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.
Drawing on more than a decade spent helping build some of the world’s most influential AI systems, including research that later informed the development of ChatGPT, Andrew explains why he believes visual AI is one of the next major frontiers in artificial intelligence. “You have models that are doing really great at math, really great...
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