Today was the end of a big week. We launched our inaugural 2020/2021 Impact Report at Artesian after 9 months of writing and planning.
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As the climate crisis accelerates, unfortunately, so too does gender equality, widening the gap between men and women in many parts of the globe. As we recognize environmental degradation we must also consider gender equality in all forms and tackle these two issues together.
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My thoughts on how the Venture Capital (VC) industry has traditionally trailed behind other asset classes in the adoption of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) practices despite a growing body of evidence pointing to the materiality of ESG factors in assessing risk and opportunity at the early stage.
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I was invited to speak at the Women Advisor Summit 2020 (hosted by Investment News) alongside my good friend, Esther Pan Sloane from UNCDF. Here is a summary of my presentation including frameworks, guidelines, and principles - plus some useful tools and resources to help when assessing or constructing an impact investment thesis/theory of change.
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I was asked to comment on the impact of the coronavirus on the startup & VC industry in the US by my Aussie colleagues back home so I thought it might be helpful to others to repost my email here (A re-post from LinkedIn).
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I really struggled to write this post for fear of how it would be received and therefore how it would make me look. At the end of the day, it was this quote from Neil Gaiman's University of the Arts commencement speech that convinced me to push on.
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Last week, a Partner and I sat down with one of our portfolio companies for some good old pitch deck 'surgery'. The founder was having trouble distilling the complex 25 slides down into the recommended 10. Here is the toolkit I wish I had when I was pulling my own deck together.
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For many tech startups, a PR strategy can deliver good outcomes at a relatively low cost. (Got a friend in the PR business to help me co-write this guide around structuring a press release).
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Climate change presents a diverse range of crucial challenges, often existential in nature, for people and places around the world. Increasingly, early-stage businesses and innovators are turning their attention to solving or managing these fundamental global problems.
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