Kate McAndrew Inside The Mind Of A $100M Investor l Trailblazers Podcast Episode 40

Trailblazers by Erica Wenger · Jul 8, 2026 · 1h 12m · transcript

In this episode, we sit down with Kate McAndrew, Co-Founder and General Partner of Baukunst, a $100 million pre-seed venture fund investing in the next generation of founders. After spending more than a decade investing in over 100 early-stage companies, Kate shares how she evaluates entrepreneurs long before the rest of the market catches on. We discuss what makes a startup worth investing in, how great investors think from first principles, the traits that separate exceptional founders, how to build company cultures and institutions that last, and the unconventional path that led her into…