Welcome to the 86th 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: Playroom

Geography: US

One-liner: Build multiplayer games in minutes.

Founder(s) Background: Product design leader at Meta’s Horizon Worlds (Metaverse).

Startup Name: Genmo.ai

Geography: US

One-liner: Platform for creating and sharing interactive, immersive generative art.

Founder(s) Background: Researcher at Google’s Brain Generative Models, ML researcher at Uber, Research scientist / founding engineer at DeepScale (acquired by Tesla).

Startup Name: Xeol

Geography: US

One-liner: Automatically keeping your cloud infrastructure up-to-date so you can focus on more important tasks.

Founder(s) Background: Director of Platform Engineering at Electric (Series D; backed by GGV Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Primary Venture Partners), Senior engineer at Datadog.

Founders building in stealth

• GM (Juni Capital) at Juni (Series B; raised >$250m).

• Principal (China) at Global Founders Capital.

• VP (APAC) at General Assembly.

Insight, Idea & Trend

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