From Sprint To Marathon: Nurturing Founders Through Strategic Partnerships

In the fast-paced world of tech entrepreneurship, founders often find themselves locked in a perpetual sprint, driven (often ragged) by the relentless pursuit of growth. Unsurprisingly, operating at such a pace isn’t sustainable for founders or their organizations—often leading to burnout, stress and a narrow focus on short-term survival rather than longer-lasting performance.

Strategies for Startups Navigating a Tougher Funding Landscape

Ongoing economic and political uncertainty has been causing the VC landscape to run at an exhausting pace. That means general partners (GPs) and managing directors are applying a laser focus on those startups in their portfolio that are poised for rapid growth.

Connecting Purpose with Profitability

The idea of sustainability is a two-fold goal for climate-conscious businesses that have made addressing our climate crisis their mission. Because no matter how noble it is to develop an environmentally sustainable product or solution, if a company cannot find its footing and sustain operations, it will never achieve the impact it is striving for.

Insight with Foresight: Navigating growth-stage pains

In this webinar, Sightglass Partner, Matthew Tobiasz chats with Christopher Naismith, CEO and founder of Audette.io. about the ways late-stage startups can navigate growth-stage pains.

Insight with Foresight

In this webinar, Sightglass Partner, John Jarosz chats with Christopher Naismith, CEO and founder of Audette.io. John and Christopher chat about the challenges and opportunities facing climate tech founders.

Case Study: Clearing a path to revenue in clean-tech

Achieving net-zero emissions is a complicated problem to solve in itself, but building a venture to contribute to that reduction increases the pressure on the founders to establish a sustainable business for themselves, their people, their investors, their customers, and the planet.

Insight with Foresight: How can DEI support innovation?

Sightglass Partner, John Jarosz chats with Lindsey TH Jackson, CEO of LTHJ Global and founder of SourjournDEI. Lindsey shares her experiences working with investors and consultants as a BIPOC tech founder.

Sightglass earns LGBT Business Enterprise certification

Sightglass Partners is excited to announce the firm’s certification as an LGBT Business Enterprise® by the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce, the national business voice of the LGBT community.

Combining companies starts with aligning your people on the experience

For enterprise companies that make acquisition part of their growth strategy, a lack of team alignment creates an “us-versus-them” scenario that blocks innovation.

The disruption is the experience

Technology doesn’t drive disruption. Experience does.

Outside-In perspective gives incoming CPO much-needed foresight

The role of Chief Product Officer can cover many core functions. It can include go-to-market strategy, but it can also include project and operational management and even feature decisions, design and analysis. Finding one person who is an expert within all of these areas is like finding the unicorn every start-up is trying to become.

The DE&I value proposition

The (very welcome) uptick in diversity-led private equity firms is prompting many in the space to look at themselves and their portfolio through a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive lens. Not only because it’s the right thing to do – it’s a way to give your firm a distinctly strategic value proposition.