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Review aggregator, viral app studio, and the smartest water filter in the world
Meet Cribit, Intonation Studio, and Cloud Water Filters
Jerry @ unistart & Josh @ unistart
July 24, 2023
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Happy Monday!
Welcome to the latest edition of unistart, where we feature the hottest early stage startups, job opportunities, and valuable resources, all in one newsletter.
Now let’s dive straight in to what’s on 🔥 this week.
🤟 What Your Classmates Are Building
Cribit
What? - A review website that aggregates rating data across multiple platforms all in one place.
Why? - Don’t you hate having to check Yelp, Google Reviews, and Beli just to see the most recent and honest reviews on a restaurant? Cribit aggregates all those reviews in one place and weighs them accordingly so you can get the truthful opinion on any restaurant in one app.
📍Industries: Consumer, Food and Beverage, App
🚀 Stage: Bootstrapped
🛠 Founded: 2023
😎 Founders: Jeffrey Chen (USC C/O 2023)
Bonus Insight: They are hiring a software engineer! Want to apply? Click here.
“We are looking for an experienced front-end engineer to join the team this summer to help us bootstrap the MVP. The main stacks we will be using are React and Redux.”
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What? - Building consumer software that brings people joy.
Why? - People are lonely. Current social apps are meant to suck attention and don’t foster any sense of belonging. Intonation Studios is on a mission to change that with apps like Sincerely and Decibel.
📍Industries: App, Consumer
🚀 Stage: Pre-seed
🛠 Founded: 2022
😎 Founders: Zibo Gao (Columbia University)
Bonus Insight: The same team behind Intonation Studio also runs a VC arm to invest in consumer products. They are also hiring a content creator and project manager to hyper scale their in-house apps. Want to join? Apply here.
What? - The smartest water filter in the world. An under sink reverse osmosis water system that removes 99% of the toxins in your tap and adds the essential minerals your body needs.
Why? - New study shows that 45% of tap water in US are contaminated with "forever chemicals”. Now think about drinking unfiltered water again…
📍Industries: Consumer, Food & Beverage, Hardware
🚀 Stage: Seed
💵 Funding: $2,300,000
🛠 Founded: 2021
😎 Founders: Nick Braun (Miami University), Ben Zvaifler (UCSD)
Bonus Insight: Both Nick and Ben sold their startup to Petco and worked as GM there before joining forces to found Cloud Water Filters.
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🎥 Founder Series
This week we interviewed the Dominick Tavitian, the founder of Refer Me. He scaled the platform to 60k users in just a few months all while working full time as a PM at Affirm.
Check out what he has to say on leveling the playing field to help more people hired at big tech.
📃 New Job Openings
Cribit is on a mission to aggregate all restaurant reviews. They are hiring a software engineer (equity comp)
Join Centrally to streamline community events and discovery as a CTO (equity comp)
Viral consumer app studio Intonation Studio is hiring a TikTok content creator and influencer coordinator ($25/hr, part-time, possibility of full time and pay bump based on performance)
AI edtech startup Whiteboard is hiring a head of growth ($50-60k contract for 4-6 months). The team is absolutely cracked. They last launched Rizz AI and got over 100k users in a couple months and #1 on Product Hunt.
Interested in any of these jobs? Send us a reply for more info.
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