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June 2025

S2E12: Beyond the Multistage Trap – Will Lehmann on Building a Solo Fund with Precision
Before launching Step Function, Will Lehmann spent years at Bain Capital Ventures, cutting his teeth on enterprise software deals.
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S2E11: Earned Insight, Not Outsourced GTM – Dakota McKenzie on Backing Founders Who Lead
Dakota McKenzie was the first in his family to go to college, and figured out his path into tech by working at startups in Boston to pay for school and…
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S2E10: The AI Stack That Found 2 Unicorns – Inside Blue Moon’s Automated VC Model
Ben and Romain met in San Francisco 10 years ago, and like any good partnership origin story, they bonded over what they thought was broken.
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Slice S2E9: Plausible Sci-Fi, Engineers with Empathy, and $34M in Syndicates – Inside Atypical’s High-Conviction Edge
What happens when you combine moonshot ambition with radical empathy?
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Slice S2E8: Building the Category for Women's Health – Madeline Darcy on Investing with Intention and Expertise
Most VCs are systematically terrible at recognizing patterns when it comes to women's health.
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36:25

May 2025

S2E7: Betting Against Central Casting – Ivan Montoya on Backing Latin America’s Overlooked Founders
In Latin American venture capital, there's a script.
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S2E6: From Freight to Founders – Santosh Sankar on Building the Rally Point for Global Supply Chain Innovation
With its third fund now closed at $54 million, Dynamo continues to lead investment in the technologies that make, move, and monetize the world's goods.
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S2E5: Labor, Logistics, and the Next Food Frontier – How Cam Crowder Is Rethinking the Stack
In a world where many venture capitalists shy away from the complexities of the food industry, Cam Crowder and Shane Larisey are charting a different…
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S2E4: Outsiders Welcome – Ethan Austin on Building a Firm That Speaks to the Uninvited
Some of the most iconic companies in the world didn’t come from polished decks or pedigreed founders.
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April 2025

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