| Date | Title | Description |
| 16.08.2023 | Inception with Charlie Silver, CEO of Ruby Bio | Managing Partner Mike Edelhart talks with Charlie Silver, CEO of Ruby Bio, a company making sustainable, scaleable replacements for the harmful chemicals found in the products we use every day.
In this episode, Charlie shares how he and hi... |
| 16.08.2023 | The Investment Potential of Personalized Psychedelics | Photo by Victoria Rain
Our funds focus on the apex of health and happiness, so naturally, we are fascinated by the potential of psychedelics. By lifting mood, expanding brain-body interaction, deepening focus, and shifting one’s sense of s... |
| 16.08.2023 | Alba Health: A Microbiome Map for Your Baby’s Well-Being | Photo by Victoria Rain
Joyance Partners invests in companies that cultivate joy through science and tech to improve the way we live, for good. So naturally, we’re thrilled to announce our participation in Alba Health’s recent raise. Alba f... |
| 14.06.2023 | Why Joyance? A Win-Win Opportunity to Leverage Data Science for Good | I began at Stanford with the intention of achieving a Bachelor's Degree in Philosophy and a minor in Computer Science. Then, the pandemic hit, and a year before my original graduation date, I made a daring decision: the unsatisfying experie... |
| 26.05.2023 | Investing in Delightful Moments with Managing Partner Mike Edelhart on Builder Nation Podcast | In a recent interview, Builder Nation’s Elisa Munoz delved deep into Managing Partner Mike Edelhart’s 40+ years of experience to explore the core principles driving entrepreneurial success.
Here are a few of the highlights, including the i... |
| 12.05.2023 | Inception with Katy Cottam, CEO of Luna Daily | Managing Partner Mike Edelhart talks with CEO Katy Cottam about how Luna Daily makes microbiome-balancing, taboo-breaking body care for all skin, even the most intimate. In this episode, Katy shares how a life-altering health experience at ... |
| 12.05.2023 | 2023 Father’s Day Gift Guide to Health and Happiness
FITNESS
FOOD
DRINK
HOME
FASHION
BODYCARE
PARENTING | Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash
Want to give Dad the gift of joy? Surprise him with a unique and innovative offering from one of the remarkable companies in our portfolio.
Epicore Biosystems’ Gx Sweat Patch is a skin-like patch that ca... |
| 05.05.2023 | Where We Are Investing Now: Ground Breaking Beauty & Pioneering Personal Care | Photo by cottonbro studio
Consumers’ sense of what it means to “look good” keeps shifting, so naturally, the beauty industry must constantly evolve and adapt to fresh demands. This is abundantly true with the emergence of Gen Z, whose digi... |
| 01.05.2023 | Where We Are Investing Now: Forward-Thinking Food & Drink | Photo by Gustavo Fring
The global Food and Beverage market is huge, growing, and constantly changing. In 2022, the animal protein, snacks, and alcohol markets were valued at around $1.4T each, with coffee and tea at an impressive $650B. Fo... |
| 01.05.2023 | Inception with Amélie Quilichini, CEO of Kolibri | Managing Partner Mike Edelhart speaks with Amélie Quilichini, CEO of Kolibri, a company that plays music to cells to unlock the cell culture revolution.
In this episode, Amélie shares the ingenious way Kolibri uses acoustic waves to create... |
| 26.04.2023 | 50 Years of VC Culture - Are We Innovating Toward a Dead End? Or Is It A New Beginning? | From hand-cranked computers to touchpad screens, from “walking on the skulls of the dead” to building teams in virtual worlds, our oldest partner Mike Edelhart and youngest partner Jenna Jung discuss the difference 50 years have made in rev... |
| 19.04.2023 | Where We Are Investing Now: Transformative Techbio | Photo by Artem Podrez
As our Managing Partner’s mentor Bill Ziff used to say: “Language is truth.” In other words, the way we describe things actually alters the nature of the reality around us. Such is the case now in our perspective on d... |
| 18.04.2023 | Where We Are Investing Now - Life-Altering Alternative Materials | Photo by Polina Tankilevitch
Materials, both those derived from nature and human-created, are essential to products, packaging, technology, and transportation. Modern life isn’t possible without them.
Sadly, though, most of them are not h... |
| 14.04.2023 | Gift Mom the Gift of Joy! | Photo by Ketut Subiyanto
Want to give Mom the gift of joy? Surprise her with a unique and innovative offering from one of the remarkable companies in our portfolio.
Scent Lab takes hyper-personalized approach to finding Mom’s perfect frag... |
| 14.04.2023 | Inception with Lauren Picasso, CEO of Cure Hydration | Managing Partner Mike Edelhart talks with Lauren Picasso, CEO of Cure, a premium hydration brand with a science-backed formula, plant-based ingredients, no added sugar, and 4x the electrolytes of leading sports drinks.
In this episode, Lau... |
| 13.04.2023 | Where We Are Investing Now: Next-Gen Neurotech | Photo by Yan Krukau
In a world awash in stress, neurotech that lifts mood, diminishes anxiety, deepens positive behavior and otherwise benefits individuals is supremely important. Even so, in terms of investment, this category faces tough ... |
| 13.04.2023 | Inception with Sabina Bruehlmann, CEO of Nimble | Managing Partner Mike Edelhart talks with Sabina Bruehlmann, CEO of Nimble, a company transforming personalized health through actionable intelligence from the gut microbiome.
In this episode, Sabina shares how Nimble’s novel science unloc... |
| 12.04.2023 | Where We Are Investing Now: Pivotal Personal Health | Photo by Ketut Subiyanto
Personal health is, and long has been, big business.
The US healthcare expenditure reached $4.3 trillion in 2021 and is estimated to reach $6.2 trillion by 2028. The US spent nearly 16.8% GDP on healthcare in 2019... |
| 28.02.2023 | Moving Beyond The Unicorn | Photo credit: Cottonbro Studio
The time has come, I believe, to move beyond the unicorn.
Over recent decades, it has become common cant that the purpose of venture capital is to create unicorns. The more unicorns a fund has, the better it... |
| 27.02.2023 | Inception with Jamie McCroskery, CEO of Bluebird | Managing Partner Mike Edelhart talks with Jamie McCroskery, CEO of Bluebird, helping brands produce climate-friendly products and authentic sustainability stories about them.
In this episode, Jamie shares how living on a glacier in New Zea... |
| 17.02.2023 | Inception with Chris Bryson, CEO of New School Foods | Managing Partner Mike Edelhart talks with Chris Bryson, CEO of New School Foods, about creating whole-cut fish made entirely from plants that looks, cooks, flakes, and tastes just like wild salmon.
As the past founder of a successful e-com... |
| 17.02.2023 | Why We Invest in Women-Led Startups (Spoiler: It’s Not Because They’re Women) | Founders and investors are ringing in the new year with a sobering statistic: In 2022, 82.2% of VC funding capital went to startups without a single woman on the founding team.
Before I unpack this stat, spoiler alert: Joyance Partners, wh... |
| 28.01.2023 | This Venture Capitalist Says Corporate Priorities Are Converging With His Business Model | Photo by Christina @ wocintechchat.com on Unsplash
The following is a guest post our Managing Partner Mike Edelhart wrote for Forbes Assistant Editor Diane Brady’s CIO Newsletter - click here to subscribe.
Before I got into venture capi... |
| 25.01.2023 | Quotes to Entrepreneur By: Oldies Edition | When times are hard, and these times certainly qualify, it’s helpful to return to first principles. And so as we face Biblical rain and emerging tribalism, I find comfort in the advice of the ancient sages; in this case, I’m harkening all t... |
| 12.01.2023 | Inception with Martin Stübler, CEO of BioFluff | Managing Partner Mike Edelhart talks with Martin Stübler, CEO of BioFluff, developing the world’s first entirely plant-based fur.
In this episode, Martin explains how a 12-week lockdown in a tiny town in Catalunya sparked the idea for his ... |
| 10.01.2023 | Facing Chaotic Times as Early-Stage Investors | Photo by Andras Kovacs on Unsplash
Usually, at the start of the new year, it’s natural to make predictions about the year ahead. But this year is different.
As 2023 begins, the world is simply too chaotic for realistic predictions. Anyone... |
| 16.12.2022 | Five Tenets for Investing during Turbulent Times | Photo by Tom Barrett on Unsplash
As we traverse through turbulent times in venture—stagnant public markets, economic instability, weird climate behavior, sagging valuations, spasms of layoffs—it seemed like a good moment to revisit some of... |
| 01.12.2022 | The Sorry State of American Healthcare | Photo by Markus Frieauff on Unsplash
American healthcare is failing.
This isn’t just a personal opinion; it is the finding of a deep survey just released by Gallup and West Health.
On all the key measures, Americans graded the health sys... |
| 01.12.2022 | Inception with Sarah Adler, CEO of Wave | In this episode of our Inception podcast, Managing Partner Mike Edelhart talks with Sarah Adler, CEO of Wave, a mental health digital ecosystem designed for the digital native.
Sarah shares how her past career as a hedge fund analyst and c... |
| 01.12.2022 | Babies and Bathwater: Is Crypto Done? | Photo by Lubomirkin on Unsplash
We aren’t active as crypto investors.
While valuations and hype here grew exponentially, we stayed on the sidelines. The primary reason for that is core economics. Any currency of true value must be backed ... |
| 11.11.2022 | 2022 Health and Happiness Gift Guide: Food, Drink, & Home | Photo by National Cancer Institute on Unsplash
‘Tis the season to be shopping – that overwhelming time each year when we endeavor to find the perfect, unique gifts for all the perfect, unique people in our lives.
Let’s reduce that stress.... |
| 11.11.2022 | 2022 Health and Happiness Gift Guide: Fashion, Beauty, and Bodycare | 2022 Health and Happiness Gift Guide: Fashion, Beauty, & Bodycare
‘Tis the season to be shopping – that overwhelming time each year when we endeavor to find the perfect, unique gifts for all the perfect, unique people in our lives.
Le... |
| 11.11.2022 | 2022 Health and Happiness Gift Guide: Mental Health & Self Care | Photo by Toa Heftiba on Unsplash
‘Tis the season to be shopping – that overwhelming time each year when we endeavor to find the perfect, unique gifts for all the perfect, unique people in our lives.
Let’s reduce that stress. Our diverse p... |
| 11.11.2022 | 2022 Health and Happiness Gift Guide: Parents, Kids, & Seniors | ‘Tis the season to be shopping – that overwhelming time each year when we endeavor to find the perfect, unique gifts for all the perfect, unique people in our lives.
Let’s reduce that stress. Our diverse portfolio of companies has gifts su... |
| 08.11.2022 | Where We Want to Invest: Value from the Air | Photo by Raychan on Unsplash
We’ve been on a quest to find startups that can produce valuable products directly from the air for more than two years. This endeavor began with water; our investment thesis has been, simply: “Pure water in th... |
| 04.11.2022 | Where We're Investing Now: Gen Z | Photo by Devin Avery on Unsplash
As an investor, founders creating startups aimed at Gen Z are some of my favorites. I’m amongst the first waves of Gen Z to slowly start trickling out of school and into the workforce, so obviously I’m thri... |
| 22.10.2022 | Is the Unicorn Party Over? | Photo by Meritt Thomas on Unsplash
A chart from Pitchbook’s recent “Snapshot of Global Markets” paints a dramatically downbeat picture of unicorn creation right now.
It‘s obvious from this chart that unicorn production peaked in the fall ... |
| 05.10.2022 | The Blossoming of our Bioscience Focus | Throughout time, science has responded to medical challenges with blunt instruments. Does this treatment work for some? Give it to everyone! This drug may help, or it may hurt. Let’s play the odds! The side effects are horrible, but death i... |
| 04.10.2022 | Wealth and Happiness: The Annual Report | The latest version of the World Happiness Index is out.
This is a report that tracks what I call the European Model of Happiness. This means happiness as a function of material sufficiency and comfort. That model is opposed to Philosophica... |
| 02.10.2022 | Nurturing our Neuroscience Focus | Photo by Priyanka Singh on Unsplash
Clearly, the ability to read, stimulate, or alter the patterns of the brain is core to the concept of delightful moments. Whether through relief from anxiety or stress, creation of calm or comfort, initi... |
| 02.10.2022 | The Foundation of our Food and Drink Focus | The first time we officially declared Food as a focus area was in the spring of 2018. “We see an impending tech-driven revolution in food, top to bottom,” we proclaimed. The never-ending hunt for new ingredients can indicate what people are... |
| 02.10.2022 | The Cultivation of our Community Focus | Photo by Elena Mozhvilo on Unsplash
The first time we officially identified “Community” as a prime investment area was in March of 2020. However, in January of 2018, we kicked off the year with a post about Social networking that touches h... |
| 02.10.2022 | The Motivation Behind our Microbiome Focus | Photo by CDC on Unsplash
Scientific exploration of the microbiome represents the opening of one of the greatest areas of science in decades, perhaps centuries. The biome utterly defines novel new approaches to the prevention and treatment ... |
| 02.10.2022 | Can Delight Tech Startups Achieve Greater Success? Five Years of Science-Based Health and Happiness Investment Strategy | Photo by Bart LaRue on Unsplash
Analysis of the global picture of human change is essential to our funds. In 2017, we launched a fund with the specific goal of investing in companies that create Delightful Moments, which we defined as “eme... |
| 13.09.2022 | Inception with Christoph Jenny, Co-Founder of Planted | Managing Partner Mike Edelhart talks with Christoph Jenny, co-founder of Planted, a company producing delicious plant-based meat with only natural ingredients and perfect bite.
In this episode, Christoph talks about how their clear-cut cor... |
| 26.08.2022 | Entrepreneurship and The Power of Pessimism | Photo by Brandon Morgan on Unsplash
My last blog post was a paean of the importance of optimism for entrepreneurs. Without optimism, entrepreneurship is intolerable.
Now, I’m going to flip that script and sing the praises of pessimism. An... |
| 18.08.2022 | Inception with Stella Smith, CEO of pirkx | Managing Partner Mike Edelhart talks with Stella Smith, CEO of pirkx, providing affordable health and wellbeing benefits to anyone – whether self-employed, part of a small business, or an individual and their family.
In this episode, Stell... |
| 09.08.2022 | The Pink Elephant Pitch (aka How to Turn Off a VC) | I make it a practice to always think the best of everyone. I didn’t use to. When younger, I was a world-class Calvinist cynic. You were damned until overwhelming evidence proved otherwise. As I have put that lamentable attitude behind me, l... |
| 09.08.2022 | Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story? | Photo by Nandhu Kumar on Unsplash
Who lives, who dies, who tells your story?
This is the theme underlying the breakthrough historical musical Hamilton. Alexander Hamilton was a driven entrepreneur at heart. An immigrant, the son of pove... |
| 11.01.2022 | Woody's Guthrie's List for a Well Lived Year | Image: Open Culture
There is brains and there is brilliance. Much more rarely, there is genius.
One of the figures of genius in my life has been the folk singer and activist Woody Guthrie. Literally an Okie, Guthrie followed the dust bowl... |
| 03.08.2021 | Living Longer and Living Better: SH2, the Science of Health and Happiness Fund | Our new sister fund, SH2, the Science of Health and Happiness fund, just completed its initial close, so this seemed a natural time to talk about its strategy and focus.
SH2 seeks to invest, at the earliest possible stage, in companies tra... |
| 03.07.2021 | Why We're A Data-Driven VC | Photo by Adeolu Eletu on Unsplash
We’ve said for years that we are data driven early-stage investors. But it only just occurred to me that we have never really explained what that means in a public forum. We’ve only talked about our unique... |
| 24.06.2021 | Inception with Oriana Papin-Zoghbi, CEO of AOA Dx | Oriana Papin-Zoghbi is CEO of AOA Dx, revolutionizing early diagnosis of ovarian cancer. In this episode, Oriana talks about the science behind their groundbreaking, first-of-its-kind liquid biopsy test; how the phenomenal relationship she ... |
| 12.06.2021 | Where We Are Investing Now: Architecture, Workspaces, and Surroundings | Photo by Alexander Abero on Unsplash
Architecture
The pandemic has changed our perception of our communities, our homes, and living spaces in general. We’ve been forced to take shelter in spaces that we didn’t design for full-time occupan... |
| 09.06.2021 | Inception with Tal Brown, CEO of Zone7 | Tal Brown is Co-Founder and CEO of Zone7, a data-driven AI system that helps coaches and athletes optimize for peak performance and forecast injury risk. In this episode, Tal talks about the powerful algorithms his team has developed to per... |
| 12.05.2021 | Where We Are Investing Now: Food | Photo by Natural Chef Carolyn Nicholas on Unsplash
Food and drink are essential for survival and are also new expressions of the emerging science of health and happiness. Increasingly, science is indicating that what we eat is the first st... |
| 26.04.2021 | Where We Are Investing Now: Neuroscience and Delightful Moments | Photo by Priyanka Singh on Unsplash
Neuroscience has been a focus area for our funds for over five years. Now, as we emerge from this global experience of shared pandemic-induced stress and anxiety, the importance of new modes for modulati... |
| 21.04.2021 | Inception with Sana Alajmovic, CEO of Sigrid Therapeutics | Sana Alajmovic is CEO of Sigrid, a company transforming the way we prevent and treat chronic lifestyle diseases. In this episode, Sana explains the science behind their groundbreaking first product, an all-natural, tasteless white powder th... |
| 14.04.2021 | Inception with Daniel Chait, CEO of Greenhouse | Daniel Chait is CEO of Greenhouse and co-author of the book Talent Makers: How the best companies win through structured and inclusive hiring. In this episode, Daniel shares fascinating insights into Greenhouse's dynamic growth over the las... |
| - | Inception with Oded Kraft, CEO of Gray Matters | Oded Kraft is CEO of Gray Matters, an adjunct to standard of care digital therapeutics solution for treating mental and neurological disorders. In this episode, Oded talks about how GrayMatters is using this revolutionary technology to prov... |
| - | What Makes a Successful AI Company? – A Venture Capitalist’s Perspective | "We’re looking for the impact of science on the way the individual feels. In that realm, there are a whole slew of ways AI can contribute."
In this episode of the "AI in Industry" podcast, Managing Partner Mike Edelhart... |
| - | Where We Are Investing Now: Next-Gen Food | Photo by Taylor Kiser on Unsplash
Digitally Native Vertical Brands are a primary investment focus area for our funds. But one offshoot of that segment has unique characteristics that make it particularly intriguing: Food. Next-gen food.
O... |
| - | Vaccinating the Public Against Incorrect Health Information with “Knowledge Shots” | Author Vincent Waldman, PhD, is the Director of Video Production at our portfolio company, Osmosis.org.
More than 80% of American Internet users have searched for health information online, which is up from 62% in 2001. People are interest... |
| - | Avoid These Pitfalls When Pitching To VCs | Photo by Christina @ wocintechchat.com on Unsplash
I met with a first-time entrepreneur this week. He was an affable fellow, passionate about what he was creating---a new, pure food product aimed at athletes—and prepared with an extremely ... |
| - | Where We Are Investing Now: Digital Brands | Photo by Brooke Lark on Unsplash
Both of our fund families focus on consumer products.
Social Starts takes the angle of commerce and focuses on Digitally Native Brands based purely on their market characteristics. Joyance focuses on consu... |
| - | Quotes to Entrepreneur By: Hope in the Time of Covid | Photo by Wes Hicks on Unsplash
It has been a long year. It feels like several long years, actually, jam-packed into a few dreary months. Locked down, cooped up, hemmed in, beset by a profusion of woes, wary of illness and peeking between o... |
| - | Joyance Partners to Co-Sponsor Longevity Track at Davos 2020 | Joyance Partners is thrilled to be co-sponsoring the Longevity track at Davos WEF 2020 this year. Principal Neha Tanna will speak on a panel with political and healthcare industry representatives about the socioeconomic implications of an a... |
| - | Inception with Dr. Franziska Leonhardt, Co-Founder of Ave + Edam | Dr. Franziska Leonhardt is co-founder of Ave + Edam, creating personalized, clean, and vegan skincare backed by advanced technologies and dermatological expertise. In this episode, Franziska talks about the genesis of her first-of-its-kind ... |
| - | Where We Are Investing Now: Personal Robotics | Photo by Andy Kelly on Unsplash
Personal Robotics has historically been a small but solid focus area for our funds. We should continue this year as we did in 2019. That means looking hard at robots in medical/health, education, and vertica... |
| - | Inception with Tyler Shultz, CEO of Flux Biosciences | Tyler Shultz is CEO of Flux Biosciences, a company that repurposes the tech used to read and write computer hard drives to perform sensitive and quantitative point-of-care in vitro medical diagnostics. In this episode, Tyler talks about tra... |
| - | Meet the Joyance Partners Team! | We have partners arrayed across the globe with deep backgrounds in biosciences, neurosciences, AR/VR, and commerce. Our team includes partners with decades of cumulative experience in tech, media, business, science, and law, and well-establ... |
| - | Why We Love Our Work | Our diverse and knowledgeable team truly loves the work that we do at Joyance Partners. Hear directly from us about the highlights of working with such a unique and flexible fund.
UNITED STATES | EUROPE | JAPAN
Part of the family of Atara... |
| - | The Health and Happiness Gift Guide: Fitness and Self Care | Photo by Taisiia Stupak on Unsplash
‘Tis the season to be shopping – that frantic time each year when we endeavor to find the perfect, unique gifts for all the perfect, unique people in our lives, and all while masked and socially distance... |
| - | COVID-19 Edition: Wellthy’s Care Framework Supports Families in Times of Crisis | Photo by Gus Moretta on Unsplash
*COVID-19: We are committed to helping our community through this crisis. To that end, our incredible portfolio companies have many materials and products to assist in this time of need, and we will be prom... |
| - | Free Telehealth for Mental Health Practices | All,
I am writing this letter to share my mental health journey and how it led to a business decision we are making at Beam Health.
For as long as I can remember, I always wanted to build things. I spent much of my teens dreaming of start... |
| - | The Seven Deadly Startup Sins | As the holiday season approaches, with its associations toward the year past and the years ahead, my mind takes a religious turn. And so, let us now consider the deadly sins that may wipe some startups from the Earth by this time next year:... |
| - | What We Wish We Were Investing in Now: Serendipity Systems | Photo by Sapan Patel on Unsplash
Humans love serendipity. Unlike so many other species, we crave new joys; we delight in dancing past the edge of our experience into the unknown, and then returning safely to the fold.
I have often said th... |
| - | Inception with Shiv Gaglani, CEO of Osmosis | Shiv Gaglani is the co-founder and CEO of Osmosis, which empowers the world's clinicians and caregivers with the best learning experience possible. In this episode, Shiv talks about what it's like to be the only tech entrepreneur in a famil... |
| - | Digitally Native Vertical Brands and the New Power of Women | Photo by Laura Marques on Unsplash
One of our most active areas of investment over the past year has been Digitally Native Vertical Brands. These are consumer product companies that:
· Are sold online.
· Have products that can be micro-m... |
| - | What's Your Delightful Moment? | Delightful Moments are part of all human experience: the small, but powerful, separations from the daily humdrum when we feel stronger, calmer, more joyful, more in control, and more distant from pain and anxiety.
At the Joyance Partners k... |
| - | Inception with Hunter Rosenblume, CEO of Lunar Wireless | Hunter Rosenblume is CEO of Lunar Wireless, an app that can save you up to 50% on your monthly phone bill. In this episode, Hunter talks about his phone-themed bar mitzvah, the challenges of pivoting his company three times, how he convince... |
| - | Joining Joyance Partners as a Venture Partner | I am happy to announce that in addition to my role as COO at Findity, I have joined Joyance Partners as their Nordic-region Venture Partner. I'm very much looking forward to helping the team find the best startups able to enhance the health... |
| - | Where We Are Investing Now: Next-Gen Community | Photo by Melissa Askew on Unsplash
That first generation of digital community - The Pinterest/Facebook generation - was delineated by scale. They created evocative, even addictive, interactions that could touch billions and essentially cre... |
| - | The Health and Happiness Gift Guide: Kids, Teens, and Home | Photo by Jerry Wang on Unsplash
‘Tis the season to be shopping – that frantic time each year when we endeavor to find the perfect, unique gifts for all the perfect, unique people in our lives.
Let us help you reduce that stress. Our diver... |
| - | Woody Guthrie's List for a Well Lived Year | Image: Open Culture
There is brains and there is brilliance. Much more rarely, there is genius.
One of the figures of genius in my life has been the folk singer and activist Woody Guthrie. Literally an Okie, Guthrie followed the dust bowl... |
| - | Inception with Mike Selden, CEO of Finless Foods | Mike Selden is CEO of Finless Foods, bringing sustainable, delicious seafood to the world without having to farm or harvest live fish. In this episode, Mike talks about how growing up watching Miyazaki films affected his vision for his comp... |
| - | Inception with Polly Rodriguez, CEO of Unbound | Polly Rodriguez is CEO of Unbound, an erotic product brand changing how feminists explore and enjoy their sex lives. In this episode, Polly discusses how sexual wellbeing is core to personal health, the way technology is enabling democracy ... |
| - | Where We Are Investing Now: Longevity and Senior Care | Photo by Melissa Askew on Unsplash
When it comes to getting older, the numbers tell a tale of dramatic growth:. By 2050, the 65+ population in the US will double.That population will have the highest net worth of any age category in the US... |
| - | Joyance Partners Bikes for a Cause | On July 19th, three of our adventurous and dedicated partners dropped their laptops, put their calendars on hold, and hopped on their bikes to help raise money for charity.
Joyance Partners was proud to be a main sponsor of this year’s 201... |
| - | Delightful Moments for Dad: Our Father’s Day Gift Guide | Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash
Is your dad tired of receiving tedious ties and tools? Give him a unique gift of delight with these fresh and innovative offerings from our diverse portfolio of remarkable companies.
Flawless Food and ... |
| - | Logic and Infrastructure in the Crypto Craze | “Were it not for the power of irrationality, cryptocurrencies would likely be an obscure asset class circling the extreme fringes of the financial world and anarchist chatrooms.”
Managing Partner Mike Edelhart discusses logic and infrastru... |
| - | What are the Real Superpowers of Startup Success? | Photo by TK Hammonds on Unsplash
In doing some outside research recently, I came across many references to startup CEO “superpowers,” the characteristics that separate the big winners from the also-rans in the race for value and exits.
No... |
| - | Inception with Melanie Travis, CEO of Andie Swimwear | Melanie Travis is CEO of Andie, a swimwear brand made by women, for women. In this episode, Melanie talks about the bright moment she realized the key to her success, the surprising pros of having zero swimwear expertise when she started he... |
| - | New Vertical SaaS Investment Areas: Dirty but Good | Photo by Eddie Kopp on Unsplash
Our funds adjust their investment theses as we analyze changes in the world around us. One of the emerging areas where we see promise is Vertical SaaS. We feel that, among companies, software hasn’t actually... |
| - | Words to Entrepreneur By | As I plow through the daily tasks of work and life, I collect quotes that resonate for me. Because of who I am and what I do, these tend to center around optimism, effort, endurance, and success. I call them Words to Entrepreneur By.
Here’... |
| - | Where We Are Investing Now: Neuroscience | Photo credit: geralt on Pixabay
Humans, like computers, are both hardware and software. Human hardware consists of cells, bones, blood, all the physical stuff that comprises our bodies and their many systems. Human software is psychology, ... |
| - | The Next Billion | Photo by NeONBRAND on Unsplash
Big news- we’re raising another billion. Another billion internet users worldwide, that is. In a recent report by GSMA, the total population of internet users is expected to increase from 3.3 billion in 2017 ... |
| - | Press Release: Joyance Partners Announces European Expansion | London, UK - May 02, 2019 -- Joyance Partners, a venture capital partnership that invests in early-stage companies that deliver delightful moments, announced today its expansion into Europe and the addition of three new team members.
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| - | Where We Are Investing Now: Life Sciences, Part 1 | Photo by Karim Ghantous on Unsplash
Our funds center around the emerging science of health and happiness. No areas of science are more central to that theme than bioscience and neuroscience.
With the initiation of Joyance Partners, our fu... |
| - | The Anniversary of Inception with Senior Principal Emi Gonzalez | To celebrate the third anniversary of Inception, Managing Partner Mike Edelhart talks with Emi Gonzalez, the youngest partner at our funds, who focuses on biotech and healthcare investments. In this episode, Emi and Mike discuss the latest ... |
