Cadre's Product exec. building tax optimization tool for the modern investor

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Geeks of the week

Startup Name: Agent

Geography: US

One-liner: Proactive tax optimization for the modern investor.

Founder(s) Background: VP of Product at Cadre, VP of Software Engineering at Two Sigma, Staff engineer at Cadre.

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Startup Name: Nivelo

Geography: US

One-liner: Powering safe and instant income payments.

Founder(s) Background: Executive Director at JP Morgan (Head of Banking Product at Blockchain Center of Excellence).

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Founders building in stealth

• Staff Research Scientist at Google Brain.

• Investor at Sequoia India.

• Principal at Bloomberg Beta.

• Investor at Accel India.

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Insight, Idea & Trend

Elizabeth Yin 💛 @dunkhippo33

For the past 3 yrs or so I've started getting a lot of cold-emails - not only from startups - but also from ppl who want to start their own VC funds. Ppl ask me "how do you successfully raise money for a fund when you don't know who potential LPs even are?" More >>

Jason ✨Be Kind✨ Lemkin  @jasonlk

So is it tough times in SaaS + Cloud, or isn’t it? Well, let’s look at GitLab, one of our iconic leaders They just hit $500,000,000 in ARR, growing a stunning 58% (!) But they did say they are worried about growth going forward 5 Interesting Learnings: 🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽

Aakash Gupta 🚀 Product Growth Guy @aakashg0

It was a HUGE week in generative AI: • Google Bard • Adobe Firefly • Bing Image Gen • Github Copilot X • ChatGPT plugins • Generative Canva • Roblox Generative • Nvidia DGX Power • Runway Text-to-video • Microsoft’s Notion killer Here’s what you need to know.