Elizabeth Grier

Brightseed is a pioneer in biosciences and artificial intelligence (A.I.) that illuminates nature to restore human health. Brightseed’s proprietary A.I., Forager®, accelerates bioactive discovery, biological validation and ingredient formulation from years to months, rapidly revealing new connections between nature and humanity. Through Forager® and clinical evaluation, Brightseed partners with organizations across the consumer health continuum to offer insight into the world of bioactives and health solutions. Brightseed produces branded, proprietary, clinically proven bioactives that are sold to leading dietary supplement, food & beverage CPG, specialty nutrition and medical food companies for incorporation into health beneficial consumer products. Visit www.brightseedbio.com to learn more.

Syndio is the industry pioneer in Decision Intelligence for Pay. Built on nearly a decade of proprietary compensation insights, Syndio helps global organizations make smarter pay decisions that win talent while protecting internal equity and controlling costs. Using Syndi, the companys first AI-native solution, teams get precise, instant pay recommendations embedded in their workflows. More than 350 leading companies rely on Syndios solutions to guide compensation decisions for over 10 million employees across 100 countries.

Wealth management and financial planning services optimized for women.

Paladins mission is to increase access to justice by helping legal teams run more efficient pro bono programs.

Climate Merchants is a Nordic-anchored advisory and merchant platform launched in partnership with the World Climate Foundation to move real climate assets to scale. We bridge the gap between innovation and infrastructure through advisory, capital formation, and products such as DevCapita, which delivers catalytic, performance-aligned capital for the development phase. Through ecosystem access, hands-on execution, and adaptive capital structures, we help transform stranded climatetech ventures into bankable, scalable enterprises. We harness the world’s new climate trade winds across finance, policy, and industry to make climate finance move again.

Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) is a nonprofit organization that delivers an objectives-based program for massively scalable, seed-stage, science- and technology-based companies. The nine-month program employs an objectives-based mentoring process to enhance the performance of technical founders who learn from the insights of experienced entrepreneurs, with the goal of maximizing equity-value creation. Founded by Professor Ajay Agrawal in 2012 at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, the program has expanded and now has 11 sites across six countries: Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal, Halifax, Paris, Madison, Seattle, Estonia, Berlin, and Melbourne. The program combines 5 elements to help companies transition from science projects to scalable and financeable companies: - An emphasis on objective-setting, helping companies focus on what’s most important to their business - Focused mentorship from experienced entrepreneurs who have founded, led, and sold significant tech companies - Technical advice from world-leading scientists, engineers, and economists - Hands-on support from top business students, who embed within the company to provide business support - Opportunities to raise capital, including angels and VCs from Europe and North America The successful commercialization of cutting-edge science and technology achieved through the program has led to the creation of over CAD $35 billion in equity value.

BRITE is an innovation-first ecosystem advancing the clean energy economy. BRITE believes anyone, anywhere can be a catalyst for change, that empowering energy tech startups will create opportunity, good jobs and a resilient economy.

East Los Capital is a tech-enabled lower middle market private equity firm making the world more productive through technology. We are operationally-focused, research-driven, and technology-enabled. We invest in successful companies where our capital, talent, and analytics can drive the most value. We focus on consumer, healthcare, internet, media, services, and software. Team current investments: 66Degrees, Basepaws, BeTheBeast, Breadware, Bump by Ownors, DiDi, dotstudioPRO, Everyset, Fernish, Finix, FLYR Labs, Functional Finance, Glitzi, Lorals, Lynx Biosciences, MagicLinks, myLAB Box, Nadine west, Nevados, Orca Inventory, Ordermark, RealKey, Repurpose, Revry, Rosalind.bio, Sabio, Signalwire, Synctera, Tampon Tribe, Tradewell, TRM Labs, ZenHub Team exited investments: Basepaws (Zoetis acq), Capillary Biomedical (Tandem Diabetes Care acq), Caylent (Gryphon Investors acq), IKizmet (ClubReady acq), Passfolio (SproutFi acq), Pasturebird (Perdue Farms acq) Our investment and operations team has experience at Accenture, Amazon, Disney, Goldman Sachs, Meta (Facebook), Google, IBM, Intel, KKR, McKinsey & Company, Microsoft, Sequoia Capital, Shopify, TCW, and Vista Equity. Team past public investments: Abbot, Amazon, Amgen, Archer Daniels Midland, Baidu, Baxter, Boston Scientific, Boyd Gaming, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Cardinal Health, Carnival, CBS, Charter, Clorox, Coca-Cola, Comcast, Conagra, Ctrip, Discovery, Disney, DreamWorks, Lilly, Entravision, Expedia, Facebook, Google, Groupon, Hilton, Home Depot, IAC, IMAX, IGT, JNJ, Kimberly-Clark, Lamar, Las Vegas Sands, LinkedIn, Lionsgate, Marriott, McKesson, Medtronic, Merck, MGM, Netflix, Penn National Gaming, Pepsi, Pixar, Priceline, P&G, QuinStreet, Royal Caribbean, Scientific Games, Sina, SiriusXM, Time Warner, TripAdvisor, Unilever, UnitedHealthcare, Viacom, VistaPrint, Walmart, Weibo, Wynn, Yahoo, Yelp, Youku

American Resilience Project wields the power of strategic narratives to meet the greatest threats to human security and civilizational stability. Our work is designed to strengthen civic engagement for achieving the energy transition, adapting to sea level rise, managing the climate crisis, strengthening food security, and more -- because civilization deserves a fighting chance. We are also available to produce commissioned work for organizations whose missions we share. Please visit www.amresproject.org to learn more.