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We are happy to cross-promote an event for the Chesapeake Bay Seed Capital Fund
lease join us on Zoom to hear from several entrepreneurs addressing ecological and collective health in communities across the Chesapeake Bay watershed. This online space is intended to highlight environmental and social entrepreneurs, helping to connect them to resources, build awareness of their work, and amplify their current needs (including funding, partnership-building, customer introductions, team-building, and more).
​Agenda:

  • ​Introductions from Dave Feldman and Scott Christensen (~10 minutes)
  • ​Building a Green Ecosystem in the Chesapeake Watershed, Dave Feldman (~15 minutes)
  • ​Startup Pitches (~7 minutes each)
  • ​Larry Davis, Green Mechanics - ​Green Mechanics is a leading ecological design solutions venture that prioritizes serving the public good and community building. The company uses natural systems—like wetlands, algae, and permeable surfaces—to manage stormwater at its source and restore ecological balance. Green Mechanics has installed design solutions related to water, energy, monitoring, and agriculture across the DMV, the African diaspora, and beyond. The company's primary focus is on manufacturing Algal Turf Scrubbers® (ATS™) that help restore and maintain ecological balance.
  • ​Miles Medina, ECCO Scientific - ECCO Scientific specializes in developing pathways to restoration based on deep, data-driven insights into nutrient pollution, eutrophication, harmful algal blooms, and habitat loss. Service offerings include: data curation, management and visualization; analyses of long-term trends and seasonal cycles; identification of causal drivers and high-priority pollutant hot spots; machine learning models; short-term forecasting; and the development of decision-support tools.
  • ​Doug Hood, Pearl Intelligence Network - ​PEARL Intelligence Network is a water quality intelligence platform built for the organizations that bear the greatest responsibility for protecting the nation's water: federal agencies, DoD installations, municipal stormwater programs, and environmental regulatory authorities.
  • ​Breakout rooms by Company (~20 minutes)
  • ​Closeout and Reflection, Dave Feldman (~10 minutes)

​This online event is open to all. If any of the below describe you, you will likely find this series of calls helpful.

  • ​You are interested in understanding novel and entrepreneurial approaches to ecological and social challenges in the watershed.
  • ​You are seeking to build partnerships and collaborate with ecological and social entrepreneurs the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
  • ​You are interested in finding an internship or job with an organization working on ecological or social challenges.
  • ​You want to fund novel and entrepreneurial approaches to ecological and social challenges.

​Each entrepreneur will speak for no more than 7 minutes each and will end their portion with a summary of their needs. Examples of needs might include talent, fundraising, customer intros, stakeholder and government connections, etc. Q&A for each entrepreneur will happen after all presentations in breakout rooms.

​The value of this event is in increasing connectivity between different stakeholders in the regional climate and entrepreneurship ecosystems. By holding this call, we hope to facilitate connections between entrepreneurs, supporters, funders, government, community members, and more.

​Entrepreneurs interested in participating in future roundtables should email Scott Christensen at schris14@umd.edu or Dave Feldman at dave@bethesdagreen.org.
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