Plaid-acquired founder building something new
++ SurveyMonkey-acquired CPO building VMware of GPU
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Geeks of the week
Startup Name: Augmend
Geography: US
One-liner: Collective intelligence for development teams.
Founder(s) Background: Senior Engineering Manager (PyTorch) at Meta, Principal Software Engineering Lead at Microsoft.
Startup Name: Juice Labs
Geography: US
One-liner: VMware of GPU: a drop-in, no-code, no-hardware solution to GPU scarcity.
Founder(s) Background: CPO at GetFeedback (acquired by SuveryMonkey), VP of Product Management at Turnitin, Software Engineer at Oculus VR (invented the first VR Direct Mode - now the display standard for all PC VR displays).