Kai Risdahl

So where are we going?

What are we doing?

There are literally thousands of AI startups all over this country.

According to PitchBook and the National Venture Capital Association, AI startups got $222 billion in venture capital investment in 2025.

That is 65% of all US VC dollars that year.

Tiny Fish, the company we're visiting, got about $47 million worth of that.

And yes, that is small potatoes compared to the big fish like Anthropic and OpenAI.

But for artificial intelligence to pay off in the way that investors are betting it will, it's going to take a whole ecosystem of companies using it.

And that's why we came here to a kind of suburban office park in Los Altos.

It looks a little bit like a Chipotle, though, with those umbrellas and stuff.

Indeed.

That's what I'm saying.

We walked into an office with a fish tank in the lobby, and we met Sudheesh Nair, the co-founder and CEO of TinyFish.

Hi, I'm Kai.

How are you?

I'm Kai Sudheesh.

Nice to see you.

Nice to meet you.

I'm Megan.

Very good to meet you in person.