What we Bring: 

  1. A leadership team that is no stranger to poverty – having worked through the “System that Profits from Poverty” from level zero up. This team also has the added experience of being majority female and majority minority giving us a strong connection to what our target communities experience daily.

  2. A founding team that’s diverse and experienced. 50% of us are immigrants, 50% are minorities, 100% of us are entrepreneurs and together we are ready, willing and prepared to put poverty in everyone’s rearview mirror.

  3. A 25-year history of enterprise development centered on “infinite business principles” where the goals are holistic, evolving, and built on an ethos of care for all stakeholders.

  4. A non-conflictual, “blame-free”, include-everyone philosophy, because poverty is an embedded system and not caused by any person, group, or class. This allows us to attract allies from all sectors.

  5. Seven years of focused work completing and implementing a robust, fast, and green tech infrastructure that enables our Level UP Apps and platforms to provide a new class of benefits. 

  6. In-depth research into "the system that creates poverty", historically and today, culminating in three landmark books that you can access on the Resources page. 

  7. In this work, we “reverse engineered” poverty to identify the 5 tactics that keep people poor. 

  8. A family of well researched and mapped out Level-UP Apps that poor people can use to bypass these tactics. 

  9. An exciting business model where these same Apps and platforms make the companies that subscribe to them smarter, friendlier, more profitable, and sustainable, while helping people escape poverty. 

  10. Needed and timely solutions for the 250,000 plus U.S. companies explicitly committed to social responsibility. These companies are actively seeking solutions like our products. They require no convincing.

    This is what Lemonade CEO Daniel Schreiber was getting at when he described the new normal of doing business: "Not only can you do well by doing good," he said, "But soon, there won't be any other way to do it."

  11. A business model that generates sufficient revenue and valuation to meet our targets and become a leader in the poverty reversal movement 

  12. A commitment to distribute ownership and benefits broadly. 

  13. A leading crowd-funding partner, WeFunder, that’s also a Benefit Corp, gives just about everyone the opportunity to join companies like ours as an owner with as little as $100 investment.

Economic systems exist because they provide benefits. These benefits may accrue more to one group than another. When the beneficiaries reap rewards at the cost of other groups, such as the poorer members of society, that’s when the system crosses the line into unsustainability and social degeneration. 

With Level UP, you can reap rewards without diminishing others. This is an example of an infinite business strategy and a true win-win. 

You can continue to learn about our story, philosophy, and Level UP strategies under “The Poverty Story”.