Picking the right (early-stage) investor

16 Feb 2023

Partner at $1B multi-stage fund: "If any pre-seeds of yours are upcoming, we'd love to peek!" Never seen so much seed interest from platform funds, almost to the exclusion of A (and definitely to the exclusion of Bs). Off the charts. All said and done, it&...

Bio DAOs

02 Feb 2023

If you’re spending time exploring the DeSci space, one of the first things that will jump out is the vibrant ecosystem of Bio DAOs across multiple fields of science - VitaDao for longevity, HairDao for hairloss, AthenaDao for women’s health etc. What you’ll also notice is that...

Monthly investor updates

19 Jan 2023

In my experience the best performing companies tend to write the most thoughtful monthly investor updates. That’s not to say that there’s a causal relationship - great updates obviously don’t directly result in great companies -  but I think that the act of consistently writing updates pushes...

Lessons in leadership from Mikel Arteta

05 Jan 2023

This Christmas break I finally got around to watching the Arsenal: All or Nothing documentary released earlier this year on Amazon. The series follows Arsenal for the duration of the 2021/2022 season, which on the surface ended in disappointment but was also one of under-appreciated progress in my view....

The emerging DeSci stack

21 Dec 2022

Over the past few months we’ve seen the emergence of the decentralised science (DeSci) stack. For simplicity's sake, I’ve broken it down into 3 core layers - infrastructure, middleware and applications. Infrastructure. Putting scientific research on-chain, not just online, enables anyone to access it. Most of...