Lyft-acquired founder building AI and cloud-enabled video intelligence for every business

++ Google AI executive building something new

Welcome to the 75th 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: Dala

Geography: UK

One-liner: Knowledge discovery platform that gives you clarity at every decision-making crossroad in your daily work.

Founder(s) Background: Commercial Director at Zyper (acquired by Discord), Staff Software Engineer at Frame.io.

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Startup Name: Coram AI

Geography: UK

One-liner: AI and cloud-enabled video intelligence for every business.

Founder(s) Background: Head of Research at Lyft, CEO & Co-Founder at Blue Vision Labs (acquired by Lyft), Director of Engineering / Head of Autonomy at Lyft.

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Founders building in stealth

• VC at Floodgate.

• Founder & Head of Decision AI at Google / Director of Engineering at Twitch.

• Quantum AI Research Scientist at X, the moonshot factory.

• Senior Engineering Manager at Google Cloud AI.

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Insight, Idea & Trend

Anu☀️ @anuatluru

1/ What will define the next era of social apps? Legacy social platforms compete for our 24/7 attention, encouraging bad habits to get it I wrote about the next wave of social, and why I believe it'll aspire to do the opposite — build meaningful rituals

every.toIn the Next Era of Social, Build Rituals, Not HabitsWhy apps that create intentional moments will rise above endless consumption

Robin Guo @zebird0

How did this janky game get so popular? A theory on how BRs like @PUBG/@FortniteGame caught lightning in a bottle. 🧵 👀 Session novelty 🧭 Market/player opp 👯‍♀️ Fun alone, better with friends 📈 Monotonically increasing intensity