Inde­pen­dent cof­fee shops were hit hard by the pan­dem­ic last year. In Octo­ber, Euromon­i­tor Inter­na­tion­al pre­dict­ed that the U.S. would have just 25,307 coffee/​​tea spe­cial­ty out­lets by the end of 2020, a […]

If there’s one thing we know when live events return after the pan­dem­ic is that sound is going to be spa­tial and immer­sive. No more left/​​right. And there are many […]

Nan­cy Pfund is founder and man­ag­ing part­ner of DBL Part­ners, one of the first and largest impact invest­ing ven­ture cap­i­tal firms in the world. DBL seeks to achieve “Dou­ble Bottom […]

A new report makes the case for invest­ments that con­sid­er impact first and finan­cial return sec­ond. But crit­ics say such invest­ments are main­ly for the wealthy. Advo­cates for impact investments […]

Last Feb­ru­ary, we intro­duced the a16z Mar­ket­place 100, a rank­ing of the largest con­­sumer-fac­ing mar­ket­place star­tups and pri­vate com­pa­nies. The series was a hit, spurring debate about the evo­lu­tion of marketplaces […]

“The Nation­al Geo­graph­ic Soci­ety uses the pow­er of sci­ence, explo­ration, edu­ca­tion and sto­ry­telling to illu­mi­nate and pro­tect the won­der of our world. Our invest­ment in, and part­ner­ship with Spa­tial enriches […]