
A fisheries-science lecture gave Alexander Dungate a problem he could not leave on the next slide. Four years later, the Vancouver founder is teaching machines to find the rare moments buried inside oceans of video.

He left school, learned the language of finance, rebuilt his startup in code, and made it into Y Combinator. Now Pally's co-founder is betting that the most useful AI will sit quietly inside our relationships.

Before he built software for clinics, Eshan Dosani studied policy, organized on the ground and helped families clear the small financial barriers that keep large problems in place. His operating principle has stayed remarkably consistent: get close enough to the work that the paperwork can no longer hide the problem.