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Optimizing for Serial Innovation
The genius innovative mind is just that. It's highest and best use is serial innovation. This is the path to the greatest good from innovation.
CAIDI selects innovators whose lived experience is impacted by societal attitudes causing their genius to be suppressed. Innovators that because of the unequal distribution of wealth and opportunity or other societal conditions and attitudes would never even get on the typical incubator or investor "radar screen". Unfortunately, society would never benefit from their genius because their ideas would never become reality given the current startup ecosystem.
CAIDI's innovation center campus provides room, board, lab equipment, supplies, and other services allowing fellows to be free of financial burden, cooking, cleaning, etc. during their 6 month cohort. We minimize the distraction of daily life to maximize attention on innovation.
Freedom to Focus
Benefits and B-Corporation
Each initiative is set up as a Benefits Corporation and B-Corp by CAIDI, pursuing B-Corp Certification. Once the entity is funded, CAIDI works with the founding fellow to select a seasoned expert executive team that will run the business aspects of the corporation. This reduces the risk of the investment and the founder's business skills are no longer an investment consideration or stumbling block. The founding fellow is expected to guide the vision of innovation and not even the operations of innovations. The charter of the Executive Team will be to obtain and keep B-Lab Certification. This ensures its mission balancing social good and profits is protected through capital raises, leadership changes & creates more flexibility and transparency in business. CAIDI retains a 10% ownership stake in the B-Corporation.
Serial Innovation
When a venture achieves a milestone valuation where a founding fellow’s personal equity holding reaches $15MM, CAIDI’s governance model activates a structured liquidity and redemption pathway.
Backed by enterprise cash flow redemptions, non-dilutive recapitalization, or allied ecosystem secondary partners, the fellow can monetize a portion of their equity into secure, diversified assets without disrupting the company’s mission or balance sheet. With personal financial "escape velocity" achieved, the fellow is freed from daily operational burdens, enabling them to return to CAIDI in a subsequent cohort as a serial innovator for social good—while their original enterprise continues thriving as a self-sustaining, mission-locked B-Corp.