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Investors

Human flourishing is an investable category.

Human+Tech Week convenes venture, growth, institutional, philanthropic, and public capital across the systems shaping how we work, live, and thrive.

The 2026 Investor Summit

205 investors entered the conversation.

The invitation-only ENGAGE: Flourishing Capital Investor Summit brought investors together to examine opportunities across work, healthspan, and cities through three questions.

  1. 01

    Where is value being created?

  2. 02

    Where can capital participate?

  3. 03

    What structures can support it?

205

Investors participated

500

2027 target

ENGAGE 2027

The capital allocator journey.

Explore the future across Human+Tech Week, then connect the ideas, people, and capital that can help bring it to life.

Apply for ENGAGE

  1. Mon

    10

    May · 4:00–6:00 PM

    Investor Welcome Reception

    The week opens, with the Grand Opening at 6:00 PM.

  2. Tue–Thu

    11–13

    May

    The three summits

    AGENCY: fund human+AI capability. HOPE: advance health and performance. REACH: finance flourishing places.

  3. Thu night

    13

    May

    Opening dinners

    Intimate hosted dinners begin the dedicated ENGAGE experience, with thoughtful seating ahead of Friday's summit.

  4. Fri

    14

    May · 8:00 AM–6:00 PM

    ENGAGE: Flourishing Capital Summit

    A shared convening for all allocators, alternating between rooms with peers and rooms across capital types.

    Includes the Inflection Lab: the one moment in the week when high-quality founders pitch.

  5. Sat

    15

    May · Napa

    A day at the ranch

    Health, performance, family, purpose, and the relationships that endure. A spacious day devoted to the people behind the capital.

Friday, May 14

The rhythm of the day.

  1. Arrival

    Hosted breakfast, with introductions based on mandates and interests.

  2. Morning

    Shared opening and market outlook.

  3. Peer exchange

    Rooms by allocator type, for candid conversations on decisions, priorities, and challenges.

  4. Lunch

    Hosted lunch with mixed seating across complementary capital mandates.

  5. Afternoon

    Thematic mixed-capital rooms on opportunities, structures, and how capital can participate.

  6. Closing

    Shared insights and reception.

Peer rooms: shared mandates

Allocator types meet separately to discuss their own opportunities, investment decisions, governance, and priorities.

Mixed rooms: shared interests

Different capital types convene around deep tech, cities, work, healthspan, sports, and human performance to compare perspectives and explore complementary roles.

Who it is for

Angels and syndicates; seed funds, accelerators, and venture studios; venture and growth; corporate and strategic; family offices, foundations, and philanthropy; institutional, sovereign, and public; debt and alternative capital.

ENGAGE · Flourishing Capital Summit

Meet the co-chairs.

Joseph Spence

Joseph Spence

Chairman & CIO, NativelyAI

Co-chair, ENGAGE: Flourishing Capital Summit

Institutional finance + applied AI

Joseph brings a rare combination of institutional finance, engineering, investment leadership, and applied AI.

Career across sectors

His career spans NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Standard & Poor's, Goldman Sachs, private alternatives, and emerging technology.

Building flourishing capital

As Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of NativelyAI, he works across investors, institutions, technology companies, developers, and universities. He holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a degree in electrical engineering from Howard University.

Naoko Okumoto

Naoko Okumoto

Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Niremia Collective

Co-chair, ENGAGE: Flourishing Capital Summit

Venture investing + operating experience

Naoko brings more than 20 years of venture investing and operating experience across Silicon Valley and Japan.

Track record

She was a founding partner at World Innovation Lab (WiL) and U.S. investment lead at Mistletoe Ventures. Her investment exits prior to Niremia include Doctor on Demand, Somnoware, and EdCast.

Scaling and investing in human flourishing

Previously, as VP at Yahoo, she helped scale global joint venture revenue from $16M to $520M. Her board experience includes S4 Capital, Yappli, and Transformative Tech. At Niremia Collective, she focuses on investing in technologies that advance human wellbeing and flourishing.

The Flourishing Capital Program

From discovery to scale.

The Flourishing Capital Program is the investor engine of Human+Tech Week.

It connects the forms of capital required to discover promising companies, validate their next stage, and support the infrastructure and deployment required for scale across work, healthspan, and cities.

  1. Seed Labs

    Discovery Capital

    Early-stage venture funds, accelerators, angels, SPVs, and syndicates meeting the founders and companies emerging across Human+Tech Week.

  2. Inflection Labs

    Validation Capital

    Series A, Series B, and early-growth investors engaging companies approaching their next stage of commercial and capital development.

  3. Implementation Labs

    Infrastructure + Scale Capital

    Family offices, foundations, CVCs, institutional, public, and sovereign capital engaging opportunities that require deployment, infrastructure, and longer-term scale.

What it measures

The program measures commitments: a company review, a defined follow-up, mentoring, co-hosting, or participation in a capital pathway.

These pathways culminate on Friday, May 14, at ENGAGE, the Flourishing Capital Summit.

The full capital stack

The work requires every form of capital.

The transition spans research, infrastructure, companies, public systems, and community implementation, each requiring a different form of capital.

These are the seven categories the Investor Summit is built to convene.

Angel / Syndicate / SPV

Angels, super angels, angel groups, SPV leads, syndicate operators

Seed / Accelerator / Venture Studio

Seed funds, accelerators, incubators, venture studios, company-creation funds

A / B / Multi-Stage VC

Series A, Series B, early growth, multi-stage funds

Growth / CVC / Strategic / Portfolio Platform

Growth funds, corporate venture, strategic investors, platform teams, portfolio-support leads

Family Office / Foundation / Philanthropic Capital

Family offices, multi-family offices, foundations, DAF-adjacent capital, values-aligned private wealth

Implementation / Institutional / Sovereign / Public Capital

Sovereigns, public finance, infrastructure funds, fund-of-funds, institutions, public-private vehicles

Alternative / Debt / Non-Dilutive Capital

Venture debt, private credit, structured debt, revenue-based finance, token/crypto funds, special situations

2026 Investor Summit · Selected speakers

The capital leaders who took the stage.

  • Stephanie Shorter

    Director of Investor Relations, Human+Tech Week

  • Nichol Bradford

    Founder and CEO, Human+Tech Week · EIR AI+HI, SHRM

  • Joseph Spence

    Chairman and Chief Investment Officer, NativelyAI

  • Cardinal Peter K. A. Turkson · via video

    Chancellor, Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Vatican

  • Alan E. Dones

    Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Strategic Urban Development Alliance (SUDA); Co-Founder, ECHo Impact Fund

  • Prishani Satyapal

    Executive Director & Co-Founder, Earth Our Common Home (ECHo)

  • Mika Onishi

    PORTAL Venture Partners

  • Barney Pell

    AI pioneer; Venture Partner, Radical Ventures; investor in 200+ ventures

  • Gordy Bal

    CTR Capital Fund

  • Naoko Okumoto

    Niremia Collective

  • Chetan Bagga

    Archetype

  • Steve Carnevale

    Blue Ash Ventures

  • Rob Gordon

    L2S · xBLK VC

  • Seth Miller

    Facilitator, Fearless Ventures

  • Tim Chang

    Co-Founder, The Portal; Venture Partner, Mayfield Fund

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