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Intersections: Your identity was just the beginning.
A bank-distributed credit-monitoring business became a building block of Aura. Its winding history reveals what people really buy when they pay to feel safe online.
The Reno Company That Decided a House Is Just Data Waiting to Be Read
Clear Capital started as a foreclosure-vendor directory run out of Lake Tahoe. Twenty-five years later it valuates homes for Fannie Mae, scans floor plans with a phone, and just took its first-ever outside check from a Chicago buyout shop.
Andy Tsen Built a World. Then He Built the Tools to Make the Next One.
After Zenith topped Steam and Quest, its defining problem appeared after launch. Andy Tsen turned that lesson into Aura, an AI assistant designed around the unglamorous work of shipping games.
Sky Yang
Sky Yang is the co-founder and CEO of Imagine AI (YC F25), a San Francisco company that reverse engineers B2B growth by building coordinated content systems for executive teams on LinkedIn. Before startups, he was the youngest-ever elected student body president at UC San Diego, where he represented 32,000 students and helped secure $150M in state housing funding, and he founded the pandemic-era nonprofit Break the Outbreak, which grew to 400+ people across 53 cities and 18 states.
Conceivable Life Sciences
Conceivable Life Sciences is a New York-based reproductive-medicine company building AURA, described as the world's first AI-powered, automation-assisted IVF laboratory. Using robotics, machine vision, advanced optics and proprietary software, AURA standardizes the 200-plus intricate microscopic steps of in vitro fertilization - from sperm and egg preparation through robotic ICSI, embryo culture and vitrification - to reduce human variability, lower cost, and widen access to fertility care. Founded in 2022 by Joshua Abram, Alan Murray and Dr. Alejandro Chavez-Badiola, the company reported the first live birth from a digitally controlled, remotely operated ICSI system and raised a $50M Series A in 2025 to bring its lab to the U.S.
Aura
Aura is an AI agent for game development built by Ramen VR, the San Francisco studio behind the VR MMO Zenith: The Last City. Purpose-built for Unreal Engine and Unity, Aura turns written ideas into Blueprints, C++ and C# code, generates 3D assets, and automates repetitive tasks so professional developers can ship games faster. Its multi-agent system - including the Telos Blueprint agent and specialized verification and material agents - understands a studio's existing codebase and works within the engine editor. Ramen VR raised more than $45M (Series B led by Anthos and Dune) and pivoted from VR gaming to XR + AI developer tooling.
ChenLi Wang
ChenLi Wang is a General Partner at WndrCo, the Redwood City venture firm that builds and backs early-stage technology companies. He was Dropbox's second business hire and built its growth, monetization, analytics and international teams before later running the core Dropbox app. At WndrCo he led investments in CompanyCam, Exa, Material Security, Meter, Socket, Defakto and Webflow, and has served operationally as Chief Product Officer at Aura and Pango.
Gaetano DiNardi
Gaetano DiNardi is a B2B SaaS growth marketing consultant, former music producer, and one of the most distinctive voices in modern SEO. After spending years producing tracks for Fat Joe and Shaggy in NYC studios, he stumbled into SEO through a blog post about getting ghosted by Atlantic Records - and never looked back. He has scaled companies from Nextiva ($70M to $200M+ revenue) to Aura (0 to 1 million monthly visitors in 12 months), and now runs Marketing Advice, a boutique consultancy serving 50+ SaaS clients including Semrush, Gong, and Demandbase.