What does John Wood invest in?
John Wood invests most often at Pre-seed and Seed (100% of the rounds on record).

Last cheque observed Jun 2025. Silence since then is not evidence of inactivity: our sources miss unannounced rounds.
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2 rounds on record
Mostly Pre-seed and Seed: 100% of its rounds
Every round we can evidence, newest first2 appearances
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1 round
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3 books written by people at John Wood: John Wood.

Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children
John Wood · 2006
4.10 from 4,682 ratings on Goodreads
John Wood discovered his passion, his greatest success, and his life's work, not at business school or leading Microsoft's charge into Asia in the 1990s, but on a soul-searching trip to the Himalayas. Wood felt trapped between an all-consuming career and a desire to do something…

Creating Room to Read: A Story of Hope in the Battle for Global Literacy
John Wood · 2013
4.09 from 771 ratings on Goodreads
The inspirational story of a former Microsoft executive’s quest to build libraries around the world and share the love of books What’s happened since John Wood left Microsoft to change the world? Just ask six million kids in the poorest regions of Asia and Africa. In 1999, at…
Purpose, Incorporated: Turning Cause Into Your Competitive Advantage
John Wood · 2018
4.04 from 74 ratings on Goodreads
Too many working professionals still subscribe to the old Milton-Friedman logic that “the sole social purpose of a business is to generate profit for shareholders.” In this revolutionary book, authors John Wood and Amalia McGibbon show once and for all that cause is not the…
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John Wood invests most often at Pre-seed and Seed (100% of the rounds on record).
2 investments on record, 0 of them in the last 12 months. The most recent was in Jun 2025.
Its most recent investments on record: Voltavate (Pre-seed, Jun 2025).
The median round it joins is $553K.
No investments in the last 12 months; the latest was in Jun 2025.
John Wood is an angel.
John Wood was founded in 1867.
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