CTM 2 : Nurture Capital with Masawa's Joshua Haynes & Huria Obgamichael

EP2: NURTURE CAPITAL

with Huria Obgamichael & Joshua Haynes from Masawa

Episode two is all about mental wellness with a particular focus on founder mental health and the role of capital in promoting mental wellbeing.

Some notes for you:

Huria, Joshua and myself all went to The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy at Tufts University. Check out the school’s programs here: https://fletcher.tufts.edu/

Joshua is founding partner, and Huria partner, at impact fund MASAWA. Masawa means. Masawa invests in European startups catalyzing mental health and wellness

- To learn more about Masawa, check their website: https://masawa.fund/

- to learn more about Nurture Capital, read this: https://masawa.fund/nurture-capital-thought-starter/

- Around 20:00 - we mention the Hexframe approach of Masawa, which is part of their Nurture Capital thought starters.

Other relevant mentions:

We mention the book Enterprise Design Patterns by Wolfgang Goebl, Milan Guenther, Bard Papegaaij from the Intersection Group, and Annika Klyver
In late 2022, I signed up for the School of System Change’s 33days systemic reflections - an invitation to start 2023 with 33 days of reflection guided by one question / prompt each day that the school shared. Thanks again for the Louise, Anna and Sean from the School for allowing me to use this. Stay tuned for version two probably coming late 2023, for a reflective start to 2024!
There’s a shout out to a common connection between us - hello Gerjet & Natascha from Accelerate Health: https://acceleratehealth.de/
Here’s a link to the Impact VC playbook that includes players from of course Masawa, but also Ananda Ventures, Partech, Atomico, Northzone, norrsken, Balderton, Bethnal Green Ventures and others
Read more about the Danish Design Center’s Imagine if we project on mental health for youth
For those interested, Techstars's toolkit includes founder mental health: https://toolkit.techstars.com/entrepreneurship-mental-health, and they talk about it in this podcast: https://www.techstars.com/blog/podcasts/mental-health-for-entrepreneurs

About Curiosity That Matters

Curiosity involves lots of questions. Or just enough, good questions.

Curiosity That Matters is a series of conversation with thought leaders and experts working at the intersection of design, policy, innovation and impact.

Each episode, we spend around 45 minutes discussing a framework, concept, mental model or approach that my guest either created or is an expert on.

We cover topics such as collective imagination, expansive thinking, creative bureaucracy, nurture capital, dark matter in design & policy, the boring revolution and much more.

We talk about the guests' journey and their curiosity, and delve deep into the topics at hand.

As for the questions... I'm still working on mine

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