Investor Spotlight: Tom Rand, ArcTern Ventures

"I became an investor not because I wanted to be an investment professional, but because I want to move the needle on carbon."

Investor Spotlight Interview W/ Nick Cooney, Lever VC

"Generally, individuals and companies should aim for a positive world impact. Companies, being collections of individuals, should take a comprehensive view of their impact—considering both positives like job creation and negatives."

Investor Spotlight Interview W/ Danny Brown, MaC Venture Capital

"We're looking for the journey to a venture-scale return. People often ask what someone’s route to $100 million in revenue looks like. While we're not expecting any seed-stage company to have direct sight of that, we focus on the journey to scaling. We want founders who think about the steps involved, with a true North vision."

Investor Spotlight Interview W/ Josep Oriol, Okavango Capital

"For nature conservation to succeed, it must become economically viable and competitive with other land uses. Okavango Capital seeks businesses that protect nature while generating shareholder returns, creating a sustainable approach to conservation."

Investor Spotlight Interview W/ Michael Dean, AgFunder

"We focus on technologies at the forefront of their industries with strong applications to food and agriculture. These drive sustainability, increase production, and improve welfare and income for farmers globally."

Investor Spotlight Interview W/ Jonny Everett, Marble

"We focus on solving unsolved climate challenges or radically improving existing solutions, targeting the roughly 50% of technologies needed for net zero that are yet to be developed."

Investor Spotlight Interview W/ Myke Näf, Übermorgen Ventures

"A big part of startup failure comes from the inherent risks of just doing something new. The way to mitigate this is to de-risk as much and as soon as possible. Founders should be able to learn and build a company that's able to iterate quickly and try to be as hypothesis-driven as possible."

Investor Spotlight Series Interview W/ Anthony Chow, Agronomics

"Cellular agriculture is the only collection of technologies with the potential to increase food security by increasing food production while decreasing the resources required to produce it. It's the only technology capable of feeding today's global population, let alone the two billion additional people expected by 2060."