How I Met My Co-Founder Annie Garofalo

This week’s episode brings professor-student duo from University of Michigan, Brian Moore (CEO) and Prof. Jason Corso (CSO), co-founders of Voxel51, an open source toolkit to enable better data and better models. They discuss transitioning from academia to entrepreneurship in AI, shedding the “faculty” and “student” roles, changing CEO titles earlier last year, how they made a major pivot (and if it was the right choice), as well as how they tackled one of their biggest disagreements - deciding when to fundraise.

In our first live recording in New York City, guests Andrew Hoh and Sarmad Qadri, co-founders of LastMile AI, share their experiences transitioning from working at Meta to launching their own AI developer platform.

Curious about what it’s like to date (and marry) your co-founder? Meet Alana and Jason, co-founders of How to Change the World. The two serendipitously met at a cooking class in London, met up for a (professional?) coffee a few days later, joined forces as co-founders, and, prompted by a mutual friend, decided to listen to their hearts and start dating.

Meet Cohabit’s multinational founding trio — Vaish brings nearly a decade of experience leading non-profit teams in India, Jed managed one of the top fast-food chains in the Philippines, and Max is a multi-time founder from Europe. The three met during their grad program in sustainability in Sweden and Cohabit, a circular furniture rental startup, was born.

Juanita Duque (CEO) and Olga Botero (CTO), co-founders of Seccuri, are the first mother-daughter co-founders in the cybersecurity sector.

Meet the Tonic.ai founding team - a four person founding team that overcame the odds and raised $47M, making them one of 7% of teams this size to successfully raise over $10M. How did they do it? Listen to their team story to learn how they overcame the odds and come to your own conclusion on how many co-founders is too many.