by Bonnie Foley-Wong | Feb 1, 2020 | Decision-Making, Impact investing, Pique Fund
When I founded Pique Ventures in 2012, it was with a curiosity about how to move money more purposefully and to find out where all the women investors were. “Impact investing” as a phrase was 5 years old. “Gender lens investing” had been coined...
by Bonnie Foley-Wong | Sep 19, 2019 | Impact investing, Innovation, Leadership, Pique Fund, Resources, Systems, Trends
About a year ago, I developed an interest in attending VC Unlocked, an investor training program focused on venture capital, delivered by 500 Startups and Stanford University. I tried to get the tuition cost funded through a grant, I asked a friend to refer me when...
by Pique Ventures | Jun 18, 2019 | Big Ideas, Impact investing, Vision
At the start of 2018, for close to two months, Bonnie Foley-Wong, CEO of Pique Venture laboured over a document, working evenings and weekends. She made more asks of her community and network for letters of support than she can count on both hands. She was at the...
by Pique Ventures | May 21, 2019 | Big Ideas, Impact investing, Impact investment, Innovation, Integrated Investing, Leadership, Pique Fund, Vision, Women Investing in Women, Women Investors
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...
by Pique Ventures | May 7, 2019 | Big Ideas, Capacity Building, Capital raising, Crowdfunding, Impact investing, Leadership, Women Investing in Women
“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...
by Pique Ventures | Apr 22, 2019 | Big Ideas, Climate Solutions, Decision-Making, Impact investing, Impact investment, Investing Ideas, Leadership, Trends, Vision
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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