by Bonnie Foley-Wong | Mar 29, 2021 | Book, Pique Fund, Share Equity, Women Investors
Starting a fund is starting a business. It’s a two-sided business model with one side involving aggregating capital from investors and the other side being the allocation of that capital to compelling opportunities. I have advised organizations on starting funds and I...
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 Bonnie Foley-Wong | Sep 13, 2019 | News, Pique Fund
Building a company is a marathon, not a sprint. I’m excited to share that Pique Fund portfolio company ePACT Network, led by Christine Sommers and Kirsten Koppang Telford, has raised a $4.5M Series A round of investment to fund its growth. Pique Fund, an early-stage...
by Pique Ventures | Jun 25, 2019 | Books, Capital raising, Fund Your Business, Investing Ideas, Pique Fund, Social Enterprise, Systems, Women Investing in Women, Women Investors
Photo credit: Unsplash | @guesh1337 “Get out of the building!” – Steve Blank For some people, getting out of the building is easy and comes naturally to them. For others, getting out of the building requires coming to terms with vulnerability. Perhaps Steve...
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...
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