by Bonnie Foley-Wong | Jan 18, 2019 | Gender Lens Investing, Impact investing
At Pique Ventures, we applaud the tireless work that Criterion Institute has performed to advance the field of gender lens investing. From convening intimate groups of practitioners, investors, and leaders at events that focused our attention on conversations,...
by Bonnie Foley-Wong | Jan 25, 2018 | Events, Gender Lens Investing, Impact investing
“Over the course of the past 10 years I’ve come to realize that angel investing is a marathon and that smart angels don’t sprint. Smart angels don’t sprint during the relationship building process with founders. We take time to get to know the...
by Bonnie Foley-Wong | Dec 2, 2017 | Gender Lens Investing, Leadership diversity
Building investment relationships takes time. Short pitches from entrepreneurs are often the first glimpse at the potential of an entrepreneur and investment opportunity. I’ve seen a lot of pitches over my career lifetime – ranging from full-on sales mode...
by Bonnie Foley-Wong | Aug 11, 2017 | Gender Lens Investing, Leadership diversity
More and more investors and financiers are starting to realize that it’s a smart strategy to invest in women-led companies. Pique Fund is an inclusive angel fund that has been actively investing in women-founded technology ventures in British Columbia since...
by Bonnie Foley-Wong | Aug 4, 2017 | Gender Lens Investing, Leadership diversity, Women Investors
More and more women are investing in early-stage ventures as angel investors. According to the Center for Venture Research, in 2016 women angels represented 26.2% of the angel market, up from 25.3% in 2015. In this post, originally written in 2013 and updated for...
by Bonnie Foley-Wong | Jun 5, 2017 | Gender Lens Investing, Leadership diversity, Women Investing in Women
This post was originally published on Inc. and Quora. Would I invest in a start-up with a woman as CEO? You bet I would. I’ve done it six times through Pique Fund and likely to do it again. The odds of encountering two identical startups (with the exception that one...
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