Harmonic

"We're quality over quantity in everything we do - we aim for extraordinary.?I make 2-3 investments a year, in founders that are a 17/10 and whose approach challenges or expands the way I think" Moritz Baier-Lentz ??, a Partner at Lightspeed leading their gaming investments, shared his incredible journey to venture capital with us in a private room with ~30 investors at Slush last week. From being the #1 Diablo II player in the world to completing a 250km race across the Sahara and running 7 marathons on 7 continents in 7 days, his story is nothing short of extraordinary. He talked about what extraordinary means to him, how he creates unforgettable community events, and what it takes to?break the meta?in gaming—and maybe even in investing. Thank you for the wisdom bombs Moritz Baier-Lentz ?? ??

The best startups don’t find a market. They define it. Semantic Search powers VCs to define a category in their own words and uncover every relevant startup in that space. Harmonic’s complete startup database, coupled with advancements in AI, is revolutionizing how investors find and evaluate their next fund returners. Semantic Search helps you understand markets and surfaces hidden opportunities by contextualizing search intent and making cross-industry connections. What’s a problem you think is worth solving, a product that should exist, or a business model built to win? Just describe what you’re looking for, and Semantic Search handles the rest. https://lnkd.in/gU7VvzWa

The best startups don’t find a market. They define it. Semantic Search powers VCs to define a category in their own words and uncover every relevant startup in that space. Harmonic’s complete startup database, coupled with advancements in AI, is revolutionizing how investors find and evaluate their next fund returners. Semantic Search helps you understand markets and surfaces hidden opportunities by contextualizing search intent and making cross-industry connections. What’s a problem you think is worth solving, a product that should exist, or a business model built to win? Just describe what you’re looking for, and Semantic Search handles the rest. https://lnkd.in/gU7VvzWa

Here's a new list of 37 early-stage startups founded by repeat founders who sold their previous companies. All are HIRING: 1) Trovo Health - AI healthcare (North America remote/NYC) 2) Rep AI - AI-powered e-commerce engagement (remote) 3) Eon.io - cloud backup (Tel Aviv) 4) Maven AGI - AI support platform (US / Remote) 5) Stedi - API-first healthcare clearinghouse (North America remote) 6) Collective - financial solutions for solopreneurs (remote US / NYC / SF) 7) GreenLite - construction permit software (NYC) 8) Mintlify - developer documentation network (Bay Area) 9) InspectMind AI - AI inspection reports (Bay Area) 10) Shepherd - construction insurance tech (Bay Area/NYC) 11) LiveKit - realtime AI builder (Bay Area/Remote) 12) Qodo (formerly Codium) - AI code quality (TLV/Amsterdam/US) 13) Daydream - AI fashion discovery (US remote) 14) Prophet Security - AI SOC analyst (Bay Area) 15) Monocle - AI retail incentives (NYC/TLV) 16) Stitchflow - corporate IT visibility (Chennai) 17) Ameba - supply chain software (London) 18) Anzen Insurance - executive risk insurance (remote) 19) Linx Security - identity security lifecycle (NYC/TLV) 20) WARP - advanced freight logistics (US remote) 21) VidLab7 - AI personalized videos (Munich) 22) Swarmbotics AI - ground swarm robotics (Scottsdale AZ) 23) Lleverage - AI development platform (Amsterdam/Remote) 24) ForceMetrics - first responder intelligence (Denver) 25) Acai Travel - AI for travel operations (Barcelona) 26) syte - AI real estate analysis (Munster/Germany remote) 27) Aim Security - enterprise GenAI security (Tel Aviv) 28) Alchemy - clinical pharmacy management (San Antonio/Miami/remote) 29) Code Metal - AI development (Boston/US remote) 30) Sola Security - stealth security (Tel Aviv) 31) System Two Security - AI SOC threat hunting (India remote/US remote) 32) Tamnoon - cloud security remediation (US remote) 33) TensorWave - AI inference acceleration (Miami/Las Vegas/US remote) 34) vlayer Labs - verifiable data infrastructure (EU/London remote) 35) Mesa - homeowner rewards membership (North America remote/NYC) 36) Braintrust - enterprise AI builder (Bay Area) 37) Chalk - real-time machine learning (Bay Area/NYC/US remote) Adding direct links to their career pages in the comments ?? follow me for more lists like this every week: Ben Lang ?? join next play if you're exploring what comes next in your journey, whether that's starting something, joining, or unsure ? thank you to Harmonic (startup database) for helping me source the list

Yesterday, we brought a real-life unicorn to Slush. When Harmonic challenged us to create a disruptive guerrilla campaign around the Slush Investor Day event, we knew what we had to do. One custom-built suit of armour and unicorn horn attachment later, we were ready to roll. The event was an unequivocal success: turning heads and connecting the Harmonic team with crowds of investors heading into the event. Hundreds of selfies later, organic posts started popping up on X. Next, Helsingin Sanomat showed up and today, our unicorn showed up in the press. To read more about the campaign, head over to:?https://lnkd.in/djp6qCsb We want to thank Max Ruderman, Darri Atlason, and the entire Harmonic Team for believing in our (slightly absurd) vision. This was a blast. We also want to thank Animal Welfare Finland for guiding us and helping us to ensure a stress-free environment for our unicorn.

These 31 fast-growing startups each raised $10-50M from top-tier funds in recent weeks and are now HIRING: 1) Brightwave - AI research assistant (NYC) 2) CrewAI - multi-agent AI platform (US remote / Brazil remote) 3) Nooks - AI sales dialer (Bay Area / US remote) 4) Browserbase - headless browser automation (Bay Area) 5) Granola - AI meeting notepad (London) 6) Filigran - threat intelligence suite (Paris / US remote) 7) Speakeasy - API SDK platform (Bay Area / London) 8) Socket- dependency security (US remote) 9) Coframe - AI interface optimizer (Bay Area) 10) Peach - loan management (Bay Area / US remote) 11) Table22 - restaurant management (US remote) 12) Archy - dental practice management (US remote) 13) Genie AI - AI legal assistant (Remote) 14) Regal.ai - AI contact center (NYC) 15) Spot AI - AI camera system (Bay Area / US remote / Chile remote) 16) Genmo - AI video creation (Bay Area / remote) 17) AirGarage - parking management (Bay Area / US remote) 18) Dunia - materials discovery (Berlin) 19) Sapien - data labeling (Remote) 20) Stream.Security - cloud security (Tel Aviv / US) 21) Northflank - cloud deployment (London / EU remote) 22) Matia - unified data (Tel Aviv) 23) Ellipsis Labs - crypto finance (NYC) 24) PeopleOne Health - healthcare membership service (Pennsylvania / Florida) 25) PointFive - cloud efficiency (Tel Aviv / US remote) 26) 11x - digital AI workers (Bay Area) 27) Bounce - luggage storage (Lisbon / EU / US) 28) Conduktor - data streaming (NYC / London) 29) Neon - D2C platform for games (Bay Area / NYC) 30) Fleek - vintage wholesale marketplace (London / Bangalore) 31) Stepful - online training for healthcare (NYC) Adding direct links to their career pages in the comments ?? follow me for more lists like this every week: Ben Lang ? thank you to Harmonic (startup database) for helping me source the list

These 30 fast growing, early-stage startups each raised $5-10M from top-tier VC funds in the past few weeks and are now HIRING: 1) Counsel Health - remote medical consultations (NYC/US remote) 2) Tildei - conversational marketing starting with Whatsapp (NYC) 3) Concourse - AI for corporate finance (NYC) 4) Passionfroot - B2B influencer marketing (NYC/Berlin/remote) 5) Infinite Machine - urban electric vehicle maker (NYC) 6) Fondo - startup accounting automation (US remote) 7) Abel Police - automated police paperwork (Bay Area) 8) Endeavor - AI for manufacturing (Bay Area) 9) General Galactic - renewable synthetic fuels (El Segundo/Los Angeles) 10) Early - automated testing generator (Israel) 11) Reflect - orbital solar mirrors (Hawthorne) 12) Feno - smart toothbrush (Culver City) 13) Verax AI - enterprise solutions for gen AI (Tel Aviv) 14) Stream - medical claims automation (Bay Area) 15) hotglue - embedded integration platform (DC/US remote) 16) Hue. - beauty UGC marketplace (US remote/Canada remote) 17) Adfin - invoice management (Iasi/Romania) 18) OpenGradient - open-source model hosting (US remote) 19) Clerk Chat - multi-channel messaging (Bay Area) 20) Yuma AI (YC W23) - e-commerce support automation (US remote/France remote/Barcelona/Spain) 21) Third Dimension AI - game worlds with AI (London/EU remote) 22) Simplismart - inference engine for AI (Bangalore) 23) Emidat - construction environmental intelligence (Munich) 24) BuildPass - AI for construction sites (Australia remote/Austin) 25) Herald - digital infrastructure for commercial insurance (NYC) 26) Rollstack - automated decks and docs (Remote EU/California) 27) First - online prenups (California) 28) Moondream AI - vision AI for devs (Seattle/remote) 29) Speckle - collaborative data hub (remote) 30) Table22 - ecommerce tools for food merchants (remote) links to all of their career pages will be in the comments ?? for more lists like these every week, follow me here: Ben Lang ? if you’re thinking about what’s next (joining a new company or building a startup), check out next play ?? thank you Harmonic (startup database) for helping source the data

the next fintech mafias: current VC backed founders who worked at: Stripe = 94 Square = 77 Coinbase = 65 Revolut = 45 Affirm = 42 Robinhood = 35 Brex = 26 Plaid = 23 Nubank = 19 Gusto = 18 Betterment = 17 Carta = 14 Chime = 9 Deel = 8 Divvy = 8 Rippling = 6 Pleo = 6 Navan = 5 Pilot = 4 Ramp = 4 Mercury = 0 Rho = 0 based on data from Harmonic to qualify for the list fintech has to be over 4 years old, which allows time for employees to full vest and then start a company they have to have a title of Founder at the new startup they have to have raised $1M+ in VC funding

These 39 fast-growing startups each raised $10-50M from top-tier funds in recent weeks and are now HIRING: 1) OpenGradient - open-source model hosting (US remote) 2) Lightdash - self-serve BI (remote) 3) .txt - build on LLM applications (remote) 4) Qodo (formerly Codium) - quality-first AI tools (Tel Aviv / US) 5) Tabs - b2b revenue automation (NYC) 6) Valdera - chemical sourcing (US remote) 7) Lanai Software - AI model integration (Bay Area) 8) Alchemy - on-site pharmacy management (remote / Miami / San Antonio) 9) Tebi - integrated hospitality management (Amsterdam) 10) Decagon - gen AI customer support (Bay Area) 11) Braintrust - enterprise AI development (Bay Area / remote) 12) Distributional - AI system testing (US / Canada remote) 13) RadiantGraph - personalized healthcare AI (Bay Area / remote) 14) General Galactic - renewable synthetic fuel production (El Segundo / LA) 15) Salient Motion - advanced electric propulsion (Irvine) 16) Tennr - healthcare document reasoning model (New York) 17) Fern (YC W23) - API SDK generation (NYC) 18) Omnea - Automated purchasing approvals (Europe / NYC) 19) Daylight - Web3 wallet functionality (NYC / remote) 20) autone - AI retail inventory management (London / NYC / Paris) 21) AirOps - LLM-powered workflow creation (NYC / Bay Area) 22) Granular Energy - clean energy trading software (Europe / NYC) 23) Claim - privacy-focused cashback shopping (US) 24) Rogo - Generative AI for financial firms (NYC) 25) Kick - AI-assisted bookkeeping (US Remote) 26) Cofactr - electronic parts management (NYC / US remote) 27) Numeric - AI-powered accounting automation (NYC / Bay Area) 28) LiveFlow - Automated financial reporting (NYC) 29) Port IO - internal developer portal (Tel Aviv / London / Boston) 30) Galileo ?? - Evaluation intelligence for AI Teams (Bay Area) 31) Ghost - B2B marketplace (LA / US remote) 32) Noetica AI - software for benchmarking deal terms (NYC) 33) Relyance AI - data governance platform (Bay Area / remote) 34) Logik.io - AI-powered CPQ (Deerfield / Bangalore) 35) Centaur Labs - health data annotation (remote US) 36) Wispr Flow - voice dictation (Bay Area) 37) Pallet - Modern logistics (Bay Area / India) 38) Mstack Chemicals - specialty chemicals (Remote US) 39) Resolve AI - AI production engineer (Bay Area) Adding direct links to their career pages in the comments ?? follow me for more lists like this every week: Ben Lang ? thank you to Harmonic (startup database) for helping me source the list

Here's a new list of 36 fast-growing startups (based on LinkedIn follower growth) well funded by VCs, with <50 employees. All are now HIRING: 1) c/side- third-party script monitoring and security (remote) 2) SurePath AI - gen AI governance platform (US remote) 3) Acuvity - gen AI for enterprise (Bay Area) 4) Ameba - supply chain AI (London) 5) Lorikeet - AI-powered customer support platform (Sydney) 6) Applause - employee engagement (Bangladesh / Philippines / Mexico) 7) Wordware (YC S24) - zero overhead solution for building with AI (Bay Area) 8) Aurascape AI - gen AI cybersecurity (Bay Area) 9) Planera, Inc - collaborative construction project scheduling (US remote 10) Brightwave - AI research assistant for investments (NYC) 11) Central (YC S24) - automated payroll and benefits for startups (US remote) 12) SuperAGI - open-source autonomous AI agent framework (India / Bay Area) 13) enso - AI bots for industry-specific services (Tel Aviv / remote) 14) Rillet - AI powered ERP for high growth technology companies (Barcelona / NYC) 15) San Francisco Compute Company - affordable pre-training clusters (Bay Area) 16) Bland AI - AI-powered phone call infrastructure (Bay Area) 17) ExchangeRobotics (Techstars by JPM, Spring '24) - AI platform for credit markets (NYC) 18) Techtrust - pre-vetted technical talent (NYC) 19) Tezi AI - autonomous AI recruiting (Bay Area) 20) Midas - on-chain trading of U.S. Treasuries (remote) 21) VIVA AI - AI platform for dental offices (Bay Area) 22) Fedi - community superapp (US remote) 23) Fractile - high-speed chips for language models (London) 24) GreenLite - expedited construction permitting (NYC) 25) Liberate - insurance automation (US remote) 26) Lleverage - low-code AI development and observability (Amsterdam) 27) Mesa - homeowner membership and rewards (US remote) 28) SlicedHealth - hospital revenue management tech (US remote) 29) Allen Control Systems - counter drone solutions (Alexandra / Austin) 30) Montara Therapeutics, Inc. - precision-medicine for neurological disorders (Bay Area) 31) Nucs AI - personalized cancer care (Berlin) 32) Nurix - AI assistants for sales & support (Bangalore) 33) OrbitShift.AI - AI for consultative sales motions (Bangalore) 34) Palm - AI powered treasury management (Stockholm / Amsterdam) 35) SirenOpt - sensors for thin film manufacturing (Bay Area) 36) Skynopy - satellite connectivity solution provider (Paris) links to all of their career pages will be in the comments ?? for more lists like these every week, follow me here: Ben Lang ? if you’re thinking about what’s next (joining a new company or building a startup), check out next play ?? thank you Harmonic (startup database) for helping source the data