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VC UncoveredVaughn E. CroweThe best founders aren’t chasing trends, they're building on an earned secret.
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VC UncoveredMorgan Blumberg, M13In regulated markets, the hard part is also the advantage
VC UncoveredNeal Mintz, Wischoff Ventures“You have to do as much of the job as you can before actually having the job.”
VC UncoveredChristine Keung, J2 VenturesFrom Government Insider to Investor: Helping Founders Unlock Opportunity in the Public Sector
VC UncoveredAndrew Peng, Collide Capital“Great founders are everywhere. It’s just that venture access is not.”
VC UncoveredEdwin Andrade, Core Innovation Capital“I don’t need to be the loudest person in the room to stand out. I focus on asking the right questions and building conviction.”
VC UncoveredCharles Hudson, Precursor VenturesFinding Alpha in Founders No One Else Will Meet
VC UncoveredRachel Stern, Govtech Ventures“Most VCs see state and local government as slow, fragmented and unglamorous. I see 80% margins, near-zero churn, and acquirers actively pay”
VC UncoveredMercedes Bent, Premise“Most of investors' role is actually making clear non-emotional logical decisions consistently. Those are some of the biggest skills you hav”
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”
VC UncoveredSherman Williams, AIN Ventures“What attracts me to founders are those who can clearly and concisely articulate a gap in a market, why they are uniquely qualified to build”
VC UncoveredDemi Obayomi, Sapphire Ventures“Success is the ability to make other people’s dreams come true.”
VC UncoveredDaniel Ramirez, 10VC“Try to make the right decision and then try to make your decision right.”
VC UncoveredItamar Novick, Recursive Ventures“The ones that really go big are companies that get to a one winner take most dynamic.”
VC UncoveredAhmad Tahir, Moderne Ventures“It’s not about having the perfect plan; it’s about testing hypotheses fast, learning faster, and adjusting direction before the market move”
VC UncoveredNatan Reddy, Ironspring Ventures“Industrial tech winners will be determined, not only on their speed of entry, but by how adept they are in their commercialization strategy”
VC UncoveredMonique Woodard, Cake Ventures“I believe that the future is really about this intersection of technology and demographic shifts, because demographic shifts reflect change”
VC UncoveredAtlas Berry, M1C“The world is industrializing... we want to back the founders that are pushing forward this next industrial era.”
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 UncoveredPeter Day, super{set}“At the moment there’s this unwritten belief that AI is a chatbot. And I think that in the not too distant future, that will be seen as the”