E178: Building Safer AI Agents with Portia AI

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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E178: Building Safer AI Agents with Portia AI is an episode from The OSS Startup Podcast by Robby (MTF); Tim (Essence VC).

This episode is 00:32:44 long.

This episode was published on Jul 31, 2025.

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