Ed Barker sits down with Jordan Baker, founding general partner of Seattle's Athenaeum Ventures, whose path to running a fund looks nothing like the standard resume. He left home at 14, passed through…
Ed Barker talks to Alexandra Iljadica, Principal at BHP Ventures, the corporate venture arm of the global mining and minerals company, about what hard-tech and climate investing looks like from inside…
Ed Barker talks to Sarah O'Sell manager at CoMotion Labs’ Climate Tech Incubator at the University of Washington and a partner in the Seattle Climate Innovation Hub with Virtue Lab, NineZero, and the…
Ed Barker talks to Ben Eidelson, general partner at the Stepchange, about his path from engineering to Microsoft, to startups acquired by Google and Stripe, and then into climate ventures. After his…
Nick Hughes, founder and CEO of Founders Live, discusses how a painful mobile payments startup failure led him to launch a casual Seattle pitch night in March 2014—five friends pitching for 99…
Ed Barker talks to Aina Abiodun, President and Executive Director of VertueLab, about how the Hurricane Sandy blackout and failed emergency infrastructure in New York drove her into climate work, her…
Ed Barker talks to Jim Houston, an early Intel Capital team member and later founder of the Portland Seed Fund, now a climate investor with E8. Jim remembers Intel Capital’s 1995 origins to help shape…
This week Ed Barker talks to Buffy Allegria, managing partner and co-founder at Loud Ventures, about how her corporate banking background and experiences after having premature twins led her into…
This week Ed Barker talks to Jeff Walton, Chief Risk Officer at Strive, about the company's shift from anti-ESG activism to building a Bitcoin treasury aimed at institutional exposure. Walton's…
Ed Barker talks to Gabriel Scheer, Senior Director, Investments & Innovation at Elemental Impact. Elemental Impact is a nonprofit venture fund investing in companies with environmental and community…
