Archive - Startup Riders

🌊 Where AI Capital Is Consolidating

Where’s AI capital flowing and what does it signal for founders? In this drop: the first AI markets have crystalized, 16 startups raised $31B last…

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🌊 Replacing Sales Teams with AI: Throxy’s $1.5M ARR Playbook

Why this founder ditched “AISDR” hype and built a "full-stack AI agency" to replace SDRs.

Jul 17 •

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🌊 Top 10 Market Research Reports

Where capital flows. How the best build. Bill Gurley dropped a clinic on the state of venture capital on Invest Like The Best. The Details: 𝗠𝗲𝗴𝗮…

Jul 9 •

June 2025

🌊 AI Voice Agents

2025 is going to go down as the year of Agents, but also Voice AI.We’ve been digging into voice and done a few investments in the space (HappyRobot…

Jun 25 •

🌊 Founder Vibe Coding Stack: Building a YC Admissions Calculator (Live Session) | Alex Vaughtton (@NocodeHackers)

How Alex ships full products in hours using Lovable, agents, and founder-first thinking.

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🌊 0 to $500K ARR in Months: Konvo AI’s Ecommerce Agent Blueprint | Guillem Oliva (Konvo AI)

How two founders went from kitchen-table MVP to 200 brands and 8% agent-led conversion — in under a year.

Jun 10 •

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May 2025

🌊 How AI agents turn buyer research into GTM execution | Clint Burgess (Founder at CharacterQuilt, ex-Bloomreach)

From 500 interviews to instant GTM — how AI persona agents are changing how founders go from research to execution.

May 13 •

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🌊 The New Rules of Raising

I looked at 22+ AI startups that raised Seed rounds across Europe last month. I did a fast breakdown of the data—and a few key trends stood out. The…

May 6 •

March 2025

🌊 When AI Meets the Market

How AI is reshaping IPO markets, NVIDIA on the “Digital Workforce”, Sequoia on how AI changes startups, Microsoft on AI’s value capture, Anthropic…

Mar 26 •

🌊 AI Agent-to-Agent

The AI consumer revolution, how AI agents are changing the Enterprise, AI Agents dominating YC W25 batch, Anthropic’s AI job market impact, AI tooling…

Mar 7 •

February 2025

🌊 GTM Engineering: Building a Modern Sales Stack

Spent an hour with Fivos Aresti (Head of Growth at ColdIQ) to unpack the key lessons from scaling GTM with AI tools for early-stage startups. Here’s the…

Feb 12 •

January 2025

🌊 AI Agent Directories

AI Factories: The Race Is OnHyperscalers’ CapEx is set to hit $𝟮𝟰𝟰𝗕 𝗶𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 - this is huge.What does this mean? It means scaling isn’t…

Jan 14 •

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