ORCA is the innovation network helping connect startups with funding, resources, and the network they need to launch a successful venture. Each week, we highlight top startups and investors from our community in this newsletter.

Some housekeeping:

• ORCA Venture Fellows application is still live: a program for college students in the US to bring ORCA to their campus. Read more and apply here.

• We announced a new $100K pitch competition which will take place in NYC in November. Teams must have a founder with an MBA to compete. Apply here.

• There are still a few days left to apply to Antler’s Fall Residency for a shot at $250K. Apply here if you haven’t already.

In the past 2 months, we’ve introduced founders to investors 506 times. Your next investor (or investment) is only a click away 👇️ 

Trending Startups

20+ startups met investors through ORCA in the last 7 days. Here’s three of this week’s hottest startups 🔥 

Zweelie

Zweelie enables freelancers to expand their services and increase their income potential by collaborating with other service providers through revenue sharing, project management, and secure transactions.

Finlayer

Finlayer: An AI-driven app builder enabling easy fintech application creation for non-developers while ensuring regulatory compliance.

Tension

Tension is a furniture design startup that re-think furniture norms and redesigns furniture assembly systems to create compactable home furniture that helps you move.

Want to meet to any of these startups? Email [email protected] & let me know which one(s).

Investor Activity This Week

Here are some of the firms meeting the most founders on ORCA in the last week 👀 

Antler

Antler is a generalist, pre-seed VC that backs founders from day zero to find co-founders and build...exceptional teams, test their ideas, and rapidly launch startups. Applications are open for Antler’s eight-week, in-person October 2023 Residencies in Austin, Boulder, and NYC.

Antler remained at the top of the list this week as they continue to source for their founder residency – apply by tomorrow! (Linked at the top of this email)

Anthemis

Anthemis Group is a global platform that cultivates change in the financial system by investing in, growing, and sustaining businesses committed to resiliency, transparency, access and equity.

Calano funds

Calano Funds invests from pre-seed to series A and focuses on revenue-generating companies with proven product market fit.

New Startups This Week

Here’s a few new startups from the last week that caught our eye:

GodelAI

GodelAI is a Generative AI company from Stanford PhDs creating 3D Photorealistic Movies using AI.

GothubAI

GothubAI Streamlines rapid prototyping for entrepreneurs, enabling even non-technical entrepreneurs to harness the development power of an entire engineering team, producing a functional product in under 30 minutes.

SellRaze

SellRaze: One click listing for ecommerce, sell anything anywhere.

Want an intro to any of these startups? Email [email protected] & let me know which one(s).

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