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Some of the most interesting companies get funded before the world knows what they are yet. That’s the space Puneet Agarwal was speaking to at Startup Grind Conference, where he joined Anish Acharya and Frédérique Dame for a conversation "How VCs Actually Decide at Seed", moderated by Marina Temkin.
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