Welcome to the Digital Silicon Valley, where we highlight trending & top-performing startups twice a month based on data generated from our network activity on ORCA.

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This month alone, we’ve introduced founders to investors over 360 times. Your next investor (or investment) is only a click away 👇️

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Startup Trends: Founders Heating Up on ORCA

Here are the startups getting hot on ORCA, as identified by a combination of data-driven signals and personal insights.

They’re all actively raising; click their profiles to learn more or get an intro 🔥

P.S. we encourage you to forward this to anyone who may be interested in these companies (or click read on web and send them the link)!

Doodle

Doodle – Automatically create interactive product support guides to quickly teach customers how to use your product.

• Technical founding team w/ experience at Tesla, Ubisoft, Microsoft

• 5+ signed contracts

• Invited to YC W24

• Raising Seed

Sustain.Life

Sustain.Life is a carbon accounting platform focused on the mid-market and enterprise.

• Founder was prev. Sr Director at Intelligent Retail Lab by Walmart after she led product teams at Jet.com after their $3.3B acquisition by Walmart

• 7-figure ARR

• Raising Series A

Scarce AI

Scarce AI is empowering AI-driven healthcare innovation by providing synthetic data.

• 2 technical founders, one a 3rd time founder, another out of Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab

• 3 partnerships with Data Shops

• Raising Preseed

The Most Active VC Firms Active on ORCA

We often get asked what our outlook on the state of early stage venture is. Statistics aside, we’ve seen more active investors sourcing on our platform in the last month than ever before.

Here are the firms engaging with the most startups in the last 2 weeks 👀

Wondering how to get featured in this list? Make sure you’re onboarded as an ORCA investor. The more active you are, the better chance you have to see your firm here!

Wildwood VC

Wildwood is a pre-seed venture studio and fund at the intersection of the outdoor and wellness economies.

They build and invest in venture-track consumer technology companies that aim to make life better, and solve for human needs that have arisen in a content-rich and digitally connected society… that is more anxious, lonely, and sedentary than ever.

Watertower Ventures

Watertower Ventures is a venture capital fund for today’s creative set, the builders, doers and makers of tomorrow's industry defining consumer technology and enterprise software companies.

Gravity Capital

Gravity Capital is a San Francisco-based seed stage venture capital firm

See the database of all of our investors sourcing on ORCA in the last 2 weeks: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Vk1g-d01ixC46XL-RIowI1a0gtewp1I5vvEznNwOpd8/edit?usp=sharing

ORCA’s Top Performers: Outstanding Startups from January 19-31

These are the startups getting the most attention from investors on our platform. Get in while they’re hot – get a guaranteed introduction directly through their ORCA profiles linked below!

Hyperlink

Hyperlink is a platform as a service that taps into idle CPU and GPU capacities, addressing the GPU shortage while efficiently powering AI, Blockchain, and Cloud workloads, while enabling supply partners to turn unused computing power into a source of passive income.

• Founder w/ MS and deep experience in Data Science

• 57k+, 100k+ GPUs & CPUs respectively via suppliers

• Raising Seed

9 investors have booked meetings with Hyperlink through ORCA in the past 2 weeks

traversaal.ai

traversaal.ai is an AI Company focused on building LLM infra for Enterprise.

• Founder is an AI professor at Stanford

• 6-figure ARR

• Raising Seed

Traversaal moved from the trending list last edition to the top performers this week, with 8 investor meetings via ORCA in the last 2 weeks

NEMO

NEMO: Financial Infrastructure for Intellectual Property

• Founder with 4+ yrs in hedge fund & alternative asset space at Point72, and 2 yrs in leadership at VC-backed startups

• Raising Preseed

NEMO has received 7 investor intros through ORCA in the last 2 weeks

ORCA Capital Opportunities

Interested in collaborating on a Startup Competition? We have hosted 5 previous competitions with Foundation Capital, Maveron, Contrary, MBA Ventures, and CEAS Investments and are looking to host more!

These events are extremely valuable for uncovering a ton of quality deals, building brand recognition, and investing in promising startups. Reach out to [email protected] if you are interested!