Mike Gelb
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Consumer VC takes a look into early-stage consumer investing and venture capital. If you are interested in learning about consumer trends, have a b2c business and interested in learning about the fundraising process at the early stage, you have come to the right place. Mike interviews some of the top venture capitalists in the world that focus on B2C and consumer type companies or have a deep track record investing in these categories such as marketplaces, SaaS, social, CPG and non-tech subscription. Mike also interviews founders that are building some of the most disruptive consumer facing companies in...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Mike Gelb connects early-stage investment thinking to the product choices, consumer behavior, and commercial risks that determine whether companies endure.
Mike Gelb keeps Consumer VC close to the decisions behind consumer companies: how founders commercialize science, how investors judge emerging technology, and how products turn demand into durable businesses.
A game skin has a business model, and Mike Gelb wants you curious about both.
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Resourcefulness, network-building, and brand consulting shape a grounded story about fit, judgment, and opportunity.
Denise Lambertson comes across as someone who turned early access into a lasting way of working. Her path runs from a first job with Madonna to a wider circle of designers, creatives, and other high-profile figures, and then into consulting for brands.
A founder interview about spotting a gap in fresh baby food and building a full product ladder around it.
Angela Vranich and Ben Lewis trace how a consumer brand identified an opening in fresh baby food and then extended that idea into a wider product ladder.
Pre-seed consumer investing, with a sharp eye on trust, discipline, and scale.
It frames pre-seed consumer investing as a mix of fund sizing, price discipline, and clear category boundaries, with BAM Ventures sorting opportunities across consumer brands, consumer tech, and commerce enablement.
A practical look at why curious founders and trusted products still matter in consumer investing.
Science Inc frames consumer investing as a business of curiosity, trust, and steady product judgment rather than loud market themes. Mike Jones makes the case for CEOs who listen widely, absorb fast, and turn that knowledge into execution.
A grounded fintech conversation about access, clean data, and practical product change.
Drew Glover's discussion focuses on a practical fintech question: what actually lowers the barrier for people, and what only looks like progress from a distance.
A grounded consumer-AI conversation that ties product usefulness to the next platform shift.
Brian Kim's conversation with Mike Gelb moves from Snap's hypergrowth years into consumer AI, social use cases, and the next device platform. It is strongest when it keeps turning broad category talk into product detail, whether that means removing an unwanted background or…
A measured consumer VC conversation that gets its value from metrics, gaming, and investor judgment.
Vanessa Larko's take on consumer investing stays grounded in the basics: the metrics that matter, the path from builder to investor, and the reasons she stayed out of gaming even though she started there.
A founder-minded look at how deep tech becomes a consumer business, with real caution around time, dilution, and scale.
Osman Khan and Mike Gelb spend much of the conversation on the hard middle between deep tech, physical products, and the steps that have to line up before an idea can become commercializable.
Demetri Kofinas interviews specialists on geopolitics, energy markets, AI, and finance at length.
BBC's daily business show, from toy-industry founders to Anthropic's Pentagon standoff.
The Consumer VC deep-dives into Habitat Partners, a unique venture fund born from Red Antler's creative agency.
Host Mike Gelb interviews Ishan Sinha, a partner at Point72 Ventures, about consumer AI trends, the challenges of AI media content and copyright, and lessons from music industry disruptions.
Mike Gelb talks with Brian Cho about how games are changing.
Mike Gelb talks with Jeff Byers, the CEO of Momentus, about a supplement category that still makes consumers guess too much.
Mike Gelb speaks with Angela Vranich and Ben about how the company grew out of a very obvious gap in baby food.
Mike Gelb opens by pressing on venture hype and why people still choose to build in a category that gets too much attention.
Caleb Wang, CEO of Mila, shares how he and his wife Jen pivoted from a passion-project restaurant into a DTC frozen soup dumpling empire.
Mike interviews Shamim Walsh of BAM Ventures about pre-seed consumer investing, covering fund strategy, price discipline, and evaluating founders.
Mike Gelb talks with Richard Laver about building consumer brands from personal experience.
Mike Gelb sits down with Brian Kim of Andreessen Horowitz for a conversation about consumer tech and AI.
Mike Gelb sits down with Vanessa, a partner at NEA, for a wide-ranging conversation about consumer investing.
The speaker starts with a simple filter for founders: curiosity.
Miguel Leal says Somos Foods is chasing a $28 billion retail upside by making Mexican food feel as easy as pasta and sauce, not a shelf of ingredients.
Mike Gelb sits down with Jonathan Keaton, founder of Torch Capital, to follow the path from entertainment into consumer venture investing.
Mike Gelb speaks with Marcel Bens, CEO of Emil Capital Partners, about a $1–5 million check strategy backed by the Tanglemon Group and built around consumer brands.
Matt Alexander says Neighborhood Goods launched a new department-store model in Dallas, opened Austin on March 13, 2020, and closed it on March 14 as COVID hit.
Osman Khan, CEO and co-founder of Squared Circles, explains how the venture studio uses generative AI, expert calls, and consumer interviews to decide whether a concept deserves more work.
I didn't want to spend my life inside of someone else's vision, and I needed to step away from some personal demons.
Consumer VC Podcast episode featuring Drew Glover, GP at Fiat Ventures and founder of Fiat Growth growth consultancy.
Gail starts with the no she had to give Costco.
Kevin Parakkattu, a partner at Plug and Play Ventures, traces his path from rejected investment-banking interviews in New York City to becoming one of the first five people on Plug and Play’s venture team.
Wildwood Ventures is a venture studio backed by VF Corporation, and David Wagner says it was created after COVID pushed VF to rethink innovation, consumer behavior, and brand building.
Mike Gelb talks with Preston Rutherford, co-founder of Chubbies, about building “proper length shorts for men” from a Stanford friend group that started with thrift stores, scissors, and a backpack full of product.
Anouck Gottlieb says Belgian Boys grew from Greg’s Belgian snacks in a Boston dorm to 8,400+ stores, including Walmart, Target, and Whole Foods.
Denise Lambertson's career spans from interning at Madonna's Maverick Records to becoming a key connector between celebrities and brands during critical market transitions.
Helene Servilian, founder of woman and minority-owned cannabis VC firm Journey One Ventures, discusses why she pivoted from tech to cannabis investing.