{"podcast":{"title":"Invest In Her with Catherine Gray","slug":"invest-in-her-with-catherine-gray-465315","podcast_index_feed_id":465315,"rss_url":"https://lltshow.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://www.sheangelinvestors.com/invest-in-her-podcast/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/f/d/3/3/fd33d5248caea540d959afa2a1bf1c87/Invest_In_Her_logo_-_orange_1500_x_1500_px.png","author":"She Angel Investors","episode_count":503,"summary":"INVEST IN HER podcast, hosted by founder of She Angel Investors, Catherine Gray- features phenomenal female founders and funders. The podcast is part of a multimedia platform to connect women with funding resources. If you are a woman seeking funding, this podcast is for you. You will learn about the various ways to get funded, meet guests who you can connect with, learn how to overcome obstacles, and discover how funding can be made simple for female founders to understand and to access. Host Catherine Gray is a Film Producer, Author and Tedx Speaker and champions the funding of women who are tremendously underfunded- receiving less of 2% of venture capital funding. Each week the show has on guests that are female angel investors and general partners who are women that have started their own fund- and have a focus on funding women, LGBTQ and Bipoc. She also showcases women business owners who are seeking funding. The show is all about education and connection- providing investment resources for women looking to launch or scale their business. Listeners are female entrepreneurs who want to connect with resources- which can include funding, coaching, accelerators, mentorship, event…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-16T08:20:47.555237+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/invest-in-her-with-catherine-gray-465315"},"episode":{"title":"AI to Transform Creative Storytelling with Archita Mandal and host Catherine Gray Ep. 494","slug":"ai-to-transform-creative-storytelling-with-archita-mandal-and-host-catherine-gray-ep-494","published_at":"2026-06-17T19:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/invest-in-her-with-catherine-gray-465315/ai-to-transform-creative-storytelling-with-archita-mandal-and-host-catherine-gray-ep-494","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/invest-in-her-with-catherine-gray-465315","url":"https://lltshow.libsyn.com/ai-to-transform-creative-storytelling-with-archita-mandal-and-host-catherine-gray-ep-494","audio_url":"https://prfx.byspotify.com/e/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/lltshow/Archita_Mandal.mp3?dest-id=1403306","summary":"Today on the Invest In Her Podcast, host Catherine Gray talks with Archita Mandal, founder and CEO of Upend Now, a transformative AI platform designed to bridge the gap between technology and creative storytelling. Archita works at the intersection of deep tech, media, and entertainment, building agentic AI solutions for the AdTech and FilmTech industries. A former Entrepreneur in Residence at NEC X, Stanford LEAD graduate, Grace Hopper speaker, award-winning filmmaker, and member of Women in Film Los Angeles and Women in Media, she brings a unique combination of technical expertise and artistic vision to her work. Her films have been distributed on Amazon Prime and Pocket Films, and her creative projects have garnered more than half a million views online. In this episode, Archita shares her fascinating journey from a 17-year career in cloud security and product management to becoming a filmmaker and startup founder. She discusses how the challenges she experienced in both the technology and entertainment industries inspired the creation of Upend Now, an AI-powered platform that helps businesses, creators, and production teams rapidly develop creative briefs, scripts, storyboards, shot lists, and visual concepts. Catherine and Archita explore how AI can serve as a collaborative tool rather than a replacement for human creativity, dramatically reducing production costs and development time while helping technical founders communicate complex ideas more effectively. They also discuss entrepreneurship, innovation, customer validation, and the importance of bringing left-brain and right-brain thinkers together to create more impactful storytelling. 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