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 | Jul 10, 2017 | Leadership, Leadership diversity
When I was writing Integrated Investing, I learned a good lesson: Show, Don’t Tell. This applies not only to writing, but also to marketing and most of all, to leadership. In the wake of the reports of sexual harassment in the workplace and between VCs and...
by Bonnie Foley-Wong | Jul 6, 2017 | Integrated Investing, Leadership diversity
It has been quite a few weeks: from the high-profile resignation of Uber’s CEO to reports of sexual harassment by female founders (paywall) and the asymmetry of power amongst VCs and female founders in Silicon Valley to high-profile investors making apologies and...
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...
by Bonnie Foley-Wong | May 22, 2017 | Impact investing, Leadership diversity
Vancouver Fund Spots Positive Impact in Creative Uses of Technology Pique Fund Backs MuseFind in its Seed Round Vancouver, BC (May 22, 2017) – Increasingly, consumers are blocking advertisements on their digital devices and as shared in an article on...
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