Few philanthropic organizations connect ecological decline to demographic change as directly as the Colcom Foundation. Based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the foundation has built its grantmaking philosophy around a core argument: that efforts to protect the natural world cannot succeed unless human population growth is addressed alongside per-capita consumption. That argument traces back to April 22, […]
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How Judd Zebersky Turned a Law Career Into a Toy Empire
Judd Zebersky spent his early professional years practicing law after earning a JD from the University of Miami School of Law. But the consumer products world kept pulling at him, and in 1997 he walked away from his firm to do something most lawyers would find baffling: learn how to make toys in Chinese factories. […]
Judd Zebersky’s Jazwares Journey Toys, Philanthropy, and Squishmallows
Jazwares grew from a solo venture into a company with 1,400 employees and products in more than 100 countries. Behind that growth was Judd Zebersky, who founded the company after leaving a law practice and spent nearly three decades leading it before stepping down as CEO on March 20, 2026. Zebersky’s path to the toy […]
Justin Fulcher on Building AI Systems Government Workers Will Actually Use
Technology deployments in government fail for many reasons. Procurement delays, budget overruns, and technical mismatches all contribute. But one of the most common, and least discussed, failure modes is simpler: the people who are supposed to use a new system do not trust it or find it makes their work harder rather than easier. Technology […]
From Telemedicine to Defense Justin Fulcher on Technology in Regulated Sectors
The problems Justin Fulcher has spent his career solving share a common structure. Whether building telemedicine infrastructure for rural communities in Asia or working to modernize acquisition practices at the U.S. Department of Defense, the obstacle has consistently been the same: capable institutions running on processes that have fallen behind what the technology could support. […]
How Thomas Priore Thinks About Competitive Advantage in Payments
The payments industry is simultaneously one of the most competitive and most stable sectors in financial technology. Competitive, because the opportunity is enormous and the barriers to entry have declined as cloud infrastructure and APIs have democratized access to processing capabilities. Stable, because trust, compliance infrastructure, and enterprise relationships take years to build and are […]
How Yazan Al Homsi Navigates the Transition From Early-Stage to Growth Investment
The venture investment landscape has shifted significantly in recent years — with the traditional early-stage, growth, and late-stage segments blurring as capital has become more available across the lifecycle and as the timelines for company development have compressed in some sectors while extending in others. Vancouver-based investor Yazan Al Homsi has developed an investment approach […]
Gulf Coast Western Reviews Reflect Decades of Oil Sector Integrity
Founded more than five decades ago by Matthew Fleeger’s father, Gulf Coast Western LLC has grown from a small Louisiana and Texas oil operation into a company with extraction activity spanning six states. Throughout its history, Gulf Coast Western reviews from clients, investors, and industry observers have consistently described a company whose growth is matched […]
Energy Transfer Founder Kelcy Warren Honored by Hart Energy
Hart Energy’s 2023 Hall of Fame marked a milestone for Kelcy Warren, the founder and executive chairman of Energy Transfer. Selected as part of the inaugural class tied to Hart Energy’s 50th anniversary, Warren joined a group that included oil and gas executives, pioneering geologists, and finance leaders. The selection underscored a career that has […]
Why Yazan Al Homsi Bets on Healthcare AI
Healthcare technology is one of the most complex and most consequential investment areas in venture capital. The regulatory environment is demanding, the sales cycles are long, and the path from promising product to meaningful market penetration is littered with well-funded companies that failed to navigate the specific challenges of the healthcare sector. Yazan Al Homsi […]