# 18VC > 18VC is a student-run venture capital fund and podcast platform backing ambitious college founders and campus startups across the country. This file helps AI agents discover 18VC's content. Each podcast episode has a companion plain-text transcript at /podcast//transcript.txt. ## Key Pages - [About](https://www.18-vc.com/about) - [Podcast](https://www.18-vc.com/podcast) - [Portfolio](https://www.18-vc.com/portfolio) - [Team](https://www.18-vc.com/team) - [Community](https://www.18-vc.com/community) - [Jobs](https://www.18-vc.com/jobs) - [Apply](https://www.18-vc.com/apply) ## Podcast Episodes - [Yurii Tovarnytskyi of Aximon: 10 Failed Startups by 19 — Now He's Automating $1B Real Estate Deals](https://www.18-vc.com/podcast/yurii-tovarnytskyi-aximon): Yurii Tovarnytskyi failed ten startups by 19. Six weeks into his eleventh — Aximon, an AI operating system for commercial real estate — he has a $250K pipeline, a $1B client. - Transcript: https://www.18-vc.com/podcast/yurii-tovarnytskyi-aximon/transcript.txt - [Evan Buhler of Talok Capital: Creativity, Consciousness, Culture, and AI for Human Flourishing](https://www.18-vc.com/podcast/evan-buhler-talok): Evan Buhler quit law live on air to build Talok Capital, an early-stage VC investing at the intersection of creativity, consciousness, and culture — from xAI and Neuralink to pre-seed bets. - Transcript: https://www.18-vc.com/podcast/evan-buhler-talok/transcript.txt - [Abdi Sherif of gBETA: 100x in 18 Months, a $5M Fund at HBS — Now He Backs Founders VCs Never Visit](https://www.18-vc.com/podcast/abdi-sherif-gbeta): Abdi Sherif returned 100x in 18 months, raised a $5M fund at HBS, and helped Eudia land a $105M Series A. Now he runs gBETA Inland Empire, backing founders VCs never visit. - Transcript: https://www.18-vc.com/podcast/abdi-sherif-gbeta/transcript.txt - [Heroza Zhang of Gorest: “LLMs Will Never Make the Next Elden Ring” — Building the AI-Native Game Engine](https://www.18-vc.com/podcast/heroza-zhang-gorest): Heroza Zhang on building Gorest — an AI-native game engine that turns a sketch into a playable 3D greybox with zero AI-generated assets — and why prompts will never replace human taste. - Transcript: https://www.18-vc.com/podcast/heroza-zhang-gorest/transcript.txt - [With Clarence Keith @ Nalana: What If You Could Speak 3D Into Existence?](https://www.18-vc.com/podcast/clarence-keith-nalana): Clarence Keith is building Nalana — “Cursor for Blender” — an AI that turns speech into editable 3D. On the LLM-meets-Blender spark, the data moat, and the “be the 2%” mindset. - Transcript: https://www.18-vc.com/podcast/clarence-keith-nalana/transcript.txt - [Manuel David of Paradigm Outreach: The College Dropout Building an AI for the Entire Sales Cycle](https://www.18-vc.com/podcast/manuel-david-paradigm): Manuel David dropped out of ASU to build Paradigm — an AI that runs the whole outbound sales cycle, from finding the lead to booking the meeting — and the infrastructure moat behind it. - Transcript: https://www.18-vc.com/podcast/manuel-david-paradigm/transcript.txt - [Andy Liu of Lullaby: Her Boyfriend's Bedtime Story Beat Calm, Headspace & Melatonin](https://www.18-vc.com/podcast/andy-liu-lullaby): Andy Liu on building Lullaby — an AI sleep companion born from a 2 AM bedtime story — why she wants you off your phone, and how “sleep intelligence” is her moat against ChatGPT. - Transcript: https://www.18-vc.com/podcast/andy-liu-lullaby/transcript.txt - [Barry Li: He Ran a $1K/Week “Dark Market” at 15 — Now He Teaches Kids to Out-Build AI](https://www.18-vc.com/podcast/barry-li-omniapath): Barry Li — founder of OMNIAPATH and Wov3 — on running a $1K/week dorm “dark market” at 15, killing a profitable business the day he saw ChatGPT, and how to survive the AI era. - Transcript: https://www.18-vc.com/podcast/barry-li-omniapath/transcript.txt - [Founders, Foreign Markets, and Going Global from Korea with The Ventures' Ethan Cho](https://www.18-vc.com/podcast/the-ventures-ethan-cho): Ethan Cho of TheVentures on building an AI-native fund, why “good companies” beat “good stocks,” and the brutal signals he uses to tell real founders from tourists. - Transcript: https://www.18-vc.com/podcast/the-ventures-ethan-cho/transcript.txt - [With Model OS Founder Fernando Jia: The Doom of the “Rent Model” Era](https://www.18-vc.com/podcast/modelos-fernando): Fernando shared with us his journey building the survival layer for AI Applications. - Transcript: https://www.18-vc.com/podcast/modelos-fernando/transcript.txt - [From a War Zone to Venture Capital — The "Chaos Native Strategist" Tigran Ghukasyan](https://www.18-vc.com/podcast/tigran-ghukasyan): Tigran shared with us his story about growing up and learning to thrive in chaotic environments, and his journey from startup, corporation to venture capital. - Transcript: https://www.18-vc.com/podcast/tigran-ghukasyan/transcript.txt - [Building Invisible AI with Bubbl Founder Tony Xiong: The AI Assistant With No App — It Just Texts You ](https://www.18-vc.com/podcast/bubbl-tony-xiong): Tony Xiong shared his journey of building an AI assistant that lives in your texts and pulls what actually matters out of your message chaos. - [Building the AI Operating System for Apparel Manufacturing with ThreadLabs Co-Founders Rylan Jimenez & Diora Juraboeva](https://www.18-vc.com/podcast/threadlabs): Rylan and Diora shares their journey as student founders building the OS for apparel manufacturing. - ["You can't AI your way out of bad taste" — Diana Melencio (GP, XRC Ventures) on building the next $100M consumer brands](https://www.18-vc.com/podcast/xrc-diana-melencio): "You can't AI your way out of bad taste." Diana shares with us her take on how AI will reshape the next $100M consumer brand. - [With Sabrina Li: “Question the Status Quo” — A Gen Z Investor's Playbook](https://www.18-vc.com/podcast/sabrina-li): Sabrina Li shared her playbook as a Gen-Z investor. - [Building the Robotic Workforce: Yondu AI's Michael Chen on Warehouse Robots, Teleoperation & Going from MIT to YC](https://www.18-vc.com/podcast/yondu-ai): We dive into Yondu AI's story on how they are reshaping the warehouse workflow using humanoid robots. - Transcript: https://www.18-vc.com/podcast/yondu-ai/transcript.txt - [With Founding GP Jack Crawford at CerraCap Impact Venture Capital: Bridging the Gap Between Market-Innovating Startups and Market-Leading Corporations ](https://www.18-vc.com/podcast/civc-jack-crawford): Jack shared his journey into founding CerraCap Impact Venture Capital and his investment philosophy. - [Revolutionizing Allergy Management with Immuny.ai Co-founders Luna Li & Mackenzie Dennill](https://www.18-vc.com/podcast/ep-1-immuny-ai): Luna and Mackenzie shared their vision of "curing" allergy and their story of initiating Immuny.ai ## Podcast Guest Companies - [Immuny.ai](https://www.18-vc.com/portfolio/guest/immuny-ai): AI-powered Health & Allergy Intelligence Platform - [Yondu AI](https://www.18-vc.com/portfolio/guest/yondu-ai): Yondu is creating the robotic workforce of the future starting with logistics automation. - [ThreadLabs](https://www.18-vc.com/portfolio/guest/threadlabs): Digital infrastructure for faster, smarter manufacturing. - [Bubbl](https://www.18-vc.com/portfolio/guest/bubbl): Turn message chaos into actions. - [Model OS](https://www.18-vc.com/portfolio/guest/model-os): Intelligence infrastructure that helps companies move from prompt-wrapper AI products to owned, fine-tuned model systems. - [OMNIAPATH](https://www.18-vc.com/portfolio/guest/omniapath): An AI-native entrepreneurship school that teaches young people to build real startups through intensive, mentor-led bootcamps. - [Lullaby (25oz, LLC)](https://www.18-vc.com/portfolio/guest/lullaby): An AI sleep companion that talks you toward sleep and then gets out of the way — built to get you off your phone, not hooked on it. - [Paradigm Outreach](https://www.18-vc.com/portfolio/guest/paradigm-outreach): An AI that runs the entire outbound sales cycle — from finding the lead to booking the meeting on your calendar. - [Nalana](https://www.18-vc.com/portfolio/guest/nalana): An AI-native 3D design platform — “Cursor for Blender” — that turns speech into editable, production-ready 3D geometry. - [Gorest](https://www.18-vc.com/portfolio/guest/gorest): An AI-native game engine that turns a sketch into a playable 3D greybox — zero AI-generated assets, full copyright ownership. - [Aximon](https://www.18-vc.com/portfolio/guest/aximon): The AI operating system for commercial real estate — turning a broker email into a full underwriting and IC memo in five minutes, not 40 hours. ## Portfolio Companies - [ModCraft](https://www.18-vc.com/portfolio/modcraft): Agent for Minecraft Mod Creation. Cursor for Game Development. - [Argus Security](https://www.18-vc.com/portfolio/argus-security): Independent security audit and compliance certification for AI agents. One scan. Full report. Enterprise-ready.