Wildwood Ventures

Investment alert 🎉 Last year, the Surgeon General announced a study showing social isolation was worse for your health than smoking two packs of cigarettes per day. Social wellbeing is a key piece to our thesis at Wildwood: an investing focus area we call Connect With My People.  We're thrilled to announce we’ve invested in NYC-based Mostest: a platform whose mission is to bring people together in person. Mostest is making professional event planning accessible for events of all sizes – from corporate events and retreats, to personal celebrations like weddings, retirement parties, and birthday parties. Gathering to celebrate life’s milestones in person matters – and Mostest is making it way easier to pull off. Founder and CEO Sarah Klingman has started something special, and we're thrilled to invest and build with her and her team.

We love growing our community of talented, passionate, and driven professionals aligned around our mission. Thrilled to welcome Sheeba Philip as a new member of the Wildwood Advisory Board. Sheeba not only has an impressive diverse set of experiences across startups, corporates, and nonprofits -- but is a stellar culture fit for what we're building with our startups. Grateful to work with Sheeba on building investing in startups that bring Life To The Full.

We’re excited to announce Jessica Rusin as our new Chief Technology Officer! Jess brings a wealth of experience and a track record of innovation, with expertise as a technology leader, founder, and executive coach. Jess previously served as the CTO of Guild, where she was a founding member and instrumental in scaling the Denver-based company from a $10M startup to a $4B unicorn. She’s also been a founder, giving her deep empathy for the entrepreneurial journey, and her coaching background will be a tremendous asset in fostering both personal and professional growth for our founders. We’re absolutely thrilled to have Jess on board for the journey! 🚀

In partnership with our friends at Vail Symposium and their world-class evening event, we're hosting a pre-event happy hour next week in Vail: gathering local leaders, founders, investors, and friends. We have a few slots left and are opening the invite up to our Linkedin community. Details tickets here: https://lnkd.in/gZnvbfGT Date time: Tues Aug 13, 4-5:30p Space is limited. Claggett/Rey Art Gallery, 216 Main St C100, Edwards, CO 81632 Following happy hour, join us for Vail Symposium's main event:  An Evening with Father of the Internet and Chief Internet Evangelist Vint Cerf 6pm at Vail Christian High School https://lnkd.in/g9PuKmXm

The annual Outdoor Industry Funding Summit in Crested Butte will feature our very own Jesse Marble this September. Share with any startups in the outdoor space who might be interested.

Smartphones are awesome, but they can also suck you away from the people and priorities that should matter most. Wildwood is incredibly proud of Clint Jarvis and the entire Roots team for building a beautiful, insightful and practical product that can improve daily living for so many. Here's to scrolling less, and living more!

How are venture studios different than accelerators? Why does tremendous opportunity for innovation exist in the wellness and outdoor markets? What is some key advice for every new founder? Thanks to VC Fastlane host Ryan Else for the fun conversation with Wildwood Ventures partner David Wagner. #venture #outdoor #wellness #lifetothefull https://lnkd.in/gTvch93f

The Wildwood team deeply believes that success in business and creating positive, societal benefit are not mutually exclusive ideas. In fact, businesses can outperform when they address unmet human needs in innovative ways. We are thrilled to join Impact Capital Managers, and we look forward to partnering with the ICM team and the growing number of private fund managers who share this worldview. https://lnkd.in/gAxP7j5B

One year down, many more to come! Huge thanks to everyone who has partnered with us so far to advance more healthy and active lifestyles. We're excited about the amazing startups we will get to support in Year 2 and beyond...

Chimani continues to ship cool features for epic adventures. We love working with Kerry.