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Lyft-acquired founder building AI and cloud-enabled video intelligence for every business
++ Google AI executive building something new
Welcome to the 75th 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: Dala
Geography: UK
One-liner: Knowledge discovery platform that gives you clarity at every decision-making crossroad in your daily work.
Founder(s) Background: Commercial Director at Zyper (acquired by Discord), Staff Software Engineer at Frame.io.
Startup Name: Coram AI
Geography: UK
One-liner: AI and cloud-enabled video intelligence for every business.
Founder(s) Background: Head of Research at Lyft, CEO & Co-Founder at Blue Vision Labs (acquired by Lyft), Director of Engineering / Head of Autonomy at Lyft.
Founders building in stealth
Insight, Idea & Trend
1/ What will define the next era of social apps?
Legacy social platforms compete for our 24/7 attention, encouraging bad habits to get it
I wrote about the next wave of social, and why I believe it'll aspire to do the opposite — build meaningful rituals
— anu (@anuatluru)
6:31 PM • Nov 10, 2022
How did this janky game get so popular? A theory on how BRs like @PUBG/@FortniteGame caught lightning in a bottle. 🧵
👀 Session novelty
🧭 Market/player opp
👯♀️ Fun alone, better with friends
📈 Monotonically increasing intensity— Robin Guo (@zebird0)
4:46 PM • Mar 8, 2023