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Equal Ventures is looking to bring on an Associate to focus on researching industry themes, sourcing opportunities, analyzing investments and working alongside our founders. This role will primarily focus on opportunities in Insurtech, working closely with the founding partners and other team members to support our investment activity in the space. This role is open to Pre or Post MBA candidates.

The note below was one shared with our team and a select group of LPs on 11/15/2021. Little did we know that the time of this writing would represent the NASDAQ all-time high. While perhaps it’s a bit late to avoid some of the negative consequences of the downturn, we wanted to share in the interest of the lessons that firms and founders can learn from “Equal Ventures’s 5 Principles of Resiliency”.

At Equal, we have been following the challenging supply and demand dynamics within the $56B childcare industry since well before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The most critical driver of the U.S. child care crisis today is the lack of supply coupled with the already high and growing demand for childcare, which has led to long waitlists for care and increasingly expensive tuition rates. In October 2016, the Center for American Progress reported that 42% of American children under five years of age live in areas where there is an insufficient supply of child care centers, with the problem exacerbated for the low-middle class.

2 years ago when we led SmartHop’s seed round, we shared a vision with Guillermo to democratize the road for truckers. These truckers faced tough working conditions and low pay, but perhaps even more concerning was how the long-tail of drivers were exploited by the industry. This long-tail wasn’t some fringe case, it was the majority of the truck drivers in America (which is about 3.4m drivers in 2020).

Just over a year ago, we announced our investment in David Energy — a new type of power company.