by BTBFounders | Jun 25, 2020 | Articles, Blog - Janine
By: Janine Marderian “Investing in women and people of color isn’t a nice-to-have; it is essential for sustainable innovation”- Ann Cairns In partnership with Mastercard, Beyond the Billion (BTB), a global consortium of venture funds that have pledged beyond $1bn to...
by BTBFounders | May 29, 2020 | Articles, Blog - Janine
Kay-Mok Ku of Gobi Partners on Diversification, Adversity, and Why Women are Resilient in Times of Crisis — A View from Asia By: Janine Marderian As the international community works to slow the COVID-19 pandemic, the economic effects are compounding around the world...
by BTBFounders | Apr 9, 2020 | Articles, Blog - Sarah
By: Sarah Chen The sentiment on the ground is increasingly grim to say the least, with further extensions of stay-at-home orders across the globe, even amidst protests by locals. COVID-19 has reshaped our view of normalcy and in many ways impacted the way we think...
by BTBFounders | Sep 6, 2019 | Articles, Blog - Karina
How the business of making money and making impact converge at Grand Challenges Canada By: Karina Chan How Annie Theriault got to Grand Challenges Canada(GCC) is not how most people find themselves working at a nonprofit organization funding critical health and...
by BTBFounders | Jul 5, 2019 | Articles, Blog - Karina
By: Karina Chan, July 5th 2019, On Medium Venture Capital funding has gotten much flack for investing its dollars by pattern matching, thus resulting in a predominantly white, male, tech pool of entrepreneurs with access to capital. Female founders only got 2.2% of...
by BTBFounders | May 3, 2019 | Articles, Blog - Karina
By: Karina Chan The Billion Dollar Fund’s featured female funder of the month is an entrepreneur with an exit under her belt, an advocate for diversity and inclusion, and most importantly a co-founder of a fund primed to bring the future of technology into...