Ulu in the News: April 2021
Innovations in fintech, the future of work, and raising some healthy rounds….April was a good month for Ulupreneurs.
SoFi
Bloomberg interviewed Sofi CEO Anthony Noto about the firm taking a deeper diver into crypto with Bitcoin.
CNBC interviewed SoFI’s Investment Strategy Chief Liz Young about busy earnings week for […]
Ulu in the News: March 2021
Ulupreneurs continue making headlines, promoting diversity, driving innovation….and hitting some big numbers! Ellevest Forbes featured news that Ellevest now has $1B assets under management. CBS interview with Ellevest CEO Sallie [...]
Ulu in the News: February 2021
More Ulupreneurs hitting out of the ballpark...in February we celebrated Ulu’s 8th unicorn! Better-Up, a startup with a LatinX, first-gen college grad COO now valued at $1.73B. Investors included [...]
Ulu in the News: January 2021
Innovative Public Offerings is the theme for Ulu founders for January's "In the News". Ulu celebrates the 4th innovative public offering in the last five months! SoFi is going public [...]
Fireside Chat with Serial Ulupreneur: Tom Chavez
Dynamic people driven by intense passion. Risk takers willing to go where few (or none) have gone before. High achievers determined to get to their goal, no matter what. If [...]
Ulu in the News: December 2020
Grit and Determination are the words for Ulu founders for December’s "In the News" During the final month of the tumultuous year, one Ulu firm raised a significant round and [...]
Ulu in the News: November 2020
Empowerment is the word for the November issue of Ulupreneurs in the News. Forbes, International Business Times, and U.S. News & World Report were just some of the media outlets [...]
Ulu in the News: October
An IPO, a Series A Financing and fascinating founders continue to draw headlines from major news outlets for Ulu Ventures portfolio companies. Zebit Zebit became the second Ulu Ventures portfolio [...]
Ulu Thought Leadership: Q3 Edition
Ulu's long term focus on diversity and venture capital drew intense interest over the last quarter and Miriam was in demand to share that perspective with entrepreneurs, LPs and other [...]
Ulupreneurs in the News: Q3 Edition
Ulu's portfolio companies continue to make headlines in top media outlets including Forbes, Fortune, CNN, CNBC, the Wall Street Journal, Barron's, TechCrunch, Bloomberg and even Variety. Palantir Bloomberg features Palantir’s plans to go [...]
The Insanely Fast Wave of Octant Bio
Why a hot startup open-sourced their most in-demand technology during COVID19 Octant Bio, an Ulu portfolio company, uses synthetic biology to advance computational drug discovery. They are developing a [...]
Managing Risk in a “Risky” Environment
Venture investing has always been based on a healthy understanding of and appetite for risk. Even during the long bull expansion that ended in the first quarter of 2020, success [...]
How to be an Ally in a Diverse Community (part 2)
With the pandemic and the uprisings profoundly affecting minority communities across the country, people go to work everyday and may have no idea that their colleagues of color are undergoing [...]
Only Justice Will Heal Our Wounds
This pandemic is a kaleidoscope of images, a swirl of feelings for many of us, especially among people of color who, according to ABC News, are 3 or 2.5 [...]
Rever: Empowering Frontline Workers
An Ulu Ventures Interview with Errette Dunn CEO/Co-Founder Rever Rusty Dornin, Ulu Ventures: We are pretty excited about Rever and just made an investment. It's an improvement AI software [...]
Emerging from the Fallout
As the nation attempts to kickstart the economy and re-open safely, the fallout from the shutdown is becoming more clear, exposing the devastation in vulnerable communities. But researchers, entrepreneurs, [...]
Building a Bridge for the Underserved
Over 65 million Americans are underbanked, and either use limited banking services, or are forced to use expensive alternative financial services like Western Union, Green Dot, and others for cash [...]
Calling all grassroots innovators!
Grassroots efforts driven by people passionate to help the most vulnerable in unusual ways. Just when times seem bleakest you'll see stories about researchers discovering that llamas on one farm [...]
We need to prepare for the future of work
Concerns about the future of work and getting help for underserved communities hit hard by the economic downturn are on the forefront of this week’s column as unemployment hits the worst [...]
Safeguarding the World’s Energy Infrastructure
Buzz Solutions ensures our digital lives have power by helping utilities analyze their infrastructure to detect faults, to highlight areas of risk, and to generally improve the reliability and safety [...]
Potential Progress on the Pandemic Front
Scientific research makes advances in the battle against the pandemic......volunteers offer themselves as research subjects to advance the cause of finding an effective vaccine. UCSF leads a global effort to [...]