(1st March) A financing platform for the creator economy

++ Pay rent and earn equity!

Welcome to the 20th edition of the Geeks Of The Valley (GOTV) Newsletter, where we dive into exciting ideas/insights on ventures & trends + feature two interesting early-stage companies every week. If you enjoy and want to keep abreast with insights and interesting early-stage startups before they go big, make sure to subscribe to this newsletter ✌️.

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Startup Ideas

Jeff Weinstein @jeff_weinstein

🗃️ [Request for startup] A lightweight service to find/register a trademark. If you're building this (or want to build this...), please say hi => jweinstein@gmail.com or DM.

noorie @nooriefyi

a concept: senior thesis on online friendship <> social mobility

Ariel Renous @ArielRenous

Startup idea: @wattpad for short movies There is no community for students and independent filmmakers to be discovered and share their work. YouTube algo will never work for them

Geeks Of The Week

1) Startup name: Roots

One-liner: Democratizing homeownership and abolishing the system that excluded us from it before.

Founder(s):

• Lauren Lorraine Self
  

2) Startup name: Super

One-liner: An automated fundraising tool for creators.

Founder(s):

• Jakub Janiak

• Niyant

• Dylan Vu

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