13 entrepreneurs took to the stage at McCaw Hall in Seattle, in front of an audience of nearly 700 philanthropists, impact investors, and supporters. The audience choice for best pitch went to Community Sourced Capital, Fledge graduate from 2012.
Since launch, Community Sourced Capital has helped lend over $150,000 to 12 businesses from over 1,000 people, proving that it is possible for all of us to help create and fund the world we want to live in.
After a successful crowdfunding in 2022, Bricolage Dynamics now has a commercial-scale processing center that is busy recycling post-consumer glass into sand, for use in construction and landscaping. The plan for 2023 is to begin franchising their glass to sand model. If you know of a community that is not collecting glass, or any municipal recycling company that is sending most of their...
“The Missing Middle” is what we call the gap in finance the majority of entrepreneurs face in getting from a viable prototype or early customers to a full-scale proven business. In Part 1, Luni explains who he is, and how he came to fill in this otherwise missing middle. In Part 2, Luni jumps back to the history of venture capital to explain the pervasive paradigm that leads to...
Every year, we collectively throw away 50 million tons of clothes and other textiles worldwide. With its 100% waste-based, fully recyclable NuCycl fiber, launched in April, Evrnu aspires to create a virtuous textile cycle. NuCycl is made by chemically liquefying old textiles into their essential molecules, purifying the liquid pulp, and then extruding the pulp into fibers to be spun into yarn...
Crowdfunding is now working at scale… and at the moment there are three campaigns underway for fledglings, including one that covers 27 African fledglings. wefunder.com/arqlite wefunder.com/shift.labs wefunder.com/africaeats Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share...