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Jul 2020
Forethought is the most advanced agentic AI system for customer support, trained on your unique data and ready on day one. Powered by Autoflows technology, it autonomously handles complex issues end-to-end by reasoning, planning, following up, integrating APIs, and troubleshooting. With a multi-agent architecture, Forethought’s AI supports your team across channels, solving customer issues, assisting human agents, and uncovering valuable insights. Transform your support operations with AI that learns and adapts to deliver more accurate, context-rich responses at scale.
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Jun 2020
Hooray makes delicious plant-based meats that are designed to look, cook, and taste just like the real thing. Plants that remind us of our favorite meats while being made of ingredients we can feel good about? Now that's something to celebrate and say Hooray!
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2019
Linearity, is designed to help you bring your ideas to life. Whether youre a marketing pro or a design enthusiast, you can now create sleek marketing assets with Linearity Curve and then transform them into professional marketing motion graphics with Linearity Move. It all started in 2017 when we introduced Linearity Curve (formally Vectornator) to the world with the goal of making professional digital design accessible to everyone. Over the years our features expanded and our functionalities multiplied, transforming what started as a simple solution into a versatile software that now caters to design teams of all levels. Today, with a focus on offering AI-powered and collaborative tools for creating marketing visual assets and the imminent launch of Linearity Move, a groundbreaking motion graphics software that allows anyone to create animated content quickly and easily, Linearity aims to empower marketing professionals, graphic designers, illustrators, and animators to unlock their creative potential. Recognizing the lack of modern collaboration features in traditional marketing design tools, Linearity Curves platform empowers marketing teams to work seamlessly together. Real-time collaboration, commenting, proprietary cloud storage and advanced design features will be coming soon and enable marketers to breathe life into their creative ideas, fostering efficient workflows and unleashing their storytelling potential. The company has also just launched its game-changing motion graphics software, Linearity Move, in a completely new take on the way motion marketing assets are created. With its user-friendly interface, Linearity Move enables marketing teams to effortlessly transform their designs into animations within seconds.
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2020
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Jul 2020
Forethought is the most advanced agentic AI system for customer support, trained on your unique data and ready on day one. Powered by Autoflows technology, it autonomously handles complex issues end-to-end by reasoning, planning, following up, integrating APIs, and troubleshooting. With a multi-agent architecture, Forethought’s AI supports your team across channels, solving customer issues, assisting human agents, and uncovering valuable insights. Transform your support operations with AI that learns and adapts to deliver more accurate, context-rich responses at scale.
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Jun 2020
Hooray makes delicious plant-based meats that are designed to look, cook, and taste just like the real thing. Plants that remind us of our favorite meats while being made of ingredients we can feel good about? Now that's something to celebrate and say Hooray!
2019
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2019
Linearity, is designed to help you bring your ideas to life. Whether youre a marketing pro or a design enthusiast, you can now create sleek marketing assets with Linearity Curve and then transform them into professional marketing motion graphics with Linearity Move. It all started in 2017 when we introduced Linearity Curve (formally Vectornator) to the world with the goal of making professional digital design accessible to everyone. Over the years our features expanded and our functionalities multiplied, transforming what started as a simple solution into a versatile software that now caters to design teams of all levels. Today, with a focus on offering AI-powered and collaborative tools for creating marketing visual assets and the imminent launch of Linearity Move, a groundbreaking motion graphics software that allows anyone to create animated content quickly and easily, Linearity aims to empower marketing professionals, graphic designers, illustrators, and animators to unlock their creative potential. Recognizing the lack of modern collaboration features in traditional marketing design tools, Linearity Curves platform empowers marketing teams to work seamlessly together. Real-time collaboration, commenting, proprietary cloud storage and advanced design features will be coming soon and enable marketers to breathe life into their creative ideas, fostering efficient workflows and unleashing their storytelling potential. The company has also just launched its game-changing motion graphics software, Linearity Move, in a completely new take on the way motion marketing assets are created. With its user-friendly interface, Linearity Move enables marketing teams to effortlessly transform their designs into animations within seconds.
Lead Mentor for Techstars Space Accelerator
2019
Techstars helps founders scale their startups into world-changing businesses.
Founded in 2006, Techstars is on a mission to invest in startups to enable more capital to flow to more entrepreneurs around the world in order to deliver exceptional returns to our investors. We do this by operating accelerator programs and venture capital funds, as well as by connecting startups, investors, corporations, and cities to help build thriving startup communities.
Our results show why Techstars is Better for Founders than any other global accelerator: On average, 74.5% of Techstars companies will raise money within 3 years of their program; 18.5% of Techstars portfolio companies have exited 5 years after their program and 31.1% after eight years. (PitchBook June 2023)
2014
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
Oct 2014
We design innovative digital products and experiences that have the potential to make large societal and cultural impacts and are passionate about supporting founders with a meaningful vision for the world. Through creativity and product design, we help companies reach their potential.
TM is an award-winning design and innovation firm in San Francisco, founded by Steph Bain and Shaun Modi. Our clients are startups and large businesses from a variety of industries including consumer products, online marketplaces, education, healthcare, enterprise, security, messaging, social platforms, and electric vehicles. Our services include product strategy, branding, experience design, service design, interfaces, mobile apps, and websites.
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