Wendy Yang

BRUNT partners with trade workers to build boots and apparel that provide the best performance, durability, and comfort hard-earned money can buy.

Women in Sports Tech (WiST) is a nonprofit organization that empowers growth opportunities for women and employers in sports tech and innovation, at all stages of their career, from the classroom to the boardroom. WiST develops and delivers innovative programs, original content and a global community that provide tangible value for women and employers alike. With this expansion of fan and business interest*, sport-related tech firms, along with other broad-based tech companies, recognize the need to diversify their workforce. Business leaders understand that it is critical to recruit and retain women who have a passion and skillset for tech and business management. Their experiences, diversity of thought, interest in sports, and perhaps their athletic background, serve to enlighten, promote, and deliver on a company’s mission. WiST answers this concern by offering businesses and women the foremost platform for connections, resources, and career engagement. Its flagship initiative, the WiST Fellowship program, provides grants for highly motivated college and graduate school students to pursue summer internship projects in sports technology. Additional WiST programs include the WiST Next Gen Resource Hub “Discover Sports Tech” for high school students, the original content series WiST Presents, and the WiST NETWORK career hub, the single source for diverse hiring in the sports tech industry. WiST is supported by donations from corporations and organizations, including AEG Worldwide, Catapult Sports, Comcast NBCU, DICK’S Game Changer, FEVO, IBM Sports, NBA, Nike, Oracle, PointsBet, Stats Perform, Shorewind Capital, Strava, Titleist, and more. WiST has provided an array of diverse panelists for learning experiences at Hashtag Sports, CES, SIGA, SXSW, the Stanford GSB Sports Innovation Conference, and more.

There’s more to life than tying your shoes. That's what drove us to revolutionize the footwear industry: to make every day easier, for everyone. It’s a technology that’s life-changing for some and joy-sparking for all. Who likes tying their shoes, anyway?

Cotopaxi creates outdoor products, apparel, and experiences that help alleviate poverty, move people to do good, and inspire adventure. Our social impact strategy focuses on global poverty alleviation, and we employ responsible sourcing and manufacturing practices throughout our supply chains.

Pressed Juicery is the leading cold-pressed juice and healthy snacks brand dedicated to making plant-forward living as convenient and delicious as possible. The company’s mission is to pave the way for plant-forward living by making real, healthy food accessible to everyone. Pressed operates more than 100 retail stores in 10 states, is available in nearly over 3,000 distribution points through its wholesale partners, and can be purchased directly from their website and shipped to any location within the U.S. For more information, please visit pressed.com or the Pressed app. Follow Pressed on Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, and Facebook for additional updates.

At Ridgeline, we are collaborative, experienced operators, focused on long-term value in enduring companies, including Cotopaxi, Bobos, TPC, Joyfull Bakery, Solarcore, Bonafide Provisions, Force of Nature, Lifeforce, Sahajan, and Noka Organics. We are drawn to forward-looking businesses that are dedicated to making a difference and helping people lead healthier and more active lives. Similar to a family office, we don’t have any outside investors in our firm - we invest our own capital. This gives us extraordinary flexibility in the size of investments we make as well as our investment timelines (we have none!). We prefer acquiring a majority stake of businesses, but we have also invested growth equity capital into fast-growing companies.

BRUNT partners with trade workers to build boots and apparel that provide the best performance, durability, and comfort hard-earned money can buy.

Women in Sports Tech (WiST) is a nonprofit organization that empowers growth opportunities for women and employers in sports tech and innovation, at all stages of their career, from the classroom to the boardroom. WiST develops and delivers innovative programs, original content and a global community that provide tangible value for women and employers alike. With this expansion of fan and business interest*, sport-related tech firms, along with other broad-based tech companies, recognize the need to diversify their workforce. Business leaders understand that it is critical to recruit and retain women who have a passion and skillset for tech and business management. Their experiences, diversity of thought, interest in sports, and perhaps their athletic background, serve to enlighten, promote, and deliver on a company’s mission. WiST answers this concern by offering businesses and women the foremost platform for connections, resources, and career engagement. Its flagship initiative, the WiST Fellowship program, provides grants for highly motivated college and graduate school students to pursue summer internship projects in sports technology. Additional WiST programs include the WiST Next Gen Resource Hub “Discover Sports Tech” for high school students, the original content series WiST Presents, and the WiST NETWORK career hub, the single source for diverse hiring in the sports tech industry. WiST is supported by donations from corporations and organizations, including AEG Worldwide, Catapult Sports, Comcast NBCU, DICK’S Game Changer, FEVO, IBM Sports, NBA, Nike, Oracle, PointsBet, Stats Perform, Shorewind Capital, Strava, Titleist, and more. WiST has provided an array of diverse panelists for learning experiences at Hashtag Sports, CES, SIGA, SXSW, the Stanford GSB Sports Innovation Conference, and more.

There’s more to life than tying your shoes. That's what drove us to revolutionize the footwear industry: to make every day easier, for everyone. It’s a technology that’s life-changing for some and joy-sparking for all. Who likes tying their shoes, anyway?

Cotopaxi creates outdoor products, apparel, and experiences that help alleviate poverty, move people to do good, and inspire adventure. Our social impact strategy focuses on global poverty alleviation, and we employ responsible sourcing and manufacturing practices throughout our supply chains.