Heidi E. Lehmann

We help companies to harness their untapped diverse leadership talent by going beyond traditional leadership development. Strides is an AI-based platform that facilitates conversations between diverse senior leaders to cultivate warm professional relationships that leads to advocacy and sponsorship. Strides offers that ability to easily find the most relevant executive connections and enhances your meeting experience with meaningful real-time insights. We augment this with curated leadership development programs delivered through our key partners.

Kenzen is at the intersection of climate tech and unparalleled heat science. We harness physiology data to prevent heat injury and death on worksites, one of the foundational issues of our time.

BTM Energy powers data-intensive AI industries through scalable, behind-the-meter, clean energy parks with a tokenization layer to simplify infrastructure financing and real world asset management. We develop sustainable, renewable energy solutions delivered Behind the Meter and offer comprehensive project development and Energy industry-unique, capital financing solutions tailored to meet the needs of our clients. Energy is derived from converting fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas, as well as, plastics, municipal wastes, and wood into hydrogen and other clean fuel sources. Typical BTM Energy Parks and Edge sites may range from 500KW to 500MW in power delivery and size, and our client focus is upon commercial, industrial, and retail applications.

The Heartland Digital Asset Exchange (#HDAX) is a first-of-its-kind, invitation-only summit convening the Midwest’s most discerning family offices, investors, wealth managers, fund leaders, and innovators with the global vanguard of digital assets and blockchain infrastructure.

Ligo Partners is a single family office based in Miami run by Alec Andronikov (Principal) and Cindy Mihalova (Chief Investment Officer). Ligo Partners co-invests with our discrete and invitation-only consortium of like-minded investors into disruptive tech-focused deal flow sourced directly from family offices and top venture capital firms worldwide. As of January 2023, Ligo Partners’ global platform co-invests with 2,455 domestic and international family offices and qualified investors with a combined net worth of $224 billion who are interested in non-traditional, market-uncorrelated technology investment opportunities that (a) are not easily found (think Uber at seed); and (b) have shown resilience to recent changes in the recent macroeconomic environment. Our investment team sources 90+ potential investments each month with an important selection criteria: the deal is led by a top venture capitalist or an investor in the Ligo family office community. Hence, 100% of our deal flow is warmly referred, often proprietary and mostly off-market. Our investment committee then selectively curates top 7 direct equity and venture debt investments showcased via a highly time-efficient 45 min curated deals monthly webinar.

We help companies to harness their untapped diverse leadership talent by going beyond traditional leadership development. Strides is an AI-based platform that facilitates conversations between diverse senior leaders to cultivate warm professional relationships that leads to advocacy and sponsorship. Strides offers that ability to easily find the most relevant executive connections and enhances your meeting experience with meaningful real-time insights. We augment this with curated leadership development programs delivered through our key partners.

Techstars helps founders scale their startups into world-changing businesses. Founded in 2006, Techstars is on a mission to invest in startups to enable more capital to flow to more entrepreneurs around the world in order to deliver exceptional returns to our investors. We do this by operating accelerator programs and venture capital funds, as well as by connecting startups, investors, corporations, and cities to help build thriving startup communities. Our results show why Techstars is Better for Founders than any other global accelerator: On average, 74.5% of Techstars companies will raise money within 3 years of their program; 18.5% of Techstars portfolio companies have exited 5 years after their program and 31.1% after eight years. (PitchBook June 2023)