by Bonnie Foley-Wong | Aug 25, 2021 | Gender Lens Investing, Integrated Investing
In 2011, while contemplating how to move money more purposefully and wondered where all the women investors were, I was fortunate to meet Jackie VanderBrug at Social Venture Institute. Thanks to Jackie’s invitation to attend Criterion Institute’s...
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 | Aug 25, 2020 | Innovation
A couple of weeks ago, in early August, I noticed a flurry of activity around AngelList’s Rolling Funds. AngelList describes them as “Always-Open Venture Funds” which enable fund managers to start investing as soon as capital from LPs (limited partners or investors in...
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...
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