Build AI - by gAI Ventures

This is a special edition of Build AI, recorded shortly after the gAI Ventures LP lunchat Citizens Private Bank in Menlo Park. Amit Goel, Vijay Rajendran, and Kushal Prakash — the three partners at gAI Ventures —sit down to unpack the insights they shared with limited partners and prospectiveinvestors: how they're reading the current phase of the AI wave, what the "SaaS-pocalypse"act...

Paolo Sironi has spent 25+ years inside the financial services industry, first as aquantitative risk manager in investment banking, then as a fintech founder, and todayas the Global Research Leader for Banking & Financial Markets at the IBM Institute forBusiness Value, where he advises C-level executives at financial institutions worldwide. He's a 6x bestselling author whose book, includin...

Div Garg has spent nearly a decade in AI. Google, Apple, Nvidia, Uber, Collaborative Robotics (first founding engineer), and a Stanford PhD, where he created the university's first course on Transformers (CS 25, 1M+ YouTube views).In early 2024, he co-founded MultiOn, which was one of the first viral AI agents on the web, with a launch video that hit 1M+ views. In 2025, he turned down a near-$...

In this conversation, Amit Goel, Vijay Rajendran, and Kushal Prakash debate why the 2024–25 hype cycle of generic copilots and chatbots failed enterprises, why "the juice isn't worth the squeeze" for most generic deployments, and why the next decade belongs to hyper-vertical AI — purpose-built systems that solve specific, deep, regulated workflows that horizontal models simply cannot...

In this episode of the Build AI Podcast, Amit Goel sits down with Andrew Roberts, Co-Founder & CEO of Deliverables AI — the AI platform helping investment banks, private equity firms, and M&A advisors automate the creation of Confidential Information Memorandums (CIMs), pitch books, and investment committee decks.

What if the real winners in AI aren’t the ones using it… but the ones redesigning work around it? In this episode of the Build AI Podcast, we sit down with Lutz Finger — former product leader at Google, LinkedIn, and Snap, faculty at Cornell, and a leading voice in AI, product strategy, and generative workflows. From starting as a quantum physicist to building products in Silicon Valley, Lutz shar...

Jason Shuman, Partner at Primary Venture Partners, $625M fund - the largest seed investor in New York on gAI Ventures podcast. In this episode, he shares exactly how he thinks about the Vertical AI opportunity, why hardware is massively underrated, and what founders are getting wrong about building in 2025. Primary VC has backed companies like Latch, Dandy, Bobyard, Marker Learning, and Light Tabl...

Nick Holzherr is a 3x founder, company builder, angel investor, and former CEO of Whisk (acquired by Samsung), where he scaled to 120 people and built one of the earliest fully distributed global teams before remote work was mainstream. Whisk scaled globally, integrated with Walmart, Amazon, Tesco, Nestlé and more, reached 4.8 app ratings, and was featured by Apple 200+ times before acquisition. N...

In this episode, we sit down with Jahn Karsybaev, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Big Sky Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm backing enterprise B2B SaaS and AI companies across the US, Southeast Asia, and Central Asia.

In this episode, we sit down with Carter Huffman, CTO and Co-Founder of Modulate AI. GTA, Call of Duty, uses his Voice AI models.

In this episode, we sit down with Larissa, Founder and COO of Unframe AI. Instead of building a single AI product, Unframe AI was designed from day one as a multi-product, multi-industry AI platform, built on reusable building blocks that scale across enterprises.

The gAI Ventures team (Amit Goel, Vijay Rajendran, and Kushal Prakash) breaks down the most defining shifts in AI, from the headline-making Waymo baby moment, to the rapid rise of vertical AI, to the realities of multi-agent systems, workflow-level automation, and the new distribution layer emerging through AEO. This is a builder’s perspective on what actually worked, what quietly failed, and what...

Navigate the most important shift in digital visibility - Discoverability in the LLM Era. The next wave of growth will come from mastering AI visibility, not just traditional SEO. In this episode, we sit down with Todd Sawicki, founder and CEO of Gumshoe, a platform that helps brands understand what AI thinks about them and what actions move the needle.

AEO. GEO. AI visibility. Share of Prompt. The new discovery stack is here, and it is rewriting how demand forms for every brand on the planet. In this episode, Justin Inman, ex Google enterprise growth leader and now Founder and CEO of emberos, breaks down the structural change underway.

In this episode of Build AI, we go deep into the future of AI startups, venture studios, and why traditional startup models are being disrupted. This is not your typical discussion on fundraising or startup hustle. This is a masterclass in startup creation at the intersection of AI, domain expertise, and venture building.

In the latest episode of the Build AI podcast by gAI Ventures, we deep dive into GenAI and The Future of Financial Services with Andreas Neidhart-Lau, Head of Industry Principal Architects, Financial Services at Google Cloud (APAC).

In this episode of Build AI, we sat down with Roli Gupta, the founder and CEO of Babblebots.ai, a pioneering AI startup that's revolutionizing how companies hire at scale using voice-based AI agents. From building cleantech ventures to decoding GenAI before it was cool, Roli brings 20+ years of experience leading high-growth startups across Silicon Valley and India.

One of the biggest use case of AI is meeting note. In our recent podcast, we interviewed Dmitry Grankin, the founder of an European AI company. From battling giants like Fireflies and Otter to empowering startups with scalable infrastructure, this discussion is a masterclass in understanding the role of open-source technology and its impact. Dmitry’s Vision: “Agents want APIs, not UIs. We’re build...

What does AI in wealth management really look like on the ground? In this episode of the Build AI Podcast, Amit Goel chats with Vineet Mohan about how AI is quietly transforming the workflows of financial advisors - and why the opportunity is far bigger than just meeting notes. From Morgan Stanley’s rollout of AI tools to 16,000+ advisors, to the rise of nimble, tech-forward RIAs - the wealth indu...

Everyone’s throwing around “AI” like it’s some kind of magic spell that’ll fix everything. The biggest thing to hit since the internet. But what’s actually happening beneath the surface? What’s real, what’s investor hype, and where is this all heading? In this conversation, we break down the  different approaches to AI , how it’s being evaluated, and the key differences between  startups pushing A...

AI Engineering Teams of the Future: Coding Tools, Autonomous Agents & Vertical AI | gAI Ventures | Build AI Podcast Join Amit Goel, Founder & Managing Partner of gAI Ventures, and Kushal Prakash, Founder & CTO, in this candid discussion about the realities of building AI-powered solutions About Our Experts: Amit Goel: Amit is the Founder and Managing Partner of gAI Ventures which is a...

Audit AI is the first AI-driven compliance & audit automation platform for Fintech, Crypto, MSBs, and Banks. Amit Goel, Managing Partner and Founder of gAI Ventures, and Anzar Dewani, CEO & Co-Founder of TheAudit. AI. Dive into the future of compliance and auditing powered by artificial intelligence. https://theaudit.ai/ Discover how Audit AI transforms the financial services industry by a...