The best venture capital podcasts in 2026 are 20VC, Invest Like the Best, BG2Pod, All-In, The a16z Show, No Priors, Training Data, Unsupervised Learning, Cheeky Pint and This Week in Startups. Some are investor interviews, some are weekly market debates, and several are hosted by partners at venture firms, so you can follow both what VCs think and how they talk to founders.
We make Built This Week, which is not a VC show, so it is not ranked here; it appears at the end as "Also from us." Here's how we picked the list.
Harry Stebbings hosts 20VC, which interviews venture capitalists and, once a week, a well-known founder. Recent episodes in its feed cover seed-stage economics, robotics and AI inference. It publishes two to three times a week as of October 2026, with about 39 episodes in the last 90 days, and despite the name episodes usually run about 70 minutes. It is the most direct pick for people who want to hear how VCs think about deals.
Start with: Demis Hassabis: Why AGI is Bigger than the Industrial Revolution & Where Are The Bottlenecks in AI (472K views on YouTube as of October 2026). Full profile of 20VC.
Patrick O'Shaughnessy talks with investors and business leaders about their ideas, methods and stories, produced by Colossus. The show says it is for professional investors, CEOs, entrepreneurs and business strategists. It publishes weekly as of October 2026, and episodes usually run about 70 minutes. Recent guests include Christina Cacioppo and David Vélez of Nubank.
Start with: Legendary Trader Paul Tudor Jones on AI Risk, Bubbles and Buffett (417K views on YouTube as of October 2026). Full profile of Invest Like the Best.
Brad Gerstner and Bill Gurley describe BG2Pod as an open source conversation on tech, markets, investing and capitalism. Its feed goes back to January 2024. Episodes are less frequent than the description's "bi-weekly": about monthly by median gap, with one episode in the last 90 days as of October 2026 (a Jensen Huang interview on October 15). Episodes usually run about 68 minutes and suit listeners who want long investor views on AI spending and markets.
Start with: NVIDIA: OpenAI, Future of Compute, and the American Dream (436K views on YouTube as of October 2026). Full profile of BG2Pod.
Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis, David Sacks and David Friedberg have hosted All-In since March 2020, covering "all things economic, tech, political, social & poker," in the show's own words; it describes its hosts as industry veterans. It publishes two to three times a week as of October 2026, episodes usually run about 41 minutes, and it is rated 4.0 out of 5 from 10.4K ratings on Apple Podcasts, as of October 2026. It is for listeners who like a panel debating the week's business and tech news.
Start with: Satya Nadella on the AI Doomer Slowdown, Microsoft's Master Plan & Who Wins AI (September 2026). Full profile of All-In.
Produced by Andreessen Horowitz, The a16z Show covers tech and culture trends, news and the future, with rotating a16z partners and guests. It is daily, with about 85 episodes in the last 90 days as of October 2026, and episodes usually run about 52 minutes. Recent episodes include Ben Horowitz on what it takes to win as a founder and "The Frontier Ideas a16z Wants to Fund." It is rated 4.2 out of 5 from 1.1K ratings on Apple Podcasts, as of October 2026.
Start with: “The Future of AI is Here” — Fei-Fei Li Unveils the Next Frontier of AI (488K views on YouTube as of October 2026). Full profile of The a16z Show.
Sarah Guo and Elad Gil host No Priors, produced by Conviction since February 2023. They talk with leading AI engineers, researchers and founders about questions like how far away AGI is and which markets are at risk of disruption. It publishes weekly as of October 2026, episodes usually run about 41 minutes, and it is rated 4.4 out of 5 from 151 ratings on Apple Podcasts, as of October 2026.
Start with: Skill Issue: Andrej Karpathy on Code Agents, AutoResearch, and the Loopy Era of AI (1M views on YouTube as of October 2026). Full profile of No Priors.
Sonya Huang, Pat Grady and other Sequoia Capital partners host Training Data, launched in June 2024, with conversations with AI builders and researchers about the technology and its implications for business and society. It publishes weekly as of October 2026, and episodes usually run about 50 minutes. It is rated 4.2 out of 5 from 43 ratings on Apple Podcasts, as of October 2026.
Start with: Andrej Karpathy: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering (April 2026). Full profile of Training Data.
From Redpoint Ventures, Unsupervised Learning talks with people working in AI about what is real today, what will be real in the future and what it means for businesses. It says it is for builders, researchers and investors. It publishes every two weeks or so as of October 2026, and episodes usually run about 59 minutes.
Start with: Yann LeCun on What Comes After LLMs (453K views on YouTube as of October 2026). Full profile of Unsupervised Learning.
Stripe cofounder John Collison interviews founders, builders and leaders over a pint, and its feed goes back to June 2025. Past guests in its feed include Bret Taylor of Sierra, Sundar Pichai and Waymo's Dmitri Dolgov. It has three episodes in the last 90 days as of October 2026, all from October, and episodes usually run about 72 minutes. It suits investors who want long conversations with operators.
Start with: Bret Taylor of Sierra on AI agents, outcome-based pricing, and the OpenAI board (March 2026). Full profile of Cheeky Pint.
Jason Calacanis covers startups, tech, markets and media and interviews founders, operators and investors; a recent episode asked three VCs whether they would invest in Elizabeth Holmes' next startup. It publishes two to three times a week as of October 2026, and episodes usually run about 78 minutes. It is the most news-driven show on this list.
Start with: Jason Unpacks Sequoia’s New Funds | E2199, one of its most-viewed episodes (813K views on YouTube as of October 2026). Full profile of This Week in Startups.
Built This Week is not an investing show. Jordan Metzner and Sam Nadler, co-founders of Ryz Labs, build something with AI on air every week, test new AI tools, interview a founder or operator and cover the AI news; it has come out weekly since June 2025. Investors may find episodes like Episode 31: How AI Is Replacing 100-Hour Due Diligence and our portfolio macro scenario simulator useful. See all episodes.
Schedules and lengths come from each show's own feed as of October 2026. Related lists: the best startup podcasts, the best business podcasts and the best AI podcasts for founders, or browse all our podcast lists.
Our list: 20VC, Invest Like the Best, BG2Pod, All-In, The a16z Show, No Priors, Training Data, Unsupervised Learning, Cheeky Pint and This Week in Startups.
20VC. Harry Stebbings interviews venture capitalists and, once a week, a founder; it publishes two to three times a week as of October 2026, with episodes of about 70 minutes.
The a16z Show is produced by Andreessen Horowitz, Training Data is hosted by Sequoia Capital partners, No Priors is produced by Conviction, and Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron comes from Redpoint Ventures.
No Priors, Training Data and Unsupervised Learning all center on AI, interviewing AI researchers, engineers and founders.
The a16z Show publishes daily, with about 85 episodes in the last 90 days as of October 2026.
