Divya Sudhakar's path into venture capital is unusual—she moved through distressed finance and credit investing before spending time at In-Q-Tel, the venture arm tied to the U.S. intelligence community, and later focused on enterprise software and AI, including hands-on board work with a company building trust-and-safety technology. She's also known for giving founders very specific advice, like telling open-source companies to hire a Japan-based developer-relations lead from the OSS community when expanding there, and for her own mindset of treating skepticism as motivation rather than a setback.