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Startups
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Competition”
Sounded
Smart—Until It
Killed the
Startup
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Two years of hard
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passionate
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This founder’s
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The story is raw,
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Who’s Funding
Founders
Before Anyone
Else
Notices?
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The Founders’
Favorite Angels
You’ve Never
Heard Of
(Yet)
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Some angels just
invest. These ones get in the
trenches.
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From ex-Google AI
researchers to
Thiel Fellows and
Brex operators —
these 8
forward-deployed
angels
are rewriting what
early-stage
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like. They help
founders refine
go-to-market
strategies, tell
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scale faster than
most funds can
keep up.
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Meet the
Angels:
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Luba
Y.
— Founder of Paloma,
ex-Airbnb/Yelp;
helps with
GTM &
community.
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Andrew
Tan
— Exited
founder, Stanford
AI
researcher, runs a
1M+ AI
newsletter.
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Sarah
Hashash
— Stanford
PhD, backs
technical
founders
solving hard
problems.
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Edward
Tian
— GPTZero
CEO, helps
founders
shape
powerful
launch
stories.
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Anthony
Chen
— Employee
#1 at
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“unsexy”
businesses
done
smart.
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Jonathan
Chang
— Brex
Startup
Ambassador, bets on
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obsessed
with
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Akshaya
D.
— Thiel
Fellow, founded
& exited Nova
and Spellbound.
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Nick
Gianos
— Ex-Atlassian
& Facebook, focuses
on data,
infra, and
enterprise
tools.
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Real angels.
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Unicorn? The
Answer Might
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Everyone talks
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founders — but who actually
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rise?
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A deep-dive
analysis across 1,500+ US-based
unicorns and
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investors
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Investors of All
Time
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spotted
billion-dollar
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the rest of the
world caught
on.
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From Sequoia
and Andreessen
Horowitz
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shaped the global
startup landscape
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generation of
unicorns.
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firms backed 100+
unicorns before
they were
famous?
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full list of
Top 50
Unicorn
Investors.
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Google
Launches
Gemini
Enterprise for
Business
Clients
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️ Google’s Gemini
Enterprise Lets
You Build Agents
for Anything
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Google’s latest
announcement isn’t
just another
product drop —
it’s a glimpse
into the future of
work.
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With Gemini
Enterprise, teams can now chat directly
with company
data, documents,
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This isn’t AI in
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AI grounded in your
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See how
Gemini
Enterprise
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deploy AI
agents.
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Pichai
@sundarpichai
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Today
we
introduced
Gemini
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built
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most
advanced
Gemini
models.
It
allows
you
to
chat
with
your
company’s
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data
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well
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grounded
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and
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5:26
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9,
2025
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Used by Execs at
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Startups
Buzz
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Is NVIDIA the
Most Powerful AI
Investor of All
Time?
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Everyone knows
NVIDIA powers the
AI revolution —
but few realize
it’s also funding
it.
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With strategic
stakes in OpenAI, Arm,
Intel, Hugging
Face,
Databricks,
Scale AI,
Perplexity, and more, Jensen Huang
has turned
NVIDIA into the
most powerful AI
venture fund on
the planet.
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This isn’t just
chip dominance —
it’s empire
building. One
investment at a
time, NVIDIA is
shaping the future
of every major AI
player.
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The deeper you
look, the more it
feels like Jensen’s world
— and we’re all
just living in
it.
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Dive into
how NVIDIA
quietly
became the
ultimate AI
VC
powerhouse.
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Linas
Beliūnas
@linasbeliunas
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All
roads
lead
to
NVIDIA
$NVDA.
It’s
Jensen’s
world,
and
we’re
just
living
in
it.
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YC’s Hidden
Formula for
Startup
Success
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Y Combinator’s
simple playbook: 100 users
paying
$100/month =
$10K MRR.
The magic lies in
focus, not scale —
start small, grow
smart, and
validate
fast.
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Read the
full
breakdown.
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7 AI Startup
Ideas You Can
Launch with
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