problems and create a world where all flourish. Based in Oslo Norway, Nustad and Katapult are catalyzing change in energy, climate, regenerative agriculture, educat...