
Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi
The best place to find out how AI builders build. The host Prateek Joshi interviews world-class AI founders and VCs on this podcast. You can visit prateekj.com to learn more about the host.
Episodes
178 episodes
AI for Physical Security | Dave Selinger, CEO of Deep Sentinel
Dave Selinger is the CEO of Deep Sentinel, an AI-powered video surveillance system. They have raised $38M in funding from Intel Capital, Shasta Ventures, and others. Prior to this, he was the cofounder and CTO of Redfin. And he was also the cof...
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Building the Berkshire Hathaway of AI Services | Brennan Pothetes, CEO of Infinity Constellation
Brennan Pothetes is the CEO of Infinity Constellation, an AI-native holding company. They've raised $17M from Freestyle Capital, Charlie Songhurst, and others. Brennan's favorite books: Zero to One (Author: Peter Thiel)(00:...
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Agentic Shift in Microservices | Mark Fussell, CEO of Diagrid
Mark Fussell is the CEO of Diagrid, a developer platform that provides tools and services for building cloud native applications. They've raised $24.2M from Amplify and Norwest. He is also the co-creator of Dapr, an open source tool used by 40,...
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Building the Android for Robots | Jan Liphardt, founder of OpenMind
Jan Liphardt is the founder of OpenMind, where they're building an operating system for intelligent machines. He is an associate professor at Stanford and was previously an associate professor at UC Berkeley. He got his PhD from University of C...
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AI Infra for Long Context Model Training | Anna Patterson, founder of Ceramic AI
Anna Patterson is the cofounder of Ceramic, an AI infrastructure platform for large scale model training. They raised their seed round led by NEA along with amazing investors such as Lukas Biewald, Laszlo Bock, Sean Carey, Jeff Hammerbacher, An...
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Building an AI+Data Startup Studio | Tom Chavez, cofounder of super{set}
Tom Chavez is the cofounder of super{set}, a startup studio that founds, funds, and builds data and AI startups. Prior to this, he was the CEO and co-founder of Krux, a martech platform acquired by Salesforce in 2016. Before Krux, he was the CE...
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Decentralized Data Foundry for AI | Rowan Stone, CEO of Sapien
Rowan Stone is the CEO of Sapien, a decentralized data foundry where AI models can access verified human expertise worldwide. They've raised raised a $10.5M round led by Variant. He's also the co-creator of Coinbase's layer 2 network called Bas...
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Converting Cameras into Autonomous AI Agents | Rish Gupta, CEO of Spot AI
Rish Gupta is the cofounder and CEO of Spot AI, a video AI platform for the physical world. They've raised $93M from amazing investors such as Scale, Bessemer, and Qualcomm Ventures.Rish's favorite book: Atlas Shrugged (Author: Ayn Rand...
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Are AI Phone Agents Ready for Prime Time? | Alex Levin, CEO of Regal
Alex Levin is the cofounder and CEO of Regal, a platform for AI phone agents. They've raised $82M from amazing investors such as Emergence Capital.Alex's favorite book: The PayPal Wars (Author: Eric M. Jackson)(00:01) Introducti...
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What it Takes to Build a BI Platform | Colin Zima, CEO of Omni
Colin Zima is the cofounder and CEO of Omni, a data platform that combines the consistency of a shared data model with the speed and freedom of SQL. They recently raised their $69M Series B led by ICONIQ Growth. He was previously the Chief Anal...
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Building Billing Infrastructure for AI Companies | Alvaro Morales, CEO of Orb
Alvaro Morales is the cofounder and CEO of Orb, a usage-based billing product for modern software companies. They've raised $44M to date from amazing investors such as Mayfield, Menlo Ventures, and Greylock. Alvaro's favorite book:...
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Turning Legal Services to APIs | Jay Madheswaran, CEO of Eve
Jay Madheswaran is the cofounder and CEO of Eve, a legal AI platform for plaintiff law firms. They recently raised their $47M Series A from Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed, and Menlo Ventures. He was previously a partner at Lightspeed and the f...
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Is LLM the New Operating System? | Anant Bhardwaj, CEO of Instabase
Anant Bhardwaj is the founder and CEO of Instabase, an AI-native unstructured data platform. They've raised $322M in funding to date from NEA, Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock, and Index Ventures. He did his masters from Stanford and PhD from MIT....
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Building AI Agents That Actually Work | Malte Kosub, CEO of Parloa
Malte Kosub is the cofounder and CEO of Parloa, an AI agent platform for customer service. They raised their $66M Series B led by Altimeter.Malte's favorite book: The Qualified Sales Leader (Author: John McMahon)(00:01) Introduc...
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3000 Customers, One Bold Pivot: Building the First Generative AI Copilot for Lawyers | Scott Stevenson, CEO of Spellbook
Scott Stevenson is the cofounder and CEO of Spellbook. They launched the first generative AI copilot for lawyers. It's used by more than 3,000 law firms and are growing really fast. They most recently raised $20M Series A from investors such as...
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The Outer Loop of AI-Powered Coding | Merrill Lutsky, CEO of Graphite
Merrill Lutsky is the cofounder and CEO of Graphite, an AI-powered code reviewer that's used by tens of thousands of users. They are backed by amazing investors including Andreessen Horowitz.Merrill's favorite book: Never Split the Diff...
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Behind the Scenes of AI Video | Amit Jain, founder of Luma AI
Amit Jain is the cofounder and CEO of Luma AI, an AI platform to create realistic looking videos. They're backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Amazon, and AMD. He was previously at Apple where he worked on VisionPro. Amit's favorite book
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Building an AI-Powered Terminal | Zach Lloyd
Zach Lloyd is the cofounder and CEO of Warp, the intelligent terminal powered by AI. They recently raised their $50M Series B led by Sequoia Capital. He was previously the cofounder of SelfMade and the interim CTO of TIME. Zac...
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When Robots Go Haywire, Who Picks Up The Tab? | Amias Gerety
Amias Gerety is a partner at QED Investors, a fintech-focused VC firm with $3.8 Billion under management. He was previously the Assistant Secretary at the US Department of Treasury. And he graduated from Harvard. Amias's favor...
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Building MotherDuck to a $400M Company
Jordan Tigani is the cofounder and CEO of MotherDuck, a data warehouse platform based on open source database DuckDB. They've raised $100M in funding from amazing investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Felicis, Madrona, and Altimeter. He wa...
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AI Agents Have Brains, But Where Are Their Wallets?
Amias Gerety is a partner at QED Investors, a fintech-focused VC firm with $3.8 Billion under management. He was previously the Assistant Secretary at the US Department of Treasury. And he graduated from Harvard. Amias's favorite boo...
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Decoding Metadata in AI
Cody Coleman is the cofounder and CEO of Coactive AI, a multimodal AI platform to accelerate metadata generation. They recently raised their $30M Series B co-led by Cherryrock Capita...
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Building Autonomous Greenhouses with AI and Robotics
Gilwoo Lee is the founder and CEO of Zordi, a company that builds and operates autonomous greenhouses with mobile robots and AI. They raised $20M in their most recent fundin...
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