Off Balance #30

👋🏾 Hi friends!

I got a little distracted today so apologies this is landing in your inbox a bit late this evening!

It’s been an interesting few weeks, not least because I found my face plastered on advertising units across a certain North London borough 🤩 

A massive shout out to Launchpod Studios where I’ve been recording Nothing Ventured since the beginning of 2023 and who organised this awesomeness and, to Jolt for agreeing to put my (somewhat) smiling face on their charging stations for the next few weeks.

I’m well underway writing about all the things I’ve learned from the last couple of decades as founder, CFO and CEO, so sign up for early access to Off Balance - The Book and feel free to share with anyone else you think might enjoy it 😄.

Now let’s get down to business…

In this weeks Off Balance, I’ll be chatting about:

🎙️ Monik Pham and Reem Wyndham - Founding Partners of Pact on Nothing Ventured.
⏰ Vesting and Reverse Vesting Explained

Don't just think about diversity, think about cognitive diversity too 💪🏾

I sat down with Monik Pham and Reem Mobassaleh two of the founding team, alongside Tong Gu, behind Pact an early stage VC fund investing in pre-seed and seed stage tech companies addressing the most pressing issues facing future generations across Access, Betterment and Climate.

In this episode, we talked about:

➡️ How unusual to have 3 women come together to found a fund.

➡️ Relevant diversity and cognitive diversity.

➡️ How Monik built a fund at 23 and how that inspired her to do it bigger and better.

➡️ Spending a year talking and deploying their own capital before launching Pact.

➡️ Mixing commercial and impact metrics to understand how one drives the other.

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