Top Tech Startups in Earth in 2024

Ever talk to a really good AI when you call customer service? That’s (probably!) powered by us at Flip - a profitable, fast-growing startup raising our Series A. Having Flip's voice assistant makes for: ✅ Happier customers: 24/7 on-brand resolutions, with high success rates. ✅ Happier agents: instead of an avalanche of tickets, more of a 'manageable handful' :) ✅ Happier businesses: happier customers & happier agents, all while saving $$$$! Flip: where rich conversations happen and brand love is built, at scale. Check us out at flipcx.com!

Ultralight’s mission is to unlock the potential for medtech innovation. The $500B+ medical device industry is dramatically evolving, from AI-augmented diagnostics to advanced robotic surgery systems to brain-computer interfaces. The increasing complexity of products and regulation demands better tooling. That’s where Ultralight comes in. We build software to simplify and automate product development and compliance. Our best-in-class tools for medical device teams help them build products with safety and risk to patients in mind, and we also help compliance teams speed up their manual, burdensome processes. We also leverage AI throughout the platform to provide actionable feedback and help teams be more efficient. Our founders have deep experience operating at some of the fastest-growing healthcare technology startups like Garner Health and Maven Clinic, as well exceptional technical cultures like Meta and Two Sigma.

Oklo is a California-based company developing clean energy plants to provide emission-free, reliable, and affordable energy using advanced fission. Oklo is a fast-growing startup with a history of reliable funding and milestones for more than 5 years. Oklo’s first product is a microgrid scale powerhouse. The powerhouse can produce clean energy for decades without needing to refuel, and also has the capability to turn nuclear waste into clean energy. Oklo received a Site Use Permit from the U.S Department of Energy, demonstrated fabrication of its fuel, was awarded fuel from the Idaho National Laboratory, and submitted the first accepted advanced fission license application to the regulator. Oklo has been featured in Popular Mechanics, Wired, Architectural Digest, Hyperallergic, POWER Magazine, and has been the subject of a Harvard Business School case, and was featured in the documentary The New Fire, among many other features.

At Persona, we’re humanizing online identity. To us, this means making it easy for businesses to verify customers’ identities and offering a secure, streamlined, and personalized experience for each end-user. This helps businesses understand their customers. And most importantly, people know they are being treated as a unique person, not just another anonymous user. At Persona, what brings our team together is our desire to help our fellow teammates succeed and our motivation to make the internet a safer place. Funding: $217M in funding; Series C (Founders Fund, Index, Coatue, First Round) Offices: San Francisco (HQ), New York Team Size: 250 Website: withpersona.com Noteworthy Customers: OpenAI, AngelList, Etsy, LinkedIn, Twilio, Reddit, DoorDash, Coursera, Gusto, Square, Simple Health, Instacart LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/persona-identities/life Glassdoor: glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Persona-Identities-EI_IE4135645.11,29.htm

Gemini is a digital asset exchange and custodian that allows customers to buy, sell, and store digital assets such as bitcoin, bitcoin cash, ether, zcash, and litecoin. Gemini is a New York trust company that is subject to the capital reserve requirements, cybersecurity requirements, and banking compliance standards set forth by the New York Department of Financial Services and the New York Banking Law. Gemini was founded in 2014, by brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss. In December of 2018, Gemini extended its trusted platform launching its mobile app making trading easy for customers on the go. In September of 2018, Gemini launched the world’s first regulated stablecoin, the Gemini dollar, that combines the creditworthiness and price stability of the U.S. dollar with blockchain technology and the oversight of U.S. regulators. Gemini, in partnership with the Cboe Futures Exchange, LLC, launched the first-ever bitcoin futures contract in December of 2017.

Virta is the first clinically-proven treatment to safely and sustainably reverse type 2 diabetes and other chronic metabolic diseases without the use of medications or surgery. Just a few short years ago, type 2 diabetes reversal wasn’t considered possible. Fast forward to today, and Virta’s pioneering efforts have made it mainstream, while revolutionizing healthcare delivery in the process. Still, there’s so much more to be done! If you’re ready to redefine what’s possible, transform our industry, and reinvent healthcare for good, we invite you to join our cause at Virta! We have opportunities for software engineers, health coaches, scientists, clinicians, and more. Visit virtahealth.com/careers to see our full list of open roles. See how Virta is transforming healthcare by developing the next generation of healthcare technology. Check out our technical blog at virtahealth.com/health-tech. Join our Talent Community at jobs.ashbyhq.com/virtahealth/form/talent-community-form to stay connected!

The World Surf League (WSL) organizes the annual tour of professional surf competitions and broadcasts each event live at WorldSurfLeague.com where you can experience the athleticism, drama and adventure of competitive surfing -- anywhere and anytime it’s on. The WSL sanctions and operates the following tours: the Junior Tour, Longboard Tour, the Qualifying Series (QS), the Big Wave Tour and the crown jewel of the sport, the WSL Championship Tour (CT) which determines the sport's undisputed world champions. The organization is headquartered in Santa Monica, California with Commercial Offices in New York. The offices are supported by regional centers in Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, Hawaii, North America and South America.

We, at Rasayel (rasayel.io), are a small, sharp-focused and deliberate product team. We built Rasayel to connect businesses to the most popular messaging channels (WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook, etc) out there. We seek to create an experience that helps businesses fulfill their transactions with their customers in a reliable, scalable, fast, simple, omni, near-native and contextual manner. We want to make business messaging easier for the business owner.