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Lauren Young

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Apr 12, 2022
Diverse teams build better businesses. To further support this statement, we have found that aggregating data from 100+ scaling tech companies helps many of them level up their internal processes and support levers. For example, in 2020 we saw that Read more

Mona Alsubaei

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Apr 6, 2022
Co-authored by John Buttrick. Of the world’s 2,000 largest public companies, at least 21% now have net-zero commitments. For most of these companies, even with significant emissions reduction, carbon offsetting will be essential to achieving their goals. In fact, all Read more

Hannah Murdoch

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Mar 28, 2022
Co-authored by Rebecca Kaden. Energy is a real-time commodities market. The grid must balance supply and demand minute-by-minute to avoid blackouts or surges. Big changes in supply (wind stops blowing) or demand (everyone turns on their AC) threaten to throw Read more

Rebecca Kaden

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Mar 21, 2022
Fertility treatment today is largely a blunt object approach to a highly personal moment. It begins with a one size fits most process designed to be adjusted on the edges over a series of cycles–for most women, 3-5. The good Read more

Mona Alsubaei

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Mar 16, 2022
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

Fred Wilson

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Mar 9, 2022
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