Scout

Scout is an AI news aggregator that turns your role, industry, and…

Y CombinatorWinter 2023ActiveConsumer

What they do

Problem

Busy professionals struggle to stay up to date on relevant industry news and insights in a convenient, time-efficient way.

Solution

Scout uses AI to aggregate news and generate ~10-minute personalized podcast briefings tailored to a user’s role, industry, and interests.

Who it's for

Professionals and knowledge workers who want personalized industry updates while commuting or exercising.

Founders

Rohan Arora

Founder

Previously worked at JHU APL on MLOps and modeling for the Covid-19 National Health Mission & built technology to track animal mice. Studied Bioengineering at Berkeley.

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Venkat Krishnan

Founder

CTO, Social Radar. Prev worked at Tesla Autopilot AI. Studied Computer Engineering at UCSB, where I researched adversarial robustness and hardware acceleration of transformer models.