ONE WORLD Virtual Impact Summit: Founder Pitches

The Virtual Impact Summit will also feature our spring Founder Pitches, showcasing 10 outstanding social entrepreneurs who are ready to pitch their business and take their social enterprise to the next level. 

ONE WORLD’s Founder Pitches are designed to be meaningful to entrepreneurs and investors by showcasing some of the most innovative and socially responsible companies in our network.

Learn more about the founders and companies pitching at the 2020 event. We will keep updating this information as participants are confirmed!

Meet The Founders:

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Applied Particle Technology
Jiaxi Fang, PhD, CEO
Applied Particle Technology is protecting high risk workers by turning real time environmental data into actionable insights through an automated environmental health and safety platform. Highlights include: 

  • Winners of the NASA earth space air prize (working with NASA to send sensors to the International Space Station)

  • Paid pilots and customers with top mining/manufacturing companies like 3M and Peabody

  • Targeting a huge market of 10 M high risk US workers for industries like mining, manufacturing, and construction.

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BookNook
Michael Lombardo, Founder & CEO
BookNook is an award-winning social enterprise that uses artificial intelligence and other adaptive technologies to support reading skill growth at school, at home, and in the community. Previously, Michael served as CEO of Reading Partners, building it into one of the largest children’s literacy nonprofits in America and publishing seminal research on volunteer-based reading programs that was accepted into the What Works Clearinghouse at the US Department of Education. A frequent author on subjects of education policy, social entrepreneurship, and nonprofit governance, Michael also serves as a Social Entrepreneur in Residence at Stanford University and is a founding Advisory Council member of the My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, President Obama’s signature initiative focused on supporting boys and young men of color.

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Ecologic Brands
Julie Corbett, CEO & Founder
Ecologic Brands is a sustainable packaging company that developed and launched the world's first paper bottle made of recycled paper.  With over 8 million eco.bottles® manufactured and sold in 10 countries, Ecologic technology is scalable and has proven to be the only viable commercial alternative to plastic bottles and jars.  With plastics contaminating our oceans and environment, ecologic's solution leverages the recycling and waste stream to manufacture each eco.bottle® creating a closed-loop, box to bottle® solution for its customers. 

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Elemeno Health
Dr. Arup Roy-Burman, Co-Founder & CEO
Prior to founding Elemeno Health Health, Dr. Roy-Burman was Medical Director of the Intensive Care Unit and Director of Transport, Access and Outreach for UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital. He is a long term leader in efforts to improve outcomes in the inpatient setting, with focus on interprofessional workforce engagement and standardization of best practices.

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EveryDay Labs
Emily Bailard, CEO
EveryDay Labs (formerly known as InClassToday) improves student outcomes through the power of behavioral science. We partner with school districts to tackle chronic absenteeism at scale because we believe every student deserves the opportunity to be present and learning every day. To date, we have served students across more than 2,000 schools to prevent more than 500,000 absences, equating to over 200 million minutes of instructional time they would have otherwise missed.

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Feasible
Andrew Hsieh, Co-Founder & CEO
Feasible’s mission is to help batteries power our clean energy future. Currently, ~1 in 6 batteries are scrapped in production, largely due to limitations in the data collected at scale; that represents ~$4B of waste in 2019. As battery cost is a major hurdle for EV adoption, and demand is projected to grow >6x within the decade, there is a critical need to improve production efficiency. Feasible Inc. is developing a battery inspection platform, called EchoStat, that uses ultrasound and data analytics to fill this gap. We aim to help battery makers improve profitability by >40%; EV makers build better, more affordable products; and create a more circular economy by reducing the cost of repurposing old EV batteries. Andrew is a Cyclotron Road Fellow; holds a Ph.D. from Princeton and B.S. from UCLA.

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Frost Methane
Olya Irzak, Founder & CEO
Methane contributes to 20% of global warming and is 28x more potent per molecule than CO2. Frost Methane Labs finds the most concentrated and continues sources of methane, builds and installs devices to neutralize it. They aim to profitably mitigate 500 MT CO2e. Olya Irzak is the CEO of Frost Methane. She previously worked on the tech angle to climate solutions at Google X's early stage projects (spun out as Dandelion and Malta), electric minigrids at Zola Electric and smart grid technologies at Google Energy. Olya is a Henry Arnhold Fellow, member of the StartX community and has given numerous talks about the intersection of tech and climate change mitigation. 

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LendStreet
Jerry Nemorin, Founder & CEO
LendStreet is an online lending platform that enables individuals who have weathered a financial shock to settle prior debts and rebuild their credit. LendStreet specifically targets individuals who are involved in active debt collections, which represent an alarming 77 million Americans, or 1 out of 3 adults with credit files, totaling $669 billion in delinquent debt. Using a proprietary algorithm, LendStreet underwrites prospective borrowers and advances a new, fairly priced loan that allows individuals to settle their existing debts with creditors at a discount that represents an appropriate level of debt going forward. Customers who have used LendStreet’s product have shown a median credit score migration of 80 points in just one year. Prior to founding LendStreet, Jerry worked at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in its Global Corporate & Investment Banking division, helping major companies restructure their debt during the financial crisis and raise money from the high yield debt market. Jerry is now putting that expertise to use in a way that helps consumers in financial distress deal with their debt and rebuild their credit.

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Perimeter
Bailey Farren, Co-Founder & CEO
Perimeter is a streamlined situational intelligence platform built to aid emergency responders with incidents ranging from natural disasters to infrastructure failures, to the current global pandemic. Our platform allows responders to place incident markers and add annotations in real-time, with constant access to information posted by other emergency personnel. We also allow authorized agencies and NGOs to map and report the status of resources and services using a standardized format to allow for inter-agency coordination, ranging from fire and police to public health and defense. Coming from a family of first responders, Bailey was inspired to develop Perimeter after experiencing the Tubbs Fire in her hometown of Santa Rosa.

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Sentio Solutions
George Eleftheriou, Co-Founder & CEO
Sentio Solutions is an SF based startup that develops digital therapeutics and biomarkers for mental health. Sentio's first product, the Feel Program, is an end-to-end digital solution for mental health that combines proprietary emotion recognition technology with real-time, AI-driven interventions, 24/7/365 personalized support, and personalized sessions with therapists. The program supports individuals who are at-risk or suffering from depression, anxiety, stress-related illness, and burn-out through their insurance and employee benefits. In light of the Covid19 epidemic, Sentio has also launched the Feel Relief Program, a new program offering access to tailored online mental health care support, to help people navigate through the pandemic, maintain their morale and productivity, and eliminate the financial impact of the crisis, while providing an effective way to triage people to higher levels of support, according to need.



Thank you to our Entrepreneur Selection Committee: