Last week Asian founders did...
🚀 Suprit Gandhi launched RelayBeam, a new messaging solution allowing users to organize conversations based on context through the user-defined ports.
🚀 Rashmi Sinha launched Jaunt, a new social platform where users can upload, read, and share all kinds of documents and presentations.
🚀 Tyger Cho launched K-Bridge, a digital global community for creators, founders, and young professionals of Korean heritage.
💸 Wanrong (Sophia) He and Sheikh Srijon raised a $3.4M Seed round for Story Engine Inc., a startup creating next-gen entertainment content for Gen Z, blending AI with Eastern anime and comic-inspired aesthetics.
💸 Vivek Nair and Daniel C. Liem raised an $8M Series A for Gentrace, a one-stop shop for developers building AI by helping them tackle nascent LLM-specific problems such as evaluations and prompt optimization.
💸 Alice Zhang and Nisha Desai raised a $3M Seed round for Anise Health, a culturally responsive digital mental health and wellbeing platform dedicated to meeting the unique needs of communities of color, starting with a focus on the Asian American population.
💸 Alex Lee and Tennison C. raised a $13M Series A for Truewind, an AI-powered accountant that handles back-office accounting/financial tasks such as bookkeeping and financial modeling for startups.
💸 Puneet Anand and Preetam Joshi raised a $2.3M Pre-Seed round for AIMon, a startup tackling AI hallucinations, starting with its proprietary hallucination detection model, HDM-1.
💸 Steven Lu raised a $3M Seed round for Pin, an AI-powered recruitment platform that automates candidate sourcing and engagement.
🎙️ Valerie Li, CEO of Duckie (YC W24), wrote an article on how AI is poised to change CX in 2025.
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