Investments

Program-Related Investments

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Beckley Waves

Building the Future of the Psychedelics Field -A Psychedelic Venture Studio

Beckley Waves funds, supports, and mentors the emerging leaders, entrepreneurs, and partnerships working to create the operational infrastructure of a global psychedelic ecosystem.

  • Amanda Feilding

    Co-founder+ Chair

  • Dan Love

    Co-Founder + Partner

  • Rock Feilding-Mellen

    Co-Founder

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Cloud Sangha

Building a conscious community of meditators awakening together

Cloud Sangha’s mission is to provide meditators around the world with access to a supportive community, interactive teachings, and live, expert guidance on our collective journey to free our hearts and minds.

  • Willem Bult
    Co-Founder, CEO
  • Ranah Edelin
    Co-Founder
  • Jack Kornfield
    Co-Founder, Founding Teacher
  • Tara Brach
    Co-Founder, Founding Teacher
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Commune

Commune

Commune creates transformational online courses with the world’s greatest teachers and thought leaders. Commune’s mission is to bring well-being to a BILLION people worldwide.

  • Jeff Krasno
    Founder and CEO
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Coral

Coral is your trusted guide to a happier, healthier intimate life.

Coral is the leading sexual self-improvement app for humans. We are on a mission to normalize sexual wellness and help the world be happier and healthier. With a team that includes the country’s foremost sex-positive researchers, we help users experience boosted confidence, deeper intimate connections, and new frontiers of enjoyment through science-based learning, community conversations and guided exercises.

  • Isharna Walsh
    Founder and CEO
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Credible Mind

The one-stop shop for mental wellbeing self-help.

The internet provides more information than most people can process. Now employers, health plans, health systems, health departments and non-profits can offer everyone they serve an engaging way to explore, discover, and match the best evidence-based self-help resources, specifically tailored for the needs and preferences of each individual. The CredibleMind mental health platform enables organizations to intervene early, build resilience, reduce stigma, and measure outcomes of the populations they serve.

  • Deryk Van Brunt
    CEO
  • Marcos Athanasoulis
    CTO and Co-Founder
  • Dustin DiPerna
    Co-Editor and Chief
  • Jonathan Adler
    Chief Medical Officer and Co-Editor-in-Chief
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Edovo

Helping everyone connected to incarceration build better lives

Edovo builds technology solutions for incarcerated individuals and their families, providing fair and honest communication services, educational and vocational training, and re-entry preparation.

  • Brian Hill
    CEO
  • David Northridge
    President
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Expectful

Guided meditation for soon-to-be & new parents

Expectful believes that the wellbeing of pregnant moms and new parents has a direct impact on the health and wellbeing of their children.
  • Mark Krassner
    Founder & CEO
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FindCenter

FindCenter is a platform for personal development and growth.

We’ve made it our mission —through extensive research, curation, and code —to support those seeking answers. Our approach is comprehensive and communal. FindCenter is part library, part garden, and everyone is welcome.
  • Neal Goldman
    Founder and CEO
  • Zainab Salbi
    Chief Awareness Office
  • Caroline Pincus
    Director of Content
  • Jonathan Adler
    Chief Medical Officer and Co-Editor-in-Chief
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Health Rhythms

Building the next generation platform for mental health.

We are on a mission to become the world leader in objectively measuring mental health. We do this by capturing critical behavioral information to provide a more complete picture of individuals’ behavioral health with clinically actionable insight. Mental health clinicians, health systems and payers need objective, continuously collected and easily interpretable patient data to fully appreciate patient status and enable quick, flexible, and targeted interventions that lead to positive outcomes and reduced treatment costs. Patients, and their families.
  • Ellen Frank, PhD
    Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer
  • Mark Matthews, PhD
    Co-Founder & CTO
  • David Kupfer, MD
    Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Advisor
  • Paul Gilbert, MBA
    CEO
  • Gabe Aranovich, MD
    Chief Medical Officer
  • Peter Sorantin, PhD
    Chief Commercial Officer
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Hive

A global community of young leaders committed to creating a better world

Through on online portal, local chapters, and transformational events across the global, Hive is building a global community of 2,500 leaders and entrepreneurs from 125 countries who are committed to becoming the best versions of themselves and creating a better world.
  • Ryan Allis
    CEO
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Homecoming

A patient care platform for psychedelic therapy.

Homecoming’s platform makes it easy for transformational coaches to support, guide, and grow their client community. Our mission is to help transformational coaches and their clients unlock the full healing potential of psychedelic medicine.
  • Yuriy Blokhin
    CEO & Founder
  • Keith Tabin
    Chief of Staff
  • Will Simon
    Head of Product
  • Eli Goodman
    Staff Engineer
  • Samir Uppaluru
    Staff Engineer
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Insight Timer

Free meditation for the world. One person at a time.

With 7 million users Insight Timer is the largest meditation community on earth. Its platform provides the most extensive free library of guided meditations, with over 15,000 titles. More time is spent on Insight Timer every day than all other meditation apps combined.
  • Christopher Plowman
    CEO
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KnowYourself

China's largest psychology platform

Through its online platform, KnowYourself promotes mental health in China by increasing awareness about the topic, providing self-help tools, a supportive community and psychology-related services. With 6 million followers on social media, it is the largest psychology platform in China.
  • Annabelle Qian
    Founder & CEO
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Marco Polo

Marco Polo's mission is to help people feel close

Marco Polo’s popular video app is a way to stay in touch with the people who matter most to you. It’s the best of texting, video chat and social media but unlike social media, there is no wasted time, no ads, no social comparisons, and no likes! Since 2016, Marco Polo is the first social networking app that’s actually built to be good for you.
  • Vlada Bortnik
    Co-founder and CEO
  • Michal Bortnik
    Co-founder & Chief Product and Strategy Officer
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MindSciences

MindSciences develops and markets evidence based apps for habit change & mental health.

Founded by Dr. Jud Brewer, the noted addiction psychiatrist and neuroscientist, MindSciences develops apps based on the sciences of mindfulness. Our first apps are aimed at anxiety, smoking cessation and emotional eating. MindSciences was acquired by ShareCare in early 2020.
  • Jud Brewer MD PhD
    Founder
  • Josh Roman
    Chief Product Officer
  • Mark Mitchnick MD
    CEO
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MycoMedica

Unlocking the healing potential of the fungal genome for people and planet.

Our mission is to harness the inherent healing power of fungi by offering economically and ecologically sustainable integrative solutions for mental and physical health, to protect biodiversity and to enhance the quality of life on Earth. MycoMedica Life Sciences’ vision is to be a multigenerational company that brings short and long-term benefits to the founding investors and their descendants.
  • Paul Stamets
    Founder and CEO
  • Pamela Kryskow
    Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer
  • Tad Buchanan
    Co-Founder and Chief Financial Officer
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Oji Life Lab

A new model of learning universal life skills

Oji Life Lab is focuses on helping people in business gain critical soft skills that drive success in business and life. Its first product, the Emotional Life Lab, was designed with experts from Yale University and seamlessly combines micro-learning and live online coaching.
  • Matt Kursh
    CEO
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ParentLab

Grow together

ParentLab educates and helps parents. Based on science and inspired by the heart, its parenting app HelloJoey curates the latest research on child psychology and neurology on a comprehensive range of topics and turn them into practical and concise advice for parents.
  • Jill Li
    CEO
  • Zhen Shao
    CTO
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Project Wayfinder

Reimagining adolescent education to foster belonging & purpose.

Imagine if adolescent education was designed for all students to develop lives of meaning and purpose. In 2015 Project Wayfinder was founded at the Stanford d.school to answer this call. We partner with educators to design innovative learning experiences that foster meaningful relationships and guide students to navigate their lives with purpose.
  • Patrick Cook-Deegan
    Founder and CEO
  • Claudia Biçen
    Creative Director and Lead Designer
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Second Time Founders

A community of founders committed to inner work

Second Time Founders is a network of transitioning founders who gather and share challenges, gain resources, and perspectives. We are a community committed to driving positive change in the world through personal development and internal transformation.
  • Kwiri Yang
    CEO
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Sens.ai

Your Brain: Sharper, Faster, Better

To feel their best and live their best life, people need to train their brain and control their state. Sens.ai provides the technology and training that people need to make it happen, faster. Sens.ai’s vision is a community of
superconscious people thriving and doing good in the world.
  • Paola Telfer
    CEO and Founder
  • Corey Julihn
    CTO & Founder
  • Geoff Telfer
    COO
  • Dr. Drew Pierson
    Head of Applied Neuroscience
  • Dr. Mark Atkinson
    Head of Human Potential Development
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Socreates

Perspective hacks to align with your higher self

Socreates is the first Heartfulness app. It pairs the Socratic Method of questioning with short, animated insight videos and sound healing practices so you can move out of your headspace and into your heartspace. Socreates guides you to understand then remove your self-limiting emotions, beliefs and behaviors so you can align with your higher self.
  • Abigail Noble
    Co-Creator and CEO
  • Paulo Caserta
    Co-Creator and Chief Creative Officer
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Ten Percent Happier

Get better at feeling good. Meditation & mindfulness from the world’s best teachers.

After having a nationally televised panic attack, Dan Harris stumbled upon something he always assumed to be either impossible or useless: meditation. In 2014, he published the book “10% Happier”, a surprise #1 New York Times bestseller, which led to the 10% Happier podcast and an app that teaches fidgety skeptics how to meditate.
  • Dan Harris
    Co-founder and ABC News anchor
  • Ben Rubin
    Co-founder and CEO
  • Derek Haswell
    Co-founder and VP of Product
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The Shift Network

A global leader in transformational media and education

Founded in 2010, The Shift Network has empowered over 3,500,000 people in 180 countries to help reach their full potential. Offering classes and summits featuring renowned teachers and thought leaders, The Shift Network is committed to empowering 100 million people in the next five years in order to accelerate the transition to a peaceful, sustainable, and thriving planet for all.
  • Stephen Dinan
    CEO and Founder
  • Devaa Haley Mitchell
    Chief Impact Office and Co-Founder
  • Sylvia Fry
    Chief of Finance and Operations
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Tru Luv

Transforming our relationship with technology

TRU LUV makes AI companions for refuge, resilience, and transformation. Together with artists, witches, psychologists, game designers, and AI experts, we are creating a revolutionary new category of human-computer interaction built with – and for – love and co-creation. Our first experimental companion, #SelfCare, was one of Apple’s Best of 2018.
  • Brie Code
    Founder and CEO
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Verb

The leadership development platform for the new workplace

Verb is the leadership development platform that helps managers develop the leadership capabilities needed most in the modern workplace, enabling them to support the growth of everyone they lead. Microlearning activities prompt learners to practice skills, take action, and reflect on their growth—leading to real skill development and behavior change.
  • Suzi Sosa
    Co-Founder and CEO
  • Tom Meredith
    Co-Founder
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Walking on Earth

Elevating human happiness

We are creating a new model for health that empowers each individual to make educated lifestyle choices and experience the miracle of walking on earth. We have brought together the leading experts in holistic health, drawing on ancient wisdom and modern day science. We know that half the challenge lies in transforming knowledge into action so we use behavioural science & technology to translate learnings into habits.
  • Reeva Misra
    Founder and CEO
  • Joao DeLima
    Head of Engineering
  • Nicole Henning
    Head of Practicioners