Tagged: remote-first
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Pineapple Products
Pineapple Products is a direct-to-consumer health supplement company that builds and operates a portfolio of consumer wellness brands. Founded by Brett Allcorn, it started as classroom seminars in New York City and grew into a house of brands that pairs original product formulations - including probiotics with unique metabolic strains - with strong storytelling and partnerships with doctors, personalities, and influencers. The company creates, markets, and oversees smaller brands under a single parent, aiming to build products it believes don't yet exist in the market.
CivicActions
CivicActions is a fully remote digital services firm that helps U.S. federal, state, and local government agencies modernize the technology behind public services. Founded in 2004 by Henry Poole and Aaron Pava, the company pairs free and open-source software - especially Drupal - with agile delivery, DevSecOps, human-centered design, and accessibility expertise to rebuild legacy government websites and platforms. Guided by the values of Balance, Openness, and Care, CivicActions has served agencies including Veterans Affairs, the FCC, the National Science Foundation, and the State of Georgia while contributing heavily back to the open-source communities its work depends on.
Airmeet
Airmeet is a virtual and hybrid events platform built to help B2B marketing teams run interactive webinars, summits, and conferences that generate pipeline. Founded in 2019 by former CommonFloor founders, the remote-first company pairs engagement-heavy features - virtual lounges, speed networking, and gamification - with AI-powered content repurposing and CRM-connected analytics. More than 5,500 brands, from Comcast and Unilever to the Linux Foundation, have used Airmeet to host events at scale.
FunCraft
FunCraft is a remote-first mobile game studio founded in 2019 by former Electronic Arts and Zynga veterans. It builds friendly word and puzzle games - led by flagship title Wordgrams and Word Yatzy - designed to become daily rituals players return to for years. The studio backs a philosophy it calls 'casual forever,' pairing rigorous live operations and ad-spend experimentation with a small, senior team. By its fifth year it had crossed 7 million installs and more than $15 million in revenue.
Dennis X. Hu
Dennis X. Hu is the founder and CEO of Drug Hunter, a subscription knowledge platform that distills the science behind new medicines for more than 200 R&D institutions, including most of the world's top pharma and biotech companies. A medicinal chemist by training, he led small-molecule teams at Genentech and the biotech RAPT Therapeutics (where he helped invent the Phase II oncology candidate tivumecirnon) before turning a side project into a fully remote company of 20+ employees that reaches millions of searches a year and runs entirely on subscription revenue.
Oddball
Oddball is a McLean, Virginia-based digital services agency that modernizes how the U.S. government talks to its citizens. It builds and maintains some of the federal government's busiest websites - notably VA.gov for the Department of Veterans Affairs and Medicare.gov for CMS - using human-centered design, agile engineering, and modern cloud infrastructure. Founded in 2016 and led by CEO Travis Sorensen and CTO Rob Wilkinson, the remote-first firm calls itself 'a strangely human digital agency,' and grew to roughly 340-366 employees and ~$117M in annual prime contract revenue before taking a 2025 growth investment from private equity firm Falfurrias Management Partners.
TEECOM
TEECOM is a technology planning, design, and engineering firm that makes technology work in buildings. Founded in 1997 and led by founder David Marks, the remote-first company partners with architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) teams to design the unseen layer of modern buildings - structured cabling, networks, audiovisual, acoustics, security, wireless, distributed antenna systems, and emergency responder radio. With 150-plus engineers, designers, and subject-matter experts, TEECOM has delivered integrated technology systems across more than 28 countries for clients like Salesforce.
KeepingCount
KeepingCount is an industry-focused outsourced accounting and bookkeeping platform that takes the finance function off business owners' plates. Founded in 2023 by Jeff Russell and backed by Housatonic Partners, the company is building vertical-specific brands - real estate, construction, e-commerce, vacation rentals, life sciences, consumer products and professional services - staffed by accountants who specialize in each industry rather than the traditional geography-based generalist model. KeepingCount delivers accounting, advisory (CFO/controller), tax and payroll services on platforms like Sage Intacct and QuickBooks Online, managing more than $250 million in annual client revenue.
Brent Chudoba
Brent Chudoba is the CEO of Biteable, a remote-first video creation platform that has helped more than seven million people make studio-quality videos. He spent a decade as a senior operator (COO, CFO, CRO and GM roles) at some of the internet's best-known productivity companies including Calendly, Thrive Global, PicMonkey and SurveyMonkey, where he was employee number fourteen. Before operating, he was an investor at Spectrum Equity and an investment banker at Piper Jaffray. Today he also teaches a cohort-based course on Maven, Startup Leadership Unleashed, distilling what he learned scaling teams.
PostHog
PostHog is an all-in-one, open-source developer platform that bundles product analytics, web analytics, session replay, feature flags, A/B testing, experiments, surveys, error tracking, a customer data platform, and a data warehouse into a single stack engineers can self-host or run in the cloud. Founded in 2020 by James Hawkins and Tim Glaser through Y Combinator, it lets product engineers track usage, ship features, and keep customer data in one place rather than stitching together a dozen SaaS tools. The company reached unicorn status in 2025 with a $75M Series E at a $1.4B valuation.
Jerry Connelly
Jerry Connelly is the Chief Executive Officer of KeepingCount, a remote-first outsourced accounting and advisory firm that gives growing small businesses and nonprofits the bookkeeping, reporting, and fractional-CFO horsepower they usually cannot afford to hire in-house. Built around the promise of 'better numbers for growing businesses,' KeepingCount pairs platform technologies like Sage Intacct and QuickBooks Online with hands-on accounting teams serving construction, consumer products, professional services, real estate, life sciences, and vacation-rental clients. Originally headquartered in Boise, Idaho, the company now runs as a distributed organization, and Connelly leads it with a stated emphasis on values - conscientious, disciplined, gracious, integrity, and serving all clients.
Joseph Heller
Joseph Heller is the CEO and founder of THE/STUDIO, the company behind TheStudio.com and SuppliedShop.com, a supply-chain platform that connects creators, brands and small businesses with vetted factories worldwide so anyone can make custom products - patches, pins, apparel, medals and more - without minimum orders or sourcing expertise. After more than a decade working with factories in China, he built a low-MOQ, on-demand manufacturing model and a fully remote, globally distributed team, raising an $11M Series A in 2018 after 18 months and more than 150 investor rejections. His through-line is democratizing access to manufacturing as a path to broad-based wealth creation.
Aha!
Aha! is a bootstrapped, fully remote software company that makes the world's most widely used product development tools. Founded in 2013 by Brian de Haaff and Chris Waters, its suite - Roadmaps, Ideas, Whiteboards, Knowledge, Discovery, Teamwork, Develop, and the newer AI-driven Builder - helps product teams set strategy, gather customer feedback, prioritize features, and ship work people love. It reached profitability without venture capital and is used by more than one million product builders worldwide.
Will Young
Will Young is the co-founder and CEO of Sana, an Austin-based tech-enabled health plan that aims to cut small-business health insurance costs by up to 30%. A Stanford and Harvard Business School graduate who passed through Google and Justworks before starting a company in an industry he had no background in, Young bet that being an outsider was the advantage. Sana launched in 2018, went fully remote from day one against investor advice, and by its $60M Series B in 2022 had raised roughly $107M total while operating across eight states.
Close CRM
Close is a bootstrapped, profitable sales CRM built for small and mid-sized teams that want to spend less time on admin and more time actually selling. Founded in 2013 out of a San Francisco sales agency, it combines pipeline management, built-in calling, email, and SMS into one platform - no integrations required. With $17M+ ARR and a fully remote team across 40+ countries, Close has grown almost entirely without venture capital, making it one of the more unusual success stories in SaaS.
RemoFirst
RemoFirst is an Employer of Record platform that lets companies hire, pay, and manage full-time employees and contractors in 185+ countries without setting up local entities. Founded in 2021 in San Francisco, it competes with Deel and Rippling by undercutting them on price - starting at $199 per employee per month - and handling payroll, taxes, benefits, equipment, and visas on its customers' behalf.
HiHello, Inc.
HiHello builds digital business cards, email signatures, virtual backgrounds, and contact management tools for individuals and enterprises. Founded in 2018 in Palo Alto by serial founder Manu Kumar (CardMunch, Carta) and Hari Ravi, the company turns the awkward exchange of paper rectangles into a tappable, shareable, trackable contact moment.