Big news from Allie 🚀 We’ve raised an additional $5.2M led by @VoyagerVC with @SperoVentures, Silence, and @BDevVentures Allie enables factories that think, predict, and act. We are scaling across the U.S. and deepening our footprint in LatAm. LFG!

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Announcing Spero Ventures Fund II, and a cool new redesign! We continue to invest in companies at the edge of new industries and technologies that create a healthy, sustainable, and fulfilling future for everyone. Announcement in the next tweet.

Super excited to finally announce our investment in @OOVAlife. 50 years after the at-home pregnancy test was invented, @amydivaraniya is reinventing hormone monitoring with an at-home test that enables patients and their clinicians to track real-time data.

I wrote about having to live in reality and still have insane self-belief. https://t.co/fKYvnBdjCu

Our earliest sustainability investment was in 2017 in @mastreforest, back then, called DroneSeed. Grateful to have continued to invest in companies building a more sustainable world. Thanks, to @climatetech_vc for including us!

Valley OG, @Tesla co-founder and engineering VP @mtarpenning now Venture Partner at @SperoVentures spoke with @YesVC Partner @jyri at the @expensify Lounge in SF today on energy and climate tech, hosted by @silta_hq 🌎

Meeting a great person is such a mood-lifter. Just had two great conversations today. Win! In that theme, I wrote a short post on Connecting People https://t.co/mKe9OvgyH1

I need my writing to be fun again, so I'm going backwards. Here's my latest -- https://t.co/eXUTuBNBfM

Thought for the new year...humans are systematically terrible quitters. We should all be quitting more, sooner. But quitting isn't just for big life-altering decisions. Quitting small again and again adds up.

#Berkeley #startup @JoinClarity's work to address #airpollution was recently featured in @Forbes. Read the full article to learn how Clarity's #airquality monitoring sensors provide continuous, real-time data that’s affordable, scalable and accurate.

1/ I can't stop thinking about this graph. It shows how at-home COVID-19 testing rapidly reached 5X the capacity of lab testing. Thought experiment: what if we did this for other illnesses? What would that take? How many diseases could be caught, understood, and treated sooner?

1) We’re proud to announce we have closed a Series A+ funding round to support our global growth & accelerate development of new products to fight #AirPollution & #climatechange, co-led by @amasiavc & @Kickstartph along w/ https://t.co/HYwvgpmFHG

After a new invention speeds up menial & repetitive tasks, we think - the "old way of doing things was such a terrible use of a creative, thinking, feeling human being’s time.” This will be true for what @CorvusRobotics does, too https://t.co/ObPuAgMyZs

Rapid reforestation! Start-up DroneSeed provides seedlings & #drones to swiftly replenish scorched land - just 30 days after wildfires end. CEO @GrantCanary talks growth, financing & scaling up 👇

Absolutely love the work that @GrantCanary and the @DroneSeed team are doing.

Why Singularity?

For the past 3 years, @huckleberrycare has hosted the world’s largest Mother’s Day card exchange. I’ve written & received cards 3 years in a row and was excited to get one on Sunday. 🙂 Reflecting, I think there's more to this "feature" than meets the eye: https://t.co/caQ6ilahf8

Spero Ventures is a thesis-driven firm, and we strive to be transparent about what excites us. Recently, we all took a thesis topic and went deep. I chose API-First companies. It's a long read, and it's a work in progress I hope to adapt over time:

A no-stats all-star is someone whose contributions don’t always show up in top-line stats—but, without them, everyone's worse off. I want to salute all the no-stats all-stars out there in the @SperoVentures portfolio and beyond. :) Who’s yours?