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Volans Ventures: Preparing for take-off
www.volans.com
Volans Ventures supports the evolution
and deployment of scalable solutions to 10 great global divides.
Volans began to evolve late in 2007, in conversations between John
Elkington, Pamela Hartigan, Geoff Lye and Sophia Tickell—quickly
drawing in Sam Lakha and Kevin Teo. The central
concept is that Volans will work in partnership with other organizations,
providing a flexible, highly leveraged means to support innovators
and entrepreneurs working to bridge—and ultimately close—the great
economic, social and environmental divides that pose such a profound
challenge to our collective future.
Flying down in Rio: Birds
over Sugarloaf (Pão de Açúcar)
And our name? We have the flying fish (Piscis or Pisces volans)
to thank for that. In Latin, volans meant ‘flying’ or ‘flying thing’—which
seemed appropriate as we began to work toward a big jump forward
in our field and working lives1. Volans is also a constellation
in the southern sky, first described in Johann Bayer’s Uranometria in 1603, which brought to mind thoughts of navigation and the deep
structure of things.
Initially based in Geneva, London, Oxford and Singapore, Volans
is still embryonic, with this beta website providing place-holders
for several key components, including
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