#21 | Building a Capital-Efficient Business in the Age of AI with Vestigo Portfolio Founders

In this recording from our 2024 Annual General Meeting, Ian Sheridan, Managing Director at Vestigo Ventures is joined by Vestigo portfolio founders in a panel on building capital-efficient businesses in today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape. John Cottongim, Co-Founder and CTO of Roots Automation, Jimmy Hatzell, Co-Founder and CEO of Hatz AI, and Emma Zhang, Co-Founder and CEO of PactFi, dive into the strategies they’ve implemented to achieve capital and operational efficiency at their respective startups: As Roots Automation matures from early-stage R&D, it now focuses on product cost efficiency and cost trends, with attention to second-level KPIs like the rate of change in pricing Hatz AI shortened its time to market by augmenting its engineering team with AI to write, review, and document code faster and more efficiently PactFi leverages larger, more established vendors as well as strategic design partners to build a trustworthy and secure platform for the large alternative asset managers in the world