Liberty. Equality. Data‪.‬ Prifina Inc

Search has been a stable of the Internet and well established over the past decades. The launch of AI can change those very power dynamics relating to how data is discoverable and who that data benefits.

In this episode we talk with Andi search CEO and co-founder Angela Hoover about their journey building a new disruptive Generative AI search proposition that is private and consumer grade, akin talking to a friend. We discuss their journey through Ycombinator, their customer discovery and how AI is set to disrupt the power dynamics on the Internet.

What does your walking pattern tell about you? Can it help you boost your sports performance? How about can it help prevent injury or rehabilitate you after an injury? Could we see everyday clothing and shoes incorporate sensors that we as individuals could utilize ourselves?

In this episode we are joined by Quin Sandler, the CEO and co-founder of Plantiga. The company Plantiga is a human analytics company based in Vancouver, Canada and has been working on gait analytics, sensors, and instrumented footwear for over 10 years. We talk about their work with professional sports teams, such as the NBA and teams like the Golden State Warriors. Quin shares their story from founding the company with his father and the vision to have smart sensors powering all of us under our feet.

In this episode we are joined by Emilė Radytė, the co-founder and CEO of Samphire Neuroscience and PhD in Neuroscience from Oxford and Harvard.



We talk about electrical stimulation of the brain to treat PMS, as well as similarities with depression and Emile's background as a depression researcher. We dive into the research and opportunities in the market for innovation in women's health, empowering women with more precision tools based on scientific research and personal data. We also touch on where we see AI fitting into women's health and what innovation we expect to see in the coming years.



About the Samphire Headband, from Samphires website:

It works by using a low electrical current to stimulate certain parts of the brain. It's kind of like giving your brain a (deeply scientific, and highly researched) relaxing massage. It’s been around for a while - just not for women.

In this episode we are joined by Heather Meeker, an experienced technology and open source expert, as well Founding Portfolio Partner at OSS Capital, an early-stage venture capital fund specializing in commercial open source development.  Heather has a wealth of experience to draw from, starting from as a developer ("computer programmer" as she calls it), to working on open source license strategies for some of the most recognized leading companies over the years. We talk about developer communities, early models to data and their evolution, open source as a way to develop and promulgate a kind of standards and the power of open innovation, the impact it could have the data that we generate was available to build innovative solutions upon.

Some more background on Heather Meeker, from https://www.techlawpartners.com/heather

Meeker advises technology clients on intellectual property matters, including licensing and collaboration arrangements, software copyright and patent issues, technology procurement, open source licensing strategies, and intellectual property issues in investments, mergers and acquisitions. She is an internationally known specialist in open source software licensing. Her latest book, Open Source for Business, is a definitive handbook for lawyers, engineers, and businesspersons on open source licensing in business. Her Technology Licensing: A Primer, is a widely used handbook for technology licensing specialists.

In 2019, Meeker was named by Business Insider as one of the ten people transforming the way the technology industry does business, along with the CEOs of Salesforce, Stripe, and Microsoft. She was the only lawyer on this list.

We will never have enough doctors, psychiatrists, nutritionists in the world - how do we overcome this problem? In this episode we talk with health data and machine learning expert Dr. Jaan Aaltosaar, who is a Postdoctoral Officer of Research at Columbia University Irving Medical Center focused on machine learning methods for health and science. Jaan has a background working with health data from Princeton, Deepmind and Google Brain. We discuss the complexities of the current medical data systems, how to yourself gather data and what the implications are, how you yourself can utilize data for your own benefit, such as genome sequencing. We discuss open source's role in the development of the data markets and how governance of AI/ML models could evolve to fit a growing need for more utilization of data in a way that works for entire ecosystems of individuals. 

Zededa provides edge compute, with the emphasis on compute. In this episode we talked with co-founder and CTO Roman Shaposhnik, who has decades of experience in the market from e.g. Apache foundation and Jason Shepherd, VP, Ecosystem at the company, who's background spans service as CTO of Edge and IOT at Dell and vast contributions to open source.

In the episode we discuss:


the IoT market, its evolution and where all the money went;
about plumbing, the need for infrastructure in markets such as IoT and edge networks;
the role for open source and its critical nature in foundational technologies;
how decentralization of data unlocks various utilities and use cases, such as

use cases hacking a Mercedes Benz, truck safety and logistics networks, the home and IoT devices,
the continuum between privacy and utility, and how with new models we don't have to choose;
new approaches to measurable trust at the edge and how we can bake it all the way into the silicon itself;
and finally what we look forward to in the market, what crazy things are coming up including proof of life in blockchain