How a former DeepMind researcher raised at a $300M pre-seed valuation before launching a product
THE SO WHAT
A $300M pre-product pre-seed around visual AI is a bet that specific technical talent and a frontier modality can still command scarcity premiums even as LLMs commoditize. If you're building in a hot lane without that pedigree or thesis clarity, assume the bar for narrative, data access, and early design partners just went up.
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