The AI Front Lines

Welcome to another episode of Category Visionaries — Funding the Future. In today's episode, we're speaking with ⁠Roger Luo⁠ , Founder & Managing Partner at ⁠Embedding VC⁠ , a venture capital firm specializing in AI-driven startups that has raised $15 Million in funding. Here are the most interesting points from our conversation: Roger's AI Journey: With a PhD in AI and over 15 yea...

Welcome to another episode of Category Visionaries — the show that explores GTM stories from tech's most innovative B2B founders. In today's episode, we're speaking with  Dan Lorenc , CEO & Founder of  Chainguard , a software supply chain security platform that has raised $250 Million in funding. Here are the most interesting points from our conversation: Focus on Open Source Security : Chaing...

Welcome to another episode of Category Visionaries — the show that explores GTM stories from tech's most innovative B2B founders. In today's episode, we're speaking with  Joe Witt , CEO & Co-Founder of  Datavolo , a pioneering company in the AI data ingestion space that has raised $21 Million in funding. Here are the most interesting points from our conversation: NSA to Commercial World : Joe...

Welcome to another episode of Category Visionaries — the show that explores GTM stories from tech's most innovative B2B founders. In today's episode, we're speaking with  Nikola Borisov , CEO & Co-Founder of  Deep Infra , an AI company that has raised $9 Million in funding. Here are the most interesting points from our conversation: Inception and Focus : Deep Infra was founded in September 202...

Welcome to another episode of Category Visionaries — the show that explores GTM stories from tech's most innovative B2B founders. In today's episode, we're speaking with  Malte Pietsch , CTO & Co-Founder of  Deepset , an enterprise LLM platform that has raised over $45 Million in funding. Here are the most interesting points from our conversation: Deepset's Mission:  Deepset aims to enable the...

In this episode of Unicorn Builders, we're speaking with Jeff Denworth, co-founder of VAST, an AI data platform that has raised an impressive $381 million in funding. Key topics discussed in this episode: Jeff's journey as a "consummate startup guy," having been involved in five startups and working in distributed scalable systems for most of his career. The foundational thesis o...

Welcome to another episode of Category Visionaries — the show that explores GTM stories from tech's most innovative B2B founders. Today, we're speaking with  Anand Gopalan , CEO & Co-Founder of  Vayu Robotics , a groundbreaking robotics company that's secured $12.7 Million in funding.  Here are the most interesting points from our conversation: Anand's Journey of Constant Reinvention:  From hi...

Welcome to another episode of Category Visionaries — the show that explores GTM stories from tech's most innovative B2B founders. In today's episode, we're speaking with  Ashley Montanaro , CEO & Co-Founder of  Phasecraft , a quantum software company that has raised over $22 Million in funding.  Here are the most interesting points from our conversation: Transition from Academia to Quantum Com...

Welcome to another episode of Category Visionaries — the show that explores GTM stories from tech's most innovative B2B founders. In today's episode, we're speaking with  Jonathan Schneider , CEO & Co-Founder of  Moderne , a code remediation platform that has raised $20 Million funding.  Here are the most interesting points from our conversation: Jonathan's Transition from Military to Tech:  B...

Welcome to another episode of Category Visionaries — the show that explores GTM stories from tech's most innovative B2B founders. In today's episode, we're speaking with  Ravin Thambapillai , CEO and Co-Founder of  Credal , an AI security company that has raised $5 Million in funding. Here are the most interesting points from our conversation:  Ravin's Unique Background:  Growing up in a risk-aver...

Welcome to another episode of Category Visionaries — the show that explores GTM stories from tech's most innovative B2B founders. In today's episode, we're speaking with  Jason Corso , Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer of  Voxel 51 , an AI software company that has raised $15.5 Million in funding.  Here are the most interesting points from our conversation: Academic Foundations in AI and Transi...

Welcome to another episode of Category Visionaries — the show that explores GTM stories from tech's most innovative B2B founders. In today's episode, we're speaking with  Meryem Arik , CEO and Co-Founder of  Titan ML , a leading LLM deployment solution that's raised $2.8 Million in funding.  Here are the most interesting points from our conversation: Unconventional Beginnings:  Meryem’s journey in...

Welcome to another episode of Category Visionaries — the show that explores GTM stories from the tech's most innovative B2B founders. In today's episode, we're speaking with  Bob van Luijt , CEO and Co-Founder of  Weaviate , a cloud native real-time vector database that has raised over $67 Million in funding. Here are the most interesting points from our conversation: Early Beginnings:  Bob's fora...

Welcome to another episode of Category Visionaries — the show that explores GTM stories from tech's most innovative B2B founders. In today's episode, we're speaking with  Anand Kulkarni , CEO of  Crowdbotics , a rapid application development platform that's raised $58 Million in funding. Here are the most interesting points from our conversation: Early AI Adoption:  Anand's early belief in AI's po...

Welcome to another episode of Category Visionaries — the show that explores GTM stories from tech's most innovative B2B founders. In today's episode, we're speaking with  Richard Potter , CEO and Co-Founder of  Peak , an AI platform that has raised $118 Million in funding. Here are the most interesting points from our conversation: The Birth of Peak in the AI Landscape:  Richard discusses the earl...

Welcome to another episode of Category Visionaries — the show that explores GTM stories from tech's most innovative B2B founders. In today's episode, we're speaking with  Johannes Peeters , CEO and Founder of  Voxel Sensors , a 3D perception platform that has raised €7 Million in funding.  Here are the most interesting points from our conversation: Voxel Sensors' Mission:  Johannes introduced Voxe...

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with  Harry Xu , CEO and Co-Founder of  Breeze ML , an AI governance platform that's raised $4.6 Million in funding. Topics Discussed: Harry’s background as a professor of computer science Some common misconceptions people have about academia and being an academician Why it’s difficult for companies to comply with AI regulations, and how Breeze...

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with  Douwe Kiela , CEO and Co-Founder of  Contextual AI , an enterprise large language model company that's raised $20 Million in funding. Topics Discussed:  Why Douwe thinks Nvidia’s Jensen Huang deserves far more credit than he gets The challenges Douwe has met when working in a multicultural environment Problems with language models today, a...

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with  Phillip Liu , CEO of  Trustero , an AI copilot for security and compliance that's raised $8 Million in funding. Topics Discussed:  Phillip's background, including his time at Facebook and work with Ben Horowitz Living through the .com bubble and starting and selling a successful company The origin story of Trustero and how it helps complia...

In today's episode of Category Visionaries we speak with  Davit Baghdasaryan , CEO and Co-Founder of  Krisp , a voice productivity platform that's raised $19 Million in funding. Topics Discussed: Davit’s background as a software and security engineer and as an Armenian immigrant pursuing the American Dream in Silicon Valley Why entrepreneurs Jeff Lawson and Aaron Levy are inspirations for Davit, a...

In today's episode of Category Visionaries we speak with  Gabriel Bayomi , CEO and Co-Founder of  Openlayer , a debugging workspace for machine learning that's raised $4.8 Million in funding. Topics Discussed: Gabriel’s background as a Brazilian student of engineering, moving to the US, and working on Apple’s then-secret Vision Pro project Why Henrique Dubugras is Gabriel’s greatest inspiration as...

In today's episode of Category Visionaries we speak with  Jonathan Dambrot , CEO and Founder of  Cranium , an AI security and trust platform that's raised $32 Million in funding. Topics Discussed: Jonathan’s background as an entrepreneur, including his time at KPMG and the opportunities of working in a big company  The importance of exchanging with peers, and the value of family for Jonathan How C...

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with ⁠Arvind Jain⁠ , CEO of ⁠Glean⁠ , an AI-powered workplace data search and management platform that has raised $155 Million in funding. Topics Discussed: Arvind’s background, including a decade in Google in the early 2000s and being a unicorn builder twice in a row Why Arvind thinks luck plays a big role in building unicorns, what his sup...

In today's episode of Unicorn Builders, we speak with ⁠Rodrigo Liang⁠ , Co-Founder and CEO of ⁠SambaNova⁠ , an enterprise generative AI platform that's raised over $1 Billion in funding. Topics Discussed: Rodrigo’s decades-long background in the tech industry, including Sun, Oracle, and HP What are the two qualities that Rodrigo most admires in the great CEOs he has met, and what it was li...

In today's episode of Category Visionaries, we speak with ⁠Kaycee Lai⁠ , CEO and Founder of ⁠Promethium⁠ , a data fabric platform that's raised $34.5 Million in funding. Topics Discussed: Kaycee’s background, including his time as a Federal Reserve analyst Why Martha Stewart is the CEO Kaycee admires the most, and why his favorite book is a classic 19th-century French novel The difficultie...