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Wild Rye Featured Among New Impact Offerings – June 23, 2025

Each week, Superpowers for Good shares a list of new impact-related offerings added to FINRA-Registered Crowdfunding portals and by broker-dealers. We’ll share four separate lists:

  1. Impact offerings determined by our proprietary analysis.

  2. Offerings with minority founders.

  3. Deals with women founders.

  4. Those with LGBTQ founders.

Sometimes, it takes weeks for our source to determine that a company has a social impact, a woman, minority or LGBTQ founder. When we discover an offering qualifies for our list, even if it is no longer new, we will include it. See the lists below.

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Citizen Portal Revolutionizes Civic Engagement With AI-Generated Local News

tl;dr:

  1. Citizen Portal uses AI to transform 1.3 million hours of government meetings into actionable news.

  2. The platform fills the gap left by declining local newspapers with nonpartisan, customizable newsfeeds.

  3. Paul’s vision is to empower citizens and policymakers with tools for informed engagement.

  4. Citizen Portal is raising capital through regulated crowdfunding to expand its impact and Technology.

  5. Paul’s superpower, insatiable curiosity, drives his passion for creating tools that make information accessible.


Today! Superpowers for Good Live Pitch: Impact & Profit Collide!

Hello, SuperCrowd!

Today is the day! I’m absolutely giddy with excitement as we gear up for our quarterly Superpowers for Good Live Pitch, happening this evening! This is always one of my favorite events, a vibrant intersection where brilliant Innovation, profound social impact, and incredible profit potential converge. If you’ve been following Superpowers for Good, you know our mission: to shine a spotlight on companies that aren’t just doing good in the world, but are also built on solid business models with the potential for significant returns. Tonight’s lineup is a perfect embodiment of that vision, and I truly believe you’ll be as impressed as I am.

Get ready to witness four groundbreaking companies take the virtual stage, each poised to make a real difference while building sustainable, successful enterprises. We’re talking about businesses tackling everything from personal identity and healthcare accessibility to industrial efficiency and cutting-edge biotechnology. This isn’t just about charity; it’s about smart investments in a better future.

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Reimagining Capitalism: How the Fairshare Model Aims to Transform IPOs and Startup Valuations

tl;dr:

  1. Today’s episode introduces Karl Sjogren’s Fairshare Model, a performance-based structure for venture-stage IPOs.

  2. Karl highlights two major risks for investors: failure risk and valuation risk, and how to address them.

  3. The Fairshare Model uses dual-class stock, aligning rewards with performance milestones.

  4. Karl’s superpower is simplifying complex concepts, making them accessible with analogies like a balloon metaphor.

  5. The episode underscores the potential of the Fairshare Model to reshape capitalism and startup funding.


Main Street Meets the SuperCrowd: Why This Conversation Matters

Main Street Meets the SuperCrowd: Why This Conversation Matters

, the powerhouse editor behind , joined me once again for our monthly livestream—an ongoing collaboration we’ve come to call Main Street Meets the SuperCrowd. These conversations are quickly becoming a cornerstone of community-building for our shared audience—readers who are hungry for smart, actionable ideas to strengthen local economies, invest with impact, and think more holistically about systems change.

If you missed the livestream, let me offer a few highlights that made this session both thought-provoking and energizing.

A Meeting of Minds, Not Echoes

Jen and I began by acknowledging how similar our respective platforms are in terms of mission and audience. But this isn’t an echo chamber. Superpowers for Good and Main Street Journal approach the same problems from different angles, drawing on unique voices, frameworks, and solutions. That makes our collaboration not just refreshing, but necessary. As Jen put it, we’re both “scurrying and collecting” a deep basket of ideas and stories from the grassroots—ensuring that the best thinking doesn’t go unnoticed.

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Make an Impact with Exclusive Investment Insights

Are you ready to align your investments with your values? Impact Members of the SuperCrowd receive exclusive weekly picks from , spotlighting innovative ventures that drive social good while offering potential financial returns.

Gain access to carefully selected opportunities that empower communities, promote sustainability, and deliver real change. Don’t just invest—make an impact.


Discover This Week’s Impact Crowdfunding Success Stories 🎉

Every Sunday, we bring you a roundup of the most successful impact crowdfunding campaigns that have achieved their funding goals. Join us to celebrate the impact and innovation that these ventures have brought to life. Don’t forget to check tomorrow’s email for more exciting updates!

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Support Our Sponsors

Our generous sponsors make our work possible, serving impact investors, social entrepreneurs, community builders and diverse founders. Today’s advertisers include FundingHope, Kingscrowd, Just Her Rideshare, and My Panda. Learn more about advertising with us here.


Max-Impact Members

The following Max-Impact Members provide valuable financial support to keep us operating:

Carol Fineagan, Independent Consultant | Hiten Sonpal, RISE Robotics | Lory Moore, Lory Moore Law | Marcia Brinton, High Desert Gear |  Matthew Mead, Hempitecture |  Michael Pratt, Qnetic | Dr. Nicole Paulk, Siren Biotechnology | Paul Lovejoy, Stakeholder Enterprise | Pearl Wright, Global Changemaker | Ralf Mandt, Next Pitch | Scott Thorpe, Philanthropist | Sharon Samjitsingh, Health Care Originals

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Upcoming SuperCrowd Event Calendar

If a location is not noted, the events below are virtual.

  • Impact Cherub Club Meeting hosted by The Super Crowd, Inc., a public benefit corporation, on July 15, 2025, at 1:00 PM Eastern. Each month, the Club meets to review new offerings for investment consideration and to conduct due diligence on previously screened deals. To join the Impact Cherub Club, become an Impact Member of the SuperCrowd.

  • SuperCrowdHour, July 16, 2025, at 1:00 PM Eastern. Devin Thorpe, CEO and Founder of The Super Crowd, Inc., will lead a session on “Balance Sheets & Beyond: The Impact Investor’s Guide to Financials.” If terms like “income statement” and “cash flow” make your eyes glaze over, this session is for you. Devin will break down the fundamentals of financial statements in clear, simple language—perfect for beginners who want to better understand the numbers behind the businesses they support. Whether you’re a new investor, a founder navigating financials, or simply curious about how Money moves through mission-driven companies, you’ll leave this session more confident and informed. Don’t miss it!

  • SuperCrowd25, August 21st and 22nd: This two-day virtual event is an annual tradition but with big upgrades for 2025! We’ll be Streaming live across the web and on TV via e360tv. Soon, we’ll open a process for nominating speakers. Check back!

Community Event Calendar

Call for community action:

  • Please show your support for a tax credit for investments made via Regulation Crowdfunding, benefiting both the investors and the Small Businesses that receive the investments. Learn more here.


If you would like to submit an event for us to share with the 9,000+ members of the SuperCrowd, click here.


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Originally Published on https://www.superpowers4good.com/

Devin Thorpe Champion of Social Good

Devin is the CEO of The Super Crowd, Inc., a public benefit corporation helping diverse founders and social entrepreneurs raise capital via impact crowdfunding. He is also a bestselling author who calls himself a champion of social good. His most recent book, How to Make Money with Impact Crowdfunding, is an investment guide for everyone. He has produced about 1,500 episodes of his show featuring luminary change agents, including Bill Gates. His books—read over 1 million times—help people do more good. He has helped nonprofits raise millions of dollars via crowdfunding. He draws on his experience as an investment banker, CFO, treasurer and U.S. Senate staffer. He earned an MBA at Cornell. Frequently finding himself on airplanes, Devin is grateful to be middle-seat-sized.

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