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How are founders, startups and innovators from across the globe accelerating progress and extending their R&D runway? On What The Tech? we talk with some of the brilliant minds behind new and exciting tech initiatives to learn what it takes to tackle “technological uncertainty” and, eventually, change the world.Brought to you by the R&D tax experts at Boast AI. Boast AI's What The Tech podcast was recently ranked #8 in Feedspot's Top 70 Venture Capital Podcasts on the Web ranking! Listen to What The Tech and other leading podcasts for the latest guidance and startup strategies. 

  1. 1D AGO

    How telli Automates Customer Journeys Without Losing the Human Touch

    In our latest episode of What the Tech from Boast, we sat down with Philipp Baumanns, Co-Founder and COO at telli, to discuss how AI voice agents are transforming B2C customer journeys, and why the most successful entrepreneurs focus on solving problems they've experienced firsthand.  Philipp's journey started on the other side of the entrepreneurship equation. He worked in venture capital and private equity, looking at companies from the outside. But he quickly realized the most interesting stories came from the entrepreneurs actually building the businesses.  Backed by Y Combinator and Cherry Ventures, telli serves customers ranging from Sky (Comcast subsidiary) to Viessmann (part of Carrier) with a mission that resonates deeply with Boast's ethos: Enable businesses to achieve growth and scale without overextending their resources.  Boast accelerates the success of innovative businesses globally with software that integrates financial, payroll, and engineering data into a single platform of R&D intelligence. Visit Boast.ai, sign up for our Blog newsletter and follow us on LinkedIn for weekly #InnovatorsLive sessions and the latest news to fuel your growth. Intro and Outro music provided by Dennis Ma whose mixes you can find on Soundcloud at DJ DennyDex.

    19 min

  2. APR 28

    How AirDev Turned No-Code Development Into an Assembly Line

    In our latest episode of What the Tech from Boast, we sat down with Vlad Leytus, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of AirDev, the global leader in no-code and Bubble.io development. Vlad shared how AirDev enables customers to build powerful custom web apps in a fraction of the time, cost, and effort of traditional agencies, and how R&D tax credits have been critical to their growth as a bootstrapped, US-based company serving hundreds of clients from one-person startups to Fortune 100 enterprises.  The mission: Make software development faster, cheaper, and more accessible—without requiring coding expertise.  The approach: Treat software development like an industrial process. Standardize what can be standardized, modularize what's common, and customize only what's unique.  The result: A San Francisco-based company that's been growing for 10+ years, bootstrapped entirely on revenue, now retooling for the AI era.  And they're doing it all while claiming R&D tax credits to fuel continued innovation in their development framework, project management tools, and assembly-line approach to custom software.  Boast accelerates the success of innovative businesses globally with software that integrates financial, payroll, and engineering data into a single platform of R&D intelligence. Visit Boast.ai, sign up for our Blog newsletter and follow us on LinkedIn for weekly #InnovatorsLive sessions and the latest news to fuel your growth. Intro and Outro music provided by Dennis Ma whose mixes you can find on Soundcloud at DJ DennyDex.

    23 min

  3. APR 21

    How Symbiotic AI Is Making Precision Heart Health Decisions Data-Driven

    In our latest episode of What the Tech from Boast, we sat down with Arjun Puri, CEO and Co-Founder of Symbiotic AI, to discuss democratizing precision heart health, why SR&ED tax credits should be a badge of honor, and how personal tragedy sparked a mission to reduce variability in life-or-death medical decisions.  Today, Symbiotic AI is building Revaz AI—an AI-enabled clinical decision support solution specifically focused on coronary artery disease, the leading cause of death and disease globally. Revaz helps clinicians choose between treatment options like medical therapy, stenting, or bypass surgery by generating personalized risk predictions for each pathway.  Boast accelerates the success of innovative businesses globally with software that integrates financial, payroll, and engineering data into a single platform of R&D intelligence. Visit Boast.ai, sign up for our Blog newsletter and follow us on LinkedIn for weekly #InnovatorsLive sessions and the latest news to fuel your growth. Intro and Outro music provided by Dennis Ma whose mixes you can find on Soundcloud at DJ DennyDex.

    27 min

  4. APR 13

    How Possibility Neurotechnologies Is Making Brain-Controlled Interaction Accessible to Everyone

    In our latest episode of What the Tech from Boast, we sat down with Dion Kelly, Co-Founder and CEO of Possibility Neurotechnologies, to discuss brain-computer interfaces, the power of getting comfortable being uncomfortable, and how Canadian non-dilutive funding programs are enabling groundbreaking neurotechnology innovation.  Dion's journey is unconventional. She started with lemonade stands, redesigned secondhand clothes to sell at local markets by age 10, and planned to attend fashion school. Instead, she became one of the few researchers in the world with expertise in brain-computer interfaces, then built a company making brain-controlled interaction accessible to everyone.  Her first product, Think2Switch™, is "a bit like Siri for your thoughts." It translates brain signals from off-the-shelf brain-sensing headsets into usable commands so you can control computers, toys, or smart devices using your thoughts.  Boast accelerates the success of innovative businesses globally with software that integrates financial, payroll, and engineering data into a single platform of R&D intelligence. Visit Boast.ai, sign up for our Blog newsletter and follow us on LinkedIn for weekly #InnovatorsLive sessions and the latest news to fuel your growth. Intro and Outro music provided by Dennis Ma whose mixes you can find on Soundcloud at DJ DennyDex.

    20 min

  5. MAR 31

    How Nimble Science Is Unlocking the Small Intestine's Secrets

    n our latest episode of What the Tech from Boast, we sat down with Sabina Bruehlmann, CEO of Nimble Science, to discuss a truly revolutionary innovation: Accessing the "dark side of the moon" of human health, the small intestine.  Sabina's journey started with free computers and straight lines. She became a mechanical engineer in the mid-90s because of a push for women to enter engineering, and because she could "draw really straight lines." But after landing at a biomedical institute, she discovered her true calling: Biomedical engineering, "the ultimate engineering because you have to reverse engineer one of the most complex machines on the planet."  Today, at Nimble Science, Sabina and her team have developed the SIMBA™ Capsule, a clinically validated ingestible device that's changing how we understand gut health, food absorption, drug effectiveness, and diagnostics. They're working with Food giants to biopharma companies developing biologics.  Boast accelerates the success of innovative businesses globally with software that integrates financial, payroll, and engineering data into a single platform of R&D intelligence. Visit Boast.ai, sign up for our Blog newsletter and follow us on LinkedIn for weekly #InnovatorsLive sessions and the latest news to fuel your growth. Intro and Outro music provided by Dennis Ma whose mixes you can find on Soundcloud at DJ DennyDex.

    23 min

  6. MAR 24

    How Patabid Uses AI to Make Construction Estimating Safer and Smarter

    In our latest episode of What the Tech from Boast, we sat down with Melvin Newman, CEO and Co-Founder of Patabid, to discuss how AI is transforming construction estimating and why innovation in this space matters more than most people realize.  Melvin's journey is unconventional. He's a mechanical engineer who taught himself neural network development by buying textbooks on natural language processing in 2015, built an AI system that worked so well it "terrified" him, and turned a side project into the #1 unified public tender and electrical estimating software platform in North America. Along the way, he's become a passionate advocate for R&D tax credits, construction innovation, and using AI to amplify human expertise, not replace it.  Boast accelerates the success of innovative businesses globally with software that integrates financial, payroll, and engineering data into a single platform of R&D intelligence. Visit Boast.ai, sign up for our Blog newsletter and follow us on LinkedIn for weekly #InnovatorsLive sessions and the latest news to fuel your growth. Intro and Outro music provided by Dennis Ma whose mixes you can find on Soundcloud at DJ DennyDex.

    43 min

  7. MAR 18

    The Burnout Tax: Why R&D Investment Fails Without People Investment

    In our latest episode of What the Tech from Boast, we sat down with Dr. Ty McKinney, founder of 8 Bit Cortex, to discuss a topic that's often overlooked in the innovation economy: How burnout silently drains revenue, productivity, and innovation capacity from growing companies.  Ty brings a unique lens grounded in neuroscience and a deep understanding of what he calls the "burnout tax,” which is the hidden costs organizations pay when their leadership, operations, and innovation teams aren't working at full capacity. For leadership, that tax shows up as money left on the table when teams can't visualize clear paths to revenue growth. For operations, it manifests as absenteeism and presenteeism that kill productivity. And for innovation teams, it translates directly into delayed product launches, increased bugs, higher churn, and slower ARR scaling.  Boast accelerates the success of innovative businesses globally with software that integrates financial, payroll, and engineering data into a single platform of R&D intelligence. Visit Boast.ai, sign up for our Blog newsletter and follow us on LinkedIn for weekly #InnovatorsLive sessions and the latest news to fuel your growth. Intro and Outro music provided by Dennis Ma whose mixes you can find on Soundcloud at DJ DennyDex.

    41 min

  8. MAR 11

    Think Bigger: How AI is Reshaping Staffing, IP Strategy, and R&D Funding for Startups

    In our latest episode of What the Tech, we sat down with Anuj Rastogi, Managing Director at Backstretch, to discuss how AI is fundamentally reshaping product development, intellectual property creation, and staffing strategies across Canada's innovation ecosystem.  After two decades in the digital agency world, Anuj made a complete pivot into talent acquisition and executive search. He's become a familiar face across Canada's startup community (attending 38 events in 2025 alone), giving him a front-row seat to how AI is changing everything about how companies build products, create defensible IP, and staff their R&D teams; insights that matter deeply to businesses maximizing access to government funding like SR&ED tax credits.  Boast accelerates the success of innovative businesses globally with software that integrates financial, payroll, and engineering data into a single platform of R&D intelligence. Visit Boast.ai, sign up for our Blog newsletter and follow us on LinkedIn for weekly #InnovatorsLive sessions and the latest news to fuel your growth. Intro and Outro music provided by Dennis Ma whose mixes you can find on Soundcloud at DJ DennyDex.

    52 min
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How are founders, startups and innovators from across the globe accelerating progress and extending their R&D runway? On What The Tech? we talk with some of the brilliant minds behind new and exciting tech initiatives to learn what it takes to tackle “technological uncertainty” and, eventually, change the world.Brought to you by the R&D tax experts at Boast AI. Boast AI's What The Tech podcast was recently ranked #8 in Feedspot's Top 70 Venture Capital Podcasts on the Web ranking! Listen to What The Tech and other leading podcasts for the latest guidance and startup strategies. 

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  • Creator
    Boast AI
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    111
  • Rating
    Explicit
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