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

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 

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