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Sandstone
$40M
Legal Departments Track Half-Million-Dollar Contracts in Spreadsheets. Sandstone Just Raised $40M to Fix That.
AI/Agents · build adjacent
RISING
Kampala
$500K
Seven Years of Reverse-Engineering Sneaker Bots, Turned Into a Real Business
DevTools · build tooling
RISING
Probably
$9M
The AI Labs Are Incentivized to Keep Models Unreliable. This Startup Isn’t.
AI/Infrastructure · adapt model
RISING
Hyper
$500K
Your AI Agent Forgot Everything by Lunch. Hyper Fixes That.
AI/Infrastructure · build adjacent
RISING
Memoir
$500K
Stop Mining Gold. Sell the Shovels.
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PROVEN
Causa Prima
$10M
Don't Build AI Agents. Build a Network of Them.
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PROVEN
Ploy
$28M
Your Website Is the One Digital Asset the Algorithm Can't Take Away
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PROVEN
Artis
$10M
60 Clients, $10M Raised – The Niche That Prints $3–5K Per Month
SaaS/Vertical · build adjacent
PROVEN
Infinity Constellation
$36M
The AI Holding Company That Builds Instead of Buys
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PROVEN
Pogo
$32M
People Lie in Surveys. Video Interviews Fix That.
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
RISING
Ontora
$1M
170 Enterprise Leads, 80 Investors – and They Never Ran a Single Ad
AI/Agents · build adjacent
RISING
Willow
$7M
Shadow AI Is Already Inside Your Company. The Fix Is Worth Billions.
AI/Agents · build competitor
RISING
Opereit
$3M
There's $1 Trillion in Lost Logistics Revenue. Go Get a Slice.
AI/Agents · build adjacent
RISING
Parrot
$500K
Auto Repair AI That Handles Insurance Claims – Not Just Scheduling
AI/Agents · build adjacent
RISING
Dalton Mills
$9M
$9.2M Raised Before Shipping a Single Product
SaaS/Vertical · build adjacent
RISING
Alchemize
$500K
A $30 Billion Market That Just Needs Someone to Automate It
AI/Agents · build competitor
RISING
ConstructionBevy
$1M
Procurement Is About to Go All-Auction. Finally.
SaaS/Vertical · build adjacent
RISING
Arctic Health
$500K
Hiring a Doctor Triggers 4 Months of Paperwork. This Startup Kills It.
AI/Agents · build competitor
RISING
Hardline
$2M
Every Founder's Dream: Big Market, No Competition
AI/Voice · enter market
RISING
Voker
$2M
Everyone Deploys AI Agents. Nobody Measures If They Actually Help.
AI/Agents · build tooling
SEEDLING
Tycoon
undisclosed
Describe a Company, Get a Company – Staffed Entirely by AI Agents
AI/Agents · build adjacent
SEEDLING
CaseGap
undisclosed
Find the Revenue Leaks and Plug Them – Applied to Law Firm Marketing
AI/Generative · adapt model
RISING
Rima
$600K
The Most Elegant Business Model Right Now – and It's Replicable
AI/Agents · build adjacent
RISING
Archer
$500K
Why Every Incentive System Fails – and the Fix Is Simple
HR/Benefits · build adjacent
PROVEN
Exponent
$40M
The Best Customers Are the Ones Who Want to Grow
Fintech/Lending · build adjacent
RISING
Gigacatalyst
$500K
The Coming Death of Closed SaaS – and What Comes After
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
RISING
Gyver
$2M
What If You Became the Influencer for Electricians?
E-commerce/Marketplace · build adjacent
RISING
Manicule
$500K
Your Marketing Stack Was Built for Humans. AI Agents Ignore It.
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PROVEN
Vori
$32M
Sell Them What They Can't Survive Without
SaaS/Vertical · build adjacent
SEEDLING
Productclunk
undisclosed
AI Killed the Barrier to Building. Now Distribution Is the Only Game.
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PROVEN
Windmill
$12M
The Org Chart Is a Lie. This Tool Maps How Work Actually Flows.
HR/Learning · build adjacent
PROVEN
Casa
$27M
Scale With Other People's Hands – Just Make Sure They Can't Leave
E-commerce/Subscriptions · build adjacent
RISING
Salesgraph
$500K
Your AI Platform Is Too Smart for Your Customers
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PROVEN
Manifest OS
$60M
$750M Valuation, 18 Months Old, Zero Customers – Then $60M
SaaS/Vertical · build adjacent
PROVEN
Avoca
$126M
Quiet Since 2023 YC Demo Day. Then: 800 Clients, $125M, $1B Valuation.
AI/Generative · enter market
RISING
Cloneable
$5M
The Best AI Opportunities Are in Markets Nobody Is Glamorizing
AI/Computer Vision · enter market
RISING
Trellis
$500K
The AI Automation Gold Rush Is Real – But Only in the Right Niches
AI/Agents · build adjacent
RISING
Ontora
$500K
You Survey Customers. Why Not Your Employees the Same Way?
HR/Learning · build adjacent
PROVEN
FirmPilot
$27M
The New Niche-Selection Criterion That Old Frameworks Miss
SaaS/Vertical · build competitor
RISING
Psympl
$1M
Banks Have Been Segmenting Customers Wrong for Decades
SaaS/Vertical · build adjacent
RISING
Pomo
$5M
You Don't Need an AI That Creates Ads – You Need One That Decides
AI/Generative · build adjacent
SEEDLING
Konfide
undisclosed
The Best Way to Promote Your Product: Let Others Profit From It
AI/Agents · build adjacent
RISING
Tepali
$500K
SMB Software Is Dying. Winners Will Be Problem-Solvers.
SaaS/Vertical · build adjacent
PROVEN
Modus
$85M
Stop Charging for Software. Take Equity Instead.
SaaS/Vertical · build adjacent
RISING
Driver
$9M
AI Agents Are the New Gold Miners. Sell Them Shovels.
AI/Agents · build adjacent
SEEDLING
Panorama
undisclosed
Most Automation Tools Solve the Wrong Problem
AI/Agents · build adjacent
RISING
Complir
$2M
Regulatory Compliance Is a Sales Blocker – AI Is Removing It
AI/NLP · build adjacent
RISING
Andustry
$500K
Procurement Platforms Don't Need to Be Complex to Grow Fast
SaaS/Vertical · build adjacent
PROVEN
Crosby
$86M
$400M in 283 Days – and the Two Criteria Behind It
SaaS/Productivity · build competitor
RISING
Rowan
$3M
73% of SMB Owners Plan to Retire by Selling – 80% Never Find a Buyer
SaaS/Vertical · adapt model
SEEDLING
Pensieve
undisclosed
AI Agents Need Onboarding. Nobody Knows How to Do That Yet.
AI/Agents · build tooling
RISING
Loca
$4M
Local Marketing: Still Making Real Money With Dead-Simple Products
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PROVEN
Glimpse
$53M
Retailers Pocket a Third of Supplier Profits – Called Deductions
AI/Agents · build tooling
SEEDLING
Tobira
undisclosed
AI Agents That Network on Your Behalf Are Coming
AI/Agents · build adjacent
RISING
Multiply
$10M
The Most Profitable AI Play Isn't Building Platforms
AI/Agents · build adjacent
RISING
First Concepts
$1M
Enterprise Sales Needs Throwaway Demos – Nobody Has Built That Yet
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PROVEN
Edra
$30M
The Biggest Money in Enterprise AI Is in Implementation
AI/Agents · build tooling
RISING
Rubric
$500K
Building AI Platforms Is Cheap. Verifying Their Output Is Valuable.
AI/MLOps · build tooling
RISING
Perfectly
$500K
Twice the Pass Rate in a Quarter of the Time – AI-First Recruiting
HR/Recruiting · build competitor
PROVEN
Ernesta
$58M
Peloton Founders Left a $50B Peak to Bet on Rugs
E-commerce/Marketplace · enter market
PROVEN
Juicebox
$116M
Flip the Pareto Rule and Watch the Funding Roll In
HR/Recruiting · adapt model
PROVEN
Amigo
$18M
Your AI Agent Needs a Certificate – That's a Real Market
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PROVEN
Moxie
$51M
Don't Build for Founders – Build for Professionals Going Independent
SaaS/Vertical · adapt model
SEEDLING
Timelaps
undisclosed
Same Platform, 100x the Price – Sell Outcomes Instead of Software
SaaS/Vertical · build adjacent
RISING
DealFlowAgent
$2M
The Great Business Transfer Is Coming – Here's How to Profit From It
Fintech/WealthTech · build adjacent
PROVEN
Levitate
$71M
Products Are Becoming Commodities – Relationships Are the New Moat
SaaS/CRM · build adjacent
RISING
Ivee
$4M
The Best Hires Aren't Looking – Target Life Transitions Instead
HR/Recruiting · build adjacent
RISING
Outship
$500K
Less Competition Lives in the Non-Obvious Problems
AI/Agents · build adjacent
RISING
FirmPilot
$5M
"Good" Isn't the Bar – "Better Than Your Competitors" Is
AI/Generative · adapt model
RISING
14.ai
$3M
Building AI Support Agents Is Good – Running the Team Is Better
AI/Agents · build adjacent
RISING
Panta
$500K
Their Headache Is Your Revenue – If You Can Offload the Pain to AI
Fintech/InsurTech · build adjacent
RISING
Arzule
$500K
Partnerships Were Nice to Have – They're Becoming Non-Negotiable
SaaS/Productivity · build competitor
PROVEN
Croissant
$52M
Don't Build Another Resale Marketplace – Build the Infrastructure
E-commerce/Marketplace · build tooling
RISING
Swan
$6M
Three Founders, No Staff, $1.5M Monthly Pipeline
AI/Agents · build competitor
RISING
Aemon
$500K
The AI Product That Wins Has the Best Data, Not the Best Algorithm
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PROVEN
Odynn
$13M
Turn Your Loyalty Cost Center Into a Revenue Stream
SaaS/Vertical · build adjacent
RISING
Bystreet
$500K
Sell the Data, Bundle the Software Free
SaaS/Vertical · build adjacent
PROVEN
DataLane
$23M
ChatGPT Won't Find You Offline Customers – This Kind of AI Will
AI/Search · build competitor
RISING
Imagine AI
$500K
Stop Selling Software – Sell the Outcome It Produces
SaaS/Productivity · adapt model
PROVEN
Circuit
$70M
Industrial AI Doesn't Answer Questions – It Captures Expertise
AI/Agents · build adjacent
RISING
Grade
$500K
The End of Paying for Time – AI Is Making Outcome-Based Pay Inevitable
HR/Benefits · build tooling
PROVEN
Paid
$33M
Per-Seat Pricing Breaks When the Agent's Job Is to Reduce Headcount
AI/Agents · build tooling
RISING
Robby
$500K
Simple Tools, Enormous Market – Home Services Is Still Underserved
SaaS/Vertical · build adjacent
RISING
Booko
$500K
Empty Appointment Slots Are Predictable – That's Where the Money Is
AI/Generative · adapt model
PROVEN
Day AI
$24M
The CRM Salesforce Should Have Built – Sequoia Just Funded It
SaaS/CRM · adapt model
SEEDLING
Overlead
undisclosed
Signal-Based Prospecting: Find Buyers Already Looking for You
AI/Search · build competitor
RISING
Salus
$500K
AI Hallucinations Can't Be Fixed – So Someone Has to Catch Them
AI/Agents · build adjacent
RISING
Arbor
$6M
Frontline Workers Know What's Wrong – They Just Need Someone to Ask
HR/Learning · build adjacent
PROVEN
Groopit
$11M
Your Best Competitive Intelligence Is Already Inside Your Company
HR/Recruiting · adapt model
RISING
Boomband
$4M
What If Recruiting Started With Who You Are, Not What You've Done
HR/Recruiting · build competitor
RISING
Slashwork
$4M
The Real AI Collaboration Opportunity Is Inside Your Company
SaaS/Collaboration · build adjacent
RISING
Collective OS
$3M
Small Companies Are Multiplying – and They All Need Infrastructure
SaaS/Marketplace · build adjacent
PROVEN
Forj
$21M
The Platform Is the Freebie – the Service Is What You're Selling
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
RISING
Sentra
$5M
Your Company Has Amnesia – Every Decision Evaporates After It's Made
AI/MLOps · build adjacent
PROVEN
Evaro
$27M
Embed Prescription Services Into Any App – No Infrastructure Needed
SaaS/Vertical · build adjacent
RISING
Layer
$3M
Layer Skips the Cold Funnel – Embeds Into Products Already in Use
SaaS/Vertical · build adjacent
PROVEN
MealMe
$21M
Solved Distribution by Becoming Infrastructure, Not a Consumer App
SaaS/Vertical · build tooling
RISING
Scholé
$3M
The Platform Is Ordinary – the Timing Is Perfect
Education/Corporate · build adjacent
PROVEN
Compa
$49M
The Right Salary Is a Number – Most Companies Are Just Guessing It
HR/Recruiting · build adjacent
RISING
Phoebe
$10M
When a Caregiver Calls in Sick at 6 a.m., AI Finds a Replacement
Health/Telemedicine · build competitor
SEEDLING
InteractPitch
undisclosed
The Pitch Deck That Raises Money Without You in the Room
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
RISING
Verata
$500K
Private Equity Is 20x the Size of Venture – and AI Is Just Arriving
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PROVEN
Applecart
$105M
Reach the Decision-Maker by Influencing Everyone Around Them
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
RISING
Legato
$7M
The New Ecosystem Model Includes Your Users – Not Just Your Partners
SaaS/Productivity · adapt model
PROVEN
Keychain
$90M
Removing Friction Is Worth Billions – $1B/Month in Under a Year
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PROVEN
Elyos
$16M
The Market AI Can't Touch: Trades Aren't Going Remote
AI/Agents · build adjacent
RISING
Skene
$880K
Founders Who Win Pick the Shortest Path to Revenue
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
RISING
Aliado
$3M
The Big Market with Almost No Competition: Offline Retail
E-commerce/Marketplace · adapt model
PROVEN
Hupo
$14M
When a Category Gets Crowded, That's Your Signal – Not Your Deterrent
AI/Agents · build adjacent
SEEDLING
Knoa
undisclosed
90% of Corporate Knowledge Lives in Heads – and Leaves With Them
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PROVEN
Blackbird.AI
$59M
Own a Narrow Niche and Become the Category Leader by Default
SaaS/Productivity · adapt model
PROVEN
Luxury Presence
$89M
New Clients Are Hard – Deals From Existing Contacts Are Much Easier
AI/MLOps · build adjacent
PROVEN
Swap
$149M
Cross-Border Commerce Is Broken – $149M Says This Is How You Fix It
SaaS/Productivity · build competitor
RISING
Gowatch
$500K
The Competitive Intelligence Gap Is a Product Waiting to Be Built
AI/Agents · build competitor
SEEDLING
Catalyne
undisclosed
25 Ideal Customers in 14 Days – as a Managed Service
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PROVEN
Scribe
$130M
94% of Fortune 500 Use This Tool – 44% Actually Pay for It
AI/Agents · build competitor
SEEDLING
GitHired
undisclosed
Resumes Lie – the Code Repository Doesn't
HR/Recruiting · build competitor
RISING
Drafted
$2M
AI Home Design That Goes All the Way to the Building Permit
AI/Generative · build adjacent
SEEDLING
Grov
undisclosed
Individual AI Assistants Are Table Stakes – Team Memory Is the Edge
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PROVEN
Delightree
$24M
Sell to One Franchisor and Win Hundreds of Locations at Once
SaaS/Vertical · build adjacent
PROVEN
Looma
$30M
88% of Shoppers Buy Something Unplanned – Retail Media Captures That
E-commerce/Marketplace · build adjacent
RISING
Scribl
$415K
Five Minutes of Real Talk Before the Agenda Doubles Meeting Outcomes
SaaS/Collaboration · build adjacent
PROVEN
Yoodli
$61M
AI Role-Play Raised $40M in Seven Months – the Category Is Real
AI/Generative · build adjacent
RISING
On Me
$8M
The Gift Card Market Is $1 Trillion – and Nobody's Playing It Smart
Fintech/Payments · build adjacent
RISING
Honeyjar
$2M
Smart PR Beats Paid Ads – Especially When You Can't Afford Both
SaaS/Productivity · build tooling
PROVEN
Passionfroot
$14M
Cold Calls Are Dead. B2B Influencers Are the New Pipeline.
SaaS/Marketplace · build tooling
RISING
Bond
$4M
Executives Don't Need More Meetings – They Need a Smarter Briefing
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
RISING
Raycaster
$500K
Automate the Most Painful Part of the Job – and Every Door Opens
SaaS/Vertical · adapt model
RISING
StructureFlow
$10M
Anything Can Be Made Understandable – Even the Worst Legal Deals
SaaS/Vertical · build adjacent
SEEDLING
Thrive Holdings
undisclosed
AI Is Coming for Professional Services – OpenAI Just Put Money on It
AI/Agents · build adjacent
SEEDLING
ProspectEcho
undisclosed
Your Ideal Customer Is Already Spending – You Just Haven't Found Them
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
RISING
Markopolo
$4M
E-Commerce Stores Lose 96–99% of Visitors – Here's How to Recover
SaaS/Productivity · build competitor
RISING
Scale Social
$2M
Same Product, Better Customer – The Easiest Upmarket Move
SaaS/Vertical · build adjacent
RISING
Enzy
$4M
Sales Teams Run on Competition – Turn Every KPI Into a Contest
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PROVEN
BoomPop
$60M
A $1 Trillion Market That Old-School Event Agencies Are About to Lose
AI/Agents · build adjacent
RISING
Questom
$500K
The $38B Custom Print Market's Core Problem: Quoting Too Slowly
E-commerce/Marketplace · build adjacent
RISING
Cactus
$8M
Y Combinator Is Betting Heavy on This Category – Niches Filling Fast
AI/Voice · build adjacent
RISING
Semiotic
$500K
$78K in Four Weeks – The Math Behind Hybrid AI Agencies
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PROVEN
The Mobile-First Company
$17M
99% of Businesses Are Small – and Nobody's Building Seriously for Them
SaaS/Vertical · build competitor
RISING
WorkHero
$5M
Small Business Doesn't Want a Platform – It Wants Its Problem Solved
SaaS/Vertical · build adjacent
RISING
Alloy
$3M
Most AI Dev Tools Target Startups – the Money Is in Existing Ones
AI/Generative · build adjacent
RISING
Unlisted
$3M
The Off-Market Marketplace – Buy Homes Before They're Listed
Real Estate/PropTech · build competitor
PROVEN
OpenEvidence
$517M
Every Professional Category Will Get Its Own ChatGPT
AI/Generative · build adjacent
RISING
Leadbay
$500K
The Hardest-to-Find Buyers Are the Most Valuable Ones
AI/Search · build adjacent
RISING
Fufild
$685K
Companies Run Loyalty Programs for Customers. Why Not for Employees?
HR/Benefits · build adjacent
RISING
Dragonfly
$3M
ChatGPT Is Useless for Enterprise Procurement – Here's What Works
SaaS/Productivity · build competitor
RISING
Hupside
$2M
95% of Enterprise AI Pilots Fail – and the Fix Isn't Better Technology
AI/Agents · build tooling
SEEDLING
Station
undisclosed
Don't Give Your AI Product Away Free
AI/Generative · adapt model
RISING
RefAssured
$3M
People Lie in Interviews – One Startup Built a Billion on That
HR/Recruiting · build competitor
PROVEN
YASO
$14M
The Biggest Growth Market Right Now Isn't AI
E-commerce/Marketplace · build adjacent
RISING
Unusual
$500K
SEO Is Dead – Welcome to AI Engine Optimization
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PROVEN
Noble Mobile
$10M
The Wireless Carrier That Pays You to Use Less Data
SaaS/Productivity · adapt model
SEEDLING
Envelope
undisclosed
The $600B Events Industry Runs on Spreadsheets – Until Now
AI/Generative · build adjacent
SEEDLING
Radda
undisclosed
Expert Feedback Used to Mean Knowing the Right People
SaaS/Productivity · adapt model
RISING
SoundMind
$3M
Treating Anxiety and Sleep With Curated Music – Not Therapy
Health/Mental · build adjacent
PROVEN
Hyperbound
$18M
A Hook Gets You Into the Market – a Platform Gets You to Scale
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PROVEN
UserEvidence
$21M
Promises Don't Close Deals – Verifiable Proof Does
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
RISING
Supersonik
$5M
Strike While the Demo Is Hot
SaaS/Productivity · enter market
RISING
Throxy
$7M
Pay Per Meeting Booked – the Model That's Hard to Copy
AI/Agents · build adjacent
RISING
Nautilus
$500K
AI for Niche Marketing: The Unsexy Path to a Few Million a Year
AI/Generative · build adjacent
RISING
RowFlow
$500K
Big Money in a Small Thing Everyone Already Uses
SaaS/Productivity · build competitor
RISING
Vaave
$782K
Your Alumni Network Is an Untapped Business Asset
HR/Recruiting · build tooling
RISING
Creem
$2M
The Payment Processor That Actually Wants to Replace Itself
Fintech/Payments · build adjacent
PROVEN
FlipSpaces
$42M
Commercial Renovation Is Worth $1.5T and Still Runs on Spreadsheets
Real Estate/Construction · enter market
RISING
Wayline
$500K
One Template for a Hundred Startups
AI/Agents · build adjacent
RISING
Nixo
$500K
The Deeper You Embed, the Harder You Are to Remove
SaaS/Productivity · build tooling
PROVEN
Topline Pro
$44M
AI Does the Marketing So Tradespeople Don't Have To
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PROVEN
Squint
$59M
Factory Workers Still Learn From Paper Binders
SaaS/Vertical · enter market
PROVEN
Slow Creator Fund
$60M
The Creator Economy's Real Winners Are the Niche Ones
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PROVEN
Elion
$13M
Healthcare Software Buyers Have No G2 – Someone Is Building It
SaaS/Vertical · adapt model
RISING
Olto
$5M
Every Prospect Gets a Personalized Demo – If You Can Build It in Hours
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
RISING
AgentMail
$500K
Email Infrastructure Built for AI Agents, Not Humans
AI/Agents · build tooling
PROVEN
Indy AI
$45M
Surfaces Jobs From Your Network Before They Hit Job Boards
HR/Recruiting · build adjacent
RISING
Embeddable
$2M
Turn Any Marketing Idea Into a Live Widget in Minutes
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
RISING
Eden
$500K
Email Campaigns Fail Because They Sell Instead of Help
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PROVEN
OffDeal
$17M
The AI-Powered Investment Bank for Small Business Exits
Fintech/WealthTech · enter market
RISING
Cafeteria
$6M
The Platform That Spots Trends Before They're Obvious
AI/NLP · build adjacent
RISING
Longview Restoration
$5M
Buy the Restaurant, Run It on Your Own Platform, Keep the Upside
SaaS/Vertical · build adjacent
RISING
Rocksalt
$7M
Social Media That Actually Drives B2B Sales
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PROVEN
Connectd
$15M
Fractional Experts for Startups – the Model That's Finally Working
HR/Recruiting · build competitor
PROVEN
Founder's Box
$50M
A Great Product Is Invisible Without a Great Story
SaaS/Productivity · build tooling
RISING
Operand
$4M
Capitalism as a Service: Strategy at Any Scale
AI/Agents · build competitor
RISING
Tecto
$500K
Corporate AI Adoption Is a Mess – and That's a Business Opportunity
AI/Agents · build tooling
SEEDLING
Doriot
undisclosed
What If You Could Bet on 10x More Startups for the Same Risk?
Fintech/Lending · build adjacent
RISING
Dexter
$500K
The Wedge Into Offline Industries Is Fast, Cheap Data Collection
Real Estate/Construction · build adjacent
SEEDLING
Swurf
undisclosed
Hotels and Cafés Repurposed as a Remote Work Network
E-commerce/Marketplace · build adjacent
PROVEN
Folio
$14M
$14M and 300 Hotels in One Year: How One Startup Won on Procurement
E-commerce/Marketplace · build adjacent
RISING
Response
$4M
Unglamorous but Lucrative: Procurement Platforms Are Minting Unicorns
SaaS/Vertical · build adjacent
PROVEN
Elfie
$17M
Medication Reminders Are a Trojan Horse for Pharma Marketing
Health/Wellness · build adjacent
RISING
Perry
$2M
The Brain Transplant Business Model
AI/Generative · build adjacent
RISING
Oki
$500K
The Founder's Blind Spot – Solved Before Problems Get Loud
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PROVEN
Gradient Labs
$17M
Generic AI Support Resolves 25% of Queries – Vertical AI 75%
AI/Agents · build competitor
RISING
Axal
$500K
The Integration Veto Is Now a $500K Problem AI Can Solve
AI/Generative · build adjacent
RISING
Skarbe
$600K
Selling Feels Like a Second Job – Because It Is One
SaaS/CRM · build adjacent
PROVEN
Gradial
$18M
Don't Sell Tools – Sell the Workflow
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PROVEN
Deeto
$17M
Let Your Customers Sell for You
SaaS/Productivity · adapt model
PROVEN
Remark
$26M
The AI Sales Associate Your Online Store Never Had
AI/NLP · build adjacent
PROVEN
Multiplier
$28M
Why Buy Accounting Firms Instead of Selling Them Software
SaaS/Vertical · build competitor
SEEDLING
Brand Stori
undisclosed
B2B Websites That Sound Like Everyone Else Are Losing the Deal
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
SEEDLING
CostCuts
undisclosed
Your Company Could Be Getting 60% Off Cloud Tools – and Probably Isn't
SaaS/Productivity · build competitor
RISING
Pump
$500K
Enterprise Cloud Pricing Is a Tax on Being Small – This Removes It
SaaS/Vertical · build adjacent
RISING
Traxlo
$3M
Pay by the Task, Not the Hour – Gig Workforce Rebuilt
HR/Recruiting · build adjacent
RISING
Crosby
$6M
AI Does the Contract Review – Real Lawyers Sign Off in Under an Hour
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PROVEN
Roar Social
$10M
A Social Network Raised $10M Before Shipping a Single Screen
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PROVEN
Laurel
$156M
Professional Services Bill by the Hour But Can't Track It
AI/MLOps · build competitor
PROVEN
Outset
$22M
Continuous User Research Used to Cost $50K – Not Anymore
AI/Voice · build competitor
PROVEN
Toma
$18M
One Vertical, One Use Case, $17.5M – The Focused AI Playbook
AI/Voice · build adjacent
RISING
r.Potential
$6M
Two Executives for Human and AI Workers Is Already Obsolete
HR/Remote · build tooling
RISING
Rosebud
$6M
The Therapist That Never Forgets What You Said Last Month
Health/Mental · build adjacent
SEEDLING
JobForAgent
undisclosed
The AI Agent Marketplace Won't Make a Billion – But This Will
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PROVEN
Buildots
$166M
Big Money in Construction Tech Is One Feature Away
AI/Computer Vision · build adjacent
RISING
Zoca
$6M
Small Businesses Need Marketing Done – Not Advice on It
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Bond
$500K
The Best Customers Are the Ones That Keep Getting Bigger
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Clado
$500K
How Do You Hire Someone Who Isn't Looking?
HR/Recruiting · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Cohesive
$500K
Build the Platform Small Businesses Can't Live Without
SaaS/Vertical · build adjacent
PROVEN
VuMedi
$82M
Pharma Ad Budgets Are Enormous – and Wide Open for Disruption
Health/Diagnostics · build competitor
PROVEN
Siro
$75M
AI Sales Coaching Has a Blind Spot – $50M to Fix It
AI/Agents · build tooling
PLAYBOOK
Kanava
$500K
Two Criteria for Picking the Right Market – One Is Obvious, One Isn't
SaaS/Vertical · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
Catalog
$4M
What Do You Sell to Mid-Market Companies?
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PROVEN
Flock
$68M
The Landlord Exit That Beats Selling
Real Estate/Property Management · build competitor
PROVEN
Scription
$11M
The Best Revenue Is What You Earn for Not Working
SaaS/Vertical · build tooling
PLAYBOOK
Thrive
$1M
You Became a Builder. So Why Are You Doing Busywork?
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Auctor
$500K
"They Don't Know What They Want" Is Costing You Real Money
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Velozity
undisclosed
Stop Building What You Think Users Want
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Operand
$4M
Profitability and Scalability Used to Be a Trade-Off. Not Anymore.
AI/Generative · build competitor
PLAYBOOK
DBR77
$5M
Same AI Upside, Fewer Competitors: The Robotics Angle
AI/Computer Vision · adapt model
PROVEN
Gruve
$38M
The $1 Trillion Consulting Market Is Now Fair Game for Tech
AI/Agents · build competitor
PLAYBOOK
Dex
$3M
AI Career Matching Is Growing 50% MoM – and Nobody's Cornered It
AI/Voice · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Series
$3M
LinkedIn Is a Sales Pitch Factory – Networking Needs More
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
River
$2M
The Creator Economy's Next Move Is Offline
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PROVEN
Lace
$19M
The AI That Listens to Every Sales Call – In Real Time
AI/Voice · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Roamr
$3M
Cut Corporate Travel Costs 30% – By Hosting Colleagues at Home
SaaS/Vertical · build adjacent
PROVEN
Narrative
$14M
Data Has a Liquidity Problem – This Is the Fix
E-commerce/Marketplace · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
PopSQL
$3M
SQL Was Built for Solo Work – Here's the Team Version
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
XetData
$8M
The Pick-and-Shovel Play for the AI Training Data Gold Rush
AI/MLOps · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Once
undisclosed
Subscriptions vs. One-Time Payments: The Math Might Surprise You
SaaS/Productivity · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
Autoblocks AI
$2M
Don't Build Voice AI – Sell Shovels to Those Who Do
AI/Voice · build adjacent
PROVEN
LightSource
$33M
Procurement Doesn't Need Specialists – It Needs Better Software
SaaS/Vertical · build competitor
PLAYBOOK
Bilanc
$500K
Are Your AI Coding Tools Actually Making Developers More Productive?
SaaS/Productivity · build tooling
PLAYBOOK
SlashExperts
$2M
Your Best Salespeople Are Already Your Customers
SaaS/CRM · build adjacent
PROVEN
Deck
$17M
Plaid Cracked Open Bank Data – Now Someone's Doing It to Utilities
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
The Swarm
undisclosed
Referral Selling Scales Further Than You Think
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Ion
$500K
The Visual Editor That Lets PMs Ship Without Touching the Queue
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PROVEN
Adaptive
$43M
Hackers Have Stopped Targeting Systems – They Target People
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PROVEN
Riot
$72M
Cyberattacks Are Up 1,000% Since ChatGPT – Lectures Won't Fix It
Education/Corporate · build competitor
PROVEN
Solace
$81M
The Healthcare System Is Too Complex to Navigate Alone
Health/Telemedicine · build competitor
PLAYBOOK
Grace
$6M
The Embedded Insurance Play Hiding Inside Luxury Retail
Fintech/InsurTech · build adjacent
PROVEN
Sturdy
$11M
The Early-Warning System That Catches Churn Before It Happens
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
The Mobile First Company
$6M
One Product Is a Bet – a Portfolio of Apps Is a Business
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Ethos
$3M
Experts Without the LinkedIn Noise
AI/Search · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Project Manda
$2M
Enterprises Spend $80M a Year on Meetings – and Nobody Notices
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Bought
$2M
Remove the Friction and the Market Grows Itself
E-commerce/Marketplace · build adjacent
PROVEN
Paid
$11M
Outcome-Based Pricing for AI Agents – Who Captures the Value
AI/Agents · build tooling
PLAYBOOK
Scoutt
undisclosed
How Do You Hire a Developer If You Don't Speak Developer?
HR/Recruiting · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Outlit
$500K
How to Close the Deal Without Killing Your Margin
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Notebooks
undisclosed
Your Best Ad Idea Is Already Running – Just Not Yours
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Popfly
$2M
Outdoor Brands Pay for Reach – This Platform Sells Fit Instead
E-commerce/Marketplace · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Verata
$500K
The Intelligence Layer PE Firms Have Been Missing
AI/MLOps · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
SaySo
$4M
Flash Sales Damage Brands – There's a Smarter Way to Clear Inventory
SaaS/Vertical · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
Sahha
$2M
The Engagement Signal That Lives Outside Your App
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PROVEN
Workhelix
$30M
AI Implementation Is a Headache – and a Business Model
AI/Agents · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
DeepScout
$660K
You're Losing Sales to Competitors You're Not Watching
AI/Computer Vision · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Tometo
$500K
What If an AI Managed Your Developers Instead of Replacing Them?
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Woz
$500K
Where Do You Find a Technical Co-Founder?
DevTools · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Valid
$7M
It's Not the Product. It's the Pitch.
AI/Generative · build competitor
PLAYBOOK
Dench
$1M
Not Every Customer Is Worth Having
AI/Voice · build competitor
PROVEN
Mercor
$136M
21-Year-Old Founders. $2B Valuation. 51% Monthly Revenue Growth.
AI/Agents · build competitor
PROVEN
Dig
$22M
Your Brand Is Being Talked About on TikTok. You Have No Idea.
AI/Computer Vision · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
Silo Team
$1M
New Engineers Don't Hit the Ground Running
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PROVEN
XOi
$247M
A 10-Year-Old Startup Just Raised $230M in a Single Round
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Fiverr Go
undisclosed
Freelancers Now Have AI Doubles That Work While They Sleep
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PROVEN
Voyantis
$60M
Real Marketing Isn't Driving Traffic – It's Finding Buyers Who Stay
SaaS/Analytics · build tooling
PROVEN
Justpoint
$153M
The Most Cynical – and Effective – Way to Pick a Startup Idea
SaaS/Marketplace · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Riviera
$500K
There Are Still Plenty of Open Niches in AI
AI/Voice · build adjacent
PROVEN
Welcome to the Jungle
$87M
The Job Site That Shows You What a Company Is Actually Like
HR/Recruiting · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
Operand
$500K
Dumb AI Consultants Won't Last Long
AI/Generative · build competitor
PROVEN
Lorikeet
$14M
"Our Product Is Better" Is the Weakest Pitch in B2B
AI/Agents · build competitor
PLAYBOOK
Crown
$2M
B2B Procurement Is Still Stuck in Bilateral Negotiations
E-commerce/Marketplace · build adjacent
PROVEN
CultureAI
$24M
90% of Security Breaches Have the Same Cause – and It's Not Hackers
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Spott
$500K
You Can't Run a $95B Market on Spreadsheets and Gut Feel
HR/Recruiting · build adjacent
PROVEN
Anchor
$35M
When the Hell Are They Going to Pay?
Fintech/Payments · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Rally
$9M
Cut Research Time by 88% – and They'll Buy
SaaS/CRM · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Jam
$4M
Website Feedback Without the Screenshot-Slack-Repeat Loop
SaaS/Collaboration · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
Daash
$8M
What If You Could See Your Competitors' Sales Numbers?
SaaS/Vertical · build competitor
PROVEN
Aligned
$14M
Sales Reps Are Being Ghosted. Here's Why.
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Trumpet
$10M
Stop Selling. Start Helping Them Buy.
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
xNova
$1M
The Fastest Way to Find an Importer Ready to Sell Your Product
E-commerce/Marketplace · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Helium
$3M
No-Code Paywall Optimization – No Engineers Required
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PROVEN
Final Offer
$13M
What If Buyers Could See Every Offer on Your House
E-commerce/Marketplace · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
Matchory
$8M
You Only Think About Suppliers When Something Breaks
SaaS/Vertical · build adjacent
PROVEN
Kraaft
$18M
Construction's Billion-Dollar Paper Trail Problem
SaaS/Vertical · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
Kaiden AI
$1M
Sell "Critical" – It's Easier Than Selling "Useful"
Education/Corporate · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Soma Lab
$500K
The Missing Piece in Medical Education Is Practice at Scale
Education/Corporate · adapt model
PROVEN
Boardy
$11M
The Product That Brought the Investors to the Founder
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PROVEN
Leap
$103M
E-Commerce Is 20% of Retail – the Other 80% Is Still Up for Grabs
E-commerce/DTC · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Faro
$6M
Surplus Inventory Moves to Markets Where It Won't Cannibalize Sales
E-commerce/Marketplace · build adjacent
PROVEN
Air
$69M
Simplification Is a Business Model
SaaS/Productivity · build competitor
PLAYBOOK
Ruck
$7M
DoorDash for Construction – Building Materials On-Site in Two Hours
Real Estate/Construction · enter market
PLAYBOOK
Cuckoo
$500K
Generic Translation Tools Mangle Technical Jargon. This One Doesn't.
AI/NLP · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
MirWork
undisclosed
The Two-Product Trick That Beats a Better Product Every Time
SaaS/Productivity · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
Decipher AI
$500K
A Truly Disruptive Product Doesn't Improve the Old Way – It Eliminates It
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Tenor
$5M
AI Role-Play That Teaches Leadership Through Practice, Not Lectures
Education/Corporate · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Retellio
$1M
Your Company's Customer Complaints, Delivered as a Weekly Podcast
AI/NLP · build adjacent
PROVEN
Meili
$22M
Car Rental Is Broken for the Way People Actually Travel
E-commerce/Marketplace · build adjacent
PROVEN
Gigs
$97M
Better to Be a Successful Matchmaker Than a Failed Inventor
SaaS/Vertical · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Askel
$418K
Your Product Isn't the Problem. Your Distribution Is.
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PROVEN
Air Doctor
$51M
80,000 Users Found a Doctor Abroad – Without Knowing Any Local Doctors
Health/Telemedicine · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Dealt
$8M
Don't Build the Marketplace. Plug Into One.
E-commerce/Marketplace · build adjacent
PROVEN
Ant Money
$20M
The Fintech Play Hiding Inside Loyalty Programs
Fintech/WealthTech · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Leap AI
$1M
Every AI Workflow Your Team Runs, Saved as a Single Button
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Upshift
$500K
How to Grow Your Product Faster Without Growing Your Team
SaaS/Productivity · build competitor
PLAYBOOK
TruvaAI
$5M
Users Don't Churn Because They Dislike Your Product – They Never Learned to Use It
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Direqt
$6M
The Chatbot That Knows Every Article in Your Publication
AI/NLP · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Abundant
$500K
60% of Support Tickets, AI Handles. Who Owns the Other 40%?
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Katalys
$8M
Partners: Good. Affiliate Links: Bad.
SaaS/Vertical · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Uprise
$5M
Let Someone Else's Customers Fund Your Growth
Fintech/WealthTech · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Nowadays
$3M
135,000 US Planners Still Book Corporate Events by Email
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Plot
$3M
50 Million Creatives, Zero Good Project Management Tools
SaaS/Productivity · build competitor
PROVEN
Jotelulu
$13M
The Middleman Is Back – and This Time It's in Software Sales
SaaS/Vertical · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Roster
undisclosed
Creators Are Hiring Full Teams Now – and Nobody Built the Marketplace
HR/Recruiting · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Stackfix
$3M
2,000 CRMs Exist. Picking the Right One Takes Months.
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Ajust
$2M
The Counterintuitive Way to Win Customer Love
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Volta
$7M
E-Commerce's Next Billion-Dollar Opening: B2B Is Finally Going Online
E-commerce/Marketplace · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
CodeCrafters
$2M
Stop Teaching People to Code. Start Teaching Coders.
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
PROVEN
Kalder
$11M
Loyalty Programs That Make Money Instead of Losing It
Fintech/Payments · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Riveter
$500K
Growth-Stage Startups Have No Tool for What Comes After Traction
SaaS/Productivity · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
The Nursing Beat
$1M
The $1M Newsletter Targeting 4 Million Nurses Nobody Else Bothered to Serve
HR/Recruiting · build adjacent
PROVEN
Workhelix
$15M
Companies Want AI. They Don't Want AI Employees.
AI/Productivity · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Reo.Dev
$5M
You're a Developer? Then Build for Developers.
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PROVEN
Flash
$12M
30 Million Orders In, This Indian Fintech Is Coming for the US
E-commerce/Marketplace · build adjacent
PROVEN
Drop
$74M
The Loyalty Layer That Lives Inside Your Existing Cards
Fintech/Payments · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
Plato
$7M
The $53 Trillion Market Where AI Is the Only New Salesperson You Need
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Luthor
$500K
The SEO Content Studio That Refuses to Go Full Auto-Pilot
AI/Generative · adapt model
PROVEN
Hummingbirds
$10M
Your Best Local Ads Are Made by People Who Already Live There
SaaS/Marketplace · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
SocialCrowd
$5M
Same Staff, Same Menu, Same Specials – Sales Up 6x
HR/Recruiting · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Protiv
$2M
78 Million Hourly Workers Have No Path to a Performance Bonus
HR/Benefits · build competitor
PROVEN
Fixify
$32M
Mid-Size Companies Are Stuck Between Enterprise IT and DIY Support
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Ramdam
$4M
Most Influencer Ads Don't Sell – These 50,000 Creators Know Why
AI/Generative · build tooling
PLAYBOOK
Cafeteria
$3M
No Teenager Will Fill Out Your Survey – Here's What Works Instead
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Boardy
$3M
What If a Single Conversation Got You Warm Intros to Anyone
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Build Club
$1M
Free AI Training – With $150K in Cloud Credits Stacked On Top
Education/Corporate · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Getcrux
$3M
The Tiny Percentage That Makes or Breaks Your Ad ROI
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PROVEN
Case Status
$36M
The $70 Trillion Services Market Is Still Waiting for Its Software
SaaS/Vertical · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
Evertune
$4M
SEO Is So Last Decade – Welcome to AEO
AI/Search · build adjacent
PROVEN
Casted
$11M
B2B Buyers Watch Video Before Buying – Most Companies Still Don't Make Any
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Structured
$500K
One Set of Metrics to Rule Every Team
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Echo
$500K
The AI Sales Coach Built for Founders, Not Sales Reps
SaaS/Productivity · build competitor
PROVEN
AirOps
$23M
Sell Platforms, Not Point Tools
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Ghost
$495K
The Offline Fitness Market Still Runs on Phone Calls
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Tackle
$125K
Calendar Auditing on Autopilot – Work the Way Founders Should
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PROVEN
Looma
$22M
A $130 Billion Retail Media Market – and No Clear Marketplace Leader Yet
E-commerce/Marketplace · build adjacent
PROVEN
Jump
$17M
Freelance Freedom With Employment-Grade Stability – Not a Contradiction
HR/Remote · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Pepsales
$1M
AI Persuasion Will Arrive Before AI Intelligence – and Sales Tech Knows It
AI/Agents · build competitor
PROVEN
Saleo
$15M
Talk Less, Sell More
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Letterloop
undisclosed
Consumer Flop, B2B Gold Mine – Same Product
SaaS/Collaboration · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Aucctus
$2M
The Only Competitive Advantage You Can't Copy Is Speed
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PROVEN
TeamBridge
$42M
The 80 Million Hourly Workers Most HR Startups Ignore
HR/Recruiting · build competitor
PLAYBOOK
Chirper
$750K
A Social Network With No Human Users – On Purpose
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Wegrow
$8M
Turn Your Best Internal Team Into a Playbook for Everyone Else
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Cohora
$3M
To Sell More, Sell Less
E-commerce/DTC · build tooling
PLAYBOOK
Seals
$500K
$11 Trillion in Annual Revenue – and Almost No Decent Software
SaaS/Vertical · enter market
PLAYBOOK
Actionable
$2M
The 80% of Customers Who Never Complain – But Still Leave
SaaS/CRM · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Syncly
$4M
Mining Support Chat for the Product Bugs Customers Never Report
SaaS/Productivity · build competitor
PLAYBOOK
Agree
$3M
The Goldilocks Customer You're Probably Ignoring
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Dimely
$500K
Your Enterprise Contracts Are Probably Billing Wrong
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Champion
$3M
Your Happiest Customers Are Your Best Salespeople
HR/Recruiting · adapt model
PROVEN
Carro
$50M
Instead of Running Ads, Let Other Retailers Sell for You
E-commerce/Marketplace · build tooling
PLAYBOOK
Terra
$500K
Manufacturing Materials Still Get Sourced by Spreadsheet
E-commerce/Marketplace · build competitor
PROVEN
The Rounds
$66M
The Niche That Out-Raised Most Full-Market Grocery Startups
E-commerce/DTC · enter market
PROVEN
Attio
$64M
Most CRMs Are a Liability – Not an Asset
SaaS/CRM · build adjacent
PROVEN
Rollstack
$15M
No AI, No Moat – Rollstack Raised 10x Rounds Anyway
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Cardboard
$2M
SaaS Subscription Sprawl Is a Silent Finance Problem
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
AppBind
$3M
Who Pays for the Tools? The Agency-Client Billing Gap
Fintech/Billing · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Overstand
$500K
Support Teams Are Sitting on Untapped Upsell Revenue
SaaS/CRM · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
Harmonyze
$2M
Franchise Compliance at Scale Needs to Cost Almost Nothing
SaaS/Vertical · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Openmart
$3M
30 Million Small US Businesses – and Fewer Than 10% Are Discoverable
AI/Search · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
Uman
$3M
Uman Brings Superhuman Persuasion to B2B Sales Decks
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Wethos
$8M
Why Your Team Underperforms – Despite Hiring Great People
HR/Recruiting · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Folio
$5M
The Internship Model That Actually Works for Everyone
HR/Recruiting · build competitor
PLAYBOOK
Mica
$500K
TikTok-Style Highlights for Your Sales Calls
AI/Generative · adapt model
PROVEN
Napkin AI
$10M
Napkin AI Turns Business Text Into Visuals Instantly
AI/Generative · build competitor
PROVEN
Bolster
$22M
A Marketplace of Executives Who Have Actually Done It
HR/Recruiting · build competitor
PROVEN
Topi
$104M
Why Companies Should Rent Their Tech Instead of Buying It
Fintech/Lending · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
Circular
$8M
Renting Electronics – Early Movers, Compounding Advantage
E-commerce/Subscriptions · build adjacent
PROVEN
Haus
$60M
Which Half of Your Marketing Budget Actually Works?
E-commerce/DTC · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Centralize
$500K
One Contact Is Never Enough – Map the Whole Buying Committee
SaaS/CRM · build adjacent
PROVEN
DocketAI
$20M
AI Hallucinations Are a Sales-Killer – Here's the Fix
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
1up
$3M
The AI Copilot That Answers Prospect Questions Ten Times Faster
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Resquared
$5M
Hard to Find Means Easy to Monetize
AI/Search · build adjacent
INTERESTING
Digital First AI
$5M
AI Is Graduating from Executor to Strategist
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Edit Cloud
$3M
Post-Production Is the Bottleneck – Edit Cloud Is the Infrastructure
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Ethermind
$635K
Simple AI Tasks Deliver Real Results – Stop Overengineering
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PROVEN
Emissary
$35M
Former C-Suite Executives Are Freelancing – and Enterprise Sales Teams Want In
HR/Recruiting · build adjacent
PROVEN
Pactum
$55M
Let the Algorithm Negotiate Your Supplier Contracts
AI/Agents · build competitor
PROVEN
HERO
$53M
34 Million Field Technicians Still Running on Spreadsheets
SaaS/Vertical · enter market
PLAYBOOK
Making Space
$2M
Equal Opportunity as a B2B Product – Making Space's Unusual Bet
HR/Recruiting · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
OffDeal
$5M
Don't Sell the Tool – Sell the Outcome
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Dokai
$150K
Video Knowledge Bases Sound Great Until the UI Changes
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Enso
$6M
Sell the Function, Not the Full Stack Digital Employee
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PROVEN
Default
$11M
Inbound Is Now Where B2B Deals Start
SaaS/CRM · build tooling
PROVEN
Quantum Rise
$15M
AI Implementation Is the New Consulting – and the Market Is $1 Trillion
AI/Agents · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
nodaFi
$4M
Boring Markets Pay the Best – Building Management Proves It
SaaS/Vertical · build competitor
PLAYBOOK
Solidroad
$1M
Sales Training Needs to Be a Game, Not a Course
Education/Corporate · build adjacent
PROVEN
Durable
$27M
30 Seconds Is the Threshold Where Avoidance Flips
SaaS/Productivity · enter market
PROVEN
Fetcherr
$115M
Dynamic Pricing Is Coming for Burgers and Beer
SaaS/Vertical · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
Dappier
$2M
Your Content Is Training AI – You're Not Getting Paid For It
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PROVEN
Rocketlane
$45M
Project Management for Professional Services Is an $11.5B Niche Nobody Talks About
SaaS/Vertical · enter market
PROVEN
TechWolf
$56M
Enterprise Doesn't Want AI to Screen Resumes – It Wants AI to Redeploy People
HR/Recruiting · build adjacent
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Donna
$2M
Business Software Is Still Designed for Desks That No Longer Exist
SaaS/Productivity · build competitor
PLAYBOOK
Privyr
$7M
Field Reps Don't Have Laptops – CRMs Assumed They Did
SaaS/CRM · build competitor
PLAYBOOK
Day.ai
$4M
You Can't Defeat a Market Leader by Copying Them and Adding AI
AI/Generative · build competitor
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Hark
$5M
Customer Support's Best Upgrade Isn't a Smarter Chatbot
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Wordsmith
$5M
Every Company's Slowest Department Has the Same Name: Legal
AI/Generative · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
StoryBox
$8M
Video Agencies Lost a Market to Employee Smartphones
SaaS/Productivity · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
Cuvama
$4M
To Sell More, Stop Selling Your Product
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PROVEN
Workweek
$18M
The Smartest Media Model Is Platform, Not Publication
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
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Zafo
$150K
Services Need to Become Products – Fixed Prices, Fixed Scope
SaaS/Marketplace · build adjacent
PROVEN
Learn To Win
$34M
The Knowledge That Actually Wins Deals Is Never in Your LMS
SaaS/Vertical · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Alpaca
$2M
The Best Recruiting Strategy Is Not Recruiting
HR/Recruiting · build adjacent
PROVEN
Rising Team
$11M
Management Training Ships as a Product, Not a Workshop
HR/Learning · adapt model
PROVEN
The Desire Company
$19M
Influencers Can't Talk About Your Product Like an Expert Can
E-commerce/DTC · build adjacent
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Frich
$4M
What People Exactly Like You Actually Earn – Revealed
Fintech/WealthTech · build adjacent
PROVEN
Remark
$10M
E-Commerce Lost Its Sales Associates – This Brings Them Back
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PROVEN
Lumos
$65M
IT Shouldn't Be a Gatekeeper for Software Access
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Rethoric
undisclosed
$70K MRR in Four Months Ghostwriting Founder Content
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Haven
undisclosed
$1M ARR in a Year – Startup Accounting Was That Broken
SaaS/Vertical · build competitor
PROVEN
Tiney
$24M
The UK's Home Childcare Market Is Secretly a Franchise Play
SaaS/Vertical · build adjacent
PROVEN
ChangeEngine
$16M
Recognition Without Communication Is Dead Weight
HR/Remote · build competitor
PROVEN
Sagetap
$13M
Don't Help Vendors Sell – Help Buyers Buy
SaaS/Vertical · build adjacent
PROVEN
Clazar
$14M
25% of B2B SaaS Sales Now Flow Through Cloud Marketplaces
SaaS/Vertical · build adjacent
PROVEN
Daloopa
$41M
The Best Place to Plug In AI: Corporate Finance
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PROVEN
Puzzle
$15M
Your Accounting Software Is Still Living in the Past
SaaS/Vertical · build competitor
PLAYBOOK
Zeck
$8M
Board Meeting Prep Hasn't Changed in a Century. This Fixes That.
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Trudy
$635K
Words Are Only 7% of the Sale
Analytics · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Claim
$6M
What If Your Social Feed Was Also a Loyalty Program
SaaS/Productivity · build competitor
PLAYBOOK
Plotline
$3M
No Code Needed to Run Product Experiments Inside Your App
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PROVEN
Applause
$10M
Turn Frontline Employees Into a Revenue Growth Engine
HR/Benefits · build competitor
PLAYBOOK
Neocom
$5M
Neocom Waits for Confusion – Then Steps In
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
ForMotiv
$9M
What Your Form-Fill Data Is Already Telling You
AI/Behavioral Analysis · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Symbe
$2M
The Right Case Study at the Right Moment Closes Deals
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PROVEN
Ansa
$19M
Branded Digital Wallets: 80% of Merchants Haven't Got One Yet
E-commerce/DTC · build competitor
PLAYBOOK
HomePoint
$2M
Home Maintenance as a Subscription – the Business Model Nobody Built
SaaS/Productivity · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
Tangent
$1M
Referred Candidates Are 9x More Likely to Get Hired
HR/Recruiting · adapt model
PROVEN
Snappy
$130M
$130M Says Corporate Gifting Was Broken
E-commerce/Marketplace · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Take2
$3M
Sales Interviews Test Interview Skills, Not Selling Skills
HR/Recruiting · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Elate
$9M
Strategy That Lives in a Founder's Head Isn't a Strategy
SaaS/Productivity · build competitor
PROVEN
Panobi
$10M
Growth Lives in Three Tools That Don't Talk to Each Other
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Paraform
$5M
The Best Candidates Aren't on LinkedIn – Paraform Knows Where They Are
HR/Recruiting · build adjacent
PROVEN
Anrok
$54M
Selling Software Globally Is Easy – Until Tax Season
SaaS/Vertical · build tooling
PLAYBOOK
Firebender
$500K
Industry and Headcount Filters Find Prospects. Intent Signals Find Buyers.
AI/Search · build adjacent
PROVEN
SingleInterface
$30M
Running Local Marketing for 100 Stores Shouldn't Take 100 People
E-commerce/Marketplace · build adjacent
PROVEN
Cariloop
$43M
73% of Employees Are Caregivers – and It's Costing Employers
Health/Wellness · build adjacent
PROVEN
KIKI World
$11M
What If Consumers Voted on Which Products Got Made
E-commerce/Marketplace · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Inner AI
$5M
Inner AI Skips the Blank Chat Box – You Start With a Template
AI/Generative · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
Fora
$4M
Executives Don't Search for Information – It Should Come to Them
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Clarum
$500K
$90 Trillion in Assets Will Change Hands – the Bottleneck Is Due Diligence
Fintech/WealthTech · build adjacent
PROVEN
Scaleup Finance
$26M
Most Startups Die of Cash Blindness, Not Bad Ideas
Fintech/WealthTech · build adjacent
PROVEN
Kevel
$45M
E-Commerce's Hidden Revenue Stream: Retail Media
E-commerce/Marketplace · build tooling
PROVEN
TheyDo
$50M
Every Team Has a Map of the User Journey. None of Them Agree.
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Lumona
$500K
A Search Engine for Skincare Built by Someone Who Needed One
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Paylode
$6M
Close the Deal With Someone Else's Budget
E-commerce/Marketplace · build tooling
PLAYBOOK
Nova
$2M
The Creative Industry Still Books Talent the Way It Did in 2005
E-commerce/Marketplace · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
The New Club
$3M
Belonging Is a Retention Strategy – and Most Tech Companies Miss It
HR/Recruiting · build adjacent
PROVEN
Fermàt
$29M
Sell at the Moment of Intent – Not After a Redirect
E-commerce/DTC · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Raising Superstars
$2M
Screen-Free Development Sells – If You Have a Daily Activity Plan
Education/Kids · build competitor
PLAYBOOK
Amber AI
$500K
Your SMB Customers Are a Revenue Mine. You Need a Robot to Work It.
SaaS/Productivity · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
Cogna
$5M
Internal Software Is Built Badly Everywhere – That's the Business
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
TollBit
$7M
AI's Free Lunch on Internet Content Is Almost Over
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Vitrue Health
$7M
Back Pain Costs Companies More Than the Common Cold
Health/Wellness · build adjacent
PROVEN
Interview Kickstart
$10M
Sell Pros on Earning More, Not on Learning More
Education/Corporate · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Openmart
$500K
Position Yourself Between 30 Million Sellers and Their Suppliers
E-commerce/Marketplace · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Bilanc
$500K
Your Unit Economics Look Fine in Aggregate. Per Customer, They're a Disaster.
Fintech/Analytics · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
AddGlow
$2M
Stop Building Audiences on Platforms You Don't Own
SaaS/Collaboration · build adjacent
PROVEN
OpenBorder
$10M
+35% Revenue in 150 Minutes: The Cross-Border Sales Play
E-commerce/Marketplace · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
CareerOS
$1M
Universities Track Graduation Rates. Nobody Tracks Whether Students Get Jobs.
Education/EdTech · adapt model
PROVEN
Score
$10M
How to Get Your Startup Written Up – Without Paying a Cent
Fintech/Lending · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
SocialCrowd
$2M
Annual Reviews Kill Motivation. Real-Time Incentives Don't.
HR/Benefits · build adjacent
PROVEN
Platform Accounting Group
$85M
Fragmented Markets Aren't for Competing – They're for Consolidating
SaaS/Vertical · build adjacent
PROVEN
Upstock
$13M
Equity Incentives Done Right Are a Startup Superpower
HR/Benefits · build tooling
PROVEN
Owner.com
$62M
The Delivery App Tax Killing Independent Restaurants
SaaS/Vertical · build competitor
PLAYBOOK
Twin
$3M
Don't Do the Same Thing Twice – Automate It After the First Time
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PROVEN
Compa
$14M
Salary Surveys Are Stale by the Time They're Published
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
UpSmith
$8M
The Trades Are Bigger Than Tech – and Almost Nobody Is Building for Them
Education/Corporate · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Buildclub
$6M
Construction Procurement Is a $1.4 Trillion Market Nobody's Digitized
E-commerce/Marketplace · enter market
PLAYBOOK
Ply
$6M
Why Should Volume Discounts Only Go to Builders Who Order at Scale?
Real Estate/Construction · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
Snap-It
$6M
Same Product, 10x the Ticket Size
SaaS/Vertical · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
TeamOut
$3M
For Remote-First Companies, the Annual Offsite Isn't a Perk
HR/Remote · enter market
PROVEN
Airfocus
$15M
Most Product Roadmaps Get Built Before Anyone Touches an OKR
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Primetag
$6M
Influencer Marketing Hit $21B – The Pick-and-Shovel Play Is Obvious
SaaS/Vertical · build adjacent
PROVEN
Craftwork
$10M
The Services Market Is Broken – and That's the Opportunity
E-commerce/Marketplace · build competitor
PLAYBOOK
Myria
$2M
A $1M Transaction Should Clear as Easily as a $100 One
SaaS/Vertical · enter market
PROVEN
Blind
$72M
Anonymity With Verified Employer Context Is a Different Product
SaaS/Collaboration · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
Guac
$3M
Grocery Stores Throw Away Money Because They Can't Forecast SKUs
SaaS/Vertical · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
Entitled
$1M
The Employer Is the Best Distribution Channel for Financial Access
Fintech/Lending · build adjacent
PROVEN
GigaStar
$11M
YouTubers Generate Value Daily and Only Get Paid Monthly
Fintech/Lending · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
Easylii
$2M
Learning Sticks Better When You Do It With People You Know
SaaS/Marketplace · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Surface Labs
$500K
The B2B Intake Form Has Been Broken Since Typeform Launched
SaaS/Productivity · build competitor
PLAYBOOK
Onward
$500K
AI Meeting Summaries Are Useless Without What Comes Next
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PROVEN
Lily AI
$52M
Lily AI Closes the $300 Billion Search Gap
SaaS/Industry-Specific · build competitor
PLAYBOOK
HomeCooks
$3M
HomeCooks Turns Certified Home Chefs Into a Delivery Supply Chain
E-commerce/Marketplace · adapt model
PROVEN
CookUnity
$122M
CookUnity Built the Spotify of Chef-Made Meal Delivery
E-commerce/Marketplace · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
Carma
$500K
Carma Books Same-Day Auto Repair at Half the Price
E-commerce/Marketplace · build adjacent
PROVEN
Bizay
$72M
Bizay Delivers Custom Business Products at Half the Typical Price
SaaS/Industry-Specific · build competitor
PLAYBOOK
Algor Education
$2M
Algor Education Converts Lessons Into Visual Knowledge Maps
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PROVEN
Salt Labs
$18M
Salt Labs Builds a Loyalty Program for Hourly Workers
HR/Benefits · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Arcane
$6M
Arcane Is an AI Command Layer Across Marketing Channels
SaaS/Productivity · build competitor
PLAYBOOK
Glencoco
$3M
Glencoco Lets Companies Buy Cold-Calling From Freelance Reps on Demand
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
SellX
$4M
SellX Makes Outbound Sales as Elastic as Cloud Compute
SaaS/Marketplace · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Ezee Assist
$2M
Ezee Assist Builds AI Chatbots Trained on Franchise Knowledge Bases
SaaS/Industry-Specific · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Collective
$8M
Collective Matches Companies With Pre-Formed Freelance Teams
E-commerce/Marketplace · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Fluint
$2M
Decks Don't Close Deals – Fluint Arms the Internal Champion
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
ProperPlan
$300K
ProperPlan Generates AI-Powered Roadmaps for Small Business Owners
SaaS/Productivity · build competitor
PROVEN
$81M
ON Platform Sells Brands Revenue Lifts, Not Chatbot Features
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Omnicart
$2M
Omnicart Gives Local Entrepreneurs Infrastructure to Run Their Own Marketplace
E-commerce/Marketplace · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
Kognitiv Spark
$4M
Kognitiv Spark Connects Factory Workers to Remote Experts via AR
DevTools · adapt model
PROVEN
TransfrVR
$12M
TransfrVR Trains Blue-Collar Workers on Industrial Equipment in VR
Education/Corporate · build adjacent
PROVEN
Immertec
$12M
Immertec Found VR's Killer Healthcare Use Case: Live Surgical Observation
Health/Telemedicine · enter market
PLAYBOOK
Jukebox Health
$5M
Jukebox Health Sends Occupational Therapists to Reduce Home Fall Risk
SaaS/Industry-Specific · enter market
PROVEN
ianacare
$15M
ianacare Helps Family Caregivers Build Coordinated Support Networks
Health/Wellness · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
Layla
$3M
Layla Books Travel Through AI Chat on Instagram
SaaS/Productivity · build competitor
PLAYBOOK
Inflow
$2M
Inflow Connects Fashion Brands With Vietnamese Factories in 48 Hours
SaaS/Industry-Specific · build adjacent
PROVEN
Groyyo
$45M
Groyyo Digitizes Factory Operations for Southeast Asian Micro-Manufacturers
SaaS/Industry-Specific · enter market
PROVEN
Lottie
$26M
Lottie Built a Senior Living Marketplace With Real-Time Bed Availability
SaaS/Marketplace · build tooling
PLAYBOOK
11x
$2M
11x's AI Sales Rep Handles Prospecting Across 500 Million Contacts
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Off/Script
$7M
Off/Script Uses AI Design and Community Votes to Greenlight Production
SaaS/Industry-Specific · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
Dua
$5M
Dua: Albanian Diaspora Dating App Expanding Into Community Platform
SaaS/Collaboration · enter market
PROVEN
Vendelux
$17M
Vendelux Tells B2B Companies Which Conferences Will Generate Pipeline
SaaS/Analytics · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Found
$2M
Found Flips the Job Search: Companies Pursue Pre-Vetted Candidates
HR/Recruiting · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Siena AI
$5M
Siena AI Builds E-Commerce Chatbots With Configurable Emotional Tone
AI/Language Processing · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Bright Breaks
$4M
Bright Breaks Runs Seven-Minute Live Wellness Sessions for Remote Teams
HR/Benefits · build adjacent
PROVEN
OfferFit
$39M
OfferFit Runs Individualized Offer Experiments for Every Customer, Every Day
SaaS/Analytics · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Outset
$5M
Outset Replaces Market Research Interviewers With a Configurable AI
SaaS/Analytics · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
rready
$6M
rready Ships Companies a Kit That Turns Employees Into Intrapreneurs
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Abyssale
$2M
Abyssale Auto-Adapts One Ad Creative to Every Standard Banner Format
HR/Learning · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
The 1% Club
$1M
The 1% Club Sells Financial Independence as a Lifetime Membership
SaaS/Learning · adapt model
PROVEN
Connectly
$17M
Connectly's AI Recovers Abandoned Carts via WhatsApp Conversations
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
FairDeal Market
$2M
FairDeal Market Manages Offline Retail Distribution for D2C Brands
Fintech/Payments · build competitor
PROVEN
Workshop
$21M
Workshop Centralizes Internal Newsletters Across Email, Slack, and SMS
SaaS/Productivity · adapt model
PROVEN
Noon
$62M
Noon's Social Learning Marketplace Teaches Students in Peer Groups
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Tango
$6M
Tango Turns Browser Workflows Into Illustrated Step-by-Step Guides
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PROVEN
Siro
$18M
Siro Uses AI to Coach Sales Reps From Recorded Conversations
AI/Language Processing · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Pirr
$721K
Pirr Built an AI Co-Authoring App for Erotic Fiction
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PROVEN
Zenarate
$18M
Zenarate Trains Call Center Agents by Simulating Difficult Customer Calls
AI/Agents · build competitor
PLAYBOOK
Ignition
$8M
Ignition Manages the Full Product Go-to-Market Lifecycle in One Platform
SaaS/Productivity · adapt model
PROVEN
Oxolo
$13M
Oxolo Generates a Video Ad From Any Product Page URL
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
InterLnkd
$1M
InterLnkd Monetizes Booking Moments With Contextual Product Offers
SaaS/Industry-Specific · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Basis
$4M
Basis Builds a Domain-Specific AI Assistant for Accounting Firms
AI/Generative · enter market
PLAYBOOK
Relay
$8M
Relay Adds AI and Human Decision Points to Workflow Automation
SaaS/Productivity · build competitor
PLAYBOOK
Partnar
$379K
Partnar Lets D2C Brands Swap Audience Access Instead of Ads
E-commerce/Direct to Consumer · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Escalate
$1M
Escalate Turns Frontline Workers Into Middle Managers to Fix Retention
SaaS/Analytics · build tooling
PLAYBOOK
Mantle
$8M
Mantle Helps Founders Understand Their Cap Tables and Term Sheets
AI/Language Processing · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
The Seam
$334K
The Seam Brings On-Demand Tailoring to Your Door
E-commerce/Marketplace · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
Gently
$2M
Gently Aggregates All Secondhand Fashion Into One Search
E-commerce/Marketplace · build competitor
PROVEN
Fashion Cloud
$28M
Fashion Cloud Digitizes the Wholesale Fashion Supply Chain
SaaS/Industry-Specific · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
Khyaal
$6M
Khyaal Is a Super-App Built for India's 149M Older Adults
SaaS/Industry-Specific · build adjacent
PROVEN
Mozaic
$31M
Mozaic Automates Revenue Splits for the Creator Economy
SaaS/Productivity · build tooling
PLAYBOOK
Ergo
$2M
Ergo Lets Shoppers Name Their Price on Shopify
SaaS/Industry-Specific · build adjacent
PROVEN
Vendasta
$185M
Vendasta Lets Agencies Resell Software They Didn't Build
SaaS/Industry-Specific · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
Scription
$6M
Scription Charges for Uptime, Not Repairs
SaaS/Subscriptions · adapt model
PROVEN
Parametrix
$28M
Insurance for Digital Disasters
Fintech/Insurance · build competitor
PLAYBOOK
ShareWillow
$4M
ShareWillow Automates Profit-Sharing Plans for US Companies
SaaS/Industry-Specific · build tooling
PLAYBOOK
Scnd
$4M
Scnd Lets Anyone Launch a Service Marketplace Without Code
SaaS/Industry-Specific · build competitor
PROVEN
Wyng
$37M
Sometimes It's Faster to Just Ask
SaaS/Analytics · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Flawless
$3M
Flawless Alerts Operations Teams Before Customers Notice Problems
SaaS/Analytics · build adjacent
PROVEN
Yaysay
$10M
$500 Billion in 30 Minutes
Fintech/Payments · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
OnlyDust
$3M
OnlyDust Builds Developer Reputations Through Open-Source Contributions
HR/Recruiting · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
TrainThis
$200K
TrainThis Gives Sales Reps Real-Time Feedback on Every Call
SaaS/Industry-Specific · build adjacent
PROVEN
Intellum
$25M
Intellum Helps SaaS Companies Turn User Education Into Revenue
SaaS/Learning · build competitor
PLAYBOOK
Meeno
$5M
Meeno Is an AI Mentor for Relationships – Not Dating
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PROVEN
Matik
$23M
How to Stop Sending Outdated Decks
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PROVEN
UserEvidence
$14M
UserEvidence Helps B2B SaaS Companies Scale Customer Proof
SaaS/Analytics · build adjacent
PROVEN
ZayZoon
$75M
ZayZoon Lets Employees Access Earned Wages Before Payday
Fintech/Lending · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
SaaShop
$4M
SaaShop Consolidates SaaS Subscriptions Into One Invoice
SaaS/Productivity · enter market
PLAYBOOK
Gizmo
$4M
Gizmo Uses AI Flashcards to Fix Online Learning's Retention Problem
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
AskToSell
$100K
AskToSell Deploys AI Agents for Low-Ticket B2B Sales
SaaS/Industry-Specific · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Storimake
$1M
Storimake Turns Smartphone Footage Into Finished Video Content
HR/Recruiting · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Strada
$2M
Strada Is Building a Workflow Marketplace for Content Creators
Creator Economy · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Swap Language
$2M
Swap Language Teaches Corporate Language Skills in Real Cohorts
Education/Language · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Curipod
$5M
Curipod Generates AI Lesson Plans for K–12 Teachers in Seconds
Education/EdTech · enter market
PROVEN
Sempre Health
$46M
A $45 Million Reminder
SaaS/Industry-Specific · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
BookSeats
$1M
BookSeats Packages Sports Event Travel Into a Single Purchase
E-commerce/Marketplace · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Mindtrip
$7M
Mindtrip Is an AI Travel Assistant With Live Booking Access
AI/Language Processing · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Common Trust
$3M
Common Trust Helps Small Businesses Sell to Their Own Employees
SaaS/Industry-Specific · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
Athena Alliance
$3M
Athena Alliance Connects Senior Women Leaders With Board Seats
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PROVEN
Bolster
$14M
Bolster Connects Startups With Senior Executives for Part-Time Roles
SaaS/Productivity · enter market
PROVEN
Atomicwork
$11M
Atomicwork Is an AI Concierge for Employee Requests
SaaS/Productivity · build competitor
PROVEN
Tomato AI
$10M
Tomato AI Removes Call Center Accents in Real Time
SaaS/Industry-Specific · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
Worldover
$3M
Only 20 Customers – and Millions in Funding
SaaS/Industry-Specific · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Onex
$1M
Onex Connects Medical Device Makers With Local Distributors
SaaS/Industry-Specific · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
Centuro Global
$3M
Centuro Global Treats International Expansion as Standard Operations
SaaS/Industry-Specific · build competitor
PLAYBOOK
Valosan
$250K
Valosan Is a PR Marketplace Built From an Agency Tool
SaaS/Industry-Specific · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Context
$4M
Context Analyzes What Users Are Actually Asking Your AI Chatbot
SaaS/Analytics · build tooling
PLAYBOOK
Rippey.AI
$5M
Rippey.AI Is a Logistics-Specific AI Chatbot for Freight Operations
SaaS/Industry-Specific · build competitor
PROVEN
Harbour
$17M
Harbour Streamlines Contract Negotiation, Approval, and Signing
HR/Recruiting · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
The Contract Network
$8M
The Contract Network Closes Complex Deals 10x Faster With AI
SaaS/Industry-Specific · build competitor
PROVEN
Moxie
$16M
Moxie Launches Independent Beauty Salons for $30K in Two Months
SaaS/Industry-Specific · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
Octo
$500K
Octo Resolves 70% of Support Tickets and Charges Per Resolution
AI/Agents · build competitor
PLAYBOOK
Weekday
$2M
Weekday Verifies Candidates by Reaching Out to Former Colleagues
SaaS/Industry-Specific · build adjacent
PROVEN
Ghost
$68M
Ghost Is a B2B Marketplace for $1B in Excess Inventory
Fintech/Investing · build adjacent
PROVEN
Voiceflow
$39M
Voiceflow Brings Multi-Team Collaboration to AI Chatbot Building
SaaS/Collaboration · build tooling
PLAYBOOK
Influenxio
$3M
Influenxio Connects Small Businesses With Instagram Creators for $35
Creator Economy · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Deckmatch
$1M
Deckmatch Automates Pitch Deck Intake and Scoring for VC Funds
SaaS/Industry-Specific · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Moveable Feast
$550K
Charge More. Seriously.
SaaS/Industry-Specific · adapt model
PLAYBOOK
Multiplayer
$3M
Multiplayer Is Figma for Backend Architecture – With AI
AI/Agents · build adjacent
PLAYBOOK
Walnut
$6M
Show, Don't Tell – Visual Demos Beat Every Pitch Deck
SaaS/Productivity · build competitor
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Sollective
$3M
Sollective Is a Zero-Commission Freelance Marketplace in Japan
E-commerce/Marketplace · enter market
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Programa
$6M
One Great Tool Beats Five Mediocre Ones
SaaS/Industry-Specific · build adjacent
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Atmosfy
$23M
Atmosfy Is a TikTok-Style Discovery App for Places Worth Visiting
SaaS/Marketplace · build adjacent
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Life Science People
$4M
Life Science People Recruits Exclusively for Biotech and Pharma
HR/Recruiting · build adjacent
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Blended Sense
$3M
Blended Sense Sends Local Photographers to Small Businesses On Demand
E-commerce/Marketplace · adapt model
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Allo
undisclosed
Allo Is a Personal Finance App Built Around Life Purpose
SaaS/Productivity · build competitor
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Raven360
$19M
Teach First, Sell Second
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PROVEN
Hero Journey Club
$15M
Hero Journey Club Runs Group Therapy Sessions Inside Video Games
Health/Mental · build adjacent
PROVEN
Topline Pro
$17M
Topline Pro Builds AI-Powered Websites for Local Trades Fast
SaaS/Industry-Specific · adapt model
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AllSpice
$10M
AllSpice Brings Git-Based Version Control to Hardware Engineers
SaaS/Industry-Specific · build adjacent
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StreetFair
$9M
StreetFair Surfaces Home Service Providers Trusted by Your Neighbors
E-commerce/Marketplace · build adjacent
PROVEN
Croissant
$24M
Croissant's Guaranteed Buyback Model Gets $24M
E-commerce/Marketplace · build competitor
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Augmend
$2M
Augmend Turns Voice Recordings Into Searchable Team Knowledge
SaaS/Productivity · enter market
PROVEN
AutogenAI
$26M
AutogenAI Raises £17M to Automate Proposal Writing
SaaS/Productivity · build competitor
PROVEN
Emissary
$30M
Emissary Bets on Ex-Executives Over AI for Sales Intelligence
SaaS/Marketplace · build adjacent
PROVEN
Tilt
$10M
Tilt Turns Employee Offboarding Into a Structured Workflow
HR/Benefits · build adjacent
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Torchlite
$7M
Torchlite Brings CRM-Style Tools to Partner Channel Management
SaaS/CRM · build tooling
PROVEN
Quench
$10M
Quench Builds a Just-in-Time Learning Coach for Professionals
Education/Corporate · build adjacent
PROVEN
Whop
$18M
Whop: a Marketplace for Digital Products Nobody Else Would Touch
SaaS/Industry-Specific · build competitor
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Gushwork
$2M
Gushwork Connects Businesses With AI-Augmented Workers
E-commerce/Marketplace · build adjacent
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Stylib
$2M
Stylib Uses Visual Search to Fix Interior Design Material Sourcing
AI/Computer Vision · build adjacent
PROVEN
SwatchOn
$19M
SwatchOn Digitizes Fabric Sourcing for Fashion Brands Worldwide
SaaS/Marketplace · adapt model
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Peppermint
$8M
Peppermint Builds a Social Clubhouse Platform for Adults Over 55
SaaS/Collaboration · build adjacent
PROVEN
Karat
$116M
Karat Issues Creator Credit Cards Based on Audience Data
Fintech/Lending · build adjacent
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Stimuler
$1M
Stimuler Coaches English Speaking With Instant AI Feedback
Education/Language · adapt model
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Lantern
$7M
Lantern Tracks Job Changes to Surface Warm Sales Leads
SaaS/CRM · enter market
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Trunk Tools
$10M
Trunk Tools Pays Construction Workers Instant Bonuses for Performance
SaaS/Industry-Specific · adapt model
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Revolear
$6M
Revolear Adds AI Deal Scoring to B2B Negotiation and Proposals
SaaS/Analytics · build adjacent
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Propel
$3M
Propel Recruits African Tech Talent for European and US Companies
HR/Recruiting · adapt model
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MagicBrief
$2M
MagicBrief Gives Performance Marketers a Creative Intelligence Platform
AI/Generative · build adjacent
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Hona
$3M
Hona Automates Client Communication for High-Volume Law Firms
SaaS/Industry-Specific · build adjacent
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Flow Of Work
$4M
Flow Of Work Surfaces Internal Candidates Before Companies Hire Outside
SaaS/Analytics · build adjacent
PROVEN
Springboard
$66M
Springboard Pivots to B2B After Struggling With Consumer Edtech Economics
Education/EdTech · adapt model
PROVEN
Unaric
$35M
Unaric Acquires Bootstrapped Salesforce Apps and Scales Them Together
SaaS/CRM · enter market
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Bower Collective
$3M
Bower Collective Sells Refillable Household Products in Reusable Pouches
E-commerce/Subscriptions · enter market
PROVEN
Honey Homes
$12M
Honey Homes Sends a Handyman Twice a Month on Subscription
E-commerce/Subscriptions · adapt model
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Fibr
$2M
Fibr Generates Landing Page Variants Matched to Each Ad's Source
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PROVEN
Leap
$79M
Leap Opens Retail Stores for Digital Brands, Risk-Free
E-commerce/Direct to Consumer · build adjacent
PROVEN
Tulip
$79M
Tulip Gives Retail Associates CRM-Style Customer Profiles on the Floor
SaaS/Productivity · adapt model
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Franshares
$1M
Franshares Lets Anyone Invest in Franchise Portfolios From $500
SaaS/Marketplace · adapt model
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Lucky
$3M
Lucky Routes E-Commerce Orders to Local Stores for Instant Pickup
E-commerce/Marketplace · build adjacent
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Bonside
$4M
Bonside Finances New Brick-and-Mortar Locations via Revenue Share
Fintech/Lending · build adjacent
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Bitewell
$6M
Bitewell Ties Corporate Nutrition Programs to Healthcare Cost Reduction
Health/Wellness · adapt model
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Orson
$8M
Orson Collects Authentic Customer Stories via AI-Directed Video Interviews
Creator Economy · build adjacent
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Mediakits
$1M
Mediakits Keeps Creator Sponsor Decks Updated in Real Time
SaaS/Productivity · build competitor
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HirePort
$2M
HirePort Runs a Recruiter Marketplace Instead of Sourcing Directly
HR/Recruiting · adapt model
PROVEN
Smiler
$15M
Smiler Calls Itself a Travel Company, Not a Photography Marketplace
E-commerce/Marketplace · build adjacent
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ResearchHub
$5M
ResearchHub: Reddit for Science Papers, Backed by a Coinbase Founder
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PROVEN
WAVs AI
$20M
WAVs AI Launches a Streaming Platform for AI-Generated Music
AI/Generative · build adjacent
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Offered
$750K
Offered Automates Job Applications After an Eight-Minute Candidate Profile
AI · build competitor
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Paro
$69M
Paro Matches Companies With Freelance Finance and Accounting Specialists
HR · build adjacent
PROVEN
Nash
$28M
Nash Routes Each Delivery to the Cheapest Available Courier
E-commerce/Marketplace · adapt model
PROVEN
Muck Rack
$180M
Muck Rack Raised $180M After 14 Years Bootstrapping PR Software
SaaS/Industry-Specific · build adjacent
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Rex
$4M
Rex Turns Your Camera Roll Into a Social Recommendation Feed
AI/Computer Vision · build adjacent
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Gens de Confiance
$6M
Gens de Confiance Grows by Requiring Three Endorsements to Join
SaaS/Marketplace · build competitor
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Contextual AI
$20M
Contextual AI Lets Companies Build Their Own Domain-Specific AI Assistants
AI/Generative · build adjacent
PROVEN
Atly
$18M
Atly Organizes Local Discovery Into Trusted Community Maps
SaaS/Recommendations · build adjacent
PROVEN
Cortex
$53M
Cortex Raised $35M to Build Developer Portals Mapping Architecture
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
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HostGPO
$6M
HostGPO Negotiates Wholesale Prices for Short-Term Rental Operators
SaaS/Industry-Specific · build competitor
PROVEN
Sastrify
$55M
Sastrify Audits and Renegotiates SaaS Contracts for Mid-Market Companies
SaaS/Analytics · build adjacent
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Async
$4M
Async Replaces Meetings With Asynchronous Voice Messages
SaaS/Productivity · build competitor
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Produce8
$4M
Produce8 Makes Remote Team Activity Visible Without Status Meetings
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
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Hiway
$4M
Hiway Handles Admin and Coaching for IT Freelancers in France
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
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Loopie Laundry
$4M
Loopie Laundry Picks Up and Returns Clean Clothes Fast
E-commerce/Subscriptions · adapt model
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Gan.ai
$5M
Gan.ai Personalizes Pre-Recorded Videos at Scale With AI Lip-Sync
SaaS/Analytics · build adjacent
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Planera
$5M
Planera Replaces Gantt Charts With Visual Whiteboards for Small Builders
SaaS/Industry-Specific · build adjacent
PROVEN
Hallow
$105M
Hallow Adds $50M Proving Catholic Focus Beats Generic Wellness
SaaS/Productivity · build competitor
PROVEN
Spiff
$112M
Spiff Raised $50M to Rebuild Sales Commission Software With AI
SaaS/Industry-Specific · build adjacent
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Arya
$3M
Arya Enters a Crowded Commission Market With a Clear Niche
SaaS/Industry-Specific · build adjacent
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Synco
$6M
Synco Is a Purpose-Built Messenger for Property Operations Teams
SaaS/Industry-Specific · adapt model
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Snapfix
$3M
Snapfix Uses Photos as the Primary Format for Maintenance Tasks
SaaS/Industry-Specific · adapt model
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The Juice
$5M
The Juice Distributes B2B Marketing Content to 10,000 Professionals
SaaS/Marketplace · adapt model
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Assemble
$1M
Assemble Combines Career Coaching and Community for Nurses
HR/Learning · enter market
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Bloomfilter
$7M
Bloomfilter Translates Software Development Activity Into Business Costs
SaaS/Analytics · build adjacent
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Sykell
$6M
Sykell Makes Reusable Cups and Containers for Grocery Retailers
Fintech/Payments · enter market
PROVEN
Instruqt
$15M
Instruqt Turns B2B Sales Pitches Into Interactive Product Demos
SaaS/Productivity · build tooling
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DoubleLoop
$4M
DoubleLoop Maps How Product Metrics Connect to Revenue
SaaS/Analytics · build adjacent
PROVEN
Pietra
$36M
Pietra: D2C Infrastructure for Online Brands, After Two Pivots
SaaS/Analytics · build adjacent
PROVEN
Millionways
$10M
Millionways Builds an AI Emotional Intelligence Coach for Enterprises
SaaS/Productivity · enter market
PROVEN
Seatfrog
$23M
Seatfrog Auctions Empty First-Class Train Seats to Economy Passengers
E-commerce/Marketplace · enter market
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Catalosite
$200K
Catalosite Builds Websites That Look and Scroll Like Instagram Profiles
SaaS/Productivity · build competitor
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Pollen
$5M
Pollen Is a Professional Community for Freelancers Built Around Business Advice
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
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Hawker
$260K
Hawker Sells Concert Merchandise From the Seat via Mobile App
SaaS/Analytics · adapt model
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Livvwork
$750K
Livvwork Uses AI to Recommend Which Days Hybrid Employees Should Come In
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
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Reef.ai
$7M
Reef.ai Turns Net Dollar Retention Into a Measurable, Actionable Metric
SaaS/Analytics · build tooling
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Oneistox
$1M
Oneistox Trains Architects and Engineers in BIM and Computational Design
Education/Corporate · adapt model
PROVEN
Bizly
$25M
Bizly Handles Venues, Invitations, and Live-Streaming for In-Person Team Gatherings
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PROVEN
Pricemoov
$13M
Pricemoov Adds AI-Driven Optimization to an Established Pricing Operations Platform
SaaS/Industry-Specific · build adjacent
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Oliv
$5M
Oliv Analyzes Sales Calls to Surface What Top Reps Do Differently
SaaS/Analytics · build competitor
PROVEN
Earned
$18M
Earned Is a Full-Service Wealth Management Platform Designed for Physicians
SaaS/Industry-Specific · build adjacent
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Rodeo
$4M
Rodeo Helps Gig Workers Choose Higher-Paying Platforms for Each Shift
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
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FlexDesk
$500K
FlexDesk Manages Remote Workspace Spend Across 7,000 Coworking Locations
SaaS/Industry-Specific · build adjacent
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Coast
$2M
Coast Lets Sales Teams Demo APIs Without Writing a Line of Code
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
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Vamoz
$244K
Vamoz Handles Compliance and Payroll for Employees Working Abroad Temporarily
HR/Remote · build adjacent
PROVEN
Hygraph
$44M
Hygraph Is a Headless CMS Built for Multichannel Enterprise Content at Scale
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
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Jigso
$8M
Jigso's AI Sidekick Filters Notifications Before They Interrupt Deep Work
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PROVEN
Orb
$19M
Orb Lets B2B SaaS Companies Build, Test, and Bill Against Complex Pricing Models
SaaS/Analytics · build competitor
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Superfiliate
$3M
Superfiliate Gives Affiliate Sellers a Branded Storefront Instead of a Referral Link
SaaS/Marketplace · build adjacent
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GoJoe
$1M
GoJoe Runs Competitive Fitness Challenges That Improve Employee Sentiment by 84%
HR/Benefits · build adjacent
PROVEN
OpenStore
$137M
OpenStore Drive Runs Your Shopify Store While You Collect a Guaranteed Monthly Payout
E-commerce/Marketplace · adapt model
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liftOS
$1M
liftOS Puts All Your Work Tools Into One Customizable Widget Workspace
SaaS/Productivity · adapt model
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Pilot
$3M
Pilot Automatically Extracts CRM Data From Sales Calls With No Manual Entry
SaaS/CRM · build adjacent
PROVEN
Fount
$12M
Fount Sells Personalized Health Optimization Programs to High-Performance Executives
Health/Wellness · adapt model
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Deeploi
$3M
Deeploi Sells Fully Managed IT Infrastructure as a Single Platform for Companies
SaaS/Productivity · build competitor
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OpsLevel
$5M
OpsLevel Assigns Explicit Ownership to Every Microservice in Engineering Organizations
DevTools · adapt model
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The Company Itself Is the Product
B2B
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Next Matter
$4M
Next Matter Turns Business Processes Into Owned, Trackable Workflow Steps
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
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Burger Index
$1M
Burger Index Tracks Competitor Pricing and Menu Changes for Restaurant Operators
SaaS/Industry-Specific · build competitor
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Awesomic
$3M
Awesomic Matches Clients With Vetted Freelance Designers at a Flat Daily Rate
AI · build adjacent
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mereat
$475K
mereat Is a Restaurant Cashback App That Fills Off-Peak Seats Through Dynamic Rewards
SaaS/Analytics · adapt model
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QuantHub
$5M
QuantHub Teaches Data Skills to Every Employee – Not Just Data Analysts
Education/Corporate · build adjacent
PROVEN
BACH
$25M
BACH Is an All-in-One Planning App for Bachelor and Bachelorette Parties
SaaS/Productivity · enter market
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Prog.ai
$1M
Prog.ai Recruits Software Engineers by Reading Their GitHub Commit History
AI/Language Processing · build adjacent
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Grata
$6M
Grata Gives Frontline Workers Portable Career Profiles That Follow Them Across Jobs
SaaS/Industry-Specific · build adjacent
PROVEN
Attio
$31M
Attio Is a CRM Built to Be Powerful Enough to Scale Without Becoming Hard to Use
SaaS/CRM · build adjacent
PROVEN
Stensul
$23M
Stensul Compresses Enterprise Email Production From Two Weeks to a Few Hours
SaaS/Collaboration · build adjacent
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Zarta
$6M
Zarta Tests a Pay-Per-Video Model for Creator Content at $0.10 per View
SaaS/Marketplace · build adjacent
PROVEN
Bonusly
$31M
Bonusly Runs a Peer Recognition System Where Employees Award Points to Each Other
SaaS/Collaboration · build competitor
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Assemble
$1M
Assemble Manages Video Production Projects With Dependency-Aware Task Scheduling
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
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Husslup
$3M
Husslup Opens Hollywood's Closed Network With a Professional Platform for Film Crews
Fintech/Investing · build adjacent
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IrisCX
$7M
IrisCX Embeds Video Communication Into Sales Demos and Customer Support Workflows
SaaS/Industry-Specific · build adjacent
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Vitally
$41M
Vitally Is a Customer Success Platform That Activates Automatically From CRM Data
SaaS/CRM · adapt model
PROVEN
Rebuy
$21M
Rebuy Brings Amazon-Scale Personalization to Shopify Merchants Starting at $99/Month
SaaS/Industry-Specific · build adjacent
PROVEN
Finch
$59M
Finch Is a Universal API for Connecting SaaS Products to 200 HR Systems at Once
SaaS/Industry-Specific · build adjacent
PROVEN
Finch
$19M
Finch: One API for 140 HR and Payroll Systems
SaaS/Industry-Specific · build adjacent
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Chronicle
$8M
Chronicle Rebuilds the Presentation for the Short-Form Era
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
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REPOWR
$8M
REPOWR Turns Idle Trucks Into a Two-Sided Marketplace
E-commerce/Marketplace · adapt model
PROVEN
Zerocater
$39M
Zerocater's Cloud Cafeteria Bet on Return-to-Office
HR/Benefits · adapt model
PROVEN
Nada
$13M
Nada Lets Anyone Invest in a City's Housing Market
Real Estate/Tech · adapt model
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Scaleup Finance
$9M
Scaleup Finance Sells Fractional CFO Services to Startups
Fintech/Banking · adapt model
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Feedcoyote
$355K
Feedcoyote Builds the Collaboration Layer for Freelancers
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
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Stakeholder Labs
$4M
Stakeholder Labs Connects Retail Investors to the Brands They Own
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
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Elqano
$900K
Elqano Connects Enterprise Employees to Internal Expertise
SaaS/Collaboration · build adjacent
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Endvr
$4M
Endvr Turns Retail Store Staff Into Brand Ambassadors
SaaS/Industry-Specific · build adjacent
PROVEN
Sweeten
$21M
Sweeten Adds Expert Oversight to Home Renovation Hiring
E-commerce/Marketplace · adapt model
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GlossAi
$8M
GlossAi Clips Long Video Into Short-Form Social Content Automatically
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
PROVEN
Jobber
$184M
Jobber: $100M Round for Unglamorous Home Services Software
SaaS/Industry-Specific · adapt model
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Peggy
$8M
Peggy Is a Social Marketplace for Fine Art Investment
E-commerce/Marketplace · build adjacent
PROVEN
Breef
$21M
Breef Connects Companies With Small Creative Agencies
SaaS/Industry-Specific · adapt model
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Paid
$3M
Paid Manages Contracts and Payments Across Entire Supplier Networks
SaaS/Industry-Specific · build adjacent
PROVEN
Graphite
$20M
Graphite Fields 7,500 Ex-McKinsey Consultants for Freelance Strategy Work
HR/Recruiting · build competitor
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Breef
$4M
Breef Applies the Upwork Model to Small Agency Hiring
SaaS/Marketplace · build competitor
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Bite Ninja
$16M
Bite Ninja Staffs Restaurant Drive-Throughs With Remote Order-Takers
SaaS/Industry-Specific · adapt model
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Lawclerk
$7M
Lawclerk Lets Lawyers Hire Freelance Attorneys by the Project
E-commerce/Marketplace · build competitor
PROVEN
Traba
$24M
Traba Chases the Top 1% of Warehouse Shift Workers
SaaS/Industry-Specific · build competitor
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Clutch
$2M
Clutch Builds a Student Freelance Marketplace School by School
E-commerce/Marketplace · adapt model
PROVEN
Triple Whale
$53M
Triple Whale Gives Shopify Merchants a Single Analytics Dashboard
SaaS/Analytics · build competitor
PROVEN
Jeff
$131M
Jeff Franchises Laundry, Beauty, and Fitness Under One App
SaaS/Marketplace · adapt model
PROVEN
Mighty Health
$10M
Mighty Health Targets the Overlooked Over-50 Wellness Market
Health/Wellness · enter market
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Digs
$7M
Digs Gives Home Construction Teams a Shared Document Workspace
SaaS/Industry-Specific · build adjacent
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Freemodel
$23M
Freemodel: The Pre-Sale Renovation Play
SaaS/Industry-Specific · adapt model
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Stride
$750K
Stride Delivers Workplace Coaching in Micro-Format Sessions
SaaS/Productivity · build competitor
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Crowdbotics
$68M
Crowdbotics Builds Custom Software 3x Faster Using 500 Reusable Modules
SaaS/Productivity · adapt model
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Oneleaf
$4M
Oneleaf Uses Self-Hypnosis to Enter the Mental Wellness Market
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
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Zarya
$2M
Zarya Lets Anyone Resell Wholesale Products via Personal Storefronts
SaaS/Industry-Specific · adapt model
PROVEN
Jomigo
$10M
Jomigo Runs Three Freelance Recruiters on Every Open Role Simultaneously
HR/Recruiting · build adjacent
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Movley
$1M
Movley Sends a Team to Quality-Check Your Factory
AI/Computer Vision · build adjacent
PROVEN
Copilot
$13M
Copilot Builds Client Portals for Professional Services Without Code
SaaS/Industry-Specific · build competitor
PROVEN
ThriveCart
$35M
ThriveCart Raised $35M After Years Profitably Optimizing E-Commerce Checkouts
SaaS/Productivity · adapt model
PROVEN
CloseFactor
$20M
CloseFactor Identifies Prospects Actively Undergoing Organizational Change
SaaS/Analytics · build competitor
PROVEN
Digitail
$15M
Digitail Helps Veterinary Practices Treat More Patients Without Longer Hours
SaaS/Industry-Specific · enter market
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Hack The Box Builds Cybersecurity Training Around Legal Hacking Challenges
Education/EdTech · build adjacent
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Galaxy Vets Acquires Clinics and Keeps the Founders Running Them
SaaS/Industry-Specific · adapt model
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Glimpse Places Consumer Products Inside Short-Term Rentals for Trial
SaaS/Analytics · build adjacent
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Equalture Assesses Job Candidates Through Game-Based Behavioral Tests
SaaS/Analytics · enter market
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Ribbon
$1M
Ribbon Sells Online Event Tickets With One Code Snippet
SaaS/Productivity · enter market
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Willo
$270K
Willo Replaces First-Round Job Interviews With Recorded Video Responses
HR/Recruiting · build competitor
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HeySummit
$1M
HeySummit Manages Multi-Session Online Event Setup Before the First Login
SaaS/Productivity · build adjacent
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Demoflow
$2M
Demoflow Lets Two Sales Reps Co-Control a Live Presentation
SaaS/Collaboration · build adjacent
PROVEN
Superpeer
$10M
Superpeer Pivoted From Expert 1-on-1 Calls to Paid Live Streams
E-commerce/Marketplace · build adjacent
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Voodle
$6M
Voodle Brings Short-Form Video to Internal Team Communication
SaaS/Collaboration · build adjacent
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Wonder
$11M
Wonder Uses Avatar Navigation to Recreate Conference Floor Conversations
SaaS/Collaboration · build adjacent
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LunaJoy
$5M
LunaJoy Bundles Therapy, Prescriptions, and Nutrition Into Women's Mental Health
Health/Mental · enter market
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