]]>falseBrian McCulloughinfo+6ae760bc339f23a72648271d@mg-eu.acast.com6ae760bc339f23a72648271dstartup-biosepisodichttps://assets.pippa.io/users/6095757d8aec3489c452a60a/pre-show-covers/1793548332184-2edc85d5-19a3-4e43-b918-ae51b70bc787.jpeg
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Startup BiosGhostGhostTue, 03 Nov 2026 19:49:30 GMT10:556aea3acaf5930510a0019c18false
https://shows.acast.com/startup-bios/episodes/6aea3acaf5930510a0019c18
6aea3acaf5930510a0019c186ae760bc339f23a72648271d$11M a16z Seed for Core, a $3,499 Home Computer for AI AgentsfullGhost, a startup run by a 19-year-old CEO, just came out of stealth with an $11 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Its product, Core, is a $3,499 screenless computer that runs your personal AI agents at home, with the models, memory and your data kept on the device. Here's what's inside the box, what the privacy fine print actually says, and how it stacks up against the Mac Mini, Apple and the big AI labs.
Chapters
0:00 Ghost in 30 seconds
0:27 A 19-year-old CEO
0:57 The $11M seed
1:29 Core: a computer for AI agents
2:41 $3,499, and sold out
4:35 Ownership and the privacy fine print
7:51 Brian's Take
Startup Bios is the show about the newest startups coming out of stealth, hosted by Brian McCullough. Like and subscribe, and get the audio version on the Startup Bios podcast wherever you get your podcasts.
]]>Ghost, a startup run by a 19-year-old CEO, just came out of stealth with an $11 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Its product, Core, is a $3,499 screenless computer that runs your personal AI agents at home, with the models, memory and your data kept on the device. Here's what's inside the box, what the privacy fine print actually says, and how it stacks up against the Mac Mini, Apple and the big AI labs.
Chapters
0:00 Ghost in 30 seconds
0:27 A 19-year-old CEO
0:57 The $11M seed
1:29 Core: a computer for AI agents
2:41 $3,499, and sold out
4:35 Ownership and the privacy fine print
7:51 Brian's Take
Startup Bios is the show about the newest startups coming out of stealth, hosted by Brian McCullough. Like and subscribe, and get the audio version on the Startup Bios podcast wherever you get your podcasts.
]]> Mithrl MithrlTue, 03 Nov 2026 19:45:51 GMT11:556aea39ef4ca6aa86042ef0aafalse
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6aea39ef4ca6aa86042ef0aa6ae760bc339f23a72648271d$20M Series A for AI That Triages Drug Discovery HypothesesfullMithrl, the San Francisco startup behind a Scientific Decision Engine for drug discovery, just raised a $20 million Series A led by Obvious Ventures. Co-founder Vivek Adarsh came out of NVIDIA's CUDA compiler team, and his pitch is triage: AI has made drug hypotheses cheap, lab experiments are still expensive, so Mithrl's biomedical world model helps decide which ideas are worth testing. Here's how it works, who it's up against, and why patents are the number Adarsh cares about most.
Chapters
0:00 Mithrl in 30 seconds
0:24 Why Mithrl exists
1:01 The $20M Series A
1:59 Ideas got cheap, testing didn't
3:20 The biomedical world model
5:41 Benchmarks, customers and patents
8:42 Brian's Take
Startup Bios is the show about the newest startups coming out of stealth, hosted by Brian McCullough. Like and subscribe, and get the audio version on the Startup Bios podcast wherever you get your podcasts.
]]>Mithrl, the San Francisco startup behind a Scientific Decision Engine for drug discovery, just raised a $20 million Series A led by Obvious Ventures. Co-founder Vivek Adarsh came out of NVIDIA's CUDA compiler team, and his pitch is triage: AI has made drug hypotheses cheap, lab experiments are still expensive, so Mithrl's biomedical world model helps decide which ideas are worth testing. Here's how it works, who it's up against, and why patents are the number Adarsh cares about most.
Chapters
0:00 Mithrl in 30 seconds
0:24 Why Mithrl exists
1:01 The $20M Series A
1:59 Ideas got cheap, testing didn't
3:20 The biomedical world model
5:41 Benchmarks, customers and patents
8:42 Brian's Take
Startup Bios is the show about the newest startups coming out of stealth, hosted by Brian McCullough. Like and subscribe, and get the audio version on the Startup Bios podcast wherever you get your podcasts.
]]> HIFI HIFITue, 03 Nov 2026 19:42:18 GMT11:566aea391b9cb48f65ea1ce0d2false
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6aea391b9cb48f65ea1ce0d26ae760bc339f23a72648271d$37M Series A for Stablecoin, Bank Rail and Tokenized Securities Payments APIfullHIFI, the New York startup wiring bank rails, stablecoins and Wall Street's tokenized securities into one API, just raised a $37 million Series A led by Left Lane Capital. The company says it moves more than $7 billion a year, counts Sumitomo as a customer, and was in DTCC's tokenized production trades alongside BlackRock and Goldman. Here's how it works, who it's up against, from Stripe's Bridge to Circle, and the risks worth watching.
Chapters
0:00 HIFI in 30 seconds
0:19 1968: when Wall Street closed on Wednesdays
0:59 The $37M Series A
2:05 One API, three sets of pipes
4:11 DTCC, tokenized repo and Visa
7:10 The stablecoin market
8:53 Brian's Take
Startup Bios is the show about the newest startups coming out of stealth, hosted by Brian McCullough. Like and subscribe, and get the audio version on the Startup Bios podcast wherever you get your podcasts.
]]>HIFI, the New York startup wiring bank rails, stablecoins and Wall Street's tokenized securities into one API, just raised a $37 million Series A led by Left Lane Capital. The company says it moves more than $7 billion a year, counts Sumitomo as a customer, and was in DTCC's tokenized production trades alongside BlackRock and Goldman. Here's how it works, who it's up against, from Stripe's Bridge to Circle, and the risks worth watching.
Chapters
0:00 HIFI in 30 seconds
0:19 1968: when Wall Street closed on Wednesdays
0:59 The $37M Series A
2:05 One API, three sets of pipes
4:11 DTCC, tokenized repo and Visa
7:10 The stablecoin market
8:53 Brian's Take
Startup Bios is the show about the newest startups coming out of stealth, hosted by Brian McCullough. Like and subscribe, and get the audio version on the Startup Bios podcast wherever you get your podcasts.
]]>ChamelioChamelioMon, 02 Nov 2026 20:47:16 GMT10:366ae8f6d49cb48f65eaab5141false
https://shows.acast.com/startup-bios/episodes/6ae8f6d49cb48f65eaab5141
6ae8f6d49cb48f65eaab51416ae760bc339f23a72648271d$26M Series A for AI That Drafts and Negotiates Legal ContractsfullChamelio, an Israeli legal AI startup, just raised a $26 million Series A led by Entrée Capital, eight months after its $10 million seed. Instead of just storing contracts like traditional CLM software, Chamelio's platform drafts, reviews and negotiates them for in-house legal teams, with lawyers kept in the loop where the company wants oversight. Here's who's behind it, how it works, and whether it can take on Ironclad, Icertis and the AI-native crowd.
Chapters
0:00 Chamelio in 30 seconds
0:24 Why legal is the bottleneck
0:55 The $26M Series A
1:36 The founders
3:14 Beyond the fancy filing cabinet
7:22 Traction and customers
8:57 Brian's Take
Startup Bios is the show about the newest startups coming out of stealth, hosted by Brian McCullough. Like and subscribe, and get the audio version on the Startup Bios podcast wherever you get your podcasts.
]]>Chamelio, an Israeli legal AI startup, just raised a $26 million Series A led by Entrée Capital, eight months after its $10 million seed. Instead of just storing contracts like traditional CLM software, Chamelio's platform drafts, reviews and negotiates them for in-house legal teams, with lawyers kept in the loop where the company wants oversight. Here's who's behind it, how it works, and whether it can take on Ironclad, Icertis and the AI-native crowd.
Chapters
0:00 Chamelio in 30 seconds
0:24 Why legal is the bottleneck
0:55 The $26M Series A
1:36 The founders
3:14 Beyond the fancy filing cabinet
7:22 Traction and customers
8:57 Brian's Take
Startup Bios is the show about the newest startups coming out of stealth, hosted by Brian McCullough. Like and subscribe, and get the audio version on the Startup Bios podcast wherever you get your podcasts.
]]>AndoAndoMon, 02 Nov 2026 20:42:40 GMT10:366ae8f5c14ca6aa8604c2e6fefalse
https://shows.acast.com/startup-bios/episodes/6ae8f5c14ca6aa8604c2e6fe
6ae8f5c14ca6aa8604c2e6fe6ae760bc339f23a72648271d$20M to Build a Slack Rival Where AI Agents Are TeammatesfullAndo came out of stealth with $20 million from Accel, Index Ventures and Emergence to build a team messaging app where AI agents are actual members of the team, not bots you have to copy and paste into. Sara Du, the second-time founder behind Alloy Automation, wants to kill the "meat proxy" problem. But can a new chat app really pull teams off Slack?
Chapters
0:00 Ando in 30 seconds
0:24 Sara Du and the "meat proxy" problem
2:40 What Ando actually looks like
4:23 A rough start, then sticky customers
6:07 The founder and the $20M round
8:02 Brian's Take
10:16 Sign-off
Startup Bios is the show about the newest startups coming out of stealth, hosted by Brian McCullough. Like and subscribe, and get the audio version on the Startup Bios podcast wherever you get your podcasts.
]]>Ando came out of stealth with $20 million from Accel, Index Ventures and Emergence to build a team messaging app where AI agents are actual members of the team, not bots you have to copy and paste into. Sara Du, the second-time founder behind Alloy Automation, wants to kill the "meat proxy" problem. But can a new chat app really pull teams off Slack?
Chapters
0:00 Ando in 30 seconds
0:24 Sara Du and the "meat proxy" problem
2:40 What Ando actually looks like
4:23 A rough start, then sticky customers
6:07 The founder and the $20M round
8:02 Brian's Take
10:16 Sign-off
Startup Bios is the show about the newest startups coming out of stealth, hosted by Brian McCullough. Like and subscribe, and get the audio version on the Startup Bios podcast wherever you get your podcasts.
]]>Maven RoboticsMaven RoboticsSun, 01 Nov 2026 15:58:39 GMT12:456ae761aff6b38070e2e115e6false
https://shows.acast.com/startup-bios/episodes/6ae761aff6b38070e2e115e6
6ae761aff6b38070e2e115e66ae760bc339f23a72648271d$100M Series A for Wheeled Two-Armed Warehouse RobotsfullMaven Robotics came out of stealth with a $100 million Series A led by RoboStrategy to put wheeled, two-armed robots to work building pallets in warehouses. Two brothers, an Apple car team, one unnamed customer won with a cartoon robot, and a bet that "deep, then wide" beats the humanoid demo reel.
Chapters:
0:00 Maven Robotics in 30 seconds
0:20 Welcome
0:52 Winning the first customer with a cartoon robot
2:26 The $100M Series A and RoboStrategy
3:25 What the robot actually does: mixed-case palletizing
4:37 Wheels, two arms, no legs
6:02 The founders and the Apple car team
8:08 "Deep, then wide"
9:54 Brian's Take
12:25 Sign-off
Startup Bios is the show about the newest startups coming out of stealth, hosted by Brian McCullough. Like and subscribe, and get the audio version on the Startup Bios podcast wherever you get your podcasts.
]]>Maven Robotics came out of stealth with a $100 million Series A led by RoboStrategy to put wheeled, two-armed robots to work building pallets in warehouses. Two brothers, an Apple car team, one unnamed customer won with a cartoon robot, and a bet that "deep, then wide" beats the humanoid demo reel.
Chapters:
0:00 Maven Robotics in 30 seconds
0:20 Welcome
0:52 Winning the first customer with a cartoon robot
2:26 The $100M Series A and RoboStrategy
3:25 What the robot actually does: mixed-case palletizing
4:37 Wheels, two arms, no legs
6:02 The founders and the Apple car team
8:08 "Deep, then wide"
9:54 Brian's Take
12:25 Sign-off
Startup Bios is the show about the newest startups coming out of stealth, hosted by Brian McCullough. Like and subscribe, and get the audio version on the Startup Bios podcast wherever you get your podcasts.