AI Unveiled

The season 2 finale of AI Unveiled features our guest host Lak Ananth, Global Managing Partner at Next47, and Igor Marinelli, Co-Founder and CEO of N47-backed Tractian. They chat about how Tractian is leveraging AI to transform industrial maintenance, the nuances of a co-founder relationship, and how founders must evolve as their companies scale. Igor shares his unconventional entrepreneurial jour...

In this episode, I speak with Swapnil Jain, Founder & CEO of N47-backed Observe. AI, an AI-powered platform focused on automating customer service and contact centers. Observe. AI helps enterprises enhance efficiency by leveraging AI-powered automation to evaluate customer interactions, support agents and sellers in real time, and boost customer satisfaction. The episode explores the evolution of...

In this episode of AI Unveiled, I speak with Dimitris Nikolaou, Co-Founder and CEO of Wondercraft, an AI-powered platform enabling creators to effortlessly produce podcasts, audiobooks, ads, and more using synthetic voices. The episode explores the founding journey of Wondercraft, from Dimitris’s experience at Palantir to the decision to build a company before having a specific idea in mind. Dimit...

In this episode of AI Unveiled, I sit down with Jean-Louis Quéguiner, Founder and CEO of Gladia, a cutting-edge audio infrastructure platform powering voice-first applications. Gladia’s mission? To make voice the ultimate interface for human and machine interactions, starting with state-of-the-art transcription. Jean-Louis shares his journey from leading AI and big data infrastructure at OVHcloud...

In this episode, I sit down with Alex Levin, Co-Founder and CEO of Regal, a platform that is disrupting the contact center industry with AI-powered agents.  Our conversation unpacks the transformative potential of AI agents in reshaping how businesses interact with their customers. Alex explains why traditional models of minimizing customer interactions are failing and how Regal enables companies...

In this episode, guest host Kate Reznykova, previous Partner at N47, speaks with Ulrik Hansen, Co-Founder of N47-backed Encord, a data development platform that helps companies manage, curate, and label multimodal data such as image, video, audio, document, text, and DICOM files.  The episode explores the origin story of Encord and the challenges Ulrik and his co-founder Eric faced in building sca...

In this episode, I speak with EJ Cho, Co-Founder and CEO of Tofu, an innovative AI platform revolutionizing B2B marketing by enabling teams to personalize and scale their content creation efforts. We start our chat diving into EJ’s journey from engineering leadership roles at Google and Meta to founding Tofu. EJ explains how Tofu empowers teams to fully automate top-of-funnel campaigns, repurpose...

In this episode, I speak with Gabriel Hubert, Co-Founder and CEO of Dust, a cutting-edge platform that enables companies to design, deploy, and maintain AI assistants tailored to their internal workflows. We dive into Gabriel’s journey building Dust, the transformative potential of AI in knowledge work, and the principles behind creating tools that teams truly adopt and rely on. Our conversation c...

N47 Partner Vivian Cheng guest hosts this episode of AI Unveiled and speaks with Erez Druk, the Co-Founder and CEO of Freed, a rocket ship AI startup dedicated to transforming the lives of healthcare professionals. Freed has grown at breakneck speed, reaching $10 million in ARR in its first year. Its mission is to free clinicians from the burden of manually managing electronic health records (EHR)...

Welcome to Season 2 of AI Unveiled! I’m excited for you to hear from some exceptional founders and dive into business building, advice for founders, and, of course, AI.  In this episode, I speak with Deepanshu Arora, Co-Founder and CEO of Toddle, an AI-powered teaching and learning platform for progressive K-12 schools. We cover Deepanshu’s journey of building a global SaaS platform from India, hi...

Episode 8: We end our first season chatting with Santi Suarez-Ordoñez and Ashley Wilson, who along with their third co-founder, Moiz Virani, founded Momentum.io, an AI sales platform. They initially crossed paths at their previous startup, Sauce Labs. We start the conversation by talking about their background, the Momentum founding story, and most notably, the dynamics of being married to their w...

In this episode of AI Unveiled, I speak with Jorn Vanysacker and Julien Steel at Henchman, a legal contract drafting and negotiating platform powered by AI.  Jorn learned some valuable lessons from his first startup. The product was too broad, needed customization, and they didn’t invest in mining insights from data. This time around, he and his co-founders wanted to build something that was truly...

In this episode of AI Unveiled, I speak with Dominik Kovacs, founder and CEO of Colossyan, an AI video platform for workplace learning that generates life-like avatars.  Before starting Colossyan, Dominik was working at the intersection of AI and video, as the Co-Founder of Defudger, a visual content authentication platform for the insurance industry. So we start this episode by discussing his bac...

In this episode of AI Unveiled, I speak with Satej Sirur, founder and CEO of Rocketium, an AI-driven CreativeOps platform sold to enterprises such as Amazon, Home Depot, and Jumia.  We start by defining what exactly creative ops means and why Satej believes a unified solution like Rocketium can save creative teams—especially in large companies—over half their time.  Rocketium started as a gaming c...

In this episode of AI Unveiled, Gaurav Kotak speaks with Tony Beltramelli, the Co-Founder and CEO of Uizard, a product design and ideation tool with over 2 million users. Tony believes great design is increasingly important to build successful products and that there aren’t enough designers to match that need. He wants to leverage AI so that product managers and non-designers can be an integral pa...

In this episode of AI Unveiled, Gaurav Kotak speaks with Bram De Geyter , VP of Product and Jeroen Minnaert, Chief Software Architect from Showpad, a sales enablement platform with over 1,000 customers. Jeroen and Bram are Showpad veterans and are leading the charge of AI innovations at the company.  We first discuss how, in the longer term, they believe every organization will have a customized l...

2: In this episode of AI Unveiled, Gaurav Kotak speaks with Lionel Barrow, Co-Head of Engineering, and Michelangelo D'Agostino, VP of Machine Learning at Tegus. Tegus is an investment research platform trusted by top hedge funds, PE, and VC firms. The platform includes over 60,000 expert transcripts, public company earnings calls, and presentations, as well as accurate financial models and KPIs. ...

With the recent rise of Generative AI, many are contemplating its implications: whether it’ll disrupt jobs, daily routines, and humanity to its core. Though AI is sometimes seen as the antithesis of what it means to be human—in this episode, we learn how mimicking humans is what makes a successful AI.  Gaurav Kotak sits down with Founder and CEO of Qatalog, Tariq Rauf, in this inaugural episode of...

Introducing AI Unveiled: Artificial intelligence is leading every company to reinvent itself. With innovation at every turn, organizations and consumers alike are imagining what’s around the corner. Will AI-first startups be able to leapfrog the incumbents? Or will those incumbents leverage their scale to rapidly infuse AI into their offerings? These are just some of the questions answered in N47'...