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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 isdesigned for entrepreneurs, small businesses, and enterprises whostruggle to adapt to the rapid changes ushered in by the web 3.0frontier. Our AI tools leverage machine learning and neural networksto recreate existing websites and graphic design to keep up withmodern demands, all while saving massive amounts of time, money, andeffort.

Traction indicators:

  • Full profitable & completion

  • $5k MRR

  • Recent pitches with Accenture, Tedco, and Newchip with strongpartnership 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