TWiST500 Spotlight: The must-know startups from AI to robotics! | E2024
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 11 October 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Todays show:
We reviewed the first 100 companies on the TWiST500 list, covering sectors from fintech to AI, robotics, and space. Dozens of must-know startups emerged. Today, Alex breaks down the categories seeing the most entrants and highlight some of our favorite picks.
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Timestamps:
(0:00) Alex Wilhelm kicks off the show
(3:08) AI for Devs: Qodo & Poolside
(6:25) AI Infrastructure: CoreWeave
(8:43) OpenPhone - Get 20% off your first six months at https://www.openphone.com/twist
(10:15) Data for AI: Tollbit & Scale
(14:05) Robotics: Figure & Dusty Robotics
(17:51) NetSuite - Download the CFO's Guide to AI and Machine Learning for free at https://www.netusite.com/twist
(19:08) Fintech: Circle & Altruist
(22:37) Cybersecurity: Huntress & Wiz
(26:30) Crypto: Farcaster
(28:17) Other Standouts: Harvey AI, Kojo & Albedo Space
(30:04) Sprig - Visit https://www.sprig.com/twist to book a demo and get a $75 gift card.
(31:17) Angel University kicks off November 6th
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(30:04) Sprig - Visit https://www.sprig.com/twist to book a demo and get a $75 gift card.
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Great TWIST interviews: Will Guidara, Eoghan McCabe, Steve Huffman, Brian Chesky, Bob Moesta, Aaron Levie, Sophia Amoruso, Reid Hoffman, Frank Slootman, Billy McFarland
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| 0:00.0 | Whether you're an investor, a founder, just an enthusiast, it doesn't matter. |
| 0:04.0 | We have a show that is packed with takeaways and insights for you today. |
| 0:07.2 | So sit back, enjoy, and let's talk about the Twist 500. |
| 0:11.5 | This weekend startups is brought to you by open phone. Create business phone |
| 0:16.3 | numbers for you and your team that work through an app on your smartphone or |
| 0:19.7 | desktop. Twist listeners can get an extra 20% off any plan for your first six months at |
| 0:25.2 | openphone.com slash twist. NetSuite the number one cloud financial |
| 0:30.6 | system bringing accounting financial financial management, inventory, and HR into one platform, |
| 0:36.2 | giving you one source of truth. Download the CFO's guide to AI and machine learning for free |
| 0:41.6 | at NetSuite.com slash Twist and Sprigg, the product experience |
| 0:47.2 | platform that generates AI-powered opportunities to continuously improve your product at scale. |
| 0:52.8 | Visit Sprig.com slash twist to book a demo and get a $75 gift card. |
| 0:58.0 | Hey everybody, welcome back to this week in startups. |
| 1:01.6 | My name is Alex, I'm your host today. Today we have something a little |
| 1:04.6 | bit special for you. We are doing a deep dive into the first 100 companies on the Twist 500 list. |
| 1:11.7 | Now Twist of course is a startup show so talking about startups is what we do but |
| 1:15.8 | what is the Twist 500? If you haven't heard us talking about it on news or other recordings |
| 1:21.6 | it is our list of the top 500 private market companies. |
| 1:25.7 | Essentially, we wanted to go out there and find the top 1% of ventureback startups. |
| 1:30.8 | There's just over about 50,000 of them so about 500 is about 1%. |
| 1:36.0 | Now how do we determine which company should go on? This is not just a list of our favorite |
| 1:41.0 | companies though there is an element of that to it, I won't lie. |
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