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Lore would like a word with your buzzwords
A PR consultancy made a font that crosses out jargon. The joke explains its serious business: helping people with something to say become worth listening to.
F6S built a business around the work between the big ideas
A network of 6.5 million members, a cupboard full of software deals and a growing role in European innovation: F6S makes the unglamorous parts of building a company easier to find.
The VC Who Sells Before He Wires
Jordan Wan spent ten years staffing the sales teams of a thousand startups. Now he invests in the founders before they have one - and helps them figure out how to sell.
Attio
The AI-native CRM rebuilding customer relationship software around flexible data and always-on revenue agents - trusted by more than 30,000 companies including OpenAI, Linear, and Ramp.
Adalo
Adalo is a no-code platform that lets anyone design, build, and publish database-driven native mobile apps and web apps - straight to the Apple App Store and Google Play - using a drag-and-drop visual canvas and AI-assisted building, without writing code. Founded in 2018 by David Adkin, Ben Haefele, and Jeremy Blalock and based in St. Louis, Missouri, Adalo has grown to hundreds of thousands of registered makers and now offers flat-rate pricing that stays fixed regardless of app usage.
Florin
Florin is a financial operating system for startups that brings banking, payments, cards, and treasury into a single account. Rather than reselling another bank's rails, the company is building the underlying infrastructure end to end, so money moves in real time on a single ledger it owns. Florin launched out of Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch with an invite-only membership for venture-backed companies.
Techstars
Techstars is a global pre-seed investor and startup accelerator founded in Boulder, Colorado in 2006. It runs three-month, mentorship-driven accelerator programs that give early-stage founders capital, a dense mentor network, and lifelong connections in exchange for equity. Since its first class in 2007, Techstars has backed more than 10,000 founders across programs in dozens of cities and 150+ countries, producing companies such as SendGrid, DigitalOcean, ClassPass, PillPack and Remitly.
Roger
Roger is a New York eSignature and contract platform (YC W21) that turns clunky PDF signing into an app-like, mobile-first experience. Built for startups, SMBs, and growing sales, HR, and finance teams, it pairs reusable templates, approval workflows, smart reminders, and a searchable contract repository with pay-as-you-go pricing - positioning itself as a faster, simpler alternative to DocuSign.
COLABS
COLABS is a flexible workspace and community platform that provides fully serviced offices, coworking space, and back-office support for startups, scaling companies, and enterprise teams. Founded in Pakistan in 2019 by twin brothers Omar and Ali Shah, it operates more than 500,000 square feet across 10+ locations serving over 5,000 members, and in April 2026 opened a 4,000-square-meter flagship campus in the Al-Narjis district of northern Riyadh to anchor its expansion into Saudi Arabia.
Monaco
Monaco is an AI-native sales platform - billed as 'the first revenue engine for startups' - that replaces the usual patchwork of CRM, outbound tools, and pipeline software with a single system. Founded in 2025 by former Brex CRO Sam Blond alongside his brother Brian Blond, Abishek Viswanathan, and Malay Desai, Monaco builds a company's total addressable market, runs outbound, captures every call and email, and manages pipeline using AI agents paired with embedded human sales experts. It launched from stealth in February 2026 and, three months later, raised a $50M Series B led by Benchmark, pushing total funding past $85M.
Paraform
Paraform is a San Francisco recruiting platform that connects companies with a network of 10,000+ independent recruiters and pairs them with custom AI agents to fill hard roles fast. Instead of betting that software alone can screen resumes, Paraform keeps humans in the loop and gives them AI tools plus white-glove operational support, handling intake calls, hiring-manager feedback, and payments. Companies like Palantir, Rippling, Cursor, and Cognition use it to meet candidates in days rather than months. Founded in 2022 by John Kim and Jeffrey Li, the company has raised $65M total, most recently a $40M Series B led by Scale Venture Partners in March 2026.
Averi
Averi is a New York-based AI content engine for startups that blends generative-AI agents with a curated marketplace of vetted US marketing experts. The platform researches, drafts, publishes and optimizes content in one workflow - handling strategy, SEO/GEO, competitor tracking and analytics while keeping humans in creative control. Founded in 2023 by Zack Holland, Averi raised a $2M pre-seed in 2024 and a $3M seed in 2025, and reports roughly $2.1M in revenue with a small team of around a dozen people.
Complete
Complete is a San Francisco-based compensation management platform that helps startups and scaling companies design, model, and communicate employee pay - covering salary, equity, bonuses, and benefits. Founded in 2022 by Rani Mavram and Zack Field, the Y Combinator-backed company replaces spreadsheets with interactive offer letters, total rewards statements, salary bands, and AI-driven scenario planning through its Compy agent, integrating across ATS, HRIS, and cap table systems.
Plane
Plane (formerly Pilot) is a San Francisco-based global payroll, HR, and compliance platform that lets fast-growing companies pay U.S. employees, international employees, and contractors from a single system. Founded in 2017 out of Y Combinator's Winter 2017 batch, Plane runs domestic payroll, hires people abroad through employer-of-record services, and pays contractors in 240+ countries and 130+ currencies - pitching itself as the easiest-to-set-up multi-country payroll tool, with an unusual approach of charging foreign-exchange fees at cost rather than marking them up.
Holloway
Holloway is a San Francisco-based digital publisher of book-length, expert-written guides on the practical realities of work - raising venture capital, equity compensation, technical recruiting, remote teams, and more. Each guide is searchable down to the paragraph, annotated by editors, and updated over time so the page never goes stale the way a printed book does.
Tekxai
Tekxai is a full-stack digital innovation studio that builds UI-first MVPs for startups and small businesses in about six weeks. It blends product strategy, UI/UX design, and agile web and mobile development, with generative AI baked into the work. Clients keep 100% of the intellectual property, code, and design assets. The team works across e-commerce, healthcare, fintech, logistics, and construction.
Mozart Data
Mozart Data is a San Francisco-based startup that gives companies an out-of-the-box modern data stack - a managed Snowflake warehouse, no-code ETL connectors, a SQL transformation layer, and built-in observability - so non-engineers can go from siloed, messy data to analysis-ready in about an hour. Founded in 2020 by Peter Fishman and Dan Silberman and backed by Y Combinator, it lets startups and SMBs skip the months of plumbing usually needed to stand up data infrastructure.
wrrk
wrrk is an Austin-based customer-experience company that builds and runs fully-managed support organizations for high-growth brands. It blends vetted USA-based and Philippines-based agents with tooling and automation to deliver omnichannel customer service - phone, chat, email, SMS, social and marketplace - so startups and consumer brands get the reliability of an in-house team with the flexibility of an outsourced one. wrrk supports 125+ brands including Bombas, Supergoop, Taylor Stitch, Momofuku and AllTrails.
AngelList
AngelList is the software platform behind a meaningful slice of U.S. early-stage venture capital. What started in 2010 as a way to introduce founders to angel investors has become the infrastructure layer for fund managers - the place where funds, SPVs, syndicates, and rolling funds get formed, administered, and reported on. Today thousands of investors run capital through AngelList, and a sizeable share of every new American startup round touches its rails.
Mercury
Mercury is a San Francisco fintech that builds banking and financial software for startups and growth-stage companies. Through partner banks, it offers FDIC-insured checking and savings, corporate cards, treasury, venture debt, bill pay, and an API - aimed at founders who would rather not call a branch manager.
Pulley
Pulley is an equity and token management platform that helps founders, finance teams, and employees run cap tables, fundraises, valuations, and tax-compliant token distributions from one place - without spreadsheets or paralegal time.
Vouch
Vouch is a technology-first insurance broker built specifically for high-growth startups and venture-backed companies. Founded in 2018 by Sam Hodges and Travis Hedge, Vouch has reimagined business insurance with a digital-first platform that lets founders get covered in minutes - not weeks. With over $203M raised, 6,000+ companies insured, and a landmark 2025 deal with Hiscox, Vouch sits at the intersection of fintech and insurtech, offering everything from general liability to first-of-its-kind AI-specific coverage.
DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean is a cloud computing platform designed for developers, startups, and SMBs, offering simple, predictable pricing and powerful infrastructure from virtual machines to high-performance GPU instances. Known for its community-first approach and Hacktoberfest, it has grown into a $9.4B public company competing with hyperscalers by focusing on usability and AI democratization.