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Dialect

YC Summer 2020 Acquired

Making internet experiences distributable and actionable everywhere

https://dialect.to ↗
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Your thesis: “We back exceptional technical founders building AI-first products and infrastructure, deploying $100K checks within 24 hours.”

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Founder, Dialect | Former quantum engineer and software tech lead, Rigetti Computing | Physics Ph.D., Columbia University
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