Hosted by Joyce Shen, YouCollective Podcast uncovers and shares stories about innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship.

This episode explores multiple AI Agents and social influence on humans.

Discussing the MIT research on robotics large language models

This episode explores optical neural networks and its potential role in the development of artificial intelligence.

Weekly conversation on AI innovation. Quick conversation regarding startups that recently raised capital and trends.

Weekly conversation on AI innovation. Quick conversation regarding startups that recently raised capital and trends.

Stardog is a Data and AI company dedicated to helping enterprise companies and government agencies make better decisions with data. In this episode, Joyce Shen and Navin Sharma discusses how knowledge graphs can accelerate adoption of generative AI serving as the ground truth of knowledge.

KindWorks.AI improves well-being through Kindness and technology. We’ve built a friendly and fun AI product ('Beni') that suggests short, simple, and fun Kindness acts and exercises. Companies partner with KindWorks.AI to improve employee experience and well-being. Benefits of using Beni include an increased sense of purpose, increased connectivity to colleagues and others, and increased competency, motivation, and performance.

Silectis helps companies get the most out of their data. The Magpie platform modernizes data lake infrastructure up and running in weeks instead of months. Demetrios Kotsikopoulos, a veteran in the enterprise data management space, discusses enterprise data management and how companies can extract most value from their data.

YouCollective Pathmakers Podcast episode features Cynthia Plotch, who is building a highly successful e-commerce business for women. In the episode, we talk about how Cynthia started Stix, what she learned, and her advise for founders.

Cynthia Plotch co-founded Stix in 2019, a company on a mission to transform women’s health experience, starting with a direct-to-consumer pregnancy test. Stix most recently wrapped up the prestigious Entrepreneur Roundtable Accelerator in New York City.

Before starting Stix, Cynthia was on the founding team of Hungry Harvest. As an early employee, she expanded the produce delivery company from Baltimore to Philadelphia and went on to lead their national expansion. Cynthia received her BA from the University of Pennsylvania and is a Venture for America alumni.

Colleen Costello started Vital Vio when she was in college. She is now running a company providing antimicrobial LED lights for consumers, and private and public sectors. We talked about Colleen's pathmaking journey, learnings as CEO, and her vision. Take a listen and if you are as inspired about Colleen's story as we are, please share!