Tip-offs
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Sep 5, 2025
Each week, we surface high-potential startups & promising founders.
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📈 Traffic on Fire
Startups with sensational organic traffic growth in the last 3 months.
Reado | 112x growth
Mobile app for personalized book recommendations and reading discovery. Last raised $530K Seed in Feb, 2023.
Frankfurt, Germany
Phonely | 109x growth
AI-powered phone agent platform that handles calls and customer interactions. Raised a Seed in Oct, 2024, led by 7BC Venture Capital.
San Francisco, US
Trellus | 63x growth
AI SaaS platform providing resume screening, interview automation, and hiring insights. Raised $500K Pre-Seed in Mar, 2022, backed by Y Combinator.
New York, US
Univest | 50x growth
Fintech platform offering wealth management, investments, and advisory services. Raised $11.9M Series A in Dec, 2024 from Trinity Media Group and Bertelsmann India Investments.
Gurgaon, India
Buluttan | 48x growth
AI-based hyperlocal weather intelligence platform delivering forecasts for industries like logistics, insurance, aviation, and e-commerce. Raised $550K Pre-Seed in May, 2024 from ScaleX Ventures.
Istanbul, Turkey
🚀 Scaling at Speed
Startups founded in the last 12–18 months that already have 50+ employees.
Collage | 118 employees
Founded in May 2024. Digital asset management SaaS that streamlines creative workflows for teams. Raised a Pre-Seed in June 2024.
Lakewood, US
Nurix | 102 employees
Founded in April 2024. AI platform that builds workflow assistants to help enterprises automate daily business tasks. Raised $27.5M Seed in Sep 2024 from Accel, General Catalyst, and Meraki Labs.
Bengaluru, India
Databahn | 62 employees
Founded in July 2024. An AI platform that builds secure data pipelines and tools for managing enterprise data. Raised $17M Series A in June 2025 led by Forgepoint Capital, S3 Ventures, and GTM Capital.
Dallas, US
Asendia AI | 61 employees
Founded in April 2024. SaaS-based AI recruitment platform with automated resume screening. Raised a Pre-Seed in Sep 2024, backed by Super Angels, NV Capital, Scrape Ventures, and EWOR Ventures.
Wilmington, US
Reevo | 59 employees
Founded in April 2024. AI-powered sales platform that helps teams manage pipelines and outreach in one place. Raised $10M Seed in July 2024 from Zhu Ventures.
Santa Clara, US
🧠 Veteran Founders
Industry veterans who founded pre-seed or seed startups in the last 18 months.
Nick Wade
Ex-Auth0 VP Product. Ex-Atlassian Marketplace Head.Co-Founder & COO of Opus Guard, simplifying SaaS compliance & governance for enterprises.
San Francisco, US
Junyu Yang
Ex-Square, VSCO, and LinkedIn data science leader. Serial Founder.Built & exited an AI content creation startup (500K MAUs, $140K ARR). Now Co-Founder & CTO of Starboard, building AI-powered infra for freight forwarders.
San Francisco, US
Radek Filarski
Ex-Morgan Stanley Principal Strategies VP. Wall Street veteran. Serial Founder. Previously led strategy at Live Oak Bank. Now Co-Founder & CTO of Synply, building enterprise solutions in SaaS and ML.
Wilmington, US
Mohamed Lebda
Ex-UBS Associate Director. Ex-Citi SVP.Now founder & CEO of IWM, an AI-first US private bank for emerging markets, offering remote US accounts, debit cards & AI-powered relationship managers.
New York, US
Heriberto Madrigal
Ex-Reddit Head of Enterprise Engineering. Ex-Zendesk Sr. Eng Manager.Co-Founder & CTO of SANAI, building AI-native infrastructure to automate enterprise workflows and systems at scale.
San Francisco, US
