Randall Howard

Waterloo Tech – Ancient Acetates from the Early Years

randall — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 08:30:00 +0000

A re-discovered set of Powerpoint acetates in a long forgotten file folder, provides a unique glimpse into when the early Waterloo technology industry finally had critical mass and started to share that story with the world.

Adrenaline Fund Completes 2023 Investments

randall — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 14:28:32 +0000

Happy New Year! Today is the first day of 2024, starting the fourth year of Adrenaline Fund which completed its 2023 Vintage int late December. To summarize, as per our plan during 2023, the Adrenaline team made 10 new investments bringing the three year total to 30 investments This puts us on track to deliver a […]

Adrenaline Fund Continues to Power Early Stage Ecosystem in 2022

randall — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 23:56:24 +0000

Adrenaline Fund marks its second full year of investing as it completed its 2022 Vintage. Adrenaline Fund, was founded in 2020 as part of the multi-fund Archangel Network of Funds, uniquely applies a hyper efficient passive model, fuelled by our startup and angel ecosystem, to early stage investing. . We are fuelled by a remarkable group […]

Adrenaline Fund Pumps a High Energy First Year into Early Stage Investing

randall — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

2021 marks the first full investment year for Adrenaline Fund which uniquely applies a passive model, fuelled by our startup and angel ecosystem, to early stage investing. Adrenaline Fund was founded in 2020 in cooperation with 2 other sub-funds in the Archangel Network of Funds. Through the vagaries of. the COVID-19 pandemic, 2021. was our first […]

Top 10 Ways to Slim Personal Consumption

randall — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

When all of our personal consumption is added up, that segment may well be the largest single part of our personal carbon footprint. [In A Personal Carbon Reduction Plan, I tried to help individuals segment to ease the path to reducing personal carbon footprint.]. While there are many other components of personal consumption, especially our […]

A Personal Carbon Reduction Plan

randall — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Today is a Global Climate Strike in cities and towns all over the world. In late 2019, was a crescendo of activity including the first Global Climate Strike and UN Climate Summit. It feels almost like time, and action, has been paused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Now in late 2021 marks a return to that […]

Investing Through The Unfolding Energy Disruption

randall — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Although a life long mathematician and technologist, recently much of my focus has been on being a savvy investor, in many asset classes from private seed/angel investing to public markets and alternative investments. While Canadian investors have traditionally thrived on conservative, cash generating value investing and fixed income plays, the future is rendering such risk […]

Environmental Awakening Fusing of Science, The Arts and Sea Ice

randall — Wed, 10 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Even though a life-long environmentalist, my transformative experiences up north in Canada’s Arctic regions onboard Canada C3, moved my environmental consciousness to a whole new level. My own journey began as a teenager in the 1960s. Being a voracious reader with a strong scientific bent, was a perfect fit for me to embrace the fledging […]

Canada – A Nation Built by (Extra) Ordinary People

randall — Tue, 05 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Canada at 150 – What is Your Gift to Canada and the World?

randall — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000

As we approach Canada Day of our 150th year of Confederation, I am compelled to share my personal reflections on where our country is headed, how the lessons of history (positive or negative) are shaping our future journey and the contribution we, as Canadians, can make to our world. Beyond celebration, our nation urgently needs our […]