Apertura: Recent Episodes
Karen Moon
Apertura is a podcast and event series that reimagines a new worldview with visionaries solving the root cause of society’s most pressing problems. Join host, investor, and zeitgeist researcher Karen Moon as she interviews change agents in Climate, AI, Education, Blockchain, Healthcare, and Fintech. Through the lens of the brightest minds in innovation, we will explore the structural challenges underlying large industries in transformation and how these visionaries are recoding a better future operating system to enhance the potential of our daily lives.
Tune in for a conversation with Wall Street powerhouse and CEO of Ellevest, Sallie Krawcheck.
Ellevest is the number one investing platform for women. We will delve into how the financial services industry has underserved women, the impact of greater financial equality in modern society, and Sallie’s journey as a fintech founder who beat the odds. This episode was recorded at a Soho House at an event where we brought together members, investors and founders. I’m joined by guest co-host is Rachel Vass of Syzygy cities.
Disclosure: Ellevest is an investment in a Node Innovation Ventures syndicate I led to democratize access to venture capital. This enabled women and allies to invest in the $53M Series B alongside top tier investors such as Kholsa Ventures, Melinda Gates, Salesforce Ventures and more. Our investor base included 72% women, 58% minorities, 39% founders/business owners/fund managers. Our base was a diverse group of investors across tech, film, finance, digital agencies, beauty, fashion, lawyers, and former athletes.
This podcast is brought to you by Alternative Wealth Partners and Johnson & Oshan ("J&O") Law.
Founded by Kelly Ann Winget, Alternative Wealth Partners is a Dallas-based Private Equity firm specializing in non-correlated investment assets, from emerging market ventures to real estate, energy, and infrastructure. AWP is the only millennial, LGBTQ, female solo-founded private equity firm focused exclusively on alternative assets.
Female-founded law firm J&O Law serves as outside general counsel to high-growth companies as they scale. Christina Oshan and Rachel Johnson founded J&O over 8 years ago and have built an incredible team representing category-defining companies. J&O has headquarters in both South Florida and New York City, with other team members across the country. Please note this is an advertisement for legal services.
Female-founded firm Syzygy Cities founded by Rachel Vass is a impact real estate program developer with a "withintrification" model to revitalize communities, and catalyze wealth in disinvested communities.
The private member event was held at Soho House New York. Podcast music, production and editing by Ben Moroney of Interlaken Associates
Tune in for a conversation with Jeremy McKane, an international artist, philanthropist, CEO of OCN.ai and cofounder of UltraMarine at Necker Island. I’m joined by guest co-host Jennifer Wines, founder of Invisible Wealth.
We will discuss blue carbon, the potential to prevent the next major catastrophe, how the blockchain can be used for data measurement and collection incentives, and evolving conversation of artists and NFTs.
Podcast highlights:
0:50 OCN.ai origin story
4:06 Measuring water quality and the economic value of it
7:31 Adoption of ESG in financial services
8:55 OCN.ai at work in Florida and BVI
10:26 The relevancy for blockchain enabled measurement
11:25 Getting through the red tape
13:20 We have data collection for weather patterns, why not the quality of our water?
14:39: Jeremy’s artwork and inspiration
22::00 final thoughts and futurecast
Special thanks to our partners: Pavan Bahl and the team at NRVLD.co and Bellwether Culture for production during Unrevealed Art Week Miami & Ben Moroney of Interlaken Associates for podcast music, editing and production.
Today we’ll focus on Climate tech & “How we are Harnessing Natural Intelligence for a Decarbonized World.” This conversation was prerecorded at Natural intelligence where I moderated a conversation with our guests who are building tech companies that harness nature (from oceans to fungi and land use. Panelists included Tom Green (CEO, Vesta). Susan Schofer (Chief Scientist at HAX and Partner at SOSV) and Raquel Schreiber (fmr Head of GTM and Launch, C16 Biosciences).
This podcast is brought to you byJohnson & Oshan ("J&O") Law. Female-founded law firm J&O serves as outside general counsel to high-growth companies as they scale. J&O has headquarters in both South Florida and New York City, with other team members across the country. Please note this is an advertisement for legal services.
Music and sound production by Ben Moroney at Interlaken Associates.
Reimagine a new worldview with visionaries solving the root cause of society’s most pressing problems. Join host, investor, and zeitgeist researcher Karen Moon as she interviews change agents in Climate, AI, Blockchain, Healthcare, Education, and Fintech. Through the lens of the brightest minds in innovation, we will explore the structural challenges underlying large industries in transformation and how these visionaries are recoding a better future operating system to enhance the potential of our daily lives. Expand your imagination to explore how we will live, learn, work, eat, move, create wealth, and connect in the future.
Apertura is Karen Moon’s project to analyze theories behind the synchronicity of ideas, the power of collective brainstrusts, and primary research for investment themes to spark more capital into the sectors driving our future.
Music and sound production by Ben Moroney at Interlaken Associates.