Seed Investing - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Aug 2022
News

Open Market

invest and when to starve ideas—when to figure out that it’s time to double down and when it’s time to pull back on something,” she says. “But you also have to plant seeds along the way so you can grow them... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Keith Negley; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments

Profile

Ari Medoff

Mentoring Program." But an interest in "entrepreneurial approaches to youth development and education" has led to an in-depth engagement with Seeds of Peace, a program that brings teenage leaders from conflict-torn regions... View Details

01 Jun 2018
News

Sustaining HBS’s Unique Economic Model

fellowships and professorships — by their donors. Current-use gifts to the HBS Fund provide an annual influx of funds that can be spent immediately. “As HBS has made strategic investments in recent years, gifts to the HBS Fund have... View Details

Tasneem Dohadwala

Brothers and Matrix Partners. Notable investments during her time at Excelestar Ventures include Augmenix (acq. by Boston Scientific), nVision (acq. by Boston Scientific), Altiostar Networks (acq. by Rakuten), Conformal Medical, Instylla,... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare

Shereen Shermak

Shereen is a founder of multiple Boston-based startups, most recently Nth Party (acq. MGNI) and Atlantic Quantum. She was previously a Boston-based venture capitalist, entrepreneur and active angel investor. Previously, Shereen served as a Fund Manager and CEO at... View Details

Keywords: Finance;#45;#Insurance;#64;#Software/App;#75;#Venture Capital;#53;#Media & Publishing;#20;#Ecommerce;#24;#Electronics & Hardware

01 Jun 2022
News

Sunny Side

Awesome, there’s a tribe for you. Want to drive a pink Lamborghini? Cool, knock yourself out.” Berardi believes Miami’s infectious energy gives ANIMO a competitive advantage in sourcing deals in which it can make big bets very early, View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

Profile

David A. Frankel

return and also do seed rounds of a million dollars for core investments. Fund One ended up with 150 investments, approximately twenty of which were of the core variety with bigger checks. “We were off the charts lucky,” Frankel said... View Details

17 May 2018
News

Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs

HBS alumni in New York to participate in a voluntary outreach program to help local nonprofit institutions. Bhargava and Misra, who had found early success as an investment executive and founder or three tech startups, quickly became good... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Mar 2016
News

The HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation

their early stages with the help of gifts of all sizes to the HBS Fund. “In business, venture capital or R&D budgets seed the most promising new ideas,” says Dean Nitin Nohria. “In academia, where endowments are generally restricted to... View Details

01 Jun 2000
News

VC Luminary John Doerr: Education Reform Critical to Success of New Economy

with a few of my friends," Doerr told an audience of nearly one thousand HBS students who had gathered for his presentation, offered as part of the Social Enterprise Speaker Series. Since joining Kleiner Perkins in 1980, Doerr has played a major role in planting the... View Details

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Field Course: Venture Capital Journey - Course Catalog

with frameworks, tools, a network, and hands on experience in preparation for a career in venture capital (VC), ranging from seed to growth stage. The course will help students more deeply understand the conceptual underpinnings of... View Details

19 May 2009
First Look

First Look: May 19, 2009

Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) after a successful six-month collaboration or continue with Adnexus' planned IPO. Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=609015 Arcadia Biosciences: Seeds of Change... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Venture Capital: Hot Markets and Current Industry Trends

debated at a panel discussion called "Venture Capital: Hot Markets and Current Industry Trends," moderated by Harvard Business School professor Lynda Applegate. The "strike zone" for his firm is network infrastructure, IP, and security storage, said... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

01 Sep 2012
News

Results and Recognition

served as Reunion Participation Chair for his 20th Reunion, which set a record with 74 percent of the class making a gift. Donor Spotlights David Ott (MBA 1992) Investor David Ott understands the role that seed capital can play in taking... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

15 Jun 2021
News

Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy

professional development and visibility of executives of color in the not-for-profit sector.” Contributions from individuals and corporations are welcomed. With seed money from its founders and multiyear pledges from companies and... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

17 Oct 2019
News

Venturing Away from Venture Capital

requires a significant initial capital investment, and she raised just over $10 million in seed and series A funding to get it up and running in 2011. Since then, Lin’s had plenty of opportunities to raise more capital. But the company’s... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand

05 Jan 2022
News

Untapped Potential

change we’ve baked into our future.” That understanding, as well as the realization that water entrepreneurship is lagging behind other sectors focused on climate and sustainability, led Ferguson to found Burnt Island Ventures in 2020. The company View Details

10 Oct 2024
Blog Post

High-Tech Greenhouse Innovations in The Netherlands

high-tech, non-GMO tomato varieties for the company’s seed business. Syngenta is a global agribusiness leader focused on crop protection and seeds, and it offers 180+ tomato varieties and has 20+ teams globally focused exclusively on... View Details

Eric Boutin

at Redesign Health, a digital health venture studio, where he created and financed health tech startup companies. Before that, he was a Managing Director at dRx Capital, Novartis’ digital health venture capital fund, where he led early-stage View Details