Divergent Capital | Lucy Wang & Katie Shea, What's It Like To Be a Pre-Seed Machine Learning Venture Capitalist‪?‬ Unlimited Partners

This week's Unlimited Partners are Lucy Wang and Katie Shea of Divergent Capital. They are both Co-Founders and General Partners. Divergent is a "first check investor backing teams taking deeply technical and scientific innovations to market with unique insights on business models and GTM beyond just enterprise and SaaS."

Topics Include:


Lucy's background, growing up in Wuhan, China and emigrated to the US when she was 12, learning English in 7th grade
Starting at Bridgewater and not liking finance, going to grad school and getting her Masters in Machine Learning
Learning about AI in 2012, and moving to venture
Katie's brother Tom Shea was on the podcast with Adgile Media previously
Growing up in an entrepreneurial family
Why they started Divergent?
What does a funnel look like as a pre-seed investor

Tags: Packy McCormick, Tom Shea, 

Lucy's song is Stuntin' Like My Daddy by Birdman and Lil Wayne

Katie's song is anything off of the Encanto soundtrack

Sponsors:

Tegus Research 

My Marketplace Builder

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