Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi

Jay Madheswaran is the cofounder and CEO of Eve, a legal AI platform for plaintiff law firms. They recently raised their $47M Series A from Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed, and Menlo Ventures. He was previously a partner at Lightspeed and the first engineer at Rubrik. Jay's favorite book: The Truth Detector (Author: Jack Schafer) (00:01) Introduction (00:44) Overview of Legal AI and Industry...

Anant Bhardwaj is the founder and CEO of Instabase, an AI-native unstructured data platform. They've raised $322M in funding to date from NEA, Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock, and Index Ventures. He did his masters from Stanford and PhD from MIT.  Anant's favorite book: The Singularity Is Near (Author: Ray Kurzweil) (00:07) Defining Unstructured Data (01:18) The Growth of Unstructured Data...

Malte Kosub is the cofounder and CEO of Parloa, an AI agent platform for customer service. They raised their $66M Series B led by Altimeter. Malte's favorite book: The Qualified Sales Leader (Author: John McMahon) (00:01) Introduction (00:26) Overview of AI in Customer Support (01:33) The Current Landscape of AI Agents (02:46) Enterprise Adoption of AI Agents (04:16) The Founding Story of Par...

Scott Stevenson is the cofounder and CEO of Spellbook. They launched the first generative AI copilot for lawyers. It's used by more than 3,000 law firms and are growing really fast. They most recently raised $20M Series A from investors such as Inovia, Bling, and Moxxie.  Scott's favorite book: Zero to One (Author: Peter Thiel) (00:01) Introduction (00:06) The basics of legal AI and its...

Merrill Lutsky is the cofounder and CEO of Graphite, an AI-powered code reviewer that's used by tens of thousands of users. They are backed by amazing investors including Andreessen Horowitz. Merrill's favorite book: Never Split the Difference (Author: Chris Voss) (00:01) Introduction (00:06) Teaching AI to Understand Code (02:40) AI-Assisted Code Generation and Code Review (06:20) Curre...

Amit Jain is the cofounder and CEO of Luma AI, an AI platform to create realistic looking videos. They're backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Amazon, and AMD. He was previously at Apple where he worked on VisionPro. Amit's favorite book : Skunk Works (Authors: Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos) (00:01) Introduction (00:26) How Can AI Models Generate Realistic Videos (02:38) The Current Landscape of Vide...

Zach Lloyd is the cofounder and CEO of Warp, the intelligent terminal powered by AI. They recently raised their $50M Series B led by Sequoia Capital. He was previously the cofounder of SelfMade and the interim CTO of TIME. Zach's favorite book : The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Author: Leo Tolstoy) (00:01) Introduction (00:07) Basics of the Terminal: What It Does and Why Developers Use It (01:48) Fo...

Amias Gerety is a partner at QED Investors, a fintech-focused VC firm with $3.8 Billion under management. He was previously the Assistant Secretary at the US Department of Treasury. And he graduated from Harvard. Amias's favorite finance book: Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market (Author: Walter Bagehot) (00:01) Introduction (00:46) Why Do Robots Need Insurance? (03:04) Challenge...

Jordan Tigani is the cofounder and CEO of MotherDuck, a data warehouse platform based on open source database DuckDB. They've raised $100M in funding from amazing investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Felicis, Madrona, and Altimeter. He was previously the CPO at SingleStore and spent 11 years at Google before that. He has a degree in electrical engineering from Harvard.  Jordan's favorite...

Amias Gerety is a partner at QED Investors, a fintech-focused VC firm with $3.8 Billion under management. He was previously the Assistant Secretary at the US Department of Treasury. And he graduated from Harvard. Amias's favorite book : The Origin of Species (Author: Charles Darwin) (00:01) Introduction and Setting the Stage (00:29) The Status Quo: AI Agents and Online Purchases (02:20) The C...

Cody Coleman is the cofounder and CEO of Coactive AI, a multimodal AI platform to accelerate metadata generation. They recently raised their $30M Series B co-led by Cherryrock Capital and Emerson Collective along with participation from Greycroft, Andreessen Horowitz, and Bessemer Venture Partners. He has a masters degree from MIT and a PhD from Stanford. Cody's favorite books: - The Inner Ga...

Gilwoo Lee is the founder and CEO of Zordi, a company that builds and operates autonomous greenhouses with mobile robots and AI. They raised $20M in their most recent funding round led by Khosla Ventures. She has degrees from MIT, CMU, and University of Washington. Gilwoo's favorite book : Masayoshi Son's 300-Year Plan (Author: Takashi Sugimoto) (00:01) Introduction (00:08) What is a Gre...

Vivas Kumar is the cofounder and CEO of Mitra Chem, the first lithium-ion battery materials product company focused on shortening the lab-to-production timeline by over 90%. They recently raised more than $80M in funding from Social Capital, General Motors, Alpha Wave Ventures, and others. Vivas's favorite book : Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela (Author: Nelson Mandel...

Alan Cowen is the cofounder and CEO of Hume, a company building voice-to-voice foundation models. They recently raised their $50M Series B from Union Square Ventures, Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, and others. Alan's favorite book : 1984 (Author: George Orwell) (00:01) Introduction (00:06) Defining Voice-to-Voice Foundation Models (01:26) Historical Context: Handling Voice and Speech Understandi...

Hassaan Raza is the cofounder and CEO of Tavus, a video API platform for digital twins. They've raised more than $28M in funding from investors such as Sequoia and Scale VP. Hassaan's favorite book: Go Like Hell (Author: A. J. Baime) (00:01) Introduction (00:38) Overview of AI in video generation (01:44) AI models used in video generation (03:35) Capturing intricate facial movements in r...

Alex Gallego is the founder and CEO of Redpanda, a streaming data platform built for data-intensive applications. They've raised more than $165M in funding from investors such as Lightspeed, GV, and Haystack. He was previously the cofounder and CTO of Concord Systems. (00:01) Introduction (00:07) Defining Streaming Data (04:14) Evolution of Streaming Data Systems Over the Last 10 Years (09:10...

Will Lu is the cofounder and CTO of Orby AI, an AI platform to automate people's repetitive tasks. He was previously the Head of Engineering at Google and a Systems Software Engineer at Nvidia. Will's favorite book : Beyond Enterpreneurship (Authors: Jim Collins and William Lazier) (00:01) Introduction (00:07) History of RPA (01:04) Building Blocks of RPA (02:34) Drawbacks of Traditional...

Tim Tully is a partner at Menlo Ventures, a VC firm that has invested in companies like Uber, Anthropic, Pinecone, Benchling, Chime, Carta, Recursion, and more. He was previously the CTO of Splunk, a publicly traded company that was acquired by Cisco for $28 billion. Prior to that, he was the VP of Engineering at Yahoo for 14 years. Tim's favorite book : Infinite Jest (Author: David Foster Wa...

Brad Porter is the founder and CEO of Collaborative Robotics, where they are building robots that will seamlessly blend into our surroundings. They've raised funding from Sequoia Capital, Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, and Lux Capital. He was previously the CTO of Scale AI. Prior to that, he was the VP of Robotics at Amazon. He has a bachelors and masters degree from MIT. Brad's favo...

Mehul Nariyawala is the cofounder of Matic where they are building the world's most advanced floor cleaning robots. He was previously the cofounder of Flutter, which was acquired by Google. During his career, he has held roles at Google, Like.com, and Salesforce.  Mehul's favorite books: - The Martian (Author: Andy Weir) - Lyndon Johnson series (Author: Robert Caro) - Shoe Dog (Author: P...

Krish Ramineni is the cofounder and CEO of Fireflies, an AI meeting assistant that takes notes, transcribes, and analyzes all your meetings. It's used across 300,000 organizations around the world with 70% of the Fortune 500 companies using it. He was previously the cofounder of Rumblii and was at Microsoft working on customer voice analytics. Krish's favorite book : Genghis Khan and the...

Surge Biswas is the cofounder and CEO of Nabla Bio, an AI platform to enable precise drug design and high-throughput measurement of drug properties. They recently raised $26M Series A led by Radical Ventures. He has a PhD in Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics from Harvard University. Surge's favorite book : Permutation City (Author: Greg Egan) (00:01) Introduction (00:07) Generative AI i...

Michael Kohen is the founder and CEO of SparkAI, a platform that delivers real-time resolutions to longtail AI exceptions in production. SparkAI was acquired by John Deere. He was previously the cofounder of Wonder. He has also held roles at Zoox and Hero. And he got his bachelors degree from Harvard University. Michael's favorite book : Star Maker (Author: Olaf Stapledon) (00:00) Introductio...

Eric Daimler is the cofounder and CEO of Conexus AI, a data management platform that provides composable and machine-verifiable data integration. He was previously an assistant dean and assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He was the founding partner of Hg Analytics and managing director at Skilled Science. He was also the White House Presidential Innovation Fellow for Machine Intell...

Edward Suh is the founder and managing partner of Alpine Ventures, an early stage venture capital fund. He was previously at Goodwater Capital and Redpoint Ventures. He has bachelors and masters degree from Stanford specializing in AI. Edward's favorite book : Poor Charlie's Almanack (Author: Charlie Munger) (00:00) Introduction and Investing Framework (06:02) Cold Emailing and Honest Fe...