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Geeks of the week

Startup Name: Pump

Geography: US

One-liner: Pump brings you group buying discounts and utilizes AI to arbitrage cloud expenses 24/7.

Founder(s) Background: Tech Lead at Instabase & AWS, CEO at Sleek (backed by Lightspeed, acquired by Snackpass), Product hire #3 at Google Fiber.

Startup Name: Truckbase 

Geography: US

One-liner: Dispatch software for small carriers to eliminate lost BOLs and improve time-to-cash.

Founder(s) Background: Head of Business Operations (1st business hire) at Check (Series C; $100m raised; backed by Index, Bedrock, Thrive). 

Startup Name: Steamship

Geography: US

One-liner: Build, scale, and monitor AI Agents.

Founder(s) Background: Head of Machine Intelligence at Instabase, Founder at Cloudstitch (acquired by Instabase).

Founders building in stealth

• VP of Product at Guideline (Series E; $200m raised).

• VP of Data Science & Engineering at GoPuff / Director, Head of Delivery Marketplace & Courier Data Science at Uber.

• Founding team at Brex and Pipe.