The video compiles testimonials from five founders—Extropic, SleuthBoss, Lexar, Foodini, and AnyAI—who describe their experiences with Untapped Ventures. The Extropic CEO explains their deep‑tech mission of thermodynamic computing, promising up to 10,000× greater energy efficiency for AI workloads, and credits Untapped’s LP base for believing in first‑principles vision. The SleuthBoss co‑founder highlights early‑stage belief, rapid introductions to other founders and LPs, and a community that bridges hardware AI companies with potential customers. Lexar’s representative emphasizes Untapped’s hands‑on approach, connecting them to industrial LPs that helped shape product vision. Foodini’s COO notes regular, practical assistance from George and the team, including network introductions that directly aid business growth. AnyAI’s co‑founder describes an unusually rigorous due‑diligence process, ongoing strategic calls, a responsive WhatsApp group, and a familial relationship that turns capital into active partnership. Across all interviews, the recurring themes are: deep technical ambition, investor belief beyond metrics, active operational help, and a strong founder‑LP community that accelerates product and market validation.
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I'm the founder and CEO of Extropic. Um, at Extropic, we're reinventing computing from the ground up. We're pioneering a paradigm called thermodynamic computing. It promises up to 10,000 times greater energy efficiency than GPUs for AI workloads and other probabilistic workloads. The LP Base has been, uh, really supportive and, uh, supported our mission and in densifying computing and densifying intelligence. It's a very urgent mission. They do understand vision and they do understand very first principles. And that's not every investor. Some investors, you know, they're very focused on kind of lagging indicators like metrics and so on. And for deep tech, you need some folks to believe to help you realize your vision. Untapped has been very helpful in helping us accelerate our timelines to scaling this technology and making it happen. It's been helpful to meet the LP base and, you know, have a community of founders to network with. And there's already, you know, some fruitful collaborations taking shape here. So I think the community aspect is a big plus as well.
I'm the co-founder of SleuthBoss, and we are building product intelligence for AI hardware companies like semiconductors and chip companies, electronic companies. We create autonomous agents that enable these companies to build and sell better products. Untapped has been incredible because they're great at spotting incredible ideas and incredible founders, and we were super lucky to have been found by them in the very, very early stages, pre-seed round, and somehow George was one of the early believers in us, and it really gave us the confidence and faith to, to build from the early stages. So I think just being an early believer means a lot. George basically offered value from the start, like within the first meeting he's like, oh, this is what you're solving, let me connect you to another Untapped founder. By the second meeting, he had other ideas of someone else to connect us to. So I think it was just really authentic from the start to feel like someone that was genuinely trying to make a difference in your day and just felt like he backed us up all the way. So I think that means a lot. For example, at this event now, they've just decided to connect all of the founders with the LPs. Like, that never happens. And there's so many incredible LPs that I just met that come from ERP backgrounds and working at Oracle, you know, some are, you know, directly our customers that we want to work with. It's pretty incredible just open up the community that way. And also, I have to say, for a much smaller fund, the other founders I have met is second to none.
Lexar is a leading applied AI lab from Silicon Valley that brings AI into heavy industries. Right after their first investment, Untapped connected us with their LPs that are actually industrial companies, and with that, they helped us shape our product vision and validate some of our thoughts around the market. For many venture capital funds, it is about the investment. I feel for Untapped, it's really about building the company together with the founder and understanding their problems and solving some of those. So I think that hands-on approach is unique about Untapped Ventures.
I'm COO and co-founder of Foodini, and we are building the AI data engine that's creating transparency into what's in our food. I'd say what makes Untapped unique is there's a lot of investors that say they're going to offer help, George and his team have actually come in to help the business. He meets with us regularly, he talks through what we're going through, and he actually connects us with his network and his LPs who have come in to help us. There's rarely investors who actually go through that much work to help you and actually deliver on that.
I'm Bruno, co-founder at AnyAI, and we are creating an AI that can really understand our biology. Antep was really a step change for us. We came from Europe and many investors didn't want to meet and to hear. George was open to hear. Before they invested, they wanted to speak. They wanted to really see what we are doing. They were curious. They went to maybe the deepest ever due diligence process, and the due diligence was pretty tough. But once, once they invested, that was more like a family. And I really like working with them because George is more like a startup founder. How he is iterating, how he is changing things, how he is being fast. There is a lot of money out there. With Untapped, we have WhatsApp group. They are always there. They are responsive. They help us from small things to enter to some events, to help us to raise further investments. We have strategic calls every month. And I have many investors I never had as close relationship with, with Sunnyside.
