Welcome to Voicing Startups where I, Collin Borns, interview founders and operators changing the world through audio, voice, and conversational technology. Today on the show I am talking to Beth Carey, Co-Founder and CEO of Pat Inc. Pat Inc is a Natural Language Understanding company, better put Pat Inc enables meaning of human language for machines. If you are interested in the work being done by this company and are an investor, Pat would love to hear from you. They are currently raising a round focused on increasing Pat’s knowledge.

In this episode we get into what exactly separates Pat Inc from the typical way companies approach Natural Language Understanding (NLU). This approach, based on the Patom Theory, has resulted in awards like the Best Algorithm for AI in 2018/19 and being a finalist for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation XR Education Prize in 2018. We also touch on how Pat Inc is unique as compared to some of the large tech legacy companies like Google (Assistant), Amazon (Alexa), Apple (Siri), Microsoft (Cortana), and Samsung (Bixby). Towards the end of the show Beth gives her view on generalized artificial intelligence (AI) and the potential of cracking meaning for machines. If you are interested in working with, investing in, or learning more about this company make sure to look below for the best way to get in touch with them.

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Website: Pat.ai

Twitter: @PatisNLU

Facebook: @pat.is.nlu

Medium: @Pat Inc

LinkedIn: @Pat Inc

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Beth: @BethCarey12

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Have your own startup in voice? Pitch:

VoicePunch.VC

Thanks for listening to this episode of Voicing Startups. Today on the show I am talking to Justin, Jordan and Hunter of YAC.chat and at the core they are voice messaging for remote teams, but have plans for a whole suite of tools. Since our chat they released a tool that is a part of the YAC suite called Backtrack that lets you record all those conversations, you forgot to click the record button for, by over-writing a 60 minute window of audio over and over throughout the day, locally on your Mac that only saves if you tell it to and its already broke the top 100 in the app store and has had great success on producthunt. The YAC.chat team just opened a $3M seed round so if you are an early stage investor and find the company to be of interest now is the time to talk with them! If you are a potential customer, early access ends soon so make sure to sign up now and reserve your spot.

In this episode we jump around and touch on multiple different subjects. The show starts out with some background on the founders and what ultimately led to YAC becoming a product. Spoiler, it was partly inspired from a Product Hunt competition. We go on to talk about early successes of the first iteration of the product and what has ultimately led the product from a walkie-talkie type tool into A-Synchronous communication but I will let the founders get into details on that. In the meat of the interview they go on to chat about how meetings are broken and how YAC can help with that, their target market and business model, benefits of voice vs text, how they view their competition and a bunch more about what we can expect to see from the team in the future.

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Website: YAC.chat

Twitter: @YACchat

Facebook: @YACchat

IG: @YAC.chat

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Justin: @Jmitch

Hunter: @Huntermoonshot

Jordan: @jordanlwalkerrr

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Twitter: @CollinBorns

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/collinborns/

Have your own startup in audio, voice, or conversational tech? Pitch:

VoicePunch.VC

Hey everyone, my name is Collin Borns, host of the Voicing Startups Podcast. The purpose of this episode is to give some insight into what you can expect from the podcast and why I am doing this in the first place. Ultimately, I have a huge passion for early stage companies and startups. Ever since I was a little boy I had a fascination and passion to start my own business and be an investor in companies. Fast forward to today and another fascination has come into my life. Voice and conversational technology. After I started to build a network in the voice community and have conversations with different founders and operators in the space, it got me thinking about how if I am this interested in what these companies have to say, I can imagine other people are as well! From that, came the idea for Voicing Startups. The Voicing Startups Podcast exists to bring awareness to different companies and creators that are shaking up, redefining and reinventing industries through audio, voice or other conversational technology. My goal is to learn more about why entrepreneurs are starting companies in voice/conversational tech, what their companies do, and where they see the overall voice and conversational tech industry going over the years ahead alongside their product. The world of voice and conversational tech is still in its early days in terms of mass market adoption.

My hope is that through conversations with creators and entrepreneurs who are paving the way for where the industry will ultimately go we can help bring more awareness to voice as a whole for general culture, other entrepreneurs, and investors alike. I hope that you enjoy the show! 

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