Pilot Wave

Technology EN ↓ 2 episodes

Pilot Wave is a podcast at the intersection of artificial intelligence and private markets, exploring how production-grade AI is transforming industrial businesses from the inside out. Pilot Wave Holdings is a private equity firm purpose-built for AI rollups. The firm leads majority buyouts of manufacturing, infrastructure, and essential services businesses and transforms them with production-grade AI. The strategy has delivered market-leading realized returns and venture-backed AI spinouts incubated directly from portfolio operations. Founded by Afsheen Afshar, MD, PhD (Stanford), former Chie...

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AI Rollup Case Study: From LBO to Exit and VC-Backed Spinout with John MacKinnon, President of CAUS 21.05.2026 42:51

Most AI investing stories are theoretical. This one has receipts. In this episode, Afsheen Afshar sits down with John MacKinnon, President of Connect Atlantic Utility Services (CAUS), a Nova Scotia-based high voltage transmission and distribution contractor that grew into one of Atlantic Canada's most sought-after infrastructure businesses under Pilot Wave ownership. Together they walk through the...

The Pilot Episode: AI Meets the Real Economy 12.05.2026 39:38

Welcome to PilotWave -- the podcast at the intersection of AI and the real economy. We talk to the researchers, builders, acquirers, and investors pushing this industry forward. In this pilot episode, we turn the mic inward. Founder and Managing Partner Afsheen Afshar, Senior Partner Arik Oganesian, and Director Calvin Cooper introduce the firm and the thesis behind it. Seven years in, PilotWave h...