bulletpitch bundled 🎁

setting the scene

while you've been bundling up this winter, we've been bundling together our 2022 highlights for this year's final issue ☃️
we're excited to present bulletpitch bundled, where we will:
- break down the companies we covered 📊
- announce our top picks of the year 🏆
- share a message from the team 🎁

*bulletpitch strives to feature underrepresented founders

fundraises: Tablz ($2.5m), beehiiv ($1.6m), The.com ($4.4m), Finless Foods ($34m), Stellic ($11m), Levels Health ($38m), BeReal ($60m)

our top five startups of the year were selected based on:

👀 subscriber engagement: your clicks, replies, votes in weekly polls, social media shares
💫 company differentiation: market opportunity, business model, competitors, team
📈 growth and innovation: customer growth, headcount growth, fundraising, product updates

The.com is a low-code website-building platform that simplifies the process of creating, remixing, and launching websites at scale

🦅 soaring subscribers: our subscriber count grew 200% following our feature
🔍 out of stealth: a week after the letter, The.com announced its $4.4m seed round from NFX, Sound Ventures, per TechCrunch
🧑🏻‍💻 automating the web: The.com pivoted its focus to Automate, its newer product that enables 3k+ customers to deploy thousands of website pages to optimize traffic with limited engineering staff

Zette offers consumers access to paywalled news articles through a single paid account

🙋🏽‍♂️ subscriber responses: Zette prompted the highest response rate of the year
📰 making headlines: Zette's no stranger to the news, as Yehong was named Forbes 30u30 and went viral on Twitter
📈 anticipating the release: Zette recently opened its private beta ahead of its public launch in January and has continued to grow the waitlist

beehiiv is a newsletter platform that provides tools for creators to send customized content and scale their audiences

🐝 subscriber buzz: beehiiv’s letter had the highest click-through-rate of any issue
📊 metrics: after one year, the startup has reached ~$1m in ARR by enabling thousands of writers to seamlessly switch newsletter senders (guilty 😏) and send 275m+ emails
🔥 unbeelievable product team: beehiiv has consistently delivered on new features, which has helped retain and upsell writers

Félix is a tool that enables users to send money to LatAm countries through WhatsApp

🗳 your votes are in: 82% of respondents voted Félix a winner, making them the highest rated company of the year
💬 customer understanding: Félix enables 10k+ users to send remittances as easily and quickly as texting a family member
💲 partnerships: the company announced a partnership with a leading crypto exchange

Finch provides product sustainability information to online shoppers through a browser extension

🖱 post performance: Finch's website had the highest click-through-rate of the quarter (looks like our readers are shopping greener this holiday season)
♻️ sustainable growth: Finch's deal with Microsoft will accelerate their consumer reach and bring in more partnerships
🗞 in the news: Lizzie was featured by the Today Show and Fast Company

👀 brilliant branding: Camber, Groove, Thursday
⚡️ youngest founders: POSH, WAV AI, Valence Vibrations
🤯 disruptive models for the dinner table: Summer (try a home before you buy it), Tablz (select a table like you choose a concert seat)

from our team to yours

team photo

☺️ the beginnings: we started bulletpitch in January from our college dorm rooms and are thrilled to provide thousands of investors, founders, business students, and startup enthusiasts with access to high-potential startups
✍🏼 our process: we've developed relationships with hundreds of entrepreneurs to present a unique angle into startups shaping the next generation
🔮 what's next: we'll be back in your inbox in 2023 to give you the first glimpse into industry disruptors before you can find them anywhere else

happy holidays,

bp, ss, and the team