Taylor McLemore

Founder

2023 - Current

Come to the Human Potential Summit to help build the future of work and learning. Collaborate with employers, educators, innovators, startups, investors, non profits, foundations, government representatives and policymakers who are working to build a better future. https://www.humanpotentialsummit.co/

Founder & Managing Partner

2023

We unlock human potential through work and learning. Human Potential Capital elevates entrepreneurs to catalyze economic mobility and meaningful careers for all. humanpotentialcapital.com

Committee Vice Chair, Governance Committee

2024

Committee Vice Chair, Executive Committee

2024

Vice Chair of the Board

2024

Board Trustee

2021

Colorado PERA provides retirement and other benefits to more than 660,000 current and former teachers, State Troopers, snowplow drivers, corrections officers, and other public employees who provide valuable services to all of Colorado. Member of the Investment Committee and Audit Committee. Previously served on the Benefits Committee.

Committee Chair, Executive Director Search Committee

2023 - 2024

Audit Committee Member

2022 - 2024

Investment Committee Member

2021 - 2024

Benefits Committee Member

2021 - 2022

Entrepreneur In Residence / Investor In Residence - Techstars Workforce Development Accelerator

2023

Investor in Residence - Techstars Economic Mobility Powered by Samvid Ventures

2023

This program is for talented entrepreneurs designing solutions that generate greater economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Americans, in areas including technical and skill-based education, financial inclusion, and economic resilience. https://www.techstars.com/accelerators/economic-mobility-samvid-ventures

Member - Techstars Responsible Investment Advisory Committee

2022 - 2023

Managing Director - Techstars Workforce Development Accelerator

2020 - 2023

Investing in startups and supporting founders enabling human potential through work and economic mobility. EdTech, workforce development, finance and funding innovation, to future of work. Techstars Workforce Development Accelerator 2022-2023 Class Investments: - Access Mode (accessmode.org)* - The AI Education Project (aiedu.org/)* - EmpiricaLab (empiricalab.com) - Escalate (escalateusa.com) - Everprep (everprep.com) - Gritly (gritly.us) - LivedX (livedx.com) - Metta Space (metta-space.com) - MFGWorx (mfgworx.com) - Recruiting Innovation (recruitinginnovation.com) - Skylyte (skylyte.com) - Spatial Guide (spatial.guide) - Tapestree (gettapestree.com) - VirgilHR (virgilhr.com) Techstars Workforce Development Accelerator 2021-2022 Class Investments: - Chamba (lachamba.app) - Clusiv (clusiv.io) - Divercity (divercity.io) - Hireguide (hireguide.com) - Ion Learning (ionlearning.com) - Juntos2College (juntos2college.com)* - PeduL (pedul.com) - PitchMe (pitchme.co) - Roleshare (roleshare.com) - ShiftUp (shiftup.tech) - Transition (jointransition.com) - Watson Institute (watson.is)* Techstars Workforce Development Accelerator 2020-2021 Class Investments: - AdvanceEDU (myadvanceedu.org)* - Grasshopper Kids (grasshopperkids.com) - FutureFit AI (futurefit.ai) - Grit (grit.bet) - Honest Jobs (honestjobs.co) - Increment (joinincrement.com) - International Scientific Advisor (joinisa.io) - Mentor Spaces (mentorspaces.com) - Talk Hiring (talkhiring.com) - Tassel (tasselsoftware.com) - TiLT (ourtilt.com) - Turing School (turing.io)* Grateful to support founders with co-investors that include: Firework Ventures, Rethink Education, Strada, AmFam Institute, TMV, Blackhorn Ventures, The Social Entrepreneurs Fund, ECMC, Portfolia, Matchstick Ventures, Colorado Impact Fund, eonCapital, Sofia Fund, Rockies Venture Club, Service Provider Capital, Stanford GSB Impact Fund, Plug and Play, Forward VC, The Fund, WGU, 550 Capital * Nonprofit organizations in classes

Futures Fellow

2024

"Reimagining the future for prosperity across the life course" The nation’s evolving human-capital needs will oblige our society to support longer working lives, multiple career transitions, and continual renewal of skills. Yet the basic institutional architectures of schooling, work and family that we inherit from the twentieth century remain organized on the notion that education and learning trail off with the end of childhood. This is a significant disservice to the quality of individual lives and the nation’s economic and civic vitality. The Stanford Center on Longevity has appointed a group of Future Fellows to convene and develop a framework for building education and learning opportunities, enabling people to navigate change and prosper throughout their adult lives. This is a joint venture of Stanford’s Center on Longevity and Center for Advanced Research in the Behavioral Sciences. The Project assembles a plurality of talent from academia, venture capital, philanthropy and the civil sector to imagine a new ecology for developing human potential across century-long lives. https://longevity.stanford.edu/education-learning/

CEO Coach & Advisor

2023

Co-Founder

2019

Board Member

2022 - 2024

Founding Co-Chair, National Veterans Entrepreneurship Council

2022

Authored the charter for this new body in collaboration with founding council members and DAV leadership.

Board Observer

2021 - 2024

Entrepreneur in Residence

2022 - 2023