Meet the Team

Lakshmi Hiranandani

Co-Founder, Chief Growth and Partnerships Officer

Bryce Watson
Co-Founder, Chief Programs and Operations Officer

As a Team:

Lakshmi and Bryce co-led a global accelerator, where they used a fully participatory approach to source, evaluate, select, and support 360+ early-stage social ventures. Most recently, led a program in the Brazilian Amazon, co-designed with local Indigenous and traditional communities to identify, evaluate, and fund innovative solutions for the region while building critical skills.

Collectively they have worked with clients and target communities from 75+ countries managing programs with budgets of up to $250M.

Lakshmi brings:

9 years of experience facilitating the inclusion of diverse target communities into the development of strategy, programming, and monitoring for non-profits and start-ups.

Bryce brings:

10 years of experience leading participatory approaches in sustainable development. At Chemonics International, an organization distributing $100M annually in grants, he integrated participatory approaches into health supply chain, labor transparency, criminal justice, and innovation programming.