I left the Bay Area and moved to Barcelona after my tech layoff. It felt like losing my identity, but I'm so much happier now.

Tech Insider : Business, Economy, Environment
Woman standing under a stone archway in a narrow alley, smiling with arms crossed.
Steph Kumar relocated her family from the Bay Area to Barcelona after getting laid off and founding her own company.

Courtesy of Steph Kumar

A new AI matchmaker will set you up and plan the first date for $16 — skipping the swiping and DMs

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Ludovic Huraux
Ludovic Huraux

Mandy Menaker

  • Amata is a new dating app launching in the US, starting with New York City.
  • Founded by French entrepreneur Ludovic Huraux, Amata uses AI to match users without swiping.
  • The startup has raised $6 million to date.

Matching on dating apps is getting a makeover thanks to AI.

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

Tech Insider : Business, Technology, Travel
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.

Tech Insider : Business
Corner founders Jake Xia and Eliza Wu
Corner cofounders Jake Xia (CTO) and Eliza Wu (CEO).

Courtesy of Corner

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.

Tech Insider : Business
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.

Tech Insider : Business
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.

Tech Insider : Business, Environment, Technology
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.

Tech Insider : Business
Dorsia CEO Marc Lotenberg
Marc Lotenberg is the CEO of Dorsia, a reservations app.

Dorsia

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