Last week Asian founders did...
🚀 Ka Ling Wu launched Upsolve AI (YC W24), a platform to build and deliver analytics to your end-users via embeddable dashboards.
🚀 Sahitya S. launched Endeavor, an OS for manufacturers to automate key workflows across sales, inventory, and supply chain.
🚀 Kevin Yang launched Serif.ai, an AI email assistant that writes context-informed emails in your personal voice.
🚀 Vishnu Sridhar launched Matter Intelligence, developing advanced sensors to capture extreme-resolution images of natural and artificial materials from space to the surface.
💸 David Shim raised a $50M Series B for Read AI, an AI copilot for wherever you work, making your meetings, emails, and messages more productive with summaries, content discovery, and recommendations.
💸 Kevin H. raised an $800k Pre-seed round for EQ Exchange (EQX), a crypto exchange practicing radical transparency by publicly disclosing all financials in real-time, both on-chain and off-chain.
💸 Pranav Ravella raised an $8.7M Seed round for Sapien, a platform to create autonomous coworkers for finance professionals.
💸 Alex Yeh raised an $82M Series A for GMI Cloud, an AI infrastructure company providing GPUs and a platform to optimize inference and fine-tuning.
🎙️ Arvind Jain, co-founder of Glean, talks about Glean's enterprise search product and the future direction of the company with Sequoia Capital.
🎙️ Akhil Ramaswamy, wrote a substack article about approaches to defensibility for AI agents.
Credits: Edwin Ong