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E178: Building Safer AI Agents with Portia AI

E178: Building Safer AI Agents with Portia AI

Update: 2025-07-31
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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

E178: Building Safer AI Agents with Portia AI

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