Welcome to the 87th edition of the Geeks Of The Valley (GOTV) Newsletter, where we curate exciting early-stage startups (Series A and earlier), and trends 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: Hearth AI

Geography: US

One-liner: Next-gen relationship management.

Founder(s) Background: Engineering Manager at Schmidt Futures

Startup Name: Unthread

Geography: US

One-liner: Slack-native inbox for customer success teams.

Founder(s) Background: Senior Engineering Manager at Cruise, CTO at Dashride (acquired by Cruise).

Startup Name: Prog.ai

Geography: US

One-liner: AI-enabled data platform to find and hire software developers based on their actual code contributions on GitHub.

Founder(s) Background: CEO at Orb Intelligence (acquired by Dun & Bradstreet), Head of Growth at Replika (Series A; backed by Khosla Ventures and Ludlow Ventures).

Founders building in stealth

• Founding team / CIO at LEX (raised ~$30m).

• EiR at Lightspeed Venture Partners / CEO at Vera (acquired by Fortra).

• Product executive at Revolut / CPO at Hopscotch (Series E).

Insight, Idea & Trend

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