Stripe-acquired founder building something new (in AI)

++ Meta VP of creators building web3 product for the creator & their communities

Welcome to the 68th edition of the Geeks Of The Valley (GOTV) Newsletter, where we curate interesting early-stage startups 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: Potrero Labs

Geography: US

One-liner: Empowering Web3 creators and their communities.

Founder(s) Background: VP of Creators and Monetization at Facebook App, Principal Engineer at Meta.

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Startup Name: Gobble

Geography: Singapore

One-liner: Social-commerce platform for group ordering and gifting food.

Founder(s) Background: GM & Lime at Deliveroo, EiR at Shopee, Regional New Venture Operations at Delivery Hero.

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Startup Name: Tooljet

Geography: India

One-liner: Open-source low-code application development platform for
building and deploying business applications.

Founder(s) Background: Founder at Mobio Digital (acq. by FreshWorks (IPO-ed)).

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Startup Name: Gisual

Geography: US

One-liner: Gisual helps telecoms and service providers diagnose outages with automation.

Founder(s) Background: Director of Growth/Marketing at Tag (acq. by Mark Cuban).

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Founders building in stealth

• Founder at Nutanix Era, Vice President/Architect, DB Private & Hybrid Cloud Development at Oracle.

• Stripe-acquired founder.

• MD at Obvious Ventures (Ev Williams-founded fund).

• Partner at Lux Capital.

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Insight, Idea & Trend

The Secret CFO @SecretCFO

So you got your first CFO role. What now? Where do you start? What do the first 90 days look like? I broke it down step by step in this week’s newsletter.

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sridhar @RamaswmySridhar

14/ This year in AI could be one of the most exciting technological advances since the iPhone. 📲 We're excited for what's to come! 🙌 For more details see our blog: neeva.com/learn/2023-ai-… Did we miss anything? What are your predictions? Let us know your thoughts!

neeva.com2023 AI Players and PredictionsWith core expertise in applying AI to search, using existing AI technologies, and training our own models, here is our analysis of the industry landscape and our 2023 predictions for what is to come.

Zachary Perret @zachperret

Fintech predictions for 2023!

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Venture Archives

(Today memos provide internal snapshots into the way investors think when it comes to assessing a certain industry. However, there is no centralized source which aggregates investment memos, especially for early-stage ventures. We aim to democratize the access to investment memos through a centralized platform)

Union Square Ventures investment memo on Abridge - AI-powered solutions help providers & patients follow through with next steps (seed)

White walls. You’re sitting on the hospital bed with that paper crinkling under you every time you shift around. It’s harder to focus on what the doctor is saying. The doctor just said the words “blood thinners” and your thoughts have already moved onto blood clots and heart disease. You snap back into the… (Read more)