bulletpitch bundled 🎁

highlights from our first year

December 20, 2022

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 🎁

the basics

*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)

the top five

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

founder: Yehong Zhu

  • 🙋🏽‍♂️ 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 

founder: Lizzie Horvitz

  • 🖱 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

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happy holidays 🎁

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