Podcast Episodes

Index Ventures’ Jahanvi Sardana shares the truth about TAM and what founders should focus on instead

Index Ventures partner Jahanvi Sardana has a reminder for all those founders worried about finding TAM for their product or service: many startups ha…

7 months ago

This industrial AI startup is winning over customers by saying it won’t get acquired

In red-hot acquisition market, this CVector founders answer this key question in its first conversation with prospective customers.

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7 months ago

How a Y Combinator food delivery app used TikTok to soar in the App Store ... and Chime backer Lauren Kolodny bets on AI

The internet trend is simple: A friend or family member looks into the camera and tells viewers, in a slightly aggressive tone, that they are about t…

7 months ago

Preston Thorpe is a software engineer at a San Fransisco startup. He’s also serving his eleventh year in prison.

A senior software engineer for Turso, Thorpe is part of an experimental program in the Maine state prison system that allows incarcerated people to w…

7 months ago

Mission Barns is betting that animal-free pork fat will make artificial meat delicious ... and more

It’s the first such product to reach the market, and it could unlock a host of fattened-up meat alternatives. Also, iRocket is aiming to hit the publ…

7 months ago

SoftBank-backed LegalOn lands $50M to streamline legal workflow with AI

LegalOn Technologies, a Tokyo- and San Francisco-headquartered legal tech startup that has built an AI contract review software for legal teams, has …

7 months ago

Nevoya raises $9.3M as its EV truck fleet reaches cost parity with diesel

All-electric truck fleet startup Nevoya has landed a fresh round of capital and plans to expand.

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7 months ago

Robot guard dogs help Asylon raise a $26M Series B ... plus Eight months in, Swedish unicorn Lovable crosses the $100M ARR milestone

DroneDogs can be sent to places unsafe for humans or real dogs and can do tasks like dangerous chemical detection. In other news, less than a week a…

7 months ago

Three things veteran planetary health investors look for in a startup

RA Capital Planetary Health closed a $120 million fund. Here's the rubric two investors use to determine where to place their fund's money.

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7 months ago

This startup thinks email could be the key to usable AI agents

Startup Mixus has built an AI agent platform that not only keeps humans in the workflow, but also allows those humans to interact with agents directl…

7 months ago