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MemoryWell is a woman-founded AI company that captures and leverages your loved one's life story to preserve your family memories and build empathy - one story at a time. These stories provide data and insights that can influence the future of healthcare. CEO Jay Newton-Small became inspired when her father went to live in an assisted care facility after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's. As a reporter for TIME and Bloomberg News, Jay wrote his life story in order to better ...assist his caregivers. Memorywell just hit an important milestone in its growth - closing a $2.5 million seed funding round that One Planet VC was a part of. At One Planet VC, we invest in great business ideas and entrepreneurs that also work toward helping to improve humanity at some level. Memorywell recently partnered with 40 care providers and launched large-scale pilots with Prospero Health and PCH Mutual Insurance, a national insurer of senior living providers, to help caregivers of Alzheimer's and dementia patients understand patients through storytelling and this is just the beginning! #memorywell #oneplanetvc #womenentrepreneurs #AIstartup #vcfunding

In honor of International Women’s Day, 7 members of One Planet who identify as women share famous women they admire and why. Jenna Nicholas, VP of One Planet VC & Head of Corporate Development for One Planet Group: Tahirih. She was born in 1814 Iran, she spent her life calling on women to refuse violence and oppression. At a time when women were kept illiterate and hidden, she had left her husband and children in order to spread the Baha’i Faith and promote a more progressiv...Continue reading

The team at One Planet Group would like to wish our founder and CEO Payam Zamani a very Happy Birthday! In celebration we'd like to highlight 5 of the MANY great moments that Payam has given us: *Payam shared his love for the sport of basketball and took the company to a Warriors game.... *He's the masterful carver of our Thanksgiving turkey every year! *He turned into an in-house DJ for our 2018 New Year's Party - so much fun! *A team member lost a fun bet to Payam and agreed to get a tattoo of the company logo - love our dedicated employees! *And one of our favorite moments - Payam was challenged to a push-up contest and the whole Walnut Creek office got to watch! Payam, you’ve accomplished so much and stay humble, sociable, and fun! Thank you for so many great memories - Happy Birthday! Love, The One Planet team

Joy DeGruy Publications - educator and author of Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome - has spent decades researching the true stories of Africans enslaved in the United States and the generational trauma impacting Black people throughout history. One Planet had the honor of having Dr. Joy take over our social media accounts last June to share her research and her discussions to promote racial healing in the Black community. She recently lent her support to One Planet Media and c...omposer Jack Lenz’s production of Here Comes Love (posted on our profile). Her quote in the press release: There’s this mythology that when slavery ended, the playing field got leveled. The reality is that after hundreds of years of trauma in slavery, what came next was more trauma. We’ve never had a collective moment in history to heal and to acknowledge the injuries. We need real-life conversations on racism and trauma, we need to reach out to friends and family, and we need to touch people in the best way we can. #blackhistorymonth #herecomeslove #drjoydegruy #blackstories #elevatemelanatedvoices