Agentic
by George Bandarian
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The Full Q4 2026 State of AI + Autonomous Economy: Record Exits &…
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About this podcast
The Agentic Podcast, hosted by George Bandarian, General Partner & CEO at Untapped Ventures, leads deep discussions that uncover the untapped potential and breakthroughs of autonomous AI systems shaping the future.
Featuring insights from founders, investors, and industry leaders, we dive into the impact of Agentic AI on industry and society, breakthroughs in machine learning, the future of responsible AI, and the convergence of human and machine intelligence.
Episodes
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- The Full Q4 2026 State of AI + Autonomous Economy: Record Exits & What VCs Fund Now · 41 min · Season 2 Episode 5George Bandarian presents the Q4 2026 State of AI + Autonomous Economy: record venture funding, the AI exit wave, agents and robots already in production, and what VCs are…
- The Full Q2 2026 State of AI + Autonomous Economy · 48 min · Season 2 Episode 4George Bandarian, General Partner at Untapped Ventures, presents the Q2 2026 State of AI + Autonomous Economy — live from Boston, Toronto, and NY Tech Week — breaking down the…
- 10 Top AI Founders building the Autonomous Economy share their secrets · 1 h 16 min · Season 2 Episode 3George Bandarian, General Partner at Untapped Ventures, brings 10 portfolio founders on stage at the 2026 Annual General Meeting in LA — including leaders from Extropic, Liquid…
- The Next Platform Shift - Why We Stopped Being an AI Fund · 24 min · Season 2 Episode 2George Bandarian, General Partner at Untapped Ventures, breaks down the Autonomous Economy thesis - a new economic framework where billions of AI agents and robots execute work…
- Andrew Chen (a16z speedrun) on the Future of AI Startups, Speedrun & Why Coding Will Be as Easy as Making Videos · 57 min · Season 2 Episode 1Andrew Chen, General Partner at a16z speedrun, joins us on Agentic to discuss what actually gets founders accepted into speedrun and why AI might be bigger than mobile, internet…
- Request for Startups: 10 AI Ideas We’re Ready to Fund · 24 min · Season 1 Episode 18We're at the halfway point of 2025, and AI is evolving faster than ever.In this solo episode, I share Untapped Ventures’ first Request for Startups. It’s a detailed breakdown of…
- Live Vibe Coaching with the LLM Pioneer Who Scaled Before ChatGPT | Will Manidis · 51 min · Season 1 Episode 17Is your AI startup built to survive the next wave?In this episode of Agentic, Will Manidis, the co-founder of ScienceIO, shares how he built for resilience from day one…
- The AI Platform That Could Launch 10,000 Startups | Woz · 59 min · Season 1 Episode 16Most no-code tools give you an MVP. Woz wants to give you a business.On this episode of Agentic, I was joined by Ben Collins and Brad Eckert, co-founders of Woz, an AI platform…
- Inside You.com’s Plan to Outthink Google and OpenAI · 58 min · Season 1 Episode 15What happens when the former Chief Scientist at Salesforce builds a search engine for enterprises?In this episode, Richard Socher (CEO) and Bryan McCann (CTO) of You.com reveal…
- Carta’s 2025 AI Funding & Equity Insights | Peter Walker · 55 min · Season 1 Episode 14Everyone has opinions about founder equity, funding timelines, and valuations—but Peter Walker holds the data. In this special live Agentic session, I sat down with Peter, Head…
- How Agentic AI is Rewiring Software, Brokers, and the Future · 33 min · Season 1 Episode 13I brought Ben Collins of Woz and Dakotah Rice and Tushar Nair of Harper for a special episode of Agentic–our AGM!Ben’s Woz lets non-technical founders build scalable apps with no…
- Is Big Tech Shaping The Future Of AI? | Wendell Wallach · 49 min · Season 1 Episode 12As AI races forward, one question looms large—who decides what’s right and wrong?Behind the breakthroughs and multi billion-dollar valuations, a power struggle is unfolding. Big…
- Ex-OpenAI Insider on AGI, DeepMind & AI | Logan Kilpatrick · 49 min · Season 1 Episode 11He built AI-powered lunar rovers at NASA.He was in the room when GPT launched. Now, Logan Kilpatrick is helping developers push the boundaries of AI at Google DeepMind.In this…
- Move Aside DeepSeek, Here’s Liquid AI, a $2B LLM Startup from MIT, Inspired by Worms | Agentic EP 10 · 56 min · Season 1 Episode 10Bigger AI models dominate the headlines—but what if the real breakthrough lies in making AI smaller?In this episode, I sit down with Ramin Hasani, Alexander Amini, and Daniela…
- 4x Neurotech AI Founder w/ $650M+ Exits Shares PMF & Fundraising | Agentic EP 09 · 39 min · Season 1 Episode 9For years, $7.2B in U.S. government-backed neuroperformance research sat untouched—proven cognitive enhancements with no commercial application.David Bach saw the gap. Optios is…
- The Secret Sauce to Scalable AI Agents | Agentic EP 08 · 1 h 3 min · Season 1 Episode 8AI agents will drive the next wave of automation—but only if they stop breaking. In this episode, I’m joined by Alex Reibman, Adam Silverman, and Braelyn Boynton, the powerhouse…
- How to Raise + Scale an AI Startup in 2025 | Agentic EP 07 · 55 min · Season 1 Episode 7AI is a platform shift unlike any other, with far-reaching implications for every startup. In my recent webinar with the Founder’s Bay community in Silicon Valley, hosted by…
- How AI Agents Cut Insurance Costs By 90% | Agentic EP 06 · 53 min · Season 1 Episode 6The insurance industry has a 400,000 agent shortage. I sat down with Harper's founders, who use agentic AI to deliver enterprise-grade service at 1/10th the cost. Dakotah Rice…
- Your AI Architecture Is Wrong | Agentic EP 05 · 50 min · Season 1 Episode 5Only 8 companies have shipped AI Agents from production. In this episode of Agentic, I brought together 3 of them, to reveal how they crossed this chasm: 1. Aria Attar…
- Where Top VCs Are Placing Their AI Bets In 2025 | Agentic EP 04 · 55 min · Season 1 Episode 4With $90B poured into AI over the past year, where is the focus going to be in 2025? I spoke to four top investors to find out. 1. Yipeng Zhao (Embark Ventures) believes AI…
