
George Bandarian II
@georgeb
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Driving AI Innovation as General Partner, Untapped Ventures | AI Keynote Speaker | Proud Husband & Father of 3 Boys
Los Angeles, CA
Joined June 2008
What are AI VCs like Me Really Looking for? . I’m George Bandarian, Founding General Partner of @untappedvcLA, and I want to share what we look for when backing early-stage AI founders—with investments ranging from $500K to $2M. Our investment thesis focuses on two key areas:
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Is your AI startup built to survive the next wave?. In this episode of Agentic, @WillManidis, the co-founder of @ScienceDotIO, shares how he built for resilience from day one developing LLMs for healthcare and the frameworks that helped him scale before the world caught up. He
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In AI, not everything you're building actually matters. On Agentic, the founder of @ScienceDotIO, @WillManidis breaks down why most teams are betting on surface-level advantages that won’t hold up in the long run. He shares why access to proprietary data and real-world
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Many “AI investment theses” are just hype recaps. This one’s a real roadmap to success and funding that lands. At the halfway point of 2025, I dropped our first-ever “Request for Startups”, a deep dive into the 10+ categories @untappedvcLA is backing next across Agentic AI +
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@WillManidis If you’re in the early innings of building something in AI, especially if you’re figuring things out from first principles—let’s chat: .
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Some AI companies are scaling from $0 to $100M+ in revenue almost overnight—but @WillManidis isn’t convinced it’ll stick. On Agentic, Will breaks down why explosive growth can be fragile, and why the real winners in AI will be the ones that go deep into enterprise
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Some AI companies are scaling from $0 to $100M+ in revenue almost overnight—but @WillManidis isn’t convinced it’ll stick. On Agentic, Will breaks down why explosive growth can be fragile, and why the real winners in AI will be the ones that go deep into enterprise
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Are you building in AI right now? I’m always looking to connect with founders who are thinking long-term and executing fast.
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Is your AI startup built to survive the next wave?. In this episode of Agentic, @WillManidis, the co-founder of @ScienceDotIO, shares how he built for resilience from day one developing LLMs for healthcare and the frameworks that helped him scale before the world caught up. He
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"I think extremely fast-growing revenue is often extremely fragile revenue," said @WillManidis, co-founder of ScienceIO and now SVP of AI at Veradigm. In this “vibe coaching” session, Will joins me to break down what real AI defensibility looks like, finding the right talent,
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@ChefEckert @BenjaminT007 @WithWoz1 If you’re building at the frontier of AI—infra, agentic systems, or something entirely new—I’d love to connect:
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Not all AI-powered coding is created equal. In this episode of Agentic, I sit down with @ChefEckert and @BenjaminT007 from @WithWoz1 as they break down what vibe coding really is, why it often fails, and how true AI engineering is evolving into something much more structured,
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@BenjaminT007 @ChefEckert @WithWoz1 If you’re in the early innings of building something in AI, especially if you’re figuring things out from first principles—let’s chat:
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On the latest episode of Agentic, I had a curveball for @BenjaminT007 and @ChefEckert, the founders of @WithWoz1. Their answers were unexpected—and pretty insightful. From what's still broken in AI to how they'd approach finding the next big idea, this turned into a surprisingly
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