Mercedes Bent

Mercedes is the co-founder and Managing Partner at Premise Ventures, a $100M pre/seed VC firm. She previously led investments at Lightspeed and was named one of 9 rising stars in venture capital by the Wall Street Journal. Her investments include Exa, Cowboy Space Corp, Janitor AI, Moonlake, Hyperspell, Arcade.dev, and many more agent AI companies driving the most important conversations around AGI. She’s an expert in venture capital market construction, labor dynamics, and financial services, and has been featured by CNBC, Bloomberg, Business Insider, Wall Street Journal, and others. She holds two graduate degrees from Stanford, completed her undergraduate studies at Harvard, and lives in San Francisco with her family and dog.