Media entertainment

Scout

Website
Founded 2023Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Scout features 10 minute long generative podcasts that update you about your industry and interests while you are at the gym or in the car. We currently have 58% D7 retention, 35% D30 retention, and 24% DAU/MAU.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08
Media entertainmentContent mediaConsumersConsumerSubscription

Founders & team

Previously Meru, PromptBidder, Prompt, Social Radar

Company history As recorded 2026-11-08

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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Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

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.

LinkedIn
Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
3team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2023 · Source

News & product activity

Sources & observations

Y Combinator

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Website observationwebsite reachable
Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
Pricing evidenceNo pricing page confirmed
Maturity: Not assessed · 3 of 6 areas documented

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