Best startups right now?
Is there anything out there that's caught your eye lately and made you go "damn"? I work in Energy IB, so I'm curious to see what's on the horizon outside of my little bubble
Is there anything out there that's caught your eye lately and made you go "damn"? I work in Energy IB, so I'm curious to see what's on the horizon outside of my little bubble
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openstore seems pretty cool
It’s just Thrasio for Shopify. Doesn’t seem that innovative.
If you’re in energy, there was a really cool startup I read about in MB earlier this week or last week. I think it’s called Form Energy (or something along those lines) and is working on making batteries for EVs with iron instead of lithium since it said iron has an unlimited supply whereas lithium doesn’t.
A few (Early Stage) startups:
These are a few that have crossed my screen lately and I found interesting.
Databricks
E-Zinc, batteries that can hold energy for 10+ years without energy stored leakage/decay. Sadly, I already got the patent if you apes are trying to horde it before me. This technology I believe will be an end to energy wastage and peg the oil price steady.
Kind of mainstream now but Pipe is really cool. Basically let’s companies securitize their recurring revenues so that they can receive cash now
Pipe is hands down one of the best ideas ever and beautifully executed. They went from SaaS to tackling anything with recurring revenue. I'm guessing Pipe and competitors will continue to annihilate traditional lenders. I haven't used Pipe, but I use two of their competitors and we're able to source credit very quickly without headache on far better terms than anything I saw a few years ago...
Have spoken to one of their team. Absolutely brilliant guys there.
Planck within the insurtech market is brilliant. Their data scraping and analysis capabilities are wild. I've heard that supposedly one of the guys on their team was involved in the Stuxnet Worm.
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I think its an interesting business and have some friends there too. They did reach out to my startup and we passed
Sad thread to read here. Seems that nearly all "innovation" (and I use the term loosely) is in computer bits and financial services. Watch a movie from the late 1990s--things have hardly evolved at all. Real innovation has hardly touched society in any meaningful way. Everything is just a little bit better and a little bit cheaper, but the last products to meaningfully change society were the iPhone (2007) and Facebook (2004), and those have arguably been bad for society.
Caveat is that there have been a ton of cool and interesting innovations but none of them seem to have meaningfully impacted the world. For example, lab grown meat, electric cars, autonomous vehicles, ocean cleaning vehicle. They just haven't really gained traction or really made much of a difference if they have gained traction.
Deliverr is pretty cool. Just raised a $250MM series E. Enables merchants to offer free next day, 2 day, and 3 day delivery from their non-amazon (Walmart, Shopify, eBay) sales channels.
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