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Surface Labs

YC Summer 2023 Active

Building the AI-powered marketing ops platform that turns website…

https://withsurface.com ↗
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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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