Posts by atwoodnm25

Eliza Wu and Jake Xia are the co-founders of Corner, an app launched in 2022 that functions much like Google Maps but with a highly personalized touch. Corner is a social map that uses your input (which places you frequent the most or enjoy) and curates a comprehensive list of nearby areas that other people,…

Felix Finkbeiner, born in 1997, is a German environmentalist and and the founder of an international tree-planting organization called Plant-for-the-Planet. As of September 2018, he is a PhD student of environmental sciences at the Crowther Lab of ETH Zurich, where he has been studying the most effective approaches to forest restoration. Plant-for-the-Planet began when Felix…

Isabella Rose Taylor, born in 2001, is an established fashion designer who has showcased many of her collections at events like New York Fashion Week and been featured in several magazines, such as Forbes, Entrepreneur, WWD, Elle, Teen Vogue, and Seventeen. Partnering with already established brands has helped her reach a broader audience and bridge…

Ben Pasternak, born in 1999, is an Australian entrepreneur and the co-founder of Simulate, an American food technology company. The company has since gone on to accumulate roughly $57 million since the 2019 launch of its signature product, NUGGS (a plant-based alternative to chicken nuggets). The most notable investors to date have been Alexis Ohanian’s…