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Spero Ventures

@speroventures

We invest in (1) wellbeing, (2) sustainability, and (3) learning, work & play—the things that make life worth living. Backed by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar.

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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:

ɹǝʞɹɐd ʍǝɹpuɐ (@andrewparker) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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-…

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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…

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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?

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 <a href="/SperoVentures/">Spero Ventures</a> portfolio and beyond. :) Who’s yours?
ɹǝʞɹɐd ʍǝɹpuɐ (@andrewparker) 's Twitter Profile Photo

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…

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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/…

For the past 3 years, <a href="/huckleberrycare/">Huckleberry</a> has hosted the world’s largest Mother’s Day card exchange. I’ve written &amp; 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/…
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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 👇

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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…

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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

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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?

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?
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#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…

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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/…

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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…

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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!

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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/…