About Us
Evan Rapoport
Founder & CEO
Evan is a nature-lover and expert at building mission-driven portfolios, teams, and companies. He founded numerous products and programs that have received many millions in follow-on funding.
Evan was the lead for the Google Brain Moonshots Program to invest in AI research projects (LLMs, remote sensing, bioacoustics, etc.). At Google X, he founded the Tidal moonshot (AI for aquaculture). He was the founding CEO of Oceankind (principal Lucy Page), building a successful $10M+ portfolio of investments and grants. Following his love for protecting nature, he became the Senior Technology Fellow at Conservation International. Earlier in his career at Google, he founded and launched many products in Maps, Android, & Photos.
Evan speaks regularly on “Moonshot Thinking” with mission-driven organizations, advises and invests in startups, mentored classes at Stanford, led a workshop at the United Nations, and coaches people through career and life transitions towards work on nature and climate.
Advisors
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Stephanie Hannon
Product Leader, Emerson Collective,
ex-Google, ex-Facebook -
Shawn Heinrichs
OnlyOne, Emmy-winning filmmaker, ocean guide, conservation leader
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Courtney Hohne
Moonshots storyteller, un/owned,
ex-Google X -
Ted Schmitt
Conservation tech leader, Allen Institute for AI, ex-Vulcan
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Josh Yellin
Research Lead at Google.org, Urban Rivers, Wildlife.ai
Giving Back
Through our 501(c)(3) partner the Amphibian Foundation, we donate a portion of our revenue to support people on the front lines of protecting nature.
We believe that the people who already live in harmony with nature are its best possible stewards. But so often these places and people face insurmountable challenges that they did not cause.
The Amphibian Foundation (previously known as Regrow) is a US 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 2020. It has raised, catalyzed, and donated hundreds of thousands of dollars while having zero overhead (all administrative costs are paid for by our founder, Evan Rapoport). The majority of the funding has gone to provide food, shelter, electricity, clean water, clothing, and school scholarships to centers in rural Northern Kenya that rescue girls from sexual and gender-based violence.
