https://www.platformscience.com/
What they do: Platform Science is an enterprise-grade IoT fleet management platform for the new era of connected trucks, freight, and the digital supply chain.
Massive Opportunity: The company recently launched Virtual Vehicle®- an open OEM platform that enables fleets to access telematics, software solutions, real-time vehicle data, and third-party applications directly from their vehicles. This allows truck buyers to customize their experiences down to an app-by-app and driver-by-driver level for the first time, and to create in-cab technology experiences that best suit their specific business objectives, then evolve them whenever they choose to do so.
Why it’s interesting:
- It’s only 7 years old
- Raised $115M in Series C Funding (in Feb 2022). Total raised $197.7M.
Open jobs: 40+ open jobs. Mostly in engineering, product & solutions. Most are remote. Solid benefits, 401(K) matching, life insurance and other wellness benefits.
Downside: Work & life balance suffers, growing pains. Still working on defining some processes.
What they do: Move over spreadsheets and legacy solutions! CaptivateIQ develops a sales compensation platform designed to help businesses leverage the power of incentives to motivate teams.
Massive Opportunity: Their customer base includes “hundreds of organizations across industries and continents,” including more than a quarter of the Forbes’ Cloud 100 and Affirm, Amplitude, ClassPass and Podium. It says it “more than tripled” its revenue compared to the year prior. (estimated under $50M)
Why it’s interesting:
- It’s only 5 years old
- YC graduate
- Raised $100M in Series C Funding (in Jan 2022). Total raised $164.6M.
- Valued at $1.25B
Open jobs: 50+ open jobs. Mostly in engineering, sales & marketing and customer experience. Most are remote. A long list of great benefits, including health insurance and 401k.
Downside: Hiring is still catching up to growth, no clear career path to success, many processes are created on the fly.
(www.wheel.com)
What they do: Wheel provides its virtual care platform and nationwide clinician network to customers including other digital health startups, brick and mortar clinics, retailers and pharmacies as an alternative to the considerable time and money organizations might otherwise invest in creating their own virtual care service. And it works with companies behind the scenes.
Massive Opportunity: It’s a white-label platform. With their partners, they delivered care to 1.3 million patients across the country. With this funding, they’re expecting to triple the amount of patients they reach by the end of the year
Why it’s interesting:
- It’s only 4 years old
Raised $150M in Series C Funding (in Jan 2022). Total raised $216M.
Open jobs: 40+ jobs open, mostly in marketing, product and operations.
Downside: lots of hours, no 401k yet.
What they do: Placer ai is the most advanced foot traffic analytics platform allowing anyone with a stake in the physical world to instantly generate insights into any property for a deeper understanding of the factors that drive success. Placer.ai is the first platform that fully empowers professionals in retail, commercial real estate, hospitality, economic development, and more to truly understand and maximize their offline activities.
Massive Opportunity: Placer experienced significant growth during 2021 by offering accurate, reliable consumer behavior analytics that is indispensable to brick and mortar decision-making. Has a tool that offers a unique opportunity to help CRE professionals make better leasing decisions (on what tenants can be good fits). Since launch has been adopted by over 1,000 customers including industry leaders in commercial real estate and retail.
Why it’s interesting:
- It’s only 6 years old
- Valued at $1bil.
- Raised $100M in Series C Funding (in Jan 2022). Total raised $166M.
Open jobs: 36 jobs open (about half in Israel, half in USA): mostly in R&D, Product, Sales and Marketing. Can work remotely. Great pay, benefits and unlimited time off.
Downside: A lot of changes, fast pace, not for clock-punchers, working across multiple time zones, fully remote in the US.
What they do: Atmosphere is a streaming TV platform for businesses, offering 21 original and partner TV channels. It provides licensed and curated video content for commercial venues, with clients including Westin, Taco Bell and Burger King.
Massive Opportunity: It doubled its business footprint over the last year, with its content now being shown in over 19,000 venues worldwide. Just this week they created a first-of-its-kind partnership with TikTok to create a channel exclusively built for out-of-home viewing.
Why it’s interesting:
- Started in 2019
- Getting close to being valued at $1B.
- Raised $100M in Series C Funding (in Jan 2022). Total raised $149M.
Open jobs: 40 jobs open: mostly in sales, engineering, people and editorial. Most in Austin, some in NYC, Chicago, LA. Benefits and PTO.
Downside: Fast growing with growing pains, being in the office, not remote.
( https://opensea.io/ )
What they do: OpenSea bills itself as a peer-to-peer platform on which users can create, buy and sell all sorts of NFTs—in exchange for a 2.5% cut of each sale.
Massive Opportunity: Their sales in 2020 were $24 million, compare that to 2021 at $15 billion!! (Mind blown!)
Why it’s interesting:
It’s only 4 years old
Y Combinator startup founders
Valued at $13bil.
Raised $300M in Series C Funding (in Jan 2022). Total raised $427M.
Open jobs: 30+ jobs open: mostly in engineering, community, people and sales. Can work remotely. Benefits and PTO.
Downside: Company is operating in a Wild Wild west of NFT world, where there could be uncertainty, fraud and risk.
www.sidecarhealth.com
What they do:
Mission: to provide a personalized and affordable insurance alternative to individuals who are underserved by the existing market. They offer a new model for health insurance. Sidecar Health’s insurance plans give consumers the ability to pay directly for care — often at steep discounts to the prices that patients would be charged through traditional insurance plans.
Why it’s interesting:
-Founded in 2018.
-Valued at $1 Billion.
-Raised $125M in Series C Funding (in Jan 2021). Total raised $163M.
-Around 150 employees. Currently are in 16 states.
Open jobs: 30+ jobs open: mostly in engineering, member care, people operations, sales.
Hybrid or remote.
Pros: Low ego culture with let’s just get it done mentality.
Downside: There is still an organized chaos due to being a startup. Not for you if you are not self motivated and not a problem solver.
http://www.everlyhealth.com
What they do:
A fully integrated digital care platform for consumers and businesses and provide care to more people on a seamless diagnostics-driven platform. They provide in-home Covid-19 testing as well as other health diagnostic kits, such as tests for food sensitivity, sexually transmitted illnesses, heart health and colon cancer screenings.
Why it’s interesting:
Founded in 2015.
-Valued at $2.9 Billion
-Raised $75M in Secondary Market. (Jan 2021) Total raised $325M.
-Around 700 employees.
Open jobs: 100+ jobs open: mostly in engineering, regulatory affairs, compliance, finance, product, etc.
Made the Forbes’ Best Startup Employers for 2021 list.
Pros: Unlimited PTO, free tests, educational stipend, full time remote. Exciting mission.
Downside: Things move fast and you get pulled in multiple directions sometimes. Because of fast growth and remote work, it is hard to get to meet all new people. Many meetings.
What they do: Offer a completely visual, no-code application platform that helps enterprises build complex custom software faster, with higher quality and lower costs than traditional approaches––all without a single line of code.
Massive Opportunity: The enterprise software market is worth more than $500 billion. Software gives you a competitive edge, but the problem is companies cannot get developers to build code.
Why it’s interesting:
Founded in 2017.
Valued at $2bil.
Raised $207M in Series C Funding (in October 2020). Total raised $365M.
North of 350 employees. Hired a New Chief Revenue Officer in the summer. They are going places.
Open jobs: 70+ jobs open: mostly in engineering, operations, sales.
Can work remotely.
Downside: fast growing with growing pains, not much hand holding, structure is being put in place as the company grows. High workload.
*Not financial advice. All the info is gathered from public information online.
A list is created with assumption of $250K of stock that vest over 4 years – companies where you can make 10x
Criteria used:
Established
Growing
Have the potential to 5-10x over the next 5 years
Valued over $250mil