Vanessa BartramA Foodtech Investor’s Takeaways from the Plant-Based BustPlant-based meat received a deluge of negative press in the last quarter. While the hardest-hitting articles focus on Beyond and…Mar 24, 2023Mar 24, 2023
Vanessa BartramSending Gifts Made Out of Thin AirIn Israel, it’s customary to send gifts to friends and colleagues to celebrate Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year. So what to gift our LPs…Oct 21, 2022Oct 21, 2022
Vanessa BartramSeed Stage Slump: Why Israel Will Pick Up the SlackFred Wilson, the much-revered NYC-based venture capitalist has written much on the “early stage slump” as fewer and fewer investors are…Feb 17, 2019Feb 17, 2019
Vanessa BartramAs impact investors, we are constantly scanning deal flow to identify companies with exceptional…But how to define which ‘problems to solve’ are worth working on? And how impactful does a company need to be before we’ll seriously…Jan 25, 2019Jan 25, 2019
Vanessa BartramOn becoming a better human (and investor) in 5779A rabbi, a hedge fund manager and a sailor walk into a bar.Oct 30, 2018Oct 30, 2018
Vanessa BartramWhere Are the Women?Our blind spots as professionals, leaders and individuals emanate from a number of sources, perhaps the most pernicious among them being…Feb 22, 2018Feb 22, 2018
Vanessa BartramWhy I’m (Impact) Investing in TreesLast winter, PlanetWatchers approached me to invest in forests. Not exactly in forests per se, but rather in the company’s Saas solution to…Jan 21, 2018Jan 21, 2018
Vanessa BartramA Love Letter to Lisa Kleissner. In Bullet Points.“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes…Feb 10, 2017Feb 10, 2017
Vanessa BartramImpact Investing in Israel. Yes, It’s a Thing.My mother asks me on a near weekly basis what exactly it is I do for a living. The inevitable follow-up question is when, preferably in…Feb 10, 2017Feb 10, 2017