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Modern Treasury
What Modern Treasury makes: APIs for integrating payouts, direct debits and balance tracking for companies with products that move money.
101-250 Employees
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San Francisco
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💻 Engineers, Product, Design
💵 Salespeople
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Product-Market Fit Stage
Founders:
Matt Marcus, Sam Aarons, Dimitri Dadiomov
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CoinTracker
What CoinTracker makes: Cryptocurrency portfolio tracking and taxes.
51-100 Employees
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Remote
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💻 Engineers, Product, Design
🌱 Not Midstage
🌏 International
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Product-Market Fit Stage
Founders:
Chandan Lodha and Jon Lerner
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Sardine
What Sardine makes: Payments and fraud infrastructure for fintech and crypto.
51-100 Employees
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Remote
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San Francisco
💻 Engineers, Product, Design
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Product-Market Fit Stage
Founders:
Soups Ranjan, Zahid Shaikh and Aditya Goel
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Grow Therapy
What Grow Therapy makes: Allows therapists to launch their own in-network therapy practice.
101-250 Employees
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New York
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Remote
💻 Engineers, Product, Design
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Product-Market Fit Stage
Founders:
Alan Ni, Manoj Kanagaraj, Jake Cooper
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Airkit
What Airkit makes: A no-code tool for enterprises to build customer workflows.
101-250 Employees
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Redwood City
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Remote
💻 Engineers, Product, Design
💵 Salespeople
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Product-Market Fit Stage
Founders:
Adam Evans and Stephen Ehikian
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Lumos
What Lumos makes: The internal AppStore for companies.
11-50 Employees
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San Francisco
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Remote
💻 Engineers, Product, Design
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Product-Market Fit Stage
Founders:
Alan Flores-López, Leo Mehr, Andrej Safundzic
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Backbone
What Backbone makes: A device that turns your phone into a portable Xbox.
51-100 Employees
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Remote
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💻 Engineers, Product, Design
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Product-Market Fit Stage
Founders:
Maneet Khaira
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Hearth
What Hearth makes: Financial service products for contractors, including financing tools, insurance and digital payments.
101-250 Employees
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San Francisco
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Austin
💻 Engineers, Product, Design
🏢 Midstage
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Product-Market Fit Stage
Founders:
Nikhil Pai, Joe Lonsdale, and Anthony Ghosn
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Local Kitchens
What Local Kitchens makes: a vertically integrated kitchen platform to help local restaurants scale.
11-50 Employees
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San Francisco
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💻 Engineers, Product, Design
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Product-Market Fit Stage
Founders:
Jordan Bramble, Andrew Munday, Jon Goldsmith
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The best resource for engineers looking for the top places to work and grow.
JD Ross
Co-founder of Opendoor
The best guide to high potential & high growth startups.
Keith Rabois
GP at Founders Fund, Co-founder of Opendoor
Breakout List is a great resource that I've shared with many folks.
Leo Polovets
GP at Susa Ventures, 2nd engineer at LinkedIn

Companies that were selected for Breakout List in 2014

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100 employees in 2014.
Now 3000+
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35 employees in 2014.
Now 1000+
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50 employees in 2014.
Now 1000+
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15 employees in 2014.
Now 750+
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60 employees in 2014.
Now 2000+
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40 employees in 2014.
Now 1000+
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50 employees in 2014.
Now 1000+
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15 employees in 2014.
Now 1500+
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Curated breakout companies

  • Evaluating a company to see if it’s great or not is hard. And, beyond the ones you’ve come across, you know there are dozens more great companies that you’re not even hearing about.

  • Breakout List’s curated collection of top companies makes it easy to identify great companies and to screen startups.

  • Now you’ll find it easier to join a trajectory-shifting company.

You should join a breakout company

  • Pre-traction startups are likely to fail. Late stage public companies are filled with bureaucracy.

  • Breakout startups give you good odds for a payday, a permanent credibility boost on your record, outsized promotion and experience opportunities, and a great network.

  • So you’ll have lucrative skills, and better access to capital, networks, and opportunities.

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Using undisclosed private information

  • Information about which companies are great is mostly hidden. This makes it hard to identify winners.

  • Thanks to our six-year track record and our investor network, both founders and investors submit undisclosed private information to the Breakout List.

  • You get to benefit from this information and find better companies to join.

Excellent past selections

  • It’s hard to know which sources to use to find top companies.

  • Breakout List has an excellent track record. Slack was first on the Breakout List at 100 employees, now they have 3000+. Opendoor at 15 employees, now 1000+. DoorDash at 60, now 2000+. The list goes on.

  • Breakout List makes it easy by being your go-to source of top companies.

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