Big kudos to the orgasitation! The chance of an irrelevant encounter at this conference was the lowest I’ve ever seen! Well done on curating such a target audience for this conference! Fun facts 👯 Climate tech does seem the gender-balanced end of tech! 🧥 Even for the high VC-bro standards, Patagonia was…

TL;DR: The Electric Car Scheme is a corporate benefit where employees can save 30 to 60% on an EV through a salary sacrifice scheme. …

It’s not the first thing that founders get asked, but it can make or break, founders and companies. Here we look at why ownership really matters, and why every founder needs be well versed. We’ve talked to co-investors, lawyers, and taken a hard look our own investments, to help founders navigate the shenanigans of ownership. — WHY IS FOUNDER OWNERSHIP IMPORTANT? Early signs of trouble. Excessive founder dilution is a sign of trouble. Either the business has gone through some pivots and some bumpy roads requiring further funding. Or the founder wasn’t fully up to speed with how fundraising economics work before embarking on the VC…

Inspired by another VC who shared more broadly her passions beyond tech and finance, I thought about shamelessly tying together the best non-work moments of 2021 in pictures — a hint of who I am beyond work. Putting this together felt odd to my Instagram-excluded self. I’m not on social…

We hardly ever hear someone questioning how accurate a given business’ revenue figure is — so why do we do so in carbon accounting all the time? In this article, we break down the tech stack that can either improve or compound carbon measurement error. …

Healthcare has been left, right and centre in our lives for the past 2 years. Cutting through the noise of case numbers and health politics, two points have been worth noting in the tech world. 1) Investors are flocking into the space — the healthcare industry vertical saw the greatest…

(thanks Sofia Queiroz for the heavy editorial hand with this mapping work) It is widely accepted that we have a mental health problem, and it is no coincidence that VCs have invested 1.7x more dollars into European mental health start-ups in 2020 than in 2019. This preliminary data for the…

The hope is that we are all going to live longer, yet it is not at all clear people are living better longer. Empirically speaking, Eurostat measures the number of healthy life years at the age of 65, which increased 1.6 years to about 10 years between 2005 and 2018…