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The AI forecasting company for global macro events.
We build forecasting agents for global macro events.
Prior to joining YC, Veniamin was a PhD student at Princeton where he worked on large language models. His work is widely cited and covered by the media. Before that, he did research in Toronto, Switzerland, Germany, and had a brief stint at a Ukrainian start up building interactive tables.
We make selling easier than buying
Rid offers a service that sells user-supplied items for them. The Bay Area launch text explains that users text a photo of what they want to sell, Rid’s AI-backed agents oversee listings and negotiations, coordinate pickup, and match sellers with buyers, with service expanding to other areas via zip-code signups.
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