LP Uncovered Podcast

In This Episode Most allocators learn to evaluate risk from a distance. Alex Tonelli learned it by nearly running out of money. “We closed a round with $16 in our bank account,” he says, describing the early days of what would become Funding Circle, the small business lending platform he co-founded after Stanford GSB. That number isn’t metaphorical. It’s a specific, concrete memory he returns to o...

Jessie Guo had no connections at Legacy Venture when she decided to reach out. She had just moved to the United States, finished her MBA at UC Davis, and knew exactly the kind of work she wanted to do. So she wrote a cold email to Russ Hall , the co-founder of Legacy Venture, introduced herself, and waited. He responded the same day. That exchange, now 12 years ago, set in motion a career that sit...

In this Episode Courtney McCrea spent more than a decade watching the behemoths of venture capital grow too large for their own good. As fund sizes ballooned and general partners grew wealthier, she noticed a persistent paradox: returns were becoming increasingly muted. In 2019, Courtney saw the signal in the noise. The true alpha no longer resided with the multi-billion-dollar “asset gatherers,”...

In this Episode Octavio Sandoval is not interested in the charity of venture capital; he is interested in its inefficiencies. As a principal at Oakland-based Illumen Capital , Octavio is helping lead a charge to prove that bias in asset management is not merely a social failure—it is a data blind spot that leaves alpha on the table. Octavio’s trajectory from a founding student at a KIPP charter sc...

In This Episode Regina Green shares her journey from her upbringing in Georgia to her extensive career at Goldman Sachs, where she navigated through various roles during tumultuous market conditions. She discusses the origins of Catalyze, a platform aimed at supporting underrepresented fund managers through their Fund Fellowship and the launch of GP Runway Fund, which provides non-dilutive capital...

In this Episode You’ll learn about Sabrina’s personal journey from a STEM background to impact investing, a path shaped by her experiences in Teach for America and at Oxford. She details her core philosophy that economic systems must be fixed to allow communities to thrive and that those with lived experience are best equipped to solve complex problems. You’ll get an inside look at Spring Point Pa...