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 Bonnie Foley-Wong | Oct 31, 2018 | Leadership diversity, Pique Fund
How Pique Ventures and its portfolio companies are changing the face of Canadian venture capital through innovative impact investing Vancouver, BC (Oct 31, 2018) – Pique Ventures is proud to announce that Beanworks – led by CEO Catherine Dahl – raised over $10 million...
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...
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