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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.

Click their profiles to learn more or get an intro 🔥

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

Chatsimple

Chatsimple is an AI agent for inbound sales.

preEmptive Technologies

preEmptive Technologies develops consumer and business applications using leading-edge technology enhancements.

Enara Health

Enara Health is a fitness app that offers personalized weight loss programs with professionals such as doctors, dietitians, and assistants.

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!

Ardent

Ardent invests Pre-Seed to Series A in AI-native applications, vertical SaaS, and B2B fintech.

BBQ Capital

BBQ Capital is committed to investing in companies at the earliest stages.

This includes writing checks for pre-revenue and pre-product companies, as well as providing additional capital for Seed and Series A rounds.

Rhapsody Venture Partners

Rhapsody Venture Partners invests exclusively in hard science startups addressing industrial problems.

They are lead investors for seed rounds. Their first check is typically $500K to $2MM and they frequently lead large syndicates in follow on rounds.

ORCA’s Top Performers: Outstanding Startups from February 01-15

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!

Optimice

Optimice enables sub-second analytical query response times directly on fast-moving petabyte-scale raw data lakes through pioneering optimizations tailored to the Iceberg table format.

6 investors have booked meetings with Optimice through ORCA in the past 2 weeks

traversaal.ai

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

Traversaal got 7 investor meetings via ORCA in the last 2 weeks

Scarce AI

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

Scarce AI has received 4 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!