Venture Capital Investing

Our Render Capital portfolio company GoWild is a free social media community and gear platform for outdoor enthusiasts. In this portfolio feature, we get to learn more about the origin of GoWild, the impact they’re hoping to make, and what excites them about the future. Tell us a little bit about GoWild. Why do you exist? What is your story? GoWild was founded out of necessity. In 2016, I saw how Silicon Valley’s mainstream social media was ignoring the harassment of hunters and anglers after being attacked for hunting on my own Facebook profile. The combination…

Machine learning has been embedded in modern day technologies for years, but the acceleration of artificial intelligence thanks to platforms like OpenAI has enabled a new rate of utilization across numerous industries. In addition to his pioneering venture capital career, PORTAL’s founder and Managing Partner, Peter Loukianoff, had previously co-founded…

Generally if a founder has outsourced their venture capital fundraising efforts to someone else many investors can find this a red flag. This is in reference to early stage companies (pre-seed to Series A) in the Australian ecosystem. Why is it a red flag having someone front investors on your behalf? Investment is in the founder: Investors at the early stage are investing…

UV LPs, Welcome to our Q2 2023 update. As a reminder, at Unpopular Ventures we focus on “the best companies, off the beaten path.” We invest in exceptional founders who are building high potential businesses, that are non-consensus in some way. To help us find great opportunities around the world…

M25’s Managing Partner, Victor Gutwein, recaps his 2023 visit to the Pittburgh tech ecosystem. I love visiting Pittsburgh and it had been too long. I was primarily in town to visit the RustBuilt Investor Day during XchangeInnovation Week at the AlphaLab space in East Liberty. It was a really helpful…

ArcTern believes climate impact should be transparent and quantifiable, akin to financial reporting, necessitating a shift away from imprecise qualitative measures, such as the UN SDGs. …

During the pandemic, everyone was sure that geography was dead. Distance no longer mattered. Investors met and invested in founders through Zoom. It raised the question, why would it matter if an Israeli investor invested in a company in Tel Aviv or Mumbai? We thought it was the end of…

In January 2022 we started a series on our Twitter account called #VCVernacular, where each week we define (in our own words) a term commonly used in the world of venture capital. We’ve gathered all of the terms here to be a living, updateable glossary for those interested in learning…

Turning venture building into a public good. What is Puzzle Den? Well, that’s the puzzle ;) (But seriously…) Puzzle Den is a clubhouse born out of buildspace N&W Season 3 that offers venture building as a public good. Puzzle Den offers some of the stuff you’d expect at an incubator and accelerator like access…