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Jack Doohan: From F1 to a Food-Tech Startup
Formula 1 reserve driver Jack Doohan calls in from the Monaco Grand Prix, recounting his path from a three-year F1 contract to being sidelined and pivoting into tech. He explains his startup's push to build a unified system of record for food service, aggregating data from 80-100 fragmented systems (POS, ERP, supply chain) into a self-learning brain with a forecasting layer, citing botched AI rollouts at Starbucks and Pizza Hut as evidence that proprietary data is the moat. He says the company is contracted across just over 5,000 locations, targets 10,000 by year-end while cash-flow positive, and will raise only from strategic insiders; he also describes the paddock's value as a networking venue and athletes moving into venture.
Georgia Stevenson (Index Ventures): Backing Inherent's AI Scientist
Georgia Stevenson, partner at Index Ventures, returns to discuss Index's investment in Inherent and its AI scientist agent "Faraday," designed to team with human researchers rather than replace them. She explains why the founding team's DeepMind and White House backgrounds stood out, and how Index calibrates researcher-founders for authentic entrepreneurial ambition. She also discusses the emerging King's Cross AI hub, network effects, and how AI could rewire market structures toward trillion-dollar ambitions.
Airspeed Announces $20M Series A for Enterprise GTM Agents
Devang Agrawal, co-founder and CTO of Airspeed, live-announces the company's $20 million Series A led by DN Capital. He recounts founding Airspeed with fellow Google DeepMind researcher Adam after an LLM dominated a Christmas pub quiz, and explains how Airspeed builds a curated context layer so enterprise LLM agents can understand a business and act on it. He predicts 2026 is the year agents deliver real value in GTM, moving beyond reactive tools like Claude Code toward proactive, self-executing systems driven by high-level company initiatives.
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Georgia Stevenson: Why Index Ventures Led Granola's Series C
Index Ventures partner Georgia Stevenson explains why she led Granola's Series C: meetings are where real work happens, and Granola captures that context without awkward bots or unreadable transcripts. She credits grassroots evangelists — a pattern Index saw with Slack, Dropbox, Notion, and Figma — and founders Chris and Sam's authenticity and relentless customer focus. She also discusses Index's 30 years in Europe, the blurring of application vs. infrastructure in the AI era, and Index's people-first, bottom-up approach.