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Impact: the new toolbox for product managers that want to win

Impact: the new toolbox for product managers that want to win

“Could it be that product design that incorporates impact makes better products?” This topic formed the backbone of a recent presentation

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Cristina Almeida
How a data-driven approach improved how we source great impact ideas

How a data-driven approach improved how we source great impact ideas

In MSM, we invested in 37 companies in the past 3.5 years, putting the average at one investment per month. To invest in these 37

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Sofia Queiroz
Can the world of fashion reveal the next big winner in food?

Can the world of fashion reveal the next big winner in food?

Food for thought — trending in fashion meets foodie disruption.
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Tobias R-D
Building insights on a boring topic: does founder reporting predict venture performance?

Building insights on a boring topic: does founder reporting predict venture performance?

MSM is an early-stage venture capital impact fund that invests in companies addressing social and environmental challenges. We invested in

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Antonio Miguel
Applying a product mindset to test VC platform initiatives

Applying a product mindset to test VC platform initiatives

Our platform team has been testing our venture capital platform initiatives with product tools such as the opportunity solution tree

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Cristina Almeida
How we built a VC platform to serve impact founders across Europe — part 2 of 2

How we built a VC platform to serve impact founders across Europe — part 2 of 2

This article is the second of two posts for VC platform managers and investors, explaining how we are building a platform to deliver

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Cristina Almeida
How we built a VC platform to serve impact founders across Europe — part 1 of 2

How we built a VC platform to serve impact founders across Europe — part 1 of 2

The first of two posts for VC platform managers and investors, on how we build a platform to deliver bolder social and environmental

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Cristina Almeida
A sneak peek into the MSM investment process — what founders can expect from us

A sneak peek into the MSM investment process — what founders can expect from us

One of the most common questions we get asked in an initial call with founders is how our investment process works. Fundraising is one of

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Sofia Queiroz
Meet our Venture Partner: Tessa Clarke

Meet our Venture Partner: Tessa Clarke

Tessa is the co-Founder & CEO of OLIO, a free app tackling the problem of waste in the home & local community. When not building OLIO

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Cristina Almeida
An understated obsession — why founder ownership matters so much to venture capital

An understated obsession — why founder ownership matters so much to venture capital

It’s not the first thing that founders get asked, but it is something makes or breaks, founders and companies. Here we look at why

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Manuel Antunes
Unbundling the truth in carbon measurement

Unbundling the truth in carbon measurement

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

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Manuel Antunes
Putting your money where your mouth is — impact incentives for fund managers

Putting your money where your mouth is — impact incentives for fund managers

Incentives are everywhere and dictate our behaviour, as individuals and as organisations. The energy transition that we are currently

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Antonio Miguel
The pursuit of happiness — do mental health start-ups help us?

The pursuit of happiness — do mental health start-ups help us?

Everyone agrees that we have a mental health problem. And when we say mental health problem, we broadly mean that more people are less

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Henry Wigan
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