By Kavedon Kapital Team — Our emotional well-being frequently trumps other motivations. Within the complex behavioural biases, Kavedon Kapital considers regret as one of the most challenging to overcome. Yet, the academic and practitioner literature has paid relatively little attention to it. Neurologically, the impact of regret targets the same part of your brain as…

Author: Jasper Ettema — Portfolio Manager — Whenever talking or listening to investors, most of these conversations seem pretty similar. Investors will keep emphasising that “team” is the most critical factor for success, so they invest in good teams. Additionally, they will mention looking for signs of scalability in the startup’s business models. To serve investors with…

Author: Andrew Hughes — Head of Founder Relations — In the world today there is a millennia-worth of collectively hard-won data leaking from almost every company, especially start-ups. Let me put it another way, if these leaks were the results of hacking of yottabytes of digitally stored data there would be a collective outcry and yet it passes by…

Author: Jeremy Roberts — Partner — Agtech 101 In the forty years between 1959 and 1999, the world’s population doubled from 3 to 6 billion. By 2037, it is expected to increase by 50% to 9 billion and hit 10 billion by 2057. While you may say the primary aim of Agtech is to develop innovative ways to…

Author: Croydon Fernandes — Analyst — The view from an outsider in the VC hemisphere I’ve been reading up a lot about Venture Capital funds of late, and while it has been an intimidating world to go through, I’ve realised that not all is as scary as it sounds. …

Author: Carol Tarr — Portfolio Manager — ESG stands for Environmental, Social and Governance and together form the three standards companies are scored on by the various ratings agencies. Although there are numerous ESG ratings agencies and their methodologies vary, the scores are supposed to reflect the strategy and readiness of a company to tackle issues particular…

Author: Iva Rakocevic — The crypto market is booming tremendously nowadays, with the overall capitalization of cryptocurrencies approaching USD 2 trillion. Everyday more and more people are investing in cryptocurrencies to make a living. But as different technologies develop, these new “coins” come with different sets of risks. In the first half of 2021…

Author: Kavedon Kapital Behavioural Science Team — “There are only 3 people in the world who know whether there is a property bubble in China. I am one of them and the other two people work for me.” – CEO of a Chinese real estate company, 2015 Let’s start with a question. What do you estimate the…

Author : Ieva Katiliute — Product market fit is a common concept in the start-up world and arguably the most important thing when developing a product and raising capital at any stage. Having a good product-market fit means developing a product or service that the market needs and sometimes doesn’t even know it. Obvious product…