Americas Program

Scaling impact across the Americas

Launched in 2016, we are now in our 10th year of supporting growth-stage ventures operating at the nexus of advanced technology, profit and impact.

To date, alongside our partners at Barclays, we have supported 134 ventures headquartered across the Americas that are uniquely positioned to create the jobs of tomorrow while solving our most pressing societal and environmental challenges. The Americas program is part of Unreasonable Impact's broader global initiative that is actively supporting 375+ ventures across the world.

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Meet our Americas Cohorts

Each year we identify and privately invite a select portfolio of growth-stage ventures to join the Unreasonable Impact Americas.

This cohort is supported by a curated community of Unreasonable mentors, investors, and Barclays' colleagues. Together this community of support is dedicated to championing the growth and impact of the ventures now and into the future.
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Blue Frontier

Revolutionizing air conditioning for commercial buildings

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Daniel Betts

Founder & CEO

Cambium

Building smarter supply chain technology for the wood industry

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Ben Christensen

Co-Founder and CEO

Carbice

Delivering the best value in design, assembly, rework, repair, and supply chain management of cooling systems

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Baratunde Cola

Founder & CEO

CarbonCapture

Capturing carbon utilizing solid sorbents

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Adrian Corless

Founder & CEO

Carbon Upcycling

Securing cement supply chains for tomorrow’s infrastructure

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Apoorv Sinha

Co-Founder & CEO

CleanJoule

Unlocking 100% drop-in sustainable aviation fuel for global flight

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Mukund Karanjikar

Founder & CEO

Eden

Breaking rocks with electricity to enhance subsurface permeability

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Paris Smalls

Founder & CEO

Fillogic

Transforming retail logistics to meet the demands of modern customers

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Bill Thayer

Founder & CEO

GoodSAM Foods

Creating food that's Good for You, Good for Farmers, and Good for the Planet

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Heather Terry

Founder & CEO

Green Graphite Technologies

Localizing battery-grade graphite production for North America

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Gillian Holcroft

President & Co-Founder

Kanin Energy

Transforming industrial waste heat Into carbon-free power

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Janice Tran

Cofounder & CEO

Kelvin

Retrofitting legacy buildings with clean heating and cooling solutions

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Marshall Cox

Founder & CEO

Liberation Bioindustries

Rebuilding biomanufacturing using precision fermentation for a more resilient future

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Mark Warner

Cofounder & CEO

Moment Energy

Providing a clean, affordable, and reliable battery energy storage system by repurposing retired electric vehicle batteries

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Edward Chiang

Cofounder & CEO

Planetary Technologies

Using coastal ocean alkalinity enhancement to absorb carbon dioxide

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Michael Kelland

CEO

Ridwell

Getting rid of hard-to-recycle things the easy way

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Ryan Metzger

Cofounder & CEO

Splight

Unlocking idle grid transmission capacity

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Fernando Llaver

Cofounder & CEO

Summit Nanotech

Redefining direct lithium extraction for a resilient global supply chain

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Amanda Hall

Founder & CEO

UpSolv

Scaling a recycling solution for multiple classes of thermoplastics

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Nathalie Morin

President & CEO

134 Ventures are part of Unreasonable Impact Americas

The Unreasonable Fellowship is supported by a global community of 1,060 Mentors — from industry experts to renowned executives and policymakers. Below are just some of the Mentors who are proactively supporting our Americas cohorts.

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Amy Rosen

The HOW Institute for Society, Board member and Senior Advisor

Arun Gupta

Founder & CEO of Skyven Technologies

Betty Hudson

President, Hudson & Associates; Former Chief Communications Officer at National Geographic

Catherine Von Burg

Chief Executive Officer and President at SimpliPhi Power

Cesar Harada

Director at Scoutbots

Chris Yeh

Investor, Writer, Mentor, Serial Entrepreneur and Partner of Blitzscaling Ventures

Ciaran O'Donnell

I get CEOs of fast growth start-ups on top of their finances. I'm a Finance Director for start-ups that are Seed-to-Series-A

Claude Letourneau

President & CEO at Svante

Cris Girolami

People Partner

Dan Rosen

Co-founder of Mosaic (one of the largest solar lenders in the US), Navajo Power, Ezra Climate, Solara, Unreasonable Fellow and former Board member

Divya Reddy

Founding Partner of F5 Collective I Impact investor

Ernenek Duran

President & CEO @ ONE DROP Foundation - Global cause of Cirque du Soleil | Board member | Mentor | Multi stakeholder partnerships builder | Systems thinker

JP Aramouni

Entrepreneur, Operator, Advisor

Jacques-Philippe Piverger

Experienced Investor, Founder, Inner Peace Student

Jeff Mendelsohn

Founder, LocalCode. Advisor & Investor

Jeffrey Hollender

Serial social entrepreneur & Seventh Generation co-founder

Katy Yam

Indiana Jones of Ideas, VC by day, Curator by night

Kelly Kimball

Founder, Vitu, F5 Collective, Investor

Klaudia T

Founder & Partner – Built Join The Round, a private investor platform | Review 200+ startup & PE deals monthly | Hand-select the top 4 for my private investor network | $300M+ raised to date

Kriss Deiglmeier

Board Director, CEO, Social Innovation Champion

Lisa Mather

Former General Counsel Global Mars Wrigley; Founder & CEO Lamb Ridge Associates

Matthew Elonis

Managing Partner at YWRC

Melody McCoy

Global communications, strategy and team leadership

Radhika Malpani

Climatetech Investor | Founder Google Images| Stanford Lecturer - Entrepreneurship, Climate | Former: Senior Director Eng @Google | Board Member/Advisor

Rose Uzunova

Bridging 15years of Wall Street experience, with philanthropy leadership and heart- centered community curation for global impact.

Saideep Raj

Innovation leader

Sandy Cardin

Founder @ Global Jewry | Philanthropy, Strategic Planning

Santos Rodriguez Andres

Publishing visionary, psychedelic scientist and dreamer.

Sara Ellis Conant

Coaching Pioneer & CEO of a)plan coaching

Sean Murray

Chief Product Officer

Sebastien Martineau

Lead Data Scientist & AI Growth Strategist

Sunny Bates

Connector of People & Threads that Shape the Future | Serial Entrepreneur | Founder

Tom Darden

Founder and inventor of environmental and alternative energy technologies.

Zia Khan

Chief Innovation Officer, The Rockefeller Foundation

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