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

TechCrunch | 16.07.2026 22:02
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.