Tackling Taboos: Investor Influence on Founder Wellbeing

In the COVID-19 era, many impact investors started to pay attention to the wellbeing and resilience within the mission-driven entrepreneurs they fund—a major shift from the ‘sink or swim’ mindset of most venture capital firms. In this session, panelists discuss the challenges investors face as they get involved in founder wellbeing. They give examples of how innovative investors approach these challenges and finding ways to boost wellbeing in their investment and philanthropic portfolios. This panel was hosted by JumpScale and our friends at Social Venture Circle.

Meet the Panelists

Joshua Haynes | Masawa Fund

Joshua Haynes is founder + managing partner at Masawa, the mental wellness impact fund. Over the past 20 years, Joshua has focused on the intersection of innovation, technology, and social impact. He has worked for both the US and Swedish governments, managing a portfolio of $190 million in innovative grant funding in emerging and frontier market countries targeting poverty alleviation, civil society, human rights, and technology. Joshua has degrees from Boston University and The Fletcher School, Tuft University, speaks seven languages well, has worked in 37 countries, and lives in Berlin with his husband and their two children. Learn more about Joshua here.

Bedriye Hülya | The Wellbeing Project

Bedriye Hülya is the founder of b-fit; Turkey's first chain of women-only gyms. B-fit is a Social enterprise supporting women to start their businesses and serve other women to exercise and socialize. Only franchising to women, today b-fit has reached more than 750.000 women with 200 branches in 51 cities of Turkey. Bedriye also started Muzipo Kids which serves as movement clubs for kids and the company now has 51 franchises. After graduation from Izmir American High School, she completed her undergraduate and graduate education in Business and had her master's degree in Psychology. She is still working on her Phd in Clinical Psychology. Bedriye is an Endeavor Entrepreneur and Ashoka fellow. She was chosen as the Social Entrepreneur by Schwab Foundation in 2013. She works actively for women’s NGOs, mentors people who want to start their own businesses, teaches at universities and speaks at conferences widely. Learn more about Bedriye here.

Karla Garcia Teruel | Growth Empowered

Karla Garcia Teruel is a Personal & Team Development Coach with experience as a global leader with blue-chip companies, as an impact investor, a board advisor and a C-level executive and founder of start-ups. She partners with social entrepreneurs, executives, leaders, and teams to shift perspective, manage change, overcome challenges and harness opportunities to obtain the growth, impact, wellbeing and fulfillment they seek. Her passion is to create flourishing societies through impact initiatives while building mental wellbeing. She brings into her work her experience having lived through several personal and professional transitions, from having lived in nine countries across three continents to working in diverse work environments from large corporations, to family business, to startups. Learn more about Karla here.

Daniel Roth | JumpScale

Daniel Roth is an experienced social entrepreneur, movement strategist, and integrative healthcare professional focused on sustainable development, indigenous cultural revitalization, and healing arts. Over the last two decades, he has launched over a dozen non-profit organizations, campaigns, and coalitions. Prior, he served as Director of the Cornell Campus Sustainability Office, started New York's first car-share business, and served as a Board Member of the U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development. As a healthcare professional he brings together acupressure, Ayurveda, somatic movement therapy, and massage therapy. He has provided therapeutic services to uninsured clients at the Ithaca Free Clinic and served as a faculty member at the Finger Lakes School of Massage. Learn more about Daniel here.

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