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 launches its initial public offering on the Nasdaq stock exchange March 29th, investors watch 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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Canada’s Commitment to Women and Gender Equality
“Women in Canadian tech jobs, with a bachelor’s degree or higher, earn nearly $20,000 less a year than their male counterparts and were found 4 times least likely than men to work in a tech job.” according to a recent report by The Brookfield Institute for Innovation...
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Pique Ventures Grows Its Team
Although women represent 58% of analyst roles in venture capital, “with each step up the “staircase” of seniority, representation of women [in venture capital] is cut in half” according to a report by Female Funders and Hockeystick. At Pique Ventures, we invest in...
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How Good is Your Venture-Backed Company’s Supply Chain?
I was so dismayed when I read the story about a venture-backed company that went out of business and left its suppliers in the lurch, many of them small businesses. Although venture capital is the source of funding for less than 10% of fast-growing firms, as I wrote...
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Zebras: Built to Last
You’re probably familiar with the term “unicorn” — coined by Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures in 2013 — which is a company valued at over $1 billion by public or private market investors. Critics of the billion-dollar-valuation as the primary indicator of success or...
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Impact Investing with Head, Heart, Body, and Soul
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