Our co-founder, James Joaquin 💙, sat down with Sarah Lynch to discuss our core belief that purpose drives profit. This means that the impact must be "baked into the business model of the company." Read more at Inc.: inc.com/sarah-lynch/th…

1 in 10 North American households own an RV, and collectively, they emit 1.1 gigatons of CO2/year. Lightship built a solution: an all-electric solar-powered towable that won’t affect your range or mpg. issuu.com/obviousvc/docs…

A new way to buy and sell carbon credits: senken removed the usual intermediaries by directly connecting buyers to sellers. They've already listed 3% of the voluntary carbon market supply and are the world’s biggest voluntary carbon platform. issuu.com/obviousvc/docs…

In March 2023, Happiest Baby's SNOO received De Novo authorization for its ability to keep babies safely on the back, making it the only bassinet to receive this designation. This is the first step in getting insurance companies to help cover its cost. issuu.com/obviousvc/docs…

Healthcare that actually cares: Devoted Health is a company serving seniors with a simple mission: to provide the same kind of healthcare its employees would want for their own family members. issuu.com/obviousvc/docs…

Sometimes, the cure is worse than the disease. Chemotherapy takes a nuclear approach, obliterating healthy cells along with cancerous ones. So, how do you develop therapeutics that leave healthy cells unharmed? That's what LabGenius is here to answer. issuu.com/obviousvc/docs…

There were three pivotal moments in the journey that led Michael Sharon to co-found taika. issuu.com/obviousvc/docs…

Using state-of-the-art lab automation, machine learning, and one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, Recursion can advance a drug into the early stages of discovery about 80% faster than and at half the cost of industry averages. issuu.com/obviousvc/docs…

Our energy supply will not be able to keep up with the demands of AI/crypto, reshoring of manufacturing, and the electrification of everything. @Andrewbeebe explains how geothermal is THE stopgap solution + bridge to better technology like nuclear fusion. obvious.com/ideas/how-geot…

It can take years of testing and 3,000 to 6,000 compounds to go from the discovery stage to identifying a drug for clinical trials. Gandeeva Therapeutics can do the same thing by testing 200. It’s the difference between using a floodlight and a laser pointer. issuu.com/obviousvc/docs…

In the U.S., 1 in 5 students faces similar challenges with learning differences. That’s where Parallel comes in. Their mission is to support all learning styles so that every student can access the resources they need to reach their full potential issuu.com/obviousvc/docs…

Many factors interfere with a good night’s sleep, but too much screen time and caffeine are the big ones.  Since its founding, beam has been helping the Seventy percent of adults in America who have trouble getting enough rest. issuu.com/obviousvc/docs…

VSCO was founded on the belief that you can do anything with the right creative tools, inspiring resources, and a supportive community. This ethos is the throughline in everything it does, and its new product, VSCO Pro, is no exception. issuu.com/obviousvc/docs…

Howdy is an Austin-based hiring startup that connects developers in Latin America with jobs at companies in North America. Since the beginning, Howdy™'s mantra has been “the devs come first.” And it’s obvious from their retention that it’s paying off. obvious.com/ideas/engineer…

Join us in November! We’re partnering with Norrsken to bring you Impact Week 2024: two days of inspiration and networking in Barcelona with 1,000+ of the world’s top impact founders and investors.

In our debut episode, "Our Electric Journey Unveiled," we sit down with our co-founders, Toby and Ben, to discuss Lightship's bold vision for #sustainable energy solutions in the #travel trailer industry.

Credit card points are funded by small businesses. Tandym issues private label cards with processing fees that are less than 1%, allowing merchants to bypass the big banks and fund their own rewards programs that build customer loyalty. issuu.com/obviousvc/docs…

Generative science is already rewiring every field of science, from physics to biology, with enormous potential for the future of our species and our planet. Our co-founder, @JamesJoaquin, on how it will help us solve the unsolvable. #GenSci

In 2014, we founded Obvious with the simple idea that venture capital could be a force for positive change. Our next chapter will center on #GenerativeScience and the companies using AI to discover new technologies in climate, healthcare, and robotics. obvious.com/ideas/obvious-…

We are proud to support Jakob Uszkoreit and the team at Inceptive. They are building AI models on the languages of biology and computer science, and using them to produce new mRNA therapies and vaccines. obvious.com/ideas/creating…