Vice City AI Startup Raises $82 Million to Solve Problem That Does Not Exist, Celebrates by Renting Entire Beach
Vice City's newest unicorn-in-waiting, Presync Technologies, announced an $82 million Series B round Tuesday on the strength of a product its founder, 27-year-old Dalton Speers, describes as "a frictionless pre-intentional interface layer for pre-decision behavioural alignment" — a phrase that, after three separate interviews and a 40-page pitch deck, this publication was unable to decode into a coherent noun.
The company, which employs 34 people in a converted Vice Point rooftop space and generates no revenue, counts among its investors three venture capital firms, a family office, a prominent Vice City nightclub promoter, and someone Speers refers to only as "my guy Marcus." Its product, which does not yet exist in testable form, is described in investor materials as "the operating system for human intent" and appears, based on available documentation, to be either a calendar app or a mirror.
The $82 million will be used, according to Speers, primarily for "talent acquisition, infrastructure, and making sure the culture is right" — accompanied by news that Presync has rented the entirety of a private Vice Beach strip for a company offsite this coming weekend.
