This AI startup helps developers safely and cheaply build on top of LLMs from OpenAI and Anthropic. Read its pitch deck.

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Requesty cofounders
Requesty cofounders Thibault Jaigu and Daniel Trugman.

Requesty

These founders built a map app for Gen Z to discover new places like restaurants and shops. They've raised $3.8 million.

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Corner founders Jake Xia and Eliza Wu
Corner cofounders Jake Xia (CTO) and Eliza Wu (CEO).

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This startup is taking on Tesla with its smart home energy system. Check out the deck Kora used to raise $2.6 million.

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Greg Connolly is the cofounder and CEO of Kora.
Greg Connolly is the cofounder and CEO of Kora.

Kora

A second-time founder graduated from Y Combinator with a new AI financial services startup. Read her pitch deck.

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Eloquent AI Cofounders Tugce Bulut and Aldo Lipani, wearing black shirts with the company logo in front of a purple background.
Eloquent AI Cofounders Tugce Bulut and Aldo Lipani

Eloquent AI

I'm spending $170,000 to take my startup to Hawaii for the week. It's worth it.

Tech Insider : Travel, Travel, Business
Marty Kausas is pictured.
Pylon CEO Marty Kausas said that off-sites in South Korea or Hawaii were good for recruiting.

Marty Kausas

An ex-Bain consultant sick of copy-pasting translations just raised $1.5M for an AI startup. Here's her 15-slide pitch deck.

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Daphne Tay
Former Bain & Company consultant Daphne Tay is betting that professionals will pay for a faster way to translate documents without losing their formatting.

Bluente

This Y Combinator startup is using AI to simulate how people react to brands. See the pitch deck it used to raise $5.35 million.

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Artificial Societies founders
Artificial Societies founders

Artificial Societies

Membership at the restaurant reservation app Dorsia can cost $25,000. Its CEO will boot you for this mistake.

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Dorsia CEO Marc Lotenberg
Marc Lotenberg is the CEO of Dorsia, a reservations app.

Dorsia

I left my job at BCG to found an AI startup. Here's how consulting prepared me to be a founder — and how it didn't.

Tech Insider : Business, Economy
Kevin Wu at the BCG office.
Kevin Wu got bored as a constant at BCG and left to found an AI startup.

Kevin Wu

I'm 82 and just cofounded a tech startup. I have $57 saved and $15,000 in debt, but opportunities have always shown up in my life.

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Luis Bautista
Luis Bautista, 82, is learning AI to help with a book he's writing while advising a startup he co-founded.

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