VC Uncovered

Welcome to VC Uncovered. We’re telling the stories of a new generation of investors—those who move faster, take bigger risks, and build alongside founders. If you believe venture capital needs a fresh voice, you're in the right place.

VC Uncovered is a business podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 14 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts VC Uncovered, a business show with 14 episodes published.

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  Episode #5

  Mercedes Bent - Premise

  May 11, 202640 minS2

  <p>Mercedes Bent spent six years as a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, worked at the Federal Reserve and Goldman Sachs during the 2008 financial crisis, and founded her own startup. Now she's building Premise, the early-stage VC firm she co-founded with Vanessa Larco, as a deliberate rejection of what venture capital has become.</p><p><br></p><p>"We have become an index play," Mercedes said on VC Uncovered. "And I'm basically doing the anti of that."</p><p><br></p><p>Premise focuses on pre-seed and seed investing in the AI ecosystem, small by design and deliberate by strategy...

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  Episode #4

  Haley Bryant - Hustle Fund

  May 6, 202644 minS2

  <p>What does it mean to invest when moats are disappearing and anyone can build an MVP by 1 a.m.? That question sits at the center of this conversation with Haley Bryant, Partner at Hustle Fund, one of the earliest voices to appear in the VC Uncovered newsletter.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hustle Fund invests at the earliest stages, writing first checks into companies 50% of the time across B2B, fintech, and health tech. Haley is based in the DMV and has spent the past year expanding her focus into cybersecurity, dual-use technology, and energy, backed by capital awarded...

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  Episode #3

  Bukie Adebo Umeano - Anthemis Group

  May 4, 202640 minS2

  <p>The next wave of fintech may not look like fintech at all. Bukie Adebo Umeano, early-stage investor at Anthemis Group, has spent four years building an investment thesis around that idea. The firm calls it invisible finance: financial services so well-built that nobody notices they are there. No app to open, no form to fill out. Just a business owner making decisions while the banking, lending, and payments infrastructure adjusts automatically in the background.</p><p>In this episode, Bukie breaks down financial services innovation in three waves. Wave one was digitization, moving from branches and phone calls to...

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  Episode #2

  Nicole DeTommaso - Harlem Capital

  Apr 22, 202632 minS2

  <p>What if the best venture opportunities are hiding in industries that software never touched?<br>Nicole Tommaso, Principal at Harlem Capital, joined VC Uncovered to break down the firm's contrarian approach to early-stage investing. She explains why she believes AI is unlocking markets that were completely closed to venture just a decade ago.<br>Harlem Capital backs underrepresented founders at the seed stage ($1M–$2.5M checks), but their edge isn't just who they back. It's how they think. Nicole explains why the firm evaluates a founder's childhood before their business plan, what a "high slope of learning" actually looks li...

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  Atlas Berry (M1C)

  Feb 25, 202652 minS2

  <p>Read the VC Uncovered profile: ⁠⁠https://www.vcuncovered.com/p/atlas-berry-m1c</p><p>In this podcast:</p><p>Drew Glover talks to Atlas Berry from Mission One Capital (M1C) on the "physical AI" revolution and the industrial infrastructure required to power it.</p><p>Atlas, the founder of M1C, explains that the U.S. power grid is facing a "comfort crisis," currently unable to meet the massive energy demands of AI. He positions M1C as a specialist partner focusing on three pillars: energy, industrial resilience, and earth systems. By prioritizing "behind the meter" power generation and...

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