Charlie Hartwell, Bridge Builders Collaborative

– The Sharkpreneur podcast with Seth Greene Episode 425 Charlie Hartwell

Charlie is the managing partner of Bridge Builders Collaborative, a group of highly successful investors who have been investing in start-up companies in the space of mental wellness, consciousness, and spirituality. A Harvard Business School graduate, Charlie has served and led organizations in 14 different industries, including starting a non- profit in the slums of Kenya in 1986 that has now served health care to several million patients. He also founded the first for-profit expedition company in US History to promote the Bancroft Arnesen Expedition - a historical 17,000-mile crossing of Antarctica by two women who became the first to cross the continent on foot.

Now Charlie and his company are passionate about supporting the growth of a new movement around mental fitness, heart-centered connection, consciousness evolution, and improved health care. Bridge Builders has invested in such companies as Pear Therapeutics, Insight Timer, Headspace, Happify, and others. Bridge Builders supports companies that work towards accessible mind-training technology through investments.

Charlie and Bridge Builders invested in a popular app called Insight Timer. It offers mindfulness inspiration, meditations, and music from over 5,000 teachers around the world. Additional projects include an app that helps with addiction, the Muse headband, and Fabriq, an app that helps organize and enable better intentionality with relationship building, both socially and professionally.

Listen to this informative Sharkpreneur episode with Charlie Hartwell about investing in startups that focus on mental wellness, consciousness, and spirituality.

Here are some of the beneficial topics covered on this week’s show:

●     Why the mental wellness space is growing very rapidly today.

●     How to source deals and investments in the mental wellness space.

●     Why meditation can help businesspeople become successful.  

●     How to get networked into new areas to provide businesses with value.

●     Why you need to invest in the entrepreneur who will be able to grow his idea.

Connect with Charlie:

Guest Contact Info

Twitter

@ShiftIt_Inst

Instagram

@shiftit_institute

Facebook

facebook.com/ShiftitInstitute

LinkedIn

linkedin.com/in/charliehartwell

Links Mentioned:

bbcollaborative.com

shiftit.com

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