Seed to Harvest

Send us Fan Mail Today, I'm joined by Anthony Privitelli, Founder of Creator Testing, on-demand creator-focused feedback and insights. Essentially, Creator Testing was built for teams and individuals who want to get creator feedback, whether it's podcasters, short-form video creators, long-form video creators, live streamers, bloggers, writers, etc. Previously, Anthony worked as a Produc...

Send us Fan Mail Today, I'm joined by Max Echeverria, Founder & CEO of Eskuad, a field data platform built specifically for operations and compliance. Eskuad transforms the way you work in the field — whether you operate by yourself or with a team. Easily organize your work, collect data, and generate reports. In the office, gain instant real-time visibility into your field operations and...

Send us Fan Mail Today, I'm joined by Mar Hershenson, Managing Partner at Pear VC, where seed specialists partner with founders at the earliest stages to turn great ideas into category-defining companies. Pear VC founded 10+ companies and invested early in startups now worth over $50B. In just 9 years, Pear VC has seeded 7 companies currently valued at over $1B and 3 public companies. Previou...

Send us Fan Mail In today’s podcast, I talk about my focus on the Gen Z market, which is values-focused and seeks to connect with brands that align with their ideals. I provide three key strategies for SaaS founders to reach the Gen Z market: standing for something and promoting company values, leveraging storytelling and authenticity in customer communications, and creating a memorable product ex...

Send us Fan Mail Join me in today's podcast as I dive into 22 of my favorite off-script podcast questions and reminisce about previous inspiring guests. Highlighting Ashley Flucas, Halle Kaplan-Allen, Nik Sharma, Beezer Clarkson, Meagan Loyst, Judith Dada, Charles Hudson, Jamie Rhode, Emily Herrera, Elana Dickman, Jaclyn Hester, Gale Wilkinson, Julia Lipton, Monique Woodard, Kelli Fontaine, E...

Send us Fan Mail Today, I'm joined by Courtney Leimkuhler, Founding Partner at Springbank Collective, investing in the infrastructure serving the long-overlooked needs of women and working families. It’s a $1 trillion opportunity hiding in plain sight. Courtney spent 20 years in the financial services industry on both the capital formation and risk management sides of the business. After star...

Send us Fan Mail Today, I'm joined by Ariana Thacker, Founding Partner at Conscience VC, an early-stage investment firm investing in science empowering humanity. Conscience VC was founded with the mission to generate a positive and scalable impact on the world by partnering with technical founders. Early in Ariana’s career, she fell in love with early-stage startups and saw investing as the b...

Send us Fan Mail Today, I'm joined by Itamar Novick, Managing Partner at Recursive Ventures, a San Francisco based Micro VC fund investing in US Pre-seed and Seed Tech Startups disrupting industries through use of Data and Artificial Intelligence. Itamar has been supporting entrepreneurs since 2010 (50+ investments). He is also a Business insider Top 100 Global seed investor 2021 & 2022....

Send us Fan Mail Today, I'm joined by Molly Mielke, Founding Partner at Moth Fund, an early-stage-focused venture capital firm that aims to increase the agency of exceptional individuals using both investment dollars and grants. Her fortes are: storytelling (ex-Stripe/Figma/Notion), early-career talent recruiting, and dot-connecting within the venture ecosystem (former Sequoia Scout). Molly’s...

Send us Fan Mail In today’s podcast, I have an exciting announcement to make. I also wanted to share a bit of context on where I am at with building Behind Genius Ventures and the direction that I want to take Seed to Harvest in the future. Connect with Paige 🌱💜 Behind Genius Ventures blog | https://www.behindgeniusventures.com/ Personal Blog | https://paigefinndoherty.com/ Twitter | https://twi...

Send us Fan Mail Today, I'm joined by Arkady Kulik, Founding Partner at rpv, a DeepTech Venture fund focused on early stage, scientifically intensive ventures. Arkady believes the alliance between entrepreneurs and scientists is the key to unlocking humanity's transition to an advanced civilization. His mission is to help both parties succeed across multiple industries and myriad context...

Send us Fan Mail Today I wanted to tell you a little bit about how memes on Twitter led me to manage millions of dollars. Through my journey with memes on Twitter, I feel that as I've gotten more comfortable as a venture firm manager and running my business, I'm starting to realize the magic of what I do is that I am informal and do not take things too seriously. Although I have very str...

Send us Fan Mail Today, I'm joined by Rachel Braun, Gen Z Tech & VC Producer & Researcher. Rachel is currently the founder and host of Braun & Brains, an agency specializing in producing social media content, events, and podcasts focusing on tech, business, and venture capital. She was previously the producer and correspondent for This Week in Startups, a weekly show that reviews...

Send us Fan Mail Today, I'm joined by Anna Barber, Investing Partner at M13, which is an LA based Series A venture fund focused on investing in the future of consumer technology. Understanding the future of consumer behavior is M13’s obsession, and it is why their funds have demonstrated repeatable success. After making early investments in direct-to-consumer brands (M13 participated in seed...

Send us Fan Mail Today I wanted to talk about one of my favorite subjects: cold outreach. At this point in my life, I am pretty much a professional at cold outreach. Cold outreach is really what built the foundation of my career, whether that was an email, Twitter DM, or LinkedIn message. I will be addressing my five P's of cold outreach: perspective, purpose, process, prep, and post. I will...

Send us Fan Mail Today, I'm joined by Niki Scevak, Co-founder of Blackbird, a $2.5 billion Australia based venture firm, investing across Australia and New Zealand at the early stage and beyond. Blackbird backs generational ambition with generational ownership by raising funds, investing in the best startup companies all the way through their journey from idea to beyond IPO. Their portfolio i...

Send us Fan Mail Today, Im joined by Yasmine Lacaillade, the Founding Partner of Sinefine. We talk a little bit about the SVB situation that happened recently and it's broader impact on the ecosystem. Yasmine built Sinefine because she saw a growing need in the market for emerging manager aggregation and platforms. Having sat at Drive Capital for a decade and being in charge of LPs while buil...

Send us Fan Mail Today I'm going to talk about our portfolio at Behind Genius Ventures and some of the industry trends in 2023 and beyond. I am one of the youngest fund managers in the world. I founded Behind Genius Ventures in 2021. Our debut fund was $5 million and we invest in pre-seed and seed stage companies building within the future of work and the future of play. The topics we will be...

Send us Fan Mail Today I am going to be sharing the six books that have really impacted the way that I write. I am the author of the book Seed to Harvest. Seed to Harvest is a children's book about venture capital, which I am really passionate about. I am sharing why I think venture is so unique and interesting with folks who might not come from traditional backgrounds or have a misconception...

Send us Fan Mail Today, I’m joined by Fernando Pontaza, Co-Founder and General Partner at Invariantes Fund. Fernando is a self-taught, multi-asset class portfolio manager with a track record of outperformance and solid risk metrics. After over 10 years in finance and a decade of managing portfolios, he has learned an enormous amount about the power of creating wealth. He believes the risks and sac...

Send us Fan Mail Today, I’m joined by Wes Panek, Principal at Screendoor Partners. Screendoor Partners focuses on supporting underrepresented venture capitalists, enabling founders and teams (both of whom are more likely to be underrepresented themselves) to back and build new companies, and creating a more inclusive venture capital and technology ecosystem. Previously, Wes was Principal at New Me...

Send us Fan Mail Today, I’m joined by Mercedes Bent, an investor on the early stage team at Lightspeed with a focus on consumer fintech/crypto in LATAM and the USA. She is an investor in Forage, Stori, Flink, Outschool, Beek, Magic Eden, Hawku, Fan Controlled Sports, and more. Mercedes co-leads Lightspeed’s LATAM region and the Scout Fund (angel fund). In 2016, she was named a 40 Under 40 for Tech...

Send us Fan Mail Today, I’m joined by Erin Harkless Moore, who leads the fund and direct investment program for Pivotal Ventures, an investment and incubation company created by Melinda French Gates to advance social progress in the United States. With over a decade and a half of investment experience, building and managing customized portfolios for endowed institutions and family offices, Erin is...

Send us Fan Mail In this special episode,  I talk about how I built trust on Twitter, got Forbes 30U30, and raised $5 million at 23. I share tips to prevent mistakes that emerging managers make raising their first fund. I will be answering questions concerning interactions on Twitter, demographics of LPs, managing how to network and build relationships with founders alongside raising a fund, shari...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to Seed to Harvest, a podcast with founders, creators, and investors about their stories, frameworks and tactics. Today, I’m joined by Sara Zulkosky, Managing Partner at Recast Capital. Prior to co-founding Recast, Sara served as a Venture Partner at Greenspring Associates, a venture capital platform with over $12B in assets under management. She also gives back to th...