Welcome to the 85th 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: Uprise

Geography: US

One-liner: Family office for GenZ.

Founder(s) Background: Head of Product at Earnin (backed by a16z, Ribbit Capital, Matrix Partners), Head of Asia at TransferWise, Founding engineer at Justworks (Series E).

Startup Name: Dust

Geography: US

One-liner: LLM-powered productivity OS to supercharge knowledge workers.

Founder(s) Background: Co-founder at TOTEMS (acquired by Stripe), Research engineer at OpenAI, Product lead at Alan (raised > €125m from investors such as Index Ventures and Temasek.

Startup Name: Ego

Geography: US

One-liner: An immersive live streaming platform that brings virtual avatars to life.

Founder(s) Background: Product manager at Meta, Computer vision engineer at Meta Reality Labs.

Founders building in stealth

• Director of Business Operations at Shares / ex-Revolut exec. (Raised $90m).

• Co-founder at Blockdata (acquired by CBInsights).

Insight, Idea & Trend

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