The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, held a meeting with the management of BlackRock, the largest asset management company in the world.
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A Consortium of those Investing in Ukraine On July 13th Altru Institute hosts an afternoon session to continue the Altru Ukraine Project. A consortium of organizations interested in coordinated investment in Ukraine is meeting regularly to learn about promising opportunities in Ukraine. This is the second in a series of monthly meetings to foster collaboration. Charter members of this consortium and meeting series include the Ukraine Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (UVCA), Altru Impact Investment Network and Ukraine Business News (UBN). The format is compressed presentations and pitches by organizations and investment projects, followed by networking reception. Venue is…
We have identified a group of talented people and influential organizations to join with us to develop strategies to support Ukraine. Important considerations: The Ukraine Monitor is a new media enterprise that tracks who is investing what where and why. We will write about the companies, technologies, and innovators shaping the future of the country and provide direction and guidance on how to participate in these opportunities. Expected readership ranges from business professionals, investors, and governments to general citizens worldwide who want to support Ukraine. This includes the nearly 7 million Ukrainians that have been displaced and looking for opportunities.…
The Virus Project will begin production of a White Paper and documentary on reopening schools and keeping them open. Research will focus on the K-12 schools that stayed open during the pandemic. The goal is a multimedia asset that addresses this issue and help schools everywhere reopen. The Virus Project was formed to aggregate the best ideas and thinking to provide a platform for innovators to collaborate and find solutions to the COVID-19 crisis. K-12 schools is an area of significant challenge but with noticeable progress. White Paper and Research Study: K-12 schools. Dealing with COVID-19. This White Paper will…
The Thesis: A tremendous wealth of innovative science is occurring at Universities and among individual scientists and inventors. If such innovation could be matched with other groups working on similar problems and projects, great advances and even breakthroughs could be accelerated. Furthermore if such breakthroughs could be matched with commercialization strategies, solutions to complex challenges like pandemics and climate change could be found. But today no such collaborative model exists broadly. Scientists do collaborate but only through their own initiatives and our institutions are not designed to reward such collaboration. In fact, the incentive systems currently in place discourage it.…