Carol Tarr — Portfolio Manager — In these interviews, taken between May and June 2022, four Kavedon Kapital partners and a portfolio manager share their experiences and learnings from previous crises with visions for thriving in current conditions. With multiple crashes weathered between them, they have a broad overview of the effect of cycles on the startup ecosystem, the opportunities they provide and how to leverage all types of conditions for growth, profitability and, most importantly, during these critical periods: survival and renewal.

Carol Tarr — Portfolio Manager — In these interviews, taken between May and June 2022, four Kavedon Kapital partners and a portfolio manager share their experiences and learnings from previous crises with visions for thriving in current conditions. With multiple crashes weathered between them, they have a broad overview of the effect of cycles on the startup ecosystem, the opportunities they provide and how to leverage all types of conditions for growth, profitability and, most importantly, during these critical periods: survival and renewal.

Author: Iva Rakocevic — Associate Partner — After over two decades of a bull market run, we have been facing a downturn. Companies are struggling, inflation and rising interest rates, energy prices, changes in consumer habits, and in general global instability have influenced it all. Both crypto and private markets are declining, which makes some entrepreneurs and…

Carol Tarr — Portfolio Manager — Decentralization drives much of the promise behind Web3, offering the promise of a “bankless” and “permissionless” future meaning to operate without the need for centralized banks or government oversight. Although one may think that Decentralized Financed (DeFi as opposed to TradFi or Traditional Finance) is all about crypto-derivatives, yield-farming and speculative “moonshots” making millions overnight on dog-meme coins, you might be surprised to learn that DeFi offers new and innovative opportunities for solving old inequalities.

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. …