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Reposting, and please share with your networks: we are looking for innovative funders and entrepreneurs working on Blue Economy solutions for LATAM and the Caribbean. Reenviamos y por favor comparte con sus redes: estamos buscando financiadores y emprendedores innovadores que trabajen en soluciones de Economía Azul para LATAM y el Caribe.

We’re delighted to be continuing our partnership with COBI in advancing entrepreneurial solutions and financing mechanisms for marine conservation.

ICYMI, ImpactPHL featured our acquisition of NeedsList in a recent article, which is chockfull of lessons learned and suggestions from NeedsList founders Natasha Freidus and Amanda Levinson: https://lnkd.in/eUaGatkU ~ It's been quite a journey, and as Tasha and Amanda can attest, there are significant gaps in the capital ecosystem for impact tech companies such as ours: too few impact investors are focused on M&A, there are no search or roll-up funds, and exiting to community and / or to opensource comes with its own set up community maintenance, management and governance challenges. 😅

🤓 We're looking forward to digging into this series! As long-time designers and engineers of digital infrastructure to accelerate positive change for people and planet, to mobilise capital and support for the projects and organisations that address the #SDGs, and to create innovation liquidity at the scale and speed urgently needed, we see a significant role for #philanthropy to support the infrastructure tech that makes the life of infrastructure orgs easier.

This is an extraordinary leap forward for safe, secure, decentralised communications. Kudos to the team at Holochain, and to Tibet Sprague for bringing this to market. We can't wait to install Relay on our devices.

If you're in the #AI business, we'd love to hear your thoughts on this. "The hypothetical superintelligence they (OpenAI) are building is too big, too world-changing, too important for prosaic concerns such as copyright and attribution."

A worthy read regarding the intersection of #impactinvesting and #techforgood from the folks at the Ford Foundation. Raises the question of 'what impact investors are actually taking this approach?'

We have been revenue funded since our inception almost 10 years ago, and not necessarily by choice. As our co-founder Astrid Scholz likes to summarize that experience: "Impact investors don't understand tech, and tech investors don't care about impact." ~ Who can prove us wrong? Who is systematically investing in the digital infrastructure we need to address the #polycrisis?

Reposting this, in deep appreciation of our friend and champion Suzanne Biegel, whose memory we celebrated with new and old friends from around the world last week. Words to live by. ‘It took me having a fatal illness to come back to my original self’

Nice piece that resonates with our design principles for the digital infrastructure we need to mobilize people, innovations, and capital to address the polycrisis: Five technology enablers we need to scale the circular economy https://buff.ly/4bons2V