Agentic AI Meets Compliance: Lessons From Sprinto

https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Podcasts211/v4/53/51/01/5351013f-1ed5-3da8-563c-442d959303d4/mza_8177755548111800526.jpg/600x600bb.jpg

An Operator's Blog - with Soumitra Sharma

Soumitra Sharma

26 episodes

4 days ago

An Operator's Blog is hosted by Soumitra Sharma, General Partner at Operators Studio, a micro-VC firm focused on the US-India corridor. This podcast takes you into the world of startups and venture capital, featuring candid conversations focusing on sharing real operating insights, tips, and playbooks that you can immediately start using to solve your biggest challenges as a founder and operator. Join Soumitra as he cuts through the BS & interviews top founders, operators, and investors who have built businesses in the trenches for decades.

Entrepreneurship

Business

RSS

All content for An Operator's Blog - with Soumitra Sharma is the property of Soumitra Sharma and is served directly from their servers with no modification, redirects, or rehosting. The podcast is not affiliated with or endorsed by Podjoint in any way.

Entrepreneurship

Business

https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_episode/40965881/40965881-1761191003163-9d3686a3d866e.jpg

Agentic AI Meets Compliance: Lessons From Sprinto

An Operator's Blog - with Soumitra Sharma

54 minutes 53 seconds

1 week ago

Agentic AI Meets Compliance: Lessons From Sprinto

This episode delves in-depth into building an AI Applications startup in the area of Compliance.

We cover everything from how to choose problem statements as a founder including a 2x2 framework for idea evaluation, approaching building in “boring” verticals, executing an effective customer discovery process, thinking through product differentiation in the Applications layer, evolution of GTM in the age of AI, new-age pricing models, present state of AI fundraising in the Bay Area, and finally, specific learnings for US-India founders.

Joining me for this discussion is Girish Redekar, Co-founder of Sprinto, a unified, AI-powered compliance platform that enterprises can use to manage compliance standards such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and GDPR. Before Sprinto, Girish founded RecruiterBox in the HRTech space, which was acquired by TurnRiver Capital.

TIME STAMPS:

(01:17) What parts of the AI ecosystem are under-hyped?

(05:31) Choosing unsexy verticals: the Sprinto backstory

(11:48) Choosing the right problem statements in AI

(17:21) Product Risk vs Market Risk: a 2x2 framework for evaluating startup ideas

(21:12) Competition & differentiation

(25:41) Staying on top of rapid changes in the foundational model layer

(31:37) AI’s impact on GTM

(37:41) AI adoption apprehensions of enterprise customers

(42:27) Ground reality of AI-first pricing models

(47:03) Bay Area fundraising advice for AI Applications startups

(51:18) A hard-earned lesson for US-India founders

Connect with Girish on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/girishredekar/ and follow him on X - @grease_

*****

Check out "An Operator's Blog" (https://operator.blog/) for weekly posts on Startups, Investing, and Life.

I am a venture investor focused on the US-India corridor. Feel free to reach out on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/soumitrasharma5/) and follow me on X (@soumitra_sharma).