Verena Alice Sturm

Founding Partner at Avestu Capital. Matching Start-ups & Investors throughout the entire company life cycle. Focus: DeepTech & Impact Startups

[Raisina Dialogue @raisinadialogue]

@OmranSharaf @RLuthra @FAHEEMAHAMED @buzzindelhi @jayesh_ranjan Historically, the #private sector and #academia have driven societal innovation, but #governments now play a key role in applying #deeptech. Closer collaboration is required between these sectors.

#RaisinaMiddleEast

[ORF Middle East @orfmiddleeast]

#YerevanDialogue2024 | Billion-dollar green energy race Watch Hakob Vardanyan, @GawdatBahgat, Mounia Boucetta, @rajeevgowda, @cuci_ornela, Tadas Norvydas, & @stormlady in #YerevanDialogue2024! https://t.co/0wG2JdMEAy

[Catharina Bruns @cathibruns]

Es ist wirklich das Lächerlichste, was ich bisher in all den Jahren im Einsatz für die Selbstständigkeit erlebt habe. Nun werden Selbstständige womöglich auch noch bei der ohnehin ungeliebten Alltersvorsorgepflicht verarscht. Ich hau echt in den Sack.

[Lars Zimmermann @larszimmerm]

Die UAE arbeitet auf „Zero Digital Bureaucy“ hin. Ziel in D? „Bürokratieabbau“.

„ Alles, was ich als Gründer tue, fühlt sich in Bezug auf die Formalitäten an, als würde ich eine Fabrik für die Metallverarbeitung im Jahr 1800 bauen.“
https://t.co/prOeKmSWoW

[ORF Mumbai @ORFMumbai]

#YerevanDialogue2024 | Billion-dollar green energy race Watch Hakob Vardanyan, @GawdatBahgat, Mounia Boucetta, @rajeevgowda, @cuci_ornela, Tadas Norvydas, & @stormlady in #YerevanDialogue2024! https://t.co/wgMXiezatU

[Verena Alice Sturm @stormlady]

Very happy to be part of the inaugural edition of the Yerevan Dialogue
@samirsaran & team

[Yerevan Dialogue @YerevanDialogue]

@AraratMirzoyan @Grybauskaite_LT @Xavier_Bettel @LashaDarsalia2 @RubenRubinyan @SachinPilot @ZMnatsakanyan @SuziCarlaBarbo1 @ManishTewari @OltaManjani @OanaPope @Mehdi_Jomaa @MiguelMoratinos @Hayrapetyan_M @vijai63 @rajeevgowda @VahanKostanyan @anamiguel1981 @M_Safaryan @SujanChinoy .@stormlady, Director - Innovation, Tech, and Social Impact, Observer Research Foundation Middle East, United Arab Emirates will join us at the Yerevan Dialogue

Sep 09-11 |📍Yerevan

Know more: https://t.co/AdWZUFTYDz

All updates: https://t.co/N6gIDXDevJ

#YerevanDialogue2024

[Verena Alice Sturm @stormlady]

Technologies shape society - and innovators, investors, political & industry leaders play a crucial part in technology that shapes positive societies.
Looking forward to being part of this international dialogue on responsible leadership in DeepTech: co-hosted by @orfmiddleeast

[ORF @orfonline]

@RLuthra @TCharlesClancy @parag_sl @IshitaBarua @xPhilipsPlace @praveen_dwaraka @RMantri @miraibouken @peter_ackerson @SachinSethPhD @akherlopian @nonos8828 @KGyulbudaghyan @DonKikos @samirsaran @raffiMK @nersmail1 @cecallsen @MalikAshok @AlShaksy @AmineStaali @joe_sameer @Kedarnadgaundi @RabihDeKhoury @BrighamHyde @Lara @nmacRAIN @stormlady @AmineStaali1 .@stormlady, Director of Innovation, Tech and Social Impact, Observer Research Foundation - Middle East will join us at the inaugural convening of the "Deep Tech Network"!

16-17 August 2024 | Dubai, UAE

For more: https://t.co/Wx6KMv542d

#DeepTech #DeepTechNetwork

[Verena Alice Sturm @stormlady]

Thank you for the warm welcome & inspiring first day! Looking forward to all that’s to come!

[Samir Saran @samirsaran]

Delighted to welcome @stormlady (Verena Alice Sturm) as Director, Innovation, Tech and Social Impact at #ORFMiddleEast @orfonline. Wish her all best as she builds policy research, communities of purpose and leadership out of UAE. Day 1 - at the UAE PM office finalising a project

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Interesting question to ask researchers: what would you be working on if you could get a grant to study anything?

[Verena Alice Sturm @stormlady]

@snarkademic Yes, actually: the word is „verschlimmbessern“

[Verena Alice Sturm @stormlady]

@beyond_ideology Lieblingsgedicht.

[Martin Tobias (Pre-Seed VC) @MartinGTobias]

Investors who make the earliest Commits are the stars of pre-seed rounds.

Especially those that don't ask "who else is investing?"

They are often not mentioned in the final fundraising announcement but are the spark that gives the whole round momentum.

[Bilal Zuberi // Red Glass Ventures @bznotes]

I truly believe the next 10 years of successful VC investing will be neither about crypto or AI or hardware or software.

It will be about RESPONSIBLE INVESTING.

Some founders and VCs rode the past few tech waves (eg. last 10-15 years of mobile, local, social, cloud, crypto, AI, etc) to great financial success, but paid somewhat limited attention to how tech was used to further improve on average human condition and health, national security interests of our country, and global issues like climate change, inequality, extremism etc. Vs facilitate deliberate or indirect damage to others.

Rest of society is, imo, catching up to such extractive/mercenary elements in tech and VC, and all of us are seeing/feeling the pushback. This past week’s events highlighted them even more.

But not all founders and VCs are mercenaries. In fact, many feel very mission-aligned to doing good in the world, and they strive to use technology to solve important problems. I am betting on those trends, and those types of company building efforts to succeed, esp as advanced technologies pervade all aspects of society: from education and elections to dating, finance, medicine, law, manufacturing, religion, defense, and more…it may not make quick money, it may take a bit longer, and it may require us to do things a little differently as we scale companies, but it’s the right thing to do for long term continued success of Silicon Valley.

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Seriously, everyone whose job touches on writing, images, video, or music should realize that the pace of improvement here is very fast & also, unlike other areas of AI, like robotics, there are not any obvious barriers to improvement.

We should be thinking about what that means

[Navalism @NavalismHQ]

"A taste of freedom can make you unemployable."

@naval

[Natalie Amiri @NatalieAmiri]

Es wird so wenig in Deutschland über diese Proteste gesprochen. Die Menschen im #Iran haben nichts und hoffen auf unsere Solidarität. Gestern Abend bei Lanz: …. #IranProtests2022 #MahsaAmini

[Niema Movassat @NiemaMovassat]

Annalena #Baerbock will feministische Außenpolitik machen? Sie kann beim Thema #Iran ganz einfach damit loslegen: Gelder der Regimeleute in Deutschland einfrieren. Dürften paar Milliarden Euro sein. Keine Visa mehr für Regimeleute. Und Abschiebestopp in den Iran.
#IranRevolution

[Verena Alice Sturm @stormlady]

@felix_scherf @LocalDonation Will have a look!

[Nichole Wischoff @NWischoff]

One day women will no longer be considered diverse in venture capital. That day cannot come soon enough.