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During the recent Boston Tech Week, God was on the agenda.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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At \u201cFaith-Driven Investors & Founders,\u201d a meet-and-greet tailored for Christian businesspeople, the proceedings began with a reading from the New Testament and a word of prayer \u2014 not your typical kickoff for an event aimed at tech entrepreneurs.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe objective is for people to encounter Jesus,\u201d said venture capitalist Shane Ray Martin, who has organized similar meetings at Tech Week New York, with another scheduled this fall in San Francisco. \u201cSome people, especially Gen Z, might be hesitant to walk into a church, but they\u2019ll definitely come to a Tech Week event.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Martin said that working in tech \u201ccan be exhausting and isolating\u2026there is also a lot of loneliness associated with working in tech. Jesus offers the opposite. He offers comfort and forgiveness and openness and love.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

What about the usual shaking of hands and swapping of business cards that happen when entrepreneurs and investors meet? \u201cThese are what we\u2019re doing with our lives, but they\u2019re not our identity,\u201d Martin said. \u201cOur identity is in Christ, not in the software that we develop.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

It isn\u2019t your standard tech conference elevator pitch, but 40 or so startup founders and venture investors turned out for the Boston event, people who insist on taking their Christian faith at least as seriously as their balance sheets.<\/span><\/p>\n

And there\u2019s no contradiction in that, said one of the guests, Katherine Arline, founder of Simplicia Labs, a drug discovery startup. In fact, Arline thinks her conversion to Roman Catholicism has given her an almost unfair advantage in launching a business.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFaith-based entrepreneurship is a cheat code,\u201d she said. \u201cFaith reminds us that it\u2019s no different from the rest of life. Nothing is guaranteed, nothing is certain. \u2026 As entrepreneurs with faith, we have the opportunity to choose to take bigger leaps of faith and to rely more on our God.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t just a Boston Tech Week thing. Even in Silicon Valley, there\u2019s a new openness to the idea of bringing your religion to work. An article in Vanity Fair last year noted that until recently \u201cChristians were effectively in hiding\u201d in California\u2019s high-tech haven. But the rising influence of believers such as Peter Thiel, cofounder of software company Palantir and ally of President Trump, has given Christians in tech a new sense of confidence.<\/span><\/p>\n

Even so, it\u2019s not all smooth sailing. Ankur Tyagi isn\u2019t going out of his way to proclaim the gospel. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like the social permission isn\u2019t there,\u201d said Tyagi, a partner in OnlyExit, a Seattle \u201chacker house\u201d that helps laid-off tech workers launch new companies. \u201cYou can feel judged for showing your faith openly or discussing it.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

One possible reason is the hyper-politicization of evangelical Christianity, and its almost symbiotic union with the policies of President Trump. But there\u2019s no hint of politics at the Boston gathering. The guests are here to praise God, munch on Chick-fil-A breakfast treats, and talk business. Nothing else.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not living my life based on a political view of a particular candidate who doesn\u2019t really even know me or probably doesn\u2019t care too much about me anyway,\u201d said Martin. \u201cBut God does, forever.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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The meeting happened at Sattler College, a religious school that operates on the 17th floor of a skyscraper that towers over Beacon Hill. Named for a 16th Century Protestant martyr, Sattler charges no tuition. It offers degrees in biblical studies, history, computer science, human biology, and business. <\/span><\/p>\n

Sattler\u2019s founder and adjunct biology professor is Finny Kuruvilla, former resident physician at Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital and Children\u2019s Hospital, and co-founder of Eventide Funds, a socially-responsible investment firm guided by explicitly Christian principles.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOur tagline at Eventide is \u2018Investing that makes the world rejoice,\u2019\u201d Kuruvilla said, \u201dwhich comes from a verse in Proverbs that says, \u2018When the righteous prospers, the city rejoices.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Eventide finds a righteous pathway to profit by rejecting investments in what it sees as morally problematic companies \u2014 any involvement in abortion, alcohol, tobacco, pornography, or gambling. For instance, Eventide won\u2019t put its clients\u2019 money into Google, because the company\u2019s search engine makes it easy to find pornographic videos.<\/span><\/p>\n

Drawing such ethical lines has always been a challenge for believers.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis has been going on since Jesus walked the earth,\u201d said Sheryl Sleeva, director of the Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership at Gordon College, an evangelical Christian school in Wenham.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe call it vocational formation,\u201d said Sleeva. \u201cHow are you going to do this well? How are you going to do this ethically? How are you going to do it to help others?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Martin thinks he\u2019s found the answer as a partner at B Ventures Group, a Newton-based fund that invests exclusively what it calls \u201cpeace tech\u201d \u2014 companies that make products designed to reduce conflict between people and nations.<\/span><\/p>\n

For instance, B Ventures has invested in CulturePulse, a company that generates predictive models of likely behaviors among large groups of people \u2014 the residents of a city, for instance. The idea is to predict potential crises so governments can respond before they burst into violence.<\/span><\/p>\n

For Martin and the others at the Tech Week gathering, a good business doesn\u2019t need to include a crucifix in the logo or a Bible verse in the motto. It just has to provide a honorable products or services, while doing business in accordance with Christian principles. And Christians need to know that they can do good by doing well in business.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe point is to help Christians to think about their faith beyond Sunday, and how to love people engaged within the marketplace,\u201d said Kyle Keldsen, who chairs the New England branch of C12, an worldwide online forum for Christian businesspeople. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFor years, you\u2019ve had the conversations about bridging your whole self to work,\u201d Keldsen said. \u201cPeople of faith haven\u2019t always felt like they can do that.\u201d But judging by the Boston Tech Week turnout, this is finally starting to change.<\/span><\/p>\n

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