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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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June 30, 202631 min

(Don’t) BEHAVE Yourself: Mayssa Chehata with Scott Hartley

In episode 124 of Venture Everywhere, Scott Hartley , a General Partner at Everywhere Ventures , talks with Mayssa Chehata , founder and CEO of BEHAVE Candy — the first-ever better-for-you confectionery brand making low-sugar gummies without artificial sweeteners. Mayssa shares how her dad's diabetes and her own sugar addiction drove her to prove that candy doesn't need artificial sweeteners or sugar alcohols to taste good and stay blood-sugar-friendly. She discusses BEHAVE's vision to build the healthy candy aisle of the future — where taste, accessibility, and clean ingredients all come together. In this episode, you will hear: Reformulating BEHAVE's recipe to cut sugar without artificial sweeteners Landing Erewhon as an early anchor retailer to build credibility Rebuilding the supply chain to lower COGS and find a co-packer Building a following on TikTok that ultimately doubled revenue Pricing BEHAVE for accessibility while protecting margin Learn more about Mayssa Chehata | BEHAVE LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mayssa-chehata-86b21140 Website: https://www.eatbehave.com/ Learn more about Scott Harltey | Everywhere VC Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scotthartley Website: https://everywhere.vc/

June 23, 202629 min

Set in Mindstone: Joshua Wöhle with Jenny Fielding

In episode 123 of Venture Everywhere, Jenny Fielding , Managing Partner at Everywhere Ventures , talks with Joshua Wöhle , co-founder and CEO of Mindstone — a platform that trains companies and their employees to actually use generative AI in their day-to-day work. Joshua shares how Mindstone started as a general learning platform before ChatGPT's release exposed a much bigger opportunity: companies were spending millions on AI tools while leaving the people meant to use them almost entirely untrained. Mindstone's vision is to become the enablement layer for the enterprise, starting adoption with executives and scaling it outward through the whole organization. In this episode, you will hear: Pivoting Mindstone from a general learning platform to AI-specific enablement Engineering Rebel as an alternative to off-the-shelf AI platforms Leading with executives before rolling AI training out to the rest of an organization Pushing one enterprise client to switch its entire stack from Microsoft to Google Helping Epignosis spot cross-team churn patterns through shared AI memory Learn more about Joshua Wöhle | Mindstone LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/joshuawohle Website: https://www.mindstone.com/ Learn more about Jenny Fielding | Everywhere VC Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennyfielding Website: https://everywhere.vc/

June 16, 202630 min

Highlights, Hype, & Hot Takes on NY Tech: Marty Ringlein with Jenny Fielding

In episode 122 of Venture Everywhere, Jenny Fielding , Managing Partner at Everywhere Ventures , sits down with Marty Ringlein , co-founder and CEO of Agree , for a founder’s-eye recap of New York Tech Week 2026. Marty breaks down his week — from demoing Agree at Intercom to a poker night at Bessemer — and what the energy on the ground said about where New York’s tech scene is heading. Together they dig into what had every founder and VC buzzing — agents, commoditization, and whether New York is finally having its moment as the center of the tech universe. In this episode, you will hear: New York Tech Week reaching its inflection point. The best and worst events of the week as a founder on the ground. Agents and commoditization turning once-defensible products into overnight features. Regulated industries as the last viable moat against AI encroachment. The question every founder is now asking: what won’t Claude or ChatGPT build? Learn more about Marty Ringlein | Agree LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martymadrid Website: https://agree.com Learn more about Jenny Fielding | Everywhere VC Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennyfielding Website: https://everywhere.vc/

June 9, 202633 min

Shop Smartie with Martie: Louise Fritjofsson with Scott Hartley

In episode 121 of Venture Everywhere, Scott Hartley , a General Partner at Everywhere Ventures , talks with Louise Fritjofsson , co-founder and CEO of Martie — a marketplace creating access through the world of excess by selling surplus and overstocked food and household goods from name brands at a discount. Lou shares how a leftover holiday cookie mix from an earlier startup exposed a broken industry: up to 40% of perfectly consumable products go to landfill because brands have no outlet for their overstock. She discusses Martie's vision to become the household name in liquidation — building a brand where quality, savings, and sustainability all come together. In this episode, you will hear: Sourcing surplus from brands locked out of traditional liquidation channels. Landing partnerships with large retailers to anchor the vendor marketplace. Deploying MATE to screen 6,000 SKUs weekly with a lean buying team. Prioritizing assortment depth and loyalty over membership tiers. Testing mystery boxes and new formats to diversify the customer base. Learn more about Louise Fritjofsson | Martie LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/louisefritjofsson Website: https://martie.com/ Learn more about Scott Harltey | Everywhere VC Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scotthartley Website: https://everywhere.vc/

June 2, 202621 min

The Sharpei Lending Edge: Maria Azofra with Anna Barber

In episode 120 of Venture Everywhere, Anna Barber , a General Partner at Everywhere Ventures , talks with Maria Azofra , co-founder and CEO of Sharpei — an AI-native operating system for embedded equipment financing that helps lenders automate and accelerate the loan origination process. Maria shares how building Yakk, a B2B equipment rental marketplace in Spain, exposed a frustrating industry-wide bottleneck: lenders taking 20 to 30 days to approve transactions, losing deals before they could ever close. Sharpei’s vision is to become the origination infrastructure for every lender in the US — modernizing a $1.3 trillion industry that still runs on emails, PDFs, and phone calls. In this episode, you will hear: Iterating through multiple business models to find true market pull. Targeting pre-qualification as lending’s most overlooked bottleneck. Automating credit file creation from days to hours with AI. Using lenders as the distribution channel to reach merchants at scale. Building leasing infrastructure that captures residual asset value. Learn more about Maria Azofra | Sharpei LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariaazofra/en Website: https://www.gosharpei.com/ Learn more about Anna Barber | Everywhere VC Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annawbarber Website: https://everywhere.vc/

May 26, 202631 min

Outmarket the Market: Anshu Jain with Scott Hartley

Anshu 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 tools Catching policy exclusions and coverage gaps before claims surface Evolving pricing from seat-based to usage-based to revenue-share Turning policy data and agent workflows into proprietary AI advantage Learn more about Anshu Jain | Outmarket AI LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anshujain Website: https://outmarket.ai/ Learn more about Scott Hartley | Everywhere VC Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scotthartley Website: https://everywhere.vc/

May 19, 202623 min

Zero to PropHero: Mickael Roger with Jenny Fielding

Mickael 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 | PropHero LinkedIn: https://es.linkedin.com/in/mickaelyroger Website: https://www.prophero.com Learn more about Jenny Fielding | Everywhere VC Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennyfielding Website: https://everywhere.vc/

May 12, 202629 min

Worth Every Dollaride: Su Sanni with Kameale C. Terry

Su 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 | Dollaride LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sulaimansanni Website: https://www.dollaride.com Learn more about Kameale C. Terry | ChargerHelp Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kamealecterry Website: https://www.chargerhelp.com

April 28, 202627 min

Not My First Rodeo: Alfie Pearce-Higgins with Jenny Fielding

Alfie 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.

April 21, 202633 min

In the mixus: Elliot Katz with Scott Hartley

In 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 AI LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elliot-katz-002b6684 Website: https://www.mixus.ai Learn more about Scott Hartley | Everywhere VC Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scotthartley Website: https://everywhere.vc/