SDG FRONTIER FINANCE FORUM RESULTS IN IMPACT MILESTONES

Overflow Attendance, New Alliances and Launch of SDG Impact Fund Mark Inaugural Event Hosted at the United Nations

New York, NY — September 21, 2018.  5th Element Group PBC, organizer of the inaugural SDG Frontier Finance Forum at the United Nations, reports that the 200-person event was expanded to accommodate more than 300 registrants for the full-day gathering on the International Day of Peace, and has created a strategic new collaborative community.

The speaker lineup reflected a wide range of interests and collaboration. Cross-disciplinary panels punctuated the event, featuring Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi, Adam Rockefeller Growald, world-renowned violinist Tim Fain, former NASA astronaut Ron Garan, and frontier tech leaders like Sally Eaves, Susan Oh, Toni DiMatteo and Dr. W. Scott Stornetta, considered the father of blockchain.

Left to right: Kavita Gupta, Founding Managing Partner, Consensys; Kailash Satyarthi, Founder, Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation; Sumedha Kailash, Founder, Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation; Bassem Youssef, political satirist.

In addition, Quantum Impact Awards were presented to Bassam Youssef, the popular political satirist, and Dr. Deloise Blakely, Goodwill Ambassador at the UN. A FrontierWomen300 Award was presented to Kelsey Cole, CSO and Co-Founder of Adbank. The Earth Ethics Prize was presented to Heidi Kuhn, Founder and CEO of Roots of Peace.

One of the panels featured the launch of the SDG Impact Fund, powered by Fifth Element Fund’s Donor Advised Fund.  The Fund’s new website (www.fifthelementfund.org) was unveiled and over $500,000 of seed donations to the Fund were presented on stage from Lauren Selig, Tangled Little Dragon, Megan Kaspar, Colborn Bell, RedPen, and AdBank.

“This event was a remarkable demonstration of the appetite for leadership, collaboration, and activation at the intersection of frontier tech and impact investing and the need for more women in leadership in this space,” said Vincent Molinari, Co-Founder of 5th Element Group. “It is just the beginning, really, of something very important in our common quest for a better world.”

In addition to 5th Element Group, the inaugural event sponsors included Celsius, Diginex, Native, Fifth Element Fund and Foundation for the Future of Humanity.

Left to right: Kelsey Cole, CSO and Co-founder, Adbank, Inc.; Bryan Doreian, Chief Development Magus, Fifth Element Fund; Angelo Dodaro, Co-Founder, Adbank; RJ Smith, CEO, Redpen; Colborn Bell, Co-Founder, 5th Element Group; Alex Mashinsky, Celsius Network.

About the SDG Frontier Finance Forum
The inagural SDG Frontier Finance Forum was held at the UN on September 21, 2018. The purpose of the Forum is to build a community of highly select and courageous leaders to take action in unlocking the full power of new frontier financing across impact finance, blockchain and digital value exchange assets to capitalize and deliver the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.

About 5th Element Group

5th Element Group is the first for-benefit (“B-Corps”) holding company aggregating an Innovation Supercluster of the human, intellectual and financial web of global connectivity required to generate a new form of Quantum Economics and thereby deliver the UN Sustainable Development Goals and massively accelerate our transition into the Fifth Industrial Revolution. 5th Element Group launched the Decade Of Women to activate this process and functions as the coordinating body for the Innovation Supercluster.

About Fifth Element Fund

Fifth Element Fund is a  Donor  Advised  Fund  dedicated  exclusively  to  building  a  community  of  courageous  leadership  for  bold  solutions  to de-risk and  mainstream  moonshots  and  quantum  leap  solutions to deliver  the UN Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.

About the SDG Impact Fund

The SDG Impact Fund is a Donor Advised Fund (administered by Fifth Element Fund) dedicated exclusively to liberating new forms of capital and coaboration across impact and the digital assets frontier to de-risk and deliver large-scale moonshot (10X) solutions designed to achieve the SDGs.

About Diginex

Diginex is building the best-in-class, blue chip approach to all aspects of the Distributed Ledger Technologies space, positioning itself as the partner of choice for companies looking towards integrating their services into a decentralized world.

About Celsius Network

Celsius Network is a blockchain-based fintech startup which provides members the ability to borrow dollars using their cryptocurrency as collateral. Members of the Celsius Network can also earn interest on their digital currency deposited with Celsius. They are developing a new wave of financial products for the digital currency market in order to bring the next 100 million people into blockchain.

About Native

Native provides the fundamental structure for valuing and operating Communities through their own local currencies and a set of decision-making tools; in addition, Native provides templates which suit various types of Communities’ needs to ensure that even those with limited economic and technical knowledge can participate in emerging financial ecosystems.

Fdtn. for Future of Humanity

Future of Humanity is a decentralized and distributed communities and technology stack for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Future of Humanity is a non-profit and an open-sourced platform that is free and available for users and projects that support the SDGs.

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For press inquiries regarding the SDG Frontier Finance Forum, please contact:
Mary Elizabeth Russell | mer@5thelement.group