Funded, Now What?!

What if building a house felt more like using Google Maps than navigating a maze? In Episode 53 of Funded, Now What?!, Andrew Lee Miller sits down with Marko Hozjan, Founder & CEO of LynxCraft, to discuss how AI is transforming one of the world's oldest industries. After raising $1M, Marko shares how LynxCraft helps homeowners understand what they can build, estimate costs, choose the right profes...

What if engineering teams had the same level of performance visibility as sales teams? In Episode 52 of Funded, Now What?!, Andrew Lee Miller sits down with Jirka Bachel, Founder & CEO of Navigara, to discuss how engineering leaders can finally measure AI ROI, developer productivity, and engineering performance using code-level analytics. After raising $2.5M and growing Navigara to $1M ARR, Jirka...

Is rent collection still stuck in the past? In Episode 51 of Funded, Now What?!, Andrew Lee Miller sits down with Taylor Peake, founder and CEO of Occupi, to discuss how her company is modernizing rent payments for property managers and residents nationwide. After raising $3.2 million in funding, Taylor shares lessons on fundraising, product-market fit, scaling lean teams, and building technology...

Is your call center a "cost center" or a "value center"? In this milestone 50th episode of Funded, Now What?!, host Andrew Lee Miller sits down with Ardie Sameti, CEO of Scala.ai. Fresh off an 8.5 million dollar seed round, Ardie explains how Scala.ai is moving past "bolt-on" AI to create a unified intelligence engine that understands business DNA. What You'll Learn: Data as the Moat: Why the secr...

What if your website could read the room  every single time? In this episode of Funded, Now What?!, host Andrew Lee Miller sits down with Ankur Goyal, founder and CEO of Fibr AI (fibr.ai). After a decade in CPG and performance marketing, Ankur identified the last untouched frontier of digital marketing, the static website  and built an AI-powered personalization layer that's already delivering 15–...

What if a two-week manual process could be finished before you finished your coffee? In this episode of Funded, Now What?!, host Andrew Lee Miller sits down with Ori Ohayon, the founder and CEO of Title.co. After five years of "hand-to-hand combat" in the archaic world of real estate titling, Ori and his team just closed a $2.5 million seed round to scale their revolutionary AI-driven platform. Th...

What if your company’s entire financial operation relied on the memory of a single employee? In this episode of Funded, Now What?!, host Andrew Lee Miller (@growthexpertz) sits down with David Stifter, founder of PredictAP. David spent a year searching for a tech solution to handle the 500,000+ invoices he managed at a massive private equity fund. When he couldn't find one, he left his executive r...

What if you never had to hear "please hold" ever again when you call a hotel or resort? In this episode of Funded, Now What?!, host Andrew Lee Miller (@growthexpertz) sits down with Jonathan Lei, the founder of withQ. Jonathan is on a mission to make hotel phone calls efficient, profitable, and most importantly instant. By deploying the world's most sophisticated voice AI for hospitality, withQ is...

What if you could bypass every local distributor and buy your construction materials directly from the factory with a single click? In this episode of Funded, Now What?!, host Andrew Lee Miller (@growthexpertz) sits down with Hanyang Liu, CEO of Quotr.io. Hanyang has raised $3.5 million to solve one of the most painful, manual processes in real estate: cost estimation. By using vertical AI to auto...

What if you could change the color of sunlight to make plants grow 40% faster? Now you can! In this episode of The Funded, Now What?!, host Andrew Lee Miller (@growthexpertz) sits down with Hunter McDaniel, the CEO of UbiQD. Hunter is a scientist-turned-entrepreneur who has raised $35 million to commercialize quantum dots nanoparticles so small that the ratio of a dot to a golf ball is the same as...

What if the secret to closing a massive B2B deal wasn't a complex digital funnel, but a simple text message and a "phantom" flight? In this episode of The Funded, Now What?!, host Andrew Lee Miller (@growthexpertz) sits down with David Berg, the founder of Commander AI. David is a former waste hauler who traded the driver's seat for the CEO's chair to solve a massive problem: one of the world’s la...

“We didn’t just raise a seed round; we built a coalition.”  In this episode of Funded, Now What?!, host Andrew Lee Miller (@growthexpertz) sits down with Todd Roberts and Owen Kent, the founders of ATDev. From Berkeley roommates to industry pioneers, Todd and Owen are revolutionizing physical therapy with Reflex-a smart, powered knee brace that brings clinical-grade recovery into the home. They re...

Summary In this insightful episode of 'Funded. Now what?', host Andrew Lee Miller sits down with Ben Collins, CEO and Co-Founder of Woz, discussing the journey of raising $6 million to build a game-changing AI business builder. They delve into the challenges and learnings of fundraising, the vision behind Woz, and the future of AI in entrepreneurial ventures. Watch the full episode on YouTube YouT...

Why pay $1,000 for a hotel when you can stay with a friend and get paid for it? In this episode of Funded, Now What?!, host Andrew Lee Miller sits down with Stephen Dooley, Founder & CEO of Roamr. Stephen shares how he raised $3M to disrupt the massive corporate travel industry by rewarding employees for staying within their personal networks. We discuss: Customer-Led Fundraising: How Stephen got...

In this episode of Funded, Now What?!, host Andrew Lee Miller sits down with Dr. Junchen Wu, Founder and CEO of MenosAI, an agentic AI platform revolutionizing how hedge funds and financial institutions make decisions. Menos AI brings intelligence, automation, and clarity to one of the most complex industries on earth, hedge fund investing. With deep experience in finance, data, and AI, Dr. Wu and...

In this episode of Funded, Now What?!, host Andrew Lee Miller sits down with Mark Miller (no relation, that we know of), the Founder and CEO of InsureVision — a UK-based startup pioneering the next generation of driver analytics and insurance intelligence through what Mark calls Telematics 2.0. InsureVision uses cutting-edge AI to analyze how drivers interact with the road — not just what they do...

In this episode of The Funded, Now What?! Podcast, Andrew Lee Miller sits down with Isha Juneja, Co-Founder of ContraVault to discuss how she and her team are building tools to empower creators and freelancers with smarter financial control. Isha shares her journey of co-founding ContraVault, the challenges of bringing a financial platform to life, and the insights she’s gained while serving indep...

In this episode of Funded, Now What?!, host Andrew Lee Miller speaks with Azeem Khan, Co-Founder of Miden, a blockchain project redefining privacy and compliance. Fresh off a $25 million seed funding round co-led by a16z crypto, Hack VC, and 1kx, with participation from Finality Capital Partners, Symbolic Capital, and angel investors like Avery Ching of Aptos, Miden is building a privacy-first blo...

What happens when a startup founder goes from solving problems for homeowners… to reshaping the entire construction industry? In this episode, AndrewStartups sits down with Stella Wu, the founder and CEO of Eano.com, a renovation-tech platform that’s raised over $20M while navigating the massive pivot from B2C to B2B. Stella opens up about the real-world pain points in construction, how she hacked...

In this episode of Funded, Now What?!, host Andrew Lee Miller sits down with Bisrat Degefa, the UK-born founder of Trubuild, a cutting-edge AI startup transforming the construction industry in Saudi Arabia. Bisrat shares the story of relocating to the Gulf to capitalize on one of the world’s fastest-growing construction markets — but more importantly, he gets a live, tactical marketing consultatio...

In this episode of Funded, Now What?!, host Andrew Lee Miller speaks with João Marques, founder and CEO of Oscar, a fast-growing European startup on a mission to reinvent the way home services are delivered. Oscar is tackling a massive and underserved market—on-demand home repairs, cleaning, and maintenance—and João shares the full story behind how he’s turning a fragmented industry into a streaml...

In this episode of Funded, Now What?!, your host Andrew Lee Miller speaks with Victor Cho, the founder and CEO of Emovid a B2B software company rethinking how teams communicate. Emovid introduces asynchronous video messaging powered by AI, aiming to bridge the gap between digital communication and authentic human connection. Victor shares insights from his journey building Emovid and the unique ch...

In this episode of Funded, Now What?!, growth marketing expert and fractional CMO Andrew Lee Miller sits down with Ómar, founder and CEO of Optise an AI-powered analytics platform built to solve the data problems plaguing modern B2B marketers. Together, they break down: Why Google Analytics is no longer fit for B2B use How AI and automation can unlock real insight — not just dashboards What makes...

In this episode of The Funded, Now What?! startup podcast, startup marketing expert and GrowthExpertz.com founder Andrew Lee Miller sits down with Elin Breitholtz, the visionary founder and CEO of Sakura, a wellness platform tackling the emotional health crisis through a two-sided mental health marketplace. Elin shares her journey from personal struggle to startup mission, and how she’s now bridgi...

In this episode of Funded, Now What?!, Andrew Lee Miller discusses all things startups, marketing and fundraising with Russian/Dutch startup founder Anastasia Kuskova, CEO of Sirius , an AI-powered sustainability intelligence platform helping metals, mining, and energy companies move beyond outdated ESG dashboards and into live, contextual decision-making infrastructure. Before founding Sirius, An...