Apple's Senior AI/ML engineer building AI-enabled e-commerce search product

Welcome to the 76th 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 ✌️.

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Geeks of the week

Startup Name: Limit

Geography: US

One-liner: Digital wholesaler that integrates retail brokers with carriers for both their admitted and E&S needs.

Founder(s) Background: Founding engineer at Coalition (Series F), Early employee at Brex.

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Startup Name: Moda AI

Geography: US

One-liner: AI-enabled e-commerce search that leverages recent advances in NLP/CV to build human-like understanding of products.

Founder(s) Background: Senior AI / ML engineer at Apple, Software engineer at Zoox.

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Startup Name: Poolit

Geography: US

One-liner: Access top-performing private equity and venture capital funds on your terms.

Founder(s) Background: Ex-Goldman TMT, Carlyle PE and Coatue L/S Equity.

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Founders building in stealth

• Senior Director (Strategy and Ops) at Okta.

• PM (AI New Experiences) at Meta.

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Insight, Idea & Trend

Soups Ranjan @soupsranjan

Every company will be a Fintech. 9 vertical fintechs hiding in plain sight:

Michael Mignano @mignano

As many have predicted, Google is going all-in on generative AI, integrating deeply into Gmail, Google Docs, etc. While this is not a surprise, there are lessons here for new startups building with AI /1

Ben Tossell @bentossell

Google AI Announcement: - PaLM API & MakerSuite - AI in Gmail, Google Docs & workspace - Generative AI support in Vertex AI - Generative AI App Builder - Partnerships, programs, and resources for each segment of the ecosystem https://t.co/NHZ5zVo2EK

OnlyCFO @OnlyCFO

What is the best finance tech stack for <$5M ARR (enterprise SaaS)? Trying to automate and keep the team lean with a head of finance and one staff accountant. -accounting software -bill pay and receivables -sales tax -reimbursements software / corp card -planning (excel?)

Rob Lennon 🗯 | AI Whisperer @thatroblennon

Microsoft and Google just wiped out dozens of startups. A thread about competitive advantage... in the age of AI: