Opinion

January 26, 2022

Dispatches from a new VC: The best 2022 predictions from après ski

Your favourite (fictitious) European VC is back with their priorities for 2022, including impact, diversity and working with US funds.


Rosie Wood

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Rosie Wood is a (fictional) associate at the VC firm Mild Conviction. It’s a generalist, multistage fund with offices in London, Paris and Verbier. They’re not like normal VCs — they don’t need to do a tonne of due diligence to decide on an investment. Instead, they’re simply looking for companies and founders that are pretty good. Because pretty good is usually good enough. Catch up on her other dispatches here. 

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Rosie Wood

Rosie Wood is Sifted's fictional VC columnist

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