Venture In The South

S5:E253 David co-hosts a special episode on the future of Physical AI with Drobot CEO Stijn Van de Velde. Stijn was on the Pod for E178 for Part 2 of my series on Robotics in the summer of 2025. In this episode we’ll be talking about the current market for Robotics, Software for bots, Robots-as-a-Service, virtual training with digital twin technology, the value prop for Humanoids and what the future is likely to look like for physical AI. (recorded 7.6.26)

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S5:E252 David reviews The Week In Venture which once again was dominated by AI. On Wednesday July 8th  David will be co-hosting a special episode on the future of Physical AI with Drobot CEO Stijn Van de Velde. Stijn was on the Pod for E178 for Part 2 of the series on Robotics in the summer of 2025. In this episode they'll be talking about the current market for Robotics, Software for bots, Robots-as-a-Service, virtual training with digital twin technology, the value prop for Humanoids and what the future is likely to look like for physical AI. (recorded 7.5.26)

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S5:E251 David interviews Daniel Herrington, CEO of Voxel Innovations, a manufacturing Tech startup disrupting the parts supply chain for the likes of cutting edge chip production and Power Turbines for AI data centers. Voxel was last on the Pod for E71 in June of 2023, so a lot has happened and it's all good. (recorded 6.29.26)

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S5:E250 David details the past Week In Venture and previews his Wednesday July 1st interview with Daniel Herrington, CEO of Voxel Innovations, a manufacturing Tech startup crashing the supply chain for cutting edge chip lithography and Power Turbines for AI data centers. (recorded 6.29.26)

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S5:E249 David is joined by Doug Giampappa, the CEO of HealthyCell for an update on HealthCell, a rapidly growing DTC oral gel supplements provider preparing to break into retail. Then, we'll be talking about eCommerce in the AI era, outline the basic characteristics of successful eCommerce strategies and talk a bit about what the near term future looks like in eCommerce. Just to take a break from AI. (recorded 6.18.26)

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S5:E248 David reviews the week in Venture and sets up Wednesday's show dedicated to eCommerce. For that episode David and Doug Giampapa, CEO of HealthyCell, will update listeners on HealthyCell, a unique supplements provider leveraging the longevity marketplace. We’ll outline the basic characteristics of successful eCommerce strategies and talk a bit about what the near term future looks like in eCommerce. (recorded 6.21.26)

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S5:E247 AI is exploding so I invited a guest who operates an AI company to take listeners on a deep dive into the current state of AI. Josh Miller is the CEO of Gradient Health, a medical image data vendor for of AI models. Gradient has experienced growth and market expansion similar to Big AI, but from a more modest starting point. We review Gradients' current growth and then get into the future of AI startups. (recorded 6/16/26)

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S5:E246 David offers up The Week In Venture and what a week it was with the SpaceX IPO sucking up capital like a Supermassive Black Hole. David then tees up Wednesday's deep dive into the state of AI with Josh Miller, CEO of Gradient AI, a data aggregation company for medical imaging AI model developers. He’ll give us a brief update on Gradient’s explosive growth and share his perspective on where AI is headed.

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S5:E245 David takes a deep dive into IPO dynamics and how investors can think about the multitude of IPO features to work them to your advantage. (recorded 6.9.26)

The VitS Checklist for Pre-IPO Buyers

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S5:E244 David updates listeners on the past Week In Venture and tees up Wednesdays Pod for a deep dive into IPO dynamics and how investors can win at the IPO game. (recorded 6.7.26)

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