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Today I had a blast serving as a judge on TechCrunch Startup Battlefield, alongside Christine Esserman, Lisa Morales-Hellebo, Jonathan Rosenbaum and Sharon Winter. 🔥
Thank you to the TechCrunch team for hosting this fantastic event, and congratulations to all the participants Stitch3D, MabLab, VRTL, DGLegacy® and Advex AI ! The level of talent and vision on display was impressive! 🚀 As you can see from the first photo, I took note.
Here are some highlights from the day! 📸👇
Excited to announce our investment in Cascade AI, the most advanced AI assistant for HR teams and their employees. Cascade's early customers are already eliminating over 50% of routine HR queries. 🚀
More about Gradient's investment from our Partner Eylul Kayin:
https://lnkd.in/g2Q-EarQ
We're thrilled to have led Paladin's seed round. We are excited to support Divyaditya S. and the rest of the team as they continue to revolutionize emergency response and build safer communities across the nation.
More from our Partner Andrew Brackin:
https://lnkd.in/eG6i8mte
We're excited to announce our lead investment in Paladin along with Khosla Ventures and to see all they've done to help the communities in North Carolina in the aftermath of the Hurricane Helene. Always heartwarming to see positive impacts of AI and our investments in the real world. Also congrats to Andrew Brackin on one of his first deals since joining Gradient earlier this year!
Last night, we brought together early-stage founders, investors, and industry experts to unpack what it takes to build an AI startup in today's landscape.
Some of the topics we covered:
- Strategies for startups to build competitive advantages
- Smaller vs. larger models
- Vertical-specific AI applications
A big thanks to our speakers Paige Bailey, Logan Kilpatrick, Jason Gelman, Zachary Bratun-Glennon, and attendees for making this a great night!
We’ve been working up to this announcement for some time, and I am so happy and humbled to share that Tildei raised $6M in seed and we are officially coming out of stealth!
Having spent my entire career in marketing technology, I’m all in our mission to change how brands can talk to their customers, to elevate the marketer, and to empower customers.
Today we are doing this in Instagram and WhatsApp. Tomorrow we will be in even more channels and executing on this vision more fully.
Every day I feel enormously lucky to be surrounded with such phenomenal people. My gratitude to my fellow co-founders Mark Ghermezian and Kevin Dutra. We are joined by the best founding team I could imagine Selby Kendrick, Jacob Roschen, Matt Schmitter, Samuel Varga, Austin Bruch, Adrienne Detrick, Alexa Brodsky, and Shana Chriki
THANK YOU to our investors and early customers who have believed in our vision and supported us each step of the way. Thank you for being part of the Tildei story!
Check out our blog to read more: https://lnkd.in/eea9RN5M
And of course - if you want to learn how AI-powered marketing conversations can drive revenue, I’d love to chat!