AllHere
/in BII Fund Portfolio, Portfolio /by deborahAllHere, a software startup founded and headquartered in Boston, combats absenteeism in public school districts through technological services. The platform helps educators document absences, recognize patterns of absenteeism, and create action plans. AllHere’s products have been shown to successfully recover 47% of truant students, reduce chronic absenteeism by 30%, and improve the attendance of 83% of all students. In 2020, BII made an equity investment in AllHere to fund growth. Learn more
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/in Cohort /by deborahEdTech Startup, AllHere, Receives Equity Financing from BII
/in BII Fund Announcements /by deborahBII’s Deborah Frieze Co-Authors Article on Using Nature as our Guide
/in BII Fund Announcements /by deborahIn their article, Forging a post-COVID recovery with Nature as our Guide, Deborah Frieze and Sallie Calhoun ask how nature would recover from a disruption like COVID-19, building from a conversation they had with António Simões of HSBC at The Performance Theatre in Seattle last year. “In nature,” they write, “resources often flow to where they’re needed most. Imagine a world in which big banks, global corporations and the one percent functioned like oak trees, serving as an integral part of the community, redistributing financial capital to support productive capacity throughout the entire system.”