Founders. First principles. First checks. A Startup Boston production.

Building a startup is a series of hard decisions made with incomplete information. Cents Check goes inside Boston's early-stage ecosystem to unpack how those decisions actually get made — from the first product bet to the first term sheet.

Each episode, host Shriya Jonnalagadda sits down with founders, operators, investors, and researchers to get past the polished narrative and into the real mechanics of company building: how capital gets raised, how risk gets priced, and how ideas become institutions.

From university labs and accelerator cohorts to venture-backed startups, Cents Check covers the full arc of Boston's builder community — because the next great company is already being built somewhere in this city.