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Welcome to Edition 3 of the ORCA Weekly Newsletter!
ORCA is an innovation network helping connect 670+ startups with funding, resources, and the network they need to launch a successful venture.
This is our weekly newsletter, where we bring you trending startups, ORCA investor activity, highlights from new startups in the community, and a look at our latest VC partners.
If you want to meet any of the startups in this week’s newsletter, just reply to this email and let us know!
Enjoy, and let us know if you have any feedback!
Trending Startups
This week’s hottest startups (pro tip: there were 40+ more startups getting meetings with investors this week – if you’re not already onboarded as an investor, get the chance to see more of them here)
DayZero
DayZero: Next generation quickbooks - an AI automated accounting tool for small businesses. The product eliminates the need for an expensive outside accountant and enables businesses to close books themselves automatically and in real time, allowing for faster insights into business trends and better decision-making and business planning.
3 ORCA investors booked meetings with DayZero this week. Want an intro? Reply to this email and let us know!
Perseus
Perseus: Manufacturing for our clean energy transition – a new manufacturing process for wind turbine blades that is automated and fast.
2 ORCA investors booked meetings with Perseus this week. Want an intro? Reply to this email and let us know!
LeanCon
LeanCon: The first construction engineer created by AI. LeanCon is an AI-powered product that automatically utilizes CAD (BIM) building models to make all engineering decisions before and during construction. (Look familiar? LeanCon was in our “New Startups” section last week, and now they have 2 investor intros!)
2 ORCA investors booked meetings with LeanCon this week. Want an intro? Reply to this email and let us know!
“Eztia could be ORCA’s poster child. There are multiple funds at this point where I had them on my CRM but was trying to find a good warm intro… then ORCA connects us before I can do anything”
Investor Activity This Week
We’ve nearly doubled the number of investors using ORCA in the last month! Of the 130+ we have onboarded, here are the firms meeting the most founders on ORCA in the last week 👀
Wondering how to get featured in this list? Easy! Make sure you’re onboarded as an ORCA investor, and review the startups we curate for you. The more active you are, the better chance you have to see your firm here!
#1: Plug and Play
Plug and Play: As one of the most active VCs in Silicon Valley, our goal is to fund the teams that are building the defensible businesses of the future. By leveraging our capital, our network of VCs, and our corporate partners, we give our portfolio companies an unfair advantage.
Know a founder who’s a fit? Refer them here
#2: Centre Street Partners
Centre Street Partners: An early stage venture fund investing in outlier founders at the intersection of technology and society's evolving behaviors.
Know a founder who’s a fit? Refer them here
#3: Maven Ventures
Maven Ventures: Backing Bold Founders with a Vision Worth Fighting For. Since our founding in 2013, Maven has achieved 3 IPOs, 10 acquisitions, and 7 unicorns across roughly 50 investments. From our earliest days, we’ve always maintained the same successful, highly-concentrated strategy, with a small team of investors building and supporting a select portfolio of consumer software startups..
Know a founder who’s a fit? Refer them here
#4: Baukunst
Baukunst is a collective of creative technologists advancing the art of building. Our inaugural $100M venture fund is dedicated to leading pre-seed investments in companies at the frontiers of technology and design.
Know a founder who’s a fit? Refer them here
“Thanks for the connects! This is one of the firms we were wanting to chat with, so this is huge 🚀 ”
New Startups This Week
ORCA has brought on 30 new startups in the last week. Here are some highlights:
Flair Labs
Flair Labs: Unlock insights from audio data using LLMs. Flair utilizes AI to automatically process unstructured call data to gather voice of customer insights, allowing companies to utilize 100% of call data to measure quality and provide insights opposed to the industry standard of only 2-3%.
Want an intro? Reply to this email and let us know!
Gravvity
Gravvity is the 3D version of Shopify - AI generated 3D shops and experiences that can 10X customer conversion
Want an intro? Reply to this email and let us know!
Nada
Nada is a WealthTech platform unlocking the $20T home equity market for homeowners & investors
Want an intro? Reply to this email and let us know!
“Thank you for the terrific work. My team cannot stop raving about how much they love ORCA”
Investor Spotlight
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Want to be featured here and have startups apply directly to a personal portal? Let’s chat.