| Date | Title | Description |
| 16.08.2023 | The Investment Potential of Personalized Psychedelics | Photo by Victoria Rain
Our funds focus on the apex of health and happiness, so naturally, we are fascinated by the potential of psychedelics. By lifting mood, expanding brain-body interaction, deepening focus, and shifting one’s sense of s... |
| 16.08.2023 | Inception with Charlie Silver, CEO of Ruby Bio | Managing Partner Mike Edelhart talks with Charlie Silver, CEO of Ruby Bio, a company making sustainable, scaleable replacements for the harmful chemicals found in the products we use every day.
In this episode, Charlie shares how he and hi... |
| 16.08.2023 | Alba Health: A Microbiome Map for Your Baby’s Well-Being | Photo by Victoria Rain
Joyance Partners invests in companies that cultivate joy through science and tech to improve the way we live, for good. So naturally, we’re thrilled to announce our participation in Alba Health’s recent raise. Alba f... |
| 14.06.2023 | Why Joyance? A Win-Win Opportunity to Leverage Data Science for Good | I began at Stanford with the intention of achieving a Bachelor's Degree in Philosophy and a minor in Computer Science. Then, the pandemic hit, and a year before my original graduation date, I made a daring decision: the unsatisfying experie... |
| 26.05.2023 | Investing in Delightful Moments with Managing Partner Mike Edelhart on Builder Nation Podcast | In a recent interview, Builder Nation’s Elisa Munoz delved deep into Managing Partner Mike Edelhart’s 40+ years of experience to explore the core principles driving entrepreneurial success.
Here are a few of the highlights, including the i... |
| 12.05.2023 | Inception with Katy Cottam, CEO of Luna Daily | Managing Partner Mike Edelhart talks with CEO Katy Cottam about how Luna Daily makes microbiome-balancing, taboo-breaking body care for all skin, even the most intimate. In this episode, Katy shares how a life-altering health experience at ... |
| 12.05.2023 | 2023 Father’s Day Gift Guide to Health and Happiness
FITNESS
FOOD
DRINK
HOME
FASHION
BODYCARE
PARENTING | Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash
Want to give Dad the gift of joy? Surprise him with a unique and innovative offering from one of the remarkable companies in our portfolio.
Epicore Biosystems’ Gx Sweat Patch is a skin-like patch that ca... |
| 05.05.2023 | Where We Are Investing Now: Ground Breaking Beauty & Pioneering Personal Care | Photo by cottonbro studio
Consumers’ sense of what it means to “look good” keeps shifting, so naturally, the beauty industry must constantly evolve and adapt to fresh demands. This is abundantly true with the emergence of Gen Z, whose digi... |
| 01.05.2023 | Where We Are Investing Now: Forward-Thinking Food & Drink | Photo by Gustavo Fring
The global Food and Beverage market is huge, growing, and constantly changing. In 2022, the animal protein, snacks, and alcohol markets were valued at around $1.4T each, with coffee and tea at an impressive $650B. Fo... |
| 01.05.2023 | Inception with Amélie Quilichini, CEO of Kolibri | Managing Partner Mike Edelhart speaks with Amélie Quilichini, CEO of Kolibri, a company that plays music to cells to unlock the cell culture revolution.
In this episode, Amélie shares the ingenious way Kolibri uses acoustic waves to create... |
| 26.04.2023 | 50 Years of VC Culture - Are We Innovating Toward a Dead End? Or Is It A New Beginning? | From hand-cranked computers to touchpad screens, from “walking on the skulls of the dead” to building teams in virtual worlds, our oldest partner Mike Edelhart and youngest partner Jenna Jung discuss the difference 50 years have made in rev... |
| 19.04.2023 | Where We Are Investing Now: Transformative Techbio | Photo by Artem Podrez
As our Managing Partner’s mentor Bill Ziff used to say: “Language is truth.” In other words, the way we describe things actually alters the nature of the reality around us. Such is the case now in our perspective on d... |
| 18.04.2023 | Where We Are Investing Now - Life-Altering Alternative Materials | Photo by Polina Tankilevitch
Materials, both those derived from nature and human-created, are essential to products, packaging, technology, and transportation. Modern life isn’t possible without them.
Sadly, though, most of them are not h... |
| 14.04.2023 | Gift Mom the Gift of Joy! | Photo by Ketut Subiyanto
Want to give Mom the gift of joy? Surprise her with a unique and innovative offering from one of the remarkable companies in our portfolio.
Scent Lab takes hyper-personalized approach to finding Mom’s perfect frag... |
| 14.04.2023 | Inception with Lauren Picasso, CEO of Cure Hydration | Managing Partner Mike Edelhart talks with Lauren Picasso, CEO of Cure, a premium hydration brand with a science-backed formula, plant-based ingredients, no added sugar, and 4x the electrolytes of leading sports drinks.
In this episode, Lau... |
| 13.04.2023 | Where We Are Investing Now: Next-Gen Neurotech | Photo by Yan Krukau
In a world awash in stress, neurotech that lifts mood, diminishes anxiety, deepens positive behavior and otherwise benefits individuals is supremely important. Even so, in terms of investment, this category faces tough ... |
| 13.04.2023 | Inception with Sabina Bruehlmann, CEO of Nimble | Managing Partner Mike Edelhart talks with Sabina Bruehlmann, CEO of Nimble, a company transforming personalized health through actionable intelligence from the gut microbiome.
In this episode, Sabina shares how Nimble’s novel science unloc... |
| 12.04.2023 | Where We Are Investing Now: Pivotal Personal Health | Photo by Ketut Subiyanto
Personal health is, and long has been, big business.
The US healthcare expenditure reached $4.3 trillion in 2021 and is estimated to reach $6.2 trillion by 2028. The US spent nearly 16.8% GDP on healthcare in 2019... |
| 28.02.2023 | Moving Beyond The Unicorn | Photo credit: Cottonbro Studio
The time has come, I believe, to move beyond the unicorn.
Over recent decades, it has become common cant that the purpose of venture capital is to create unicorns. The more unicorns a fund has, the better it... |
| 27.02.2023 | Inception with Jamie McCroskery, CEO of Bluebird | Managing Partner Mike Edelhart talks with Jamie McCroskery, CEO of Bluebird, helping brands produce climate-friendly products and authentic sustainability stories about them.
In this episode, Jamie shares how living on a glacier in New Zea... |
| 17.02.2023 | Inception with Chris Bryson, CEO of New School Foods | Managing Partner Mike Edelhart talks with Chris Bryson, CEO of New School Foods, about creating whole-cut fish made entirely from plants that looks, cooks, flakes, and tastes just like wild salmon.
As the past founder of a successful e-com... |
| 17.02.2023 | Why We Invest in Women-Led Startups (Spoiler: It’s Not Because They’re Women) | Founders and investors are ringing in the new year with a sobering statistic: In 2022, 82.2% of VC funding capital went to startups without a single woman on the founding team.
Before I unpack this stat, spoiler alert: Joyance Partners, wh... |
| 28.01.2023 | This Venture Capitalist Says Corporate Priorities Are Converging With His Business Model | Photo by Christina @ wocintechchat.com on Unsplash
The following is a guest post our Managing Partner Mike Edelhart wrote for Forbes Assistant Editor Diane Brady’s CIO Newsletter - click here to subscribe.
Before I got into venture capi... |
| 25.01.2023 | Quotes to Entrepreneur By: Oldies Edition | When times are hard, and these times certainly qualify, it’s helpful to return to first principles. And so as we face Biblical rain and emerging tribalism, I find comfort in the advice of the ancient sages; in this case, I’m harkening all t... |
| 12.01.2023 | Inception with Martin Stübler, CEO of BioFluff | Managing Partner Mike Edelhart talks with Martin Stübler, CEO of BioFluff, developing the world’s first entirely plant-based fur.
In this episode, Martin explains how a 12-week lockdown in a tiny town in Catalunya sparked the idea for his ... |
| 10.01.2023 | Facing Chaotic Times as Early-Stage Investors | Photo by Andras Kovacs on Unsplash
Usually, at the start of the new year, it’s natural to make predictions about the year ahead. But this year is different.
As 2023 begins, the world is simply too chaotic for realistic predictions. Anyone... |
| 16.12.2022 | Five Tenets for Investing during Turbulent Times | Photo by Tom Barrett on Unsplash
As we traverse through turbulent times in venture—stagnant public markets, economic instability, weird climate behavior, sagging valuations, spasms of layoffs—it seemed like a good moment to revisit some of... |
| 01.12.2022 | The Sorry State of American Healthcare | Photo by Markus Frieauff on Unsplash
American healthcare is failing.
This isn’t just a personal opinion; it is the finding of a deep survey just released by Gallup and West Health.
On all the key measures, Americans graded the health sys... |
| 01.12.2022 | Inception with Sarah Adler, CEO of Wave | In this episode of our Inception podcast, Managing Partner Mike Edelhart talks with Sarah Adler, CEO of Wave, a mental health digital ecosystem designed for the digital native.
Sarah shares how her past career as a hedge fund analyst and c... |
| 01.12.2022 | Babies and Bathwater: Is Crypto Done? | Photo by Lubomirkin on Unsplash
We aren’t active as crypto investors.
While valuations and hype here grew exponentially, we stayed on the sidelines. The primary reason for that is core economics. Any currency of true value must be backed ... |
| 11.11.2022 | 2022 Health and Happiness Gift Guide: Mental Health & Self Care | Photo by Toa Heftiba on Unsplash
‘Tis the season to be shopping – that overwhelming time each year when we endeavor to find the perfect, unique gifts for all the perfect, unique people in our lives.
Let’s reduce that stress. Our diverse p... |
| 11.11.2022 | 2022 Health and Happiness Gift Guide: Food, Drink, & Home | Photo by National Cancer Institute on Unsplash
‘Tis the season to be shopping – that overwhelming time each year when we endeavor to find the perfect, unique gifts for all the perfect, unique people in our lives.
Let’s reduce that stress.... |
| 11.11.2022 | 2022 Health and Happiness Gift Guide: Parents, Kids, & Seniors | ‘Tis the season to be shopping – that overwhelming time each year when we endeavor to find the perfect, unique gifts for all the perfect, unique people in our lives.
Let’s reduce that stress. Our diverse portfolio of companies has gifts su... |
| 11.11.2022 | 2022 Health and Happiness Gift Guide: Fashion, Beauty, and Bodycare | 2022 Health and Happiness Gift Guide: Fashion, Beauty, & Bodycare
‘Tis the season to be shopping – that overwhelming time each year when we endeavor to find the perfect, unique gifts for all the perfect, unique people in our lives.
Le... |
| 08.11.2022 | Where We Want to Invest: Value from the Air | Photo by Raychan on Unsplash
We’ve been on a quest to find startups that can produce valuable products directly from the air for more than two years. This endeavor began with water; our investment thesis has been, simply: “Pure water in th... |
| 04.11.2022 | Where We're Investing Now: Gen Z | Photo by Devin Avery on Unsplash
As an investor, founders creating startups aimed at Gen Z are some of my favorites. I’m amongst the first waves of Gen Z to slowly start trickling out of school and into the workforce, so obviously I’m thri... |
| 22.10.2022 | Is the Unicorn Party Over? | Photo by Meritt Thomas on Unsplash
A chart from Pitchbook’s recent “Snapshot of Global Markets” paints a dramatically downbeat picture of unicorn creation right now.
It‘s obvious from this chart that unicorn production peaked in the fall ... |
| 05.10.2022 | The Blossoming of our Bioscience Focus | Throughout time, science has responded to medical challenges with blunt instruments. Does this treatment work for some? Give it to everyone! This drug may help, or it may hurt. Let’s play the odds! The side effects are horrible, but death i... |
| 04.10.2022 | Wealth and Happiness: The Annual Report | The latest version of the World Happiness Index is out.
This is a report that tracks what I call the European Model of Happiness. This means happiness as a function of material sufficiency and comfort. That model is opposed to Philosophica... |
| 02.10.2022 | The Foundation of our Food and Drink Focus | The first time we officially declared Food as a focus area was in the spring of 2018. “We see an impending tech-driven revolution in food, top to bottom,” we proclaimed. The never-ending hunt for new ingredients can indicate what people are... |
| 02.10.2022 | The Motivation Behind our Microbiome Focus | Photo by CDC on Unsplash
Scientific exploration of the microbiome represents the opening of one of the greatest areas of science in decades, perhaps centuries. The biome utterly defines novel new approaches to the prevention and treatment ... |
| 02.10.2022 | Nurturing our Neuroscience Focus | Photo by Priyanka Singh on Unsplash
Clearly, the ability to read, stimulate, or alter the patterns of the brain is core to the concept of delightful moments. Whether through relief from anxiety or stress, creation of calm or comfort, initi... |
| 02.10.2022 | Can Delight Tech Startups Achieve Greater Success? Five Years of Science-Based Health and Happiness Investment Strategy | Photo by Bart LaRue on Unsplash
Analysis of the global picture of human change is essential to our funds. In 2017, we launched a fund with the specific goal of investing in companies that create Delightful Moments, which we defined as “eme... |
| 02.10.2022 | The Cultivation of our Community Focus | Photo by Elena Mozhvilo on Unsplash
The first time we officially identified “Community” as a prime investment area was in March of 2020. However, in January of 2018, we kicked off the year with a post about Social networking that touches h... |
| 13.09.2022 | Inception with Christoph Jenny, Co-Founder of Planted | Managing Partner Mike Edelhart talks with Christoph Jenny, co-founder of Planted, a company producing delicious plant-based meat with only natural ingredients and perfect bite.
In this episode, Christoph talks about how their clear-cut cor... |
| 26.08.2022 | Entrepreneurship and The Power of Pessimism | Photo by Brandon Morgan on Unsplash
My last blog post was a paean of the importance of optimism for entrepreneurs. Without optimism, entrepreneurship is intolerable.
Now, I’m going to flip that script and sing the praises of pessimism. An... |
| 18.08.2022 | Inception with Stella Smith, CEO of pirkx | Managing Partner Mike Edelhart talks with Stella Smith, CEO of pirkx, providing affordable health and wellbeing benefits to anyone – whether self-employed, part of a small business, or an individual and their family.
In this episode, Stell... |
| 09.08.2022 | The Pink Elephant Pitch (aka How to Turn Off a VC) | I make it a practice to always think the best of everyone. I didn’t use to. When younger, I was a world-class Calvinist cynic. You were damned until overwhelming evidence proved otherwise. As I have put that lamentable attitude behind me, l... |
| 09.08.2022 | Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story? | Photo by Nandhu Kumar on Unsplash
Who lives, who dies, who tells your story?
This is the theme underlying the breakthrough historical musical Hamilton. Alexander Hamilton was a driven entrepreneur at heart. An immigrant, the son of pove... |
| 11.01.2022 | Woody's Guthrie's List for a Well Lived Year | Image: Open Culture
There is brains and there is brilliance. Much more rarely, there is genius.
One of the figures of genius in my life has been the folk singer and activist Woody Guthrie. Literally an Okie, Guthrie followed the dust bowl... |
| 03.08.2021 | Living Longer and Living Better: SH2, the Science of Health and Happiness Fund | Our new sister fund, SH2, the Science of Health and Happiness fund, just completed its initial close, so this seemed a natural time to talk about its strategy and focus.
SH2 seeks to invest, at the earliest possible stage, in companies tra... |
| 03.07.2021 | Why We're A Data-Driven VC | Photo by Adeolu Eletu on Unsplash
We’ve said for years that we are data driven early-stage investors. But it only just occurred to me that we have never really explained what that means in a public forum. We’ve only talked about our unique... |
| 24.06.2021 | Inception with Oriana Papin-Zoghbi, CEO of AOA Dx | Oriana Papin-Zoghbi is CEO of AOA Dx, revolutionizing early diagnosis of ovarian cancer. In this episode, Oriana talks about the science behind their groundbreaking, first-of-its-kind liquid biopsy test; how the phenomenal relationship she ... |
| 12.06.2021 | Where We Are Investing Now: Architecture, Workspaces, and Surroundings | Photo by Alexander Abero on Unsplash
Architecture
The pandemic has changed our perception of our communities, our homes, and living spaces in general. We’ve been forced to take shelter in spaces that we didn’t design for full-time occupan... |
| 09.06.2021 | Inception with Tal Brown, CEO of Zone7 | Tal Brown is Co-Founder and CEO of Zone7, a data-driven AI system that helps coaches and athletes optimize for peak performance and forecast injury risk. In this episode, Tal talks about the powerful algorithms his team has developed to per... |
| 12.05.2021 | Where We Are Investing Now: Food | Photo by Natural Chef Carolyn Nicholas on Unsplash
Food and drink are essential for survival and are also new expressions of the emerging science of health and happiness. Increasingly, science is indicating that what we eat is the first st... |
| 26.04.2021 | Where We Are Investing Now: Neuroscience and Delightful Moments | Photo by Priyanka Singh on Unsplash
Neuroscience has been a focus area for our funds for over five years. Now, as we emerge from this global experience of shared pandemic-induced stress and anxiety, the importance of new modes for modulati... |
| 21.04.2021 | Inception with Sana Alajmovic, CEO of Sigrid Therapeutics | Sana Alajmovic is CEO of Sigrid, a company transforming the way we prevent and treat chronic lifestyle diseases. In this episode, Sana explains the science behind their groundbreaking first product, an all-natural, tasteless white powder th... |
| 14.04.2021 | Inception with Daniel Chait, CEO of Greenhouse | Daniel Chait is CEO of Greenhouse and co-author of the book Talent Makers: How the best companies win through structured and inclusive hiring. In this episode, Daniel shares fascinating insights into Greenhouse's dynamic growth over the las... |
| - | Inception with Michael Selden, CEO and Co-founder of Finless Foods | Michael Selden is co-founder and CEO of Finless Foods, using ground-breaking plant and cell culture technology to create a future for seafood where the ocean thrives. In this episode, Michael talks about the importance of starting out with ... |
| - | Inception with David Montiel, CEO of BeelinguApp | David Montiel is co-founder and CEO of BeelinguApp, empowering people to learn a new language by consuming content they love. In this episode, David shares how his worldwide travels helped him identify a huge opportunity in language learnin... |
| - | The New ABCs of Startup Investing | Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash
There is a pervasive mythology that startup investing is particularly difficult, and that the people who do it are particularly special. Vaunted names are spoken in hushed tones … Sacca, Doerr, Andreesen.... |
| - | Inception with Tigran Sloyan, CEO of CodeSignal | Tigran Sloyan is co-founder and CEO of CodeSignal, the most advanced technical assessment solution on the market. In this episode, Tigran and Managing Partner Mike Edelhart have a lively conversation about everything from the first investor... |
| - | Inception with Owen Phillips, CEO of BrainKey | Owen Phillips is co-founder and CEO of BrainKey, transforming MRI scans into personal brain dashboards. In this episode, Owen talks about giving people control over the information in their own heads; the potential such rich data collection... |
| - | Inception with Ed Likovich, CEO of Nymbl | Ed Likovich is CEO and co-founder of Nymbl, preventing falls by combining medical science with mobile technology to deliver a proven, fun balance intervention. In this episode, Ed breaks down the science behind how the brain and body work t... |
| - | How To Recruit Great Sales Leaders | Photo by rawpixel on Unsplash
One of the questions we get asked most frequently by our portfolio company CEOs is: How can I recruit great sales talent?
Twice a year, we host teaching sessions for our companies on the fundamentals of start... |
| - | Where We Are Investing Now: Biosciences | Photo by Samuel Zeller on Unsplash
Health is a remarkable area for early-stage investment. It shows more activity, more exits, more corporate involvement, and more overall value over the past five years than any other segment. However, it ... |
| - | Where We Are Investing Now: Affordable Luxury and High Emotion Consumer Products | Photo by Artem Bali on Unsplash
The Internet has disintermediated everything about consumer goods; from access to raw materials to direct communication with consumers. This new paradigm, combined with a lack of need for early adopters, pro... |
| - | Where We Are Investing Now: Market-Based Education | Photo by Juan Ramos on Unsplash
At Social Starts and Joyance Partners, we are not investors in traditional education/edtech. However, we see a confluence of trends from our current investments that moves education in a direction with inves... |
| - | What Makes Our Fund Unique? | There are many elements that make Joyance Partners and our sister fund, Social Starts, unique. Learn about our diverse and knowledgeable team, our innovative investment strategy, and our founder-friendly approach.
UNITED STATES | EUROPE | ... |
| - | COVID-19 Edition: Epic’s Remote Student Program Gives Teachers and Kids Instant Access to Thousands of Books | *COVID-19: We are committed to helping our community through this crisis. To that end, our incredible portfolio companies have many materials and products to assist in this time of need, and we will be promoting them in this series. We’ll g... |
| - | Where We Are Investing Now: Digital Health | Photo by Marek Levák on Unsplash
Joyance Partners was founded in 2016 with the sole intention of finding and supporting companies that create what we call “Delightful Moments.”
Delightful Moments are part of all human experience: the smal... |
| - | Where We Are Investing Now (and Forever): Delightful Moments | Photo by Bart LaRue on Unsplash
Joyance Partners was founded in 2016 with the sole intention of finding and supporting companies that create what we call “Delightful Moments.”
Delightful Moments are part of all human experience: the small... |
| - | The Compass of Absurdity | Photo by Alexander Almegaard on Unsplash
One rule of thumb for any entrepreneur trying to do something that has never been done before: Be ready to get laughed out of the room. Anything sufficiently wondrous, fantastic or incredible, and n... |
| - | COVID-19 Edition: Pistol Lake Re-Tools Warehouse to Make Much Needed Masks | *COVID-19: We are committed to helping our community through this crisis. To that end, our incredible portfolio companies have many materials and products to assist in this time of need, and we will be promoting them in this series. We’ll g... |
| - | The New Old Way of Doing Business | Photo by rawpixel on Unsplash
Rational exchange is dead. Take that, Adam Smith. That’s right — people don’t make rational decisions in business any more.
What is the cause of this? It’s the great tsunami of information. There’s so much in... |
| - | How To Recruit Great Sales People | Photo by Anna Samoylova on Unsplash
My last post covered tips for recruiting great sales leaders. This time, let’s look at how to recruit the best sales team members.
· Distill your key sales needs. Before you can build the right sales te... |
| - | Cycling for a Cause: Joyance Partners Joins Techbikers! | I’ve known about TechBikers for a few years, and that’s how long I’ve been wanting to join one of their rides, but I just never really got around to doing it (life always seemed too busy). For those who don’t know: TechBikers is an amazing ... |
| - | Press Release: Joyance Partners Announces European Expansion | London, UK - May 02, 2019 -- Joyance Partners, a venture capital partnership that invests in early-stage companies that deliver delightful moments, announced today its expansion into Europe and the addition of three new team members.
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| - | COVID-19 Edition: Loyalty | *COVID-19: We are committed to helping our community through this crisis. We’ll get through this together - read on and stay tuned.
This post was written by Venture Partner Charles C. Smith.
This ridiculous pile of tools is in my cobble... |
| - | Covid and the Winter of Our Discontent | Photo by Malin on Unsplash
Now, as Shakespeare said, is the winter of our discontent.
Covid keeps on coming, creating a third wave of infections that put the earlier upswells to shame. We are hunkered down, tired out, fed up, and strung o... |
| - | Swearing is Good for Us and Makes Us Happy | Photo by saeed karimi on Unsplash
I love it when science supports my previously held prejudices.
So is the case with a plethora of studies that show that swearing is good for us. All I can say to these findings is….damn straight!
In one ... |
| - | Social Starts/Joyance Partners Holiday Gift Guide | Photo by Caley Dimmock on Unsplash
‘Tis the season to be shopping – that hectic time each year when we drain our brains to find the perfect, unique gifts for all the perfect, unique people in our lives.
Wrack your brain no further! Our di... |
| - | Logic and Infrastructure in the Crypto Craze | “Were it not for the power of irrationality, cryptocurrencies would likely be an obscure asset class circling the extreme fringes of the financial world and anarchist chatrooms.”
Managing Partner Mike Edelhart discusses logic and infrastru... |
| - | The Health and Happiness Gift Guide: Fashion and Skincare | Photo by Park Street on Unsplash
‘Tis the season to be shopping – that frantic time each year when we endeavor to find the perfect, unique gifts for all the perfect, unique people in our lives.
Let us help you reduce that stress. Our dive... |
| - | Inception with Tigran Sloyan, CEO of CodeSignal | Tigran Sloyan is cofounder and CEO of CodeSignal, the most advanced technical assessment solution on the market. In this episode, Tigran talks about being the number one math nerd in Armenia, how his boxing hobby inspired the original conce... |
| - | COVID-19 Edition: Lazarus's Quick Assessment Tool Gives You Instant COVID-19 Feedback and Recommendations | *COVID-19: We are committed to helping our community through this crisis. To that end, our incredible portfolio companies have many materials and products to assist in this time of need, and we will be promoting them in this series. We’ll g... |
| - | Inception with Mike Selden, CEO of Finless Foods | Mike Selden is CEO of Finless Foods, bringing sustainable, delicious seafood to the world without having to farm or harvest live fish. In this episode, Mike talks about how growing up watching Miyazaki films affected his vision for his comp... |
| - | Inception with Venture Partner Charles Smith | In this episode of our Inception podcast, Managing Partner Mike Edelhart talks with Charles Smith, Venture Partner at Social Starts and our sister fund, Joyance Partners. Mike and Charles discuss the innovative ways people, cities, startups... |
| - | Inception with Richard Lin, CEO of Thryve | Richard Lin is CEO of Thryve, the first gut health company to provide personalized probiotics and microbiome testing. In this episode, Richard talks about the deeply personal experience that inspired him to start his company, how his faith ... |
| - | Know Thyself – Startup or Small Business? | There are plenty of good businesses that fail because they are convinced they must be great businesses.
When an entrepreneur asks me for advice for their company, the two most common questions I end up asking are, “What do you want to get ... |
| - | What are the Characteristics of a Delightful Moment? | Our fund is focused on the new tech vectors for happiness, which we define as companies that can deliver, into the lives of individuals, delightful moments. We define delightful moments as those small, but powerful, separations from the dai... |
| - | What's Your Delightful Moment? | Delightful Moments are part of all human experience: the small, but powerful, separations from the daily humdrum when we feel stronger, calmer, more joyful, more in control, and more distant from pain and anxiety.
At the Joyance Partners k... |
| - | Quotes to Entrepreneur By: Durham Edition | I am writing this on Thanksgiving, up in the hills, surrounded by family.
Just before the holiday, a unique and remarkable business colleague passed away following a long bout with cancer. John Durham had a long history as a pioneer in dig... |
| - | COVID-19 as a Catalyst for Change | *Covid-19: We are committed to helping our community through this crisis. To that end, our incredible portfolio companies have put together helpful materials and products to assist in this time of need, and we will be promoting them in this... |
| - | Where We Are Investing Now: XR in Health | Photo by Christine Sandu on Unsplash
When we look at individual health, we see many ways to help and cure by going into the body: food, water, medicine, microbiome factors and more. But we also see how benefit can come from taking the indi... |
| - | How Expensive is Your Happiness? | Lifestyle creep is something we’re all familiar with. As a kid, a 10 dollar weekly allowance was Kingly. Pennies were pinched, pizzas were purchased, and the yearly raise of a few bucks was plenty. Our hobbies were free by necessity — stick... |
| - | Where We Are Investing Now: Life Sciences, Part 2 - Framework for Deep Science Startups | Photo by CDC on Unsplash
Our last post explained how we are looking at Life Sciences investment this year.
But the challenges of life science demand more than merely appropriate organization. We have to change the way we think about inves... |
| - | Blockchain without the BS | Photo by Daniela Micali on Unsplash
We at Joyance Partners and Social Starts see distributed trust networks (aka blockchain) as one of the most powerful technological ideas in decades. It’s an idea on a par with TCP/IP, the backbone of tod... |
| - | The Summer of Our Discontent | Photo by Wolfgang Hasselmann on Unsplash
It looks like we are in for a “long hot summer” in pretty much every aspect of the concept.
Macroeconomics. The macroeconomic signals are the worst in decades. Inflation is soaring, and that seems ... |
