How This Founder Built a $30B AI Startup That’s Disrupting Finance with Alexander Harmsen

What does it take to build an AI startup that manages over $30 billion in assets and challenges everything we know about investing?

In this episode of Tenacity with Sonia C, Sonia sits down with Alexander Harmsen, founder of PortfolioPilot.com, a next-gen AI financial advisor transforming how we manage money, risk, and decision-making. A serial entrepreneur, YC alum, and Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, Alexander previously founded and sold Iris Automation, worked on NASA’s Mars Helicopter, and raised over $30M in venture capital.

You’ll learn:

• How AI is disrupting traditional financial advising
• Why founders struggle with financial decision-making, and how tech can help
• Lessons from scaling two AI startups, raising capital, and going through Y Combinator
• The psychology behind investor mistakes, and how PortfolioPilot corrects them

Whether you’re building a startup, investing in tech, or looking to understand where AI in finance is headed next, this episode delivers actionable insights and founder wisdom.

🎧 Tune in to learn what it really takes to scale a high-impact AI company

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