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Entrepreneur with a background in finance, I have extensive experience in launching startup companies and a deep understanding of financial markets. I originally studied sciences and mathematics at UC San Diego, so I can successfully manage technical projects in the technology sector. My later studies at Babson College, the #1 Entrepreneurship School in the World, eventually channeled my creative and analytical energy toward business. I also conducted formal academic research on finding a better model for the economy by visiting circular economy cooperatives. As a result, my profile is at the intersection between technology, finance and innovation in the form of sustainable entrepreneurship.

There is an inefficient industry for donations that fails to create a value for impact, or a lasting and meaningful connection between donors and recipients.

We offer users the ability to create a SDG portfolio by buying into impact projects or simply one of the 17 different SDG funds. Buying into an SDG fund allocates shares for projects within the fund(s) chosen. Users have impact portfolios to manage and track their shares; to buy and sell impact shares with a goal to generate the most impact. The portfolios align all projects toward SDGs, tracking the growing impact over time.

Our project elevates humanity by making impact a fun and easy financial product. Our project elevates humanity by incentivizing non-financial public offerings toward sustainable development. By doing so, more capital will flow towards those who need it most and finance the Decade Of Action to achieve the UN SDGs.

Just like in the 20th century people stared measuring GDP and the total value of economic production, we are now in need of a system that values social and environmental impact creation. This is a global problem and stands at the center of the problem of 'financing the decade of action' to achieve the SDGs. In 2018 Global Sustainable Investment was a $30.683 trillion market, however, there is currently still no way to know what the aggregate impact of this money is. We are still using old measurements of value to allocate capital. This results in an ineffective impact investing and donation industry in which both people and organizations invest in inefficient ways. There is no ownership, with no ethical stake, of projects for the SDG investors financing them. In other words, there is no attachment or relationship between investors and beneficiaries which makes it difficult to track total investments and impact, and we have no way to see the return of impact on the money invested. By tokenizing investments and the resulting impact, we create 'impact shares' that solve this issue, as they are based on the value of the impact the investments created.

We provide a platform on which users can invest into SDG projects. These projects are carried out by NGOs, creating an easy way for them to fundraise. Once the project is funded, investors receive tokenized 'impact shares' through blockchain technology. This innovative security evaluates the up-to-the-minute impact that has been created and the user's stake in that. The greater the impact of that project, the greater the value of its shares. The shares are organized in an impact portfolio that users can easily manage and where they can track the impact creation of the projects they invested in. This impact portfolio is a real-time dynamic dashboard that can be used to meet regulations, satisfy market demands, or showcase your impact with others. Users can monitor their aggregate impact over time. It will be organized between the SDG indicators to follow and facilitate the UN SDG framework. The projects that are long-term and durable grow impact over time, meaning that their shares can grow in value over time. We allow users to trade or gift the shares between themselves, transferring the ownership of the created impact. Essentially, we designed an incentive-structure for social and environmental investments.

NGOs and charities are the victims of markets that pursue profits over people. We help them by creating an innovative financial framework that works in their favor and helps the people they serve. By making it socially and financially attractive to fund their projects, these organizations can expand their reach and help millions of people worldwide. Our users who fund their projects, organizations and individuals alike, can easily contribute to global sustainability, track and grow their impact creation, and spend their dollars where it counts. By creating 17 SDG funds, we are able to help users invest quickly and easily in the causes they care about, with minimum maintenance, whilst increasing transparency for financing the UN SDGs. We are building the infrastructure to finance the decade of action. By using financial systems to create a value for impact, all stakeholders will be incentivized to act or invest in the SDGs.

We elevate charities and NGOs that create the most impact by creating an incentive structure for people and companies to buy into their projects. As capital allocation pursue higher returns, our impact shares and the financial engineering of sustainability can channel financial resources to those that need it the most and can create the largest impact. We seek to become the financing arm of the SDGs to solve the world's most difficult problems.

• From a previous project we worked on in a class at Stanford University, we began to see the lack of transparency between money donated and impact created, which initiated our pivot into this project
• After a year's work of primary research, we found that there was no infrastructure dedicated to helping individuals donate and see the impact of their donations.
• The World Economic Forum recently stated that the most important issue was to finance the decade of action to achieve the SDGs by 2030. This spurred us to rethink current donation and investment structures to find new creative and innovative frameworks to finance sustainable and social impact.

This project is so important to me because I see an incredible opportunity to use finance and technology toward the funding of sustainable projects. My dream has always been to be innovating for the common good while creating a new economy. I believe that a crowdfunding platform with a marketplace to trade ownership titles of sustainable projects can incentivize ESG investing.

Entrepreneur with a background in finance, I have extensive experience in launching startup companies and a deep understanding of financial markets. I originally studied sciences and mathematics at UC San Diego, so I can successfully manage technical projects in the technology sector. My later studies at Babson College, the #1 Entrepreneurship School in the World, eventually channeled my creative and analytical energy toward business. I also conducted formal academic research on finding a better model for the economy by visiting circular economy cooperatives. As a result, my profile is at the intersection between technology, finance and innovation in the form of sustainable entrepreneurship. I am in a unique position to solve the positive impact funding problem with a real ability to deliver.

I originally started this project in the USA. Our international founding team had to geographically split up because of visa issues with the current administration.

We overcame adversity by sticking together and believing that our idea can cross borders. I set up a channel of communication to grow the project from Europe, where I am now based.

While in college, I launched an investment club and organized meetings around the topics of ESG investing. I sought to inspire finance students to value impact investing. The students that came to these gatherings went into their banking careers with a more ethical mindset.

• Revolutionizing the Finance industry. We are changing the way people invest by creating a new type of securities for positive impact.
• Fueling the green revolution. We build our solution around innovative technologies such as Blockchain and AI on a FinTech platform to maximize positive impact.

By creating the infrastructure to incentivize philanthropy we make it easier and better for people and organizations to donate to projects that have an impact on humanity. We solve the missing aspects of meaningful relationships by create a stake for investors through the allocation of ownership shares for the projects they invest in. We become the facilitators for capital to flow to the places it can have the highest return of impact. This results directly in projects across the world being funded, interacted with, and tracked by us and our users. As if that was not enough on its own, we are engineering a system in which social and environmental impact becomes the value behind the shares, so that growing impact over time from funded projects means those shares grow in value too. This encourages recurring and continuous impact creation rather than one-time solutions that become useless over time.

The linkages go like this: our platform makes it easy, fun, and rewarding for users to invest in impact projects → NGOs and charities get more funding → by allocating shares for those projects, we create an incentive structure for more users to own part of the impact created → this incentivizes NGOs and charities to build lasting and growing impact over time as that will grow the value of their project shares → this leads to more people being helped and more environmental action across the world that is lasting and meaningful as our users are incentivized to fund projects based on the impact they create.

• Currently: N/A
• 1 year: 20,000
• 5 years: 3,000,000

• Next year: onboard 500+ NGOs so they can start publishing projects on a centralized platform, invite ESG investors for Beta testing.
• Next 5 years: focus on user growth and improve the selection of NGOs' projects. Consolidate the algorithm for investment recommendations, customized for each investor.

• Financial: we need a lot of funding to build a simple and beautiful platform running and on robust algorithms.
• Technical: we need to partner with the best advisors and engineers to build a scalable and efficient FinTech platform.
• Legal: we must be careful to get the best legal advice in the process of launching a green security, working as an tradable ownership right of sustainable projects.

• Partner with the Solve network and gather advisors
• Get more funding
• Work hard on launching the beta version of our platform before the end of 2021

Columbia University as a member of the startup accelerator

• We provide our users an easy and accessible platform to manage their donations and impact securities. For ESG investors, we provide a dynamic impact portfolio where all their sustainable assets are listed and updated. They can use this to satisfy regulations (tax credit), meet market demands, include it in shareholders reports, and share it with their clients.
• We are providing NGOs with a better framework to raise the needed funds for their projects.
• Revenue sources:
  • We take a small fee on projects that were successfully funded through our platform
  • We also take a small fee on the trade of green securities among ESG investors through our platform
  • We offer premium accounts for NGOs to promote their projects

"Combination of all" in chronological order:

1. Pitch competitions' money, founders' money and grants
2. Angel investors
3. VCs (if absolutely necessary)
4. Organic growth from fees

• We seek to raise funds through grants and/or equity by November 2020
• We seek to raise half a million dollars to:
  • Hire a CTO and developers that will build the application
  • Hire business development associates to help grow the amount of ESG investors using our platform
  • A blockchain specialist to help integrate tokenized securities
  • Hire a financial lawyer to help us comply with trading regulations.

Salaries

• CTO - $95,000
• Blockchain Specialist - $75,000
• Lawyer - $105,000
• 2 Full-stack Developers - $50,000 per developer

General expenses

• Servers and licenses - $15,000
• Designer - $5,000
• Marketing - $30,000
• Travel expenses - $10,000

Total = $430,000

• Partner with the Solve community
• Join a network of experts who could assist us as we grow
• Win the prize to gain access to funding
• Get feedback to improve our project