Joshua Kauffman
CONTEXT at Wisdom VC
Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoshua Kauffman is a multidisciplinary founder and investor with 14 years of experience building mission-driven ventures at the intersection of design, technology, and planetary health. He leads Wisdom VC as Founder & General Partner, backing early-stage companies across AI, biotech, fintech, and blockchain while also co-founding stealth ventures like CONTEXT and advising climate-forward initiatives such as Naia Trust. A seasoned facilitator and lecturer who has run nearly 100 unconferences and spoken at Harvard, MIT, and the World Bank, he specializes in convening diverse experts to turn complex conversations into actionable strategy. His background spans design research, regenerative agriculture investing, and cultural production—from founding Ground Effect to supporting artisan-driven supply chains with Soko. Based in Fort Collins and educated at Harvard GSD and Duke, Joshua combines systems-level foresight with hands-on venture building and a persistent focus on expanding what counts as worthy of capital. Notably, he blends animist and ecological perspectives into investment and design practice, shaping ventures that center generativity and human-planetary flourishing.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
International Baccalaureate Winner of the Gold Medal in Community, International Baccalaureate Winner of the Gold Medal in Community at Upper Canada CollegeBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Globalization: Emergent and Dynamic Global Systems, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Globalization: Emergent and Dynamic Global Systems at Duke UniversityMasters of Design Design and the Public Domain, Masters of Design Design and the Public Domain at Harvard University Graduate School of Design
French, Dutch, Hebrew
Github Skills (19)
ngram10
frequency-analysis10
session-store7
keyboard-layout6
colemak6
ruby-client6
google-analytics6
rack5
rack-middleware5
redis4
ruby4
privacy4
jekyll3
analytics3
letsencrypt2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
first20hours/codex
Apr 2012 - Sep 2012
Contributions:50 commits in 5 months
first20hours/google-10000-english
Mar 2012 - Jun 2021
This repo contains a list of the 10,000 most common English words in order of frequency, as determined by n-gram frequency analysis of the Google's Trillion Word Corpus.
Contributions:16 commits, 7 PRs, 9 pushes in 9 years 4 months
frequency-analysisngram
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