Tip-offs
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Aug 29, 2025
Each week, we surface high-potential startups & promising founders.
This week's highlights →
🌱 GTM Mode On
Startups with strong GTM headcount growth in the last 3 months.
OpenDoctor | GTM hiring up 400%
Digital health SaaS, making appointment scheduling and patient engagement smoother for clinics and radiology practices. Raised a Seed in January 2016.
New York, US
NeuraLight | GTM hiring up 100%
AI platform using eye movements as digital biomarkers to accelerate CNS drug development.
Raised $25M Series A in May 2022.
Tel Aviv, Israel
Gento | GTM hiring up 67%
Healthcare staffing marketplace connecting clinicians with home-based care opportunities. Raised $5M Series A in February 2020, led by Palisades Growth.
Los Angeles, US
Azimuth GRC | GTM hiring up 67%
Compliance automation and regulatory monitoring SaaS for financial institutions. Raised $3M Series A in December 2023, led by Aperture Venture Capital.
Jacksonville, US
Lawtrades | GTM hiring up 60%
Legal services marketplace connecting businesses with freelance attorneys and paralegals. Raised $6M Series A in January 2022, led by Four Cities Capital.
New York, US
🔥 Rising Apps
Apps gaining power users over the past 3 months.
Treinta | 216% user growth
Business management super-app for SMEs in Latin America, offering POS, inventory, payments & e-commerce tools. Raised $46M+ Series A in June 2022.
Bogotá, Colombia
Fitpass | 131% user growth
Fitness subscription platform bundling gym access, AI coaching, diet plans, and virtual workouts. Raised $1M Seed in June 2017, led by Franchise India Holdings, Mumbai Angels & Shooting Star.
New Delhi, India
RVezy | 130% user growth
Peer-to-peer marketplace for RV rentals with campground search and built-in insurance. Raised $19M+ Series A in May 2021, led by Frind Properties.
Ottawa, Canada
Handyhand | 84% user growth
Marketplace for on-demand home services, spanning repairs, plumbing, electrical work & cleaning. Raised $237k Pre-Seed in July 2022, backed by Innovation Fund Denmark and Nicolaj Nielsen.
Copenhagen, Denmark
Pandai | 81% user growth
Gamified learning app for K–12 students with AI-powered tutoring & online tuition. Raised $2M Seed in January 2022, led by RHL Ventures, Global Founders Capital & Harvard Management Company.
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
🧠 DeepMind DNA
DeepMind PhDs, who founded a startup in the last 12 months.
Stanislav Fort
Stanford PhD in AI/ML. Cambridge alum. Ex-Anthropic, DeepMind, and Stability AI (LLM lead). Now founder & Chief Scientist of a stealth startup in AI + security. Named Forbes 30 Under 30 (2022).
Prague, Czechia
Karan Samel
Georgia Tech PhD in Machine Learning (President’s Fellow). Purdue alum. Ex-Google DeepMind, Amazon, IBM, and Astound.AI. Now co-founder of a stealth biotech startup applying AI to personalized phenotypic drug discovery.
San Francisco, US
Steve Xu
Ex-DeepMind Hardware Architect. MIT PhD. Built LLM chips at DeepMind and led ML hardware design at Samsung, Qualcomm, and Intel. Now co-founder & Chief Architect of XgenSilicon.ai, building custom low-power ASICs for on-device AI.
Santa Clara, US
Alhussein Fawzi
Ex-DeepMind Team Lead. EPFL PhD. Postdoc at UCLA. Formerly led Algorithmic Discovery at DeepMind, where he advanced AI for scientific discovery. Now co-founder & CEO of a stealth startup.
Geneva, Switzerland
Maria D.
PhD in Human-Centered AI. YC Alum. Ex-DeepMind, Microsoft, and Meta. Previously founded a YC-backed startup. Now co-founder & CEO of Winter Comics, building generative AI tools for storytelling.
San Francisco, US
