ONE WORLD Impact Investments LLC
VC Fund
Palo Alto, United States
ONE WORLD Impact Investments LLC is a VC fund in Palo Alto focused on Education and Health Care. ONE WORLD provides training & investment capital to social impact enterprises. The mission of ONE WORLD is to scale social impact and improve the lives of individuals globally. In January 2017, ONE WORLD launched its impact seed fund focused on early-stage for-profit companies that are addressing social or environmental challenges. As ofJanuary 2022, the portfolio has 25 active investments, has participated in 15 follow-on rounds of financing, and has had 2 exits.
- Total investments:
- 54
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 2%
Last updated:
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Industries ONE WORLD Impact Investments LLC invests in
Stages ONE WORLD Impact Investments LLC invests in
Countries ONE WORLD Impact Investments LLC invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $165k–$6M
- Series A
- $7M–$20M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Education 6 (11%)
- Health Care 6 (11%)
- Software 5 (9%)
- Sustainability 4 (7%)
- Advanced Materials 4 (7%)
Stage
- Seed 21 (39%)
- Series A 11 (20%)
- Series B 3 (6%)
- Convertible Note 3 (6%)
- Angel 2 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Scott Saslow
Founder and CEO
|
Founder and CEO | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Allswell is a community-first mental health care provider that provides virtual mental health therapy services for queer adults. The company connects clients with licensed therapists who are trained in LGBTQ+-affirming care and offer both one-on-one and peer group therapy sessions. Its services address a range of needs, including identityexploration, trauma recovery, relationship challenges, and stress related to discrimination or marginalization.Clients can start with a free 15-minute consultation, followed by an intake session where a personalized care plan is developed. Allswell’s therapy sessions are conducted via secure video calls, and clients can choose weekly individual or group meetings. The platform accepts Medicaid in Maryland and major commercial insurance plans, while self-pay clients are offered discounted introductory sessions. Through its approach, Allswell aims to make accessible, culturally competent mental health care available to queer individuals in a supportive virtual environment. | $1.3M / Pre-Seed / Oct 29, 2025 | ||
| Sylvatex has developed a renewable nano-chemistry platform that has applications in solutions for industry processing, materials stability, and fuels. Our mission is to increase the use of renewables globally, to empower a cleaner, healthier future. The first application is a fuel technology that utilizes our knowledge to scale low-cost,cleaner-burning fuels and additives by using a co-location commercial model with early strategic partners and customers in place. Sylvatex has also completed the first phase of development on a lithium ion battery processing application and has established collaborations with national labs and the USDA to expand on these applications.Growing mandates for fuels with lower emissions make the need for cleaner burning, lower cost diesel and other petroleum unavoidable. Our fuel application creates a low-carbon diesel fuel alternative that is easily scalable and cost-competitive in these depressed market prices. Sylvatex was founded by Virginia Klausmeier and is based in San Francisco, California. | $8.4M / Series A / Sep 20, 2022 | ||
| Ethic is a developer of a data-driven technology platform designed to offer simplified financial planning services and portfolios. Their platform leverages investment consulting technology that creates sustainable portfolios that are optimized to reduce tracking error for the underlying passive index against well-established benchmarks, enablingfamily offices, health advisers, and endowment foundations to provide customized sustainability insights and optimized passive portfolio construction for their clients. | $50M / Series C / Sep 14, 2022 | ||
| Elemeno Health is a team-based medical information platform—a personal assistant for doctors and nurses. Team communication and point-of-care training are essential to keeping our healthcare workforce healthy and ready to meet the COVID surge. With Elemeno, frontline staff can access the most current practices, checklists, and videos needed todeliver the best care possible and stay safe. We launched Elemeno to improve practice consistency and reduce medical errors. They have fundamentally transformed training and accelerated the adoption of best practices, improved patient outcomes, and saved providers millions.Elemeno closes the knowledge-practice gap at the frontlines to help improve patient safety. Our proprietary cloud-based platform provides context-driven microlearning.We transform complicated practices into bite-sized steps (decision guides, checklists, “how to” videos) to help doctors and nurses deliver the right practice at the right time. Social elements include recognition and gamification. With a built-in feedback loop, leadership learns what works, what doesn’t, and what their staff really need.Elemeno, founded in 2016 and based in Oakland, California, is a web application. Deployed without hospital IT resources. Accessible on any device. | $7M / Series A / May 12, 2022 | ||
| Mango Materials produces a naturally-occurring biopolymer from waste biogas (methane) that are economically competitive with conventional oil-based plastics. Mango Materials is a start-up with a first-class team of engineers, scientists, entrepreneurs, and innovators. | Series B / May 01, 2022 | ||
| Sylvatex has developed a renewable nano-chemistry platform that has applications in solutions for industry processing, materials stability, and fuels. Our mission is to increase the use of renewables globally, to empower a cleaner, healthier future. The first application is a fuel technology that utilizes our knowledge to scale low-cost,cleaner-burning fuels and additives by using a co-location commercial model with early strategic partners and customers in place. Sylvatex has also completed the first phase of development on a lithium ion battery processing application and has established collaborations with national labs and the USDA to expand on these applications.Growing mandates for fuels with lower emissions make the need for cleaner burning, lower cost diesel and other petroleum unavoidable. Our fuel application creates a low-carbon diesel fuel alternative that is easily scalable and cost-competitive in these depressed market prices. Sylvatex was founded by Virginia Klausmeier and is based in San Francisco, California. | Series A / May 01, 2022 | ||
| BookNook is a provider of synchronous learning technology and virtual high dosage tutoring, supporting hundreds of school districts in their efforts to provide scaled programs for k-8 reading and math that are fun, rigorous, and effective. It has quickly spread across schools and after-school programs. | Series B / Apr 26, 2022 | ||
| KETOS provides hardware and software analytics solutions and real-time data for usage and flow across water systems and monitors water health parameters such as pH, dissolved solids, hardness, turbidity, and salinity. Meena Sankaran founded KETOS in 2015. It is headquartered in Milpitas, California. | Series A / Dec 21, 2021 | ||
| Elemeno Health is a team-based medical information platform—a personal assistant for doctors and nurses. Team communication and point-of-care training are essential to keeping our healthcare workforce healthy and ready to meet the COVID surge. With Elemeno, frontline staff can access the most current practices, checklists, and videos needed todeliver the best care possible and stay safe. We launched Elemeno to improve practice consistency and reduce medical errors. They have fundamentally transformed training and accelerated the adoption of best practices, improved patient outcomes, and saved providers millions.Elemeno closes the knowledge-practice gap at the frontlines to help improve patient safety. Our proprietary cloud-based platform provides context-driven microlearning.We transform complicated practices into bite-sized steps (decision guides, checklists, “how to” videos) to help doctors and nurses deliver the right practice at the right time. Social elements include recognition and gamification. With a built-in feedback loop, leadership learns what works, what doesn’t, and what their staff really need.Elemeno, founded in 2016 and based in Oakland, California, is a web application. Deployed without hospital IT resources. Accessible on any device. | $6M / Seed / Dec 17, 2021 | ||
| Novoloop is an upcycling company that provides a proprietary lifecycling platform to create chemicals and materials from plastic waste. Its Accelerated Thermal Oxidative Decomposition (ATOD) process chemically breaks down plastic films and packaging into monomers, which are then reassembled into virgin-quality TPU and recycled+ formulations. Thecompany operates a demonstration pilot plant in India in partnership with Aether Industries, producing up to 70 metric tons of TPU annually from mixed plastic waste. | $11.4M / Series A / Nov 19, 2021 | ||
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FAQ
What does ONE WORLD Impact Investments LLC invest in?
ONE WORLD Impact Investments LLC invests primarily in Education, Health Care and Software startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 54 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does ONE WORLD Impact Investments LLC invest in?
ONE WORLD Impact Investments LLC typically joins rounds of $165k–$6M at Seed and $7M–$20M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not ONE WORLD Impact Investments LLC's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds ONE WORLD Impact Investments LLC took part in.
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Who are the partners at ONE WORLD Impact Investments LLC?
The team at ONE WORLD Impact Investments LLC includes Scott Saslow (Founder and CEO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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