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Zoe Schlag

Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Common Trust | Employee Ownership Trusts, Perpetual Purpose Trusts and Mission-Aligned Exit Strategies

United States

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $0.00
  • Max Investment:

    $0.00
  • Target Investment:

    $120,000.00

Work Experience

  • Co-Founder and Managing Partner

    2022

    Common Trust is an employee ownership buyout platform that enables small business owners to access liquidity by exiting to their employees. Working directly with selling owners, management teams and investors, Common Trust helps business owners design, finance and execute an employee ownership buyout using a customized purpose trust.

  • Executive Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing

    2024

  • Board Member

    2020

    Less stress, more joy. JUST is a nonprofit financial platform working to create generational wealth by investing in ambitious Texas women excluded from economic opportunity through capital, peer coaching & community. ​+$8M lent, 99.3% repayment rate, 800+ entrepreneurs served to date.

  • Board Observer

    2019

    Building Africa's largest network of physical and virtual diagnostic and primary care facilities to provide convenient, high-quality, and affordable healthcare for the continent's next billion, MDaaS is the fastest growing network of diagnostic facilities in Nigeria.

  • Board Member

    2021

    Bringing science and technology education into the 21st century with an e-learning platform that combines online courses with hands-on projects. It’s education that’s fun, engaging and more effective than traditional teaching methods.

2020 - 2022

  • Entrepreneur in Residence

    2020 - 2022

    Designed and led Schmidt Futures' Shared Ownership investment strategy, including investments in the Childcare Access Real Estate Investment Trust, Trust Neighborhoods, the Dearfield Fund for Black Wealth, Folks Capital, Obran Cooperative, and others.

2019 - 2020

  • Board Member

    2019 - 2020

    A better background check for the 1 in 3 Americans living with a criminal history to unlock banking, employment, housing and educational opportunities.

2017 - 2019

  • Managing Director

    2017 - 2019

    Leading Techstars Impact, investing in for-profit, mission-driven founders building technologies to solve our most pressing social and environmental problems.

2014 - 2018

  • Founder & CEO

    2014 - 2018

    At UnLtd USA we back entrepreneurs tackling our most pressing social and environmental challenges. In 2017, UnLtd USA joined forces with Techstars to launch Techstars Impact.

2014 - 2017

  • Global Shaper

    2014 - 2017