🚀𝘽𝙍𝙀𝘼𝙆𝙄𝙉𝙂: Business Insider just dropped a list of 85 of the most promising startups to watch for 2024…
📈Some of the largest outcomes (Amazon, Airbnb, Stripe, Uber etc) we’ve seen in 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 have come on the back of hard times.
💪 Only the strongest & most resilient teams survive.
🔍 Business insider asked top venture capitalists at firms including Accel, GV, Founders Fund, Greylock, Khosla Ventures & IVP to name the startups they’re most excited by.
🎯 Flagging 4 companies from the list I work with that are worth having on the radar👇
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1️⃣ Gamma - An AI-powered content creation tool for enterprise customers. The tool enables users to create presentations, websites, and documents quickly.
👥 Founders: Grant Lee, Jon Noronha, James Fox
💰 Funding: $21.5Mn
🚀 Investors: Accel, LocalGlobe, Script Capital
🌟 Why it’s on the list? Gamma has already amassed 20Mn+ users with 60M+ gammas created, and is profitable. It is reinventing creation of websites, presentations & documents.
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2️⃣ Sema4.ai - It is building enterprise AI agents that can reason, collaborate, and act.
👥 Founders: Antti Karjalainen, Paul Codding, Sudhir Menon, Ram Venkatesh
💰 Funding: $54Mn
🚀 Investors: Benchmark, Mayfield Fund, Canvas Ventures
🌟 Why it’s on the list? The company is developing AI agents that can move beyond simple repetitive tasks and actually solve real-world problems, taking into account the unique context of the organization and working seamlessly with existing teams.
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3️⃣ Mutiny - An account-based AI platform that helps companies unify sales and marketing to generate pipeline and revenue from their target accounts at scale.
👥 Founders: Jaleh Rezaei, Nikhil Mathew
💰 Funding: $72Mn
🚀 Investors: Sequoia, Tiger, Insight, Cowboy Ventures
🌟 Why it’s on the list? Mutiny leverages AI to help B2B companies generate pipeline & revenue from their target accounts through AI-powered personalized experiences, 1:1 microsites & account intelligence - more important than ever in the current software consolidation cycle / market & budget environment.
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4️⃣ Haize Labs - Automatic stress testing of large language models.
👥 Founders: Leonard Tang, Steve Li
🌟 Why it’s on the list? Haize promises to "robustify" any large language model through automated red-teaming that continuously stress tests and identifies vulnerabilities. As models evolve, the question of how to make sure they're secure becomes increasingly difficult to answer.
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🌐 The biggest themes on the list this year?
📊 Data infrastructure
🔒 Security
🤖 Personalised agents
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🔎It’s helpful for 𝐀𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐥𝐬 to keep on top of lists like these to track & source new opportunities.
🔗 to the FULL list in comments.
🚀 Any companies not on the list that should be? Tag them in comments.
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