And These Times Are So Hard, And It’s Getting Even Harder In the short- and medium-term, entrepreneurs and our fellow venture capitalists are going to face challenges in accessing capital…
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The hope is that we are all going to live longer, yet it is not at all clear people are living better longer. Empirically speaking, Eurostat measures the number of…
It is widely accepted that we have a mental health problem, and it is no coincidence that VCs have invested 1.7x more dollars into European mental health start-ups in 2020…
Healthcare has been left, right and centre in our lives for the past 2 years. Cutting through the noise of case numbers and health politics, two points have been worth…
A year ago, a group of brilliant people working in product (Camille Coyac, Sara Guerreiro de Sousa, Pedro Saleiro, and many others) got together to understand how we could bring…
In MSM, we invested in 37 companies in the past 3.5 years, putting the average at one investment per month. To invest in these 37 companies, the MSM investment team…
Food for thought — trending in fashion meets foodie disruption. Until now, at the consumption level, startup-led innovation has been centred around either convenience (delivery apps, rapid groceries & meal-kits)…
MSM is an early-stage venture capital impact fund that invests in companies addressing social and environmental challenges. We invested in 37 impact ventures over the past 3,5 years. Our team…
This article reflects a talk delivered at the 2022 VC Platform Global Summit in New York. Minor adaptations have been made to accommodate recent updates and the written medium. As…
This article is the second of two posts for VC platform managers and investors, explaining how we have built a platform to help deliver global social and environmental outcomes. In…
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…
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…