Tip-offs
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Nov 21, 2025
Each week, we surface high-potential startups & promising founders.
This week's highlights →
🤖 AI Infra Stack
AI infra startups seeing a spike in web traffic.
Hyperbolic | 38x growth in 3 months
AI cloud offering instant, low-cost access to GPUs for training and serving models. Raised a $12M Series A in Dec 2024 from Variant and Polychain.
Irvine, US
Parallel | 10x growth in 3 months
Web data and research infrastructure that powers AI agents with programmable, enterprise-grade APIs. Raised a $100M Series A in Nov 2025 from Kleiner Perkins and Index Ventures.
Palo Alto, US
Datagram | 5x growth in 3 months
AI-enhanced DePIN network providing a high-speed hyper-fabric for decentralized connectivity and GPU workloads. Raised a $4M Pre-Seed in Jun 2025 from Blizzard Fund.
Linkup | 2x growth in 3 months
API service that gives LLMs real-time access to paywalled web content to reduce hallucinations. Raised $3.18M Pre-Seed in Nov 2024 from Seedcamp.
Paris, France
Northflank | 1x growth in 3 months
Full-stack platform to build, deploy, and scale apps, and databases across cloud or on-prem. Raised a $16M Series A in Nov 2024 from Bain Capital Ventures.
London, UK
🔥 Hiring Heatwave
Startups growing their teams the fastest.
Predictiv | 289% growth in 3 months
AI-powered sales and marketing intelligence platform offering intent data, lead gen, and ABM tools via a freemium model. Raised a $3M Seed in Sep 2022.
Dubai, UAE
Fastforward AI | 189% growth in 3 months
E-commerce-as-a-service platform that builds and manages multi-market storefronts using Adobe Commerce and AI-driven marketing. Raised an $8M Seed in Mar 2020 from General Catalyst.
Mountain View, US
Predis.ai | 113% growth in 3 months
AI content creation platform generating posts, ads, videos, and product creatives with tiered subscription plans. Raised a Seed round in Jan 2022.
Pune, India
Pina Earth | 108% growth in 3 months
Carbon removal startup issuing CO₂ certificates from climate-resilient German forest projects. Raised a $2.5M Seed in Jul 2022 from XAnge.
Starnberg, Germany
Open Path | 89% growth in 3 months
Payment platform for Shopify, WooCommerce, and BigCommerce merchants offering recurring billing, subscription tools, and fraud prevention. Raised an $8M Series A in Aug 2019.
Newport Beach, US
🕴️ People in Play
Serial founders building in stealth.
Roy Bick
Technion alum. 1x Exit.
Co-founder & former COO of Moovit, scaled to 1B+ users and acquired by Intel for $900M. Now Co-founder & CEO of a stealth startup.
Israel
Gyan Chawdhary
Serial cybersecurity founder. 2x Exits.
Ex-Founder & CEO of Codebashing (acquired by Checkmarx) & Kontra (acquired by ThriveDX). Now Founder of a stealth AI startup in voice, video, and security.
London, UK
Robin Grosset
Newcastle University alum. 1x Exit.
Ex-CTO of MindBridge AI and former Engineer at IBM, where he led the development of Watson Analytics. Now Founder & CTO of a stealth AI startup.
Ottawa, Canada
Nazim Zidi
Repeat AI founder. 1x Exit.
Ex-Founder & CEO of Huntease (acquired), an AI revenue platform used by 80+ B2B teams. Now Founder & CEO of a stealth AI startup.
Paris, France
Bryce Schmidtchen
UC Berkeley alum.
Ex–Senior AR/VR Engineer at Apple (Vision Pro), with 15+ patents across 3D, UI/UX, and spatial computing. Co-founded Pengram (YC W19). Now Founder & CTO of a stealth startup.
San Francisco, US
