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NEXUS Impact Accelerator Fellow, Emily Best, Founder & Seed and Spark
Emily Best is the CEO & Founder of Seed&Spark, a place where creators, audiences and organizations work together to tell stories that celebrate diverse voices and foster vibrant conversation. Seed&Spark started with a group of independent creators after...
NEXUS Impact Accelerator Fellow, Felix Böck, Founder & CEO of ChopValue
Felix Böck is the CEO and Founder of ChopValue, a company that was founded to try and help address the devastating impact that waste has on the environment. In Metro Vancouver alone, over 100,000 disposable chopsticks are thrown out daily, which led Felix into...
NEXUS Impact Accelerator Fellow, Katharina Sophia Volz, Founder & CEO of OccamzRazor
Katharina Sophia Volz is the CEO & Founder of OccamzRazor, a company that is using machine learning to fight brain-aging disorders like Parkinson’s. They recently became the first to map all the information that science knows about this disease, allowing them to...
NEXUS Impact Accelerator Fellow, Ivelyse Andino, Founder & CEO of Radical Health
Ivelyse Andino is an Afro-Latina health equity innovator born and raised in The Bronx. She is the CEO & Founder of Radical Health, working at the intersection of community health and technology. Radical Health combines meaningful conversations with AI-enabled tech...
NEXUS IMPACT ACCELERATOR FELLOW: MARITA CHENG, FOUNDER & CEO OF AUBOT
Marita Cheng is the Founder & CEO of Aubot, a company focused on building robots that help people live their everyday lives. Their flagship product, Teleport, is a telepresence robot that allows users to visit somewhere or someone in a mobile video-conferencing...
NEXUS HQ Interviews Sam Teicher, Co-Founder & Chief Reef Officer at Coral Vita
Sam Teicher is the Co-Founder and Chief Reef Officer at Coral Vita. Coral Vita is restoring the world’s threatened and dying coral reefs by growing resilient corals and transplanting them into degraded sites. They create high-tech coral farms that incorporate...
NEXUS HQ Interviews Blayne Ross, CEO and Co-Founder of ShoreLock
Blayne Ross is the CEO and Founder of ShoreLock, a company with the objective to protect and restore critically eroding coastlines around the globe. Developed as an environmentally friendly addition to current techniques, ShoreLock aims to protect the coastline and...
Grand Bahamas Relief Effort
"The itsy bitsy spider climbed up the water spot. Down came the rain and washed the spider out." Two weeks ago as the water rose within her home, a young mother sang this nursery rhyme to her 4 year old little girl to gently remind her of the powers of the currents...
NEXUS’ Response to Opportunity Zones
With the recent new legislation and emergence of Opportunity Zones, the NEXUS Working Group on Impact Investing is at the forefront of the discussion. From deciphering the laws to understand the true impact potential of Opportunity Zones, the Impact Investing Working...
Updates from The Invest In Yourself Working Group: Announcing The IY Partnership With Consciousness and Healing Initiative
Since 2012, the mission of the Invest in Yourself Working Group (IY) has been to facilitate NEXUS members in optimizing their lives and their social impact by curating and delivering evidence-based experiential programming on the inner dimensions of leadership;...
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