Climate Tech Investing in Emerging Markets (Part Two)
In January, I wrote about the case for climate tech investing in emerging markets. In addition to preventing catastrophic losses and events, it also represents an opportunity that is waiting to be pursued. While there are challenges to investing in [...] Read more
Radiant
USV’s Climate Thesis is to invest in companies and projects that provide mitigation for or adaptation to the climate crisis. One important way that we can both mitigate and adapt to the climate crisis is to use more nuclear energy. [...] Read more
WalletConnect
For the original web to be widely adopted, people needed a web browser. This seems trivial today as every new computing device comes preloaded with one or more browsers. But early on this was a chicken and egg problem. There [...] Read more
Ceramic
As my partner Brad noted in 2019, the first generation of the internet (aka “Web 1”) was built as a “stateless” system. In other words, data packets could be moved around the network, but the network itself couldn’t store them [...] Read more
Mundi’s Series A
Co-authored by John Buttrick. Each year, Mexico exports over $325 billion of goods to the US alone. However, SMEs represent only a tiny fraction – just 10% – of this massive business opportunity. This is largely structural, as SMEs have [...] Read more
Shortwave
Email is one of the greatest communication tools ever invented – a universal, public system that enables written communication among all people, anywhere on the planet. It can handle simple, short messages and rich content of all kinds. It works [...] Read more