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Health & Wellbeing Community Meetup - 23rd February
Following Conduit Connect’s most recent Health & Wellbeing community meet up, Aahuti Rai, Conduit Connect Health & Wellbeing Community Champion and Conduit Impact EIS Fund advisor, shares her thoughts on the importance of collective action in order to scale health innovations.
George Oehlert and Michael Blakley, Co-Founders of Equitas: “the fairest way to conduct live interviews and hire great people”
Equitas is transforming hiring by using technology and data to foster engaging conversations that provide each candidate or employee with equal opportunities while enabling HR teams to make quicker decisions with confidence.
John Hoyle, Founder of Sook: “Sook breathes new life into empty shops”
Sook is revolutionising the high street by transforming empty shops into adaptive, ’pop-up’ spaces, which are rentable by the hour.
Cameron McNatt and Chris Retzler, Co-founders of Mocean Energy: “deliver clean power to some of the toughest places on the planet".
Mocean Energy is combining science, environmentally informed engineering, and real-sea testing to deliver products that increase access to renewable energy for both grid-connected and off-grid users.
Heloise Buckland, Co-Founder of HUSK “Our mission is to regenerate degraded soils, sink carbon and improve lives”
HUSK is an impact driven business with a mission to improve smallholders’ livelihoods by converting low-value rice husk into high-value biochar to regenerate soils and improve farmers’ yields.
Krishna Moorthy and Venetia Wynter-Blyth, Co-founders Onkohealth: “it is the knowledge that there is a human behind the tech that drives engagement“.
Onko provides cancer sufferers with evidence-based prehabilitation, offering a digitally enabled behaviour change solution designed to improve the quality of life and clinical outcomes for patients.
Virginia Gardiner, Founder of Loowatt: “our greatest success - is every time someone uses one of our toilets“
Loowatt’s unique toilet system integrates revolutionary waterless flush technology with 360-degree waste processing to deliver hygienic and safe toilets, which can be used in off-grid locations.
Phil, Toby, and David, ScubaTx: “Our greatest success is ‘putting Bill in a box’”
ScubaTx is a tech-enabled organ preservation company, which has developed a fully automated, low-cost, organ transplant technology device. Its preservation system consists of base unit, organ-specific consumables, and a monitoring app, offering extended preservation in a simple and affordable device.
Key takeaways from the Conduit Connect Mental Healthcare Breakfast
Conduit Connect recently hosted a breakfast in partnership with MQ Mental Health to explore how we could nurture partnership amongst the public, private, and charitable sector to achieve real change within mental healthcare.
Introducing our five newest founders!
Join Mehrad, our Community Manager, as he meets the five newest founders to the Conduit Connect portfolio.
Alasdair Bremner and David Binns, Co-founders Alusid: “take low-value waste and transform it into high-value, sustainable surfaces “
An award-winning company using waste to make some of the highest percentage recycled architectural surfaces on the market. Creating desirable products on existing mass production equipment while using less energy.
Eve Kekeh, Founder of Bundlee: “Stop clothing waste and create a better future for our little ones to grow into“
The UK’s first rental subscription service for baby and childrenswear.
Kate Pljaskovova, Fair HQ: “Making the world more inclusive, bit by bit”
Replacing expensive and ineffective D&I consultancies and trainings with a science and data driven approach.
Koru Kids, a Conduit Connect portfolio company, launches the Paternity LEAGUE
Impact starts on the inside. We love Koru’s campaign advocating for more gender equality in parental leave.
Ben Patten, Dizzie: “Making closed loop grocery shopping a reality"
Tackling the problem of packaging waste in groceries through accessible and desirable reusable packaging
Neil Ross Russell, Net Zero Now: “We deliver direct impact by giving SMEs the commercial rationale for taking climate action.”
Providing SMEs with the roadmap to becoming Net Zero.
Scary, Hopeful, Urgent…
Read our bite sized takeaways of the impressive New York Times Climate Forward conference held at the Conduit Club during the 2022 London Climate Week.
Louisa Ziane, Toast: “We’ve brewed with 2.6 million slices of surplus bread to date."
The planet-saving beer brand that is decarbonising the industry and reducing food waste.
Conduit Connect launches Generation Impact Academy – an impact investing course for young investors.
An impact investing course for young investors, beginning in July 2022.