Eyebrow-raising seed rounds based on nothing but a pitch deck are becoming de rigueur in AI startup land this year — particularly when there are some big name companies on the founding team’s CVs.
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November 7, 2023
What the pitch deck from Adaptive, a new AI startup raising at a $100m valuation, tells us
Several researchers and engineers from Hugging Face and AWS are building a new AI startup
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Tim Smith was news editor at Sifted. He covered deeptech and AI, and produced Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast . Follow him on X and LinkedIn

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