Welcome back to the new EVCA newsletter! With the pandemic-induced mayhem of 2020, we may have been hoping for a quieter year, but, of course, life never goes that way. Only a little over a month into the New Year, we’ve witnessed an unprecedented attack on our democratic systems with the US Capital riots, the inauguration of a new president, and the start of the long-awaited vaccine rollout to end the pandemic and allow us to resume some long-forgotten sense of normalcy. As if that weren’t enough to start the year, the whole Gamestop saga launched by a decentralized network of revolutionary Redditors (whether you support them or not) is exposing