Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
[Builder Stories Series] Private equity is under more pressure than ever to return capital. And if they’re not looking to AI, they’re bleeding money.
Most AI tooling is built for large enterprises. Smaller portfolio companies are on their own. Vivek Gollapudi worked inside a lower middle market fund and watched it happen firsthand.
Towards AI, Inc. is already the largest AI learning community - 100K+ practitioners, 80K+ Discord, curriculum built from real enterprise deployments.
Now he is directing that enterprise AI expertise at the gap he saw: PE portfolio companies that need custom AI automations and have nobody building for them.
No license fees, but custom deployments built for how these companies actually operate.
An insider who knew exactly where the money wasn’t going and built the solution.
#aibuilder #founderstory #startupstory #builder #entrepreneur #founder #privateequity #fintech #aiautomation #portfoliocompanies #middlemarket #llm #openai #anthropic #aicommunity #enterpriseai
[Builder Stories Series] Private equity is under more pressure than ever to return capital. And if they’re not looking to AI, they’re bleeding money.
Most AI tooling is built for large enterprises. Smaller portfolio companies are on their own. Vivek Gollapudi worked inside a lower middle market fund and watched it happen firsthand.
Towards AI, Inc. is already the largest AI learning community - 100K+ practitioners, 80K+ Discord, curriculum built from real enterprise deployments.
Now he is directing that enterprise AI expertise at the gap he saw: PE portfolio companies that need custom AI automations and have nobody building for them.
No license fees, but custom deployments built for how these companies actually operate.
An insider who knew exactly where the money wasn’t going and built the solution.
#aibuilder #founderstory #startupstory #builder #entrepreneur #founder #privateequity #fintech #aiautomation #portfoliocompanies #middlemarket #llm #openai #anthropic #aicommunity #enterpriseai
