Digital Agriculture for a Sustainable Future
The practice of harvesting the land to feed communities is as old as civilization. As long as people need to eat, there will be a market to exchange food and the ingredients that literally give us the sustenance of life. Yet until very recently, the agriculture industry has escaped the interest of non-conventional investors: despite […]
How Can We Close the Human Skill Gap
In June 2020 Chief Empathy Officer became a popular buzzword in news headlines. In the face of a series of difficult and uncharted moments in history — COVID, Black Lives Matter, etc. — top CEOs, like Tim Cook, redefined their leadership roles, communicating the change world leaders need to adopt to face this unprecedented time.
2020 Rethink Education Impact Report
In 2020 the pandemic changed education around the globe. People of any age trying to learn anything struggled with grief; terror; loneliness; anger; hunger; homelessness; racist policies and budgets and the constant spectacle of violence by racists, uniformed and otherwise; lack of a quiet, private place; lack of computing devices; lack of connection to the internet; lack of accommodations for special needs; […]
How Kim Smith is Accelerating Digital Innovation and Equity in K-12
Today we talk with Kim Smith, Executive Director of the League of Innovative Schools, a national network of forward-thinking education leaders who are striving to improve student outcomes through the smart use of learning technologies and innovative practices. Throughout her career Kim has worked to improve digital access and tools in education and to create […]
How David Blake is Transforming Lifelong Learning
In a recent blog post, Matt Greenfield detailed the key themes in education technology that Rethink Education is focused on and outlined four areas of study for our research in 2021. The first area of research is on working learners. We will share our findings through blog posts, events, and through our conversations on this […]
What’s Working in Education and What Isn’t? A Conversation with Michael Feldstein
Today we are joined by Michael Feldstein to discuss the latest in education technology. Michael is the creator of e-Literate and the Empirical Educator Project and has spent his career in education from teaching to consulting to working at large enterprises focused on education. On todays’ episode we will talk to Michael about his latest […]
Historical Yield Comparison 2005 – 2021
RBG’s Legacy and Gender Bias in Venture Capital
We were devastated by the recent passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a pioneer in uncovering and eradicating much of the gender bias that lurks behind the laws, policies and norms that impact our daily lives. It’s not easy to lose a hero like RBG. But her passing is a reminder that the investment community […]
12 for 12: Predictions for 2019 from Female Founders
As partners in a female-led venture capital firm that invests in female leaders using technology to tackle the world’s biggest problems, we have some of the best jobs on Earth. Over the past year, we’ve connected with and learned from more than a thousand female entrepreneurs nationwide. These businesses not only have women in the […]
Top 10 Things We Learned in Our 1st Year
A lot has changed since International Women’s Day, 2017 when Rethink Impact became the largest US-based impact venture capital firm with a gender lens.[1] While initially seen as a niche investment strategy, gender lens investing is now entering the limelight in response to the gender inequity in the venture capital space and the business world […]