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Geeks of the week

Startup name: Simple Viral Games

Geography: India

One-liner: TikTok + Netflix for casual gaming.

Founder(s) background: Lead PM / Founding PM @ Khatabook ($600m valuation; backed by Sequoia, B Capital, Tencent, RTP Global), Head of Growth @ Perpule (acquired by Amazon), youngest product-hired @ Hike Messenger (India’s Whatsapp rival; raised $175m), engineer @ Gojek.

Raised $$ / backed by (public source): Raising pre-seed round.

Product demo: Link

Startup name: Unwrap.ai

Geography: US

One-liner: Translate your messy customer feedback into actionable roadmap items in minutes.

Founder(s) background: Group PM @ Graphiq (data aggregation and visualization platform; acquired by Amazon), Senior PM @ Amazon Alexa (Alexa's question and answer capabilities team), Senior Technical PM @ Amazon Alexa (Alexa's semantic NLU/NLP engine within the General Knowledge domain).

Raised $$ / backed by (public source): $3m seed round in July 2022.

Startup name: Edge

Geography: US

One-liner: Payment infrastructure for merchants mis-labeled as high-risk.

Founder(s) background: Lead engineer @ Duffl (YC-backed), sales @ Zest AI (backed by Insight Partners, Matrix Partners and Lightspeed).

Raised $$ / backed by (public source): $2.4m pre-seed in June 2022 // backed by Long Journey Ventures, The Fintech Fund, Gaingels, Shreyas Doshi (first PM Manager @ Stripe), Arash Ferdowsi (Dropbox co-founder), and more.