The Emergent Layer is the official content platform of Selva Ventures and its Founder, Kiva Dickinson.
Here you will find long and short form content that follows the world of health and wellness, emerging brands and the journey of building an investment firm that invests in the space.
Selva Ventures invests in healthier living. We believe that health and wellness is one of the most important and compelling pillars of the consumer economy. Healthier people are happier, more productive, live longer and cost less to our healthcare system.
For many people, living healthier lives is complicated, confusing, expensive and inconvenient; we hope to play a part in changing that. The firm primarily leads investments at the Seed and Series A stages across branded consumer-facing wellness companies, with a specialty in consumer packaged goods.
We named our firm ‘Selva’, inspired by the Spanish word for ‘Rainforest’, because in many ways the rainforest embodies our mission. The rainforest is the world’s greatest incubator of life; rainforests provide more than 25% of the earth’s oxygen, more than 40% of its species, and are the world’s largest producer of natural medicines.
The rainforest also symbolizes the difficulty of our task: to find the one in a hundred brands that will penetrate to the masses. While an aerial view of a rainforest will show a dense canopy, that canopy is actually the third of four layers in the ecosystem.
The fourth, the Emergent Layer, are those rare trees (less than 1% of the ecosystem) that grow above the canopy; our goal is to find these unique game changers early, long before it is obvious, and help them reach their potential. Our respect for and focus on this Emergent Layer is depicted by the blue ‘tree’ running through the Selva Ventures and Emergent Layer logos, passing by the lower three green layers below.
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