The WeekThe WeekUncovered Weekly Wrap 8.28.26
VC UncoveredVC UncoveredThe Next Venture Advantage Isn’t Capital
LP UncoveredKatie Riester, FelicisThe best LP relationships create room for the unscripted.
VC UncoveredJen Richard, Bonfire VenturesAI Made Everyone a Builder. Jennifer Richard Bets on the Founders Who Can Sell.
CMO UncoveredRick Galasieski, Super.comThe best growth teams know when the problem has changed.
CMO UncoveredJean Brandolini Lamb, EquityZenYou Can't Sell the Brand Until People Know the Market Exists
LP UncoveredKai Chen, OceanIQ CapitalAccess is the New Advice: Building a Wealth Management Firm Around the One Thing AI Can't Replicate
LP UncoveredAlex Tonelli, Endurance CompaniesThe Builder Who Never Stopped Building.
Founder UncoveredKatrin Kaurov, FrichThe Pros and Cons List Said Don't Do It. She Did It Anyway.
LP UncoveredJessie Guo, Next LegacyThe Cold Email That Led to $3 Billion in Charitable Giving
CMO UncoveredCMO UncoveredThe CleverTap Big Leap - FTW NYC
Founder UncoveredDori Yona, SimpleClosureThe Company That Helps Founders Let Go
CMO UncoveredAndrea Leewong, ParafinThe Invisible Brand: How Parafin's CMO Markets a Company That Nobody Knows They've Already Met
VC UncoveredMercedes Bent, PremiseBuilding the VC Firm She Wished She Had
VC UncoveredHaley Bryant, Hustle FundThe most important early-stage signal is no longer pedigree or product, but how fast a team can learn and move.
CMO UncoveredKendall Bazan, Groundfloor FinanceHow Kendall builds borrower demand engines in niche lending markets and why the handcrafted moment is making a comeback.
VC UncoveredBukie Adebo Umeano, Anthemis GroupThe next wave of fintech may not look like fintech at all, and that is exactly what Bukie Adebo Umeano is betting on.
Thesis UncoveredThesis UncoveredThe Best Returns Reshape the Financial System
Founder UncoveredJohn Taylor Garner, OdynnHow John Garner Built a Company for a Problem the Market Hadn’t Noticed Yet
VC UncoveredCharles Hudson, Precursor VenturesFinding Alpha in Founders No One Else Will Meet
VC UncoveredSelina Troesch, Intuit Ventures“I’d rather have a really beautiful un-portfolio than some big blow-ups. I have a sense of what are important things to understand before I”
CMO UncoveredCasey Akerblom, BluevineBreaking the barriers of business banking.
CMO UncoveredLiza Moiseeva- CommonsHow Commons Scales Mission-Driven Fintech Through Content
CMO UncoveredKatie Perry, zerohashInside the Invisible Architecture of Global Finance
VC UncoveredAtlas Berry, M1CFrom South African Mines to Linkin Park: Building the Physical Backbone of AI.
CTO UncoveredCTO UncoveredGetting Smarter With Every Edit
VC UncoveredSheel Mohnot, Better Tomorrow Ventures (BTV)“Our tagline is ‘everything is fintech.’ Many vertical SaaS companies ultimately are fintech companies and derive the majority of their reve”
VC UncoveredTanvi Lal, Intuit Ventures“Being ‘founder-first’ requires looking after the entire founder, not just the part of the person who makes you money.”
VC UncoveredVikas Raj, ResilienceVC“We try to avoid abstraction. We try to follow the throughline of what the company is offering all the way to how it generates real value fo”
VC UncoveredTarun Gupta, Jump CapitalForget TAM: Why the Best Companies Don't Find Markets. They Create Them.
VC UncoveredNancy Hilliker, RPS VenturesIs Kindness the New Alpha? Why Empathy and Relationship-Building Win in the AI Era.
LP UncoveredRegina Green, CatalyzeThe Capital Before the Capital: Funding the Next Generation of VCs
VC UncoveredNia Patel, Montage Ventures17 for 17: How an “Ownership Mentality” Built the Hardest Working Cap Table in Venture.
VC UncoveredSamantha Klingelhofer, Infinity VenturesObsession, Elite Cycling, and the Fortune 500: The DNA of a Generational Investor.
VC UncoveredStephanie Campbell, The Artemis Fund“True power starts with ownership.”
Thesis UncoveredThesis UncoveredFrom Stablecoin Utility to Proactive Agents
VC UncoveredDavid Roos, Core Innovation CapitalD2C FinTech Isn't Dead: How AI and Automation are Quietly Saving the Category.
VC UncoveredRyan Stern, MUFG Innovation Partners“The CVC role is often subtractive, removing what does not matter so what does can thrive.”
VC UncoveredRachel ten Brink, Red Bike Capital“As we're moving faster and faster with AI, you're able to build businesses faster with AI. You actually go back to deeply human skills in o”
VC UncoveredXan Wood, Canvas PrimeThe Art of “Long-Term Greed”: From Student Boxing Matches to the Mosaic Theory of VC.
VC UncoveredAmee Parbhoo, Accion Ventures“Venture capital isn’t about finding the next big thing—it’s making sure innovation actually reaches the people who need it most.”
VC UncoveredMiguel Armaza and Andrew Endicott, Gilgamesh Ventures“We invest in people with the horsepower to change the way money moves across the world.”
VC UncoveredDrew Glover, Fiat Ventures“My path to venture was a ‘backdoor’—a contractual right-to-invest that changed everything.”
VC UncoveredNia Patel, Montage Ventures“The relationship between investors and founders needs to go beyond capital.”
VC UncoveredJurgen Van De Vyver, Launchpad capital“After more than 160 job rejections, I learned that success often boils down to resilience and resourcefulness.”
VC UncoveredLaura Bock, QED Investors“I used to spend hours in a biophysics lab, but I found my real experiment in venture—test, fail, pivot, test again.”
VC UncoveredLizzie Hartley, TTV Capital“Being part of a firm based in Atlanta and not on the coast has helped me look at opportunities differently.”
VC UncoveredAnthony Kline, The General Partnership“Founders have to be world-class storytellers. This produces three key benefits: they can fundraise, sell, and recruit. If you can do those”
VC UncoveredBukie Adebo Umeano, Anthemis Group“Great founders have to be able to convince people to do irrational things.”
VC UncoveredXan Wood, Canvas Prime“The best partners are ‘long-term greedy’.”
VC UncoveredRobert Wesley, Cameron Ventures“One of the best pieces of advice I’ve taken to heart is the idea of increasing your surface area for luck.”
VC UncoveredKatie Giometti, Obvious Ventures“Founders need fewer conflicting signals and more partners who can help them think clearly in the chaos.”