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How adaptability during a pandemic transformed this YLAI Fellow’s Honduran sustainability company

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

In 2015, she was able to merge these two passions together to create her company, Beleaf. Beleaf is a sustainable fashion company that uses scraps to “upcycle” and create new clothing and accessories. However, the community has engaged positively with the company, with many clients also making sustainable changes in their lives.

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Creating agents of change in El Salvador with sustainable wearable art

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

I moved back to El Salvador and started working toward my own dream at the end of 2015 with Masshii and started inspiring others to do the same. The post Creating agents of change in El Salvador with sustainable wearable art appeared first on Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative. What is the mission of Masshii? . government.

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Praying to the God of Valuation

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During this era, from 2009–2015, most founders I knew were in it for building great & sustainable companies. By 2015 it had come to signify by the market a new era where business fundamentals had changed, companies could easily and quickly be worth $10 billion or MORE so why worry about the “entry price!”

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Empowering millennials in Peru to take action volunteering

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

Here, she learned more about volunteerism and also learned about the United Nations Agenda for Sustainable Development. “It Seeing the difference between the two countries and the difference in programming between them,” as well as the emphasis on sustainability, she thought to herself, “why are we not talking about this in Peru?”

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Moving trans advocacy forward in Jamaica

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

2017 YLAI Fellow Neish’s hard work of creating a sustainable trans rights movement has blossomed far beyond his expectations. Celebrating his success in building a sustainable movement, the YLAI Network spoke with Neish recently for background into TransWave’s beginnings and for an update on its future.

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Kara Nortman Was Just Promoted to Co-Managing Partner at Upfront Ventures. Here’s What it All Means

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For example, we’re now already well into our third growth fund that we started in 2015 (the first returned 2x cash in 3.5 Instead he championed our investment themes into sustainability and food technologies having invested in companies like Apeel Sciences and Ynsect.

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Upfront Ventures Raises > $650 Million for Startups and Returns > $600 Million to LPs

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That was a question I had been asked by LPs in 2015 when we began our Early Growth program. When we get involved in Seed investments we usually represent 60–80% in one of the first institutional rounds of capital, we almost always take board seats and then we serve these founders over the course of a decade or longer.

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