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LatAm 'plays on hard mode' according to VC Mercedes Bent

This week, Mary Ann spoke with Mercedes Bent, Partner on the early stage team at Lightspeed Ventures and co-lead of Lightspeed’s LatAm region and angel fund. The pair chewed through a number of topics, including: How and why Mercedes started investing in Latin America, and why she thinks the regi…

#164 — How to craft founder-investor relationships: Investo, Cumbuca, and Lightspeed Venture Partners at Vamos Latam Summit

A founder-investor relationship is like a marriage: hopefully, you're both sticking to each other through thick and thin, for years to come. Finding the right partner and crafting this lasting relationship is no easy task. That's why we called founders and investors to share their experiences durin…

Mercedes Bent, Partner at Lightspeed – Unlocking Fintech’s Potential Across the Americas & Balancing Priorities in Venture Capital Investing

Send us Fan Mail [Original air date, March 28, 2023] Miguel Armaza interviews Mercedes Bent, Partner at Lightspeed, a global venture capital firm founded in the year 2000. Over the last 23 years, they have secured over $18 billion in committed capital and backed over 500 companies, including Snap, …

Mercedes Bent, Venture Partner @ Lightspeed: Shaping Consumer & Fintech Future

Mercedes Bent is a Venture Partner at Lightspeed. Mercedes’ path to VC is a true convergence of her life experiences — a childhood surrounded by inventors, finance roles at the Federal Reserve and Goldman Sachs, managing P&Ls at two consumer startups (including growing one from $2 to $100M in reven…

Ep 268 The Mindset of a Top-Tier VC with Mercedes Bent

Mercedes Bent, formerly a Partner at Lightspeed, and a leading investor in fintech, AI, and consumer companies. Guest Bio: Mercedes Bent is a seasoned investor with a background that spans venture capital, startups, and institutional finance. As a former Partner at Lightspeed, she spent over five …

Platform Shifts, AI, and the Future of Consumer Investing

Follow me @samirkaji for my thoughts on the venture market, with a focus on the continued evolution of the VC landscape. Welcome back to another episode of Venture Unlocked, the podcast that takes you behind the scenes of the business of venture capital. In this episode, I had the pleasure of speak…

5 ways the AI bubble could burst

In episode 90 of The AI Fix, VC investor Mercedes Bent shares an insider's view of how venture capital is reshaping the AI race, why she believes AI will create jobs instead of destroying them, and five ways the AI bubble could burst. Also this week: Anthropic accuses three Chinese labs of scraping…

Mercedes Bent - Premise

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 …

Why Mercedes Bent left Lightspeed to build her own firm

On this episode of Beyond Zenith, Our Co-founder Nicola Moss sits down with Mercedes Bent, founder of a new venture capital firm focused on pre seed and seed stage startups, and former investor at Lightspeed. They get into multi agent orchestration and what it actually means to manage a growing swa…

#18: Leverage on Humanity

Mercedes Bent, founder of Premise VC and formerly a partner at Lightspeed, joins Anthony Thomas and Zac Henderson for the season's first guest conversation. She walks through the stack she uses across the five jobs of venture, sourcing, evaluating, winning, portfolio support, and exits, then demos …