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At Obvious, we celebrate the founder’s journey from idea to IPO. After signing a term sheet, we send our founders a levitating light bulb representing...

Building a blockchain-based carbon marketplace

We’re often asked how we define “Economic Health.” For us, it means building a healthier, less fragile U.S. economy that benefits all stakeholders. We center...

Values-driven leaders partner with Obvious to mentor and uplift the next wave of entrepreneurs tackling challenges in Planetary, Human, and Economic Health.

The road to progress is rarely a sprint. It is often a series of measured steps—forward motion, setbacks, and recalibration. Few know this better than...

Making AI truly open

The next chapter for America's small businesses

We spend trillions on (often inefficient) healthcare administration every year. The good news is that we’re finally at the point of solving this trillion-dollar problem...

A conversation with Vinod Khosla

Our predictions for 2025 and beyond

Our predictions for 2025 and beyond

Creating more connection IRL

Our predictions for 2025 and beyond

In a world of complex health challenges, including rising chronic disease rates, doctor and nurse shortages, unequal access to quality care, and aging populations, Kahini...

This year, the Cerebral Valley AI Summit focused on the maturation of generative AI, its adoption by enterprises, and its progress toward more advanced, multi-modal,...

Years ago, as Vishal Vasishth laid in a hospital room in his hometown of Chandigarh, India, near the Himalayan foothills, he could not have imagined...

Cancer. It’s the great, horrible equalizer that transcends race, class, and geography. About 1 in 5 people develop cancer in their lifetime, according to the...

Last week in New York City, global leaders and innovators came together for ClimateWeekNYC to tackle solutions in clean energy, green infrastructure, and private sector...

Cleaner, safer, cost-effective aviation

The amount of computing power needed to power new AI models from one generation to the next is increasing tenfold. All this energy produces performance-limiting...

On a mission to bring clinical trials to everyone

One in 36 children in the United States are diagnosed with autism, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That means that every...

Long before Openly began selling home insurance, co-founders Ty Harris and Matt Wielbut kept getting the same feedback from potential investors: “Can you distill your...

Since joining Obvious in 2022, Kahini has led our world positive AI investments, with a focus on healthcare, governance, and robotics. Kahini has made an...

At Obvious Ventures, we see generative science as the next big wave in AI innovation. Last week, I sat down with three brilliant minds to...

Inceptive sees life’s languages fully encapsulated in RNA, a molecule that intermediates how our genetic code (DNA) gets actualized to proteins, which in turn carry...

With their recent releases, OpenAI and Google have shown the profound capabilities of AI systems that can read, write, see, and even understand. But even...

As our firm crosses the ten-year mark, our conviction in world positive venture capital is stronger than ever

Large science models will deliver transformative solutions in climate, biotech, and robotics

Geothermal heats up with a boost from AI

Fighting climate change with data

Engineering shortages have long plagued the U.S. tech sector. Big tech companies point to immigration restrictions that hamper their efforts to find employees. The idea...

The age of generative AI is upon us, and it’s already proving to be a disruptive new technology. Generative AI has already shown how it...

The world is waking up to a powerful fact about the future: we need substantially more energy than anyone thought, and we need it soon.

In 2024, we’re exploring these key areas in world positive fintech.

The story of Synop began 18 years ago when Dhillon met Andrew Blejde in an engineering class on their first day of high school in...

How Lightship began with a road trip

Inside the making of Scott Kim’s world positive puzzles

How Iterative Health’s founder and CEO is bringing precision care to the masses

Decarbonizing any industry delivers benefits that go way beyond sustainability. How we cultivate soil, grow crops, and raise livestock has been in a state of tech-enabled...

Why the founder of Gandeeva decided to take on cancer

At Obvious, we see AI is ushering in a major transformation to how we find and do our best work. We believe it has the...

The big bold vision of LabGenius

60 million Americans and 35% of small businesses don’t have access to traditional banking services. Embedded finance is, at its essence, the offering of financial...

How Howdy Corrals Top LATAM Talent

Host Andrew Beebe speaks to one of the greatest living writers of science fiction, Kim Stanley Robinson.

The pandemic ebbed and flowed in 2022. It changed how patients interact with healthcare, strained the finances of health systems, and burned out medical professionals....

If 2021 was the golden year for fintech fundraising, with $130 billion invested in financial services startups, 2022 was the year of the major pullback....

In 400 BC, Hippocrates wrote that we should let food be our medicine. Those words are the perfect harbinger for food and wellness trends in...

2022 was a big year for Climate Tech, particularly in the U.S. The Inflation Reduction Act, also known as the Climate Bill, was a shot...

We foresee the coming year will be one of convergence in TechBio. Cheaper sequencing and new wet lab tools will enable scaled data generation while recent advances in machine learning will unlock unprecedented analytical and predictive capabilities.

Forum Mobility’s mission to electrify a huge industry you’ve never heard of

Bringing Generative AI into the healthcare stack can deliver extraordinary possibilities

Jessica was walking into work one morning at a large distribution center in rural Illinois when something caught her eye. It was an advertisement for...

Verticalized tech for SMBs, a once untenable VC category, is about to have its moment

From innovations in contraception to hormone hacking

A guide to the modernization of healthcare

The climate bill, or the Inflation Reduction Act in DC-speak, represents a sea change in American climate policy. The financial impacts on climate funding have...

The rising promise of psychedelic medicine

How Lightship’s Head of Manufacturing is building sustainable RVs and an inclusive culture

The 2022 Sequel to the World Positive Term Sheet

How entrepreneurs are helping consumers get better-priced, higher-quality care—with more opportunities ahead

For this bonus episode, we’re flipping the script.

Cathy Zoi is the CEO of EVgo, America’s largest fast charging network for electric vehicles.

Dr. Rachel Slaybaugh is a nuclear expert and investor at DCVC, where she focuses on climate tech.

Corvus CEO Phil Edmundson is building a safer world at the intersection of insurance and technology

Nan Ransohoff is Head of Climate at Stripe. As part of her role, Nan leads Frontier, an advance market commitment for carbon removal.

Molly Wood is an investor at the early stage venture firm LAUNCH, and co-host of This Week in Startups.

Tony Fadell led the teams that brought us the iPod, iPhone, and the Nest thermostat.

Jason Jacobs is the creator and host of My Climate Journey, a podcast that demystifies climate change and helps people make a difference.

Maria Fujihara is Founder & CEO of SINAI Technologies, the world’s leading enterprise software platform to measure, analyze, price, and reduce emissions.

How the CEO of Nectar Life Sciences got to now—and plans to end allergies as we know them

To begin the series, we speak with Jigar Shah, Director for the Loan Programs Office at the U.S. Department of Energy.

In hindsight, all great ideas are Obvious.

Womaness Co-Founder/CEO Sally Mueller brings a dynamic-yet-practical outlook to a long overlooked category.

Purpose-driven founders are primed to transform our financial systems. Get ready.

Spoiler alert: Growth will be ubiquitous in the Decarb Decade

Re-moat advantages, new kids on the blockchain, and more

Medable’s Co-founder/CEO on her father’s falconry, never listening to the no’s, and getting more molecules to market

Small business owners are primed to gain equal footing in crowded e-commerce landscapes

The past 24 months have been a reckoning for a legacy healthcare system drowning in rising costs and preventable casualties. The gaps in access, resources,...

The four elements of thematic venture capital

As the rules of ESG in VC are being written, let’s focus on the metrics that matter

Building the economic infrastructure for a new era of self-employment

The Four R’s of Carbon, for our collective consideration

SINAI Technology’s Founder & CEO on getting fired in Brazil, hiring herself in the Bay Area, and the climate tech revolution ahead

A more inclusive healthcare system is emerging. It’s time to accelerate the change

Anytime, anywhere care → improved outcomes at lower costs

Today’s retail rebalancing is enabling a first-of-its-kind, broad base of long-term wealth creation. It’s about time.

A long boom of climate tech is just getting started

How might we design a better toolkit for professional transformation in this new world?

Millions more Americans are in financial distress today. It’s time to rewrite the personal finance playbook, with purpose.

Introducing Obvious’ first ever World Positive Report

Why the next great consumer company will be a health-focused platform

Insurtech providers are set to play an increasingly critical role in making civil society more resilient today

Dexterity CEO Samir Menon draws on neuroscience, mathematics, and computer science to build robots of the future, today. He’s also a poet.

A marketing playbook for technical founders and teams, rooted in truthful storytelling

A recipe for effective and enjoyable startup board meetings

With the exponential implications of remote work emerging, it’s time to move forward with meaningful intention

A practical, Patagonia-inspired guide for entrepreneurs on purpose, values, and the philosophies that underpin it all

Making it happen

The basics of setting Lean OKRs: be brief and look for the RAMPS

Retrofitting a classic tool with purpose, values, and systems that scale for startups

Five questions for entrepreneurs to consider before diving in

A counterintuitive approach to biological design is unlocking life-saving therapies and novel materials

Urban infrastructure brings us closer to exponentially better living

An inspiring purpose, curated convenience, and thoughtful personalization is their recipe for success

Tech is breaking out of the Silicon Valley sandbox, transforming traditional, trillion-dollar industries in the process.

A great migration forces an existential question for the modern metropolis: how might entrepreneurs upgrade urban living over the next ten years?

XpertSea Co-founder and CEO Valerie Robitaille is transforming aquaculture systems with technology, and making it a family affair.

Just in time to restore your faith in the world

Boon Supply founder and CEO Lily Kanter takes e-commerce consciously to the next level

The story behind Urban Remedy founder Neka Pasquale’s quest to deliver a sensual, colorful, and healing experience with food.

The Incredible Health Co-Founder/CEO has been flying under the radar, but those days may be numbered

Canvas Co-Founder and CTO Maria Telleria brings her vision, values, and Ph.D. to bear on a construction industry in need of reinvention. Maria Telleria became...

The visionary co-founder/CEO shares her personal journey and take on the societal shifts that led to MIXT

The food industry is undergoing a seismic shift. Here's why.

Electric flight will transform our cities for the better, and it will happen sooner than you might think

Recursion Pharmaceuticals’ performance is also driven by an ambitious purpose, a values-driven culture, and the Silicon Slopes. Here’s a look at the people behind the progress

Modern AI and the fundamental undoing of the scientific method

Ask any person with type 2 diabetes what it’s like living with the disease. You’re likely to hear stories of health problems compounding other health...

With purpose as its foundation, Plant Prefab pursues a half trillion dollar market

In 1943 Abraham Maslow published his seminal paper titled A Theory of Human Motivation, in which he posited a prioritization protocol for human needs, now know...

Milton Friedman would agree: give the people what they want

Fifteen years ago, when I joined the early ranks of clean energy entrepreneurs, we were nearly dead in the water on climate. Oil was $15...

Welcome to the dawn of a new age in People Operations & HR

Inside the healthy tensions that fueled us at Patagonia, and what entrepreneurs can learn as they themselves build for the long term

A blueprint for the future rooted in lessons from the past

Much has already been written about the proverbial term sheet. From Intel and Apple to Google and Facebook, tech giants have fueled their engines with venture...

Too many founders/CEO’s are dismissing the data. To the rescue: Joelle Emerson and the team at Paradigm, guiding us on how to fight the unconscious demons within.

First Round’s Camille Ricketts successfully built the Harvard Business Review for startups from scratch. Now she’s got some content advice of her own to impart.

Lessons Learned From the Board of Directors of Seventh Generation

Few words are thrown around Silicon Valley as often as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) these days. Startups promising to create new businesses...

At Obvious Ventures, we believe stored electricity, increasingly derived from renewable sources, will entirely replace fossil fuels as the preferred method to power everything in...