AWSM (“awesome”) is a newly formed impact-oriented, venture design organization focused on empowering diverse founders & investors by designing startups for the future. We use our proprietary "4D framework" -- as a value unlock with... + DESIGN as a force multiplier to identify, validate & realize potential value + DIGITAL as a component to experiment & explore possibility + DATA to track how we work and inform how to get to better outcomes + DIVERSITY as a superpower (race/gender/experience/style)---to enhance process, collaboration & output We exist to create A World Serving Many (our why) by devising A Way to Startup Mastery (our how) which we express through... AWSM + A new industry organization focused on uniting founders who don’t the fit the profile and enabling them with the tools, resources and relationships needed to make remarkable things (no equity required). Details to come. AWSM School + A capacity building layer for aspiring, emerging and existing founders to learn, network and grow... from idea to product, product to company and company to enterprise. AWSM Studio + A talent-driven venture studio helping pre-seed stage founders by investing human + financial capital to create companies that can realize a world that works for more people. Open to all AWSM members, current school participants and alumni. We view ourselves as social venture catalysts (VC) developing an end-to-end platform to seriously enable and empower the next generation of makers. We are on a mission... join us. www.awsm.vc