Ciarán O'Leary

There are so many great, arguably better, VC blogs (AVC, Continuations, FeldThoughts,  BothSides, etc.) that it’s fair to say BerlinVC is not going to leave a big gap States against states, companies against companies, states against companies, everyone against users, etc The cost and time effort required to end the world is decreasingly rapidly – how can we ensure powerful new technologies (e.g. in say, synthetic biology, CRISPERs, AI enabled DAOs, etc.) aren’t used against humanity; how do we deal with these technologies in the hands of deeply irresponsible leaders and organisations around the world? And not only that, it’s also where we are investing: from the 9 investments we have made over the last 12 months – 3 are working on frontier internet technologies to make the internet better, more resilient, decentralised and hard-wired for openness; 3 are helping users and organisations create entirely new markets and economies for the future; 3 are liberating data from silos and creating knowledge that had not exited previously.