Former Facebook AI Research’s Applied Research Scientist building real-time AI infrastructure for personalization
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Startup Name: Shaped
Geography: US
One-liner: Real-time AI infrastructure for personalization.
Founder(s) Background: Original core contributor to PyTorch Lightning, Applied Research Scientist at FAIR (Facebook AI Research), Head of Product Research at Afterpay.
Startup Name: Fragile
Geography: US
One-liner: Fragile help merchants with a single button to turn their hardware into a subscription offering.
Founder(s) Background: Global Program Manager at Uber, Head of Growth & Product at Unagi (Series B; $40m+ raised), Co-founder at Back To Back SWE (acquired by Private Equity firm).
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