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.
01
Where is value being created?
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Where can capital participate?
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What structures can support it?
205
Investors participated
500
2027 target
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 S. Spence II
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
2027 Flourishing Capital Summit
Joseph S. Spence II will co-host ENGAGE in 2027.
Co-host · ENGAGE: Flourishing Capital Summit
May 14, 2027 · San Francisco
Joseph brings experience across engineering, institutional finance, investing, and applied AI to the summit's work of advancing human flourishing as an investable category.
Connecting capital and applied AI
As Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of NativelyAI, Joseph works across investors, institutions, technology companies, developers, and universities.
Institutional and technical experience
His career spans the NASA Academy at Goddard Space Flight Center, Standard & Poor's, Goldman Sachs, private alternatives, and emerging technology. He holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a degree in electrical engineering from Howard University.
A commitment to human potential
Joseph's work is grounded in the conviction that technological and financial innovation should expand human capability, wellbeing, and opportunity.
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.
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