Community Powered Entrepreneurship
Camila Vega, Solutions Portfolio Manager at Sustainable Ocean Alliance, offers a window into SOA’s approach to ending ocean plastic pollution through funding solutions-focused startups.
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Show Notes
Sustainable Ocean Alliance (SOA) does tremendous work to serve the global community of entrepreneurs focused on ocean sustainability with funding, mentorship, capacity-building, and more. Their accelerator program has supported 45 world-leading ocean tech startups with $225M in lifetime funding. And Camila Vega, Solutions Portfolio Manager at SOA, draws on her wealth of experience as a founder, operations executive, and community organizer to help nurture these startups that are embracing bold solutions to plastic pollution. She joins host Brooking Gatewood to discuss community-powered innovation, human-centered design, and why technology alone is insufficient to address our waste crisis.
This episode is part of our series highlighting the judges for The Reusies 2023.
Resources:
- Sustainable Ocean Alliance
- SOA Ocean Leadership microgrants
- Podcast: Indisposable Venture Capital with SOA’s Doreen Wong
- The Reusies