Other 80 %

80% of VC-backed companies fail. The industry calls it the cost of doing business. I'm not convinced. The Other 80% is an investigation — running in public, one conversation at a time — into why most companies that fail didn't have to, and what the 20% know that the rest don't. I'm Katerina Hayes. I run a deeptech seed fund called Scaler Capital, building between the UK and the Gulf. Every week on this show, I sit down with the people who'd actually know: venture capitalists who've watched the pattern repeat, institutional investors who fund the funds, and operators who've scaled through the moments most companies don't survive. The questions are the ones nobody asks on conference panels. What did you see coming that the founder didn't? Which board meeting was the one where it tipped? What support arrived too late — and why didn't it arrive sooner? No pitch decks. No rehearsed answers. No recycled Silicon Valley playbooks. Just what it actually takes to move a company out of the failure column, in a new era of venture where structural support, speed, and operator-grade insight separate the funds that build from the ones that gamble. If you've ever sat in a portfolio review and thought we should have caught this six months ago — this show is for you. New episodes weekly. Follow if you want to know what they're not telling you.