Americas Program
Scaling impact across the Americas
Launched in 2016, we are now in our 7th year of supporting growth-stage ventures operating at the nexus of advanced technology, profit and impact.
Meet our 2023 Americas Cohort
Each year we identify and privately invite a select portfolio of growth-stage ventures to join the Unreasonable Impact Americas. Below are the 15 ventures who are a part of the 2023 cohort.
92 Ventures are part of Unreasonable Impact Americas
The Unreasonable Fellowship is supported by a global community of 1,120 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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Alan Hahn
CEO at MycoTechnology, Inc.
Amogh Bhonde
Vice President for Digital Solutions at Siemens Energy
Anuj Sharma
Founder, ALSiSAR IMPACT
Billy Parish
Founder & Executive Chair, Mosaic
Brian Gallagher
CEO, The Leargas Group I Former Global CEO United Way I Board Director
Brian Reilly
Global Head of Sustainable and Impact Banking
Carl Jefferson
Chief People Officer at Unreasonable
Cathreen Wong
Sustainable Impact Capital, Barclays; Investor in global climate-tech start-ups
Chris Ategeka
Impact Investor, Entrepreneur & an Author
Chris Yeh
Investor, Writer, Mentor, Serial Entrepreneur and Partner of Blitzscaling Ventures
Dan Rosen
Co-founder of Mosaic (one of the largest solar lenders in the US), Navajo Power, Ezra Climate, Unreasonable Fellow and former Board member
Divya Reddy
Co-Founder at Pyrium I Founding Partner of F5 Collective I Impact investor
Frances Cabrera
Vice President - Citizenship at Barclays
Hang Kei Simon Wong
Head of Transformation and Global Operation Supports at GXO Logistics Inc
Jason McBriarty
Director, Levi Strauss Foundation
Jason Van Gaal
Principal 0MC Capital | Perpetual Entrepreneur
Jolawn Victor
Board Director & C-Suite Exec
Karen Pajarillo
Investment Council Member at How Women Invest
Kathryn Wortsman
Managing Partner, Amplify Capital, Impact Venture Capitalist
Kelly Kimball
Founder, Vitu, F5 Collective, Investor
Maria Thomas
Board member and investor. Former: EIR Redesign Health | Etsy CEO | SmartThings CCO | GM NPR Digital | Product at Amazon
Martin Tartibi
VP, NA Strategy & Business Development (BD), Siemens Energy
May Jaramillo
Americas Head of Sustainable and Impact Banking
Miles Kane
VP Sales @ Tenderly | Startup Advisor
Patricia Wexler
Investor backing foundational companies of our $100T+ sustainable economy and society
Peter Gasparro
Chief Development Officer
Richard Zimmerman
Partner, WE Family Offices (NYC/Miami) | Executive Director, Foundation House | ESG/Impact/Philanthropy/Climate Advisor/Speaker/Board Director
Rob Rouse
Managing Director, Head of Americas Equity Research at Barclays
Rwaida Gharib
World Bank Group | Ex-Obama Administration, Ex-State Dept, Ex-USAID
Ryan Martens
CTO & Founder Rally Software
Samuel Alemayehu
General Partner of C1 Ventures
Scott Lyons
Founder and Director at The Embody Lab | Best Selling Author | Holistic Psychologist
Shama Skinner
Advisor & Entrepreneurial Executive
Sonali Mehta-Rao
Entrepreneur | Early-Stage Start-up Advisor & Impact Investor | Board Member | Acumen Fellow
Ty Tashiro
Social scientist and the author of THE SCIENCE OF HAPPILY EVER AFTER and AWKWARD: The Science of Why We're Socially Awkward and Why That's Awesome
Wayne Suiter Matamoros
CSO at The Zone Global, Former CSO at Unreasonable & Adjunct Professor at NYU Stern
Recent News from the Impact Americas Fellowship
October 30, 2023
Founders of Aura Health join Good Day LA
A California woman was caught on camera coughing on a baby at a yogurt shop after arguing with the baby's mother about social distancing. The incident sparked outrage and raised concerns about the...
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July 27, 2023
SOCAP Partners with Proof to Conduct Private ESG Benchmark & Impact Report Across Global Early Stage Ventures
Leading impact convenor SOCAP Global has partnered with Proof, a next-gen impact intelligence company, to facilitate a large-scale assessment that will provide a snapshot into where early stage...
Read on Yahoo Finance »
September 30, 2022
Proof of Impact CEO on why ESG should be an investment fundamental
CNBC Africa’s Zaneke Morrison spoke with Fleur Heyns, YPO member and CEO at Proof of Impact for more.
Read on CNBCAfrica »
June 19, 2022
Top 11 Purposeful Leaders-Women Positively And Inspiringly Impacting The World
These 11 women from diverse communities and backgrounds are the positive changemakers and purposeful leaders working tirelessly for positive impact for their communities and the world.
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