Tip-offs
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Oct 3, 2025
Each week, we surface high-potential startups & promising founders.
This week's highlights →
🔥 Traffic on Fire
Startups with staggering organic traffic growth.
Itemize | 25x growth MoM
AI-powered transaction automation platform that extracts, classifies, and reconciles financial data from receipts. Raised a $9M Angel round in Apr 2018.
New York, US
Privacy Tools | 19x growth MoM
B2B SaaS platform for governance, risk, and compliance, helping companies manage data privacy and regulatory requirements. Raised $380.95K Seed in Feb 2022 from Bossa Invest and DOMO VC.
Porto Alegre, Brazil
Space Designer 3D | 18x growth MoM
SaaS tool for 3D space planning and interior design, enabling users to create, visualize, and share projects online. Raised $1.25M Seed round in Feb 2018.
Lyon, France
Cometa | 9x growth MoM
B2B SaaS platform streamlining school operations, including tuition payments and enrollment. Raised $12M Series A in Nov 2024 from Reach Capital.
Mexico City, Mexico
Pin | 6x growth MoM
AI-powered recruitment platform automating candidate sourcing and shortlisting to speed up hiring. Raised $3M Seed in Dec 2024 from Expa.
New York, US
📈 Rising Apps
Apps riding remarkable growth on Play Store.
Measure Protocol | 19x growth in 3 months
B2B SaaS platform providing access to behavioral data from opted-in consumers through gamified mobile apps. Raised Series A in May 2024.
London, UK
IntellectoKids | 13x growth in 3 months
B2C subscription app delivering educational content and games for preschool and elementary children. Raised $3.1M Series A in Dec 2020 from Allrise Capital.
London, UK
ReciMe | 5x growth in 3 months
Freemium recipe management and meal-planning app that lets users discover, save, and share recipes. Raised $1M Seed round in Jul 2024 from Even Capital.
Melbourne, Australia
TimbuckDo | 2x growth in 3 months
B2C platform connecting students with flexible, part-time jobs and internships. Raised $285K Seed round in Aug 2025.
Bengaluru, India
Sahi | 2x growth in 3 months
Commission-free trading app offering investment and wealth management tools. Raised $10.5M Series A in Jun 2025 from Accel and Elevation Capital.
Bengaluru, India
🧬 OpenAI Origins
Ex-OpenAI PhDs who founded startups in the last 18 months.
Stan M.
Stanford PhD in Computer Science (AI). ETH Zürich alum.
Ex-OpenAI and DeepMind. Earlier founder of Inteelio. Now co-founder of a stealth startup in Zurich, while also angel investing.
Zurich, Switzerland
Aravind Kalaiah
University of Maryland PhD in Computer Science. IIT Bombay alum.
Ex-OpenAI, Meta, Lightmatter, Nervana Systems, Symantec, and NVIDIA. Serial founder (Surefield, Forespire). Now co-founder & CEO of a stealth AI startup.
San Francisco, US
Lerrel Pinto
Carnegie Mellon PhD in Robotics. IIT Guwahati alum.
Former researcher at OpenAI. Co-founded Fauna Robotics and now co-founder of Assured Robot Intelligence, building general-purpose robots for the real world.
New York, US
Aditya Grover
Stanford PhD in AI. IIT Delhi alum.
Ex-OpenAI and Facebook AI (FAIR), with research stints at Google, and Microsoft. Now co-founder of Inception, building the next generation of diffusion-based large language models.
California, US
Jacob Steinhardt
Stanford PhD in Computer Science. MIT Mathematics alum.
Ex-OpenAI research scientist. Former advisor at Redwood Research and Open Philanthropy. Now co-founder & CEO of Transluce, an independent research lab building open-source tools to analyze and steer AI systems in public interest.
California, US
