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Henry Ward

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Mark Pincus

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Ben Horowitz

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Tony Xu

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Scott Belsky

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Jeff Lawson

Twilio

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Hedra is an AI native platform for multimodal creation. The platform
combines their own cutting-edge proprietary video models with other
leading foundation models into intuitive workflows spanning
generative images, video, and audio. Prosumer and enterprise users
leverage Hedra to generate content ranging from viral social media to
branded content marketing.

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"The speedrun founder community is amazing.

I've been building consumer products for over a decade at ByteDance
and Google, and have never seen such a high concentration of talent
and high-retention products. The founder journey can be lonely, but
having a support network of other high-caliber founders is so
invaluable."

Lucky Zhang

Founder and CEO of Sekai

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"Altera wouldn't have been the same without speedrun.

Speedrun was an incredible experience that reinforced in us the
importance of velocity--shipping and learning quickly. We leveraged
the program to iterate our way toward PMF faster. And we love working
with the speedrun team--they had a solution for all of our questions
from cloud credits, to early access to new AI model releases, to
intros to key decision-makers at Google, Meta, and X. Jon Lai and the
team have grown into some of our closest friends and advisors."

Robert Yang

Founder and CEO of Altera

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"We are where we are today because of speedrun.

Speedrun's involvement since leading our pre-seed round has been
transformational for k-ID. They've been instrumental in securing top
talent, including our CTO, connecting us with vital early design
partners, and offering sharp strategic guidance on everything from
pricing to fundraising--paving the way for our oversubscribed Series
A."

Kieran Donovan

Founder and CEO of k-ID

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"Joining speedrun was a great decision for Echo Chess.

We received strong support from the team, accelerating our path to
PMF. They also introduced me to the investor who eventually led my
next round. Most importantly, I loved being a part of an inspiring
community full of smart, ambitious founders working on hard
problems."

Sami Ramly

Founder and CEO of Echo Chunk

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