In this episode of the Founders & Funding Podcast, Philip Smith speaks with Richard Blythman, Founder & CEO of Naptha AI. Richard shares his journey building Naptha AI, from predicting the rise of AI agents before MCP was eve...

In this episode of the Founders & Funding Podcast , Philip Smith speaks with Roger Courtney, Founder & CEO of Sunstone. Roger shares his journey building Sunstone, the challenges of scaling a company, and what it takes to tur...

In this episode, Alister Esam shares with Philip what really drives successful startup investing, from spotting patterns across hundreds of deals to why traction matters more than ideas. We discuss founder traits, funding tra...