talk. - the unSEXY truth behind building startups

Born in New Jersey, Arjun spent part of his childhood in a small village in India before moving to Texas. After starting in oil and gas and realizing the industry was too closed and declining, he pivoted to software engineering, working at Capital One and then at Google for five years. He’s now the founder of Retriever AI, where he’s building Rover, an agent that plugs into your landing page, engages with visitor agents, understands their intent, and surfaces unique insights you can act on.

Born in Kenya, Tahir was among Microsoft’s first employees in Europe. A self-described inventor, he’s built across multiple domains throughout his career. He’s now the founder of OpenBox AI, an AI trust platform focused on governing AI systems in real time for enterprises.

Anicet was born in France and started programming at a very young age, driven by video games. He went through multiple startup attempts, worked at the ESA, and later joined Entrepreneur First in Paris, where he founded Ascii, your CTO that delegates work to an army of cloud coding agents and manages them until they ship.

Garima was born in Bangalore and graduated in Computer Science. She has worked at several companies, including Booking, and is now building Nometria, enabling users to move their own hosting from vibe coding tools like Lovable or Base44 to AWS.

Born in Serbia, moved to Canada, Ved started several businesses, made 2 exits, and is now in SF, where he runs LeadDelta, a LinkedIn CRM helping sales and HR teams engage their network and scale outbound.

Artemi was born in Finland, has lived in several countries and is passionate about design. He’s just 25 years old and has built Silt, a startup backed by Antler, a tool that enables teams to create a shared context layer for AI.

Marin was born in Croatia and began his career at Meta, then moved to AWS and later Alexa. It was there that he decided to leave and start building startups. Today, he is the co-founder of Omnisearch, a platform that lets you search for words and phrases across video collections.

Sudhir walked us through his path from humble beginnings in India where he started out selling toothpaste to becoming co-founder of Interact AI, a startup leveraging AI to rethink and replace the traditional account executive role.

Mirko shared his journey from Deloitte in Milan to joining an Antler batch in Singapore, where he went on to launch Civils.ai to disrupt the construction industry.

Davide actually started Unirents on his own. Being a solo founder is never easy, and in this episode he shares how to start from an idea, find your first customers, and scale your business.