(9th October) Bloomberg-acquired founders building modern stack for usage-based software (stealth)
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Geeks of the week
Startup name: Epoch AI
Geography: US
One-liner: Testing games should be as fun as playing them!
Founder(s) background: CFO & CTO @ Sandbox VR, CFO @ Naspers & Andela, Advisor @ Runway.
Raised $$ / backed by (public source): Prefix Capital, South Park Commons, Precursor Ventures, Atypical Ventures and Haystack. Find out more here.
Startup name: Paperplane
Geography: US
One-liner: Capture all of the information you need from your meetings, automatically and accurately.
Founder(s) background: CTO & co-founder @ Steady (backed by Afore Capital, Bloomberg Beta, Correlation Ventures), Senior engineer (ML Ops) @ Xometry (Series E), PhD @ MIT (engineering) and Vice President (ML/AI team) @ Point72.
Raised $$ / backed by (public source): Pre-seed; Bloomberg Beta and Afore Capital.
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Startup name: Turnstile
Geography: US
One-liner: Building the modern stack for usage-based software.
Founder(s) background: Co-founder (COO & CEO) @ Second Measure (Acquired by Bloomberg; Raised from YC, Bessemer Venture Partners, Goldman Sachs, Norwest Venture Partners and more).
Raised $$ / backed by (public source): Still in stealth // Backed by First Round Capital, prominent usage-based founders and operators, and other top investors.