| 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 w... |
| 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 con... |
| 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 lea... |
| 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 patient... |
| 12.01.2021 | Better Days | By Nell Meosky Luo, CEO of our portfolio company Folia Health.
We've seen terrible things, and wo... |
| 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 stud... |
| 22.12.2020 | Inception with Dr. Franziska Leonhardt, Co-Founder of Ave + ... | Dr. Franziska Leonhardt is co-founder of Ave + Edam, creating personalized, clean, and vegan skincar... |
| 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 ... |
| 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, u... |
| 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, u... |
| 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, u... |
| 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 mo... |
| 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, he... |
| 09.11.2020 | Getting Rid of Cash in the Pandemic Age: Introducing i-Accep... | By our portfolio company MagicCube’s co-founders, Nancy Zayed and Sam Shawki
Just like they were ah... |
| 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 d... |
| 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... |
| 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 temperat... |
| 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 ... |
| 01.10.2020 | Trusting Your Gut: How Our Portfolio Companies are Taking Ad... | Last month marked an important step for microbiome science: Cambridge, MA-based biotechnology compan... |
| 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 uniqu... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 contin... |
| 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 a... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 thi... |
| 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 remai... |
| 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. On... |
| 08.09.2020 | Where We Are Investing Now: FemTech | Women supporting women in everything related to being women is a growing and inexorable worldwide tr... |
| 31.08.2020 | Where We Are Investing Now: Health Tech | Because of the inextricable tie between health and happiness, there exists an equally strong connect... |
| 25.08.2020 | Where We Are Investing Now: Health and Happiness Digitally N... | Both of our fund families focus on consumer products. Social Starts focuses on products that contrib... |
| 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 page... |
| 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 compute... |
| 24.07.2020 | Osano Discovers Direct Relationship Between Poor Privacy Pra... | By guest author Arlo Gilbert, CEO of Osano
Hardly a day goes by without hearing about a new data br... |
| 16.07.2020 | Inception with Venture Partner Charles Smith | In this episode of our Inception podcast, Managing Partner Mike Edelhart talks with Charles Smith, V... |
| 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 ... |
| 29.06.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: Individual Health in the Time of the Pande... | By Managing Partner Mike Edelhart
Our funds focus on individual health; thus, obviously, we view th... |
| 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... |
| 16.06.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: Enhatch Launches Mobile Application to All... | *COVID-19: We are committed to helping our community through this crisis. To that end, our incredibl... |
| 15.06.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: How We Manage Our Portfolio: Why It Remain... | When COVID-19 hit, it hit hard. Who would have imagined the Federal Reserves slashing interest rates... |
| 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... |
| 08.06.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: Homeschooling - What I Learned from Stanfo... | This post was written by Investment Partner Holly Jacobus.
Like it or not, COVID has ushered in a w... |
| 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 base... |
| 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... |
| 25.05.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: Loyalty | *COVID-19: We are committed to helping our community through this crisis. We’ll get through this tog... |
| 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... |
| 15.05.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: Vidrovr System Used to Monitor State-Spons... | *COVID-19: We are committed to helping our community through this crisis. To that end, our incredibl... |
| 14.05.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: Mixlab’s Pet Pharmacy Team is Making Hand ... | *COVID-19: We are committed to helping our community through this crisis. To that end, our incredibl... |
| 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 incredibl... |
| 12.05.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: Pandemic's Labyrinth - Is Biotech the Way ... | *COVID-19: We are committed to helping our community through this crisis. To that end, our incredibl... |
| 11.05.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: Embracing an Accelerated Future | In this special anniversary episode, Managing Partner Mike Edelhart celebrates the veracity and resi... |
| 10.05.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: StructionSite Helps Construction Companies... | *COVID-19: We are committed to helping our community through this crisis. To that end, our incredibl... |
| 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 mobil... |
| 05.05.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: LucidAct’s Telehealth Package Helps COVID-... | *COVID-19: We are committed to helping our community through this crisis. To that end, our incredibl... |
| 04.05.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: Eden Publishes 12-Point Plan for Workplace... | *COVID-19: We are committed to helping our community through this crisis. To that end, our incredibl... |
| 02.05.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: ClosedLoop.ai Launches Free Open Source To... | *COVID-19: We are committed to helping our community through this crisis. To that end, our incredibl... |
| 30.04.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: Missing Fresh Produce? Hamama Lets You Gro... | *COVID-19: We are committed to helping our community through this crisis. To that end, our incredibl... |
| 30.04.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: Neo Health Insurer Elma Offers Digital Pri... | *COVID-19: We are committed to helping our community through this crisis. To that end, our incredibl... |
| 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, w... |
| 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 incredibl... |
| 24.04.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: Wolf & Shepherd Gives 10% of Sales to ... | *COVID-19: We are committed to helping our community through this crisis. To that end, our incredibl... |
| 23.04.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: Pistol Lake Re-Tools Warehouse to Make Muc... | *COVID-19: We are committed to helping our community through this crisis. To that end, our incredibl... |
| 20.04.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: CodeSignal Offers Remote Technical Intervi... | *COVID-19: We are committed to helping our community through this crisis. To that end, our incredibl... |
| 16.04.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: Made In Cookware is Donating Sales from Ne... | *COVID-19: We are committed to helping our community through this crisis. To that end, our incredibl... |
| 14.04.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: Classkick’s Virtual School Learning App Pr... | *COVID-19: We are committed to helping our community through this crisis. To that end, our incredibl... |
| 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 incredibl... |
| 14.04.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: Folia Health Ensures Personalized Care Eve... | *COVID-19: We are committed to helping our community through this crisis. To that end, our incredibl... |
| 11.04.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: Epic’s Remote Student Program Gives Teache... | *COVID-19: We are committed to helping our community through this crisis. To that end, our incredibl... |
| 07.04.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: Bringing Positivity into the Quarantine - ... | *COVID-19: We are committed to helping our community through this crisis. To that end, our incredibl... |
| 07.04.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: Lark’s AI Chronic Conditions Coach Can Hel... | *COVID-19: We are committed to helping our community through this crisis. To that end, our incredibl... |
| 01.04.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: Wellthy’s Care Framework Supports Families... | *COVID-19: We are committed to helping our community through this crisis. To that end, our incredibl... |
| 31.03.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: Lazarus's Quick Assessment Tool Gives You ... | *COVID-19: We are committed to helping our community through this crisis. To that end, our incredibl... |
| 29.03.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: KidzToPros Launches Live Online Enrichment... | *COVID-19: We are committed to helping our community through this crisis. To that end, our incredibl... |
| 26.03.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: Innovating When it Matters Most - LOLI’s O... | *COVID-19: We are committed to helping our community through this crisis. To that end, our incredibl... |
| 24.03.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: Inception with Erika Mozes, Co-Founder of ... | *COVID-19: We are committed to helping our community through this crisis. To that end, our incredibl... |
| 23.03.2020 | COVID-19 Edition: Immune System & Meditation - Journey O... | *COVID-19: We are committed to helping our community through this crisis. To that end, our incredibl... |
| 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 incredibl... |
| 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 huma... |
| 16.03.2020 | Where We Are Investing Now: Life Sciences, Part 2 - A Framew... | Our last post explained how we are looking at Life Sciences investment this year.
But the challenge... |
| 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 preven... |
| 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 o... |
| 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... |
| 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 dashboar... |
| 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... |
| 19.02.2020 | Where We Are Investing Now: Affordable Luxury and High Emoti... | The Internet has disintermediated everything about consumer goods; from access to raw materials to d... |
| 15.02.2020 | Social Starts/Joyance Partners M&A Seminar with Jones Da... | On Monday, February 3, Social Starts and Joyance Partners collaborated with Jones Day Law Firm to pr... |
| 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. A... |
| 12.02.2020 | Where We Are Investing Now: Next-Gen Food, Ingredients, and ... | Since the initiation of Joyance Partners in 2016, our funds have pivoted forcefully toward the emerg... |
| 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 ha... |
| 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 c... |
| 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, ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 e... |
| 18.11.2019 | The Health and Happiness Gift Guide: Kids, Pets, and Home Go... | ‘Tis the season to be shopping – that hectic time each year when we desperately endeavor to find the... |
| 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 ta... |
| 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... |
| 11.11.2019 | Inception with Christian Brucculeri, CEO of Snaps | Christian Brucculeri is CEO of Snaps, the leading conversational AI platform for global consumer bra... |
| 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... |
| 07.11.2019 | Inception with David Tze, CEO of NovoNutrients | David Tze is CEO of NovoNutrients, transforming waste industrial CO2 into feed using industrial biot... |
| 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 e... |
| 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 c... |
