Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi

Building a $4 Billion AI Infra Company | Benny Chen, cofounder of Fireworks AI

06 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Benny Chen is the cofounder of Fireworks AI, an AI infrastructure platform. They have raised $327M in funding from Benchmark, Sequoia, Lightspeed, Ind...

Building AI Employees | Surojit Chatterjee, CEO of Ema

22 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Surojit Chatterjee is CEO of Ema, an agent platform build AI employees. They have raised $61M in funding from Accel, Section 32, and others. Before Em...

Passwords Are Broken: AI Agents Need Identity | Rishi Bhargava, CEO of Descope

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Rishi Bhargava is CEO of Descope, an identity management platform for customers and AI agents. They've raised $88M in funding from investors such...

AI Agents Are Taking Over Infra | Gou Rao, CEO of NeuBird

26 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Gou Rao is CEO of NeuBird, an agentic AI Site Reliability Engineer for IT teams. They've raised $44.5 Million from Mayfield and M12. He was previ...

Building a Visual AI Platform | Brian Moore, CEO of Voxel51

06 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Brian Moore is CEO of Voxel51, a data infra platform for visual AI. They most recently raised a $30M Series B led by Bessemer.  Brian's favorite...

Building an AI Mathematician | Carina Hong, CEO of Axiom Math

30 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Carina Hong is CEO of Axiom Math, where they're building a self-improving superintelligent reasoner, starting with an AI mathematician. She'...

From 0 to $15M ARR in 3 months | Mukund Jha, CEO of Emergent

24 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Mukund Jha is CEO of Emergent, an agentic vibe-coding platform. They've raised $23M from Lightspeed, Y Combinator, Together Fund, and Prosus. He ...

Diffusion LLMs - The Fastest LLMs Ever Built | Stefano Ermon, cofounder of Inception Labs

09 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Stefano Ermon is the cofounder of Inception Labs and an associate professor at Stanford. Inception is developing a new type of AI models called Diffus...

LLMs, Vibe Coding, and Security | Idan Plotnik, CEO of Apiiro

30 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Idan Plotnik is the CEO of Apiiro, an application security platform built for the AI era. They've raised $135M in funding from investors like Gre...

Infra Investing | Astasia Myers, GP at Felicis

08 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Astasia Myers is a GP at Felicis, an iconic VC firm with investments in companies like Shopify, Canva, Adyen, Notion, Mercor, Plaid, Supabase, Flexpor...

Putting AI On-Call for Humans | Spiros Xanthos, CEO of Resolve AI

02 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Spiros Xanthos is the CEO of Resolve AI, a platform to put AI on-call for humans. He previously started Log Insight that was acquired by VMware. And s...

Co-creator of GraphQL and Founder of Dagster Labs - Nick Schrock

20 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Nick Schrock is the founder of Dagster Labs, a data platform that helps you build, schedule, and monitor reliable data pipelines. They've raised ...

AI Layer for Data Security | Rehan Jalil, CEO of Securiti

06 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Rehan Jalil is the CEO of Securiti, a platform that enables the safe use of data and generative AI. They've raised $156M in funding from investor...

Building AI Agents for Knowledge Work | Alberto Rizzoli, CEO of V7 Labs

30 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Alberto Rizzoli is the CEO of V7 Labs, an AI agent platform to automate knowledge work. They've raised a total of $43M in funding from Radical Ve...

AI for Physical Security | Dave Selinger, CEO of Deep Sentinel

23 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dave Selinger is the CEO of Deep Sentinel, an AI-powered video surveillance system. They have raised $38M in funding from Intel Capital, Shasta Ventur...

Building the Berkshire Hathaway of AI Services | Brennan Pothetes, CEO of Infinity Constellation

16 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Brennan Pothetes is the CEO of Infinity Constellation, an AI-native holding company. They've raised $17M from Freestyle Capital, Charlie Songhurs...

Agentic Shift in Microservices | Mark Fussell, CEO of Diagrid

09 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Mark Fussell is the CEO of Diagrid, a developer platform that provides tools and services for building cloud native applications. They've raised ...

Building the Android for Robots | Jan Liphardt, founder of OpenMind

30 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jan Liphardt is the founder of OpenMind, where they're building an operating system for intelligent machines. He is an associate professor at Sta...

AI Infra for Long Context Model Training | Anna Patterson, founder of Ceramic AI

17 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Anna Patterson is the cofounder of Ceramic, an AI infrastructure platform for large scale model training. They raised their seed round led by NEA alon...

Building an AI+Data Startup Studio | Tom Chavez, cofounder of super{set}

10 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Tom Chavez is the cofounder of super{set}, a startup studio that founds, funds, and builds data and AI startups. Prior to this, he was the CEO and co-...

Decentralized Data Foundry for AI | Rowan Stone, CEO of Sapien

04 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Rowan Stone is the CEO of Sapien, a decentralized data foundry where AI models can access verified human expertise worldwide. They've raised rais...

Converting Cameras into Autonomous AI Agents | Rish Gupta, CEO of Spot AI

29 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Rish Gupta is the cofounder and CEO of Spot AI, a video AI platform for the physical world. They've raised $93M from amazing investors such as Sc...

Are AI Phone Agents Ready for Prime Time? | Alex Levin, CEO of Regal

22 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Alex Levin is the cofounder and CEO of Regal, a platform for AI phone agents. They've raised $82M from amazing investors such as Emergence Capita...

What it Takes to Build a BI Platform | Colin Zima, CEO of Omni

15 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Colin Zima is the cofounder and CEO of Omni, a data platform that combines the consistency of a shared data model with the speed and freedom of SQL. T...

Building Billing Infrastructure for AI Companies | Alvaro Morales, CEO of Orb

09 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Alvaro Morales is the cofounder and CEO of Orb, a usage-based billing product for modern software companies. They've raised $44M to date from ama...

Turning Legal Services to APIs | Jay Madheswaran, CEO of Eve

25 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jay Madheswaran is the cofounder and CEO of Eve, a legal AI platform for plaintiff law firms. They recently raised their $47M Series A from Andreessen...

Is LLM the New Operating System? | Anant Bhardwaj, CEO of Instabase

18 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Anant Bhardwaj is the founder and CEO of Instabase, an AI-native unstructured data platform. They've raised $322M in funding to date from NEA, An...

Building AI Agents That Actually Work | Malte Kosub, CEO of Parloa

04 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Malte Kosub is the cofounder and CEO of Parloa, an AI agent platform for customer service. They raised their $66M Series B led by Altimeter.Malte&apos...

3000 Customers, One Bold Pivot: Building the First Generative AI Copilot for Lawyers | Scott Stevenson, CEO of Spellbook

25 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Scott Stevenson is the cofounder and CEO of Spellbook. They launched the first generative AI copilot for lawyers. It's used by more than 3,000 la...

The Outer Loop of AI-Powered Coding | Merrill Lutsky, CEO of Graphite

18 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Merrill Lutsky is the cofounder and CEO of Graphite, an AI-powered code reviewer that's used by tens of thousands of users. They are backed by am...

Behind the Scenes of AI Video | Amit Jain, founder of Luma AI

04 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Amit Jain is the cofounder and CEO of Luma AI, an AI platform to create realistic looking videos. They're backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Amazon, ...

Building an AI-Powered Terminal | Zach Lloyd

28 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Zach Lloyd is the cofounder and CEO of Warp, the intelligent terminal powered by AI. They recently raised their $50M Series B led by Sequoia Capital. ...

When Robots Go Haywire, Who Picks Up The Tab? | Amias Gerety

21 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Amias Gerety is a partner at QED Investors, a fintech-focused VC firm with $3.8 Billion under management. He was previously the Assistant Secretary at...

Building MotherDuck to a $400M Company

16 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jordan Tigani is the cofounder and CEO of MotherDuck, a data warehouse platform based on open source database DuckDB. They've raised $100M in fun...

AI Agents Have Brains, But Where Are Their Wallets?

10 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Amias Gerety is a partner at QED Investors, a fintech-focused VC firm with $3.8 Billion under management. He was previously the Assistant Secretary at...

Decoding Metadata in AI

03 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Cody Coleman is the cofounder and CEO of Coactive AI, a multimodal AI platform to accelerate metadata generation. They recently raised their $30M Seri...

Building Autonomous Greenhouses with AI and Robotics

12 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Gilwoo Lee is the founder and CEO of Zordi, a company that builds and operates autonomous greenhouses with mobile robots and AI. They raised $20M in t...

Developing Battery Materials with AI

05 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Vivas Kumar is the cofounder and CEO of Mitra Chem, the first lithium-ion battery materials product company focused on shortening the lab-to-productio...

Voice-to-Voice Foundation Models

30 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Alan Cowen is the cofounder and CEO of Hume, a company building voice-to-voice foundation models. They recently raised their $50M Series B from Union ...

Digital Replicas That Can Have Real Conversations

11 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Hassaan Raza is the cofounder and CEO of Tavus, a video API platform for digital twins. They've raised more than $28M in funding from investors s...

Sovereign AI

21 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Alex Gallego is the founder and CEO of Redpanda, a streaming data platform built for data-intensive applications. They've raised more than $165M ...

Large Action Models

31 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Will Lu is the cofounder and CTO of Orby AI, an AI platform to automate people's repetitive tasks. He was previously the Head of Engineering at G...

Databases for AI Workloads

23 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Tim Tully is a partner at Menlo Ventures, a VC firm that has invested in companies like Uber, Anthropic, Pinecone, Benchling, Chime, Carta, Recursion,...

Breaking New Ground With Collaborative Robots

02 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Brad Porter is the founder and CEO of Collaborative Robotics, where they are building robots that will seamlessly blend into our surroundings. They&ap...

Building Floor Cleaning Robots

25 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Mehul Nariyawala is the cofounder of Matic where they are building the world's most advanced floor cleaning robots. He was previously the cofound...

How to extract intelligence from speech data with AI

18 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Krish Ramineni is the cofounder and CEO of Fireflies, an AI meeting assistant that takes notes, transcribes, and analyzes all your meetings. It's...

Designing Antibodies with AI

11 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Surge Biswas is the cofounder and CEO of Nabla Bio, an AI platform to enable precise drug design and high-throughput measurement of drug properties. T...

The Long Tail of AI: Understanding and Resolving Edge Cases

04 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Kohen is the founder and CEO of SparkAI, a platform that delivers real-time resolutions to longtail AI exceptions in production. SparkAI was a...

How Symbolic AI is Transforming Critical Infrastructure

28 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Eric Daimler is the cofounder and CEO of Conexus AI, a data management platform that provides composable and machine-verifiable data integration. He w...

AI Disruption: Startups vs Incumbents in the Tech Stack

22 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Edward Suh is the founder and managing partner of Alpine Ventures, an early stage venture capital fund. He was previously at Goodwater Capital and Red...

Unpacking AI Startups: Metrics, Playbooks, and the Future

14 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Julia Klein is a partner at March Capital, a growth-stage VC firm. Prior to this, she was the cofounder and CEO of CareerPeer. She has an MBA from Har...

Automated Evaluation of LLMs

07 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Anand Kannappan is the cofounder and CEO of Patronus AI, an automated AI evaluation and security company. They have raised funding from Lightspeed Ven...

Investing In AI-first Startups

30 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Camilo Acosta is a GP at Perceptive VC, a pre-seed and seed stage venture firm investing in AI-first companies across the US and Latin America. He was...

AI's Role In Physics, Chemistry, and Beyond

09 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Anima Anandkumar is a Bren Professor at Caltech. Her work developing novel AI algorithms enables and accelerates scientific applications of AI, includ...

Generative AI for Coding

02 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Varun Mohan is the cofounder and CEO of Codeium, an AI code generation tool used by hundreds of thousands of developers. They recently announced their...

Building Robots That Can Cook

19 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Rajat Bhageria is the founder and CEO of Chef Robotics, where they are building robots that can do the work of assembly line cooks in commercial kitch...

Discovering New Materials With AI

11 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Jonathan Godwin  is the cofounder and CEO of Orbital Materials, where they're using Generative AI to develop a pipeline of new materials for car...

Designing Printed Circuit Boards With AI

04 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sergiy Nesterenko is the cofounder and CEO of Quilter, an AI platform to automate circuit board layout. He was previously at SpaceX for 5 years and he...

Algorithmic Data Curation

26 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ari Morcos is the cofounder and CEO of Datology, an automated data curation platform. He was previously an AI research scientist at Meta and DeepMind....

Modifying Speech Accents In Real Time With AI

19 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ofer Ronen is the CEO of Tomato.ai, an AI platform to soften speech accents of people as they speak. He was previously at Google where he built Contac...

Voice AI Agents

12 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Itamar Arel is the CEO of Tenyx, where they are building intelligent voice AI agents. He was previously the founder of Apprente and Binatix. He was pr...

MANG VC "Round Trip" Phenomenon in AI

05 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Apoorv Agrawal is a partner at Altimeter, a tech-focused crossover firm with investments in iconic companies such as Snowflake, Twilio, UiPath, Uber, ...

AI x Future of Work

29 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Atif Rafiq is the cofounder and CEO of Ritual, a software app to speed up innovation and move ideas to action. He has held C-suite roles at McDonald&a...

LLM Data Frontiers

22 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Curtis Northcutt is the cofounder and CEO of Cleanlab, a data curation platform for LLMs. They have raised $30M in funding from Bain Capital Ventures,...

AI in Defense

16 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

John Dulin is the founder and CEO of Modern Intelligence, where they are building AI foundation models for defense. He was previously at Numerai and F...

Building and Investing in Consumer AI

08 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Talia Goldberg is a partner at Bessemer Venture Partners where she focuses on consumer internet, software, and AI. She became the youngest elected par...

Open Source x Health AI

18 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dan Caron is the founder and CEO of Health Universe, where they are building an open source collaboration platform for health AI. He was previously th...

Biosimulation for Drug Development

12 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Jo Varshney is the founder and CEO of VeriSIM Life, an AI-driven bio-simulation platform that enables pharmaceutical companies to accelerate drug deve...

Solver Agent

11 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Mark Gabel is the cofounder and CEO of Laredo Labs, where they are building an AI agent for software engineers. He was previously the Chief Scientist ...

Multimodal Video Understanding

07 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Jae Lee is the cofounder and CEO of Twelve Labs, where they are building video understanding infrastructure to help developers build programs that can...

Underwater Robotics

04 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Max Grigorev has been building ML products for a long time. He has worked underwater autonomy and has spent time at Google, Airbnb, and Teralytics.  ...

Sam Lessin on AI investing

30 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sam Lessin is a GP at Slow Ventures, an early-stage VC firm based out of San Francisco, Boston, and New York. In the last decade, they have invested i...

AI as an interface to the world

27 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Tristan Zajonc is the cofounder and CEO of Continual, a developer platform for generative AI applications. He previously cofounded Sense, which was a ...

Earth Observation with AI

20 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Martice Nicks III is the cofounder and CTO of Danti, a search engine for exploring the extensive collections of Earth observation data available today...

Biochemistry AI

16 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Nicolas Tilmans is the cofounder and CEO of Anagenex, an AI-powered drug discovery platform. They have raised $37M in funding so far from investors su...

Evolution of intelligence, Digital life, AGI | Flo Crivello, founder and CEO of Lindy

13 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Flo Crivello is the founder and CEO of Lindy, where they are building a personal AI assistant. He was previously the founder and CEO of Teamflow. Prio...

Thoughts on OpenAI DevDay announcements | Vikram Sreekanti, cofounder and CEO of RunLLM

09 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Vikram Sreekanti is the cofounder and CEO of RunLLM, a developer platform for the LLM stack. They have raised funding from investors such as Redpoint ...

Artificial Specialized Intelligence, Executive Order on AI, Open Source AI | Douwe Kiela, cofounder and CEO of Contextual AI

06 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Douwe Kiela is the cofounder and CEO of Contextual AI, where they are building the next generation of foundation models that provide fully customizabl...

AI compute market, LLM infrastructure, Industrial AI | Ville Tuulos, cofounder and CEO of Outerbounds

30 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Ville Tuulos is the cofounder and CEO of Outerbounds, a platform to develop and deploy production-grade AI applications. They have raised $24M in fund...

Prateek talks about Nvidia's new AI agent that can train robots

23 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, the host Prateek Joshi talks about Nvidia's new AI agent called Eureka. It can train robots to do all sorts of complex tasks. La...

Prateek talks about Generative AI in Biology

16 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, the host Prateek Joshi talks about 13 areas in Biology where Generative AI is going to make a big impact: 1. Drug discovery 2. Protei...

Prateek talks about LLMs learning to represent space and time

09 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, the host Prateek Joshi talks about LLMs learning to represent space and time.  Here's the paper where the authors have discusse...

Prateek talks about the Reversal Curse of LLMs

02 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, the host Prateek Joshi talks about the Reversal Curse phenomenon in LLMs. Here's the paper where the authors have discussed it i...

Generative AI x Synthetic data | Ali Golshan, cofounder and CEO of Gretel AI

25 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Ali Golshan is the cofounder and CEO of Gretel AI, a synthetic data platform for ML developers. They have raised $65M in funding so far from investors...

Programmatic AI data development, Multimodal AI, False dichotomy of fine-tuning vs RAG, Compute-optimal LLMs | Alex Ratner, CEO of Snorkel AI

18 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Alex Ratner is the CEO of Snorkel AI, a platform that provides programmatic data labeling and foundation models to enable companies to build AI applic...

Generative AI x Privacy | Riddhiman Das, CEO of TripleBlind

11 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Riddhiman Das is the CEO of TripleBlind, a privacy platform for AI. They have raised $32M in funding, with their most recent round led by General Cata...

Prateek talks about AI infrastructure ideas and categories

07 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, the host Prateek Joshi talks about AI infrastructure ideas and categories including: Model infrastructure: - Compute hardware - ML fr...

AI coprocessor for data, Relational knowledge graphs | Molham Aref, CEO of RelationalAI

05 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Molham Aref is the CEO of RelationalAI, an AI coprocessor for the data cloud. They have raised $122M in funding from the likes of Tiger Global, Madron...

Prateek talks about 8 strategies to speed up ML on different hardware platforms

31 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, the host Prateek Joshi talks about:- why do we care about this problem- who needs it- how does it work- list of 8 strategies to speed...

Object store for AI workloads | Anand Babu Periasamy, cofounder and CEO of MinIO

28 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Anand Babu "AB" Periasamy is the cofounder and CEO of MinIO, a high performance object storage for AI that's built for large scale work...

AI assistant for software development | Eran Yahav, cofounder and CTO of Tabnine

21 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Eran Yahav is the cofounder and CTO of Tabnine, an AI assistant that developers can use to build software faster. He's a professor at Technion - ...

Prateek talks about Data Orchestration

17 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, the host Prateek Joshi talks about:- why do we need data orchestration - what exactly is it- how does it work- where is it used in th...

No-Code Generative AI, Domain specific LLMs, AI experimentation | Karthik Dinakar, cofounder and CTO of Pienso

14 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Karthik Dinakar is the cofounder and CTO of Pienso, an interactive AI platform anyone can use to turn text data into insights without requiring any co...

Prateek talks about 7 skills that ML builders should develop

10 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, the host Prateek Joshi talks about 7 skills that ML builders should develop when they build products.--------Where to find Prateek Jo...

Compute layer for data, Vector search, AI infrastructure | Venkat Venkataramani, cofounder and CEO of Rockset

07 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Venkat Venkataramani is the cofounder and CEO of Rockset, a real-time search and analytics database built for the cloud. They've raised more than...

Prateek talks about Geometric Deep Learning

03 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, the host Prateek Joshi talks about: - The concept of Geometric Deep Learning - Why do we need it - How does it work - Where is it use...

Speeding up Generative AI models | Luis Ceze, cofounder and CEO of OctoML

31 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Luis Ceze is the cofounder and CEO of OctoML, a platform that offers compute infrastructure to fine-tune, run, and scale your AI models. He's a p...

Prateek talks about 9 steps to do customer discovery for AI products

27 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Doing customer discovery is a critical skill that founders need to develop in the early stages of their AI startup's journey. In this episode, th...

Vector databases x Vertical AI | Andre Zayarni (cofounder/CEO of Qdrant) and Karthik Dinakar (cofounder/CTO of Pienso)

24 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Andre Zayarni is the cofounder and CEO of Qdrant, an open-source vector database company. He was previously the CTO of MoBerries building a next gener...

Prateek talks about Federated Learning

20 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, the host Prateek Joshi talks about why we need Federated Learning, how it works, and where it's used in the real world. --------...