It’s not just you: AI startups are receiving a lot of seed funding and, in the process, making things difficult for anyone seeking funding, even at a pre-seed stage. We’ve covered the trend in detail, and at this year’s TechCrunch Disrupt event, we want to help pre-seed founders who are now locked into early-stage expectations.
Andrew Dai left Google DeepMind knowing that visual AI was the frontier he wanted to push into. It achieved breakneck fundraising that resulted in a more aggressive valuation-to-equity ratio than Thinking Machines, which raised one of the largest rounds in US history. In this episode of Build Mode, host and Startup Battlefield lead Isabelle Johannessen