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Avi Patel@avipat_ · May 15, 2026, 8:25 PM
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General Catalyst just co-led a $31.5 million seed round into a blatant rip-off of my company, Kled. (skip to 40 seconds if you want to skip context) I would typically not speak on things like this, but this level of blatant copycatting is egregious and completely unacceptable, and needs to be made an example of. This is one of hundreds of YC startups who have conducted this disgusting behavior. Unimaginative slop that continues to get rewarded due to nepotism.

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@avipat_ Happens quite often, unfortunately. Competition is validation and most VC-backed companies are basically forced to spend that cash quickly to continue running on the “sell my company as if that’s the only way to grow it” treadmill. We are outperforming almost every co in our space who has raised 10x-20x more than us. A small group of good investors beats any bad, large one any day. You got this

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