Maria Barrera,
Clayful
Scale the Bright Spots
Startups can address important mental health problems, but maintaining mental health in startup culture is challenging.
“How can we do more, with less?” asks Amy Francetic, managing partner of Buoyant Ventures. Investments that leverage digital technologies to address climate risk, she finds, can be a perfect fit for the ten-year time horizon of a VC firm. Those solutions, she adds, can scale more quickly (and with less capital) than important but hardware-intensive solutions like fuel cell and battery chemistry innovation.