ORCA Newsletter Vol. 13

Early VC, in Your Inbox.

ORCA is the innovation network helping connect startups with funding, resources, and the network they need to launch a successful venture.

We’ve made 599 founder<>investor introductions. Your next investor (or investment) is only a click away 👇️ 

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Trending Startups

Hundreds of startups have met investors through ORCA, earning acceptance to prestigious accelerators like Antler and PearX, term sheet offers, and more.

Here are the top startups this week:

Prometheus Data, Inc

Prometheus Data, Inc: AI-powered risk management solution for businesses dealing with foreign nationals and global trade.

Cimphony

Cimphony: we are applying AI to reinvent "unsexy" categories of back office sales, operations, HR, finance functions currently managed by band-aid of 7 traditional SaaS offerings. Our mission is to drive 70% cost reduction on lawyer bills while 3X'ing contract signing velocity.

Foodom

Foodom: personalized weekly meal prep by chefs cooked in your kitchen, from $5 per portion, to promote health and wellness with food as medicine.

Investor Activity This Week

Here are some of the firms most actively reviewing startups on ORCA this week.

NextGen Venture Partners

NextGen Venture Partners works with over 1,500 Venture Partners to invest $1 million in seed stage companies and $2 million to $10 million in companies with more than $10 million in revenue.

Bullish

Bullish is a marketing operating partner, blending the worlds of capital, consulting and creation to design the most remarkable businesses in the world.

Harpoon

Harpoon is an early stage venture capital firm.

New Startups This Week

Here’s a peek at 3 of the 40+ new startups from the last week:

TitanPayAI

TitanPayAI accelerates cross-border bank payments delayed due to lack of information, using AI automation, replacing operations, reducing bank's costs, risks and improving client experience for bank's clients.

CashEx

CashEx is a global banking platform for Africans.

Homesy

Homesy is a social home discovery network that gives buyers and sellers direct ownership and rewards for their personal home data — and a structured platform for direct sales — through the tokenized Real World Assets of their home, composed and secured on the Polkadot blockchain.