Ex-OpenAI / Stripe-acquired founder building LLM-powered productivity OS for knowledge workers
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Geeks of the week
Startup Name: Uprise
Geography: US
One-liner: Family office for GenZ.
Founder(s) Background: Head of Product at Earnin (backed by a16z, Ribbit Capital, Matrix Partners), Head of Asia at TransferWise, Founding engineer at Justworks (Series E).
Startup Name: Dust
Geography: US
One-liner: LLM-powered productivity OS to supercharge knowledge workers.
Founder(s) Background: Co-founder at TOTEMS (acquired by Stripe), Research engineer at OpenAI, Product lead at Alan (raised > €125m from investors such as Index Ventures and Temasek.
Startup Name: Ego
Geography: US
One-liner: An immersive live streaming platform that brings virtual avatars to life.
Founder(s) Background: Product manager at Meta, Computer vision engineer at Meta Reality Labs.
Founders building in stealth
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