LocalGlobe Notes

How this Direct Air Capture team addressed our traditional concerns for this category.

We are at the start of a massive healthcare wave, which will see the emphasis move from sick care to health care.

3D measurements of tree biomass using terrestrial lidar

In every bear market, there is a pressing, and somewhat valid, question posed by founders, investors, financial institutions — basically…

A second generation of category leaders is using technology to disrupt insurance in much subtler ways…

The concept of gig economy work has been around for decades driven by changes in technology and the increasing availability of high-speed…

Scaling companies is hard. Really hard. Many of these problems, like finding product market fit, hiring and raising capital are well…

For a traditional bank, a mass-market customer is worth $400–500 per year in revenue. An SME customer will typically generate two or three…

Africa now accounts for 70% of the world’s $1trn mobile money market, with mPesa — the mobile phone-based money transfer service and…

The financialisation of carbon — meaning its treatment as a priced liability or asset in a company’s balance sheet — is an ongoing…

The past decade has seen a huge shift in how we bank and transact. In the UK, challenger banks like Tide, Starling and Monzo now manage…

Ever since publishing The Climate Equation, and making our first investments in companies like Sylvera and Supercritical, the carbon…

Africa is booming. The continent is projected to have the fastest urban growth rate in the world, with Africa’s cities set to be home to an…

Three decades ago, Tim Berners-Lee created WorldWideWeb, the first public road to the internet. For the first time, text docs were linked…

Ask anyone who has grown up playing video games what their most profound memories are and certain game moments will likely make the cut…

We’re so excited to be backing Emilie Spire and Noala building a community & content SaaS-enabled marketplace for Speech Therapy.

Behind every great business lies some of the world’s greatest talent, who may now live anywhere and are looking to be compensated in a…

The last 24 months have seen the world retreat online. As countries locked up and as borders shut down, people found shelter on the…

Huge congrats to YuLife on raising $120M Series C, led by leading insurance company Dai-Ichi Life.

Our thesis, portfolio and ecosystem approach to funding the shift to a sustainable economy.

“Doing something that nobody else has done before is actually quite hard”

“Talent is equally distributed yet opportunities are not.”

We’re delighted to be leading Get Henry’s seed, building the picks and shovels of last mile delivery: from providing e-delivery vehicles…