Born In Silicon Valley

Did you know that two trillion dollars of public spending is managed through broken, outdated processes? Discover how August Chen is revolutionizing government procurement with Hazel, an AI-powered platform designed to cut through bureaucratic red tape.

In this episode of Born in Silicon Valley, host Jake Aaron Villarreal sits down with the Co-founder and CEO of Hazel to explore the hidden complexities of B2G software. August sha...

Adam Nash grew LinkedIn and Wealthfront into massive tech giants, and now he is disrupting the charitable giving industry with his new app, Daffy. Discover the insider product strategies and talent branding secrets that build billion-dollar startups right here.

In this episode of Born in Silicon Valley, Jake Aaron Villarreal sits down with Adam Nash, the founder and CEO of Daffy. Adam shares his incredible journey from being born...

Discover how artificial intelligence is revolutionizing material science and global supply chains in this latest episode of Born in Silicon Valley. Join us as Malur Narayan reveals the journey behind Xtrium AI and how his team is building the Bloomberg for materials to help companies make faster, smarter manufacturing decisions.

Malur shares his fascinating evolution from early machine learning research in the 1990s to becoming a...

AI is shifting from the cloud to on-premise, and the companies that adapt will win the enterprise market. Join Jake Aaron Villarreal as he explores how Understand Tech is solving AI security and distribution challenges with an innovative hardware solution.

Naama Bak, Co-founder and CEO of Understand Tech, shares his journey from Morocco to the South of France and how he is revolutionizing the semiconductor industry. We dive deep ...

Did you know the $100 trillion B2B payments industry is still stuck in the Stone Age, relying on manual human negotiation to get invoices paid? In this episode, Duncan Barrigan, Founder and CEO of Lunos, reveals how his startup is building AI agents to completely automate the chaotic Wild West of business-to-business transactions.

Duncan shares his journey from scaling GoCardless to hundreds of millions in ARR to discovering a ma...

What if a difficult life event could inspire a technology that revolutionizes an entire industry? Join us as we explore how a frustrating legal process led to the creation of a cutting-edge platform that is saving attorneys thousands of hours.

In this episode of Born in Silicon Valley, Jake Aaron Villarreal sits down with Hans Guntren, co-founder and CEO of Deliberately AI. Hans shares his fascinating journey from a product desig...

Discover how a first-year medical student revolutionized healthcare by inventing a non-invasive, RNA-based screening test for colorectal cancer. Join us as Dr. Erica Barnell shares the incredible journey of building Geneoscopy, raising over $112 million, and navigating the complex path to FDA approval.

In this episode of Born in Silicon Valley, Erica dives into the challenges and triumphs of being a first-time founder in the high...

Want to know how top brands like NASCAR and the PGA Tour are turning massive data sets into instant marketing revenue? Join us as Chris Sell, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Growthloop, reveals how Generative AI is eliminating the need for SQL and empowering marketers to launch highly targeted campaigns in minutes.

In this episode of Born in Silicon Valley, we dive deep into the evolution of customer data platforms and the rise of the C...

Field service industries are facing a staggering shortage of 75,000 technicians over the next few years. Discover how one founder is using cutting-edge AI agents to solve this massive labor crisis and revolutionize the repair business.

Join host Jake Aaron Villarreal on Born in Silicon Valley as he sits down with Justin Tannenbaum, the mastermind behind iVantiq AI. Justin shares his incredible journey from dealing with a broken H...

Are you still relying on gut feelings and subjective opinions to drive your content and marketing strategy? In this episode, David Henriquez, co-founder and CEO of Copley, reveals how the fastest-growing companies use AI and data-driven multivariate testing to turn content creation into a predictable science.

Join us on Born in Silicon Valley as we explore the future of marketing with an AI agent that lives directly inside Slack....

Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing the way we protect our most valuable data, and autonomous agents are now outperforming human analysts in detecting critical vulnerabilities. Discover how virtual security teams are solving the global cybersecurity talent gap and stopping advanced cyber attacks before they can cripple an enterprise.

In this episode of Born in Silicon Valley, we sit down with Ambuj Kumar, the Co-Founder an...

AI is not here to replace human expertise; it is here to supercharge it. Discover how merging human thinking with machine logic is solving billion-dollar enterprise problems and eliminating the AI black box forever.

In this episode of Born in Silicon Valley, Jake Aaron Villarreal sits down with Kim Mayyasi, the visionary founder and CEO of HMX.AI. With over 30 years of experience surviving six technology startups and two public c...

Discover how Liran Belenzon went from having just $2,000 in his bank account to raising $170 million for an AI startup that is revolutionizing drug discovery. In this episode, we dive deep into the journey of building BenchSci and how generative AI is actively solving the massive 90 percent failure rate in clinical trials.

Liran shares his incredible story of immigrating to Canada, teaming up with PhD scientists, and risking it a...

Want to know exactly what it takes to secure seed funding for your AI startup in today’s hyper-competitive market? Susan Liu, Partner at Uncork Capital, reveals the insider secrets to capturing a VC’s attention and securing the capital you need to scale.

In this episode of Born in Silicon Valley, we take you behind the scenes of venture capital with one of the industry’s most insightful seed investors. Susan shares her exact blue...

Want to know why so many enterprise artificial intelligence projects fail before they even start? Tyler Hochman, Forbes 30 Under 30 entrepreneur and CEO of Fore, reveals the expensive mistakes companies make and how to actually generate real ROI.

Dive into the reality of deploying new tech in business as Tyler shares his journey from Stanford startups to building custom architectures for major real estate firms and professional s...

Is the insurance industry stuck in the past? Grace Hanson, founder and CEO of Elysian, reveals how AI is transforming the messy and complex world of claims processing.

In this episode of Born in Silicon Valley, we sit down with Grace, a former lawyer and claims leader who decided to build the solution she desperately needed. She shares her journey from managing thousands of people at top insurance firms to launching an InsurTech ...

Middle managers are facing unprecedented burnout, but AI might be the ultimate solution to scale leadership development. Join us as Jennifer Dulski, founder and CEO of Rising Team, reveals how she went from teaching high school to scaling Yahoo and Google, and why she is now transforming how companies build high-performing teams.

In this episode of Born in Silicon Valley, Jennifer shares her incredible journey from early-stage Ya...

AI is evolving faster than we can secure it, and data poisoning threatens to turn the systems we trust into unpredictable liabilities. Join us as Wendy Chin, CEO of PureCipher, reveals the silent vulnerabilities in artificial intelligence and how we can protect the future of super intelligence before it is too late.

In this episode, we explore the critical intersection of cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. Wendy breaks do...

The AI revolution isn't coming—it's already here, and it's systematically breaking legacy email security as we know it. In this episode of Born in Silicon Valley, Alan LeFort, Co-Founder and CEO of StrongestLayer, reveals exactly why pattern-matching defenses are failing against AI-generated attacks and how his team is engineering reasoning-based detection to secure the future of enterprise communication.

Alan brings over 25 year...