@ventures

I am grateful for the opportunity to play and work with really great people across so many different fields, and give back. More about my adventures below:

finance & Investment Banking

Tech+IP Capital

Co-Founder & Managing Director

We help global deep-tech innovators identify and realize tangible value from their intangible Tech+IP assets. We’ve advised over 125 global leaders, creating over $6B in market value in the last 4 years alone.

Earth Wisdoms

Earth is our greatest teacher. It holds deep medicine, if we are willing to live in ecology with it.

Ancient Wisdoms

We focus on wisdoms 10,000+ BCE, when our peoples were closer to the Earth, and the sacred.

Indigenous Wisdoms

We gather teachers that have kept their deep ancestral wisdoms alive, and willing to share parts with us.

Academic Wisdoms

We also draw on the wisdom research of academics, anthropologists, ethnographers and scientists who work to uncover the world’s mysteries.

wisdom

UpEnd

Founder

UpEnd is being designed as a “new school of ancient wisdoms”. We’ll bring together spiritual elders, wisdom keepers, coaches and scientists to help reawaken humanity's wisdom, so that we can all live in deeper ecology with each other, and the Earth.

Pregnancy and Breastfeeding

Preventing and responding to discrimination in the workplace.

Diversity Equity & Inclusion

Preventing bias and promoting diversity in the workplace

Family Responsibilities Discrimination

Resources for employers and employees to challenge Family Responsibilities Discrimination

Fair Work Schedules

Helping companies create stable employee schedules for healthier, more effective workplaces

Education Equity

Fighting discrimination and advancing best practices in higher education.

human rights & dei

Equality Action Center

Board Member

The Equality Action Center at UC Law SF seeks to advance racial, gender, and class equality in the workplace and in politics. Our initiatives address inequality at a structural level with concrete, evidence-based interventions. EAC grew out of 25 years of WorkLife Law Center at UC Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco.

Climate Change

We help companies invest in sustainable technologies and prepare for a rapidly decarbonizing global economy.

CEO Pay

The U.S. leads the world in excessive executive compensation, to the detriment of shareholders. We seek to remedy this.

Invest your Values

Our free online tools can show you exactly what companies are embedded in your funds and which funds are aligned with your values.

Food Safety

Initiatives includes antibiotics and factory farms, GMOs and pesticides, nanomaterials, etc.

Toxic Chocolate

Our legal efforts culminated in a first-of-its-kind settlement with the world’s largest chocolate companies for having toxic metals like lead and cadmium in the products.

esg & equity

As You Know

Board Advisor

As You Know is a knowledge-based data company with an exclusive license to actionable ESG data of over 3,000 companies, generated over 30 years of experience in data by the non-profit organization As You Sow (US’s non-profit leader in shareholder advocacy since 1992) and other partners.

health & tech

BrainScope

Founder, First CEO, Inventor

BrainScope is the only FDA cleared non-invasive medical device that objectively assesses head injured patients for both brain bleeds & concussions at point of care. It’s been 2 decades in the making, with hundreds of patents, tens of millions invested, and thousands of patients.

River & Land Rights

Ocean Rights

Educational Outreach

Law & Environment

Earth Law Center

Board member & Lawyer

ELC is an ecocentric legal advocacy defending the rights of nature, animals & indigenous communities. ELC literally wrote the textbook on Earth Law, and staff rolls up sleeves every day to win rights for nature, with allies and the Indigenous worldwide.