Picks of the Week!!! Data-Driven VC promotes exciting founders and startups sourced in Harmonic every week. This week features two heavy hitters now working in stealth 🥷 and startups ready for takeoff. 🚀 After almost 10 years at SpaceX, Scott Morton is now building in stealth. 🎬 13 years at Netflix and 6 years at Yahoo! Mohit Vora brings a wealth of experience as Co-founder and CTO of a newly formed startup. Check out the full issue by Dr. Andre Retterath and Jérôme Jaggi in the comments.
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Check out this list of fast-growing startups, all backed by great investors! Curated by Ben Lang. Created on Harmonic.
These 36 breakout startups, backed by top-tier funds, have all doubled their team sizes in the past 6 months and are now HIRING: 1) Pogo - earn and save on everything (remote US / NYC) 2) Caldera - high-performance ethereum rollup (Bay Area / remote) 3) Chamber - improved cardiovascular health (DC / remote) 4) Amber Therapeutics - adaptive neuromodulation therapy (remote) 5) Skild AI - general purpose robotic intelligence (Pittsburgh / Bay Area/ Bangalore) 6) Rhythms - AI-powered OS for high-performing teams (Bay Area / India) 7) k-ID - safety and privacy-by-design solutions for digital platforms (US remote / Singapore) 8) Cartwheel - text-to-animation platform (Remote) 9) Dosu - AI teammate for coding (Bay Area) 10) Suno - AI music (Boston / NY / remote) 11) Dispatch - data orchestration for wealthtech (NYC / Bay Area / Remote) 12) Base Power Company - reliable / affordable energy (Austin) 13) Neros Technologies - unmanned defense systems (El Segundo) 14) Pika - idea to video platform (Bay Area) 15) Quanta - real-time accounting for software companies (Bay Area) 16) Chalk - data platform for machine learning (Bay Area / NYC) 17) Nominal - test data for mission-critical systems (Austin / LA) 18) Braintrust - enterprise AI (Bay Area) 19) Stainless - easy-to-use APIs (NYC) 20) Greenlite - AML operations with AI (Bay Area) 21) Anon - Integration platform for AI (Bay Area) 22) Anterior (formerly Co:Helm) - health plans for the future (Bay Area / London) 23) Decagon - AI platform for customer support (Bay Area) 24) Leya - AI legal (Stockholm) 25) 11x.ai - AI sales rep (Bay Area) 26) Numeric - AI-powered close automation (Bay Area / NYC) 27) Factory - autonomy for software engineering (Bay Area) 28) Cape - private / secure mobile carrier (NYC / DC) 29) Zafran Security - centralized threat exposure management (Tel Aviv / US Remote) 30) Dynamic - wallet creation and user management (Remote US / EU) 31) Advocate Health - benefits (Bay Area / NYC) 32) Ambience Healthcare - AI operating system for healthcare (Remote US / Bay Area) 33) Apron - invoice and payroll (London) 34) SmarterDx - Clinical AI (Remote US) 35) Contextual AI - Contextual language models for enterprise (Bay Area) 36) PermitFlow - Software for developers, builders, contractors (NYC) Adding direct links to their career pages in the comments. 👋 follow me for more lists like this every week: Ben Lang ✨ credit to Harmonic (startup database) for helping me source the data
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Find your fund returners 👀 Each week, Dr. Andre Retterath and Jérôme Jaggi from Data-Driven VC bring you a curated selection of the most promising stealth, early-stage, and growth startups sourced on Harmonic. Here are three standouts from this week’s selection. 🥷 XZ Tie, a Computer Science PhD and former AI and Data Engineering Leader at Notion, Netflix, and Meta, started building in stealth last month. 📈 The AI sales automation platform AISDR is looking ready to raise again, 9 months after its $3M seed round, which included Pioneer Fund, Flyer One Ventures, Rebel Fund, and more. 🇪🇸 Onum, a data observability platform, is growing rapidly, adding 8 people in the last 3 months, including several GTM hires. The team is backed by notable investors such as Insight Partners, Dawn Capital and Kibo Ventures. Check out the entire list in the comments and sign up for DDVC’s newsletters!
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Stealth founders ready for takeoff 🚀 Take a look at three highlights from the Picks of the Week brought to you by Data-Driven VC and built on Harmonic. 🔬 Princeton University and Stanford University Graduate School of Business alum Kayj Shannon is building a biotech company in stealth after leaving Zafrens. 🇩🇰 Pelle Sommansson, one of the co-founders of Strava and former Head of Product at Klarna announced he's working on a stealth company earlier this month. 🕶 Former Head of Federal Delivery at Scale AI, Brandon (Woody) G., is working in stealth. He previously worked at Palantir Technologies and Virtustream. Check out the full Picks of the Week by Dr. Andre Retterath and Jérôme Jaggi at DDVC in the comments.
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VCs invest in magical user experiences—so why settle for anything less in the tools they use? At Harmonic, we’re constantly enhancing our user experience to make the best even better. This past sprint we released: - Infinite scroll - Revamped grid loading - Bulk actions - List search - Larger exports - Okta login Check out the Loom to see these in action: https://lnkd.in/ev3xQAb9
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Picks Picks Picks! VCs using Harmonic find stealth and seed-stage founders 6-12 months ahead of those using the competition. Here are three exciting examples found on Harmonic and shared by Data-Driven VC in their Picks of the Week. 🇺🇸 Palantir Technologies, McKinsey & Company, and Stanford University alum Sam Bolian left her post as Head of Product at Plural in April to start something new. 🇩🇰 Serial entrepreneur Jakob Olund Kristensen was an early employee at Pleo, where he last served as Product Lead. He's now working in stealth after moving on from Weld, which he co-founded. 🇫🇷 Osium AI (YC S23) enables the development of better materials, 10x faster. Founders Sarah Najmark and Luisa Bouneder have added six people to their team since raising a seed round in late 2023. Investors include Kima Ventures, Collaborative Fund, Singular, Y Combinator, Atomico, and more. Check out the full Picks of the Week by Dr. Andre Retterath and Jérôme Jaggi at DDVC in the comments.
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If you are in the VC space, you should know one of the early drivers of "Moneyball for VC". That's Gopinath Sundaramurthy, Ph.D Gopi partnered with the Kauffman Fellows Fund on implementing these concepts in their investment process. The results were staggering. 50% of the investments the fund made became unicorns. In Gopi's words 👇🏻 "We knew something was working, so we thought: Let's build this a little bigger." What did that look like in practice? 1️⃣ Gopi's firm uses a single ‘source of truth’ platform to centralize information, improving decision-making and consistency. 2️⃣ They maintain an even 50/50 split between data engineers and investors to ensure they leverage data to gain insights into teams, markets, and products. Want to learn more about what Gopi and the team at Ensemble VC has implemented at their firm? Check out the case study that our sponsor Harmonic published about the firm -->
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The picks are 🔥 this week Here are three standouts featured in Picks of the Week. The picks are sourced on Harmonic and curated by Dr. Andre Retterath and Jérôme Jaggi from Data-Driven VC. 👻 David Evans: After stepping down as Director of Engineering at Snap Inc. in January, David has quietly been working on a new venture. Previously, he co-founded PlayCanvas, which Snap acquired. 🐣 Context.ai: This startup is accelerating its market presence in text analytics for LLM products, recently making its first GTM hire. Just under a year ago, Context.ai raised a seed round from 20VC, GV (Google Ventures), Theory Ventures, and others. 📈 Exaforce: Supported by Khosla Ventures and Mayfield Fund, Exaforce focuses on optimizing cloud security operations for startups. Interestingly, the company has expanded its team from 14 to 22 in the last 90 days! Check out the full Picks of the Week in the comments.
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Fresh Picks! Every week, Dr. Andre Retterath and Jérôme Jaggi from Data-Driven VC, in collaboration with Harmonic, spotlight the hottest stealth, early, and growth startups. Here are three highlights from this week’s batch. Anubhav Guha, a former MIT researcher with experience at NASA, Aurora Flight Sciences, and Toyota Research Institute, announced he’s building in stealth earlier this month. Holdbar is building a system to sell experiences. Backed by firstminute capital, Seed Capital Denmark, and others, Holdbar has grown its headcount by nearly 60% in the last 90 days. AutogenAI has seen steady growth after its Series B. It added 26 people in the last 90 days, while website traffic grew 66%. Autogen offers an AI-powered bid writing engine, and its investors include Salesforce Ventures, Blossom Capital, and Spark Capital. Check out the entire list in the comments, sign up for DDVC’s newsletters and let us know what you’d like to see more of.