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Fondo
Artificial Intelligence
Fern
Outrival
Education
Canary
Lucent
Autofab
Codecanary
Openmart
Klaimee
Formal Verification
Flowscope
Microbiome
Higher Education
Smart Glasses
Openclaw For Sales
Devtools
Woz Code
Cajal
3D Printing

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Every company runs on a hidden workforce.

The people who reset the passwords. Clear the MFA requests. Provision the access. Push the tickets through the systems so the rest of the company can work.

Seb Poole wants to give that work to agents.

Not ... more

The biggest hedge funds have entire teams building AI. Most asset managers are on their own.

But closing that gap isn't about buying more AI. It's about a problem most people get wrong.

You can test code by running it.

You can't test an investment ... more

Shipping isn't the bottleneck anymore. Attention is.

Maanav Agrawal kept seeing the same pattern.

Some of the coolest products weren't getting the attention they deserved

Meanwhile, companies that consistently shared what they were building were g... more

In 2022, San Francisco leased five million square feet of office space

The entire year

In Q1 2026 alone: more than four million

At the time of this recording (Apr 2026) tenant demand reached 7.5 million square feet

The highest ever recorded.

Ope... more

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Samuel Mirpuri
Co-founder of Flowscope
Flowscope
Episode: START pod: Samuel Mirpuri, Co-Founder, flowscope “Their agents learn your business. Then automate it.”
Michael Egan
CEO and Co-Founder of CodeCanary
CodeCanary
Episode: START pod: Michael Egan, CEO & Co-Founder, CodeCanary: “Find and fix bugs from session replays with AI”
Jeff Liu
CEO & Co-Founder, FinalDose
FinalDose
Episode: START pod: Jeff Liu, CEO & Co-Founder, FinalDose "Programmable DNA drug destroying all cancers, unlocking 80% of targets"
Payton Case
Co-founder and CEO of Dispatch
Dispatch
Episode: START pod: Payton Case, Co-Founder & CEO, Dispatch: “Satellites for Manufacturing in Space.”
Ansel Diaz
Founder & CEO, AutoFAB
AutoFAB
Episode: START pod: Ansel Dias, Founder & CEO, AutoFAB: “Building a distributed 3D-printing network. Local microfactories, one platform, zero inventory”
Pedro Nobre
Co-founder of Cajal
Cajal
Episode: START pod: Pedro Nobre, Co-Founder, Cajal: “Scaling Formal Verification for Scientific Discovery”
Alisa Rae
Founder & CEO of Lucent
Lucent
Episode: START pod: Alisa Rae, Founder & CEO, Lucent: “AI that watches every session replay to catch bugs and surface insights automatically.”
Ben Collins
CEO and co-founder of Woz Code
Woz Code
Episode: 🎧 START pod: Ben Collins, CEO & Co-Founder, Woz: “The plugin that cuts your AI costs in half”
Ines Boutemadja
CEO & Co-Founder of Klaimee
Klaimee
Episode: 🎧 START pod: Ines Boutemadja, CEO & Co-Founder, Klaimee: "Liability insurance for AI Agents"

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🎧 START pod: Arvid Gollwitzer, Co-Founder, Anto Bio: “A Foundation Model for Microbial Communities”
Q: So tell us a little bit more about Anto Bio and what you're building.
Anto Bio is building multi-omic foundation models that connect genomics, metagenomics, proteomics, and metabolomics to understand the microbiome's role in drug response; these models aim to enable population-level insights and broad, efficacious therapies while allowing personalization by considering microbiome differences across populations.
START pod: Michael Egan, CEO & Co-Founder, CodeCanary: “Find and fix bugs from session replays with AI”
Q: What is the long-term vision for CodeCanary in terms of automation?
The team envisions autonomous PR reviews and AI-driven changes that engineers can confidently ship, ultimately creating a self-improving product loop.
START pod: Michael Egan, CEO & Co-Founder, CodeCanary: “Find and fix bugs from session replays with AI”
Q: What does onboarding look like when adopting CodeCanary?
You connect GitHub, Slack, and PostHog, backfill with several days of recordings, and wake up to pull requests with improvements the next day.
START pod: Michael Egan, CEO & Co-Founder, CodeCanary: “Find and fix bugs from session replays with AI”
Q: How does CodeCanary actually identify what to fix in a product?
It watches session replays and funnels, ingests the data through AI agents, and surfaces actionable bugs or UX friction, then creates a pull request with a fix and can run AB tests to validate improvements.
START pod: Pedro Nobre, Co-Founder, Cajal: “Scaling Formal Verification for Scientific Discovery”
Q: So how did you come up with this idea?
Pedro explains that the idea emerged from an international collaboration and the belief that combining verification with AI could unlock solving hard problems.

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A recurring lineup features startup founders, technologists, and operators sharing practical insights at the intersection of AI, software, hardware, and frontier tech. Episodes commonly explore how innovative companies tackle real-world product challenges, go-to-market strategies, and startup growth—from AI-driven operations and autonomous software agents to hardware manufacturing, space-enabled manufacturing, and biotech platforms. The conversations tend to blend technical depth with founder journeys, YC experiences, fundraising dynamics, and pragmatic lessons for building and scaling high-growth ventures. A notable pattern is the emphasis on operational AI, developer tooling, and the evolving role of automation in product, sales, and cust... more

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1. Samuel Mirpuri
2. Michael Egan
3. Jeff Liu
4. Payton Case
5. Ansel Diaz
6. Pedro Nobre
7. Alisa Rae
8. Ben Collins

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