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Venture Everywhere
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Venture Everywhere is a podcast exploring the trials and tribulations of building a startup from zero to one. Hosted by Everywhere Ventures, a global pre-seed fund supported by 500+ founders and operators who serve as the hosts and guests for this unique podcast experience. To learn more about our work, visit Everywhere.vc and subscribe to our Founders Everywhere Substack. You can also follow us on LinkedIn for updates and news.
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Outmarket the Market: Anshu Jain with Scott Hartley
2w ago00:31:22Tap to summarizeAnshu Jain, co-founder of Outmarket.ai chats with Scott Hartley, GP of Everywhere Ventures.In episode 119 of Venture Everywhere, Scott Hartley, co-founder and General Partner at Everywhere Ventures, talks with Anshu Jain, co-founder and CTO of Outmarket AI — an AI-native platform that helps insurance brokerages grow revenue, reduce errors, and close more policies. Anshu shares how years at IBM Research, Meta, and Ethos Life revealed that insurance agents were drowning in manual data entry, buried exclusions, and uncompared quotes — with zero tools to help them. Outmarket’s vision is to become the AI infrastructure layer for insurance distribution, modernizing a chronically underinsured market by giving every agent the intelligence of a team behind them.In this episode, you will hear:Closing America’s chronic underinsurance gap with smarter agent toolsCatching policy exclusions and coverage gaps before claims surfaceEvolving pricing from seat-based to usage-based to revenue-shareTurning policy data and agent workflows into proprietary AI advantageLearn more about Anshu Jain | Outmarket AILinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anshujainWebsite: https://outmarket.ai/Learn more about Scott Hartley | Everywhere VCLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scotthartleyWebsite: https://everywhere.vc/
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Zero to PropHero: Mickael Roger with Jenny Fielding
3w ago00:23:08Tap to summarizeMickael Roger, co-founder and CEO of PropHero chats with Jenny Fielding, General Partner of Everywhere Ventures.In episode 118 of Venture Everywhere, Jenny Fielding, Co-founder and Managing Partner at Everywhere Ventures, talks with Mickael Roger, co-founder and co-CEO of PropHero, a data-driven real estate investment platform that helps everyday investors identify, buy, and manage high-return properties globally. Mickael shares how a painful personal experience losing money on an investment inspired him to build a company that takes the guesswork out of real estate. He discusses how PropHero uses machine learning across 25 years of data and hundreds of variables to consistently deliver 16% average annual returns across 4,000+ properties, outperforming every major index, by pairing machine learning with the local insight that no dataset can fully replace.In this episode, you will hear:Predicting property performance with 25 years of machine learning data.Managing the full investment lifecycle through a single digital platform.Deploying AI for 24/7 support while keeping humans in high-stakes decisions.Launching PropHero Academy to deepen client investment knowledge.Building a lifetime wealth partnership over a transactional real estate model.Learn more about Mickael Roger | PropHeroLinkedIn: https://es.linkedin.com/in/mickaelyroger Website: https://www.prophero.com Learn more about Jenny Fielding | Everywhere VCLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennyfielding Website: https://everywhere.vc/
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Worth Every Dollaride: Su Sanni with Kameale C. Terry
4w ago00:29:25Tap to summarizeSu Sanni, co-founder and CEO of Dollaride chats with Kameale C. Terry, co-founder and CEO of Chargerhelp!The host of episode 117 of Venture Everywhere is Kameale C. Terry, co-founder and CEO of ChargerHelp, an EV charging maintenance and workforce development company keeping charging stations operational across the country. She talks with Su Sanni, co-founder and CEO of Dollaride, a clean transportation company electrifying small urban fleets in New York City. Su shares how growing up in East New York with limited transit access shaped his conviction that underserved communities deserve better transportation options. He discusses how Dollaride evolved from a digital app for dollar van riders into a B2B electrification platform, positioning small fleet owners as key players in New York’s clean transportation transition.In this episode, you will hear:Digitizing dollar van payments and routing through a consumer app.Pivoting from B2C rideshare to a B2B fleet electrification platform.Winning a $10 million NYSERDA grant to electrify New York’s dollar van industry.Offering EVs, charging, and parking as a turnkey solution for small fleet operators.Balancing government contracts with a commercial ground game to sustain cash flow.Learn more about Su Sanni | DollarideLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sulaimansanniWebsite: https://www.dollaride.comLearn more about Kameale C. Terry | ChargerHelpLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kamealecterryWebsite: https://www.chargerhelp.com
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Not My First Rodeo: Alfie Pearce-Higgins with Jenny Fielding
Apr 2800:27:59Tap to summarizeAlfie Pearce-Higgins, co-founder and CEO of Rodeo, chats with Jenny Fielding, General Partner of Everywhere Ventures on episode 116: Not My First Rodeo. In episode 116 of Venture Everywhere, Jenny Fielding, co-founder and general partner at Everywhere Ventures, talks with Alfie Pearce-Higgins, co-founder and CEO of Rodeo — an AI-powered careers platform helping people understand the job market, build personalized career plans, and find the right opportunities. Alfie shares how watching startups outperform years of institutional work in developing countries convinced him that the right people, tools, and capital could change everything — a conviction that led him back to the UK to fix one of the most broken markets he'd seen: the job search. He explains how the collapse of the traditional job application market, driven by zero-click application on one side and AI screening tools on the other, created a Akerlof-style market failure that Rodeo is purpose-built to solve. In this episode, you will hear:How synthetic applicants and fake job posts are breaking the job application market.Rodeo's voice-first onboarding approach to building rich, personalized career profiles.Combining AI efficiency with human advisors for the most powerful careers solution.How AI is making parental and school career advice dangerously out of date.
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In the mixus: Elliot Katz with Scott Hartley
Apr 2100:33:56Tap to summarizeIn episode 115 of Venture Everywhere, Scott Hartley, co-founder and general partner at Everywhere Ventures, talks with Elliot Katz, co-founder and CEO of mixus AI — a legal AI platform that lets attorneys delegate work to agents directly from email. Elliot shares how riding in early autonomous vehicles and seeing the gap between the hype and the technology convinced him that humans would always need to stay in the loop — a conviction that drove him from law to co-founding mixus. He discusses how mixus is cutting through a crowded legal tech market by demanding zero behavior change from attorneys, meeting them in email and Word rather than asking them to learn yet another dashboard.In this episode, you will hear:Applying the human-in-the-loop thesis from autonomous vehicles to legal AI.Winning AmLaw 20 firms through zero behavior change integration.Taking financing workflows from days to minutes with email-native agents.Shifting corporate legal work from billable hours to fixed-fee engagements.Learn more about Elliot Katz | mixus AILinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elliot-katz-002b6684Website: https://www.mixus.aiLearn more about Scott Hartley | Everywhere VCLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scotthartleyWebsite: https://everywhere.vc/
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Setting the Ecotone: Dylan Lew with Scott Hartley
Apr 1400:38:21Tap to summarizeDylan Lew, co-founder and CEO of Ecotone, chats with Scott Hartley, GP of Everywhere VenturesIn episode 114 of Venture Everywhere, Scott Hartley, managing partner at Everywhere Ventures, talks with Dylan Lew, co-founder and CEO of Ecotone Renewables, a company replacing traditional waste hauling with on-site biodigesters that convert commercial food waste into a locally distributed organic fertilizer. Dylan shares how building and operating an early digester that broke down constantly pushed him to rethink the entire food waste system from the ground up. He discusses how Ecotone is rewriting the economics of food waste management, turning what businesses write off as a disposal cost into a revenue stream and a locally sourced fertilizer supply chain.In this episode, you will hear:Using state food waste bans to landfill as a distribution accelerant.Building a decentralized grid of on-site digesters over centralized facilities.Upcycling commercial food waste into a locally distributed organic fertilizer.Expanding from digester hardware to AI-powered waste intelligence.Sequencing a multi-sided business from digester manufacturing to retail fertilizer.Learn more about Dylan Lew | Ecotone RenewablesLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dylan-lew412Website: https://www.ecotonerenewables.comLearn more about Scott Hartley | Everywhere VCLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scotthartleyWebsite: https://everywhere.vc/
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Maro of the Minds: Kenzie Butera Davis with Jenny Fielding
Mar 3100:21:43Tap to summarizeIn episode 113 of Venture Everywhere, Jenny Fielding, General Partner at Everywhere Ventures, talks with Kenzie Butera Davis, founder and CEO of Maro — a platform providing early intervention and risk detection for youth mental health in K-12 schools. Kenzie shares how a personal family experience pushed her from nonprofit and venture work into building the infrastructure schools were missing. She discusses how Maro challenges the entrenched belief that mental health has no place in the classroom, instead unifying universal screening, family communication, and care coordination into one system that identifies struggling students before they fall through the cracks.In this episode, you will hear:Deploying universal screening to close the gap between first symptom and treatment.Building school-based infrastructure to bridge families, health plans, and providers.Navigating parent consent and data privacy in K-12 health adoption.Leveraging state screening mandates as a distribution accelerant.Expanding from screening tool to full-stack school and health system network.Learn more about Kenzie Butera Davis | MaroLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kenzie-butera-davisWebsite: https://www.meetmaro.com/Learn more about Jenny Fielding | Everywhere VCLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennyfieldingWebsite: https://everywhere.vc/
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The Ultimate Revive-al: Allison Lee with Jenny Fielding
Mar 2400:28:39Tap to summarizeAllison Lee, founder and CEO of Revive, chats with Jenny Fielding, GP of Everywhere VenturesIn episode 112 of Venture Everywhere, Jenny Fielding, managing partner at Everywhere Ventures, talks with Allison Lee, co-founder and CEO of Revive — a turnkey virtual tailoring solution that helps fashion brands reduce returns and dead stock by refurbishing and reselling garments. Allison shares how a pandemic-forced pivot exposed a damages problem every brand was quietly absorbing but no one was solving. She discusses how Revive challenges the industry consensus that damaged inventory is a write-off, instead unifying item-level inspection, refurbishment, and resale into one system that recovers value brands didn't know they had.In this episode, you will hear:Replacing SKU-level inventory systems with item-level inspection and decisioning.Bridging the gap between brand needs and 3PL capabilities.Refurbishment as a higher-recovery alternative to donation and liquidation.Live commerce as the resale channel for Gen Z shoppers.Human-in-the-loop operations where AI augments rather than replaces physical inspection.Learn more about Allison Lee | ReviveLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/allisonhyeinleeWebsite: https://www.byrevive.com/Learn more about Jenny Fielding | Everywhere VCLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennyfieldingWebsite: https://everywhere.vc/
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The Great Scape: Helle Jeppsson with Matthew Brimer
Mar 1700:28:11Tap to summarizeHelle Jeppsson, co-founder and CEO of SCAPE, chats with Matthew Brimer, co-founder of Everywhere VenturesIn episode 111 of Venture Everywhere, the host is Matthew Brimer, co-founder of Everywhere Ventures and co-founder of ZZ Driggs, a furniture and design company serving the real estate and hospitality industry. He talks with Helle Jeppsson, co-founder and CEO of SCAPE, a wellness tech platform delivering on-demand spa services across Latin America. Helle shares her path from opening physical spas in the U.S. and Mexico to building an alternative after COVID exposed how hard it is to make brick-and-mortar wellness scale. She discusses how SCAPE pivoted from a B2C consumer brand into a white-label spa product for hotels and businesses, converting a traditional loss-center amenity into a profit center for properties that can't justify the overhead of a full spa operation.In this episode, you will hear:Building on-demand wellness infrastructure across Latin America. Pivoting from B2C to B2B after spotting organic demand from the hotel industry.Using consumer brand recognition to break into corporate wellness. Creating better work conditions and higher earnings for women therapists in Latin America.Learn more about Helle Jeppsson | SCAPELinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hellejeppsson Website: https://scape.mx/ Learn more about Michael Barone | ZZ Driggs | Everywhere VCLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mobrimer Website: https://zzdriggs.com/ Website: https://everywhere.vc/
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All-In-One Zelt Solution: Chris Priebe with Michael Barone
Mar 1000:21:14Tap to summarizeChris Priebe, founder of Zelt, chats with Michael Barone, investment analyst at Everywhere Ventures.In episode 110 of Venture Everywhere, Michael Barone, analyst at Everywhere Ventures, talks with Chris Priebe, founder and CEO of Zelt — an all-in-one workforce management platform consolidating the fragmented tools companies rely on to manage their people. Chris shares how years in private equity watching acquired companies struggle to untangle messy, unintegrated employee systems revealed a gap no modern vendor was solving. He discusses how Zelt challenges the industry consensus that fragmented HR stacks are simply the cost of doing business, instead unifying employee data into one system where org chart logic, payroll, and expenses all speak the same language.In this episode, you will hear:Replacing fragmented HR, payroll, and IT stacks with a single workforce management platform.Scaling go-to-market with a focused geo strategy after expanding to 40+ countries.Balancing product depth and ease of use across growing markets and customer segments.Embedding AI into Zelt to simplify access to a feature-rich platform.Overcoming change management when introducing a new system to resistant teams.Learn more about Chris Priebe | ZeltLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisagain/Website: https://zelt.app/Learn more about Michael Barone | Everywhere VCLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-barone-0a5375241/Website: https://everywhere.vc/
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