Startups
Sage and its partner Village Capital awarded six grants totalling $170,000 to select startups from the ‘Sage Impact Entrepreneurship Program’, powered by Sage Foundation. The grants were awarded at the Sage Impact Entrepreneurship Summit, a two-day event of learning and networking for the Core Cohort of the programme, which ran in Atlanta, USA, from 4-5th June 2025.
Two founders on a joint endeavour, sharing one vision; Apheros is a product of the innovative and entrepreneurial minds of Gaëlle Andreatta, and Julia Carpenter, Co-Founders and CEOs, who, alongside their team, are dead set on becoming the catalyst behind the transition to a sustainable future through materials innovation.
All the way back in our 2023 May/June issue, we had the pleasure to speak with CEO & Founder Nickolai Vysokov about his company, BrainPatch, who is pioneering an e-meditation device which delivers meditative, quickly calming, and stress-relieving sensations via small, non-invasive electrical currents to the brain.
In the UK alone, millions of survivors of domestic abuse are left without the mental health support they urgently need. Long NHS waitlists, high return rates to crisis services, and a lack of trauma-informed resources leave survivors in limbo – often retraumatised by the very systems meant to help them heal.















