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Solo founders are underestimated. Despite solo-founded companies like Midjourney, Vercel and ODF startups like Loyal, Pave, and Settle proving the model works, many investors continue to push founders to find co-founders before taking them seriously. We're changing that narrative — starting today. We're launching two initiatives to help encourage and support solo founders: 1) Solo Club — a community for solo founders at all stages 2) Solo Founders Program — a 3-month program for 6 solo founders in SF - Housing in SF with an additional full-floor office - Incredibly talented founders wanting to spend 3 months building together. - $800K+ in perks/credits - Stipend for personal costs (as an investment) Link to apply in the comments

Excited to see the Finch + Mercury partnership come to life at Mercury Spheres yesterday. Back in 2020, Immad invited us to the Mercury office to explore ideas ranging from transaction enrichment to RTP. Five years later, Mercury is a Finch customer. When Mercury approached us to power new products, it was a clear opportunity to support a company shaping the future of modern business. I’m thrilled to see these features go live and watch Mercury expand what’s possible with Finch. Thank you, Jeremy, Andrew, Immad, and the Mercury team for the partnership!

Cactus (YC X25) is the AI copilot for solopreneurs. Think Jarvis for Iron Man. Admin is killing solopreneurs. Every solopreneur starts their business because they love their work. Solopreneurs like private chefs, caterers, photographers, and personal trainers receive hundreds of inquiries weekly. They’re busy working, miss out on opportunities, and can’t scale their business. Cactus answers the phone, qualifies leads, and handles bookings so the business owner has a full schedule. Their AI business assistant manages the admin so the owner can focus on what they love. Every user gets a personalized website, AI receptionist, and booking system. Since launching, Cactus has helped over 100 private chefs grow their businesses and is growing rapidly. The founding team, Ajith Govind Satheesh and Avinash Joshi, are college batchmates. After becoming new dads, they hired personal chefs and built AI tools to help the chefs solve their pain. Some early users doubled their income and built multi-month waitlists. Cactus will empower the first billionaire solopreneur. Congrats on the launch, Ajith and Avinash! 🚀 https://lnkd.in/g52HYMzN

ODF was pivotal for me and hostAI: • Met my co-founder through the On Deck Founders community  • Built alongside and learned from founders facing the same zero-to-one problems in a curated mastermind group • Timely sanity checks and advice from Julian when they mattered most The cherry on top: perks stack that shaved real dollars off our early burn ODF25 kicks off May 30 in SF and runs on a pay-what-you-can, non-dilutive model. If you’re thinking about building something and are at the drawing board, it’s pretty incredible ROI and it's non-dilutive. Apps close soon. Ping me if you’d like to hear more about my experience.

announcing Superpower's $30m Series A to build the world's first AI doctor and health super app led by Forerunner ventures. -- health is about to look radically different. in the next few years, every person will have an AI doctor in their pocket, that understands everything about them and everything about medicine. -- giving you complete control over your health. chronic disease won't be a surprise, and it will be easy to feel great. today, this is only possible at concierge clinics with personal doctors and $100k+/yr price tags. tomorrow, Superpower democratizes for all. this funding will vastly accelerate our vision of what health can look like in the AI era. -- forever grateful to be serving a mission this big with such an incredible team Max Marchione Hannah Ahn Kevin Unkrich Manoj Arachige Shaun Miller Fritz Stauffacher Amada Reyes🔋 Albe T. Daniel Selans Ustin Zarubin Adam Small Landon Hamilton Erhan Justice, Long Journey , Susa Ventures, Day One Ventures, and hundreds of others.