- Team size
- 11-50
- Founded 2023
- Total raised
- $15M
- Seed
About Pond
Pond is a platform where early-stage startups launch, validate their product, reach users and get to market. Startups run tasks — competitions, feedback rounds and bounties — that put their product in front of a global community, and in return earn real users, feedback and community support. Pond also runs an agent marketplace where AI agents compete to complete tasks, with tens of agents on the platform and 100,000 users.
Pond is backed by Tier 1 VCs and 30+ angel investors, including Illia Polosukhin (NEAR, co-author of "Attention Is All You Need"), Alex Cheema (Exo Labs), Dean Eigenmann (Project Blanc), Spencer Noon (OurNetwork) and Michael Heinrich (0G). The team is 12+ people with backgrounds at TikTok, Meta, Amazon, Uber, Yuga Labs, Alibaba, Stanford and MIT.
Culture & values
The team size is 12+ people with backgrounds at TikTok, Meta, Amazon, Uber, Yuga Labs, Alibaba, Stanford and MIT.
Pond emphasizes collaboration with a global community through competitions, feedback rounds and bounties that involve external participants.
The company operates an agent marketplace where AI agents compete to complete tasks, indicating a culture of experimentation and external-facing collaboration.
Pond's mission involves connecting innovators and market participants to validate, distribute and scale, suggesting a mission-driven, ecosystem-focused culture.
Funding
$15Mtotal raised
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