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