Through our Startup Grind event series Hunting for Silver Linings, we check in with ecosystem builders, investors, and business leaders from around the world.
We dig for deeper context around challenges and opportunities found in markets around the world, as well as mine for insight that can better inform biases about regions, their talent, and potential for investment.
Then, we connect the dots.
OUR HOSTS
Corey Hart
Chapter Director, Startup Grind
Yorgo (George) Katsanos
Managing Director, Beneventure Partners
OUR SPECIAL GUEST
Wednesday, December 30, we are pleased to host Ross Mason, Founder of HINRI.
Ross is the Founder of HINRI, which stands for The High Impact Network of Responsible Innovators.
FROM THEIR WEBSITE
HINRI's mission is "To connect social entrepreneurs and innovative organizations to sources of capital, strategic partners, technology solutions and servant leaders so they are more effective at saving lives, saving money and having a sustainable impact."
What they do:
"We are an accelerator for nonprofits with big ideas. Our venture philanthropy approach mirrors how angel investors help entrepreneurs build companies that can scale effectively and reduce risk for investors and donors.
In the United States, HINRI partners with leading healthcare innovators to serve the indigent and uninsured, wounded warriors and their families, address food insecurity, create educational programs for autistic children, change the standard of care for spinal cord injuries, and combat human trafficking. Outside the U.S., HINRI is working on human rights, providing clean water, food for malnourished children, the distribution of pharmaceuticals and the creation of schools, housing, and health clinics in communities with extreme poverty."
HINRI
Founder
Ross Mason is the former Chairman of the Georgia Department of Community Health Board - the 3rd largest health plan in the United States with a $13.2 billion annual budget and 660,000 covered lives. He is the former Chairman of the Metro Atlanta United Way’s Health Access Board and former Chairman of the Board of Visitors of Georgia Regents University. He is the current Chairman of the Commerc…
Startup Grind Grand Rapids
Chapter Director
See BioBeneventure Partners
Associate
Startup Grind
Chapter Director
View ProfileStartup Grind Grand Rapids
Co-Director
View Profile
Communications Director
View Profile
Intern of All Trades
View ProfileKikcit
Spunkk'd Creative Strategist
View Profile
Spunkk'd Director
View Profile