Business Growth. Positive Impact.
Partnership Strategy
Impact Growth & Story Telling
Pilot and Market Development
Right partners. Right story. Right path to growth.
Pilot and Market Development
Impact Growth & Story Telling
Pilot and Market Development
Turning promising ideas into fundable pilots and market opportunities
Impact Growth & Story Telling
Impact Growth & Story Telling
Impact Growth & Story Telling
Helping leaders communicate value to customers, funders, and partners.
Led by Ed Martin
MISSION - To build ventures and partnerships where profit, purpose, and human potential reinforce each other.
Light One Ventures exists to help leaders create growth that is not only successful - but significant
Our Team
Led by Ed Martin, LightOne Ventures brings senior experience across Fortune 500 companies, private equity, cause marketing, brand partnerships, and global impact initiatives - Ed has helped companies, investors, nonprofits, and other leaders across many sectors to drive business success while addressing major challenges from hunger, poverty, education and peace
What We Do
Light One Ventures helps organizations move ideas into action through
- Partnership Strategy - Building the right cross-sector alliances
- Go-to-Market Support - Helping ventures, causes, and platforms reach brands, investors, and communities
- Pilot Design - Creating focused pilots that can attract funding, prove value, and scale
- Brand & Impact Storytelling - Turning good work into a story that partners, customers, and funders understanding
Active Platforms. Real Impact
100 Billion Meals - Hunger Relief At Scale
Omniwin Impact Foundation - Partnerships Where Everyone Wins
Mobilizing leaders, brands, donors, and communities to help address hunger and food security
Omniwin Impact Foundation - Partnerships Where Everyone Wins
Omniwin Impact Foundation - Partnerships Where Everyone Wins
Creating models where business growth, social impact, workforce development, and community outcomes reinforce each other
Street Child United - Sport For Global Youth Impact
Using global sports platforms to elevate young people facing poverty, homelessness and exclusion
Brand Innovators - Access to Senior Brand Leaders
Brain Health and Mental Resilience - Innovation for Human Wellbeing
Connecting purpose-driven ideas with a global community of senior marketers, brand leaders, and growth parters
Work Force & Education - Talent, Skills, and Opportunity
Brain Health and Mental Resilience - Innovation for Human Wellbeing
Brain Health and Mental Resilience - Innovation for Human Wellbeing
Building partnerships that connect companies with overlooked talent, and meaningful career pathways for employees and team members
Brain Health and Mental Resilience - Innovation for Human Wellbeing
Brain Health and Mental Resilience - Innovation for Human Wellbeing
Brain Health and Mental Resilience - Innovation for Human Wellbeing
Advancing early intervention, prevention, and translational partnerships across brain health, mental wellness and longevity
Ways to Work With LightOne Ventures
LightOne Ventures works with companies, investors, nonprofits, foundations, and growth-staged ventures through focused sprints, ongoing advisory relationships, and performance-aligned partnerships.
1. Strategic Research
A focused research engagement to clarify the opportunity, sharpen the story, identify the priority partners, and build a practical path to funding, pilots and growth
2. Fractional Partnership Leadership
Ongoing senior-level support for CEOs. founders, funds, nonprofits, and foundations that need partnership strategy, business development, pilot creation, and market access without hiring a full time executive
3. Venture & Performance-Aligned Partnerships
For select ventures, LightOne Ventures may structure engagements that include a monthly retainer plus success-based upside, revenue, participation, or equity tied to value creation. Engagements are customized based on scope, strategic fit, and value creation potential