The Good AI Podcast

How can technical leaders ensure AI is used for good? What protocols should we put in place to do that? In this episode we explore these questions and discuss how One Concern tackles these with their AI built to quantify natural disasters and build resilience.

PathAI builds AI-powered algorithms to extract insights from whole-slide images to faciliate drug discovery, improved clinical diagnoses and treatments of patients with cancer and other severe diseases. In this episode, we chat with Andy Beck and explore the role of AI in healthcare, biotech and the learn about how PathAI thinks about making a positive impact on the patient.

Noosheen is back on the pod to chat about Eden's - supplements that January AI's (https://january.ai) core virtual continuous glucose monitoring app! Chronic lifestyle diseases affect millions of Americans every year and January AI is determined to change that by changing habits and leveraging the consistency of Eden's supplements. Enjoy!

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In this episode we chat with Rohit Gupta, a passionate impact investor at Future Communities Capital (FCC) where he focuses on helping accelerate the growth of early stage mission-driven companies ensuring they can put fuel on the Doing Well by Doing Good fire.  From introducing founders to potential customers to providing timely advice, Rohit and team help their portfolio companies sustainably Do Well while Doing Good. We chat about practical examples of his portfolio companies in healthcare and beyond and navigate the frontiers of startup land, ending with practical advice for the listeners. Enjoy! 

Learn more about Rohit and his team at Future Communities Capital and their portfolio companies at https://www.futurecommunities.vc/ 

You can check out the portfolio companies mentioned below

- Akido Labs: https://www.akidolabs.com/

- Znest: https://znest.com/

- PlenOptika: https://plenoptika.com/

In this episode we chat with Anuradha Ramachandran, an experienced impact investor and Director at Flourish Ventures - a spinout from the Omidyar Network. She shares with us her journey investing in the financial rails for emerging markets, the ways their portfolio companies do well by doing good and her ethos for investing to balance both impact and business outcomes. Learn more about Flourish @ https://flourishventures.com/ and Anuradha @ https://www.linkedin.com/in/anuradharamachandran. Subscribe to our blog @ https://dwdg.substack.com for summaries of this and other podcasts. Enjoy! 

Check out our latest episode with January AI Co-founder & CEO, Noosheen Hashemi. She is a storied Silicon Valley veteran who was critical the early growth at Oracle and has over 20 years of experience supporting nonprofits, building a family office and funding high growth businesses. In this episode we hear about how the motive to Do Well by Doing Good drove her to start January AI and how it addresses the epidemic of chronic diseases like diabetes. 

We talk about her recent speech at GSB which you can find @ https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/experience/news-history/commencement/keynote-speaker-remarks

In the episode she references the concept of Ikigai - or marrying what you love, what you're good at and what the world needs. You can find more about Ikigai  @ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikigai

Learn more about January AI @ https://www.january.ai/

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Brian Trelstad teaches Social Entrepreneurship and Social Change at Harvard Business School and is a long-time impact investor. Brian is currently a Partner of the US Sustainability Growth Fund at Bridges investing in service-based companies making a difference. In this episode, he shares his experiences at Acumen, the thesis of his current fund Bridges US Sustainability Growth Fund, and provides examples of portfolio companies Doing Well by Doing Good via the for-profit services they provide. 

Learn more about Brian and his work at Bridges US Sustainability Growth Fund: https://www.bridgesfundmanagement.com/us/team/brian-trelstad/

Learn more about Brian and his teaching at HBS: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=1132519

Vikram Gandhi is a Professor of Sustainable Investing at Harvard Business School, a long-time investor, and the Managing Partner at Asha Impact Fund, an India-focused fund investing in product and services companies across multiple sectors. In this episode Vikram talks about his journey and the impetus for starting Asha Impact. We also explore the portfolio companies that are Doing Well by Doing Good and explore how impact investing is like traditional financing and what makes it different. 

Learn more about Vikram's teaching: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=103852

Learn more about Asha Impact Fund: https://ashaimpact.com/

CEO of Kenya-based Smart Agriculture company MyFugo, Allan Tollo, talks about his experience witnessing the struggle of rural farmers in Kenya finding a way build a sustainable livelihood and how he leveraged his technical background to engineer a data-driven solution. Allan walks us through the business model -- Doing Well -- and tangible examples of the positive impact MyFugo is already having with its customers -- Doing Good. 

You can learn more about MyFugo at http://myfugo.com/ 

In Part 2 of our conversation with Sandeep Farias, we go deeper into how the Elevar Method is used in practice with a few examples and talk about how they Do Well by Doing Good using the LAHWS framework. Listen in to hear about Elevar's investments and for some advice for the listeners on how to think about making an impact by joining or creating your own DWDG startup.