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Chronologix AI probes suicidal ideation instead of immediately escalating to humans
“With contextual engineering, the difference of, I'm thinking of killing myself, and conversational gets pushed right up. With contextually engineered interpretation, we're going to ask you, when did you first start thinking about killing yourself? Have you cre…”
Heiss: Canceled SAP contract because SAP wanted to sell user data
“We had a contract with SAP, which I canceled because I figured out that they wanted to sell our users data, which is, I said, no, there's no way.”
Port: Okta evaluates every role for AI agent automation or relocation
“I mean, right now we're looking at every single role, every single hire and saying, could some of this be done by an agent? Could some of this be done in a different location?”
Chatterjee: Revolut refuses to partner with banks for core product deployment
“For core product deployment, Revolue does not look at partnerships. What I meant is a lot of Fintechs you will see getting into partnerships with banks or others to have a quicker go to market. You would see we've been patient over the last two, three years. I…”
Revi will offer a competitor's $500-a-month SaaS product for free
“We are actually an infrastructure product, so I don't really care whether we make any money from the product itself, the software, so I'm gonna pump that entire market and throw a ton of money behind it at no cost. I'm literally gonna make that product free.”
Katial: Coto has zero human product managers; an AI bot writes PRDs
“We are, we don't have a product manager. We've trained a bot in product analytics and is able to do everything from PRD, BRDs to PRDs to everything through the line, right?”
Niv combined pre-seed and seed to announce $6.5M round for TechCrunch
“And with that proof of concept I raised a seed round of a 5.2 million dollars. I announced it as a 6.5 because I wanted to get into TechCrunch. I combined the pre-seed and the seed together. But eventually TechCrunch did not cover us.”
Shield Capital Advises Certain Startups to Avoid DoD and SBIR Contracts
“In certain cases, we actually advise our startups not to work with the DoD. Even, you don't even bother doing a SIBR. The DoD is not organizationally structured to leverage your technology in a way that makes sense for your business goals and outcomes, and you…”
Morgan: B Capital Has Paused New Investments in China Due to Geopolitics
“A little bit of presence left in China, Hong Kong and Beijing, but not doing new investing in China right now, geopolitics being what it is”
Curry: Build Group backed Casetext when consensus viewed legal tech as dead
“One of our bigger successes, we had a company called Case Text which was in the legal space, which, you know, when I invested in that five years ago, I remember everyone saying, What are you doing? Legal tech's kind of a dead hole. And this was even different …”
Preeti Vyas: Amar Chitra Katha Competes With Marvel for Ten-Year-Olds
“I am not creating new comics for forty-year-olds. Right. We are creating new comics for today's ten-year-old. Ten-year-old who's consuming Marvel, and who's consuming the best of the world. If I have to compete with that, we have to make it relevant.”
Preeti Vyas: Amar Chitra Katha Stopped Exclusively Drawing Fair-Skinned Female Characters
“Machita Katha has been accused in the past of having all the apsaras and all the beautiful women looking very fair always, having fair skin. So, we've changed that. We're Indian, they will have Indian skin tones.”
Girdhar: Privva warned early interview candidates against expecting work-life balance
“Then when you think about bringing on a team, controversially, some of the things that I said to people in the interview process was that if you're looking for a job, this is the wrong place.
If you're looking for work-life balance, this is the wrong place.
Th…”
Axelsson: Tastry Raised Directly From LPs, Cutting Out VC Middlemen
“Our investors, our private investors and the LP types of investors that these funds would typically fundraise from. So it had this relationship, this close relationship with my investors who Don't really run out of money and they just, we track progress. And w…”
Garber: Web3 is largely a gimmick and has zero fund investments
“It's not web three where I don't believe in it at all. I'm just a gimmick to some extent, which is what I thought in fund one, which is why there's no web three companies in there. And that's why I've never invested in a web three companies.”
Brown: Soxton adopts Netflix talent model giving average performers severance
“We subscribe to the Netflix model where it's like a, if you have a average gets you a generous severance policy. And that's true.”
Borok: Alumni Ventures seed strategy prioritizes cap table access over valuation
“As a fund, I think our hypothesis is that you want to be in the best in class companies in any capacity. So, you know, we're obviously a tip of spear approach on the seed fund. So we're trying to Start to build that relationship over time and we want to get on…”
Any Akasa Employee Can Halt Takeoff Over a 1% Safety Risk
“The empowerment goes even to a level where every employee, no matter where you sit, where you work, if you believe there's even a one percent risk Of safety. You can stop a plane from taking off. No questions asked.”
Chatterjee: Revolut aims to reach 100M users and 100 countries by 2030
“To want to serve a hundred million users meaningfully across the world. To be present in a hundred countries before 2030 years out.”
Costa advises investors to withhold capital until stubborn founders learn hard lessons
“I feel the same thing when I work with investors that I'm never going to put them in that situation. So I literally will tell them to back off. I said, I wouldn't put it in right now. These guys need to learn on the way.”
Rai: Aditya Birla automated market intelligence decks previously done by five analysts
“In one place, what we have now obviously done is automated all of it. So not only does it generate that report, Probably much better than what those four, five analysts could do. It is also able to say what should you do next month based on that, which is usin…”
New AI models one-shotted several Good Futures startup ideas
“We've seen this firsthand as a few of our ideas have been basically one-shotted by newer models. And basically our building of it doesn't make sense anymore because a new model comes with a sub feature that solves that.”
Morgan: BCG Holds No Equity in B Capital but Receives Carried Interest
“BCG does not own any of the firm. They don't make any of the investment decisions, but they do earn a piece of the carry interest in return for providing the various services they provide.”
Joseph opposes using neural implants purely to augment human capabilities
“Personally, I don't want to meddle with, you know, human human brain if, you know, just to improve and augment our capability.”
Tandem PV is building its first factory in California
“We haven't announced yet, but it's going to be in California.”
Alalu: Daring Ventures rejects pre-seed startups lacking clear cash-flow paths
“Our number one you know, KPI that we really, really have to look at is, is there a path to free cash at the end of this raise? If not, How, what, how big is that delta? Because the one thing that we will absolutely not invest in is scratching now business mode…”
Curry: Build Group rejects VC power law for concentrated portfolio support
“As I tell founders, I go, my portfolio is concentrated enough. I don't want zero. I need something that works. And I actually care and I want this thing to be successful.”
Preeti Vyas: Tinkle Magazine Recently Published a Feature on Menstruation
“In fact, recently, two issues back in Tinkle, we did a whole piece on menstruation, right, for children.”
Preeti Vyas: Amar Chitra Katha Uses AI for Promotions and Translations
“We're using AI to do a lot of promotional work, which was taking up the artist's time unnecessarily. Now a lot of that can be done by AI. We're using AI for translations, and that's really sped things up.”
Malik: Pixel Perfect avoids backing founders straight out of college
“We generally do not invest in folks that are right out of college, right? They have like, we'd like to see our founders spend some time and quote unquote corporate America and, or at some type of consulting firm or some type of some type of job where they're a…”
Bhattacharya: Jeeva.ai makes job offers after a 15-minute conversation
“We move fast on people. Like sometimes we just make them an offer. I would talk to Someone for 15 minutes, and I know whether I want to work with them or not, and that's it. I don't waste their time. I'm like, hey, here's what we can do. Here's an offer. You'l…”
Mounts: AeroX portfolio company has deployed drone technology in Ukraine
“We do have a portfolio company that's been on the front lines for the past nine months over in Ukraine, delivering critical technology.”
Girdhar: Privva found product-market fit by bundling software with human services
“We were a nice to have, not a need to have, and so in order to make Priva a need to have, we had to add human bodies to that problem because they didn't want to do all the work, and so that was, it was a tell for us, and that was super interesting, and that wa…”
Novick: Founders should raise maximum capital when they have momentum
“I often encourage founders to raise as much as they can when they've got something going for them.”
Axelsson: Tastry Avoided Venture Capital Due to Strict Timelines
“I have had many opportunities to take the venture route throughout working on Tastry, and it never just felt quite right to go the venture route because of the uniqueness of our business and emerging technology in a traditional industry. It just takes too much…”
Garber targets moderate return multiples rather than 100x outlier outcomes
“I'm basically the opposite, where I want to have a good outcome in almost every investment I make. I have to, because I'm not shooting for a hundred X, 200 X, 500 X outcomes. I'm shooting for In some cases, two or three X outcomes, but a lot of cases, four or …”
Robinson: TabaPay aims to pursue an IPO to reward employees
“This company in particular, I want to take public.”
Armeta considers acquiring a traditional US engineering firm to make it AI-native
“We have an idea of potentially soon acquiring a traditional engineering company in the US.
And making it AI native and provide AI native services, you know.
So, but this is a private equity story, growth equity story, but we're thinking about it.”
Rakhmetzhanov: Armeta pre-sells product features before writing code
“So now when I want to develop a certain feature even if I've not developed the feature itself, I go and tell all of my clients that I've already developed this feature. It is ready to be bought. Would you buy it right now? And they're like, hell no, man, like,…”
Lightspun aims to cut healthcare admin costs to 3–5 cents per dollar
“So our goal is to reduce that 20 cents to maybe five cents, three cents using technology, using innovation, using AI.”
Blackington: Dovetail's first GTM step avoids direct Epic integration
“We're not relying on a full integration with Epic in order to be our step one of a go-to-market strategy.”
Blackington: Dovetail will train a closed proprietary AI model over OpenAI
“We're talking about being able to train something that is not open AI, that is closed off, and it's, that runs in its own channel, and how can we take that, and what can we train it to What can we teach it about healthcare and about this specific problem that …”
Chadha: I refuse to do propaganda or demean women in my work
“I mean, I have some clear rules. I won't do propaganda, even though that's the current thing. And I won't do anything that really demeans women.”
Chadha avoids streaming platforms to retain full IP ownership and control
“I'm not going to go to a platform, because then they have a stake in the IP with me. I don't want to do that. It's something I've written. It's something that I want to complete editorial freedom with. So, I'll put it on a platform of my choice, where I get to…”
Richa Chadha Refuses Endorsements for Fairness Creams, Diet Drugs, and Colas
“I have my own filters. I'm not gonna do a fairness brand. I'm not gonna do fast weight loss drug thing. I'm not gonna sell a, you know what do you call it, PCOD diet to somebody when I'm not a doctor. I'm not gonna sell a fitness supplement that's full of suga…”
Chronologix uses a secondary LLM to monitor conversations and escalate self-harm
“We have what we call a second opinion, which is an entirely separate LLM layer that does nothing more than listen to the conversations, and it has very strict instructions of barriers, right? You breach this barrier of, I want to kill myself, I want to kill my…”
Lakeland: Spexi restricts drone altitude to avoid capturing identifiable personal data
“We fly at an altitude right now where you can't recognize people, you can't read license plates and street numbers, and there's so personal information is not being collected intentionally. We don't want to fly lower where then we have to blur everything out o…”