Look mom, we’re in TechCrunch! — Troop (that’s us) has raised a $4.3 million seed round, bringing our total funding to-date to $6.1 million. The latest round was co-led by Northzone and BlockTower Capital, with participation from new and existing investors. Needless to say, we’re pretty hyped. Troop is a one-of-a-kind community platform for shareholder activism…

New York City public employees are using their retirement funds to defend unions. — The shareholder activism movement isn’t just growing, it’s innovating. New types of proposals, coalitions and tactics emerge as investors grow ever-more creative at leveraging their rights to shape companies for good. Stay in the know with our trend-watching column: Bullish. Last month, investors submitted proposals demanding audits of workers’ rights…

Breaking down the SEC’s big moves on climate transparency, universal proxy cards and shareholder proposals. — When’s the last time you read a terms and conditions agreement? No judgment. Keeping up with rules is hard — especially in finance. People get paid to know that stuff. …

Tracking the latest moves from the activist meme stock king. — Ahoy, mateys. Welcome aboard Whale Watch, where Troop echolocates and analyzes the movements of A-list activist investors with the most capital and influence: management firms, hedge funds, CEOs, and other big fish rocking shareholder boats across the seven seas. On our radar this round: memelord Ryan Cohen. Whale: Ryan Cohen Co-Founder, Chewy; Chairman…

What shareholder activists should know about Washington’s biggest climate investment ever. — ICYMI, Congress just passed what’s being called the largest federal investment addressing climate change in American history. The bill’s uninspired (and slightly misleading) name, which you probably saw bouncing around your feeds, is the Inflation Reduction Act. President Biden signed it into law last Tuesday.

A handy primer on the most important votes at Tesla’s 2022 annual meeting. — Tesla’s annual stockholder meeting — *airhorn sounds* — goes down on August 4. This is the one time each year that regular shareholders have direct say on how the company operates, by way of the proxy statement, a.k.a. …

Last month, Troop opened doors to our first wave of Alpha Test participants, welcoming 30 of our closest friends and family to test out prototypes of the web app we’re building. — Methodology: Participants were invited to 1) connect their brokerage accounts through a guided onboarding flow, 2) view their personal portfolio holdings, and 3) vote on some shareholder resolutions. Following their session, we asked participants to share feedback through a survey that was broken out based on the criteria below.

…According to Fast Company — What happened? Fast Company announced its 2022 World Changing Ideas Awards today, and we’re excited to share that we made the list! “As a company dedicated to empowering retail shareholders to exercise their collective power over publicly traded companies, and to hold them accountable towards better stewardship of the planet and society…

We wrote the SEC a letter to find out — Have you ever wondered what a CEO does to merit an annual salary upwards of $500K? Well the SEC has, and they want to make that information easily accessible to you. Today, we’re here to talk about the topic of pay-versus-performance, a ruling proposed by the SEC that would require companies to disclose information defining the relationship between a company’s executive pay and the company’s performance.