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Daniel Anstandig Has Spent a Career Teaching Old Media New Moves
He started in a small Ohio radio station at nine. Now the Futuri founder is betting that the useful future of AI belongs to operators who listen before they automate.
Kalpa Labs
Kalpa Labs is a San Francisco audio research lab building a generalist speech model - one system that handles speech-to-text, text-to-speech, voice cloning, and speech-in/speech-out reasoning with the kind of instruction-following and in-context learning that large language models brought to text. Founded in 2025 by ex-Google Assistant ML lead Prashant Shishodia and ex-high-frequency-trading engineer Gautam Jha, the company is a Y Combinator Fall 2025 startup aiming to collapse today's fragmented speech stack into a single, steerable model for developers and voice-agent builders.
Mixy
Mixy is a mobile app that lets anyone make music mashups in seconds - blending the vocals of one song with the beat of another, no DJ skills required. Powered by the founders' own on-device AI models, it produces real-time mixes for free and auto-credits the source artists on every share. Founded in 2025 by Joe Kennedy and Jonah Siegle and backed by Y Combinator's Fall 2025 batch, Mixy grew to 1.5M users and 18M mashups within three months of launch, hitting #1 in Music and #3 overall on the App Store.
Romi Gubes
Romi Gubes is the co-founder and CEO of Sensi.AI, an Austin-based company that turns ambient audio into around-the-clock care intelligence for seniors aging at home. A former Fortune 500 software engineer, she started the company in 2019 after a personal experience with vulnerability in care redirected her career toward protecting people who can't advocate for themselves. Under her leadership Sensi has raised more than $98 million, grown revenue 400% in a year, and expanded into what she describes as an AI operating system for senior care.
Sensi.AI
Sensi.AI is a care intelligence company that uses ambient audio and AI to give home care agencies continuous visibility into the physical, cognitive, and emotional well-being of seniors aging at home. Founded in 2018 by Romi Gubes, Nevo Elmalem, and Alon Brener, the company deploys a discreet in-home audio device paired with an agentic platform that detects care anomalies, predicts risks, and recommends actions - aiming to close the visibility gap during the many hours seniors spend unsupervised. Sensi is trusted by roughly 80% of the largest home care networks in North America and has raised more than $98 million to date, including a $45 million Series C in October 2025.