Juan Andres: At Sunlight, we're working on connecting and financing each person to the very best learning resource for their given circumstance. To achieve this, there are several other challenges that we must first overcome. Our approach requires that each individual can choose what they believe is best for them. Any resource goes! Online courses, books, podcasts, events, coaching. To do this, we're enabling everyone to leverage their company’s learning budget in a very simple frictionless way. This provides us with a map of all learning possibilities for an individual based on their location, role, budget, and more. We will then use this information along with its impact to be able to deduce the very best for anyone in a given situation.
Sonika: It’s nice to meet you too, Spiffy. Aeloi works with women micro-entrepreneurs, especially ones in the informal sectors with less access to formal finances because they lack collateral, credit history, and proof of income. Did you know that 163 million informal women entrepreneurs have an estimated US $1.7 trillion financing gap? We help solve this credit gap problem with our fund insight software. We do this by directly connecting funders with micro-entrepreneurs. Our main innovation is our digital token technology and our business model, which has a gender-intentional approach, that builds more trust between lenders and borrowers.
Suba: Nyaanum is a digital content company focused on exploration, culture, and virtual travel. What makes Nyaanum unique is that our content is created and curated by the people who live in the places we visit—as opposed to professional photographers or foreign travelers. We create the space for communities to tell their own stories about their homes—what makes this place special to them—but also stories that highlight what is shared across cultures. There is a strong focus on empowering less heard, more marginalized voices, bringing a diversity of perspective and experience. We want to become the premier company to experience the world virtually in an inclusive and respectful way by and for everyone on the planet.
