Ed Jean-Louis

Monte’s Fam, Founder & CIO / Tale Venture Partners, Co-Founder

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Career Highlights

• Early investors in Rippling (seed), ComplYant (pre-seed), and SparkCharge (seed) -- led the company's Series A

• Received $8M in funding from the state of NJ to launch climate focused accelerator

Failures

• 2nd investment ever made recently wound down

• Only achieved 10% of target raise for 1st fund

Current Focus

• Launched a multi-asset firm with the first vehicle focused on US and Central/West Africa-based investments

Hobbies

Reading, Puzzles, Traveling, Walks

Talk to me about

• All things investing (investing across asset classes, global investing, climate investing, frontier tech investing, etc.)

• Launching a venture fund

• Building company culture

I want to talk to you about

• Bridge/ecosystem building

• Trends in the current market environment

• Climate tech

• Plant medicine

• Looking to connect with values-aligned investors and allocators looking to build domestically and internationally