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Clear all filters- RAISE Summit21 min
Deepfakes, Bots and Agentic Security | Pindrop x Palo Alto Networks | RAISE Summit 2026
Dr. Vijay Balasubramaniyan, Raphael Marichez, Rafael
Founded in 2011 by Dr. Balasubramanian, PinDrop commercialized "phone printing" technology to replace insecure legacy authentication with acoustic device fingerprinting for voice and video calls. The firm now addresses escalating threats from deepfakes, state-sponsored cyber espionage, and autonomous AI agents by deploying a three-pillar defense model that continuously monitors identity, intent, and action. As the digital landscape shifts toward an era of trillions of AI interactions, the technology ensures humans retain final agency for high-stakes transactions while neutralizing sophisticated fraud tactics.
- Y Combinator31 min
How Supabase Became One Of The Fastest Growing DevTool Companies In The World
Supabase founder Paul Copplestone recently secured a $500 million round at a valuation exceeding $10 billion, propelling the company to decacorn status with a 10 million developer base driven largely by AI agents launching 60-90% of new databases. The fully distributed organization leverages its open-source PostgreSQL strategy and a shift toward Infrastructure as Code to achieve exponential usage growth, reducing time-to-value from minutes to seconds while bypassing traditional marketing channels. Moving beyond standard user interfaces, Supabase is now building self-driving database capabilities and "Infrastructure for Platforms" to support enterprise labs managing millions of ephemeral instances autonomously.
- RAISE Summit21 min
0 to $250M ARR in 12 Months: Genspark & the Global Knowledge Worker | RAISE Summit 2026
GenSpark, founded by MIT PhD Wen Sang and a team of ex-Google and Microsoft veterans, has scaled to $250 million ARR and 6,000 enterprise clients by transitioning from a product-led search engine to an AI agent orchestrator that automates complex business workflows. The company distinguishes itself by abstracting model complexity through a unified architecture that integrates over 70 underlying AI models, enabling rapid deployment of custom applications and driving efficiency gains such as a fivefold client increase for specific financial consultants. This technology was showcased at a New York Stock Exchange event where CEO Wen Sang detailed the shift from traditional software tools to autonomous agents that augment human creativity while redefining workforce productivity.
- RAISE Summit20 min
Indexing Humanity: A Fireside With the Simulation Company | Simile | RAISE Summit 2026
Joon Sung Park, Sahir Azam, Jun
Simile, founded by former Stanford researchers including CEO Jun, has launched a foundational model of human behavior that replicates individual subpopulations with 85% accuracy for enterprise clients like CVS and Fortune 500 companies. Leveraging strategic partnerships with Gallup and Dynata to access a 20-million-person data panel, the company differentiates itself by prioritizing human imperfections and biases over pure algorithmic efficiency to augment corporate decision-making in market research and product development. Supported by Index Ventures, Simile operates on a four-stage simulation hierarchy ranging from individual dynamic testing to society-wide forecasting, while adhering to strict ethical principles regarding data consent and transparency.
- Y Combinator29 min
Why Ambitious Startup Ideas Are Actually Easier To Sell
PostHog is transitioning from an open-source analytics platform to an AI-driven service that autonomously fixes engineering issues and solves customer support tickets by generating production-ready pull requests. Co-founders James and Tim restructured their operations to align with this new "self-driving software" vision, delegating management duties to the latter so the former can focus exclusively on AI product architecture while the company doubles in size. This strategic pivot replaces traditional manual product management with a system where AI configures workflows and implements fixes based on deep user data, aiming to secure massive market valuation through "insane" ambition rather than conservative growth.
- RAISE Summit21 min
Building Global out of Europe in the AI Era | Jan Oberhauser, n8n | RAISE Summit 2026
N8N positions itself as an open-source AI workflow orchestration layer that connects diverse models and applications, a strategy validated by adoption from major enterprises like Microsoft, SAP, and the German government. By prioritizing model agnosticism and a "fair code" license, the platform enables organizations to maintain data sovereignty and switch providers to optimize costs and mitigate supply chain risks. Supported by a global network of partners and community ambassadors, N8N continues to expand its enterprise footprint by evolving from a tool for technical builders into an accessible infrastructure for non-technical users to deploy robust, ROI-driven AI solutions.
- RAISE Summit21 min
Opening Fireside: Ramin Hasani, Liquid AI & Ion Stoica, Arena | RAISE Summit 2026
Ramin Hasani, Ion Stoica, Rachel Metz, Ayaan, Ian
Led by MIT-derived algorithms and advised by Databricks co-founder Ian, Liquid AI is deploying energy-efficient, hardware-agnostic foundation models designed to run locally on consumer-grade chips rather than massive data centers. This approach addresses a shifting market where enterprises prioritize security and regulatory control by replacing expensive, closed-source systems with open-weight alternatives that offer near-parity in performance for specific tasks like coding and office work. The discussion further highlights a strategic pivot toward specialized "cities" of smaller, deterministic models that interact within agentic pipelines to ensure reliable, human-liability-backed deployment across industries.
- All-In Podcast42 min
Mark Cuban on the AI Bubble: Who Actually Gets Wiped Out?
Mark Cuban, Chamath, Jason, Friedberg
The current AI investment landscape is characterized by a distinct bubble where capital concentrated in private markets creates vulnerability for venture funds and data center overbuilding rather than systemic public risk. While enterprise adoption faces hurdles in autonomy and regulatory M&A restrictions, the sector is evolving toward world models and robotics, with startups leveraging reduced prototyping costs and geographic shifts to Texas and Florida to bypass coastal regulations. Simultaneously, political narratives are being reshaped by AI's potential to favor factual accuracy over engagement, even as diverse industries from healthcare to sports adapt by utilizing AI for data aggregation and shifting valuation metrics toward digital reach.
- RAISE Summit32 min
ALL-IN Podcast Live: Mati Staniszewski, Co-Founder & CEO of ElevenLabs | RAISE Summit 2026
Mati Staniszewski, Jason Calacanis
ElevenLabs has scaled to $600 million in annual recurring revenue with 600 employees while maintaining a 100% retention rate for its original research team. The company differentiates itself through an AI-optimized organizational structure, proprietary IP safeguards that have returned over $22 million to creators, and strategic partnerships with figures like Matthew McConaughey. Looking ahead, CEO Mati Golan aims to achieve a voice Turing test by year-end, leveraging assistive technology for medical patients and a model-agnostic platform to remain independent of larger AI developers.
- RAISE Summit24 min
ALL-IN Podcast Live: Pat Gelsinger, Partner at Playground Global | RAISE Summit 2026
Pat Gelsinger, Jason Calacanis
Intel's strategic decline is attributed to a shift from technical to financial leadership that prioritized shareholder returns over R&D, resulting in missed fabrication opportunities and the loss of key markets like Apple and NVIDIA. In response, CEO Pat Gelsinger is driving a foundry pivot and onshoring initiatives under the CHIPS Act to rebuild manufacturing capacity while navigating geopolitical risks centered on Taiwan's vulnerability. Concurrently, the broader semiconductor landscape is expected to mature through a multi-decade AI expansion constrained by energy limits, alongside anticipated quantum computing breakthroughs by 2030 that will redefine computational capabilities.
- RAISE Summit22 min
RAISE Summit Opening: A Fireside with Mark Cuban & Anton Osika, Lovable | RAISE Summit 2026
Lovable enables founders, small businesses, and enterprise teams to generate over one million projects weekly by translating plain English descriptions into fully hosted, secure, and monetizable software solutions. The platform has driven significant cost savings, such as a million dollars annually for the healthcare staffing firm Nursa, while empowering non-technical users to act as "AI co-founders" by automating setup tasks like global payments and data governance. Looking ahead, Lovable aims to evolve from a code generation tool into a strategic business advisor that leverages agentic workflows to optimize customer acquisition and internal operations without requiring traditional engineering resources.
- RAISE Summit41 min
ALL-IN Podcast Live: Mark Cuban | RAISE Summit 2026
Mark Cuban attributes recent NBA parity shifts to new salary cap rules that prevent three-peats while analyzing Jalen Brunson's franchise-driven move to the New York Knicks. He warns of an artificial AI valuation bubble fueled by private capital and warns that without breakthroughs in energy efficiency, massive data center investments risk becoming stranded assets. Concurrently, Cuban argues that AI will augment rather than replace white-collar workers, citing immediate benefits for entrepreneurs in prototyping and potential transformations in precision healthcare through integrated wearable data.
- The Economist44 min
The final filmed interview with Sir Alex Younger, the late MI6 chief | The Economist
Sir Alex Younger, Shashank Joshi
Sir Alex Younger argues that the United States has lost the strategic initiative in its conflict with Iran, as Tehran's asymmetric warfare and selective blockade of the Strait of Hormuz have forced the US to absorb unsustainable costs despite an effective air campaign. The interview highlights a fragile Iranian regime dominated by the IRGC, which retains leverage through deep intelligence penetration and nuclear stockpiles while benefiting from the war to suppress internal dissent and prolong its survival. Younger concludes that the conflict's global spillover disadvantages Western allies by diverting resources from the Pacific to the Middle East, exposing critical intelligence politicization risks under the Trump administration, and compelling Europe to develop independent hard power capabilities to counteract great power competition.
Hyperscalers Are Out of Capacity? | MongoDB CEO
Driven by hyperscaler capacity shortages and stringent data sovereignty requirements, major enterprises are migrating workloads back on-premises while adopting heterogeneous AI architectures to manage complex agentic environments. CEO CJ Desai leads MongoDB's strategic response by prioritizing real-time, operational database solutions for AI-native startups and Fortune 500 clients, shifting from traditional model selection to a focus on deterministic outcomes and autonomous administration. This approach positions the company to capitalize on the "AI super cycle" by ensuring the high-quality data layer required to transition experimental prototypes into scalable, production-grade applications in sectors like banking and aviation.
- RAISE Summit20 min
AI Compute: Rebuilt for the Agentic Era | Mark Papermaster, AMD | RAISE Summit 2026
Mark Papermaster, Karim Jalbout
Driven by a surge in AI adoption that propelled its market capitalization from $200 billion to nearly $1 trillion, AMD is targeting server CPU market leadership through a holistic system design philosophy that includes the upcoming 72-node "Helios" rack and two-nanometer "Venice" processors. The company has transitioned from component manufacturing to integrated rack-level solutions by acquiring ZT Systems and deploying open-standard AI stacks across major European supercomputers to address data sovereignty and energy efficiency demands. Underpinning this growth is a scrappy corporate culture focused on customer collaboration, which has enabled a strategic shift toward agentic AI workflows and expanded training for its 33,000-person workforce to align with enterprise needs.