Feb 12, 2024
As a firm, we are obsessive about the industries that we invest in. We do an immense amount of work to study how these industries operate and develop a POV on how they could operate in the future. Where we get most excited, however, is when we see an opportunity for the companies we partner with to create those futures — to make the theoretical possible.
Jan 30, 2024
The Equal Ventures Insurance Index is a quarterly summary of trends in the insurance industry based on public equity performance. This post summarizes performance of our indices and of the broader industry in Q4 2023, and showcases valuation trends over calendar year 2023.
Jan 25, 2024
In the startup world, an aspiration many of us share is to be a part of building something special. A product or business that becomes a stalwart in its industry and innovates to better serve its customers and partners. Through my own journey, I believe that Equal Ventures has the potential to be one such institution in the venture industry, and I’m thrilled to rejoin the team after a few years on the operator side.
Jan 24, 2024
The insurance industry notoriously moves slowly, but today must evolve rapidly in the face of climate change. Underwriters have long been able to rely on backward-looking datasets to assess probable risk in the future — leveraging historical data to predict the frequency and severity of loss is the heart of actuarial analysis. But as changing weather patterns impact property insurance (and our world more broadly), the industry needs to adopt new approaches for risk selection and risk management.
Jan 3, 2024
Recently, our friends at Boldstart Ventures wrote a piece about “Inception Investing,” investing at the formation stage of the company, highlighting the evolution we’re seeing in the seed stage venture market. We wrote about some of these dynamics in our post, “Seed is the new Series A,” discussing the implications of these evolutions and the need for investors to align their strategies and core competencies to where they’re best positioned for today’s market.