The Top 5: August 2023 Edition
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SquintSquint is an AR platform on a mission to accelerate human potential11-50 EmployeesActively Hiring- Top 10% of respondersSquint is in the top 10% of companies in terms of response time to applications
- Responds within two weeksBased on past data, Squint usually responds to incoming applications within two weeks
- B2B
- Early StageStartup in initial stages
- Top InvestorsThis company has received a significant amount of investment from top investors
- Website
- https://www.squint.ai/
- Employees
- 11-50
- Locations
- Denver, Los Angeles, New York City, Seattle, Toronto, Bend, San Francisco Bay Area, Remote
- About
Squint is a Silicon Valley based software company backed by Sequoia Capital (investors in Apple, Google, Instagram, and more) and Menlo Ventures (investors in Uber, Siri, and more). Our team has deep expertise in Augmented Reality — over 45 foundational patents and past work featured in Apple Event keynotes.
Squint’s mission is to accelerate human potential by bringing digital knowledge into the real world. Our team has developed the only AR product in the world that is truly “open world” — that is: it can be created anywhere, on the spot, and doesn’t require a QR code or a 3D model to detect objects and orient itself precisely.
- Industries
B2B · SaaS · Mobile · Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning
Jobs
Enterprise Account ExecutiveFull-time2 weeks ago$240k – $280k • 0.0% – 0.1%Remote • United States4 years of exp
- B2B
- Early StageStartup in initial stages
- Top InvestorsThis company has received a significant amount of investment from top investors
- Website
- https://www.trycompa.com
- Employees
- 11-50
- Locations
- Atlanta, Boston, California, Chicago, Denver, New York City, San Diego, San Francisco, Colorado, Nashville, Remote
- About
After onboarding more than 50 enterprise customers in six months, Compa has its sights on 6x ARR growth and fresh financing by year-end 2024.
Leading tech companies make up our customer base including Netflix, Workday, Stripe, LinkedIn, Instacart, Okta, Electronic Arts, and more. You may be the key to helping keep them happy and profitable.
- Industries
Jobs
2 weeks ago$75k – $125k • 0.1% – 0.2%Irvine5 years of exp
AI research and product lab building natural language interfaces for data systems1-10 Employees- B2B
- Early StageStartup in initial stages
- Website
- https://approximatelabs.com
- Employees
- 1-10
- Locations
- Remote
- About
We are pre-product and pre-revenue, though moving quickly towards these milestones. Our three current priorities:
Multi-modal text and data foundation model: Foundation models like GPT-4 have demonstrated that AI can achieve human level-competency in tasks across multiple domains. We are building a multi-modal foundation model for text and data that will understand and manipulate data as well as human data analysts.
Repository of tabular data: Increasingly large training data sets are a key driver of the rapid increase in AI intelligence. We are building a repository of tabular data with sufficient volume and diversity to train a foundation model. This data set will be similar in scope to The Pile and LAION-5B
Natural language interfaces to data systems: Our AI data analyst will engage with humans as a collaborator to clarify and select approaches admist ambiguous data systems.
- Industries
- B2C
- Growth StageExpanding market presence
- Website
- https://www.sfr3.com
- Employees
- 201-500
- Locations
- Mill Valley, Remote
- About
The median home today costs $200,000, with new construction averaging $248,000. A downpayment, stricter financing requirements and rising interest rates put this amount well beyond the reach of most new households. These facts explain the explosive growth of single-family rentals, which account for over 13% of housing units in the US today.
What is the best – and quickest – way to create affordable housing? This is the existential crisis facing new households today. We’ve found renovating old houses in disrepair to “like new” is the most efficient way to bring affordable rentals to market. It is environmentally friendly too. We use local labor and a fraction of the materials used in new construction. We reuse existing infrastructure instead of building new roads to new developments requiring longer commutes. Our technology & scale enables significant efficiencies across acquisition, renovation & property management.
Our mission? Creating thousands of affordable homes for rent every year.
- Industries
- Real Estate Funds
NextPatientSoftware for medical practices that delivers a superior patient experience11-50 EmployeesActively Hiring- B2C
- B2B
- Early StageStartup in initial stages
- Website
- https://www.nextpatient.co/
- Employees
- 11-50
- Locations
- United States, San Francisco
- About
NextPatient is the trusted technology partner in online scheduling and digital front desk operations for today’s patient-centered medical practices. Managing more than 400,000 self-scheduled appointments each month, NextPatient powers a consumer-quality healthcare experience for the modern patient, helping medical practices advance patient satisfaction, increase operational efficiency, and boost practice revenue.
Ranked among Inc. Best Workplaces 2023, the NextPatient team is made up of experienced healthcare leaders dedicated to making meaningful contributions and delivering excellent customer service with a technology solution that does exactly as promised.
- Industries
Jobs
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Security in the Skies: 5 High Altitude Balloon and Satellite Startups Hiring Now
Nearly nine decades after the Hindenburg disaster, some speculate we’re entering the Second Age of the Balloon. “As all these objects fall, a new space race is rising,” Vox (https://www.vox.com/world/2023/2/7/23588464/suspect-spy-china-balloon-sputnik-moment-space-race) proclaimed. Tens of thousands of balloons float into near-space every year, and the numbers rise every year. The National Weather Service alone launches around 60k high-flying balloons each year. The Pentagon spent nearly $4B over the past two years on its own high altitude balloons, according to Politico (https://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/05/u-s-militarys-newest-weapon-against-china-and-russia-hot-air-00043860). Why the interest in such old-school tech? “They’re cheap, easy to transport, can be fielded in large numbers and are payload agnostic,” industry expert George Howell wrote. Tucson, Arizona-based World View (https://spacenews.com/world-view-emphasizes-remote-sensing-as-it-prepares-to-go-public/), a stratospheric ballooning company, last month announced plans to go public via SPAC merger. The company develops a “stratollite” that provides high-res imagery for extended periods. (The company also offer space tourism.) Colorado-based Urban Sky (/company/urban-sky) is creating what it claims as the first ever reusable stratospheric balloon. Called “micro-balloons,” they’re the size of a VW bus and can hover in near space to collect data over urban areas. Company founder Jared Leidich (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/04_fm2017-alan-eustaces-jump-1-180961678/) has some chops in this arena, having designed the space suit used in the world record space dive in 2014 via a balloon at nearly 136k feet. Near Space Labs (/company/nearspacelabs) invites people to “step inside a new way of thinking about all things geospatial imaging (https://nearspacelabs.com/blog/).” The company's high-altitude balloons that carry a small, autonomous robot called Swifty to capture the world around them at 60k to 85k feet in the air. The company says it’s done zero carbon emissions and recently launched (https://www.zdnet.com/article/near-space-labs-provide-free-high-resolution-imagery-to-universities-nonprofits/) a program to make its high-resolution Earth imagery available to universities and nonprofits for free. Sounds fascinating, right? Luckily, with a new wave of space technology, comes a brand new, cutting-edge wave of jobs. Check out 5 top startups aiming skywards and hiring now.
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Exciting Edtech Companies Hiring In 2023
Education tech, or edtech, is on the rise as educators and families try to adapt to a generation of children raised online. Over 65% (https://www.vivi.io/what-types-of-technology-can-be-used-in-the-classroom/) of teachers use digital tools to teach everyday, and the Edtech industry is predicted to grow to nearly $320B (https://www.globenewswire.com/en/news-release/2022/05/02/2433414/0/en/With-17-8-CAGR-EdTech-and-Smart-Classroom-Market-Size-Worth-USD-319-65-Billion-in-2029.html) by 2029. Covid-19 kicked the need to integrate technology with education into overdrive. Prior to the pandemic about 2/3rds of school districts reported providing students with a digital learning device; post pandemic this number skyrocketed to 90% (https://www.edweek.org/technology/what-the-massive-shift-to-1-to-1-computing-means-for-schools-in-charts/2022/05). Online classes went from the fringes of education to the forefront, with a 99% (https://explodingtopics.com/blog/edtech-stats) increase in Edtech usage in K-12 since 2020, over 70% (https://explodingtopics.com/blog/edtech-stats) of colleges launching online undergrad programs, and approximately 90% (https://www.concordia.edu/blog/3-reasons-why-teachers-need-technology-in-the-classroom.html) of U.S. educators teaching some amount of their classes online from home. Studies have shown that students with the highest outcomes (https://www.concordia.edu/blog/3-reasons-why-teachers-need-technology-in-the-classroom.html) in reading, science, and math, were the students spent an hour or more per week doing homework on a device. Edtech is demonstrably important for making learning more accessible (https://www.concordia.edu/blog/3-reasons-why-teachers-need-technology-in-the-classroom.html), as the at-your-pace structure of online learning paired with all the possibilities for Edtech such as video lectures and gamified lessons can be helpful alternatives to students who struggle in a traditional class format. Parallel Learning (/company/parallel-learning-1) is a company that understands this and offers skill-based tutoring, behavioral therapy, speech language therapy, and more to students from the comfort of their own home and at an affordable price. Brightwheel (/company/brightwheel) is a company dedicated to providing families with the best early education by allowing teachers more valuable time with students, engaging parents in their child’s education, and more. SchoolLinks (/company/schoolinks) is a learning platform dedicated to turning K-12 education into a pipeline for college and careers. Their platform gives students and academic advisors the tools they need to plan out their future,and take the steps necessary to achieve it. If you want to play a part in the education of the next generation of thinkers, doers, and leaders, take a look at these 5 Edtech companies hiring in 2023.
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