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Apple's Senior AI/ML engineer building AI-enabled e-commerce search product
Welcome to the 76th edition of the Geeks Of The Valley (GOTV) Newsletter, where we curate interesting early-stage startups (Series A and earlier) every week. If you enjoy and want to keep abreast with insights and interesting early-stage startups before they go big, subscribe to this newsletter ✌️.
Geeks of the week
Startup Name: Limit
Geography: US
One-liner: Digital wholesaler that integrates retail brokers with carriers for both their admitted and E&S needs.
Founder(s) Background: Founding engineer at Coalition (Series F), Early employee at Brex.
Startup Name: Moda AI
Geography: US
One-liner: AI-enabled e-commerce search that leverages recent advances in NLP/CV to build human-like understanding of products.
Founder(s) Background: Senior AI / ML engineer at Apple, Software engineer at Zoox.
Startup Name: Poolit
Geography: US
One-liner: Access top-performing private equity and venture capital funds on your terms.
Founder(s) Background: Ex-Goldman TMT, Carlyle PE and Coatue L/S Equity.
Founders building in stealth
Insight, Idea & Trend
Every company will be a Fintech.
9 vertical fintechs hiding in plain sight:
— Soups Ranjan (@soupsranjan)
10:03 PM • Feb 27, 2023
As many have predicted, Google is going all-in on generative AI, integrating deeply into Gmail, Google Docs, etc.
While this is not a surprise, there are lessons here for new startups building with AI
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— Michael Mignano (@mignano)
1:45 PM • Mar 14, 2023
Microsoft and Google just wiped out dozens of startups.
A thread about competitive advantage...
in the age of AI:
— Rob Lennon 🗯 | AI Whisperer (@thatroblennon)
4:35 PM • Mar 17, 2023