An original origin story.
The earliest idea for Connect Networks was born in late 2021 of an experiment at the influential media company Climate & Capital Media.
It was a simple question: What could we learn from connecting people around the world in climate and sustainability?
The answer to that question became Climate & Capital Connect, a global networking platform that bridges climate networks, sparks innovation and transactions, and seeds incredible stories of human connection.
From water policy wonks in Poland and forward-looking fintech experts in NYC to sustainable fashion aficionados in LA and wise waste specialists in Trinidad & Tobago, we’ve seen impact far beyond the obvious from connecting people for meaningful 1:1 conversations.
We’re out to connect inspired humans.
Thousands of matches later, we’re taking the lessons we’ve learned and building a next-generation platform for meaningful human connection.
Back when we started, we expected to refine the process of networking. That happened. We’ve learned, for example, that sequence in an introduction matters, that frequency matters, that the way we introduce you matters.
What we didn’t expect was how the process we’ve developed for matching and introducing people changes the dynamic of conversations; how much permissions and expectations matter. And we didn’t expect the range of stories that have come out of these simple conversations.
Along the way, what’s surfaced in our talks with user after user and leader after leader is an incredible opportunity to apply our oddly radical approach to scaling meaningful human conversations to a whole world of business and social problems.
As Alejandro Crawford, clinical professor of innovation at Bard College’s MBA in Sustainability and a longtime user, says, “Climate & Capital Connect is a game changer for those of us working on climate and sustainability. Why don’t we have this for healthcare, or education, or for breaking down silos in a large company?”
That’s what we’re doing with Connect Networks: Introducing inspired people for meaningful conversations that have measurable impact in spaces from healthcare to engineering to women’s leadership.
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