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Agents of Change in Talent: Funds Edition
Manish Nageet
Findem
Carolyn Carpeneti
Peterson Partners
Ben Newsome
Cherry Ventures
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Overview
The talent seat at a fund is a strange job. You're accountable for outcomes at companies you don't run, for roles you don't own, with founders who can ignore you. Almost all your leverage comes down to one thing: whether people bring you in early or late.
This session is about tools two fund talent leaders built themselves — not to save time in the abstract, but to buy back the part of the job that matters.
Carolyn Carpeneti, Talent Partner at Peterson Partners, demos the role scoping tool she built in Claude Code that forces founders to prioritize: three must-haves, two nice-to-haves, and no wish lists. Ben Newsome, VP of Talent and People at Cherry Ventures, walks through the triage platform he built across a 150-company portfolio — pulling new applicants every morning, scoring them against 13 hand-defined archetypes, and matching them to open roles and speculative fits in real time.
Both also drew a clear line where AI doesn't cut it. Watch for where they stopped building.
Key takeaways
- How to build a role scoping tool that forces founders to prioritize
- How to design a scoring rubric specific enough to your fund's thesis that a large-scale sourcing agent can act on it reliably
- How to use a Findem-powered talent network as the data layer for automated candidate triage and introduction
- Where two experienced fund talent leaders drew the line on AI
- How building bespoke tools (instead of buying generic ones) is changing what fund talent teams can do with a team of one or two
Speakers
Manish Nageet
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Head of Funds & Networks
,
Findem
Carolyn Carpeneti
,
Talent Partner
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Peterson Partners
Ben Newsome
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VP of Talent and People
,
Cherry Ventures