The Good AI Podcast Anand Sampat

How can technical leaders ensure AI is used for good? What protocols should we put in place to do that? In this episode we explore these questions and discuss how One Concern tackles these with their AI built to quantify natural disasters and build resilience.

PathAI builds AI-powered algorithms to extract insights from whole-slide images to faciliate drug discovery, improved clinical diagnoses and treatments of patients with cancer and other severe diseases. In this episode, we chat with Andy Beck and explore the role of AI in healthcare, biotech and the learn about how PathAI thinks about making a positive impact on the patient.

Noosheen is back on the pod to chat about Eden's - supplements that January AI's (https://january.ai) core virtual continuous glucose monitoring app! Chronic lifestyle diseases affect millions of Americans every year and January AI is determined to change that by changing habits and leveraging the consistency of Eden's supplements. Enjoy!



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In this episode we chat with Rohit Gupta, a passionate impact investor at Future Communities Capital (FCC) where he focuses on helping accelerate the growth of early stage mission-driven companies ensuring they can put fuel on the Doing Well by Doing Good fire.  From introducing founders to potential customers to providing timely advice, Rohit and team help their portfolio companies sustainably Do Well while Doing Good. We chat about practical examples of his portfolio companies in healthcare and beyond and navigate the frontiers of startup land, ending with practical advice for the listeners. Enjoy! 

Learn more about Rohit and his team at Future Communities Capital and their portfolio companies at https://www.futurecommunities.vc/ 

You can check out the portfolio companies mentioned below

- Akido Labs: https://www.akidolabs.com/

- Znest: https://znest.com/

- PlenOptika: https://plenoptika.com/

In this episode we chat with Anuradha Ramachandran, an experienced impact investor and Director at Flourish Ventures - a spinout from the Omidyar Network. She shares with us her journey investing in the financial rails for emerging markets, the ways their portfolio companies do well by doing good and her ethos for investing to balance both impact and business outcomes. Learn more about Flourish @ https://flourishventures.com/ and Anuradha @ https://www.linkedin.com/in/anuradharamachandran. Subscribe to our blog @ https://dwdg.substack.com for summaries of this and other podcasts. Enjoy! 

Check out our latest episode with January AI Co-founder & CEO, Noosheen Hashemi. She is a storied Silicon Valley veteran who was critical the early growth at Oracle and has over 20 years of experience supporting nonprofits, building a family office and funding high growth businesses. In this episode we hear about how the motive to Do Well by Doing Good drove her to start January AI and how it addresses the epidemic of chronic diseases like diabetes. 

We talk about her recent speech at GSB which you can find @ https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/experience/news-history/commencement/keynote-speaker-remarks

In the episode she references the concept of Ikigai - or marrying what you love, what you're good at and what the world needs. You can find more about Ikigai  @ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikigai

Learn more about January AI @ https://www.january.ai/

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