Welcome back to Top Startups! Each week, I share whoβs freshly funded by the best investors, and looking to hire.
For those who missed it, hereβs my honest take on how to avoid dumpster fires ποΈ π₯and pick a winning startup π.
Now back to our regular programming:
Watershed | Sustainability | πΈ $70M Series B from Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins | 60 employees π€
What they do: Building software that helps companies reduce carbon footprint in weeks, not years
What I like: Giving companies out-of-the-box solution to measure and actually reduce carbon emissions by buying clean power, funding carbon removal; attracted the whoβs who of customers from Stripe to Airbnb and Figma; designed to be sticky because letβs face it, carbon neutral is a forever journey
Alchemy | Crypto | πΈ $200M Series C from A16Z | 70 employees π€
What they do: Building tooling and infrastructure for developers to build reliable decentralized applications, like the AWS of blockchain
What I like: Perfect analogy of selling shovels in a gold rush β there will be winners and many losers in crypto, but the tools those companies use to build is the most resilient of them all; already powers OpenSea, Circle, Axie Infinity
Pogo | FinTech | πΈ $15M Seed from founders of Honey & Carta | 10 employees π€
What they do: Helping everyday consumers earn and save by unlocking the power of data
What I like: Lightning-fast growth β Iβm talking $XM+ revenue run rate and 6-figures in users within 7 months of launch; engagement on par with Snapchat; 4.9 rating across 17K+ reviews
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-Linda