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Founders have often asked Sara about family leave at startups, e.g. "how much leave is appropriate?" and "what's the best way to keep upheaval to a minimum?" She wrote a comprehensive response, including a simple template that any startup can use for its family leave policy:

I'm excited to announce Spero Ventures's latest investment: Guide! Guide enables companies to create delightful candidate experiences during the recruiting process. Guide helps companies win more candidates. I wrote more here: blog.andrewparker.net/guide-and-the-…

I started writing this post about Agency a couple of months ago, but it feels even more relevant today. shripriya.com/blog/2022/03/1…

A no-stats all-star is someone whose contributions don’t always show up in top-line stats—but, without them, everyone's worse off. I want to salute all the no-stats all-stars out there in the Spero Ventures portfolio and beyond. :) Who’s yours?

Spero Ventures is a thesis-driven firm, and we strive to be transparent about what excites us. Recently, we all took a thesis topic and went deep. I chose API-First companies. It's a long read, and it's a work in progress I hope to adapt over time: blog.andrewparker.net/api-first-lego…

For the past 3 years, Huckleberry has hosted the world’s largest Mother’s Day card exchange. I’ve written & received cards 3 years in a row and was excited to get one on Sunday. 🙂 Reflecting, I think there's more to this "feature" than meets the eye: medium.com/speroventures/…

Why Singularity? marctarpenning.com/why-singularit…

Rapid reforestation! Start-up DroneSeed provides seedlings & #drones to swiftly replenish scorched land - just 30 days after wildfires end. CEO Grant Canary talks growth, financing & scaling up 👇

Absolutely love the work that Grant Canary and the Droneseed team are doing.

After a new invention speeds up menial & repetitive tasks, we think - the "old way of doing things was such a terrible use of a creative, thinking, feeling human being’s time.” This will be true for what Corvus Robotics does, too shripriya.com/blog/2022/08/1…

1) We’re proud to announce we have closed a Series A+ funding round to support our global growth & accelerate development of new products to fight #AirPollution & #climatechange, co-led by Amasia & Kickstart Ventures along w/ bit.ly/3dGdHne

1/ I can't stop thinking about this graph. It shows how at-home COVID-19 testing rapidly reached 5X the capacity of lab testing. Thought experiment: what if we did this for other illnesses? What would that take? How many diseases could be caught, understood, and treated sooner?

#Berkeley #startup Clarity Movement's work to address #airpollution was recently featured in Forbes. Read the full article to learn how Clarity's #airquality monitoring sensors provide continuous, real-time data that’s affordable, scalable and accurate. forbes.com/sites/jamiehai…

Thought for the new year...humans are systematically terrible quitters. We should all be quitting more, sooner. But quitting isn't just for big life-altering decisions. Quitting small again and again adds up. medium.com/speroventures/…

I need my writing to be fun again, so I'm going backwards. Here's my latest -- shripriya.com/blog/2023/01/1…

Meeting a great person is such a mood-lifter. Just had two great conversations today. Win! In that theme, I wrote a short post on Connecting People shripriya.com/blog/2023/04/0…

Valley OG, Tesla co-founder and engineering VP Marc Tarpenning now Venture Partner at Spero Ventures spoke with Yes VC Partner Jyri Engeström at the Expensify Lounge in SF today on energy and climate tech, hosted by SILTA 🌎

Our earliest sustainability investment was in 2017 in Mast Reforestation, back then, called DroneSeed. Grateful to have continued to invest in companies building a more sustainable world. Thanks, to Sightline Climate (CTVC) for including us!

I wrote about having to live in reality and still have insane self-belief. shripriya.com/blog/2023/05/3…

Super excited to finally announce our investment in Oova | The Fertility Translator. 50 years after the at-home pregnancy test was invented, Amy A. Divaraniya is reinventing hormone monitoring with an at-home test that enables patients and their clinicians to track real-time data. medium.com/@saraeshelman/…