How 2 high school teens raised a $500K seed round for their API startup (yes, it’s AI)

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How 2 high school teens raised a $500K seed round for their API startup (yes, it’s AI)

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18-year-olds Christopher Fitzgerald and Nicholas Van Landschoot have founded APIGen, a platform to build custom APIs from natural language prompts.
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How 2 high school teens raised a $500K seed round for their API startup (yes, it’s AI)

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