recommendations from Red Sea Ventures
breakout companies you should look at
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To help you figure out what’s next, we asked the team at Red Sea Ventures for what companies they would recommend people think about joining.
Below you’ll find their answers, as well as explanations as to what makes each company particularly special.
Red Sea Ventures Recommendations:
Mesa
Mesa is on a mission to make homeownership more affordable and rewarding. Led by a world-class team of repeat founders and fintech operators from Uber, Amex, Robinhood, Capital One, Bilt Rewards, Cash App, Square, Zillow, LendingTree, and Spotify, they are creating the homeowner membership category. Their platform gives real value back to consumers for the $8T in annual homeownership spend. Homeowner membership offers exclusive benefits and rewards across mortgage originations, mortgage payments, warranty, insurance, HELOC, and more. Mesa is bringing credit card type membership to every financial product for your home. The company recently raised a seed round, led by Streamlined Ventures, and its offering will be available to the public in just a few weeks! The team is looking for engineers to join their team & has a couple of other roles open - check out their careers page here.
Medbill
Medbill is an AI assistant that helps consumers save time and money on healthcare, focusing initially on issues with medical bills. The company's mission is to empower consumers through their entire healthcare journey, starting out by automating reimbursement for medical bills, appealing insurance denials, resolving billing errors, negotiating bills, and filing out of network claims. The company was founded by early engineers from Oscar Health and is just coming out of stealth. Its engineering team is growing and there are a few additional openings - learn more here.
Range
Range is building an all-encompassing wealth management tool, powered by AI. Its suite of offerings include investing advice, tax support, cash flow monitoring, retirement planning and more. The company was founded by Fahad Hassan, a repeat founder & first employee at Convoy, and David Cusatis, who spent 8 years at Twitch/Amazon and has vast experience building engaging consumer products. Range recently announced a $28M Series B, a testament to the team's execution to date, making it an exciting time to come onboard. Check out their open roles!