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In 2014, Ron Zohar and his partner Jonathan set out to do something nobody had done: turn the smartphone camera into a medical device.It took years. Physics, lighting, every kind of phone. A dipstick, an app, and an algorithm that let patients test themselves at home.Then the email arrived. FDA clearance, a first in the world.That should have been the end of the story. It was the middle.In this episode of Aggaeus, Haggai Klorman-Eraqi sits down with Ron Zohar, Co-Founder & CEO of Healthy.io, for an honest conversation about building in healthcare, riding the rocket up, and what happens when the rules change under you.Healthy.io raised more than $200 million, sold through Boots and the NHS in the UK, and became a poster child for at-home testing. Its focus: chronic kidney disease, where a simple urine test (ACR) that guidelines call for every year is done only about 20% of the time.Then a change to how one key quality measure counted results hit the company's core business. What followed was a regroup, hard decisions about the team, a leadership change, and a choice: exhaust the runway, or rebuild.Ron chose to rebuild. Healthy.io 2.0 brings in new biochemistry and a fully quantitative test, built on 13 years of foundations, now with AI multiplying what a small team can do.In this episode, we cover:- How a physics student and a phone-camera idea became an FDA-cleared medical device- Why kidney disease screening is a massive, missed opportunity- What founders from tech get wrong (and right) when they enter healthcare- How one regulatory decision can rewrite a company's business model- Leading through layoffs, a leadership change, and October 7th- Why Healthy.io is rebuilding instead of folding- How a medical device company uses AI while staying deliberately carefulChapters(00:00) Cold open: the FDA email(00:45) Meet Ron Zohar(07:11) The birth of Healthy.io(16:59) The kidney test most never take(30:25) FDA clearance for a phone camera(33:46) The rug pull: when rules changed(39:01) From the peak to the pit(50:29) Healthy.io 2.0: new biochemistry(1:02:05) Patients, AI and what comes nextThis is a conversation about resilience, healthcare, regulation, and the difference between reaching the peak and staying in the game.Let's Connect:Ron Zohar on LinkedInHealthy.ioHaggai Klorman-Eraqi on LinkedInSponsor: Kardz.BizThe business card too good to give away. Exclusive for Aggaeus listeners: buy 2, get 3, up to $479 value.Premium cards: AGGAEUSB2G3PREMIUMPro+ cards: AGGAEUSB2G3PRO+https://kardz.biz/?ref=yqrmcztyListen, read and followFull episode notes and transcripts on SubstackSpotifyApple PodcastsYouTubeInstagramTikTokInquiriesSponsorships and business: [email protected]: DM us on InstagramDisclaimerSome links may earn affiliate commissions. Offers, terms, and availability may change without notice.Aggaeus content is for informational and educational purposes only and should not be considered legal, business, investment, or tax advice. You should conduct your own research and consult qualified professionals before making any decisions.We may feature companies, products, or entities in which Aggaeus, its affiliates, or the author have invested or may invest, or with which they have had, have, or may have a financial, professional, or other relationship.

If AI makes your product easier to build, what stops someone else from building it too?Easier to start does not mean easier to win.Maya Pizov has helped build companies as an operator and backed them as an investor. Her experience includes eBay, enSilo, and seven years at Amiti Ventures. She also backed Flow Security, later acquired by CrowdStrike.In this episode of Aggaeus, Haggai Klorman-Eraqi and Maya explore what makes a startup hard to copy, and how to recognize the team capable of building it.Maya’s guiding principle is simple: the right team for the mission. The harder part is recognizing that team before its success makes the choice look obvious.We explore:• What still counts as a technological advantage as AI changes how software gets built, and why deep tech, quantum computing, and physical AI are drawing Maya’s attention.• How she evaluates whether founders are suited to the particular problem they want to solve, beyond impressive credentials.• Why a founder’s response to difficult feedback can reveal more than a polished pitch.For anyone building, backing, or joining a startup, these questions reach beyond the next funding round. They ask whether the company has an advantage that can last, and whether its people can deliver on it.Listen to the full conversation to hear how Maya connects those judgments: what makes the technology worth backing, and what makes the team right for the mission.Check out the full episode notes, transcripts, and all links on Substack:👉 https://aggaeus.com/SPONSORS - EXCLUSIVE FOR AGGAEUS PODCAST LISTENERS:KARDZ.BIZBUY 2, GET 3 ON KARDZ.BIZ - UP TO $479 VALUE.AGGAEUSB2G3PREMIUM - for PREMIUM cardsAGGAEUSB2G3PRO+ - for PRO+ cardsWhen face-to-face impressions matter, pull out Kardz.Biz, the “business card too good to give away”.Use this link: https://kardz.biz/?ref=yqrmcztyBETTER WEIGHT FOR LIFESAVE 10% ON BETTER WEIGHT FOR LIFE’S GLP-1 PROGRAMS WITH CODE AGGAEUS10 (LIMITED TIME).Better Weight For Life is a transformational weight loss program led by a U.S. board-certified physician, designed to keep it simple: personalized GLP-1 treatment, expert support, and discreet delivery.They offer options including Ozempic®, Wegovy®, Zepbound®, Mounjaro®, plus compounded semaglutide and compounded tirzepatide (eligibility depends on your medical evaluation).Claim the offer here: https://www.betterweightforlife.com/partners/aggaeusCONNECT WITH MAYA PIZOVLinkedInCONNECT WITH HAGGAILinkedInFOLLOW AGGAEUSInstagramTikTokYouTubeSUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCASTApple PodcastsINQUIRIES💼 Sponsorships / Business: [email protected]🎙 Podcast: DM via InstagramDISCLAIMERSome links may earn affiliate commissions. Offers, terms, and availability may change without notice.Aggaeus content is for informational and educational purposes only and should not be considered legal, business, investment, or tax advice. You should conduct your own research and consult qualified professionals before making any decisions.We may feature companies, products, or entities in which Aggaeus, its affiliates, or the author have invested or may invest, or with which they have had, have, or may have a financial, professional, or other relationship.

What happens when every brand can create unlimited content for almost nothing?Content stops being the advantage. Attention does.AI is rapidly removing the cost and friction of creating images, videos, ads, product photography, and copy. That sounds like an enormous advantage, until everyone has it.Dov Kaufmann spent eight years at Yotpo, joining when the company was still small and helping build partnerships into a major part of its revenue before founding Tolstoy, where he is now CEO.In this episode of Aggaeus, Dov sits down with Haggai Klorman Eraqi to explore what AI could do to e-commerce, and why the biggest disruption may have little to do with creating better ads.Today, Tolstoy helps brands generate content at scale, publish it, test what converts, and increasingly personalize what individual shoppers see.But Dov believes we are heading somewhere much further.Imagine an AI agent that already knows your size, your style, what you own, what fits you, and what you are likely to need next.You may not browse a brand's website.You may not even make the purchase yourself.Your AI could do it for you.And that raises a much bigger question:If AI becomes the interface between brands and consumers, who actually owns the customer relationship?Brands that strengthen it have an opportunity to do something radically different: know what their customers want, personalize what they see, show them what products could look like on them, recommend the right product at the right moment, and perhaps eventually eliminate much of the friction that creates returns.The technology is moving quickly. But as Dov explains, technology is not necessarily the hardest part.In this episode, we cover:• Why AI is turning content creation into a commodity, and what becomes valuable instead• What happens to brands if AI agents become the interface between them and their customers• How Tolstoy is approaching personalized commerce, content testing, and virtual try-on• Why getting to 80% quality with AI is increasingly easy, but getting to 100% remains difficultIf you are trying to understand what AI does to brands, e-commerce, and the customer relationship, this episode gives you a useful map of what may be coming next.Check out the full episode notes, transcripts, and all links on Substack:👉 https://aggaeus.com/SPONSORS - EXCLUSIVE FOR AGGAEUS PODCAST LISTENERS:KARDZ.BIZBUY 2, GET 3 ON KARDZ.BIZ - UP TO $479 VALUE.AGGAEUSB2G3PREMIUM - for PREMIUM cardsAGGAEUSB2G3PRO+ - for PRO+ cardsWhen face-to-face impressions matter, pull out Kardz.Biz, the "business card too good to give away".BETTER WEIGHT FOR LIFESAVE 10% ON BETTER WEIGHT FOR LIFE'S GLP-1 PROGRAMS WITH CODE AGGAEUS10 (LIMITED TIME).Better Weight For Life is a transformational weight loss program led by a U.S. board-certified physician, designed to keep it simple: personalized GLP-1 treatment, expert support, and discreet delivery.They offer options including Ozempic®, Wegovy®, Zepbound®, Mounjaro®, plus compounded semaglutide and compounded tirzepatide (eligibility depends on your medical evaluation).CONNECT WITH DOV KAUFMANNLinkedInTolstoyCONNECT WITH HAGGAILinkedInFOLLOW AGGAEUSInstagramTikTokYouTubeSUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCASTApple PodcastsINQUIRIES💼 Sponsorships / Business: [email protected]🎙 Podcast: DM via InstagramDISCLAIMERSome links may earn affiliate commissions. Offers, terms, and availability may change without notice.Aggaeus content is for informational and educational purposes only and should not be considered legal, business, investment, or tax advice. You should conduct your own research and consult qualified professionals before making any decisions.We may feature companies, products, or entities in which Aggaeus, its affiliates, or the author have invested or may invest, or with which they have had, have, or may have a financial, professional, or other relationship.

Zachary Greenberger has spent his career in connected mobility, from working on Tesla’s Model 3 to six years at Lyft, and now as CEO of Nexar and Nauto.Today, their network includes roughly 350,000 connected cameras capturing around 300 million miles of road every month.But this conversation is not really about dash cams.It is about what happens when AI leaves the screen and enters the physical world.In this episode of Aggaeus, Haggai Klorman-Eraqi sits down with Zachary Greenberger, CEO of Nexar and Nauto, for a conversation about autonomous vehicles, physical AI, real-world data, leadership, and what machines still need to learn before they can safely operate around us.For years, autonomous vehicles were trained heavily through simulation.But eventually simulation reaches a limit.A traffic cone moves. A child rolls a ball into the street. Debris flies across a highway. A road changes overnight.The real world does not behave like a clean simulation.That insight changed how Zach and the Nexar team saw the company.What started as a network of connected cameras became something much bigger: a way to capture the rare, messy edge cases that autonomous systems need to understand.That led to BADAS, Nexar’s Beyond ADAS world model.And something surprising happened.The same model trained around driving could identify collision risk in drones, forklifts, delivery robots, humanoid robots, and other physical environments.The lesson was bigger than cars.If AI is going to move through the physical world, it needs to understand how the physical world actually behaves.In this episode, we cover:• Why real-world data becomes critical as autonomous systems improve• Why edge cases may be more valuable than millions of ordinary miles• How BADAS moved beyond cars into robots, drones, and other physical systems• What Zach learned taking over a founder-led company and later bringing teams togetherThis is a conversation about autonomy, physical AI, data, leadership, culture, and why teaching machines about reality may require something simulation alone can never provide: reality itself.Check out the full episode notes, transcripts, and all links on Substack:👉 https://aggaeus.com/SPONSORS - EXCLUSIVE FOR AGGAEUS PODCAST LISTENERS:KARDZ.BIZBUY 2, GET 3 ON KARDZ.BIZ — UP TO $479 VALUE.AGGAEUSB2G3PREMIUM - for PREMIUM cardsAGGAEUSB2G3PRO+ - for PRO+ cardsWhen face-to-face impressions matter, pull out Kardz.Biz, the “business card too good to give away”.Use this link: https://kardz.biz/?ref=yqrmcztyBETTER WEIGHT FOR LIFESAVE 10% ON BETTER WEIGHT FOR LIFE’S GLP-1 PROGRAMS WITH CODE AGGAEUS10 (LIMITED TIME).Better Weight For Life is a transformational weight loss program led by a U.S. board-certified physician designed to keep it simple: personalized GLP-1 treatment, expert support, and discreet delivery.They offer options including Ozempic®, Wegovy®, Zepbound®, Mounjaro®, plus compounded semaglutide and compounded tirzepatide (eligibility depends on your medical evaluation).Claim the offer here: https://www.betterweightforlife.com/partners/aggaeusCONNECT WITH ZACHARY GREENBERGERLinkedInWebsiteCONNECT WITH HAGGAILinkedInFOLLOW AGGAEUSInstagramTikTokYouTubeSUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCASTApple PodcastsINQUIRIES💼 Sponsorships / Business: [email protected]🎙 Podcast: DM via InstagramDISCLAIMERSome links may earn affiliate commissions. Offers, terms, and availability may change without notice.Aggaeus content is for informational and educational purposes only and should not be considered legal, business, investment, or tax advice. You should conduct your own research and consult qualified professionals before making any decisions.We may feature companies, products, or entities in which Aggaeus, its affiliates, or the author have invested or may invest, or with which they have had, have, or may have a financial, professional, or other relationship.

In this episode of Aggaeus, Haggai Klorman Eraqi sits down with Gil Dibner, General Partner of Angular Ventures, for a conversation about venture capital, AI hype, non-consensus founders, fiduciary responsibility, and why the best investments often look strange before they look inevitable.Gil describes himself as geographically confused: American, Israeli, based in London, investing across Europe and Israel.That outsider position shaped how he thinks.He is drawn to outsiders. To founders with something burning inside them. To technologies that do not fit neatly into a hype cycle. To companies where the first reaction might be: “Why would anyone invest in that?”In a market where venture dollars are concentrating into fewer funds, fewer companies, and bigger AI rounds, Gil argues that the old craft of venture still matters.But in venture, “simple” is never that. AI has made demos easier, valuations higher, metrics noisier, and consensus more expensive. Gil explains why founders need to understand the difference between real conviction and market heat and why investors need to remember they are managing other people’s money.In this episode, we cover:• Why AI has created strange new dynamics in startup funding• Why too much capital can distort both founders and investors• What makes a founder “best in class” or truly one of one• Why Angular looks for non-consensus companies others may overlook• Why AI adoption may be massive, but still slower and messier than the hype suggestsCheck out the full episode notes, transcripts, and all links on Substack:👉 https://aggaeus.com/SPONSORS - EXCLUSIVE FOR AGGAEUS PODCAST LISTENERS:KARDZ.BIZBUY 2, GET 3 ON KARDZ.BIZ — UP TO $479 VALUE.AGGAEUSB2G3PREMIUM - for PREMIUM cardsAGGAEUSB2G3PRO+ - for PRO+ cardsWhen face-to-face impressions matter, pull out Kardz.Biz, the “business card too good to give away”.Use this link: https://kardz.biz/?ref=yqrmcztyBETTER WEIGHT FOR LIFESAVE 10% ON BETTER WEIGHT FOR LIFE’S GLP-1 PROGRAMS WITH CODE AGGAEUS10 (LIMITED TIME).Better Weight For Life is a transformational weight loss program led by a U.S. board-certified physician designed to keep it simple: personalized GLP-1 treatment, expert support, and discreet delivery.They offer options including Ozempic®, Wegovy®, Zepbound®, Mounjaro®, plus compounded semaglutide and compounded tirzepatide (eligibility depends on your medical evaluation).Claim the offer here: https://www.betterweightforlife.com/partners/aggaeusCONNECT WITH GIL DIBNERLinkedInAngular VenturesCONNECT WITH HAGGAILinkedInFOLLOW AGGAEUSInstagramTikTokYouTubeSUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCASTApple PodcastsINQUIRIES💼 Sponsorships / Business: [email protected]🎙 Podcast: DM via InstagramDISCLAIMERSome links may earn affiliate commissions. Offers, terms, and availability may change without notice.Aggaeus content is for informational and educational purposes only and should not be considered legal, business, investment, or tax advice. You should conduct your own research and consult qualified professionals before making any decisions.We may feature companies, products, or entities in which Aggaeus, its affiliates, or the author have invested or may invest, or with which they have had, have, or may have a financial, professional, or other relationship.