Chesapeake Bay Green Entrepreneur Roundtable: Soil
Please join us on Zoom to hear from several entrepreneurs addressing ecological and collective health in communities across the Chesapeake Bay watershed. This online space is intended to highlight environmental and social entrepreneurs, helping to connect them to resources, build awareness of their work, and amplify their current needs (including funding, partnership-building, customer introductions, team-building, and more).
Agenda:
Introductions from Dave Feldman and Scott Christensen (~10 minutes)
Presentation by Peter Ettinger (~20 minutes)
Startup Pitches (~7 minutes each)
Sashti Balasundaram, WeRadiate
WeRadiate repairs soils through a systematic and data-driven approach of technology & organics waste management.
Ron Goodman, Green Logic
Green Logic is addressing overpopulation of blue catfish in the Bay by developing a catfish-based hydrolysate fertilizer.
Justen Garrity, Veteran Compost
Veteran Compost employs veterans and their family members to turn food scraps into high-quality compost.
Breakout rooms by Company (~20 minutes)
This online event is open to all. If any of the below describe you, you will likely find this series of calls helpful.
You are interested in understanding novel and entrepreneurial approaches to ecological and social challenges in the watershed.
You are seeking to build partnerships and collaborate with ecological and social entrepreneurs in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
You are interested in finding an internship or job with an organization working on ecological or social challenges.
You want to fund novel and entrepreneurial approaches to ecological and social challenges.
Each entrepreneur will speak for no more than 7 minutes each and will end their portion with a summary of their needs. Examples of needs might include talent, fundraising, customer intros, stakeholder and government connections, etc. Q&A for each entrepreneur will happen after all presentations in breakout rooms.
The value of this event is in increasing connectivity between different stakeholders in the regional climate and entrepreneurship ecosystems. By holding this call, we hope to facilitate connections between entrepreneurs, supporters, funders, government, community members, and more.
Entrepreneurs interested in participating in future roundtables should email Scott Christensen at schris14@umd.edu or Dave Feldman at dave@bethesdagreen.org.