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We've totally revamped our job search functionality on Employbl. As a celebration of that I wanted to put a post together showcasing all of the cool companies in the Bay Area that are hiring for Software Engineers. This doesn't even showcase all of the remote jobs that are available. Indeed some of these roles may be remote or partial remote work. I narrowed down the list quite a bit to fit into a blog post but should be a quick intro for anyone looking for a Software Engineering opportunity based in the SF Bay Area.

Full post: IT Companies in the Bay Area hiring now

In this post we looked at the most active investors in early stage tech startups. Y Combinator topped the list with 83 Seed and Pre Seed investments in startups that we're tracking.

See the full list of early stage investors plus the companies they've invested in here.

This post showcases tech companies and startups that are headquartered in San Diego. We show total investment amount, founded year, latest funding round and a description about each company.

https://www.employbl.com/blog/105-tech-companies-and-startups-headquartered-in-san-diego

This article shows the largest tech employers that are headquartered in Silicon Valley. Additionally it showcases some of the hottest Series A, Series B and Series C startups located in the valley.

https://www.employbl.com/blog/top-tech-companies-startups-silicon-valley-2022

In this post we showcase over one hundred tech companies and startups that are HQ'd out of Miami, FL. We show their latest funding round, total investment amount, year founded and who's hiring now.

https://www.employbl.com/blog/121-tech-companies-and-startups-in-miami-florida

We published a new blog post showcasing some of the top Software As A Service (SaaS) companies that are headquartered in the United States.

> This is a list of Software As A Service (SaaS) startups broken down by company investment stage. We'll look at where the startups are headquartered, year founded, total investment amount and what they do.

https://www.employbl.com/blog/63-top-saas-startups-in-the-united-states-2022

We published a new blog post showcasing Seattle startups, who's hiring, who has raised the most money and early stage startups that are headquartered in Seattle.

> In this article we showcase the top private tech companies and startups that are headquartered out of Seattle, WA. You'll learn how much money these companies have raised, when they were founded, who's hiring the most and what the latest funding round of each company is.

https://www.employbl.com/blog/top-seattle-startups-to-watch-in-2022

We published a new blog post featuring Web3 companies that are hiring the most right now.

> This post showcases fifty four web3 startups that are hiring right now. It shows what web3 companies have the most job openings, what the most popular web3 jobs are and where web3 companies are headquartered.

https://www.employbl.com/blog/54-web3-companies-hiring-now

Last week we published our ultimate guide to web3 companies that featured over three hundred web3 companies that are headquartered in the United States. So for example FTX isn't included in the list because it's a foreign company even though it's run by an American and seeks to pay off American politicians.

This week we've been scouring the internet and have found nineteen more web3 companies to add to our list of web3 companies.

• Magic Eden - Magic Eden is the #1 NFT marketplace on Solana. Home to the next generation of digital creators. Our mission is to be the only destination for discovering, trading, and creating NFTs. Magic Eden aims to bring the strongest user-friendly experience with cutting-edge tools and support that will allow creators to seamlessly mint and generate digital content and lead the fate and growth of their digital communities online.

• Octopus Network - Octopus is a cryptonetwork for launching and running Web3.0 application specific blockchains, aka appchains. By decreasing the capital expenditure for bootstrap an appchain by two orders of magnitude, from several million dollars to less than one hundred thousand dollars, Octopus Network is committed to unleash an innovation wave of Web3.0.

• Glip - Content creator network of 500K+ gamers gearing up to shill gaming NFTs.

• Prysm - The community ownership platform -- Own anything, together.

• Novel - Novel Commerce is a low code platform for NFT commerce. Novel’s first product is a Shopify App that gives brands and creators the ability to create and sell NFTs within their existing store or a brand new one. By integrating its tools onto the Shopify platform, Novel has made the cumbersome process of Web3 commerce as seamless, easy, and accessible as traditional online shopping.

• GigLabs - Founded in 2017, GigLabs is on a mission to empower brands, creators and collectors to create defining and memorable NFT experiences. The company partners with brands, agencies and creators to provide easy-to-use products for generating, minting, and selling NFTs that can be presented within fully customizable brand experiences, both on the web and in VR. Built by the GigLabs’ team of experienced blockchain developers and NFT enthusiasts, the API-driven NFT Bridge platform delivers flexible and scalable NFT tools that allow any brand to build any NFT experience imaginable. RareRooms is GigLabs’ customizable 3D immersive metaverse for showcasing NFTs - digital collectibles, art and more - that’s integrated across multiple blockchains.

• LUV NFT - LUV NFT is a social media marketplace that allows creators and brands the ability to easily mint NFTs. We replaced the like button with the LUV button and receiving LUV earns you crypto $LUV. Spreading LUV is the call to action to ending hate and greed. Users can buy NFTs with Bitcoin, Ethereum, Kusuma, Unique or LUV tokens. #OneLUV

• Polymer Labs - Polymer Labs is building the fabric of web3. We're working on an IBC based multi-cluster routing/roll-up protocol providing E2E IBC connectivity across ecosystems.

• Quidient - Quidient Reality™ engines enable devices like smartphones to capture photorealistic 3D models of any scene or object on earth. The pioneering platforms are capable of Generalized Scene Reconstruction (GSR), which is an important new category of 3D Imaging. GSR engines will become critical components of Web 3.0 (the Spatial Web). Quidient Reality engines are actually five-dimensional (5D) in that they record the three linear dimensions of matter (3D) concurrent with two directional dimensions of light (2D). This revolutionary approach enables devices like smartphones to create complete, visually accurate models of any scene or object, including those that are shiny and transparent.

• Project Galaxy - Created by Bullet Labs, Project Galaxy is the largest Web3 credential data network in the world. Built on open and collaborative infrastructure, Project Galaxy helps developers and organizations leverage digital credential data to build better products and communities in Web3.

• Fairmint - Fairmint makes community ownership easy. Founders plug Fairmint'tech on their website, allowing contributors to receive tokenized equity for time or money they invest. Built by founders for founders, our technology leverages blockchain and smart contracts to make equity programmable. Fairmint is the Web3 layer of the modern startup stack, empowering participation in the ownership economy.

• TRON - Tron is a decentralized content entertainment protocol based on blockchain technology. Tron strives to construct a global free content entertainment system, utilizing blockchain technology. This protocol allows each user to freely publish, store, and own data. The issuance, circulation, and trading of digital assets, through decentralized self governance, lay the foundation for the distribution and subscription of content, thereby empowering content creators as well as forming a decentralized content entertainment ecosystem. The app partners of Tron protocol include Peiwo, Obike, Gifto, Uplive, with a total of 4 millions users, making Tron a blockchain protocol with the most DAPP users in the world.

• Newton.co - Newton.co is a cryptocurrency trading platform that buys and sells sell Bitcoin and Ethereum instantly from iPhone, Android, or web apps. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

• Bitcoin Depot - Bitcoin Depot is an INC 5000 company and is the largest cryptocurrency ATM Network offering users the ability to buy and sell Bitcoin and over 30 other cryptocurrencies instantly at thousands of locations across the United States.

• Crypto.com - Crypto.com is a cryptocurrency exchange company based in Singapore. As of 2022, the company has 50 million customers and 4,000 employees. The platform's official Cryptocurrency is Cronos.

• Autograph - Autograph is an NFT platform that brings together the most iconic brands and legendary names in sports, entertainment and culture to create unique digital collections and experiences.

• Pinata - Used by over 70,000 developers and creatives, Pinata secures and moves data with #IPFS for #blockchain and #crypto applications. More than 45 million files have been pinned with our #NFT multimedia solution.

• Uniswap Labs - Uniswap is the largest decentralized exchange (or DEX) operating on the Ethereum blockchain. It allows users anywhere in the world to trade crypto without an intermediary.

• Aptos - Aptos is a new, independent project focused on delivering the safest and most production-ready Layer 1 blockchain in the world. The team is comprised of the original creators, researchers, designers, and builders of Diem, the blockchain that was first built to serve this purpose.

Full list is available here.

I did some research and wrote a post about the rise of web3, where it came from, who invented it and where it might be going. We have over three hundred web3 companies and counting in the employbl database. This post showcases the top web3 companies that have raised money from venture capital firms and are based in the United States

https://www.employbl.com/blog/ultimate-guide-to-web3-companies

The post concludes with some criticisms of web3 and links for further reading and research. I've learned a ton about web3 through this process and am looking forward to writing about it more.

This post showcases how search interest in the term "fintech" spiked beginning in 2015 to the present day. Perhaps the lessons from 2008 have faded far enough from memory to bring glory back to innovative financiers. Here we look at traditional fintech companies founded in the web 1 and web 2 eras and then showcase the largest fintech companies that were founded recently, showcasing recently founded fintech companies that are based in the United States.

https://www.employbl.com/blog/top-fintech-companies-american-financial-system-2022

We'll look at crypto and web3 companies in a separate post..

One of our recent blog posts got some discussion going on Hacker News. With the rise of slick offshoring firms that have raised hundreds of millions from American finance, it begs the question: will tech work be offshored in the same way that American manufacturing was offshored in the 80s and 90s?

https://www.employbl.com/blog/remote-work-offshore-american-manufacturing

In this post we put together the list of top tech companies and top startups that are headquartered out of Denver. Denver is a hub for West Coast tech. This post shows 76 of the most promising tech companies based there

https://www.employbl.com/blog/tech-companies-in-denver-2022

In this post we look at the largest funding rounds of the year, plus the largest Seed and Series A rounds

Check it out! https://www.employbl.com/blog/usa-startup-funding-report-2022-largest-early-stage

https://www.employbl.com/blog/find-startups-by-funding-round-for-free

https://www.employbl.com/blog/boston-startups-to-watch-in-2022

We pull in 70k job listings so this is our own version of the Hacker News who is hiring thread: https://www.employbl.com/blog/who-is-hiring-june-2022

Added new blog post of top startups to watch in Chicago in 2022: https://www.employbl.com/blog/chicago-startup-companies-to-watch-2022

This post looks at startups that have raised the most money as well as Series A, Series B and Seed stage startups.

We've revamped job listings search and made it public: https://www.employbl.com/job-listings

You can read the full blog post here: https://www.employbl.com/blog/tech-startup-funding-report-may-2022 Or parse the raw data here: https://gist.github.com/connor11528/fbad3b3142ba84b80c2294d83e4f6183

These are the 51 top startups to watch headquartered in Miami, FL. We built this by parsing through over 100 Miami based tech companies, filtering for recently founded private companies and sorting by companies that have raised the most money.

https://www.employbl.com/blog/51-top-miami-startups-to-watch-in-2022

These are the 51 top startups to watch headquartered in Austin, TX. We built this by parsing through nearly 300 Austin based tech companies, filtering for recently founded private companies and sorting by companies that have raised the most money.

https://www.employbl.com/blog/top-austin-startups-to-watch-in-2022

These are the 51 top startups to watch headquartered in Austin, TX. We built this by parsing through nearly 300 Austin based tech companies, filtering for recently founded private companies and sorting by companies that have raised the most money.

https://www.employbl.com/blog/top-austin-startups-to-watch-in-2022

New blog post of top startups in LA: https://www.employbl.com/blog/top-startups-in-los-angeles-2022

Los Angeles is the second most populous city in the United States. In addition to having one of the nation's largest ports it's a hub for entertainment, fashion, commerce and tech startups. This post highlights fifty one startups to watch in the LA tech scene.

New blog post out of the top startups to watch in NYC: https://www.employbl.com/blog/51-new-york-city-startups-to-watch-in-2022

These are fifty one startups HQ'd out of NYC that have raised tons of capital from top tier investors and were founded in the past five years. Most are backed by 'top tier' investors.

Full report here: https://www.employbl.com/blog/startups-that-raised-money-in-april-2022

New post featuring one hundred and twelve startups headquartered in San Francisco to keep an eye on in 2022:

https://www.employbl.com/blog/top-san-francisco-startups-to-watch-in-2022

• We have a map! (again) The Employbl project started out with less than 500 startups and a Google Map where you could filter by company categories. Now we're at over 11,000 companies in the database, tons of filters and a Mapbox map of ~4,000 companies in the Bay Area. I'd really like to get this to looks like an AirBnB / Zillow style map with filters but turns out plotting 11,000+ points from a database all over the United States with filters is technically complex. Go figure 🤷🏼 🗺

  • If you'd like to see the original map and what we have today check this tweet.

• Job Board is updated To be honest there are a million job boards but this is nice to be able to query like "show me all Software Engineering jobs at companies backed by either Sequoia or First Round Capital". You can also do more refined searches like show jobs based on industry or custom company collection but ya still a lot to do here and job search software is a pretty competitive space with a lot of noise. One future improvement we can make here is to group the job listings results by company and display more about the company. I really like how Breakout List shows their records, just a shame you can't click on the founders or the investors to learn more about them. We'd have to remedy that!

• Homepage copy updates and...

🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁 🥁🥁🥁 Employbl is now officially free to use! 🥁🥁🥁 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁 We had a paywall up but the people who did sign up all churned quickly after signing. Being free allows us to share company data more freely and makes the tool accessible to more people, which is an ultimate goal of the project. Perhaps if lots of people sign up and we get a thriving community going there will be potential to earn revenue from companies. For now though the product is free to use and we don't even have advertisements :) ​

Startup News We recently fetched the freshest fundraising rounds. Here are some buzzworthy funding events that have happened in the past month:

• ​AngelList raised a $100 million Series B round. This is their second Series B, the first was all the way back in 2015.

• One year old Xata.io raised a $30 million Series A out of Ohio. They build serverless database services for developers.

• ​Health Gorilla raised a $50 million Series C. Seems like they build APIs for healthcare patient data.

• ​Apollo (sales solution) raised a $110 million Series C. They're based in San Francisco.

• ​Reforge education and professional training service raised a $60 million Series B. This one I'm excited to keep an eye on. They run training programs specifically built to help people advance their careers in the tech industry. I wish them well. It means more competition for Galvanize and Lambda School, hopefully leading to better options for workers.

• ​Veev pulled down a whopping $400 million Series D to buy up a lot of American real estate and build smart homes.

• New company Inworld AI entered the Metaverse with a $10 million Seed round. They're one year old.

• ​Roofstock has more capital to play with after closing a $240 million Series E round this month. They're based in Oakland, CA 🙌🏼

It seems like the big money is flowing into Real Estate so I'd expect we're going to see some corporate consolidation there.

What info would you like to see in future newsletter? Have you tried logging into Employbl yet? What should we build next?

Originally sent via the Employbl newsletter.

The "Job Boards" page where we show all of the companies in a given collection has been updated to work now. On this page you can see all of the companies that belong to a particular topic. In the below image we have all companies that First Round Capital has invested in. There are some known issues with timeouts on really large collections. We still need to add pagination logic so we don't try to render thousands of companies in one go 🙈

The company profiles on the main dashboard also got a facelift! 📈

https://vimeo.com/684421567

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February Startups Report

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Hey there Hope you're all doing well and not reading too many news headlines :) 🇺🇦 We've been pretty heads down on Employbl feature development. I'd like to share some info in this note about recent startup funding rounds and new capabilities of the Employbl dashboard. First, one list I've been keeping an eye on is companies that have recently raised Series A rounds, have headquarters in San Francisco and are backed by "top tier" Venture Capital firms (more on that later). It seems to me that right after a Series A is a pretty good time to join a startup. Companies at that stage are not super mature, they still believe in their people, the mission and the corporate culture. They pay pretty well. It's risky but it's not like joining a Seed stage company. By virtue of raising a Series A round the founders have convinced the monied classes that there's merit to the idea. As an employee there will be opportunities for advancement and interesting challenges to solve. Anyway, you may disagree with me about the best time to join a startup, but information for job seekers about startup financing stages is woefully inadequate. LinkedIn has a deal with Crunchbase so they show financing information right on LI company profiles, but you can't search or filter for that information. To do that you need to buy a Crunchbase subscription. Crunchbase as a product is primarily geared toward financiers and salespeople not developers looking to level up their careers. AngelList has a way to filter for companies based on their largest investment round, but not every startup is on AngelList. TechCrunch reports on funding rounds all the time, the data is public, but who wants to read TechCrunch all the time? The filters are crap. This month we re-launched the Employbl "Funding Rounds" dashboard where we can filter for funding rounds based on corporate information. For instance using these filters in the dashboard..

We can see that within the past six months the following SF based companies have raised Series A rounds and are backed by either Sequoia Capital, First Round Capital, Accel or went through the YC program (links go to public facing Employbl company profiles):

• ​Career Karma​

• ​Abacum​

• ​Lendtable​

• ​UserGems​

• ​Sprinter Health​

• ​Matter​

• ​Mutiny​

• ​StreamNative​

• ​Callin​

• ​Joy​

• ​Sora​

• ​Aalto​

• ​Verifiable​

This approach of relying on public web data instead of companies beholden to advertisers and corporate sponsors yields better results, more actionable data and empowers workers to take charge of their careers instead of relying on recruiters or adverts. How do you specify "top tier" VCs? I've taken a stab at a public list of "top tier" VC firms in this blog post but it's based on my own subjective experience in the tech industry. Would it be helpful to have a quick filter like "is backed by top tier" VC firm? What's Next? We launched some improvements to the job listings page this month too but honestly I feel like searching the internet for jobs by title and keyword is pretty well covered. That said we have over 70,000 active job listings in the Employbl database and could commit ourselves to fetching more if it's what the people want :) Our next focuses as a product are..

• Maps: who doesn't love a good map? I've been waiting for like an Airbnb or Zillow but for startups for a long time. Gunna try launching something in that space.

• Tech Stacks: what technologies do companies use? And no BuiltWith, I'm not talking about oh this company uses Google Analytics, Hubspot, Wordpress and Javascript. I'm talking let me find companies backed by a16z that use Ruby On Rails ✨

• People: a corporation isn't much without the humans that make it run. Pretty soon I'd like to pull in information about founders and current employees so we can see in the Employbl dashboard the people that work at various companies and what their backgrounds are.

What would you like to see? What could a knowledge tool like Employbl do for your career? Are we barking up the right tree? ​

Hey there, We updated the Job Listings page to include filters for company headquarters location, Venture Capital investors, industry and custom company collections. We've also upgraded the job listing title search to include the most common job titles in the tech industry. Search over 70,000 active job listings by creating an account: https://www.employbl.com/

Try it for yourself by creating a free profile on Employbl

https://youtu.be/rCfZgGt0mJA

For the latest post on the Employbl blog I pulled a list of companies hiring the most Software Engineers. Of the over one thousand companies we pull job listings from there were 177 companies that had ten or more open "Software Engineer" roles. These include Senior Software Engineer and Staff Software Engineer job openings. Some of the companies have many more than ten open SWE jobs. Rivian for instance has more than two hundred open software engineer jobs! It makes sense since they've raised over $5 billion dollars from investors in 2021 alone. Well without further ado you can read the full post here: https://www.employbl.com/blog/companies-hiring-software-engineers

This post showcases one hundred and one Silicon Valley startups that have raised Seed or Series A money in the past two years. https://www.employbl.com/blog/101-early-stage-silicon-valley-startups

https://www.employbl.com/blog/51-most-in-demand-tech-jobs-right-now

Published a new blog post featuring Venture Capital backed startups that have raised a Pre Seed, Seed or Series A round so far in 2021: https://www.employbl.com/blog/early-stage-startups-headquartered-in-san-francisco

Looking forward to digging into this data more and publishing more reports about startups based in other parts of the United States. As alway to view, sort and filter all the tech company data you can login to the Employbl dashboard :)

Exciting new to share. Today we launched a dashboard for Employbl users to see all the latest funding information about startups and tech companies. Our dataset is focused primarily on tech companies and startups in the United States, but recently we've been adding some select startups (Pre Seed, Seed, Series A) from abroad too.

To view the "Fundraising Rounds" dashboard login to Employbl and select that tab. Right now as a beta version it only shows the 50 most recent fundraing rounds but soon we'd like to add filters for the round name (Series A, Series B, ICO etc.), company headquarters location and even the investment firms that are investing in these companies.

Though this dashboard is new and in beta, already turning up some interesting results. Who knew Hayden AI raised a $20 million Series A right from Oakland, CA!

This post looks examines 149 companies in the Craft Ventures venture capital portfolio. It showcases new Series A and Seed startup and public companies the firm has invested in. Login to the Employbl dashboard to see the full dataset. View the post here: https://www.employbl.com/blog/craft-ventures-portfolio-companies

New blog post out featuring the largest Artificial Intelligence companies as well as 51 new startups that have raised hundreds of millions of dollars in Series A and Seed financing since the start of 2020: https://www.employbl.com/blog/artificial-intelligence-companies-and-startups

We've also updated some landing page for company collections to include more data:

On the backend we've started saving company financing rounds to our database. Soon we'll be able to add filters to the Employbl dashboard to filter companies by financing round (Seed, Series A, Series B companies in San Francisco etc)

Published a new blog post of tech companies and startups in NYC: https://www.employbl.com/blog/tech-companies-and-startups-in-new-york

This post looks at the largest companies in NYC, company headquarters', companies that have raised the most money in NYC and startups founded since 2020 that have raised the most money. Enjoy! To access the full dataset login to the Employbl dashboard.

View a video of our speedy company search here: https://recordit.co/QgTNXKUdh7. You can filter by Headquarters Location, Total Investment Amount, Year Founded, Employee Count and Company Name.

Added new public "Discover Companies" page

• Updated public page for viewing groups of companies: https://www.employbl.com/discover-companies/tags

  • Company Collections: These are custom collections of companies curated by the Employbl team.

  • Investor Portfolio Companies: These are the portfolios of various Venture Capital firms. This shows all companies that a firm has made financial investments in.

  • Companies By Industry: These are companies grouped by a similar industry like "Software Companies" or "Software As A Service (SaaS) Companies".

  • Companies By Tech Stack Used: These are companies that all use a common technology like React.js, Laravel (a PHP framework) or Marketo.

Update for Bay Area Companies landing pages

Find companies in the East Bay Area, South Bay Area or the Peninsula

• https://www.employbl.com/companies-in-east-bay

• https://www.employbl.com/companies-in-peninsula

• https://www.employbl.com/companies-in-south-bay

• Added about 700 new companies founded during or after 2019 that have raised at least $3 million in total investment

• Added the ability to sort by total investment amount and year company was founded. This column will have the total amount of money that the company has raised from investors, when that data is available via the public web.

Demo video of sorting in action: https://recordit.co/mL4pitQ0xR