Brian Coryat

The Sustainable Change Alliance was formed in 2015 by a team of professionals bringing together their financial, educational, leadership, and fund development skills to promote impact investing opportunities in financially successful ventures having positive and sustainable impact (locally, nationally and globally). Purpose: - Create investor groups - Promote education - Benefit community - Establish models - Advance the field We believe sustainability is the key to impact investing. Where traditional philanthropic grant-giving has no expectation of financial return, and so are considered successful if they maintain receipt of continual donations, impact investing does have an expectation of financial return after its initial funding, and is considered successful when the businesses producing positive social change are able to become self-supporting, that is sustainable, without the need of continual funding.

Santa Barbara Angel Alliance is an angel investor group focused on startup and early-stage companies. Members have invested more than $17.5M in over 80 companies across the US and have participated in numerous public and private exits. The group is comprised of experienced entrepreneurs, senior executives, and sophisticated investors from a broad range of industries. The organization takes an active role in its investments, providing guidance and mentoring in addition to growth capital. Santa Barbara Angel Alliance believes in the importance of professional networks to locate and evaluate investment opportunities. The organization does not accept funding applications online, instead relying on personal introductions for deal flow.

We seek out and collaborate with community leaders, other values-aligned social change organizations, foundations, individual philanthropists, and regional SVPs to co-create an ecosystem where magic happens — the magic of increased experimentation, rapid learning, and local-regional-national-global connections. In cultivating and expanding this network together: We catalyze more resources We catalyze and mobilize financial resources — both our own and from others — applying them toward cross-sector and multi-community solutions and innovations. We shift these resources away from traditional systems that only benefit a few, and we move them to collective and collaborative approaches that benefit many. We disrupt traditional philanthropy We demonstrate ways to disrupt and shift traditional philanthropy, moving it from being individualistic and disconnected to being community-centered in addressing root causes of injustice. We are embedded in the communities we serve, co-creating with them for the long-haul, not just in single touch points. We influence change We inspire individual philanthropists to understand the priorities that communities have — and how to strategically partner, fund, and give agency to community leaders in advancing change.

The Sustainable Change Alliance was formed in 2015 by a team of professionals bringing together their financial, educational, leadership, and fund development skills to promote impact investing opportunities in financially successful ventures having positive and sustainable impact (locally, nationally and globally). Purpose: - Create investor groups - Promote education - Benefit community - Establish models - Advance the field We believe sustainability is the key to impact investing. Where traditional philanthropic grant-giving has no expectation of financial return, and so are considered successful if they maintain receipt of continual donations, impact investing does have an expectation of financial return after its initial funding, and is considered successful when the businesses producing positive social change are able to become self-supporting, that is sustainable, without the need of continual funding.

Entrada Ventures is a seed stage fund started by passionate, experienced operators and investors who have built multiple successful companies. We don’t just write checks. We work personally with a few companies each year helping them develop from startups with product-market fit to strong businesses ready for their first round of institutional financing. By investing in and working with strong founders who’ve demonstrated some traction, we can significantly improve those companies’ ability to understand, manage, and scale their business and raise a tier-one Series A on great terms. Entrada Ventures is based in Santa Barbara and Silicon Valley, CA, and invests across a broad range of innovative enterprise and industrial technologies. We are interested to hear from you, but please dont submit business plans or ideas to any of our partners via LinkedIn. Check out our website and, if you think you are a good fit for our strategy, connect with us through a mutual contact or via our site.

Founded as Tech Coast Angels in 1997, Tech Coast Angels Venture Group (TCA VG) has invested approximately $300 million in more than 525 companies, attracting an additional $2.2 billion in capital. With 400+ accredited investors in TCA LA, TCA OC, TCA Inland Empire, Pasadena Angels, and MEDA Angels, TCA VG is a key seed and early-stage funding source. Members, including founders and business leaders, deliver more than capital — providing counsel, mentorship, and access to extensive networks.

Santa Barbara Angel Alliance is an angel investor group focused on startup and early-stage companies. Members have invested more than $17.5M in over 80 companies across the US and have participated in numerous public and private exits. The group is comprised of experienced entrepreneurs, senior executives, and sophisticated investors from a broad range of industries. The organization takes an active role in its investments, providing guidance and mentoring in addition to growth capital. Santa Barbara Angel Alliance believes in the importance of professional networks to locate and evaluate investment opportunities. The organization does not accept funding applications online, instead relying on personal introductions for deal flow.