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Better Ventures

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Better Ventures funds and supports technology startups that solve big global problems.

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Hub Ventures

founded date

01.01.2010

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Private

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The venture capital firm, founded in 2010 and based in Oakland, California, invests in seed-stage, early-stage, growth-stage, and later-stage companies in information technology, healthcare, life sciences, and technology-based sectors across the globe. Better Ventures believes in the power of technology to address issues such as job creation, education, and environmental sustainability, and seeks to back entrepreneurs who use modern tools and methodologies to create scalable solutions. Better Ventures is the successor to Hub Ventures, a successful startup accelerator for entrepreneurs building a better world.
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Rick Moss
Rick Moss

Rick Moss

Rick is Managing Director and Founder of Better Ventures. He thrives on solving customer development challenges for startups and spends most of his waking hours at the whiteboard. He has 18 years of technology, entrepreneurship and corporate venture capital experience with Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Computer Sciences Corporation, The Modem Shop (which he founded) and Kleiner Perkins-backed WineShopper.com (acquired by Wine.com). He holds a BA from Trinity College and an MBA from the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College. Rick believes passionately that technology should be used to address the world's most important problems. Rick lives in Oakland, CA with his wife and two kids, is an avid cyclist and a craft beer enthusiast.

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Wes Selke
Wes Selke

Wes Selke

Wes is Managing Director and Co-Founder of Better Ventures. He's the resident "numbers guy" and enjoys helping startups figure out how they're going to make and raise money. Wes has 15 years of venture capital and financial advisory experience with Good Capital’s Social Enterprise Expansion Fund, William Blair, and Ernst & Young's Mergers & Acquisitions group. He earned an MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley and a BBA from the University of Michigan. Wes has volunteered with organizations around the globe, which has fueled his passion for applying his business skills to build a better world. He lives in Oakland, CA with his wife and two young kids and enjoys road cycling in the East Bay hills and Sunday trips to the farmers market.

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Jacob Gibson
Jacob Gibson

Jacob Gibson

Co-founded NerdWallet. Without any outside funding, helped it grow from 2 guys into a world-class, mission-driven team, working to build the future of personal finance. I stepped down in early 2014 and am now using that experience to help other entrepreneurs and small businesses in any way I can.

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Better Tomorrow Ventures
Better Tomorrow Ventures

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Lyndsey Boucherle

Lyndsey Boucherle

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Jessica Eastling

Jessica Eastling

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Adam Archer

Adam Archer

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Wes Selke

Wes Selke

Managing Director & Founder

Rick Moss

Rick Moss

Managing Director & Founder

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