Cruise-acquired founder building Slack-native inbox for customer success teams
++ Dun & Bradstreet-acquired founder building AI-enabled data platform to find and hire software developers
Welcome to the 87th edition of the Geeks Of The Valley (GOTV) Newsletter, where we curate exciting early-stage startups (Series A and earlier), and trends 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 ✌️.
Geeks of the week
Startup Name: Hearth AI
Geography: US
One-liner: Next-gen relationship management.
Founder(s) Background: Engineering Manager at Schmidt Futures
Startup Name: Unthread
Geography: US
One-liner: Slack-native inbox for customer success teams.
Founder(s) Background: Senior Engineering Manager at Cruise, CTO at Dashride (acquired by Cruise).
Startup Name: Prog.ai
Geography: US
One-liner: AI-enabled data platform to find and hire software developers based on their actual code contributions on GitHub.
Founder(s) Background: CEO at Orb Intelligence (acquired by Dun & Bradstreet), Head of Growth at Replika (Series A; backed by Khosla Ventures and Ludlow Ventures).
Founders building in stealth
Insight, Idea & Trend
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