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Seed to Harvest
🎙️ Seed to Harvest | Stories from Technical Storytellers
Welcome to Seed to Harvest, the podcast by Behind Genius Ventures.
We talk to early-stage founders, operators, and investors—people building with code and conviction. Each episode is a chapter in their story: from the messy beginnings to the quiet pivots, from planting ideas to growing companies that matter.
Expect:
🌱 Honest conversations on the earliest chapters of company-building
🧠 Tactical insights from technical minds with narrative soul
✨ Reflections on resilience, rituals, and reinventing what’s possible
This podcast is for the builders who think in frameworks and metaphors. The ones who whiteboard in wild places. The ones writing their own mythologies—one commit, pitch, or poem at a time.
From spark to story.
From seed to harvest. 🌾
Seed to Harvest
Recursive Ventures Managing Partner Itamar Novick on Investing in Early Stage Tech Companies | Ep66
Today, I'm joined by Itamar Novick, Managing Partner at Recursive Ventures, a San Francisco based Micro VC fund investing in US Pre-seed and Seed Tech Startups disrupting industries through use of Data and Artificial Intelligence. Itamar has been supporting entrepreneurs since 2010 (50+ investments). He is also a Business insider Top 100 Global seed investor 2021 & 2022. Previously, he worked as an Entrepreneur & Startup executive in companies such as Life360 and Gigya.
Seed to Harvest is a podcast focused on stories & tactics from a diverse array of investors, founders, and creators, hosted by Paige Finn Doherty, a founding partner at Behind Genius Ventures and author of Seed to Harvest, an illustrated children's book for adults.
Connect with Paige 🌱💜
Behind Genius Ventures blog | https://www.behindgeniusventures.com/
Personal Blog | https://paigefinndoherty.com/
Twitter | https://twitter.com/paigefinnn
00:00 Welcome to Seed To Harvest: Itamar Novick
00:53 what is Itamar investing in?
02:25 the initial spark that got Itamar into startups
04:55 why invest early?
12:14 personal insights that led to other investments
14:27 thoughts on running an IPO
17:56 Why would Itamar pass on a founder?
20:21 investing differently with Gen Z
Show notes:
Itamar Novick | https://twitter.com/Itamar_Novick
Recursive Ventures | https://www.recursiveventures.com/
Morgenthaler | http://www.morgenthaler.com/
UpWest vc | https://upwest.vc/
Life360 | https://www.life360.com/
Deel | https://www.deel.com/
Alex Bouaziz | https://twitter.com/Bouazizalex
Shuo Wang | https://twitter.com/shuoshuooshuooo