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Beluga

YC Spring 2025 Active

Creator marketing that scales like paid ads

https://www.trybeluga.ai/ ↗
Thesis fit
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Within your typical scope; diligence still required.

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How close the company’s idea is to your thesis statement

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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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YC company pages list founders in page JSON, but we only scrape a capped slice of the directory. Pull this slug with .venv/bin/python run_sourcing.py --sources yc_founders --slugs beluga then re-ingest. Open on YC ↗

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