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Sequoia's Surge announces 7th cohort with 15 Indian and Southeast Asian startups

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Surge, Sequoia India and Southeast Asia's rapid scale-up programme, has launched its seventh cohort, featuring 37 founders across 15 early-stage startups. The selected companies are: Attentive: a vertical SaaS (software-as-a-Service) company building a sales automation platform for America's outdoor services contractors. Beam: is building a one-click checkout solution that enables a frictionless payment experience for sellers and shoppers in Southeast Asia. Boxs: a design-to-build automation platform for architects, interior designers and construction companies. BuyerAssist: helps B2B revenue teams win enterprise deals and grow customer accounts using Mutual Success Plans (MSPs). ClearFeed: a collaboration platform that uses AI models to enable natural language ticketing on Slack and Microsoft Teams, and provides connectivity to backend ticketing tools like Zendesk, Salesforce and Freshdesk. Gan: leverages AI to create customised videos at scale, empowering brands to build personal connections with their customers. Hatica: provides engineering managers and leaders with the visibility and insights to help them build productive and healthy engineering teams. MetaSchool: makes it easier for developers to learn, build and ship dApps to prepare them for opportunities in the emerging Web3 ecosystem. PixCap: an animation platform that allows users with no design experience to create animations for 3D illustrations, games, and designs. Pratech Brands: helps new-age Indian consumers upgrade their quality of life through better home and health products. Semaai: is building a full-stack tech solution for Indonesia's agriculture sector. TrueFoundry: enables startups to deploy and monitor machine learning (ML) models at the speed of big tech companies, in minutes or days instead of weeks or months. Unravel Carbon: an enterprise software company that helps companies track and reduce their carbon emissions. Whiz: Indonesia's first fintech company for teenagers, is on a mission to empower a new generation of financial whiz kids. The last startup is a stealth mode startup operating in the travel space.