New Impact Offerings, AI-Powered Learning, SuperCrowdLA Highlights, and a Year of 366 Investments!
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GrownBy Featured Among New Impact Offerings - May 5, 2025
Each week, Superpowers for Good shares a list of new impact-related offerings added to FINRA-Registered crowdfunding portals and by broker-dealers. We’ll share four separate lists:
Impact offerings determined by our proprietary analysis.
Offerings with minority founders.
Deals with women founders.
Those with LGBTQ founders.
Sometimes, it takes weeks for our source to determine that a company has a social impact, a woman, minority or LGBTQ founder. When we discover an offering qualifies for our list, even if it is no longer new, we will include it. See the lists below.
AI-Powered Education: Bright Start Ed-Tech’s Vision to Illuminate Learning for All Students
tl;dr:
Bright Start Ed-Tech uses AI to create personalized learning solutions tailored to each student’s needs.
The company’s two-phase approach empowers parents and transforms schools with targeted educational tools.
Gary Surdam’s vision began with a moment of inspiration while teaching a STEAM course in Thailand.
His superpower, tenacity, has driven him to overcome challenges and refine his innovative technology.
Bright Start Ed-Tech is raising funds via crowdfunding to scale its transformative personalized learning platform.
The Big Ideas That Lit Up SuperCrowdLA
Game-Changing Insights from SuperCrowdLA 2025
SuperCrowdLA 2025 was electric. Even after 1,000 hours of effort, what resonates most isn’t the exhaustion—it’s the gratitude. The depth of the content, the passion of the speakers, and the resolve of our community to drive impact through capital made this our most meaningful gathering yet. Over three days, we explored the future of finance, celebrated capital-raising wins, and lit the spark for the next wave of change-making founders. If you missed it, we’ve captured the essence in bite-sized takeaways—starting with these highlights.
Brigit Helms SuperCrowd Spotlight: The Truth About Impact Capital
Dr. Brigit Helms of Miller Center didn’t sugarcoat it: “You can’t have your cake and eat it too.” She called out the myth that social enterprises can always deliver outsized returns while changing the world. Instead, she challenged us to own the tradeoffs—longer runways, more patient capital, and often more modest financial outcomes—in exchange for deep, durable social good. She also spotlighted a structural gap: a lack of funding for companies in the “missing middle” between seed stage and scale. Women founders, she noted, face even greater barriers. Her call to action? Build an ecosystem that serves the entrepreneurs—not just the capital holders.
SuperCrowd Conversation: Pairing Profit and Impact
Moderated by Léa Bouhelier-Gautreau of KingsCrowd, this panel tackled the classic tension: can investors expect both meaningful social impact and solid financial returns? Panelists Jenny Kassan, Brian Christie, Gregory Wendt, and Justin Renfro offered a resounding “yes”—but with caveats. They urged investors to recalibrate expectations, consider alternative models like revenue share, and center community in the investment thesis. Jenny reminded us that policy still shapes the field, while Gregory championed “living economies” over the VC-style death race. Justin noted the power of community capital to surface overlooked founders. The throughline? Systems change starts with rethinking what we value.
Why Paul Lovejoy Made 366 Crowdfunding Investments in a Year
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Paul Lovejoy invested in regulation crowdfunding every day for a year to understand the experience.
He discovered debt crowdfunding, or “crowdlending,” as a powerful tool for financial planning.
Paul shared personal lessons from the 2008 financial crisis, including the importance of ethical investments.
He created the Crowd Capital Blueprint to help people build wealth ethically and sustainably.
Paul’s superpower, healing through forgiveness, inspires others to grow from pain and help others.
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Discover This Week's Impact Crowdfunding Success Stories 🎉
Every Sunday, we bring you a roundup of the most successful impact crowdfunding campaigns that have achieved their funding goals. Join us to celebrate the impact and innovation that these ventures have brought to life. Don’t forget to check tomorrow's email for more exciting updates!
Support Our Sponsors
Our generous sponsors make our work possible, serving impact investors, social entrepreneurs, community builders and diverse founders. Today’s advertisers include FundingHope, Kribsavup, Crowdfunding Made Simple, and SuperCrowd25. Learn more about advertising with us here.
Max-Impact Members
The following Max-Impact Members provide valuable financial support to keep us operating:
Carol Fineagan, Independent Consultant | Lory Moore, Lory Moore Law | Marcia Brinton, High Desert Gear | Paul Lovejoy, Stakeholder Enterprise | Pearl Wright, Global Changemaker | Ralf Mandt, Next Pitch | Scott Thorpe, Philanthropist | Matthew Mead, Hempitecture | Michael Pratt, Qnetic | Sharon Samjitsingh, Health Care Originals |
Upcoming SuperCrowd Event Calendar
If a location is not noted, the events below are virtual.
Impact Cherub Club Meeting hosted by The Super Crowd, Inc., a public benefit corporation, on May 20, 2025, at 1:00 PM Eastern. Each month, the Club meets to review new offerings for investment consideration and to conduct due diligence on previously screened deals. To join the Impact Cherub Club, become an Impact Member of the SuperCrowd.
SuperCrowdHour, May 21, 2025, at 1:00 PM Eastern. Devin Thorpe, Champion of Social Good and CEO of The Super Crowd, Inc., will lead a session on "The Secret to Higher Investment Returns via Impact Crowdfunding." He’ll share powerful strategies and real-world examples that show how aligning your investments with your values can lead to strong financial and social returns. If you're an investor looking to maximize impact or curious about the growing world of impact crowdfunding, this is a session you won’t want to miss! Don’t miss it!
SuperCrowd25, August 21st and 22nd: This two-day virtual event is an annual tradition but with big upgrades for 2025! We’ll be streaming live across the web and on TV via e360tv. Soon, we’ll open a process for nominating speakers. Check back!
Community Event Calendar
Successful Funding with Karl Dakin, Tuesdays at 10:00 AM ET - Click on Events
Crowdfunding Addict: Lessons Learned from a Year of Daily Investments, Wednesday, May 14, 2025, at 2:00 PM ET.
Regulated Investment Crowdfunding Summit 2025, Crowdfunding Professional Association, Washington DC, October 21-22, 2025.
Call for community action:
Please show your support for a tax credit for investments made via Regulation Crowdfunding, benefiting both the investors and the small businesses that receive the investments. Learn more here.
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