Ward Bullard

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📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 6 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2026
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Co-Founder/Founding Investor
Jul 2020
Bay FC is the National Women’s Soccer League’s 14th expansion team located in Bay Area California set to play their inaugural season in March 2024. Bay FC’s mission is to build the most valuable women’s soccer club in the world that is player-led, fan focused and positively impacts the community through promoting diversity, equality, inclusion by uniting the Bay and the world through the game of soccer. Co-founded by U.S. Women’s National Team legends Brandi Chastain, Leslie Osborne, Danielle Slaton and Aly Wagner, Bay FC was formed by the largest institutional investment ever made in women’s professional soccer from global investment firm Sixth Street. Community is our foundation, and the love of the game is our reason for being. For career, sponsorship, and ticketing information, join the club at BayFC.com and follow us on social @wearebayfc.
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2026
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2026
Open-technology nonprofit mapping the world’s edible plants and developing online platforms to promote urban foraging and hyperlocal food. Falling Fruit is a celebration of the overlooked culinary bounty of our city streets. By quantifying this resource on an interactive map, we hope to facilitate intimate connections between people, food, and the natural organisms growing in our neighborhoods. Not just a free lunch! Foraging in the 21st century is an opportunity for urban exploration, to fight the scourge of stained sidewalks, and to reconnect with the botanical origins of food. Our edible map is not the first of its kind, but it aspires to be the worlds most comprehensive. While our users contribute locations of their own, we comb the internet for pre-existing knowledge, seeking to unite the efforts of foragers, foresters, and freegans everywhere. The imported datasets range from small neighborhood foraging maps to vast professionally-compiled tree inventories. This so far amounts to 4,039 different types of edibles (most, but not all, plant species) distributed over 1,952,558 locations. Beyond the cultivated and commonplace to the exotic flavors of foreign plants and long-forgotten native plants, foraging in your neighborhood is a journey through time and across cultures. Join us in celebrating hyper-local food! The map is open for anyone to edit, the database can be downloaded with just one click, and the code is open-source. You are likewise encouraged to share the bounty with your fellow humans. Our sharing page lists hundreds of local organizations - planting public orchards and food forests, picking otherwise-wasted fruits and vegetables from city trees and farmers fields, and sharing with neighbors and the needy.
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2021
Founded in 1898, Bullard is the leading designer, developer, manufacturer, and marketer of personal protection equipment for people who work in hazardous conditions. Products include industrial head and face protection, supplied-air for abrasive blasting and powered-air respiratory protection for pharmaceutical and healthcare, fire and rescue helmets, and thermal imaging cameras for firefighting. Bullard products are sold worldwide through a network of authorized distributors. Headquartered in Cynthiana, Kentucky, Bullard is a fifth-generation, family owned company. All Bullard products are made proudly in the U.S.A. and are built with your safety in mind.
2020
Co-Founder/Founding Investor
Jul 2020
Bay FC is the National Women’s Soccer League’s 14th expansion team located in Bay Area California set to play their inaugural season in March 2024. Bay FC’s mission is to build the most valuable women’s soccer club in the world that is player-led, fan focused and positively impacts the community through promoting diversity, equality, inclusion by uniting the Bay and the world through the game of soccer. Co-founded by U.S. Women’s National Team legends Brandi Chastain, Leslie Osborne, Danielle Slaton and Aly Wagner, Bay FC was formed by the largest institutional investment ever made in women’s professional soccer from global investment firm Sixth Street. Community is our foundation, and the love of the game is our reason for being. For career, sponsorship, and ticketing information, join the club at BayFC.com and follow us on social @wearebayfc.
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