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Top Decile Podcast: Nikhil Mittal
A fraud fighter's approach to backing AI-native founders.
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Top Decile Podcast: Michael Saloio
Betting on domain experts as the next consumer founders.
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Top Decile Podcast: Galit Flasterstein
Backing Latin America's most underfunded ag and climate founders.
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Top Decile Podcast: Navneet Kaur
Backing the founders reinventing women’s health and longevity.
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Top Decile Podcast: Rob Mihalko
A career inside marketplaces, now backing them at seed.
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Top Decile Podcast: Tahnoon Murtza
Tahnoon isn't just a finance operator who discovered entertainment.
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Top Decile Podcast: Anthony Atlas
Every year, roughly 175,000 students enter science competitions at the bottom level.
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Top Decile Podcast: Lorenzo de Leo
From Madrid Math to Miami's Venture Studios
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Ankur Shrivastava
How Ankur Shrivastava built a three-person, three-country climate tech firm.
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Rachel Chalmers and Michelle Yi
Generationship Fund I closed in June 2026.
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Top Decile Podcast: JP Keating
JP Keating spent 25 years inside the world's most complex supply chains at Boeing, Anheuser-Busch, and Allstate...
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Fund Close Success Stories: How Emerging Managers Closed Fund I
Why fund close success stories beat generic fundraising advice
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Top Decile Podcast: Jorden Woods and Radhika Iyengar
In 2019, Jorden Woods and Radhika Iyengar wrote a book predicting AI and blockchain would converge into something nobody in venture was ready for. Six years later, they launched StarChain Ventures to invest in it. Here's the case study.
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Karen Sheffield
Karen Sheffield Closes Pachamama Ventures Fund I.
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Top Decile Podcast: Collette Tibbetts
Collette Tibbetts, singer-songwriter turned investor, makes the case that technologies validated in music first have powerful applications across healthcare, communications, and deep tech.
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Top Decile Podcast: Moy Aras
Moy Aras, a former Chobani and Nespresso executive, explains why pre-seed consumer packaged goods is venture capital's most overlooked opportunity.
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Bianca Schilling
Bianca Schilling traded a Penn biomed lab bench for a VC seat.
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Derek Mether
When the 2023 Hollywood strikes shut down sets, Derek Mether saw an opening into Venture Capital.
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Top Decile Podcast: Varun Turlapati
How a software engineer with 16 years of technical experience is backing neurotech.
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Top Decile Podcast: Christian Tadrus
The $5M fund fixing American pharmacy from the inside