Stak Mobility & Energy is delivering a solution to an urban density crisis. By 2050, 70% of the world’s population will live in cities, driving power consumption up by over 50 percent. Parking in those cities, already at a premium, will become even more difficult to deliver. Stak's response: apply a proven human solution—vertical scaling—to mobility and energy. It is on display in Enso Village, a development in Healdsburg, California. Stak has installed an automated "carbarn" concept for its automated parking display system. Stak's structure at Enso Village stands in a 100-foot by 40-foot footprint. It can park and charge up to 108 vehicles; creating an efficiency of 35 square feet/vehicle compared to 300 square feet/vehicle for a typical parking structure. Stake eliminates the compromise between housing people and parking cars by delivering greater land-use efficiency and accessible clean transportation infrastructure driven by real-time data and dynamic energy consumption. Stak is already live in six markets, managing 5,000 automated transactions and 2MW of charging monthly. It is also pairing with battery storage and renewable energy to turn parking lots into virtual power plants (VPPs). With a $250M pipeline, Stak is rapidly scaling to realize its vision of deploying a clean transportation infrastructure and energy network at municipal scale while catalyzing the transition to sustainable cities.

Atlanta-based Hello Package, a Brown and White Ventures portfolio company, has been named one of the Top 40 Most Innovative Companies in the state of Georgia, by the Technology Association of Georgia! Hello Package demonstrated this through its commitment to logistics and security in package delivery. One sector where its operational excellence shines is in HOA communities, which deal with the same package challenges that multifamily properties have been navigating for years. Those challenges include: theft claims, missing deliveries, and HOA staff spending hours every week on something that should run itself. It's led to package issues finding their way onto board meeting agendas alongside landscaping and budgets. The HelloPackage Modular Package Room is one of the solutions the company's developed to respond to HOA package delivery challenges. A standalone, climate-controlled unit, Hello Package's Modular Package room can be placed anywhere on a property, requires no major construction, and is ready in as little as 30 days. Communities like Old Edwards Reserve at Lake Keowee in Sunset, SC have already made the switch and their residents have not had to chase down a package since. More than 100 million packages were stolen in the US in 2025. For multifamily and HOA communities, that shows up as theft claims, resident complaints, and liability that nobody signed up for. Every HelloPackage room starts with PIN-controlled entry. Residents and delivery drivers each have their own unique access code, meaning only authorized people can walk through that door. Every entry and exit is logged automatically, so there is always a clear record of who was in the room and when.

Performance and production get your name called in the NFL Draft. The same goes for Buffalo Startup Week's first Startup Draft, which called out Brown and White Ventures portfolio company wellconnected among the first to be recognized as a new company that can deliver. Series (B)uffalo's first annual draft brought Buffalo Bills legend Eric Woods to the stage to help host Startup Week's first-ever rendition of the pro football spectacle, that just happened to be kicking off hours later in Pittsburgh. Woods called out wellconnected and hosted founder and CEO Duane Conners because of its cutting edge solutions in social care and creative use of data to improve community safety nets for a community's most vulnerable. Conners reports wellconnected is poised to double its revenue again this year. Through its primary platform allco, wellconnected has moved beyond Western New York to New Jersey, West Virginia and Chicago. It's preparing to enter other major U.S. regions. As the first centralized social care platform built to streamline workflow processes for CBOs, allco, features: shared digital intake system, shared referral system, integrated resource directory, cross-org communication, real-time status updates and better data and insights. wellconnected standardizes intake, case management, data collection and referrals. By placing many different nonprofits, from food banks to housing assistance to behavioral health clinics and more – into one standardized system, ‘allco’ turns inefficient ad hoc networks into engines of true collaboration.