ThinkData Podcast

Agentic engineering is quickly becoming one of the most important shifts in software development. In this episode, I sit down with Scott Breitenother, Co-Founder & CEO of Kilo Code, to discuss why individual coding assistants won't drive the future of software development, but by autonomous AI agents capable of planning, building, testing, and shipping software. Scott shares the journey from b...

In this episode of the ThinkData Podcast, I welcome back Dimer Health Co-Founders Carrie Hodge, Sarig Reichert, alongside Chief Medical Officer Dr. David Feldman. Fresh off the announcement of their $13.5 million Series A, the team discusses why the 30 days following hospital discharge remain one of the most broken parts of healthcare, and how Dimer is using clinician-led AI to transform patient o...

Today, we’re getting into where AI actually fits in the finance stack and why most teams are getting it wrong. I’m joined by Deepak Bapat, CTO and co-founder of Tabs, an AI-native platform automating contract-to-cash end-to-end. We cover: The difference between AI-native vs AI-layered products Why finance has near-zero tolerance for AI errors The technical challenge of automating contract-to-cash...

Most enterprise AI isn’t failing because of the models… It’s failing because no one trusts the output. In this episode of the ThinkData Podcast, we’re joined by Uri Knorovich, CEO of Nimble, to unpack the growing trust gap in enterprise AI and why bad, delayed, and fragmented data is becoming the biggest blocker to real AI adoption. We explore: • Why AI works in demos but breaks inside enterprises...

On today’s episode, we’re joined by Sadegh Salehi, Director of Research and Principal Scientist at Overjet, a Series C AI-powered dental platform spun out of MIT. Overjet is using computer vision and AI to analyse dental X-rays, helping dentists, insurers, and patients make more accurate, transparent, and data-driven care decisions. In this episode, we explore: • The hardest machine learning chall...

Most AI today is intelligent… but it doesn’t feel human. In this episode, I sit down with Vishnu Hari, founder of Ego AI and former AI researcher at Meta, to unpack what’s missing and why “humaneness” might be the biggest unlock in AI. We cover: Why AI still feels robotic The gap between intelligence and behaviour Why most AI companies are solving the wrong problem And where the real opportunity s...

Today’s guest is Anjan Kundavaram, Chief Product Officer at Fivetran, a company at the heart of the modern data stack. In this episode, we unpack one of the biggest questions in AI right now Who actually controls customer data We explore what data ownership really means in the age of AI, how API restrictions are shaping what companies can and cannot build, and what happens to innovation if data be...

In this episode of ThinkData, I sit down with Wiley Jones, CEO and Co-Founder of Doss. Doss is a Series B, hypergrowth startup rethinking ERP from the ground up. They are building a modern, AI-native operations stack for physical product companies, designed to replace spreadsheets, legacy systems, and slow, painful implementations. We cover: Where legacy ERP vendors like NetSuite and SAP have fund...

Healthcare is broken… but not in the way most people think. Admin costs have passed $1 trillion annually, pulling doctors away from what actually matters, patient care. In this episode, we sit down with Jaymal Sony, Co-Founder of Insight Health, a company using AI to transform independent healthcare. Their approach is simple Automate the admin Reduce the noise Give doctors their time back We go de...

Today’s guest is Dave Shuman, Chief Data Officer at Precisely . Precisely is a global leader in data integrity , helping organisations trust, manage and maximise their data so they can power better decisions, analytics and AI at scale. Despite the explosion of AI investment, many organisations are still struggling to turn AI ambition into measurable business outcomes, and in this episode, we explo...

Today I’m joined by Jason Li, CTO at Laurel. Jason previously served as CTO at Ironclad, where he spent nearly a decade building contracting software, and also held engineering leadership roles at SalesforceIQ and Grovo. Laurel is a Series C AI-powered time intelligence platform for professional services firms , automatically capturing how professionals spend their time and transforming that data...

In this episode of ThinkData, Loren Larsen, CEO and Co-Founder of Videra Health, joins us to explore how AI is being applied in behavioral health beyond chatbots. Videra’s platform analyzes video, audio, and text to help clinicians detect and monitor mental health risk between visits, enabling earlier intervention and better outcomes without disrupting workflows. We discuss ROI, responsible growth...

Today’s guest is Sandeep Chinchali , Chief Scientist at Poseidon, a company building the data layer AI actually needs to improve. While most of the industry obsesses over bigger models and more compute, Poseidon is tackling the real bottleneck: access to rare, high-quality, IP-safe data that can’t be scraped, copied, or faked. With billions being poured into data centres and revenue growth startin...

AI is everywhere in biotech, but where does it genuinely create impact? In this episode of the ThinkData Podcast, I sat down with Josh Haimson , Co-Founder and CEO of Inductive Bio , to explore how AI-driven virtual chemistry labs are transforming drug discovery. We cover: Where AI truly outperforms traditional approaches in drug development Why computational models are finally earning real trust...

Healthcare doesn’t struggle because of a lack of data or innovation. It struggles because of admin. In this episode of the ThinkData Podcast, I sit down with Matt Faustmen , Co-Founder and CEO of Honey Health , to explore why back-office operations are the real constraint in modern healthcare, and how autonomous AI agents can finally unblock them. We talk about: Why EHR add-ons and traditional aut...

AI apps are exploding, but monetisation remains one of the biggest unanswered questions. In this episode of the ThinkData Podcast, Mike Choi, Co-Founder of Koah Labs, shares how AI products can generate revenue without destroying user experience or trust. We explore why classic ad models fail in chat-based interfaces, what it takes to convince AI builders and advertisers to adopt new monetisation...

In this episode, we sit down with Ilya Levtov, Co-Founder and CEO of Craft, to unpack how AI is transforming supply-chain intelligence and risk management. We explore Ilya’s unconventional journey from Juilliard to Goldman Sachs to venture capital, and ultimately to founding Craft, as well as why traditional data tools fall short when it comes to real-time supplier risk. From government to healthc...

Today on the ThinkData Podcast , I’m joined by Arjun Vora , Co-Founder of Teambridge , a Series B startup redefining how frontline and hourly teams are managed. Arjun previously led design on the Uber for Drivers app, an experience that gave him first-hand insight into how broken tools, poor communication, and rigid systems impact people who don’t sit at desks all day. Teambridge is building a sin...

Today I’m joined by Dr Ewelina Kurtys, strategic advisor to FinalSpark, a company building computers powered by living human neurons. In simple terms, FinalSpark is exploring a new form of biocomputing that replaces silicon with real brain cells. This conversation dives into what that actually means, why it matters, and what it could unlock for the future of computation, energy efficiency, and AI....

Today’s guest is Edmund Ben-Ami , CEO of NeuraLight — the company using AI and a simple webcam to radically improve how neurological diseases are measured. NeuraLight’s eye-tracking technology is already being deployed in clinical trials , where it has shown the ability to be up to 10× more sensitive than existing neurological assessment tools. In this conversation, we explore how AI-driven biomar...

On this week’s ThinkData Podcast, I sat down with Chandini Jain , CEO and Co-Founder of Auquan . After seven years in finance, from derivatives trading to risk analytics at Deutsche Bank, Chandini made the bold decision to leave the world of corporate stability to build Auquan. Today, the company is helping financial institutions use AI to extract meaning, insight, and structure from the huge volu...

In this episode of the ThinkData Podcast, I sat down with Nell Meosky Luo, CEO and Co-Founder of Folia Health, a health-tracking platform redefining how chronic and rare conditions are monitored and understood. Folia was born from a deeply personal experience within Nell’s own family, where traditional healthcare systems failed to capture the nuance of day-to-day patient life. Today, Folia turns t...

Today I’m joined by Henry O’Connell , CEO & Founder of Canary Speech , the company pioneering AI-powered vocal biomarkers to detect diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and other neurological and behavioural conditions, all through a 20–30 second voice sample. In this episode, we explore: How Canary Speech was founded and where the idea came from Why holding 14 patents in vocal biomarker te...

In this episode, I sat down with Ryan Wang, CEO & Co-Founder of Assembled, the AI-powered workforce management platform transforming how companies run customer support. We dived into: • The spark behind founding Assembled • The misconception around AI “replacing” roles • Key differences between U.S. and European adoption of AI • How agentic AI could reshape frontline support • What CX and CS t...

Today on the ThinkData Podcast, I am joined by Art Rivillis , CTO and Co-Founder of Augment , the company behind augie — an AI teammate built to automate complex workflows in logistics. We explored how Augment is transforming one of the world’s most operationally challenging industries, what it takes to build reliable automation that humans actually trust, and the lessons Art has learned scaling a...