E178: Building Safer AI Agents with Portia AI
About this episode
Emma Burrows is Co-Founder & CTO of Portia AI, the platform to build AI agents in regulated environments. Their open source Python SDK provides a developer framework for predictable and stateful agentic workflows.
Portia AI has raised around $5M from investors including General Catalyst and First Minute Capital.
In this episode, we dig into:
Why they built an end-to-end platform from agent planning to deployment
The focus on accuracy as their true north star metric
Their paid contribution program
How their found their initial ICP in regulated industries
Why 2026 will be the year of agents
Her best fundraising advice (hint: never really stop fundraising)
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