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How a former DeepMind researcher raised at a $300M pre-seed valuation before launching a product

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How a former DeepMind researcher raised at a $300M pre-seed valuation before launching a product

Andrew Dai left Google DeepMind knowing visual AI was the frontier he wanted to stake his claim in. He pulled off a whirlwind fundraise that resulted in a more aggressive valuation-to-capital ratio than Thinking Machines, which raised one of the largest rounds in U.S. history.

In this episode of Build Mode, host and Startup Battlefield lead Isabelle Johannessen sits down with Andrew Dai, founder and CEO of Elorian and former Google DeepMind researcher, to discuss how his company raised a $55 million seed round at a $300 million valuation just months after leaving Google.

Originally reported by TechCrunch. Read the full story at the original source.