Welcome to the 83rd 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: Shaped

Geography: US

One-liner: Real-time AI infrastructure for personalization.

Founder(s) Background: Original core contributor to PyTorch Lightning, Applied Research Scientist at FAIR (Facebook AI Research), Head of Product Research at Afterpay.

Startup Name: Fragile

Geography: US

One-liner: Fragile help merchants with a single button to turn their hardware into a subscription offering.

Founder(s) Background: Global Program Manager at Uber, Head of Growth & Product at Unagi (Series B; $40m+ raised), Co-founder at Back To Back SWE (acquired by Private Equity firm).

Founders building in stealth

• Co-founder at Sidecar (Sold to General Motors).

• Early engineer at Anduril.

• Head of Growth at Hoist (backed by Khosla Ventures & Greylock Partners).

Insight, Idea & Trend

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