Welcome back to Top Startups! Thereโs a hiring freeze across Big Tech, but there are many well-funded startups with lean teams that are still actively hiring.
Here are my favorites for this week. Any of these catch your eye, let me know and I can intro you ๐:
Opaque | Analytics | ๐ธ $22M Series A from Intel Capital | 15 employees
What they do: Help companies share and analyze confidential data while maintaining privacy
What I like: Thereโs a rising tension between data use and privacy, Opaque is pioneering breakthroughs to achieve the best of both worlds โ a $54B opportunity; already working with large banks to fight money laundering by sharing confidential data securely and privately; stellar founding team incl. co-founder and former CEO of Databricks, MIT and Berkeley alums
Matik | SaaS | ๐ธ $20M Series A from A16Z | 30 employees
What they do: If youโve ever built a deck, you know how soul-sucking it is to pull data, format and update into graphs, rinse and repeat hundreds of times; fear not, Matik now generates personalized presentations in minutes
What I like: Solving a pain for customers who are highly willing to pay; saving companies like Glassdoor, Asana, Angel and Envoy thousands of hours while growing their revenueย
Synthesia | AI SaaS | ๐ธ $50M Series B from Kleiner Perkins | 100 employees
What they do: Building AI that generates polished videos in minutes
What I like: When it comes to conveying information, video > image > text but videos have traditionally been a headache to make; Synthesia has built a tool used by 8000+ companies to convert docs, PPTs and PDFs into engaging training and marketing videos; think Canva for video
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-Linda