Sphaera CEO voted one of ’19 Social Entrepreneurs to Watch for in 2017′

Astrid Scholz, CEO of Sphaera, was recently featured by Conscious Company as one of nineteen social entrepreneurs to watch for in the upcoming year.

Read their summary below:

As an economist and longtime nonprofit executive, Scholz began to notice some troubling patterns in how the social change industry works. The ways organizations raise money, design and implement programs, and measure success in relative isolation from each other felt ineffectual in the face of the urgent crises the planet is facing. So she pivoted to become a for-purpose tech entrepreneur, and is now working to build a platform for organizations to share ideas, innovations, and solutions with others in their field. Sphaera’s mission is to accelerate the pace of change by connecting the practitioners, funders, and innovators working on the world’s toughest problems. So far, the company has raised about $2 million in non-dilutive funding, and has 15 early adopters of its enterprise product who are creating solution hubs for topics from inclusive economic opportunities in US cities to farmer-led agricultural practices in Africa to community economic development in island nations. The company had revenues of over $400,000 in 2016.

>> Her Inspiration “I am motivated by the sense that if we can figure this out, the systems change I can help catalyze is orders of magnitude greater than what I could do running one organization.”

Also featured in the article is friend of Sphaera, Jessica Norwood, who is the founder of the Runway Project.

Read the full article here: https://consciouscompanymedia.com/featured/19-social-entrepreneurs-watch-2017/