Breakout List: The Best Startups To Join 🚀
“If you join a company, my general advice is to join a company on a breakout trajectory.”
– Sam Altman, President at Y Combinator
Breakout List allows ambitious engineers to find, vet and research the best startups to join.
Select Breakout List Companies
Select Requirements:
- ✅ Particularly high-growth or a high-potential-impact pre-breakout
- ✅ Hiring partner that supports Breakout List
- ✅ Passed reference checks with flying colors
Name | Logo | Notes | Tags | Links |
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Airtable |
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What Airtable makes: A part-spreadsheet, part-database tool that allows business users to create powerful collaborative applications and workflows. |
🔥 Airtable Careers: Reasons to Apply👉 Airtable |
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Blend |
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What Blend makes: Software for lenders to enable more efficient lending. |
👉 Blend |
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Bolt |
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What Bolt makes: Better-than-Amazon checkout experience for the rest of the internet, with zero fraud and frictionless payments. |
🔥 Bolt Careers: Reasons to Apply👉 Bolt |
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Vanta |
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What Vanta makes: Automated security and compliance readiness. |
🔥 Vanta Careers: Reasons to Apply👉 Vanta |
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Newfront |
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What Newfront makes: Modern platform to transact insurance. |
👉 Newfront |
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Name | Logo | Notes | Tags | Links |

Airtable
What Airtable makes: A part-spreadsheet, part-database tool that allows business users to create powerful collaborative applications and workflows.
🔥 Airtable Careers: Reasons to Apply
👉 Airtable
If you work here: Believe your company can pass extra vetting? Apply to have Airtable on the homepage for the next release.

Bolt
What Bolt makes: Better-than-Amazon checkout experience for the rest of the internet, with zero fraud and frictionless payments.
🔥 Bolt Careers: Reasons to Apply
👉 Bolt
If you work here: Believe your company can pass extra vetting? Apply to have Bolt on the homepage for the next release.

Vanta
What Vanta makes: Automated security and compliance readiness.
🔥 Vanta Careers: Reasons to Apply
👉 Vanta
If you work here: Believe your company can pass extra vetting? Apply to have Vanta on the homepage for the next release.
Newfront
What Newfront makes: Modern platform to transact insurance.
👉 Newfront
If you work here: Believe your company can pass extra vetting? Apply to have Newfront on the homepage for the next release.