Welcome back to Top Startups! Despite the hiring freeze across Big Tech, there are many well-funded startups with lean teams that are actively hiring.
Here are my favorites for this week. Any of these catch your eye, let me know and I can intro you π:
Pogo | FinTech / Data | πΈ $15M Seed from 20VC, Founders of Honey & Carta | 20 employees π€
What they do: Helping everyday consumers earn and save by unlocking power of their data
What I like: Very fast growth β $XM+ revenue run rate and 6-figures in users within 7 months of launch; engagement on par with Snapchat & Twitter; 4.9 stars across 25K reviews
Rutter | E-Commerce API | πΈ $27M Series A from A16Z | 35 employees π€
What they do: Building a universal API for commerce data
What I like: Theyβre doing for e-commerce data what Plaid did for financial data; commerce tools are fragmented which means heavy eng time coding integrations; Rutter is building an API to make integrations fast and easy; already processing billions(!) of transactions for customers like Ramp in year 1
Hex | SaaS | πΈ $52M Series B from A16Z, Snowflake, Databricks | 50 employees
What they do: Building workspace for collaborative analytics and data science; turning data into knowledge
What I like: Companies spend billions on their data stack with the goal to turn that data into knowledge; yet tooling to create knowledge for decision-making was basically non-existent until Hex came along; used by thousands of people incl. data teams at Notion, AngelList, Loom, GoPuff
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-Linda