The investors who were in the room.
Venture, growth, institutional, philanthropic, and public capital, convened at Human+Tech Week 2026.
The 2026 Investor Summit
Human flourishing as an investable category.
The invitation-only ENGAGE: Flourishing Capital Investor Summit connected wellness, workforce transformation, and smart cities as one Human+AI opportunity, and asked three questions.
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How to price it.
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Where to access it.
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How to structure the capital that holds it.
205
Investors participated in 2026
500
2027 target
Selected firms represented
BlackRock
Dell Technologies Capital
Obvious Ventures
Mayfield Fund
Wisdom Ventures
AIX Ventures
Able Partners
Better Ventures
Share Ventures
Upfront Ventures
South Park Commons
SOS Ventures
Monk's Hill Ventures
Vickers Venture Partners
Portal Venture Partners
Palo Alto Investors
2026 Investor Summit speakers
The capital leaders who took the stage.
Stephanie Shorter
Director of Investor Relations, Human+Tech Week
Nichol Bradford
Founder, Human+Tech Week · EIR AI+HI, SHRM
Joseph Spence
Chairman & CIO, 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
The full capital stack
No single type of capital can fund human flourishing alone.
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.
Category
What it includes
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