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Minna Song (EliseAI) — From Crazy Early in Conversational AI to $250M from A16Z | Ep 57
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Raising money for AI might seem easy today, but back in 2017, it was anything but. In this episode of Funded, Jason Yeh sits down with Minna Song, co-founder and CEO of EliseAI, who shares her journey from bootstrapping a conversational AI startup before ChatGPT was even on the horizon to closing a $250M Series E led by Andreessen Horowitz. Minna opens up about the doubts investors had early on, the lessons she learned about storytelling and timing, and how staying disciplined helped her build one of the fastest-growing companies in real estate and healthcare AI.
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Manage episode 509200307 series 2806734
Raising money for AI might seem easy today, but back in 2017, it was anything but. In this episode of Funded, Jason Yeh sits down with Minna Song, co-founder and CEO of EliseAI, who shares her journey from bootstrapping a conversational AI startup before ChatGPT was even on the horizon to closing a $250M Series E led by Andreessen Horowitz. Minna opens up about the doubts investors had early on, the lessons she learned about storytelling and timing, and how staying disciplined helped her build one of the fastest-growing companies in real estate and healthcare AI.
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