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Auston Larson Found His Best Software Idea by Watching Someone Else Work
A Wyoming software engineer watched his speech-language pathologist mother experiment with AI. The result was a small company built around a large idea: give specialists their time back.
Colleen Langevin Has Made a Career of Marketing the Next Chapter
From stored records to energy efficiency, ERP, cybersecurity and AI-priced commerce, the Austin executive keeps arriving when an enterprise story needs to change - then turns the change into a market proposition.
Five YC Rejections, One Restless Dog, and the Vet Software Arman Karégar Had to Build
A distracted veterinary visit gave the Sweden-based repeat founder a problem worth chasing. Five failed YC applications, one improvised Demo Day pitch, and many clinic shifts later, Vetnio is moving from a room inside an animal hospital to a multinational rollout.
Karthik Bettadapura
Karthik Bettadapura is the co-founder and CEO of DataWeave, an AI-powered SaaS platform that delivers competitive intelligence to retailers and consumer brands. Founded in 2011 in Bengaluru with co-founder Vikranth Ramanolla, DataWeave aggregates and analyzes billions of unstructured data points across the web - tracking prices, assortment, and digital-shelf performance for enterprise clients. Karthik leads product vision and business development, and drove the company's pivot from India to the US market. An IIIT-Bangalore engineer who earlier helped build CNBC's Web18, he now runs DataWeave from the Austin, Texas area.