Premoney 29: Curio & Gambix
Emotional fitness training & websites that redesign themselves
Welcome to week 29!!! Today, we’re featuring another company from the On Deck deal flow program, as well as featuring my company, Swapstack, beta launch on Product Hunt!
🚀 Swapstack Beta is Live on Product Hunt
Company: Swapstack
Update: After ~4 months of building, we’re finally ready to release Swapstack beta on Product Hunt! Swapstack is a marketplace that connects newsletter creators to brands, with a goal of becoming “every creators sales team” and “every brands creator-partnerships hub.”
How to help: We’d LOVE your support on Product Hunt today, and if you’re a brand or creator interested in what we’re doing - would love to chat!
🚀 This weeks companies!
Company: Curio
Founder: Hillary Lin, MD
Source: Note that Curio was introduced to me through Erik Torenbergs On Deck Angel network, meaning it has been through deep due diligence and has passed a very high bar.
Stage: Raising $500k pre-seed, $25 min check, $7M post-money SAFE
Vertical: Future of Work, Health
Business Model: B2B2C, SaaS
1-liner: Curio is a B2B SaaS startup making emotional fitness training fun and data-focused for teams.
Description: Hillary is a Stanford-trained physician with a background in game design working on Curio to up-level EQ. Our products are humorous and driven by data, leading to novel approach to emotional fitness training. We have completed our testing of the market both on the side of end users and that of customers (corporations). We're raising now to build out our production-level product and content.
Traction indicators:
500 individual testers
33 company pilot sessions
3 LOIs
First successful paid company pilot completed
Fun Founder Question:
Question: “What will you miss most about the last year?”
Answer: “All the changes! It was scary but also exciting to make a ton of life moves.”
Company: Gambix
Founder: Julian Patton
Stage: Pre-seed, raising $1M. Open to small checks
Vertical: Artificial Intelligence, UX, No Code, SaaS
Business Model: B2B2C
1-liner: Websites that design and redesign themselves.
Description: Our artificial intelligence website builder TAI is
designed for entrepreneurs, small businesses, and enterprises who
struggle to adapt to the rapid changes ushered in by the web 3.0
frontier. Our AI tools leverage machine learning and neural networks
to recreate existing websites and graphic design to keep up with
modern demands, all while saving massive amounts of time, money, and
effort.
Traction indicators:
Full profitable & completion
$5k MRR
Recent pitches with Accenture, Tedco, and Newchip with strong
partnership interest
Fun Founder Question:
Question: “Pizza or Pasta?”
Answer: “Pizza because you have so many ways to customize it.”
Thats all for this week!
Thanks everyone,
Jake