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Cadre's Product exec. building tax optimization tool for the modern investor
Welcome to the 77th 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: Agent
Geography: US
One-liner: Proactive tax optimization for the modern investor.
Founder(s) Background: VP of Product at Cadre, VP of Software Engineering at Two Sigma, Staff engineer at Cadre.
Startup Name: Nivelo
Geography: US
One-liner: Powering safe and instant income payments.
Founder(s) Background: Executive Director at JP Morgan (Head of Banking Product at Blockchain Center of Excellence).
Founders building in stealth
Insight, Idea & Trend
For the past 3 yrs or so I've started getting a lot of cold-emails - not only from startups - but also from ppl who want to start their own VC funds.
Ppl ask me "how do you successfully raise money for a fund when you don't know who potential LPs even are?"
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— Elizabeth Yin 💛 (@dunkhippo33)
9:48 PM • Mar 23, 2023
So is it tough times in SaaS + Cloud, or isn’t it?
Well, let’s look at GitLab, one of our iconic leaders
They just hit $500,000,000 in ARR, growing a stunning 58% (!)
But they did say they are worried about growth going forward
5 Interesting Learnings: 🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽
— Jason ✨👾SaaStr 2025 is May 13-15✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk)
3:49 PM • Mar 19, 2023
It was a HUGE week in generative AI:
• Google Bard
• Adobe Firefly
• Bing Image Gen
• Github Copilot X
• ChatGPT plugins
• Generative Canva
• Roblox Generative
• Nvidia DGX Power
• Runway Text-to-video
• Microsoft’s Notion killerHere’s what you need to know.
— Aakash Gupta (@aakashg0)
5:05 PM • Mar 25, 2023