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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_ What kind of Nepotism would get you that ridiculous amount of funding? Brother how this is just the most ridiculous stuff. If you look at their background, they are like 18 19yo kids with 0 professional experience - literally look at their linkedin, one studied Business and one studied CS at Berkeley, 0 professional experience let alone tech entrepreneurship experience, they are literally kids who just did exams and assignments their whole life wow. As you shown in the video their app

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