This article is the first of two posts for VC platform managers and investors, explaining how we are building a platform to deliver bolder social and environmental outcomes. Our mission…
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One of the most common questions we get asked in an initial call with founders is how our investment process works. Fundraising is one of the many tasks on founders’…
OLIO connects neighbours with each other, and volunteers with local businesses, so that surplus food & other household items can be given away, not thrown away. OLIO has grown to…
WHY IS FOUNDER OWNERSHIP IMPORTANT? Early signs of trouble. Excessive founder dilution is a sign of trouble. Either the business has gone through some pivots and some bumpy roads requiring…
We hardly ever hear someone questioning how accurate a given business’ revenue figure is — so why do we do so in carbon accounting all the time? In this article,…
Incentives are everywhere and dictate our behaviour, as individuals and as organisations. The energy transition that we are currently witnessing is a great example of this, whereby an increasing adoption…
Everyone agrees that we have a mental health problem. And when we say mental health problem, we broadly mean that more people are less happy. In Europe alone, 9 million…
2019 saw the Business Roundtable (the world’s business leaders) do away with its outdated philosophy of the purpose of a corporation. No longer is it sufficient for firms to accumulate…
The kernel of Mustard Seed’s genesis revolves around the Virtuous Venture CycleTM (vvc) – last year we published our first report (dog- matically!) outlining how and why we believe ‘lock-step’…
There was a time when common sense truth held that the Earth was at the centre of the universe. Considering that the bulk of human progress has occurred through radical…