Robin Hood Blue Ridge Labs

🎉 Applications for the Catalyst 2025 Accelerator Cohort at Robin Hood's Blue Ridge Labs are OPEN! 🎉 At Catalyst, we're on a mission to support bold, impact-driven founders who are building tech solutions aimed at fighting poverty. Whether you're focused on food security, healthcare, education, or financial stability, we're here to accelerate your venture to new heights. 🌍💡 Here's what we provide: 👉 Pre-seed funding to bring your vision to life. 👉 Expert coaching & mentorship from industry leaders. 👉 Direct access to our Design Insight Group (DIG)—a community of 4K+ New Yorkers with lived experience in the challenges you aim to solve. 👉 A powerful community of innovators focused on tackling some of the biggest challenges in society. 🗓️ Deadline to apply: November 15th ⏳ Learn more & apply: https://lnkd.in/eER2CWfV 📍 Application form in comments

Join Us as a Mentor for the 2024 Cohort of Changemakers this fall! We are seeking industry experts passionate about driving social change to mentor our 2024 Cohort of Changemakers this fall. If you have experience founding a tech-driven for-profit, non-profit organization or subject matter expert and are eager to make an impact, we want to hear from you! Our focus areas include: - Career Advancement - Education - Financial Empowerment - Affordable Housing - Community Building - Mental and Physical Health If you’re interested in shaping the future of these critical fields, please reach out to us at gaeleen@labs.robinhood.org to discuss how you can get involved. Sergio Marrero Eugene Lewis Farah Weheba

Applications for our EIR - Fellowship program close early next week. If you are curious about it and want to learn more, join us tomorrow https://lu.ma/jhqbs5t1 and learn about this opportunity to create real change in the community. Tomorrow July 12th at 5:15 pm EST. Sign up!

Are you an entrepreneur or want to become one? Do you have an idea, project, or passion for creating social impact? Apply to join the Robin Hood Blue Ridge Labs community! We are excited to announce that applications are now open for our Launch Fellowship program. This program is designed to help early-stage founders transform ideas into products and launch impactful ventures aligned with our mission. For over 10 years we've turned ideas into real projects such as our alumni Propel, Inc and Just.fix. Use the links below to learn more and apply. Launch Fellowship (https://bit.ly/BRLLaunch) #startup #innovation #founder #impact #economicmobility #ai

Are you an entrepreneur or want to be one, have an idea, project, or passion for creating social impact? Apply to join the Robin Hood Blue Ridge Labs community! We are excited to announce applications are open for our Summer Residency and our fall Launch Fellowship program. Our Summer Residency is for impact founders focused on economic mobility that are looking for a community, office space, and priority to our other programs. Our Launch Fellowship helps early stage founders go from idea to launching an impact venture aligned with our mission. For over 10 years we've turned ideas into real projects such as our alumni Propel, Inc and Just.fix. Use the links below to learn more and apply. Summer Residency (https://bit.ly/EIRatBRL) Launch Fellowship (https://bit.ly/BRLLaunch) #startup #innovation #founder #impact #economicmobility #ai cc: Gaeleen Quinn, Eugene Lewis, Sergio Marrero, Farah Weheba, Robin Hood

🚀 2004's DARPA Grand Challenge kickstarted the self-driving car community. This year, Robin Hood aims to replicate that success by encouraging America's AI entrepreneurs to find groundbreaking solutions that tackle poverty. 💡 Three $1M prizes await the most impactful ideas. 👉 Find out how you can be part of the #AIPovertyChallenge: https://lnkd.in/eWzsdyWS

🚀 We are thrilled to announce the Blue Ridge Labs @ Robin Hood Accelerator Demo Day will be apart of #NYTechWeek this year! At the event the startups that are apart of our Catalyst Accelerator program focused on deploying #AI solutions to fight poverty will be pitching at the Robin Hood Office in Union Square. To apply to attend, click on the link below. If you know an impact investors or social entrepreneurs that you think would benefit from attending, tag them in the comments! 👉 Sign-up here: https://lu.ma/brldemoday A special thank you to Gaeleen Quinn and Eugene Lewis for leading the charge in making the event happen! Also - thank you to our incredible team of coaches (Evelysse Vargas, Manuela Odell, Alterrell Mills, and Tyler Simmons) that have been shepherding the teams through their pivots! Look forward to seeing you at the event! #impact #aipovertychallenge #aiforgood #brl #startups #innovation #investing CC: Sarah Stellwag, James Kelly, Dani Lopez, Dieumerci Christel, Jane Chen, Nicholas Agnihotri Burka, Rui Maki ⚡️, Kristján Ari Tómasson, Kevin Hylant