Orane Carby

Excited to serve as a juror for the USA/EMEA Healthcare Demo Day with EthAum Venture Partners. Looking forward to meeting founders building the future of healthcare and discovering the next wave of innovation. 👉 lnkd.in/dXujKHwg #HealthTech #Healthcare #Startups #VC

Any product in the AI era can be rebuilt over a glass of scotch and steak with fries. Distribution with trust and attention are the new moat and IP.

VC funds are not charity. Stop bending your story to try and fit an investors requirements when your company clearly doesn’t. It’s a turn off and it opens up investors to potential law suits from their LPs #investor #venturecapital

@AKSaathwik @SaanoraLabs That’s pretty awesome. Definitely will be following you on here to see your journey unfold.

@OCarbyOfficial @SaanoraLabs Nearly 6 months!

Today, I'm excited to share something we've been working toward for months at Saanora (@SaanoraLabs) Meet Mark Preview: the first AI model from Saanora. What started as a fascination with artificial intelligence turned into a five-year journey of learning, building, experimenting, failing, rebuilding, and ultimately shipping. Mark Preview is designed to be more than a chatbot. It can research the web, write and execute code, generate diagrams, create documents, and help bring ideas to life, all within a single platform. One belief has guided us from the beginning: Powerful AI should be accessible. That's why Saanora offers a free tier with no signup required. Just open the website and start creating. For users who need more, our Lite plan starts at just $7.99/month. This launch is not the finish line. It's the beginning. We're building Saanora as an independent AI lab with global ambitions, focused on creating AI systems that become increasingly useful, capable, and integrated into the way people work and build. There is no large research lab behind this. No massive funding round(We are looking for funding tbh). No huge team. Just a vision, relentless curiosity, and the determination to turn an idea into something real. Today, Mark Preview is live. Tomorrow, we keep building. ➡️ saanora.com I'd love to hear from you: If you could ask an AI to build one thing for you, what would it be? #Saanora #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #BuildInPublic #ProductLaunch #Technology #Innovation #Startup

@tonykipkemboi You are welcome anytime! Definitely following you on here and looking forward for to following you journey.

@OCarbyOfficial thank you!

a few months back i said i was building my own @WisprFlow in YOLO mode on Codex by @OpenAIDevs and would report back if it worked. reporting back: it works and i named it rekody. rekody = hold option+space, talk, paste anywhere on mac. uses local whisper model, and searchable history. mac/cli-only for now. demo below. it's open source.

"We had no outside debt, no outside liabilities. We didn't owe anybody any explanations." – James Largotta Bootstrap if you can. Raise when you Actually need to Full convo on The First Dollar Show: Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5VzIMM… Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the… #fundraise

@abhijeethganji1 @udacity Sounds great! Seems like you are figuring out a lot of things so let me know when you have everything out together. We prefer plug and play setups and focus primarily on enterprise solutions at the upper echelon.

We are currently building our MVP and it is live on base and other mainnets. We are also validating our prototype through : 1. Real-time USDC transactions tested and verified. 2. Currently opening to internal beta for mainnet and agent-to-agent transactions. 3. Early signals — 2 people reached out in the last few weeks via Discord and 7 new customers are on our waitlist (in our firebase backend authentication logs) to integrate , getting a wallet and collaborating with us. 4. A founder we talked to recently in person was actively exploring how to enable their agent to make autonomous USDC payments 5. Had a Zoom call with one of the officer from a16z team and conversations with other investors on Twitter exploring agent-to-agent transactions 6. 55+ downloads of our research and datasets from Harvard Repository 7. Researchers publicly analysing our test datasets we see it in Harvard repository link : doi.org/10.7910/DVN/5B… 8. Cited by Harvard Repository, Cambridge University Press, and IETF

Just ran a 9 year old project back to life today 🔥 My very first Android XML layout app — written almost 9 years ago for my @Udacity Intro to Programming Nanodegree — fired right back up! 🤯💻 XML layouts hitting different in 2026 lol 😂 Keep building. 🚀

@abhijeethganji1 @udacity Cool. Has this been validated yet? And if yes how?

The problem we see today is that agents have no secure native way to transact — every payment depends on humans or centralized APIs. Private keys get exposed, replay attacks go unchecked, identities go unverified, and agents can't pay autonomously — making truly self-custodial agent transactions impossible. With Fluid Wallet, we solve this — Pauli ZK Proof verifies every agent-to-agent transaction without exposing private data; Ganji N₄ nonce eliminates replay attacks across every attack surface; private keys never leave the runtime; and the FADP Protocol lets agents autonomously pay for any API or service they need — unforgeable and tamper-proof. We are validating organically — DeFi and Agent builders are reaching out via Discord and Email to collaborate, our research is cited by Harvard Repository, Cambridge University Press, and IETF, with 55+ downloads and growing interest from researchers and agentic builders.

@abhijeethganji1 @udacity What’s the problem you are looking to solve and what is your market validation?

Hi @OCarbyOfficial We are raising our Seed round to build Self-Custodial DeFi Wallets for the next trillion agents → fluidnative.com Our recent research has earned citations from Harvard Repository (55 downloads), Cambridge University Press, and IETF — with contributions spanning Truly Self-Custodial Wallets and the FADP Payment Protocol for Autonomous Agents. Paper 1: Ganji SOR Protocol N₄ nonce kills replay across all surfaces a) Harvard Repository : doi.org/10.7910/DVN/5B… Paper 2: FADP Protocol - Agents pay any API autonomously, Unforgeable. Tamper-proof. b) Cambridge University Press : cambridge.org/engage/coe/art…

Not because we care more about people than ideas. Because execution is what turns ideas into outcomes. Your team slide isn't a trophy case. It's your proof you can pull this off.

I've reviewed over 1,000 startup decks this year so far. This slide makes me cringe and pass every time...👇👇👇 #AngelInvestor #VC #VentureCapitalist #GP #GeneralPartner #Fundraise

Now we're talking. Because those bullets answer the question every investor like myself is silently asking: "Why are YOU the team that can pull this off?"

What Investors like myself want to see is evidence. If that's the claim, I want to see: • Built a social audience from 0 to 10M followers in 10 months • Generated $100M through performance marketing campaigns • Closed 1,000+ enterprise customers

Imagine a founder tells me... "We're going to acquire 100,000 customers through social media and scale to $1M ARR within 12 months." Now I'm curious. But when I get to the team slide, All I see is Trophies and Titles.

But none of that tells me what I really want to know. Because I'm not trying to figure out whether you're accomplished. I'm trying to figure out whether you're capable of pulling off the specific mission you're asking me to fund. There's a huge difference.

Me: "Great! You got some exercise, read some books, found a job and can pass an exam"

Founders keep showing me things that sound impressive. But don't answer the question I'm actually asking. I see: • Harvard MBA • VP at X Big Company • PhD in Machine Learning • 15 Years of Industry Experience And NCAA Athlete...

What's interesting is that founders spend weeks obsessing over TAM, product, how they win, and making the vision sounds bigger than it is. Yet, the slide I'm talking about is usually one of the weakest parts of the deck. And it's weak for the same reason.

Most founders think investors like myself are evaluating the idea. We are not. Well... At least not yet. In fact, by the time I reach this one specific slide, I've often already formed a strong opinion about whether I want to keep digging or move on.

@majoori_main That's the best way to build and when I talk to founders who pitch me, I always ask, "What is your market validation?" You'll be surprised of the amount of founders say "We are still testing the product for a fit" that's a red flag.

@OCarbyOfficial Exactly. Before we could build systems around it, we had to prove people actually wanted their experiences documented and acknowledged. The product came after the behavior.

Getting your first users feels harder than building the product. Because now it’s not about code anymore. It’s about people. How did you get your first real users?

@Penpaldotwork Most definitely!

@OCarbyOfficial Relational selling will never be eliminated by ai.

The most important thing going forward will be relationships that are genuine, trust and adding meaningful value as a person in the world AI and AI Slops.