We partner with the right entrepreneurs to bridge the gaps between the world’s hardest problems and the most innovative solutions.
Our Mission:
allows us to stay focused.
We collaborate and co-invest with non-profit and academic institutions to help cultivate, sometimes unlikely, new technologies and founders. Our goal is to help connect the many dots between discovery and commercialization by empowering founders with long-term capital and personalized support.
Our Roots:
allow us to prioritize our partners.
Little Green Bamboo is a evergreen fund that thinks the long-run. The way we invest, as opposed to the typical VC or private equity companies, is the difference between owning and renting, and people do not wash rental cars.
Founded in 2019, we did not officially launch until 2020, because we saw that good people with good missions did not follow through with their promises, and we were concerned that we may do the same.
So we devoted almost two years to analyze the approaches of different investment organizations, and strengthen our internal process to make sure we stayed true to our mission. We created six principles, and 25 mandates to reduce the human biases and mixed incentives that are commonplace in investing.
The socratic method:
We are not here to tell you how to do your job. Our goal is to help you learn, recognize options, and better make choices by leveraging the perspectives of our community.
Our Services:
allow our partners to rely on us.
We are not active investors and do not have a set platform or process. Our priority is to provide opportunities for networking, and education, and we approach each opportunity on a case-by-case basis. When requested by our partners, we have provided resources for fundraising, human resource, strategy, technology, branding, and more.
Our partners include universities, economics development programs, startup consultants, executive coaches, web services providers, etc. We will walk the extra mile to make sure our partners can take the next step.
Our Philosophy:
focuses on the people.
We only invest when we can put ourselves in the shoes of the founders and align ourselves 100% with their vision. To us, an investment is a commitment that is not unlike that of a marriage, and if we cannot see ourselves standing behind the investment at every step and sacrificing our own benefits, then each of us is perhaps not a fit for the other. If this is the commitment you want from your investor, then
Social Compounding:
We believe in the power of this economic phenomenon in social applications. We value sincere relationships, and believe that each new member of our community helps rotate a virtuous cycle that leads to more sincere relationships.
Productive Failure:
We value experiences of failure more than of success, and we cherish the persistence and openmindedness to keep trying. Every failure offers an opportunity for us to learn, whereas every success offers an opportunity to presume.
Our Principles:
help us navigate in times of darkness.
Nurturing Principles:
Analyze through developmental psychology;
Speak through the Socratic method;
Hear through Buddhist compassion.
Investment Principles:
Distribute decision making and rely on diversity;
Date to marry, analyze to invest, and think in decades;
Markets drive success, and people drive failure.
Our Fellowship:
broadens our collaboration
The Verdant Fellowship:
is designed to educate, train, and offer an opportunity for fellows to test the waters of entrepreneurship and investing, through real world, hands-on opportunities;
Our onboarding process includes a personal evaluation, simulated projects, the equivalent to a semester’s worth of business courses and cases, the Socratic method, and other optional resources.
is open to students pursuing postgraduate degrees, founders leaving their startups and transitioning into business school, and precocious undergraduates;
Our fellowship will not give you a defined goal or roadmap, and will most benefit those who are self-motivated, and are driven to learn about, explore, and connect with people and their ideas.
Our fellowship is designed to flexibly fit our fellows’ preferences, including how they want to learn, work, and be compensated.
and is meant to teach and inspire through our shared perspectives.
Please contact us to learn more.
Our Book Club:
connects us more profoundly
Little Green Bamboo Book Club:
is designed to exchange diverse perspectives between innovators, founders, and friends, on a shared subject, expand our horizons, push our comfort zones, and connect on a profound level;
is available through referral only.
