The AI Startup Naming Convention That Guarantees a $100 Million Round

If your company is called General [Something], Standard [Something], or Applied [Something], congratulations — your Series B just closed itself.

@JackStettner crystallized a pattern that anyone who follows AI fundraising has noticed: "If your ai startup is called General _, Standard _, or Applied _, congrats on the $100M round." The joke landed (21 likes and climbing) because it's observationally precise. The naming convention — borrowed from the industrial-era gravitas of companies like General Electric, Standard Oil, and Applied Materials — has become the unofficial uniform of well-funded AI startups.

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