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Where Data Science & AI

Meets

Social Impact Innovation

Our Story

We're exploring what happens when data science, machine learning, AI and industrial-scale data insights meet the world's greatest social challenges.

Our work is uncovering answers to questions philanthropists, venture & impact investors have struggled with for generations.

Looking Again, Seeing Differently

Our team has 50+ years of collective experience building investment strategies, R&D agendas, innovation pipelines, and bespoke venture funds for the world’s largest corporations and most revered VCs.

We believe emerging technologies can amplify and accelerate shared prosperity and human flourishing. Our mission is to help realize this vision and exponentially improve outcomes for humanity and the planet.

CURRENT RESEARCH

QUESTIONS WE'RE EXPLORING

System Dependencies and Cascading Effects

Social challenges frequently exist in ecosystems far more interconnected than most people realize, where success often hinges on surprisingly specific, tactical details rather than broad strategic initiatives: an employment program might succeed or fail based on bus route timing, or neonatal sepsis prevention might depend on the specific format of a text messaging system.

These critical details are increasingly obscure and hard to spot at scale, yet they can dictate whether well-funded efforts succeed or fail.

Dynamic Evolution of Intervention Points

Socio-technical systems evolve continuously with leverage points migrating in ways that may require competencies far outside any single organization's expertise: solving an education crisis might suddenly require supply chain knowledge, or addressing homelessness might suddenly demand an understanding of telecommunications infrastructure.

Developing the dynamic flexibility to map these shifts as they occur and rapidly acquire or partner for newly relevant capabilities can be a stronger determinant of success than static strategic plans.

Minimum Viable Interventions

Meaningful change can often occur by focusing on precise catalyst points where effort ripples outward through entire systems, rather than spreading resources widely.

A key challenge is to identify and concentrate on the few critical interventions most likely to catalyze broader transformation, rather than diluting attention across multiple fronts that 'feel' important, but lack systemic influence.

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