Top Tech Startups in Earth in 2027

The next great music platform won’t look like Spotify or Ableton. That’s the bet. A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya is a “music (software) label” – we release playful music products built on a core belief: music is a verb – something you do, not passively stream. We're on a mission to pull people into a deeper relationship with music, and we're building the next great consumer music app to do it. We’re a small but mighty team of creative technologists, assembled by Máuhan M Zonoozy (ex-Head of Innovation at Spotify, 2x exits), and backed by investors who uniquely get it, including NFX, Mantis, Quiet Capital, Collaborative Fund, Gold House, BoxGroup, SV Angel, RRE, and others. $9M+ raised Interested in working at Shibuya? Fill out our application form (tally.so/r/Ek2o0N)

SLSCRW helps deeptech companies turn great technology into commercial traction. A lot of deeptech companies have the same problem. They have strong technical teams, promising technology and a market that should exist, but building a full commercial team too early is expensive and often makes little sense. Sales in deeptech also comes in waves. You may need serious commercial firepower for six months, then much less for the next six. That is what SLSCRW is built for. We act as a shared commercial team for deeptech companies. We help figure out where the real commercial opportunity is, identify the companies and people worth pursuing, open the right conversations and keep opportunities moving until there is something real on the table. We focus on sectors where selling requires technical understanding, patience and access to the right people: semiconductors, AI and computing, photonics, robotics, energy and storage, advanced materials, industrial biotech, space and other deeptech markets. Companies can use us when they need us and scale us down when they do not. Because our people, tools and network are shared across several companies, we can provide senior commercial capability without every company having to build the same infrastructure itself. And sometimes we go one step further. For companies we strongly believe in, SLSCRW can invest part or even all of our work instead of charging the full fee in cash. That means our upside can be tied to the value we help create. We are building SLSCRW around a simple idea: deeptech companies should be able to access world-class commercial capability as flexibly as they access other critical infrastructure. Build the technology. We help make sure someone buys it.

We're Storyleads.io, and we help lawyers and legal vendors build powerful personal brands through LinkedIn, newsletters, books, and more. We're an early-stage agency that's growing fast—currently serving ~80 clients across the US with plans to double in the coming year. Our lean team of 15 is building something special, and we're looking for someone who wants to grow with us as we become the #1 go-to shop for lawyers on LinkedIn.