| Date | Title | Description |
| 23.02.2021 | Inception with Caleb Polley, CEO of Cubby | Caleb Polley is CEO of Cubby, making smart beds that improve anxiety, sleep, and safety for people with cognitive disabilities such as Autism, Epilepsy, and Dementia. In this episode, Caleb shares how his close relationship with a childhood... |
| 15.02.2021 | Inception with Daniel 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... |
| 02.02.2021 | Where We Are Investing Now: India | By Investment Partner Neha Tanna
Our funds are always on the lookout for the best entrepreneurs leading companies leveraging science to offer innovative worldwide solutions within Health and Happiness. In our constant quest to that end, ab... |
| 12.01.2021 | Inception with Sumit Sinha, CEO of Phable | Sumit Sinha is CEO of Phable, an innovative at-home healthcare app simplifying life for both patients and doctors through monitoring, reminders, and doctor intervention. In his conversation with Mike, Sumit shares the compelling personal st... |
| 12.01.2021 | Better Days | By Nell Meosky Luo, CEO of our portfolio company Folia Health.
We've seen terrible things, and wonderful acts of kindness. We've done our best to help, and we've felt entirely helpless. Witnessing the outer bounds of self-interest and se... |
| 05.01.2021 | Inception with Ashish Rawat, CEO of Oga Fit | Ashish Rawat is CEO of Oga Fit, a fully interactive fitness platform where users get a boutique studio workout experience led by world-famous trainers from the comfort of their own homes. In this episode, Ashish talks about his frustrating ... |
| 22.12.2020 | Inception with Dr. Franziska Leonhardt, Co-Founder of Ave + Edam | Dr. Franziska Leonhardt is co-founder of Ave + Edam, creating personalized, clean, and vegan skincare backed by advanced technologies and dermatological expertise. In this episode, Franziska talks about the genesis of her first-of-its-kind ... |
| 14.12.2020 | Covid and the Winter of Our Discontent | 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 out. People fret and business... |
| 12.11.2020 | The Health and Happiness Gift Guide: Fitness and Self Care | ‘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, and all while masked and socially distanced!
Let us help you reduce that stres... |
| 12.11.2020 | The Health and Happiness Gift Guide: Food and Drink | ‘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, and all while masked and socially distanced!
Let us help you reduce that stres... |
| 12.11.2020 | The Health and Happiness Gift Guide: Kids, Pets, and Home | ‘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, and all while masked and socially distanced!
Let us help you reduce that stres... |
| 10.11.2020 | Quotes to Entrepreneur By: Hope in the Time of Covid | It has been a long year. It feels like several long years, actually, jam-packed into a few dreary months. Locked down, cooped up, hemmed in, beset by a profusion of woes, wary of illness and peeking between our fingers to see what fresh Hel... |
| 10.11.2020 | Inception with Paul Chen, CEO of Flourish Tech | Paul Chen is CEO and co-founder of Flourish Tech, a company teaching skills to build flourishing, healthy relationships. In this episode, Paul tells the deeply personal story of what inspired him to start his company, shares how they’re rep... |
| 09.11.2020 | Getting Rid of Cash in the Pandemic Age: Introducing i-Accept | By our portfolio company MagicCube’s co-founders, Nancy Zayed and Sam Shawki
Just like they were ahead of the curve in dealing with COVID-19, South Korea has been at the forefront of contactless payment since its launch of UPass in 1995. S... |
| 06.11.2020 | Inception with Jean Anne Booth, CEO of Unaliwear | Jean Anne Booth is CEO of Unaliwear, producer of the first all-in-one, voice-controlled smartwatch designed to keep you connected, independent, active, and safe. In this episode, Jean Anne talks about the company’s unique and innovative per... |
| 05.11.2020 | Where We Are Investing Now: Neuroscience | Neuroscience has always been a focus area for Social Starts and Joyance Partners and should continue to be due to the large and clear unmet need. Stress, anxiety, mental illness, and their associated impacts are at all-time highs. People se... |
| 30.10.2020 | Inception with Sam Shames, Co-Founder of Embr Labs | Sam Shames is COO and co-founder of Embr Labs, a company unlocking the therapeutic power of temperature. In this episode, Sam talks about the fascinating technology behind their first product, the unanticipated ways in which it's helping ad... |
| 01.10.2020 | Where We Are Investing Now: Microbiome | Scientific exploration of the microbiome represents the opening of one of the greatest new areas of science in decades, perhaps centuries. It has the potential to rival Einstein’s impact on physics or the double helix on understanding biolo... |
| 01.10.2020 | Trusting Your Gut: How Our Portfolio Companies are Taking Advantage of the Microbial Revolution | Last month marked an important step for microbiome science: Cambridge, MA-based biotechnology company Seres Therapeutics reported positive results from their Phase III human clinical trial of an oral microbiome therapeutic for the treatment... |
| 29.09.2020 | Where We Are Investing Now: Personal Robotics | Personal Robotics has historically been a small but solid focus area for our funds. We should continue this year as we did in 2019. That means looking hard at robots in medical/health, education, and vertical SaaS (outside manufacture). But... |
| 29.09.2020 | Where We Are Investing Now: Food | Food is a foundational component of Delightful Moments. It is a road toward or away from health. It is present in community, socialization, and ritual. Food is one of the ways society represents and passes down cultural mores. Increasingly,... |
| 29.09.2020 | Where We Are Investing Now: Water | Water is essential for life and central to innumerable human activities. So we feel water is a uniquely strong investment opportunity that, driven by global warming and other factors, is only getting stronger.
Even before COVID, people wer... |
| 22.09.2020 | Inception with Jim Havelka, CEO of InformAI | Jim Havelka is CEO of InformAI, a company transforming the way healthcare is being delivered. In this episode, Jim delves into the highly efficient and innovative artificial intelligence and deep learning solutions the company has developed... |
| 22.09.2020 | Where We Are Investing Now: Market-Based Education | Education is part of health and happiness as a means of intellectual and financial empowerment and as a vector for delight. Happiness can be enhanced by the acquisition of new skills. Where education was once the province only of formal ins... |
| 22.09.2020 | Where We Are Investing Now: XR in Health | XR (the new overarching term for VR and AR) is one of those areas that keeps looking promising, but never seems to happen. Throughout 2019 AR/VR was a market in turmoil and COVID made it worse: Headsets are too expensive for individuals to ... |
| 14.09.2020 | Where We Are Investing Now: Next-Gen Community | Our funds began with community. The “social” in Social Starts refers to social/mobile technology. One of our first investments was Pinterest. That first generation of community, the Pinterest/Facebook generation, was delineated by scale. Le... |
| 14.09.2020 | Where We Are Investing Now: Longevity and Aging Economy | Longevity and Aging Economy will be one of the core investment areas for Social Starts for the remainder of 2020. Longevity ties strongly into Health and Happiness:
“Healthspan”—the number of years a person can expect to live with full hea... |
| 08.09.2020 | Where We Are Investing Now: FemTech | Women supporting women in everything related to being women is a growing and inexorable worldwide trend. This is manifestly truly related to health and happiness, where the worldwide female 51% is demanding new and better approaches to ever... |
| 31.08.2020 | Where We Are Investing Now: Health Tech | Because of the inextricable tie between health and happiness, there exists an equally strong connection between happiness and health. Now, powerful new science is opening whole new categories of products capable of contributing to happiness... |
| 25.08.2020 | Where We Are Investing Now: Health and Happiness Digitally Native Vertical Brands | Both of our fund families focus on consumer products. Social Starts focuses on products that contribute to health and happiness. Our sister fund Joyance Partners focuses on consumer goods with an emotional core, those most likely to deliver... |
| 17.08.2020 | What We Look For In Deep Science Pitch Decks | One deck, two deck,
Red deck, blue deck.
Pitch decks come in a lot of flavors. We've seen five pages, we've seen fifty. We've seen them sparsely punctured with bullet points, we've seen what might have happened if David Foster Wallace wrot... |
| 30.07.2020 | Inception with Matt Angle, CEO of Paradromics | Matt Angle is CEO of Paradromics, the first high-bandwidth data interface between brains and computers. In this episode, Matt talks about how his company is building a specialized data interface that will translate between bioelectric and d... |
| 24.07.2020 | Osano Discovers Direct Relationship Between Poor Privacy Practices and Data Breaches | By guest author Arlo Gilbert, CEO of Osano
Hardly a day goes by without hearing about a new data breach from a high-profile company. In the face of nonstop threats to the safety of your data, businesses that fail to proactively protect the... |
| 16.07.2020 | 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... |
| 06.07.2020 | Inception with Oded Kraft, CEO of Gray Matters | Oded Kraft is CEO of Gray Matters, an adjunct to standard of care digital therapeutics solution for treating mental and neurological disorders. In this episode, Oded talks about how GrayMatters is using this revolutionary technology to prov... |
| 29.06.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: Individual Health in the Time of the Pandemic | By Managing Partner Mike Edelhart
Our funds focus on individual health; thus, obviously, we view the impact of the COVID crisis from a unique VC perspective. Here are some observations that have emerged from our recent experience.
COVID i... |
| 23.06.2020 | Inception with Nell Luo, CEO of Folia Health | Nell Luo is CEO of Folia Health, harnessing the power of patient and caregiver experiences to enable individuals to live their healthiest lives. In this episode, Nell talks about how seemingly inconsequential observations can result in grou... |
| 16.06.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: Enhatch Launches Mobile Application to Allow Medical Device Sales Reps Remote Access into Operating Rooms | *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... |
| 15.06.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: How We Manage Our Portfolio: Why It Remains Strong During Market Corrections (And Apparently Pandemics) | When COVID-19 hit, it hit hard. Who would have imagined the Federal Reserves slashing interest rates down to zero to salve a dead stopped economy? Or imagined a worldwide lockdown? The modern world has, literally, never seen anything like t... |
| 10.06.2020 | 2020 Father’s Day Gift Guide | This post was written by Investment Partner Holly Jacobus.
I imagine I speak for a lot of people in saying quarantine has made me appreciate my parents in a whole new way. Whether you're stuck at home with them in close quarters or far awa... |
| 08.06.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: Homeschooling - What I Learned from Stanford University's Online High School | This post was written by Investment Partner Holly Jacobus.
Like it or not, COVID has ushered in a whole new era of homeschooling. While, as someone who was homeschooled, I am a big fan of homeschooling, it's hard work for everyone involved... |
| 25.05.2020 | Why We are Strong in the "Mighty Middle" | Many venture funds believe they can predict what is going to happen next and where. They invest based on that certainty, focusing in specific regions, or on specific types of tech, or, commonly, both.
At our funds, we know it’s impossible ... |
| 25.05.2020 | Inception with Jordan Miller, CEO of Volumetric | Jordan Miller is CEO and co-founder of Volumetric, building 3D printers that can create human tissue. In this episode, Jordan delves into the incredibly complex architecture of our circulatory systems, recounts how a trip to the grocery sto... |
| 25.05.2020 | 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... |
| 22.05.2020 | Inception with Erika Milczek, CEO of Curie Co | Erika Milczek is CEO of Curie Co, an enzyme engineering company replacing banned chemicals with safe and sustainable ingredients. In this episode, Erika talks about tackling a market that hasn’t undergone any innovation in over seventy year... |
| 15.05.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: Vidrovr System Used to Monitor State-Sponsored Messaging about Coronavirus | *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... |
| 14.05.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: Mixlab’s Pet Pharmacy Team is Making Hand Sanitizer for Frontline Workers in NYC | *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... |
| 13.05.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: Quotes to Entrepreneur By | *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... |
| 12.05.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: Pandemic's Labyrinth - Is Biotech the Way Out? | *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... |
| 11.05.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: Embracing an Accelerated Future | In this special anniversary episode, Managing Partner Mike Edelhart celebrates the veracity and resilience of the remarkable companies in the Social Starts/Joyance Partners family of funds and shares words of hope and encouragement as we em... |
| 10.05.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: StructionSite Helps Construction Companies Document Job Sites Under Pandemic Restrictions | *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... |
| 06.05.2020 | 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... |
| 05.05.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: LucidAct’s Telehealth Package Helps COVID-19 Patients Recover at Home | *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... |
| 04.05.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: Eden Publishes 12-Point Plan for Workplace Re-Entry | *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... |
| 02.05.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: ClosedLoop.ai Launches Free Open Source Tool to Identify Individuals Vulnerable to Severe Complications from Coronavirus | *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... |
| 30.04.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: Missing Fresh Produce? Hamama Lets You Grow Fresh Microgreens in Your Kitchen | *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... |
| 30.04.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: Neo Health Insurer Elma Offers Digital Primary Care App for Free to Help HR Teams Take Better Care of their Employees | *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... |
| 28.04.2020 | Where We Are Investing Now: XR in Health | 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 individual out of body and mind.
Immersiv... |
| 27.04.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: Planning for Financial Resilience | *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... |
| 24.04.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: Wolf & Shepherd Gives 10% of Sales to Children of Parents on the Front Lines | *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... |
| 23.04.2020 | 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... |
| 20.04.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: CodeSignal Offers Remote Technical Interview Solution for Free To Help Companies Flatten the Curve | *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... |
| 16.04.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: Made In Cookware is Donating Sales from New Product Collection to Support Restaurant Workers | *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... |
| 14.04.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: Classkick’s Virtual School Learning App Provides Real-Time, One-to-Many Interaction for Teachers and their Students | *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... |
| 14.04.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: Folia Health Ensures Personalized Care Even During a Pandemic | *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... |
| 14.04.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: Need Some Relief? WholyMe is Here to Help | *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... |
| 11.04.2020 | 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... |
| 07.04.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: Bringing Positivity into the Quarantine - 30% off Weller | *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... |
| 07.04.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: Lark’s AI Chronic Conditions Coach Can Help People Stay Healthy and at Home | *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... |
| 01.04.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: Wellthy’s Care Framework Supports Families in Times of Crisis | *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... |
| 31.03.2020 | 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... |
| 29.03.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: KidzToPros Launches Live Online Enrichment Programs - Kids can Attend from Home | *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... |
| 26.03.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: Innovating When it Matters Most - LOLI’s Organic Hand Sanitizer | *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... |
| 24.03.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: Inception with Erika Mozes, Co-Founder of Hyr | *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... |
| 23.03.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: Immune System & Meditation - Journey Offers Free Meditation You'll Actually Do | *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... |
| 18.03.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: 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... |
| 17.03.2020 | Where We Are Investing Now: Individual Robotics | We see personal robotics as one dramatic method for bringing the power of new science closer to humans. Our perspective on robotics is broad. Successful robots don’t need to be humanoid. They don’t need to have full bodies; we see haptics i... |
| 16.03.2020 | Where We Are Investing Now: Life Sciences, Part 2 - A Framework for Deep Science Startups | 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 investing to be effective here ... |
| 16.03.2020 | Where We Are Investing Now: Life Sciences, Part 1 | Life Sciences are the heart of health. New approaches in bio, microbiome, treatments, disease prevention, neuroscience, and pharma propel transformation in care. As such, life sciences stand at the heart of our fund’s focus on individual he... |
| 10.03.2020 | Where We Are Investing Now: Emergent Community | Our funds began with community. The “social” in Social Starts refers to social/mobile tech. One of our first investments was Pinterest.
But we moved away from community rather quickly. After the burst of innovation in the 2007-2009 era tha... |
| 27.02.2020 | Where We Are Investing Now: Esports/Gaming SaaS | We are, in the main, Esports skeptics. Yes, we know Esports is big. And we even can see how it could be the future of entertainment….in the long-term.
Right now, though, many of the seemingly strong investment opportunities in Esports are ... |
| 20.02.2020 | 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... |
| 19.02.2020 | Where We Are Investing Now: Market-Based Education | 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 investment potential for us. Specifica... |
| 19.02.2020 | 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. This new paradigm, combined with a lack of need for early adopters, provides companies with opportunitie... |
| 15.02.2020 | Social Starts/Joyance Partners M&A Seminar with Jones Day | On Monday, February 3, Social Starts and Joyance Partners collaborated with Jones Day Law Firm to provide a seminar on the fundamentals of Mergers and Acquisitions. This seminar was exclusive to the Joyance and Social Starts portfolio compa... |
| 12.02.2020 | Where We Are Investing Now: Water | Access to safe, clean water is essential to human health, yet water scarcity is a looming problem. According to the World Wildlife Fund, two-thirds of the world’s population could experience water shortages by as soon as 2025. In addition, ... |
| 12.02.2020 | Where We Are Investing Now: Next-Gen Food, Ingredients, and Beverages | Since the initiation of Joyance Partners in 2016, our funds have pivoted forcefully toward the emerging science of health and happiness. Health and happiness science is one of the most profound investment opportunities in decades. We feel i... |
| 07.01.2020 | 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... |
| 03.01.2020 | Inception with Igor Telyatnikov, CEO of AlphaPoint | Igor Telyatnikov is CEO of AlphaPoint, a white label software company enabling customers to launch crypto exchanges and tokenize assets. In this episode, Igor talks about the motivation behind the founding of the company, how they weathered... |
| 23.12.2019 | Inception with AJ Keller, CEO of Neurosity | AJ Keller is CEO of Neurosity, a company building computers controlled by thought. In this episode, AJ talks about the remarkable synergy between himself and his co-founder, the fascinating technology behind their revolutionary product, and... |
| 04.12.2019 | Our New Fund: Social Starts Health and Happiness (SH2) | As we approach the year’s end, I’m delighted to report that our funds are growing and changing.
In particular, I wanted to let everyone know about plans for the next Social Starts fund, Social Starts Health and Happiness, which we call “SH... |
| 27.11.2019 | Inception with Camille Richman, CEO of Hamama | Camille Richman is CEO of Hamama, a fail-proof kit for growing microgreens in the kitchen. In this episode, Camille talks about how her free-spirited upbringing influenced her drive toward entrepreneurism, the beautifully balanced leadershi... |
| 18.11.2019 | The Health and Happiness Gift Guide: Kids, Pets, and Home Goods | ‘Tis the season to be shopping – that hectic time each year when we desperately endeavor to find the perfect, unique gifts for all the perfect, unique people in our lives.
Look no further! Our diverse portfolio of remarkable companies has ... |
| 17.11.2019 | Inception with Mike Dudas, CEO of The Block | Mike Dudas is CEO of The Block, the first and final word in digital assets. In this episode, Mike talks about how the realization that crypto can't (and shouldn't) be simplified helped him shape the core structure of his company, how having... |
| 16.11.2019 | The Health and Happiness Gift Guide: Food and Drink | ‘Tis the season to be shopping – that hectic time each year when we desperately endeavor to find the perfect, unique gifts for all the perfect, unique people in our lives.
Look no further! Our diverse portfolio of remarkable companies has ... |
| 11.11.2019 | Inception with Christian Brucculeri, CEO of Snaps | Christian Brucculeri is CEO of Snaps, the leading conversational AI platform for global consumer brands. In this episode, Christian talks about how running a startup is like surfing, the unique skills it takes to be a “conversational design... |
| 08.11.2019 | The Health and Happiness Gift Guide: Fashion and Self-Care | ‘Tis the season to be shopping – that hectic time each year when we desperately endeavor to find the perfect, unique gifts for all the perfect, unique people in our lives.
Look no further! Our diverse portfolio of remarkable companies has ... |
| 07.11.2019 | Inception with David Tze, CEO of NovoNutrients | David Tze is CEO of NovoNutrients, transforming waste industrial CO2 into feed using industrial biotech. In this episode, David shares what inspired him to make the switch from oil fields to aquaculture, the fascinating science behind his c... |
| 30.10.2019 | Why Do We Invest In Health AND Happiness? | I am sometimes asked: Why do you invest in health and happiness? Why not just invest in health, or even health care, which is where other funds focus and where the impact of science is obvious?
We believe language has power. Subtle differe... |
| 08.10.2019 | Quotes to Entrepreneur By: Health and Happiness | From time to time I share quotes from my wanderings that seem useful to entrepreneurs. This latest collection, though, is a bit different.
Our funds have been focusing more and more in recent months on the emerging science of health and th... |
