Propel prioritizes early funding, experimentation, and risk-taking to fundamentally reimagine what’s possible.  We provide access to capital at critical moments for new leaders and funds, catalyzing broader support from other investors and partners to sustain and scale their work.

 
 
 

Relief fund platform making it easy and tax efficient to raise money and give it to people experiencing a financial hardship

Investment

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Affordable and effective cold storage solutions for farmers and small business owners

Investment

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Improving road safety by providing the best-in-class, AI-based automotive technology to any individual with a smartphone across the world

Investment

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Sourcing dairy and eggs from small farmers at a fair price and distributing to consumers within 275 miles

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Inventory management software for small shopkeepers in emerging markets

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Smart journalism on South Asia and South Asians around the world

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Helping mission-driven organizations and campaigns manage events, recruit volunteers, and organize

Investment (ACQUIRED)

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Virtual reality training for essential human skills in the workplace

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Online platform for intergenerational home sharing

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Harnessing years of insights on diverse audiences to deliver the cultural intelligence to build trust and drive demand for innovative products and ideas

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Mobile training solution for frontline workers to to help them engage with their work, expand their skills, and move up

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Matching teachers with schools they love by streamlining the job search and hiring process

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Deploying sustainable farming techniques on high-potential farmland in the Global South

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Media and events brand catalyzing the transition to an economy that ensures our social, environmental, and economic systems thrive together

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Starlight helps improve the financial health of households by offering guidance to seamlessly access and navigate government programs through their trusted institutions

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Using data science to measure the impact of content and predict opinion-change

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Building a "credit agency" for cultural competencies of clinicians

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Tools for independent creatives and strategists to team up and make more

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Strategy and investment firm focused on impact, inclusive wealth creation, and serving purpose-driven entrepreneurs and organizations

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Funds

Backing mission-driven founders leveraging breakthrough innovations in science and technology to build a more sustainable and equitable economy

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Investing in Endeavor Entrepreneurs through co-investment in equity financing rounds and using proceeds to contribute to the long-term sustainability of Endeavor

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Providing growth capital to social enterprises creating innovative and self-sustaining solutions to the root causes of inequity in the U.S. and globally

Investment | Exit

Impact investment platform working with local partners to create an inclusive American economy

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Asset management firm dedicated to applying a commercial framework to investing in unbanked and underserved markets

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Helping women entrepreneurs in Guatemala overcome the hurdles that can make it difficult-to-impossible for them to build successful small businesses

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Investing growth capital in companies, private equity funds, and private debt funds in emerging markets

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Investing in software and services designed to help low income communities and organizations that serve them

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Investing in early-stage enterprises delivering solutions to global, social or environmental challenges

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Debt

Providing sustainable training and employment programs for youth in Cambodia, Laos, and Kenya

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Increases the flow of capital into investments that deliver financial, social, and environmental returns

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Fair-trade certified apparel manufacturer, creating jobs in Liberia and Ghana

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Providing an onshore, socially responsible alternative to business process outsourcing (BPO)

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Supplying agricultural businesses in the Global South with financial capital and training to help them grow

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Grants

Unlocking capital for agricultural small and medium enterprises

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Serving a global movement of people using business as a force for good

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Network of leaders (re)building an economy that includes everyone by shifting capital into communities, uplifting local leaders, and accelerating the development of equitable economies

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Providing sustainable training and employment programs for youth in Cambodia, Laos, and Kenya

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Investing deeply in emerging leaders through seed-funding and leadership development

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Advocating for the rights of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals through re-entry support, mentorship, and civic engagement to drive policy reform in Connecticut

Full Citizens Coalition

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Ensuring rural women and men living in extreme poverty have secure rights over the land they depend on

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Supporting historically marginalized entrepreneurs to access the resources needed to start and run successful businesses

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Supplying agricultural businesses in the Global South with financial capital and training to help them grow

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Building a large-scale grassroots movement that brings resources, dignity, and opportunity to urban slum dwellers to urban slum dwellers

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Investing in early-stage enterprises delivering solutions to global, social or environmental challenges

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Providing affordable eyeglasses, vision screening, and training to learners and earners who who would otherwise not have access to them

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Teaching practical skills, building a community of changemakers, and forging pathways for student entrepreneurs and innovators

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Propel Justice

Improving community safety by investing in local youth and the physical landscape of the neighborhood

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Working to create a fair, effective, and humane justice system by performing original research and helping launch reforms around the world

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Providing immediate, effective, and comprehensive employment services to individuals who have recently returned home from incarceration

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Providing opportunities for formerly incarcerated young people to further their social and professional development through the power of work

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Provider of services to incarcerated and formerly incarcerated mothers in New York State

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Defending the rights of people in 90 countries worldwide, spotlighting abuses and bringing perpetrators to justice

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Dedicated to cutting the U.S. prison population in half by 2030 while building a network of formerly incarcerated advocates to lead justice system reform

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Nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization seeking to create and sustain a sense of national urgency about the U.S. criminal justice system

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Creating opportunities for people affected by the criminal justice system to further develop their strengths and lead lives of responsibility and contribution

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Working urgently to build and improve justice systems that ensure fairness, promote safety, and strengthen communities

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Bringing the transformative power of liberal arts into Connecticut’s prisons through a full degree-granting academic program

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Education & Workforce

Ensuring that first-generation college students, low-income students, and students of color have the knowledge and support necessary to enroll in and persist through college

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Providing support to academically advanced students from low-income neighborhoods and racially isolated schools

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Empowering high-achieving, low-income high school students to make the leap to our best colleges and universities

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Empowering young people with the knowledge, skills and resources to make healthy decisions

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Nurturing the inherent potential in every child and family by equipping them to transform their own lives and strengthen their communities

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Providing transformative nature immersion experiences that cultivate character, confidence, passion and perseverance in New York’s youth

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Food Assistance

New York City’s largest food rescue organization, helping to feed the more than 1.5 million New Yorkers who are struggling to put meals on their table

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Working to end hunger throughout New York City

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Enacting policies and programs needed to end domestic hunger and ensure all Americans have sufficient access to nutritious food

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Working to end hunger and poverty in Ocean Hill, Brownsville and Bedford-Stuyvesant, three of the lowest-income areas in New York City

Grant | Alumni

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