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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

Tim Smith and Anne Sraders

2 min read

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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Tim Smith

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

Anne Sraders

Anne Sraders is a senior reporter at Sifted, based in Berlin. She covers the VC industry and deeptech startups. She also writes Sifted's weekly VC newsletter Up Round. Follow her on X and LinkedIn

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