Mike Edelhart

April 28, 2020

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Where We Are Investing Now: XR in Health

Mike Edelhart

April 28, 2020

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Where We Are Investing Now: XR in Health

Immersive experiences, and their ability to lift people from their typical reality, have proven powerful new tools for health.

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April 27, 2020

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COVID-19 Edition: Planning for Financial Resilience

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April 27, 2020

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COVID-19 Edition: Planning for Financial Resilience

CFO Anna King and sister fund Joyance Partners’ Venture Partner Julius Bachmann give startups actionable financial advice for weathering the COVID-19 crisis.

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March 24, 2020

COVID-19 Edition: Inception with Erika Mozes, Co-Founder of Hyr

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March 24, 2020

COVID-19 Edition: Inception with Erika Mozes, Co-Founder of Hyr

Managing Partner Mike Edelhart talks with Erika Mozes, Co-Founder of Hyr, a mobile app-based platform that allows merchants across the U.S. and Canada to instantly connect with skilled and experienced workers.

Mike Edelhart

March 17, 2020

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Where We Are Investing Now: Individual Robotics

Mike Edelhart

March 17, 2020

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Where We Are Investing Now: Individual Robotics

We see personal robotics as a dramatic method for bringing the power of new science closer to humans.

Mike Edelhart

March 16, 2020

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Where We Are Investing Now: Life Sciences, Part 2 - A Framework for Deep Science Startups

Mike Edelhart

March 16, 2020

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Where We Are Investing Now: Life Sciences, Part 2 - A Framework for Deep Science Startups

Any deep science company that rises to our challenge will be a remarkable entity and have the stuff of greatness within it.

Mike Edelhart

March 16, 2020

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Where We Are Investing Now: Life Sciences, Part 1

Mike Edelhart

March 16, 2020

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Where We Are Investing Now: Life Sciences, Part 1

Life sciences stand at the heart of our fund’s focus on individual health and happiness.

Mike Edelhart

March 10, 2020

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Where We Are Investing Now: Emergent Community

Mike Edelhart

March 10, 2020

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Where We Are Investing Now: Emergent Community

Where community can be tied to great products with great stories or to transformative science, magic can happen.

Mike Edelhart

February 19, 2020

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Where We Are Investing Now: Affordable Luxury and High Emotion Consumer Products

Mike Edelhart

February 19, 2020

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Where We Are Investing Now: Affordable Luxury and High Emotion Consumer Products

The Internet has disintermediated everything about consumer goods; from access to raw materials to direct communication with consumers.

Mike Edelhart

February 19, 2020

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Where We Are Investing Now: Market-Based Education

Mike Edelhart

February 19, 2020

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Where We Are Investing Now: Market-Based Education

For 2020, we’ll increase the attention we pay to professional development/up-training where the benefits are direct and the student is the payment target.

Mike Edelhart

February 12, 2020

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Where We Are Investing Now: Water

Mike Edelhart

February 12, 2020

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The need for innovation in this area is huge and urgent. We seek worldwide potential, not local, solutions.

Mike Edelhart

February 12, 2020

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Where We Are Investing Now: Next-Gen Food, Ingredients, and Beverages

Mike Edelhart

February 12, 2020

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Where We Are Investing Now: Next-Gen Food, Ingredients, and Beverages

We aren’t simply investing in the next fad snack. We’re looking for the new, the radical, the transformed, the scientific and health-impactful.

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January 7, 2020

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Inception with Mike Selden, CEO of Finless Foods

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January 7, 2020

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Inception with Mike Selden, CEO of Finless Foods

Managing Partner Mike Edelhart talks with Mike Selden, CEO of Finless Foods, bringing sustainable, delicious seafood to the world without having to farm or harvest live fish.

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December 23, 2019

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Inception with AJ Keller, CEO of Neurosity

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December 23, 2019

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Inception with AJ Keller, CEO of Neurosity

Managing Partner Mike Edelhart talks with AJ Keller, CEO of Neurosity, a company building computers controlled by thought.

Mike Edelhart

October 4, 2019

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Where We Are Investing Now: Esports and Digital News

Mike Edelhart

October 4, 2019

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Where We Are Investing Now: Esports and Digital News

Two major categories have emerged in which we are going to actively seek investment: Esports and Digital News.

Mike Edelhart

August 29, 2019

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Where We Are Investing Now: Next Gen Food and Drink

Mike Edelhart

August 29, 2019

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Where We Are Investing Now: Next Gen Food and Drink

Food and drink are not only digital products, but also new expressions of the emerging science of health and happiness.

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August 28, 2019

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Inception with Shiv Gaglani, CEO of Osmosis

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August 28, 2019

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Inception with Shiv Gaglani, CEO of Osmosis

Managing Partner Mike Edelhart talks with Shiv Gaglani, co-founder and CEO of Osmosis, a company that empowers the world's clinicians and caregivers with the best learning experience possible.

Mike Edelhart

August 13, 2019

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Where We Are Investing Now: Our Current View on Health and Happiness Science

Mike Edelhart

August 13, 2019

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Where We Are Investing Now: Our Current View on Health and Happiness Science

Our investments are now dominated by companies focusing on the emerging science of health and happiness, a shift dramatically in our and our investors’ interests.

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June 20, 2019

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Inception with Jared Feldman, CEO of Canvs

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June 20, 2019

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Inception with Jared Feldman, CEO of Canvs

Managing Partner Mike Edelhart talks with Jared Feldman, CEO of Canvs, the industry standard in emotion measurement.

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June 11, 2019

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Inception with Melanie Travis, CEO of Andie Swimwear

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June 11, 2019

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Inception with Melanie Travis, CEO of Andie Swimwear

Managing Partner Mike Edelhart talks with Melanie Travis, CEO of Andie Swimwear, an innovative and thoughtful swimwear brand made for women, by women.

Jourdan Urbach

June 11, 2019

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Seven Minute Diligence

Jourdan Urbach

June 11, 2019

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The world we live in has a surfeit of dealflow.