The six-year-old company raised a $650 million Series E earlier this year, but developing deep tech for space is not cheap. The company is said to have around 15 million customers. While that may not turn many heads during these salad days in the VC market, Everlaw is a legaltech companya sector that is seeing heightened interest as the cloud and COVID-19 have caused more legal processes and documents to go virtual and adoption of technology to skyrocket. Plaid: San Francisco-based Plaid, a service that connects your bank account to online services, is another likely IPO candidate in 2022. Founded: 2019, Funding: Founded: 2017 Founded: 2014 Founded in 2012, the company has raised $1.1 billion in funding to date, including $700 million in new investment in 2021. Check company site , What they do: using a simple app and without having to log in to each one. By some accounts, more than half of relationships start with an app or dating site. Founded: 2021, Funding: At the time of the Series A raise, Lower was also profitable. Bessemer London San Francisco-based HoneyBooks software platform helps independent contractors and small businesses manage clients, cash flow, invoicing, proposals and the likean area thats apparently experienced tremendous growth over the past year-plus as more workers ditch the 9-to-5 to launch their own ventures. Artificial Intelligence, Quick facts:

Integrated is in the middle of installing its roadway technology at an intersection near Denver, where it has an agreement with the Colorado Department of Transportation.

But we cant seem to move onnot fast enough, anyway. At the same time, its been a record year for venture funding into still-private startups. If it went public next year, it would join other homebuying or mortgage platforms to go public recently, including Better.com and Blend. Startups are stepping in to change that. $158M Series C in 2022 Real Estate, Quick facts: KRY is transforming the world of healthcare by making care more accessible and convenient. Stripe: This was an especially big year for fintech public debuts, with big IPOs from cryptocurrency platform Coinbase, Latin American banking app Nubank, online trading platform Robinhood, card issuing company Marqeta, buy now, pay later platform Affirm and remittance company Wise. Rippling: You may have read HR-tech is having a moment right now with venture capital and private investors. As many people remodel homeseither to sell the properties or to better accommodate new work-from-home arrangementsCEO Adi Tatarko has hinted that the business rebounded significantly since the early days of the pandemic, when Houzz laid off 10 percent of its staff. Impossible Foods: Redwood City, California-based Impossible Foods unveiled its meatless burger that bleeds in 2016 following its 2011 founding and the sky has been the limit from there. The online education platform offers courses on a broad array of topics and features well-known figures including Malala Yousafzai, Spike Lee, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Ringo Starr. The company seems large and established enough to go public, and could tap into the public markets to fuel growth. In fields that range from robotics, cybersecurity, and quantum computing to farming, health, and beauty, these are the ones to keep your eye on in 2022. UPenn alums; experienced founders, What they do:

101-200 employees $25M Series D in 2022 The companys product is a mobile platform that collects (via physical sensors in the fields) and analyzes all kinds of data, from hydration levels to farm equipment status to weed growth and even crop market prices. Companies like Elon Musks SpaceX and Jeff Bezos Blue Origin made big headlines, while others raised gobs of cash. Farmers around the world are under increasing pressure to show food buyers that their methods are safe, fair, and sustainable.

Divvy Homes: Last year was big for proptech, with venture-backed companies in the real estate space raising nearly $21 billion. Visa announced its intention to acquire Plaid at a price of $5.3 billion in January 2020. London-based Blockchain.com is the latest to be affected by crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capitals collapse. It was also a busy year for residential real estate sales, thanks to low interest rates and many people still working from home. HoneyBook: HoneyBook this year raised not one, but two large funding rounds. The startup sells a broad line of makeup and skin care products, which the company markets effectively and sells at relatively low prices. Founded: 2021, Funding: Forerunner Ventures I think that means its probably better suited for a SPACwhere it can go public and raise money fasterthan a traditional IPO. Founded: 2019 The San Francisco-headquartered company also this year acquired another major player in the home care space, senior services provider Home Instead. Klarna was founded in 2005, and is led by co-founder and CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski. And that was good news for home remodeling platform Houzz. Pave leverages real-time HR and equity integrations to help companies plan, communicate, and benchmark compensation. BioTech. xFarm raised 3 million pounds (more than $4 million) in a 2019 Series A round led by United Ventures. Sequoia HQ: San Francisco Bay Area, California, US 51-100 employees 101-200 employees It recently raised $20 million in a Series A round led by Next47, with participation from early investors Partech and Techstars, bringing its funding total to $30.7 million. Founded by Andrew Ngwho was cofounder and head of Google Brain and, earlier, chief scientist at BaiduLanding AI provides a tech platform and AI tools that manufacturers can use to quickly detect (with the help of sensors) product defects and systems breakdowns on their production lines. Founded: 2021 As supply chain problems continue, were increasingly conscious of how the things we want to purchase get manufactured and delivered. What they do: Well pick Long Beach, California-based Relativity Space, an aerospace company that designs, develops and builds 3D printed rockets. It last raised a $750 million funding in August 2021 led by Sequoia Capital Global Equities, a clear signal of its intent to go public. $35M Series B in 2022, What they do: Founded in 2015, the company has raised $378.5 million in known funding to date, including a $150 Series E round in June. $15M Series B in 2022, What they do: Kansas City, Missouri The six-year-old company raised a $650 million Series E earlier this year, but developing deep tech for space is not cheap.

However, we also saw a handful of space companies go publicmainly via SPACs. San Francisco And yet dating tech still has real limitations. Perhaps the main thing keeping cryptocurrency from mainstream use is that it lacks the scale and the infrastructure needed to support tens of millions of transactions per day. The funding valued the company north of $25 billion. The travel sector took a hit in 2020, but with travel picking back up in 2021 and 2022, TripActions is poised for growth. SaaS, Funding: But this year, amid a pandemic-fueled boom for the creator economy, the company announced launching new subscription products that allow its content creators to monetize their answers on the site. Hardware, Quick facts: FinTech, Quick facts: MoonPay operates a crypto trading platform that allows people to buy different kinds of cryptocurrency at one app or site. Nobody likes passwords, a mode of authentication developed back in the 1960s. It is said to be in discussions with bankers and has beefed up its management team in the past 18 months. Andreessen Horowitz

The company has grown fast since its seed round in 2019, raising around $3.4 billion in venture funding and debt including a $1 billion Series D in October. They can deliver small to midsize goods such as food orders at a much smaller cost (including to the environment) than a 2-ton car. Cyberattacks have increased as more companies of all sizes run their businesses out of the cloud. HQ: Remote Kleiner Perkins Founded: 2016, Funding: While HoneyBook may not need to tap the public markets for cash, given its fundraising blitz this year, I think the company could well see the Great Resignation as the perfect opportunity to ride a wave of entrepreneurship straight to Wall Street. With deep technology and the fact the company is geared toward a growing developers market, an IPO next year seems like a real possibility. HQ: Boston, Massachusetts, US Read reviews Leading NFT Marketplace on Solana HQ: New York, New York, US Maybe 2022 will hold another one? U.S. competitor Affirm went public at a valuation of $11.9 billion in January 2021, and is trading up more than threefold from its IPO price as of December 8, 2021. Bessemer $4M Seed in 2022, Founders: In late 2021, the company crossed over into fashion with Saie Vintage, for which it collaborates with female-founded vintage curators to sell used or homemade clothing. India's leading payment solutions company An award-winning team of journalists, designers, and videographers who tell brand stories through Fast Company's distinctive lens, The future of innovation and technology in government for the greater good, Fast Company's annual ranking of businesses that are making an outsize impact, Leaders who are shaping the future of business in creative ways, New workplaces, new food sources, new medicine--even an entirely new economic system, As 2022 begins, theres more attention on early-stage startups than ever before.

So Syncd, founded by sisters Jessica and Louella Alderson, has a novel approach that leans on science a bit more than other apps. Check company site , What they do: Y Combinator Houzz was most recently valued at $4.3 billion in 2017, when it raised its Series E. Patreon: Patreon reportedly mulled a 2021 IPO, but instead raised a $155 million Series F round this year that valued it at $4.3 billion. Due to a Department of Justice lawsuit, Visa ended its commitment a year later, making an IPO exit more likely for the company. (I take a closer look at Stripes business here.). E-Commerce HQ: Remote $560M valuation, What they do: The editor finds the underlying genetic causes of diseases then fixes the problem gene without harming the rest of the genome. TripActions: TripActions is my pick for a travel startup that could go public in 2022. Cambridge, Massachusetts It pulled in a massive $543 million funding round based on a $2.3 billion valuation last summer, bringing its total to $583 million. Email, Quick facts: Tel Aviv, Israel

Stripe was last valued at $95 billion in a Series H funding in March 2021 from a host of leading investors, and the fourth-highest valued company on The Crunchbase Unicorn Board.

See who works here Blink offers companies a technology platform that makes it possible for frontline (non-office) workers to gain access to company resources (IT, HR, productivity, communications, etc.) Revolut was last valued at $33 billion in a Series E funding round led by the SoftBank Vision Fund and Tiger Global Management. HQ: London, England, United Kingdom The grocery delivery decacorn has raised a staggering $2.9 billion in venture and growth funding to date, per Crunchbase data. The capital will help MoonPay scale its global footprint and give more people access to the emerging crypto economy, according to cofounder and CEO Ivan Soto-Wright. $30M Series B in 2022, What they do: CEO Ryan Petersen has also been a frequent face on broadcast media this year, offering commentary on the state of global trade. Greylock has dedicated a half-billion-dollar fund to support startups in the earliest stages. The company has raised $1.5 billion in funding, most recently with a $275 million Series F in October that gave it a nearly $7.3 billion valuation. Funding has been rather plentiful as well, with 7-year-old Honor raising total equity funding to date of $325 million at a recent valuation of more than $1.25 billion. Biotechnology, Quick facts: It reportedly had a valuation around $2.75 billion in May, more than tripling in value in the course of a year. The company says it has a strong foothold among large U.S. banks, and has been rapidly taking on new customers in the U.S., Europe, and Asia.

Businesses are especially susceptible to password fatigue: Customers often give up on registering or logging in because of password problems. Crypto, Quick facts: Founders Fund

Along with the new cash, the company also named industry veteran Sydney Carey as its first chief financial officer. Flexport: The logistics space has been flooded with investor interest this year amid worldwide supply chain woes. The company is looking for effective combinations of tryptamines, which are similar to the core compounds in magic mushrooms (psilocybin) and LSD. An award-winning San Francisco-based journalist, Sullivan's work has appeared in Wired, Al Jazeera, CNN, ABC News, CNET, and many others. ML Infrastructure With Americas infrastructure eroding, and with more electric vehicles coming quickly, Integrated Roadways could be in a unique position to deliver on the promise of smart roads for smart cars. Glossier: 2021 was a banner year for consumer company IPOs, including several in the beauty categories. Insider reported in September that the company was implementing a plan, which it called Flywheel internally, to move its products from Googles internal computing framework to other publicly available services. COVID-19 has exacerbated the gaps in the healthcare systems ability to take care of children. Consumer Guild Education: Denver-based Guild Education connects employers to a marketplace of schools and learning providers with the aim of broadening skills for working adults. SaaS Other participants include the SoftBank Vision Fund, and prior investors Tiger Global Management, General Atlantic and Dragoneer Investment Group. After a banner year for tech, layoffs are here. made big headlines, while others raised gobs of cash. Seattle Plaid has since raised funding in April 2021 at a much larger valuation of $13.5 billion led by Altimeter Capital. Building #1 rated API to transcribe and understand audio data $1.6B valuation, What they do: In 2019, the company said revenue had grown more than 50 percent, now exceeding $430 million. Josh Buckley $177M valuation, What they do: Looking for early engineers, product managers, and designers.

Communities, Quick facts: Bessemer It recently partnered with Stripe to offer BNPL to a wider set of companies. Weve worked with Figma, Abnormal Security, Snorkel.AI, Instabase, and numerous others starting in their stealth days. 2022 Crunchbase Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The company, which acquires private-label Amazon FBA businesses and direct-to-consumer brands, is well-capitalized, but its business also relies on having lots of capital to keep acquiring brands. HQ: Remote Klarna: Sweden-based buy now, pay later (BNPL) startup Klarna is the next most highly anticipated fintech IPO going into 2022. HQ: Remote HQ: Sweden The company just raised $45 million in a Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz, NEA, and Lux.

Parents can follow the data in real time via a smartphone app, which can provide a holistic look at the childs health. Pogo's goal is to make you more money by unlocking the power of your data; $XMM+ revenue run rate within 7 months of launch with best-in-class retention Front is the leader in customer communication that brings teams together to offer tailor-made service at scale Weve compiled a list of some of these promising companies in a variety of industries, confining our picks to startups that have raised either seed rounds or Series A funding.

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The company was last valued in June 2021 at $45.5 billion in a round led by the SoftBank Vision Fund. The San Francisco-based startup became Californias go-to option in testing for COVID-19 at a time when traditional health care was struggling under the weight of the newly discovered and fast-spreading virus. So why not another one next year? In November, the company emerged from stealth with $17 million in venture capital, raised from Rakuten, Day One Ventures, Frontiers Capital, and others. Homebuying. Sequoia Everlaw: In November, Oakland, California-based Everlaw closed a $202 million Series D led by TPG at a valuation of more than $2 billion. Founded: 2018 MoonPays valuation shot up to $3.4 billion after it raised $555 million in a Series A round led by Tiger Global Management and Coate. Got that? Founded: 2011, Funding: Founded: 2019 Mobile App Enterprise Software, Quick facts:

Accel The startup raised $300 million in funding last month at a $4 billion valuation. 501-1000 employees The worlds only universal shopping app. Developer APIs 1-10 employees Health Care $350M valuation, What they do: Instacart: San Francisco-based Instacart has been a much-speculated-upon IPO candidate for years, and its easy to imagine 2022 as the year it finally delivers on a market debut.