5 AI-powered consulting startups to watch

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Composite headshot of Bianca Anghelina and Tanmai Gopal
Aily Labs CEO Bianca Anghelina and Tanmai Gopal, CEO of PromptQL.

Ruder Finn; Bonfire Partners

Legendary VC firm Sequoia just released the memo for its Apple bet in 1977 — and it shows how far the iPhone maker has come

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Steve Jobs introducing new iPod
Sequoia Capital has shared a relic of business history that centers on Apple and Steve Jobs.

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After a Y Combinator rejection, this founder raised $15 million for his AI search startup. Read the pitch deck.

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Daydream cofounders Thenuka Karunaratne and Shravan Rajinikanth, wearing T-shirts and posed in front of a stone wall.
Daydream cofounders Thenuka Karunaratne and Shravan Rajinikanth.

Kim Huong Tran

Why legal tech giant Harvey is raising cash like OpenAI

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Winston Weinberg and Pat Grady

Harvey

My AI startup pays people to film themselves taking out the trash. It's now valued at $150 million.

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Kled AI founder Avi Patel.
Kled AI founder Avi Patel.

Kled AI

This startup raised $34 million to make micro dramas starring AI actors — and let fans interact with them

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The founders of StoReel, from left: Rui Zhang, Angela Yu, and Shipeng Fan
StoReel's founders, from left: Rui Zhang, Angela Yu, and Shipeng Fan.

StoReel

Lawyers hate timesheets. This startup wants to do them for you.

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Jeremy Ben-Meir and Katon Luaces

PointOne

Marc Andreessen said he practices 'zero' introspection. The internet had a field day.

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A16z cofounder Marc Andreessen is pictured.
"It's a problem at work, and it's a problem at home," Marc Andreessen said of introspection.

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He skipped college to intern with an ex-Sequoia director. Three years later, he's a cofounder.

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Raghav Saraf and Amit Jain
Raghav Saraf (L) met Amit Jain (R) through the organizer of a hackathon he participated in.

Zamp

Tech investor Bill Gurley predicts a 'reset' for the AI boom: 'I just think we trip and run out of money'

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Bill Gurley, the Silicon Valley venture capitalist and a general partner Benchmark Capital, says AI can serve as "jet fuel" to a career.

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