Former Venmo product executive building "fintech for crypto" platform

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Geeks of the week

Startup Name: Elmbase

Geography: US

One-liner: Elmbase is a platform to discover private real estate offerings.

Founder(s) Background: Co-founder / CTO at Harmonic Labs (backed by Floodgate, Shasta Ventures, Craft Ventures), ML Engineer at Google.

Startup Name: Meso

Geography: US

One-liner: Meso enables developers to connect banks and cards to crypto apps.

Founder(s) Background: Head of Product at Venmo, VP of Product at Chegg (through acquisition), Senior Director of Engineering at Braintree.

Startup Name: Olympus

Geography: US

One-liner: The safer way for users to connect their data to AI.

Founder(s) Background: First data science hire at OpenStore, Director of Data Science at Walmart.

Founders building in stealth