SWAN is an impact angel network that invests in early-stage startups providing market-significant solutions to address societal and environmental challenges. SWAN focuses on climate, health and wellness, and social impact sectors.

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The angels at the SWAN Impact Network are bound together by a passion for making the world a better place by supporting dynamic startups that are striving to address serious challenges that our society faces. SWAN focuses on companies who expect to deliver measurable social or environmental impact, and who also have solid plans for financial success.

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Get ready! One month from today is North Texas Giving Day 2024—the nation's largest community-wide giving event. 

🌟SWAN is proud to join in, raising awareness and funds to empower creative entrepreneurs, especially those from underrepresented communities, through education, support, and mentorship.

🗓 📌 Mark your calendar for September 19th! More details coming soon.

Don’t miss out our very own, Heather Gilker, will be a panelist! Dallas Startup Week sponsored by Capital One  & TechFW

On September 5th , SWAN's Q3 Pitch Night will feature three visionary companies showcasing how they're driving positive change. 

AiM Medical Robotics 🧠 
Resolve Plastics Recycling Ltd. ♻️
Vessl Prosthetics 💡 

➡ If you're an accredited investor and curious to see the future of impactful innovation, email us at associate@swanimpact.com to attend.

How do you build a farmer-owned tea factory in the Himalayas? With cranes, trains, and automobiles! Our farmer partner and the factory's CEO Desmond sent me this video of moving this Chinese piece of machinery into place. This piece of equipment was made in China, shipped through Kolkata, transferred onto a truck, then driven up to the Kumaon Himalayas. So technically, no trains on this one, although others have been 

It's a shaping machine, which flips the harvested tea leaf in the air for hours, giving it a pearl shape that unfurls as it steeps in the cup. It also weighs about 3,500 lb, so Desmond talked to a friend at a local construction company to lend us one for a few hours....pays to have local partners who know people! 

The team of 7 engineers who are installing all the machinery are at the factory now. We're getting closer and closer to first production!

Our SWAN 2023 Impact Report is now LIVE 🦢💡!

Check out our Impact Report 📊 here ➡ https://lnkd.in/eNcrA3QU

🌟 This report marks an important milestone in our journey, reflecting the tangible impact of our collaborative efforts.

➡ Thank you to SWAN Director of Impact Reporting, Meagan Packard, for crafting the report framework; SWAN Dallas Chapter Lead, Heather Gilker, for spearheading its development; SWAN Administrative Director, Jennifer Dielmann-Garcia (She/Her), for coordinating and organizing; and SWAN Second Day intern, Sophia Montoya, for designing the 2023 Impact Report.

Field testing is well underway! Check out this 30s video update: https://lnkd.in/ehrMK7Wf

Our first turbine has been instrumented with strain gages, accelerometers, linear displacement sensors, and cameras so that we can validate its performance. The turbine is successfully tracking the wind and regulating speed with blade pitch!

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