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Get a behind-the-scenes look at the strategies that can elevate your marketing with this chat between WEKA CMO Lauren Vaccarello and Surge Partner Pieter Kemps. Learn why brand stories should focus on how your product solves the customer’s problem! 💡#peakxvinsights #insidesurge ➡️ bit.ly/497Tsrg

Marketer Lauren Vaccarello on the need for customer-centric stories: To make your marketing resonate, focus on solving the customer's problem, not on how amazing your product is. Effective marketing is all about empathy! Full chat with Pieter Kemps soon! #insidesurge #peakxvinsights

As we approach the end of the year, it's natural to take some time to reflect. The startup journey can be long, particularly in deep tech, and each year brings new milestones and new challenges. But, as I look back on the last year, it's hard to believe how much has happened at Horizon Quantum: Strengthening the Team — We've been fortunate to welcome incredible talent to key roles, including Eoin Scanlon (ex-Irish Defence Forces) as VP of Operations, Philip Tan (ex-SambaNova/HuggingFace/Graphcore) as VP of Commercial Operations, Sumanth Puttur (ex-Google) as Director of HR, and Alvin Tan (ex-Twitch/Intuit/PayPal) as Director of Finance. Advancing Our Technology — Our developer tools are maturing, with the Triple Alpha IDE now in early access with a select group of users. On the technical side, we’ve made substantial progress in compilers and runtime environments, delivering capabilities not previously seen in quantum computing. We’re excited to share on more our progress and on what users are creating with Triple Alpha at Q2B in a few weeks. Hardware Testbed — We’ve established a hardware testbed facility at our Singapore headquarters, where we will be directly integrating our software stack with quantum computing hardware systems. The first system is expected to be up and running early in the new year. Having control over both software and hardware stacks across a range of technologies will put Horizon in a unique position to drive progress towards broad quantum advantage. Visibility and Outreach — We've been invited to speak at everything from the APS March Meeting to Web Summit to FII, and there is now even a case study on Horizon at Harvard Business School. To cap off the year, I’m pleased to share a video on Horizon Quantum’s journey, featured in the Turning Point series from HSBC and Bloomberg. Thanks to everyone who has helped get us to this point. https://lnkd.in/g8AEqCBT

Zerodha’s Nithin Kamath chats with Peak XV MD Rajan Anandan about how credibility & customer centricity shaped the company’s growth. This candid conversation offers unmissable insights on hiring + being an agile business. 💡Tune in now ➡️ bit.ly/4fv7MMX #insidesurge #peakxvinsights

Zerodha's Nithin Kamath on the key to sustainable business growth: Think long-term. One happy, loyal customer can bring you many more over time. 🌱 It’s a marathon, not a sprint! Stay tuned for our next #peakxvinsights drop, featuring Zerodha's Nithin Kamath with Peak XV MD Rajan Anandan #insidesurge 

Glad to share BiteSpeed has raised $3.5M in a Pre-Series A round led by Peak XV Partners's Surge to build the AI-native Customer OS for E-Commerce brands! Grateful to our existing backers Peak XV Partners Surge (Rajan Anandan Pushpak Kedia Shraeyansh Thakur), Whiteboard Capital (Anshu Prasher Sandeep Tandon) for doubling down and big welcome to Gaurav Munjal Aakash Anand Dhruv Toshniwal Dhruv Vohra Awais Ahmed Anirudh Singla Vishesh Khurana Pradeep Krishnakumar Jivraj Singh Sachar Kashish Sharma Nirant Kasliwal DeVC Astir Ventures AngelList on the journey! Our vision has always been to build e-commerce native, interconnected software and today our marketing, support & chatbots suite for e-commerce is used by 2500+ brands in 50+ countries driving 25%+ owned revenue for brands. With generative AI, we see an opportunity to 10X the power of the stack by building deep personalisation and conversational capabilities on top of the underlying data and engagement layer. Super grateful to our earliest backers (mentioned in comments!) and the team (Kshitij Abhishek Aman Mishra Mehul Chopra Tanul Sharma & all 25+ of you) that continues to make it all possible :). And we're hiring across the board! Press coverage in comments 👇