Aggregated by Jeff Wang (@jffwng) - DM me if I'm missing any companies
Entire homebuilding process, all online
TechCrunch Description: Atmos is building a managed marketplace for homebuilding, connecting users that want to build a house with builders who can help them do just that and the financing to make it happen. Since launching in Q2, the company has brought in more than $500k in booked revenue
Founders: Nicholas Donahue (@PrimalNick), Trent Hedge (@trenthedge), Matthew Rastovac
Notes: Raised $2M from angels, including Sam Altman, Adam Nash, Mark Goldberg, JLL Spark, Shrug Capital, Daniel Gross’ Pioneer, Venture Hacks, Yuri Sagalov, Brian Norgard
Reasons to believe: New home developments are not easy to find and a fragmented process. Existing real estate tech is mainly focused on existing homes.
Edit your database with the ease of a spreadsheet
TechCrunch Description: The people who know how to edit a database aren’t always the same people who need to do it. BaseDash lets non-engineers safely manage data as simply as they’d edit a spreadsheet, replacing custom internal tools.
Founder: Max Musing (@MaxMusing)
HN Post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23999124
Reasons to believe: Existing data manipulation interfaces are hard to use. Unlocks new tasks and processes for non-developers
Whatsapp Online Stores - India
TechCrunch Description: Shopify isn’t a good match for consumers in the Indian market because of consumer habits that differ from those of the US (for instance, many purchases are made through WhatsApp rather than the web.) The founders started Bikayi after seeing family businesses using pen and paper to handle incoming orders online. They charge merchants $100 per year.
Founders: Ashutosh Singla, Sonakshi Nathani
Reasons to believe: Ecommerce solution tailored towards specific market needs
Plaid for Emerging Markets
TechCrunch Description: Dapi is a fintech API play that is aimed at facilitating payments between consumer bank accounts and companies. That Dapi has managed to make its service work in seven countries with deep bank support is impressive. And Dapi has found demand for its service, with $400,000 in ARR and growth of more than 50% per month as of its presentation. Of course, that growth rate will sharply decline in time, but everyone knows that fintech APIs can have big exits. Expect to hear more from Dapi.
Founders: Ahmed Agour, Mohammed Aziz
Plaid for India
TechCrunch Description: Continuing the X for India trend that is taking shape in this batch, Decentro wants to build Plaid for India. The company provides an API for banking integrations, like Plaid. That Plaid sold for billions of dollars earlier this year is still on the mind of every sentient VC, so the comparison could prove enticing. Decentro is still small, with around $1 million in gross transaction volume (GTV), and around $7,000 in MRR. Still, with just four customers and 45 more in the pipeline, it’s on a good path.
Founder: Rohit Taneja (@sunnyboyrohit)
Turns spreadsheets into internal apps and customer portals
TechCrunch Description: Stacker is another startup aiming to upscale the spreadsheet with no-code functionality, allowing the company’s users to turn spreadsheets into internal apps and customer portals. The software pushes customers to let data drive designs and turn manual processes into automated ones. The company has more than 250 customers including Google and Amazon.
Founders: Sam Davyson (@samdavyson), Michael Skelly (@skellystudios)
Carta for Financial Modeling
TechCrunch Description: Doing for financial management what Carta did for equity and fundraising, Finmark is financial planning software for startups to manage runway and cash. Trying to manage your business off an excel sheet is painful, but for startups proper oversight this can mean the difference between thriving and dying. 300 companies have signed up for its financial management service, the company says.
Founders: Rami Essaid (@ramiessaid), Greg Lissy
Plan and communicate total compensation
Trove is a platform that helps managers visualize earnings amid different valuation scenarios, then communicate those numbers to employees.
Founder: Matt Schulman (@matthewschulman)
Notes: Raise $16M from a16z, Graduate Fund, Backend Capital and Village Global
API for Healthcare Licenses (“Checkr for Healthcare”)
TechCrunch Description: With healthcare increasingly moving online, it’s more important than ever to keep things up to date and verified. Verifiable is building an API to automate license verification for healthcare providers, integrating with state and federal sources. After launching this month, the company says it’s projecting an ARR of $210k.
Founders: Nick Macario
Reasons to believe: Takes a traditional manual and tedious process into a simple solution
Serious Fitness, Serious Gaming
Description: Quell combines the excitement of gaming with real, effective exercise. Each fight guides you through a high-intensity combat workout tailored to your fitness goals. Jump into a world where the hero gets stronger as you do. Quell raised $380,000+ on Kickstarter so far, blowing past their $32,000 goal.
Founders: Cameron Brookhouse, Lorenzo Spreafico, Doug Stidolph, Martin Tweedie
Notes: Kickstarter campaign: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/quelltech/quell-real-gaming-real-exercise-zero-compromise
Reasons to believe: People are starting to adopt stay-at-home solutions over going to the gym. Aims to solve the "motivational" aspect of exercise, similar to what Peloton achieved with the digital screen
Risks: Could be a one-time hit