Courage to Invest in Change
When Bonnie Foley-Wong named her firm, she chose Pique Ventures because she wanted people to be curious about the unknown, rather than be afraid of it. Seven years on, she has come to realize that we need more than just curiosity about the unfamiliar - we need...
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Pique Ventures CEO Receives Startup Canada Entrepreneur Promotion Award
Bonnie Foley-Wong, CEO Pique Ventures, Receives British Columbia Entrepreneur Promotion Award of 2019 by Startup Canada Vancouver, BC – May 14, 2019 – Bonnie Foley-Wong received the Startup Canada Entrepreneur Promotion Award in Vancouver, BC presented by Intuit...
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Pursuit of more equity & inclusion in the Venture Capital industry
“All-women teams received just $1.9 billion of the $85 billion total invested by venture capitalists last year, according to data on the from M&A, private equity, and VC database PitchBook. That’s equal to about 2.2% of 2017’s total pot. Meanwhile, all-male teams...
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5 Hard Truths on Raising Capital While Raising Kids
Read the full article on Business Insider "I'm sorry, but you can't come in." I had decided to venture out to a networking event to reconnect with colleagues, to talk to them about the second venture fund I was raising, and to show off my 8-week old baby. The event...
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Drawdown Piqued My Interest: Investing in Climate Solutions
April 22 is Earth Day, a day to build environmental awareness and to remind us to work year-round to solve climate change, to end plastic pollution, to protect endangered species, and to get educated about sustaining the environment. Rarely a day goes by that I don’t...
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Pique Ventures’ Investment Criteria
Pique Ventures invests in a community of diverse leaders creating technologies with long-term utility and companies that care, connect, and protect. Our Impact Lens We invest in ventures that improve access to essential resources. To us, impact investing is about...
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The Prosperity Sharing Economy
As Lyft launched its initial public offering on the Nasdaq stock exchange on March 29, investors watched intently, celebrating the success and the investment gains they hope to reap. Quartz notes that the IPO won’t make Lyft drivers wealthy. “Lyft set aside 5% of the...
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Impact Investing with Head, Heart, Body, and Soul
The venture capital model of unbridled capital-fuelled growth has faced some backlash recently (paywall). The conventional model of venture capital gained a reputation for a focus on short-term gains for the few. Harvard Business Review described it this way: “ One...
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Investing in the Future of Tech
"There are trends and then there is the future. At some of the investor events we see advertised, they are focusing on cryptocurrencies, blockchain, and cannabis - these areas are trendy right now, but at Pique Ventures, we notice other technologies that have...
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Pique Ventures’ Annual Investor & Community Event
In January 2019, Pique Ventures hosted its annual investor and community event to celebrate the meaningful connections and purposeful investment activities experienced over 2018. We welcomed members who were newer to the Pique community and those who were curious...
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We helped our portfolio company CEOs focus on aligned investors that believed in their leadership abilities. Women and underrepresented entrepreneurs still face biases and barriers when accessing capital and growing their ventures. At Pique Ventures we found a way to help female founders and founders of color break down those barriers and are working to grow and scale to help even more entrepreneurs. To do that, we need your help. Please check out our crowdfunding campaign. Please support and share! Thank you!
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Impact Investing with Head, Heart, Body, and Soul
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