Tip-offs
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Feb 20, 2026
Each week, we surface high-potential startups & promising founders.
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🧑💼 Hiring Frenzy
Startups seeing a surge in job openings.
Cayaba Care | 11x growth in 3 months
Maternal health platform providing comprehensive pregnancy and postpartum support while improving care coordination with medical providers. Raised a $4.39M Venture round in Mar 2024.
Philadelphia, US
QuoteWell | 6x growth in 3 months
Digital-first insurance platform built to modernize quoting and distribution workflows for the insurance industry. Raised a $12M Series A in Oct 2025 from New Enterprise Associates.
Austin, US
Caravelo | 3x growth in 3 months
Travel tech company enabling airlines and travel brands to launch and manage subscription-based revenue models. Raised a $3.72M Series A in Sep 2023 from Samaipata.
Barcelona, Spain
Kuva Space | 2x growth in 3 months
Planetary intelligence company combining hyperspectral satellites and AI to deliver decision-ready environmental insights. Received a Grant in Nov 2023 from Business Finland.
Espoo, Finland
OpenRouter | 2x growth in 3 months
AI infrastructure platform offering a unified API to access multiple LLMs across providers. Raised a $40M Series A in Jun 2025 from Andreessen Horowitz and Menlo Ventures.
New York, US
🌱 GTM Climbers
Startups with the fastest-growing GTM teams.
Dash0 | 400% growth in 3 months
AI-powered observability platform helping developers and SREs monitor and understand application performance faster. Raised a $35M Series A in Oct 2025 from DIG Ventures, Accel & Cherry Ventures.
New York, US
Opus | 300% growth in 3 months
AI video editing tool that transforms long-form content into short clips for social media. Raised a $20M Series A in Mar 2025 from SoftBank Vision Fund.
Palo Alto, US
Snappt | 233% growth in 3 months
AI-powered fraud detection and verification platform for property managers and landlords. Raised $50M in Debt Financing in Aug 2025 from Hercules Capital.
Los Angeles, US
Qovery | 200% growth in 3 months
DevOps automation platform simplifying cloud infrastructure management for development teams. Raised a $13M Series A in Sep 2025 from Crane Venture Partners and IRIS.
Paris, France
Zenskar | 200% growth in 3 months
AI-native order-to-cash platform automating contracts, metering, invoicing, and revenue recognition for finance teams. Raised a $6.5M Seed in Oct 2022 from Bessemer Venture Partners.
New York, US
🏌️♂️ Second Innings
Serial founders with exits building again.
Asad Naeem | 5x Founder, 2x Exit
Co-founded Fortuna.ai, AI-powered sales automation for wealth management (acquired by CyborgTech, 2022). Founded DiscoverData (acquired via Acquire.com, 2024). Now founder & CEO of Aculis, building AI-native tooling for wealth management.
Toronto, Canada
Niels Bosma | 3x Founder, 2x Exit
Co-founded Offerta, a Swedish marketplace for services (PE exit, 2015). Co-founded Tessin, Scandinavia's largest real estate crowdfunding platform. Now founder of Ivy Interactive, building an open-source .NET framework for AI-powered internal tools.
Stockholm, Sweden
Edgar Alvarez | 2x Founder, 1x Exit
Co-founded Fuell, a YC-backed expense management platform for SMBs (acquired by Factorial, 2023). Previously CMO at Lookiero & VP Marketing at factory14. Now co-founder & CEO of Emblematic AI, building agentic automation for finance teams.
Berlin, Germany
Wouter Born | 2x Founder, 1x Exit
Co-founded CXO Software, a CFO performance reporting platform (acquired by insightsoftware/TA Associates, 2018). Now GP at Born Capital & founder of finstory.ai, an AI platform that turns financial data into board-ready narratives.
Greater Terrassa, Spain
Rafael Garcia | 2x Founder, 1x Exit
Co-founded Clever (YC S12), a single sign-on platform used by 65% of U.S. K-12 school districts (acquired by Kahoot!, 2021). Now co-founder of Kernel, building browser infrastructure.
Cincinnati, US
