Sourcery
Episodes
Cluely Raises $15 Million From a16z | Roy Lee, Founder & CEO
20 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Roy Lee, Founder & CEO of Cluely, announces their $15M from Andreessen Horowitz to build what they call the most viral AI startup in the world. In...
How Browserbase Raised $67.5M to Power AI Agents & Vibe Coders
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Klein IV, founder & CEO of Browserbase, announces their $40M Series B at a $300M valuation led by Notable Capital. Browserbase has raised $67...
Sequoia Leads $75M Series B Into Nominal | Alfred Lin Joins Board
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Cameron McCord, CEO & Founder of Nominal, discuss their recent $75 million Series B round led by Sequoia, bringing their total funding to over $10...
Nucleus Launches First Genetically Optimized Embryo
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With $32M in total funding, Nucleus CEO Kian Sadeghi joins Molly to discuss the groundbreaking launch of Nucleus Embryo, a genetic optimization softwa...
How Wander Raised $50M to Reinvent Luxury Travel
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, John Andrew Entwistle, founder & CEO, breaks down Wander’s explosive growth and recent $50M Series B round led by QED Investors...
How Whop Hit $1.2B GMV Run Rate with Just 20 Engineers
23 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Whop CTO Jack Sharkey reveals how they built a $1.2 billion GMV run rate platform with just 20 engineers, processing $108 million monthly & 5+ bil...
How Altimeter Is Investing $100M+ Checks | Anduril, SpaceX, K2 Space
16 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Erik Kriessmann, Partner at Altimeter, joins Molly O'Shea to share his journey from leading human capital at Khosla & Index to writing $100+ m...
Bucky Moore Joins $30 Billion AUM Mega Fund Lightspeed
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bucky Moore joins Molly O'Shea to announce his new role as Partner at $30B AUM Lightspeed Venture Partners. Bucky opens up about his transition from K...
Windsurf: The Making of a Billion-Dollar AI Company
02 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Leigh Marie Braswell, Partner at Kleiner Perkins, speaks with Molly O'Shea on the rise of AI and its impact on venture capital. We discuss KP'...
Superpower Raises $30M Series A Led by Forerunner
22 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jacob Peters, CEO & Co-Founder of Superpower, shares their recent $30 million Series A funding led by Forerunner Ventures. We go deeper into their...
How Autopilot REVEALS Political Insider Trading | Chris Josephs
18 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Josephs, Co-Founder of Autopilot, dives into the intricacies of political insider trading, the venture-backed journey of Autopilot, and their in...
Base Power's $200M Series B Co-Led by Lee Fixel of Addition, A16Z, Lightspeed, & Valor Equity Partners
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Zach Dell and Justin Lopas, co-founders of Base, discuss their recent $200 million Series B funding and their ambitious vision for revolutionizing the...
Delian Asparouhov: Varda’s Space Factories & Founders Fund
28 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Delian Asparouhov, Co-Founder of Varda & Partner at Founders Fund | We discuss Varda's recent space missions, regulatory challenges, and the broad...
SpaceX, Stripe, X, Ramp, Anduril: Navigating Liquidity in Private Markets
21 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Molly O'Shea speaks with Christian Garrett, Partner at 137 Ventures. Christian shares his insights on the current state of private markets, the me...
Arielle Zuckerberg, Winning Founder Recipe: The Rizz & Tiz
14 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Behind the Magically Weird: Arielle Zuckerberg on Long Journey Ventures, Unique founders, and Purpose-Driven InvestingMolly O'Shea speaks with Ari...
Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour - The Future of Free Markets
28 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tarek Mansour, is the Co-Founder & CEO of Kalshi, a regulated exchange & prediction market where you can trade on the outcome of real-world ev...
Taking on an $80 Billion Dollar Market with Gen Z | Dylan Diamond
21 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dylan Diamond is the Co-Founder & CEO of Saturn, a viral Gen Z calendar app that's raised $68M after starting as a high school project. In thi...
Packy McCormick, Not Boring | How writing led to investing in Ramp, Scale AI, Replit, Varda
14 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Packy McCormickI've teamed up with Passes to grant us access to a pro podcast studio in LA, exclusive early releases, audience Q&A, & BTS cont...
Zoom to Salesforce: How Emergence Capital Picks Billion-Dollar Winners
31 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today Molly O’Shea speaks with Founding GP Gordon Ritter & new Partner Yaz El-Baba of $2.3B AUM VC fund Emergence Capital. We cover everything f...
$688 Million AUM in 2 Years Investing in Data, AI, Web3 & Blockchain | Tomasz Tunguz
24 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tomasz Tunguz is a prominent venture capitalist and the founder & GP of Theory Ventures, a $688M AUM fund. Theory focuses on investing $1-25m in e...
Unlocking Mental Resilience: How Spartan Race Builds Unstoppable Minds | CEO Joe De Sena
16 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Joe De Sena is the founder and CEO of Spartan Race, Inc. In this conversation, we discuss Joe’s 20+ years of Spartan Race, surviving covid, acquirin...
Cyan Banister & Lee Jacobs Investing in the Magically Weird | SpaceX, Uber, Anduril, Crusoe
20 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Molly O'Shea speaks with Cyan Banister and Lee Jacobs to discuss the unique investment strategy of Long Journey Ventures, focusing on...
How Lucy Guo Is Building A Creator Empire with Shaq, Kygo & Olivia Dunne | Passes
14 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lucy Guo is a prominent entrepreneur and investor, known for her role as a co-founder of various technology startups. She gained recognition as one of...
Dan Wright, CEO Armada | Trae Stephens Next Big Bet
22 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today Molly O'Shea speaks with Dan Wright, CEO of Armada, backed with $100M to date from notable investors like Trae Stephens from Founders Fund, 13...
Joshua Browder, DoNotPay | Saving Consumers $100M+ & Investing in Thiel Fellows
15 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Molly O'Shea talks with Joshua Browder, Founder & CEO of DoNotPay, a $200M AI champion designed to help people fight against big corporations and ...
America's New Consumer: CPG, Sports, Four-Wall | Jason Fiedler, Left Lane Capital
08 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Molly O'Shea interviews Jason Fiedler, Managing Partner at Left Lane Capital, a $2B+ venture fund focused on consumer and internet businesses. They ...
Aramco of The Moon: Lunar Ice Mining For Multiplanetary Rockets | Starpath
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Molly O’Shea interviews Saurav Shroff, Founder & CEO of Starpath, a company developing megascale propellant production systems for lunar and Mar...
Former Chief Scientist at Salesforce, Richard Socher | You.com, LLMs, AI Agents, Complex Work
25 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this fascinating episode of Sourcery, host Molly O'Shea sits down with Richard Socher, founder and CEO of You.com and co-founder of AIX Ventures. R...
Jeff Morris Jr, Chapter One | Difficult Market for VCs
16 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Molly talks to Jeff Morris Jr (JMJ), GP of Chapter One and infamous product leader at Tinder. As emerging funds face an existential crisis, JMJ explor...
Alex Kolicich, 8VC | AI & Defense Tech Renaissance
11 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Molly O’Shea is joined by Alex Kolicich, Founding Partner of 8VC. Before his venture capital career, Alex was an engineer and early product advisor ...
Impulse Labs, Trojan Horse for Battery-Powered Homes | Backed by Lux Capital
04 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Molly O'Shea talks to Sam D’Amico, founder of Impulse Labs which has created one of the highest quality battery-powered induction stoves, offering u...
Molly Alter, Partner (Northzone), $4B AUM | Software for Hardware, EU vs USA, Vertical AI, VC Biases
20 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Molly O'Shea talks to Molly Alter, Partner at Northzone, a $1.2 billion fund with around $4 billion AUM and discusses her successful investments (...
Zamp's Series A: $14M in 15 Months
13 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Molly O'Shea talks to Zamp's CEO, Rohit Bhadange as he shares his journey from Wall Street to founding the fastest growing sales tax complianc...
Astasia Myers, GP at Felicis, $3B AUM, AI Agents & Autopilots, New Infra Opportunities, & Roadblocks
06 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Molly O'Shea is joined by Astasia Myers, GP at Felicis, to discuss their new $825M fund, totaling Felicis’s AUM to $3B. Astasia goes deep on her...
Crunchbase Macro Update | Surprising VC Narrative Violations & AI's Big Break
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Molly O'Shea is joined by Gené Teare, senior data editor at Crunchbase News, and brings her wealth of experience and insight to the world of vent...
Computer Science is So Hot Right Now | Grace Isford, Lux Capital
23 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Molly O'Shea talks to Grace Isford of Lux Capital, the firm’s youngest Partner, on computational sciences, the current AI Landscape, her investm...
The Quiet Revolution in DNA Sequencing | Nucleus Genomics
16 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Molly O'Shea is joined by Nucleus Genomics CEO Kian Sadeghi discussing the integration of DNA into daily life, from predicting health risks to unl...
Masha Bucher, Day One Ventures: Investing in The Biggest Ideas Possible
01 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Molly O'Shea talks with Day One Ventures founder Masha Bucher on the firm's investment strategy, highlighting their focus on ...
Text-to-CAD: AI Revolutionizing Hardware Design with Jordan Noone of Zoo
26 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Molly O'Shea is joined by Jordan Noone, an aerospace engineer, former Founding CTO of Relativity Space, Co-Founder and General Pa...
John Coogan, EIR at Founders Fund, Founder of Soylent & Lucy
24 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Molly O'Shea talks to John Coogan, EIR at Founders Fund and co-founder of Lucy and Soylent. They cover topics such as his role as...
Are LLMs Hitting a Wall? VC Shifts Focus
20 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Molly O'Shea is joined by Eric Newcomer, founder of "Newcomer”. Eric shares insights from the New York Cerebral Valley Sum...
Soot's $7.2M Seed Round: CEO, CTO, & Investor, Kobie Fuller
12 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Molly O'Shea sits down with Jake Harper and Amol Kapoor of Soot, a spatial, self-organizing file system that revolutionizes how t...
Mark Suster, Upfront Ventures: Investing in Space, Defense, & Exit Opportunities
28 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Molly O'Shea interviews Mark Suster, Managing Partner of Upfront Ventures, about venture capital investing strategies and market ...
Hunter Walk, Homebrew & Screendoor
14 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hunter Walk discusses the evolution of his venture capital firm, Homebrew, and their contrarian decision to become a self-funded fund in a world of in...
Radiant CEO Doug Bernauer on Portable Nuclear Microreactors & the Future of Clean Energy
31 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sourcery’s Molly O’Shea sits down with Doug Bernauer, Founder and CEO of Radiant, a company pioneering portable nuclear reactors designed to repla...
Silicon Valley's Best Kept Secret for Skilled Immigration | Minn Kim, Founder of Lighthouse
03 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Accelerating US Skilled Immigration to Power Technological Progress This episode features Minn Kim, founder of Lighthouse, an early-stage company off...
Jared Hecht of USV, 2x Exited Founder of Fundera (Nerdwallet) & GroupMe (Skype/Microsoft)
26 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Sourcery features an in-depth conversation with Jared Hecht, Venture Partner at USV and 2x exited founder of Fundera and GroupMe. ...
Embracing American Dynamism to Upgrade Manufacturing Production With Oden CEO Willem Sundblad
19 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Molly O'Shea talks with Willem Sundblad, co-founder and CEO of Oden Technologies which has just announced a $28.5M Series B led b...
Kyle Harrison, GP at Contrary on Techno-Optimism, Talent Vortexes, & Writing “Investing 101”
12 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Molly O'Shea interviews Kyle Harrison, General Partner at Contrary and writer of the popular Investing 101 substack, discusses hi...
Morgan Housel: Understanding Elon Musk, Jensen Huang and Other Outliers in Tech
05 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Molly O'Shea interviews Morgan Housel, a New York Times bestselling author and partner at The Collaborative Fund. They discuss th...
Chris Power, Hadrian: $10B or Zero, Revitalizing American Manufacturing
29 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, Molly O'Shea interviews Chris Power, Founder & CEO of Hadrian, a vertically integrated deep tech manufacturing company. Hadri...
Nick Abouzeid, Rivet: Growth "Hacking" Myths, What Worked at Ramp, & Better Tax Services
22 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Molly O'Shea is joined by Nick Abouzeid, co-founder of Rivet, a newly launched corporate and personal tax preparation firm. Prior...
Varda's Landing, Peter Thiel, & the Future of El Segundo, Delian Asparouhov, Founders Fund
15 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast episode Molly O'Shea interviews Delian Asparouhov, Partner at Founders Fund and Co-Founder and President of Varda Space Industries...
David Weisburd, 10X Capital: Finding Alpha and LP Bias
08 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Molly O'Shea talks with David Weisburd, Co-founder and Co-Head of Venture Capital at 10X Capital. They discuss the strategies for...
Alex Kolicich, 8VC: Exodus of Venture Capital, AI Predictions
03 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast episode, Molly O'Shea interviews Alex Kolicich, founding partner at 8VC, about 8VC’s portfolio construction, the VC ecosystem, t...
Xander Oltmann, Commodity Capital: Downfall of SaaS & Uprising of Vertically Integrated Monopolies
01 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Summary In this podcast episode, Molly O'Shea interviews Xander Oltmann about his venture capital fund, Commodity Capital, and his investment thes...