5 Mar 2023
Adrenaline Fund Continues to Power Early Stage Ecosystem in 2022
Adrenaline Fund marks its second full year of investing as it completed its 2022 Vintage. Adrenaline Fund, was founded in 2020 as part of the multi-fund Archangel Network of Funds, uniquely applies a hyper efficient passive model, fuelled by our startup and angel ecosystem, to early stage investing. . We are fuelled by a remarkable group of Limited Partners who are accredited investors interested in our Purpose and coupled with the high return prospects delivered via a highly diversified portfolio
3 Jan 2022
Adrenaline Fund Pumps a High Energy First Year into Early Stage Investing
2021 marks the first full investment year for Adrenaline Fund which uniquely applies a passive model, fuelled by our startup and angel ecosystem, to early stage investing. Adrenaline Fund was founded in 2020 in cooperation with 2 other sub-funds in the Archangel Network of Funds. Through the vagaries of. the COVID-19 pandemic, 2021. was our first full year of investing fuelled by a remarkable group of Limited Partners who are accredited investors interested in our Purpose.
7 Oct 2021
Top 10 Ways to Slim Personal Consumption
When all of our personal consumption is added up, that segment may well be the largest single part of our personal carbon footprint. [In A Personal Carbon Reduction Plan, I tried to help individuals segment to ease the path to reducing personal carbon footprint.]. While there are many other components of personal consumption, especially our dietary choices, this focus are all areas where individuals can take action. The old adage “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” is still potent, and in that order. Our society has become so obsessed with <em>creeping consumerism</em> that it often obscures the cost to our planet. Reducing consumption is often about: prioritizing needs over wants buying durable items that can be repaired eschewing as much as possible the fast fashion trend moving toward lower carbon food consumption, including more vegetarian or plant-based choices and finding more sustainable food sources It is important to remember that excess packaging, which almost always involves huge amounts of single use plastics.
24 Sep 2021
A Personal Carbon Reduction Plan
Today is a Global Climate Strike in cities and towns all over the world. In late 2019, was a crescendo of activity including the first Global Climate Strike and UN Climate Summit. It feels almost like time, and action, has been paused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Now in late 2021 marks a return to that pivotal time. With a summer of extreme weather events including the most wildfires ever globally, we are entering a cycle including COP26 in Glasgow. And, for those of us who are boomers, the fact that these climate strikes are led by our youth and children, should add poignancy to the state of the world we have bequeathed the next generation. As a society and as thoughtful citizens, how can we respond? Thinking beyond surviving the worst pandemic the rich world has experienced in our lifetimes, this is the perfect time to set priorities and make life plans and we must include addressing the greatest existential crisis challenging humanity and the world we live in. Everywhere the sense of urgency has increased. Scientific models show that the amount of carbon we can pump into the atmosphere must […]
15 Jul 2019
Investing Through The Unfolding Energy Disruption
Although a life long mathematician and technologist, recently much of my focus has been on being a savvy investor, in many asset classes from private seed/angel investing to public markets and alternative investments. While Canadian investors have traditionally thrived on conservative, cash generating value investing and fixed income plays, the future is rendering such risk averse models obsolete, making it critical to adopt a forward lens, looking out, perhaps a decade into the future. I have lived through many market disruptions in which “software is eating the world.” Such disruptions include the “Kodak Moment” of digital photography rendering mining of silver oxide to supply the ecosystem around film irrelevant in a digital photography age. Another exemplar is the upending the entire value chain for newspapers and other ad-funded media by the likes of Google (Adwords) EBay (classified ads). Energy has driven world economies for time immemorial and may even have led to the fall of the Roman Empire. As modern societies have become wealthier, energy consumption has seen stratospheric growth. The simple reason is that Energy underpins the creature comforts of modern society, including food, shelter, transportation and consumer consumption. […]
10 Jan 2018
Environmental Awakening Fusing of Science, The Arts and Sea Ice
Even though a life-long environmentalist, my transformative experiences up north in Canada’s Arctic regions onboard Canada C3, moved my environmental consciousness to a whole new level. My own journey began as a teenager in the 1960s. Being a voracious reader with a strong scientific bent, was a perfect fit for me to embrace the fledging environmental consciousness of that era. Clearly the changes during the last half century have matured my environmental world view. An early focus on simple industrial pollution was followed by the even more serious concerns about depletion of the Ozone Layer and energy conservation, building into today’s crisis of the growing impact of human-induced Climate Change. What this passage of time, accompanied by deepening adverse impacts, has taught me is that small individual actions can have huge collective impact, and that concerted efforts to change can be successful. Sadly, for many, this simple concept is abstract allowing some to pass the buck on personal action, seeing it as someone else’s responsibility. Economists even have a label for this metaphoric “fiddling while Rome burns”, namely the Tragedy of the Commons. Many despair that our continued procrastination on mobilizing concerted action around Climate Change. whether based on apathy […]
1 Jan 2024
Adrenaline Fund Completes 2023 Investments
Happy New Year! Today is the first day of 2024, starting the fourth year of Adrenaline Fund which completed its 2023 Vintage int late December. To summarize, as per our plan during 2023, the Adrenaline team made 10 new investments bringing the three year total to 30 investments This puts us on track to deliver a highly diversified portfolio of approximately 50 amazing early stage companies to our founding LPs by the end of next year. Adrenaline Fund, founded in 2020 as part of the multi-fund Archangel Network of Funds, uniquely applies a hyper efficient rules-based model to early stage investing, supporting and supported by the ‘crowd intelligence’ of our startup and angel ecosystem. We are fuelled by a remarkable group of Limited Partners — Canadian accredited investors equally interested in our Purpose to build economically vibrant Canadian future and the prospect of the excellent Returns delivered by such a highly diversified portfolio. While like vintage wine, tech portfolios take time to build to perfection, already Adrenaline Fund has its first Exit, with an acquisition in progress, slated to close this month.