Natan Voitenkov

@dotnafis @speedrun @GenwayAI The product being?

@NVoitenkov @speedrun @GenwayAI I’m crossing my fingers that we’ll be able to join this 007 batch. We currently have $152K ARR and a 12 million in-house follower base in the GenAI space to distribute our product.

Application for @speedrun 07 are officially open. The program not only changed @GenwayAI trajectory, but also ours as founders. I am looking for a few folks to mentor, way more valuable than a scout cheque if you ask me. If you haven't done so yet - comment with a blurb of what you are building, and I will reach out via DM. A tip I shared with folks that attended SR06: If you are a team of 3+ crashing in SF/LA for the duration of the program, don't be cheap! Get an apartment with more than 1 bathroom... otherwise it will turn into Sparta quicker than you think 😅

@foundry_build @speedrun @GenwayAI While I am very impressed from the progress I believe a TEAM is a foundation of a successful company. Not bought into a “solo founder” model at the moment.

@NVoitenkov Building Groundwork: The Business Brain for SMBs. I grew up in a single parent household and at points growing up my mother and me were homeless. I was told I wasn’t smart by many teachers, I didn’t go to Stanford or Haas in Berkeley. Instead I’ve spent the last 9 years as a top performer in enterprise B2B sales watching Fortune 500 companies pay 7 figures for automation that trades contractors desperately need but were never offered. So I decided to build it. I am non-technical founder who built a Technical Chief Agent Officer, an AI-CoFounder. In 30 days we have 15 shipped PRs. Multiple integrations, multi-tenant architecture, full CRM. Zero engineering payroll. We have 1 pilot customer today & working on 3 more. Would love your mentorship to help prep for Speedrun 07.

@hmishra2250 @speedrun @GenwayAI I assume it’s a B2C product. How are you doing from a traction standpoint?

Hey Natan, Most fintech assumes the problem is financial literacy. I think it’s lack of financial visibility. We are building an AI system that lets salaried users simulate life decisions (loans, career moves, big expenses) before they make them. From guesswork → modeled outcomes.

@CattalyyaN @speedrun @GenwayAI Love the direction. I was always disappointed from the limited functionality of audio books.

Hey Natan, I'm building TryTeal.ai, interactive AI audiobooks you can actually talk to. You can ask questions, restructure content, skip known concepts, and bookmark topics entirely hands-free. As a former international student and ex-Googler, I'd love to connect and learn from your experience!

@TakeInterestAI @speedrun @GenwayAI I am not sure I understand why the product is specific to individuals from underprivileged backgrounds?

Thanks Natan! Sharing again! Any feedback would be appreciated! We’re building a personal memory and context layer to enable everyday individuals, especially those from underprivileged, backgrounds, such as new immigrants, solo founders, and others who don’t have the support or guidance that others might. For us, mentoring is the biggest benefit we could ask for. Happy to discuss more!

@ChadNewbry @speedrun @GenwayAI Are you talking about a GUI? Or a B2C product?

@NVoitenkov @speedrun @GenwayAI An ai assistant that looks like a video game. Bringing the power over OpenClaw to the 99.9% of people that don’t use terminal.

@JumareKhaled @speedrun @GenwayAI Very impressive and worth working towards. What’s the business model? I assume you are targeting developing countries?

@NVoitenkov @speedrun @GenwayAI Hello Natan, We’re building HIVA, which is an offline AI companion that turns approved operational guidelines and clinical protocols into an assistant that frontline health workers can use on a 2GB RAM phone, with no internet.

@zeebuildshere @speedrun @GenwayAI What’s the business model? Specific markets that you target?

Hi Natan! I would like to learn from your great experience. I'm currently building an AI Assistant for Family that lives inside Whatsapp. Families message it like a person and it remembers everything they juggle: schedules, appointments, recipes, reminders to take the meds. We exist because every family has one parent (usually mum) carrying the entire household in their head. The product is ready and onboarding beta testers now.

@aniketh745 @speedrun @GenwayAI Traction?

@NVoitenkov @speedrun @GenwayAI Building AgentMint: Independent notary for AI agent actions, targeted towards high-risk industries. Open-source, signed receipts, customer-held keys, offline-verifiable evidence, compounding trust asset. The SSL moment for AI agents. Less GRC and real legal asset for agents.

@chaibytesai @speedrun @GenwayAI You have a team?

Hey Nathan, building Recon, an AI Customer Success Engineer for post-sales teams. It investigates with the team, learns the company along the way, and eventually investigates for them. Drafts the action (Linear ticket, Intercom note, customer reply) for one-click approval. In active conversations with Heads of CS at mid-market SaaS companies. Would value your time. askrecon.com

@ToughSammy @speedrun @GenwayAI Heya - too far from my knowledge base. I understand nothing in that space and won’t be able to contribute much. Onward and upward

Hello Natan, I would appreciate your mentorship I am building Mustard Biopharma, the world’s first AI-enabled, fully automated smart factory for biopharma manufacturing, a next-generation production system designed to make specialized medicines 10x faster and 30x cheaper. mustardbio.com

@ImposerImp @speedrun @GenwayAI I personally think that those weird moments are part of the experience- at least for me. Are users paying for that?

Natan, I’m building Pronvo which is google lens for pronunciation. Travelers often butcher words in Europe and Latin America because they read them like English, even when the alphabet looks familiar. Pronvo helps them scan a word and instantly learn the few pronunciation rules needed to say it correctly, avoid awkward moments, and actually be understood.

@withkarann_ @speedrun @GenwayAI At a conference today and yesterday- going to circle back beginning tomorrow

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@heybeccabuilds @speedrun Sounds like u r on the right track. I would focus on finding the right technological co founder to move things forward

Hey @NVoitenkov & @speedrun , building Gythr, the OS for gatherings. The event tech market is $12-15B and still runs on Eventbrite + Mailchimp + Airtable + Google Sheets duct-taped together. Enterprise platforms start at $30K and price out the other 95%. We just deployed live at Black is Tech Conference (2,500 attendees, Houston) as our first Design Partner. 12 modules in production and being used. DACON's founder reached out unprompted about deploying Gythr for their international conference in Nigeria. Solo founder, Black woman, bootstrapped from Austin. Background: ran ops at ServiceTitan's Pantheon, currently Director of Program Experience at Gauntlet AI. Would love the Demo Day recording. Would capitalize on Mentoring!

It's official - @speedrun 07 applications are open. Yes - as a scout I can write you a cheque within 24h but I wanna do better than that. I am looking for a few early stage founders to mentor. My sweet spot are folks with international background, who come from underprivileged backgrounds, and never had anything handed to them. Comment with a blurb of what you are building and I will DM you my Demo Day pitch recording. Here is a tip I gave folks in the past. Your product and vision will take you from 10-->100 but for the 0-->1 part it's about the TEAM. Read the "Dinner Party Jerk" essay by @andrewchen. That's how u should pitch yourself.

@sihryx @speedrun You made it extremely far - despite a very humble starting point. Despite an increase in the number of solo founders, a co-founder is a non negotiable for me personally. Focus on finding the right co-founder to build it - and it will take u a far way.

Hey Natan! This sounds so cool! I just read the Dinner Party Jerk Essay and it was incredibly insightful. I will go ahead and try to pitch both me and FlowScout. Me: Grew up in Pakistan, started working at 17, and built my life in Canada from the ground up after leaving an arranged marriage. I have 5 years of administrative experience, was a Top 25 finalist at Pakistan Startup Cup 2017, and that experience pushed me to gain technical depth myself. I taught myself to code, finished high school, and got into the University of Toronto’s Computer Science program. Since then, I’ve interned at Twitch, HubSpot, and AWS. FlowScout: It's “autocomplete for your workflows”. a Mac desktop widget that observes repetitive tasks across apps and suggests one-click automations, without requiring users to manually build workflows. It runs, learns, and improves over time. I’ve been building FlowScout solo for the past couple of months and have also been speaking with strong engineers about joining as a cofounder. I'd love to get in touch with you and discuss mentorship, your experience and perhaps even give you a demo of FlowScout! Thank you :)

@cjsanchez_dev @speedrun Who are the direct competitors in that space?

@NVoitenkov @speedrun Hey Natan, Carlos Josue here. One key lets your agent pay for data, grab market signals and deploy to cloud. No wallet, no blockchain complexity. 3k transactions, 100 paid users and growing, building from Panama. That is HTTPayer, InvestBud and Galaksio. Agentic tooling suite.

@SebastianPadge1 @speedrun Do you have customers at this stage?

hey natan! building Skema3D, ai that turns clothing designs into manufacturer-ready tech packs instantly. fashion brands waste 100+ days per cycle on manual spec translation. $120B in excess inventory is the result. we collapse weeks of brand-to-factory coordination into one compiled output. my co-founder Riyad shipped 0→$40k MRR in 3 months at Bluma (YC F25), ex-Intel. I led GTM there as well, and previously built creator programs driving 150M+ views and ~$1.5M MRR. skema3d.com

@kseniam0s @speedrun How about traction? Can you DM me

Building Pageform, AI-native data rooms that replace folder dumps with actual deal narratives. We built it because we lived the pain raising for our last startup. But also for M&A, private equity, real estate - every team that lives in static data rooms. First-gen immigrants, 7+ years building together, second-time founders, ex-team USA

@matthewhan07 @speedrun Heya - I suggest you listen to Marc Andreeesons podcast on how the education system is going to change. AI native university

Like how Cursor builds an understanding of your codebase to provide context-aware help, my software builds an understanding of a student’s knowledge and their course materials (via syllabus, textbook, schedule, etc) to deliver personalized study plans, exam score predictions, adaptive practice. The goal is to reduce studying overhead (time spent figuring out what and how to study) and make studying more efficient. This is aimed at college students and is based on a problem I’ve personally run into and seen a bunch of my friends deal with too.