15 Companies Who Raised The Most $$ in January & Are Hiring

OPEN ROLES
Hiring Companies Flush With Cash

In the first month of 2024, 1,066 companies with an office presence in the US raised $9.66 billion.

By Industry: Business Productivity/Software and drug discovery led the pack of industries receiving investment, accounting for $4.37B (45%) of the dollars invested.

By Vertical: SaaS, Life Sciences, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, and HealthTech were the verticals receiving the most funding, accounting for 86% of total funding.

By Investor: The top 10 investors (investor job boards linked below) in the month of January in terms of number of deals was…

1. Y Combinator: 59 investments

2. Plug and Play Tech Center: 15 investments

3. Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator: 14 investments

4. Connect Springboard San Diego: 10 investments

5. HDS Capital: 8 investments

6. Andreessen Horowitz: 7 investments

7. FJ Labs: 6 investments

8. Nashville Entrepreneur Center: 6 investments

9. Novo Holdings: 6 investments

10. WndrCo: 6 investments

Below, I’m sharing the 15 companies with an office in the US that raised the most money this month and have open roles.

Keep reading to see which companies made the list.

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#1 - Lykos Therapeutics

• What They Do: Lykos focuses on psychedelic medicines and therapies, researching and developing these treatments for integration into healthcare systems to aid in healing and personal growth.

• Number of Employees: 159

• Total Raised To Date: $400M

• Last Known Valuation: Undisclosed

• Last Raise Date: January 5, 2024

• Recent Raise: $400M

• Series: A

• Lead Investors: Helena Special Investments

• Pitchbook Success Probability: N/A

• Open Roles: 

  • Careers Page

• Departments Hiring Right Now:

  • Accounting

    Finance

  • Market Access

  • Medical Affairs

  • Pharmacovigilance

• Interesting Senior Roles:

  • Brand Lead & Head of Marketing

  • Director of Key Accounts

  • Director, National Accounts

  • Head of Market Access

#2 - Quantinuum

• What They Do: Create quantum computing applications for various industries, offering an open-access software stack and development platform that allows researchers to solve complex problems in fields like chemistry, finance, and material science.

• Number of Employees: 402

• Total Raised To Date: $325M

• Last Known Valuation: $5.3B 🦄

• Last Raise Date: January 16, 2024

• Recent Raise: $300M

• Series: A

• Lead Investors: Quantinuum

• Pitchbook Success Probability: 95% Success

• Open Roles: 

  • Careers Page

• Departments Hiring Right Now:

  • Sales & Business Development

  • Internships

  • Facilities & Operations

  • Finance

  • IT

  • Quantum Chemistry

  • Quantum Computing

  • Quantum NLP & Quantum AI

  • Quantum Software & Algorithms

#3 - Flexport

• What They Do: A freight forwarding platform that organizes and tracks goods transportation in real-time across ocean, air, and road, helping logistics organizations optimize routes and manage inventory more effectively.

• Number of Employees: 3110

• Total Raised To Date: $2.75B

• Last Known Valuation: $8B 🦄

• Last Raise Date: January 19, 2024

• Recent Raise: $260M

• Series: E+

• Lead Investors: Shopify

• Pitchbook Success Probability: 98% Success

• Open Roles: 

  • Careers Page

• Departments Hiring Right Now:

  • Finance

  • Sales

  • Fulfillment

  • People Operations

  • Trade & Financial Services

  • Trucking

• Interesting Senior Roles:

  • Director, People Business Partner Lead

#4 - TravelPerk

• What They Do: A business travel management platform that simplifies booking and managing trips, offering a wide range of travel options, customer service, and features like reporting, expense integration, and flexible payments to help organizations handle all their travel needs in one place.

• Number of Employees: 1260

• Total Raised To Date: $514.22

• Last Known Valuation: $1.4B 🦄

• Last Raise Date: January 23, 2024

• Recent Raise: $220.85M

• Series: D

• Lead Investors: Softbank and General Catalyst

• Pitchbook Success Probability: 94% Success

• Open Roles: 

  • Careers Page

• Departments Hiring Right Now:

  • People

  • Sales

• Interesting Senior Roles:

  • Director of Account Management - US

#5 - Bilt Rewards

• What They Do: A rewards platform that partners with real estate owners and credit card companies, allowing renters to earn points when paying rent, which can be used for travel or future home down payments, helping them move towards homeownership.

• Number of Employees: 143

• Total Raised To Date: $413.3

• Last Known Valuation: $3.1B 🦄

• Last Raise Date: January 24, 2024

• Recent Raise: $200M

• Series: C

• Lead Investors: General Catalyst

• Pitchbook Success Probability: 94% Success

• Open Roles: 

  • Careers Page

• Departments Hiring Right Now:

  • Customer Experience

  • Engineering

  • Finance

  • Marketing

  • Product

• Interesting Senior Roles:

  • Senior Manager of Marketing Operations

  • Senior Product Designer

  • Senior Back End Engineer

  • Senior Front End Engineer

#6 - Aqua Security

• What They Do: A cloud-based cybersecurity platform that enhances security for containerized and cloud-native applications, offering complete visibility and automated protection throughout an application's lifecycle, helping enterprises secure their apps from development to production and bridging the gap between DevOps and IT security.

• Number of Employees: 300

• Total Raised To Date: $326.13

• Last Known Valuation: $1B 🦄

• Last Raise Date: January 3, 2024

• Recent Raise: $195M

• Series: E

• Lead Investors: 

• Pitchbook Success Probability: 98% Success

• Open Roles: 

  • Careers Page

• Departments Hiring Right Now:

  • Sales

  • Engineering

#7 - Natron Energy

• What They Do: They produce sodium-ion batteries, aiming to transform energy storage with safer and more sustainable options that provide high power density, fast recharge, and longer life, all while being cost-effective and compatible with existing manufacturing processes.

• Number of E

  ployees: 109

• Total Raised To Date: $302.21M

• Last Known Valuation: $469.33M

• Last Raise Date: January 10, 2024

• Recent Raise: $189.33M

• Series: BB (D+)

• Lead Investors: Undisclosed

• Pitchbook Success Probability: 82% Success

• Open Roles: 

  • Careers Page

• Departments Hiring Right Now:

  • Operations

  • People Operations

  • Product Engineering

  • Sales

• Interesting Senior Roles:

  • General Manager, Chemical Factory & Strategic Supply Chain

  • Product Marketing Manager

#8 - DailyPay

• What They Do: A financial system platform that serves various sectors, offering a digital wallet with on-demand pay solutions. It allows employees to transfer their earnings directly to bank accounts, debit, or prepaid cards, and use it for various financial activities like paying bills, saving, investing, and making purchases.

• Number of Employees: 744

• Total Raised To Date: $1.04B

• Last Known Valuation: $1.83B 🦄

• Last Raise Date: January 18, 2024

• Recent Raise: $175M

• Series: D+

• Lead Investors: Carrick Capital Partners

• Pitchbook Success Probability: 95% Success

• Open Roles: 

  • Careers Page

• Departments Hiring Right Now:

  • Accounting

  • Commercial

  • Core Finance

  • Customer Operations

  • Finance

  • Marketing

  • Operations

  • People Operations

  • Sales

• Interesting Senior Roles:

  • Director, Product Marketing

  • Sales Director, SME

  • Sales Director, Strategic Sales - Midwest/South

  • Senior Client Success Manager

#9 - Harbor Health

• What They Do: Harbor Health offers personalized care through same-day and virtual appointments, and accessible clinic locations. It provides a range of services like chronic disease management and behavioral health, focusing on patient-centered care for health and wellness.

• Number of Employees: 75

• Total Raised To Date: $105.01M

• Last Known Valuation: $210M

• Last Raise Date: January 11, 2024

• Recent Raise: $95.5M

• Series: A

• Lead Investors: General Catalyst

• Pitchbook Success Probability: 91% Success

• Open Roles: 

  • Careers Page

• Departments Hiring Right Now:

  • Clinical Operations

  • Engineering

  • Office Administration

  • Partnerships & Strategy

• Interesting Senior Roles:

  • Clinical Partnerships and Strategy Lead

#10 - PerformYard

• What They Do: A performance management software with flexible features for HR teams, facilitating performance reviews, goal management, and continuous feedback, helping organizations effectively manage their workforce.

• Number of Employees: 77

• Total Raised To Date: $96.89M

• Last Known Valuation: $66.64M

• Last Raise Date: January 2, 2024

• Recent Raise: $95M

• Series: A

• Lead Investors: Updata Partners

• Pitchbook Success Probability: % Success

• Open Roles: 

  • Careers Page

• Departments Hiring Right Now:

  • Product and Engineering

  • Customer Success

  • Sales

#11 - Willow

• What They Do: Manufactures mobile, hands-free, and cordless breast pumps that are spill-proof and track milk output through a mobile app, making it

  easier for mothers to pump milk anywhere without hassle.

• Number of Employees: 100

• Total Raised To Date: $254.04M

• Last Known Valuation: $113.93M

• Last Raise Date: January 22, 2024

• Recent Raise: $81.43M

• Series: A1 (Post Series C)

• Lead Investors: Madryn Asset Management & Alumni Vent

  res

• Pitchbook Success Probability: 97% Success

• Open Roles: 

  • Careers Page

• Departments Hiring Right Now:

  • Marketing

  • Accounting

  • Hardware

• Interesting Senior Roles:

  • Senior Social Media Manager

  • Sr. Accountant

  • Sr. Manufacturing Engineer

#12 - ElevenLabs

• What They Do: AI voice dubbing tools that can automatically translate and dub videos and podcasts into other languages while maintaining the original voice and emotions, helping businesses easily publish their content in multiple languages.

• Number of Employees: 40

• Total Raised To Date: $100.44M

• Last Known Valuation: $1B 🦄

• Last Raise Date: January 22, 2024

• Recent Raise: $80M

• Series: B

• Lead Investors: Andreessen Horowitz, Nat Friedman, & Daniel Gross

• Pitchbook Success Probability: 88% Success

• Open Roles: 

  • Careers Page

• Departments Hiring Right Now:

  • Revenue

  • Growth

  • Engineering

• Interesting Senior Roles:

  • Head of Performance Marketing

  • Senior Customer Success Manager

  • Senior Account Executive

#13 - AiDash

• What They Do: An AI-based platform that uses satellite technology for operations and maintenance in key industries, offering services like utility vegetation management and remote monitoring of hazards along power lines, helping clients work efficiently and make informed decisions.

• Number of Employees: 300

• Total Raised To Date: $83M

• Last Known Valuation: $225M

• Last Raise Date: January 23, 2024

• Recent Raise: $50M

• Series: C

• Lead Investors: Lightrock

• Pitchbook Success Probability: 97% Success

• Open Roles:

  • Careers Page

• Departments Hiring Right Now:

  • Customer Success

  • Utility Aborist Specialist

  • Marketing

  • Product Management

  • Sales

  • Business Development

  • Partnerships and Strategy

• Interesting Senior Roles:

  • Director of Sales

  • Senior Director / Director of Product Management - Platform

  • Head of Strategic Partnerships - Public Stakeholder Engagement

  • Head of Strategic Partnerships

#14 - LumaAI

• What They Do: A photorealistic 3D capture software designed to provide 3D photos on smartphones. The company's platform utilizes a neural capture and rendering system that makes photorealistic captures from casually captured smartphone photos reality for the e-commerce, real estate, and 3D games industry, enabling users to experience photos and videos in a mixed-reality three-dimensional future.

• Number of Employees: 24

• Total Raised To Date: $66.62M

• Last Known Valuation: $220M

• Last Raise Date: January 9, 2024

• Recent Raise: $42.39M

• Series: B

• Lead Investors: Andreessen Horowitz

• Pitchbook Success Probability: 96% Success

• Open Roles: 

  • Careers Page

• Departments Hiring Right Now:

  • Product

  • Office Administration

  • Engineering

  • Marketing and Brand

  • Engineering

  • Research

• Interesting Senior Roles:

  • Head of Engineering

  • Head of Marketing and Brand

  • Creative Director

  • Senior Product Designer

#15 - Bluewhite

• What They Do: A robot-as-a-service platform that remotely controls land and air autonomous robots, transforming fleets and collecting data to enhance farm productivity and reduce operational costs, thereby improving business efficiency and providing valuable insights.

• Number of Employees:

• Total Raised To Date: $

• Last Known Valuation: $ 🦄

• Last Raise Date: 

• Recent Raise:

• Series:

• Lead Investors: 

• Pitchbook Success Probability: % Success

• Open Roles: 

  • Careers Page

• Departments Hiring Right Now:

  • Business Development

  • Engineering

  • Operations

  • Customer Success

One of the disadvantages of looking for your next startup role is a lack of visibility.

It’s my goal to give you more visibility into the companies that are out there and the roles they’re hiring for so you can…

• Get in early

• Drive a significant impact

• Be on the ground floor building cool things

• Work with passionate people

• Change the world

And… hopefully… for some of you… create a massive financial windfall.

Let’s become career champions together 🏆

Kyle