10 Fast-Growing Remote Startups That Are Hiring Right Now

Year Founded: 2021
Headquarters: San Francisco, USA
Industry: Analytics, Information Systems, Software
Total Funding:  $24.6M

OpenComp’s cloud-based platform is meant to assist pre-IPO firms to develop competitive bids, budget realistically, and understand their future cash requirements through their own data. It had two funding rounds and offers a unique compensation intelligence tool to the world of business. Its growth is also significant, with the firm having closed a $4.6M seed round and hundreds of companies joining the ‘freemium’ cloud-based tool since its soft launch.

Year Founded: 2015
Headquarters: London, UK
Industry: Machine Learning, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Total Funding: $64.8M 

Red Sift was founded in 2015 and operates out of London. It’s gone through six rounds of funding in growing its business selling machine learning solutions to cybersecurity. A data analysis tool designed for the unique challenges of digital safety, its ultimate mission is to create products that are easily accessible to companies of any size.

By 2021, the firm had already seen a 90% growth in revenue in the United States within a year, tripled its employee headcount, formed key partnerships and received prestigious industry accolades. It’s now set to grow even further, as it seeks to hire more roles for its ever-developing operations. As of time of writing, Red Sift is hiring for numerous hybrid and remote positions, including everything from Backend Software Engineer to QA Engineer.

Year Founded: 2019
Headquarters: Cape Town, South Africa
Industry: Financial Services, Fin-tech, Payments
Total Funding: $27M

Stitch Money was founded in 2019 and operates out of several locations within Africa. The company has gone through five funding rounds in aiming to bolster its offering of API tools in the world of fin-tech. It’s an up and coming API fin-tech company that’s working to redefine the way businesses build, optimize, and grow their financial offerings. It plans to create a “financial graph” ecosystem across Africa through APIs that are targeted at reducing the barriers that are often associated with building across African geographies.

According to the company, the financial graph is a foundation for building blocks that will allow organizations to code once, deploy in numerous markets, and scale faster based on interoperability across borders and providers. It’s growing in more ways than one, with Stitch Money already having raised $21M and having 23 open positions as of time of writing. From Product Manager to Integration Engineer, there’s lots of budding opportunities to be found at this startup.

Year Founded: 2017
Headquarters: San Francisco, USA
Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Construction, Information Technology
Total Funding: $190.5M

OpenSpace was founded in 2017 and operates out of the San Francisco area. It’s been through six rounds of funding and is currently valued at $902 million. OpenSpace works to develop a unique tool for the world of image capture and mapping through its construction photo documentation software. It hones the latest innovations to allow users to create an all-encompassing view of their spaces, capturing images every half-second and automatically tying them to project documentation. Its AI-driven photo documentation technology aims to usher in a new era of job-site mapping and planning, positioning users to build easily navigable photo representations.

OpenSpace is also a great place for those looking for a change, with the company looking to hire remote roles in senior software engineering roles as of the time of writing.

Year Founded: 2014
Headquarters: London, UK
Industry: Developer APIs, Software 
Total Funding: $40.5M

Tyk is based in London, and was founded in 2014. It’s been through two rounds of funding in working to provide organizations with the next level of management software through its open source API gateway. Tyk is designed to help organizations of all sizes to tackle the challenges of scaling API-driven businesses. The company has developed a universal interface that allows users to access and manage multiple internal company APIs through GraphQL, and its API management tools are already used by thousands of businesses, including Starbucks, Domino’s, Trip Advisor and Cisco.

The company  has raised $35 million in funding so far. It’s been reported that this investment will be used by the firm to hire more employees as well as to continue enhancing and expanding the tools it provides to customers. As of time of writing, Tyk has well over 20 positions for hire, including Remote DevSecOps Engineer, Remote Developer Experience Architect and Remote Mid Go Developer.

Year Founded: 2018
Headquarters: Milwaukee, USA
Industry: Edtech 
Total Funding: $15.1M

Fiveable is a startup that’s shaking up the education industry with its innovative online education based platform. It was founded in Wisconsin in 2018, and has been through 10 rounds of funding. Fiveable allows students to access a broad range of digital tools and resources, such as study rooms and content libraries that can empower them to make the most out of the digital age. 

Fiveable’s already seen growth, raising $10M as well as recently having acquired virtual study platform Hours. The company has expressed that it plans on using its newly acquired resources and funds to expand its power and reach, and is looking for some great talent to assist them in doing so. As of time of writing, they’re looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer and Lead Backend Engineer to join their team.

Year Founded: 2019
Headquarters: Alpharetta, USA
Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Security Risk Management
Total Funding: $14.6M

Cyble is a cybercrime and dark web monitoring startup that’s aimed at reimagining the sector through AI. Founded in 2019, Cyble works to monitor surface web and dark web data in real-time across both closed and open sources to track, monitor, and manage companies’ digital risk.

It most recently announced that it had raised a $10M Series A financing round, and given its prospects, is on track for even further success. As of the time of writing it’s hiring everything from Full Stack Engineers to Data Engineering specialists and is always on the lookout for great talent.

Year Founded: 2019
Headquarters: Stockholm, Sweden
Industry: E-Commerce, Product Management
Total Funding: $19.9M

Depict.ai is a revolutionary new company looking to provide the e-commerce sector with a new level of insight. Based in Stockholm, it was founded in 2019 and has raised $19.9M. Depict.ai is rocking the world of e-commerce and reimagining it for a new generation of innovation. It’s pushing a unique approach to the concept of product recommendations within the sector, seeking to differ from traditional approaches used by companies like Amazon in the way it amasses and aggregates consumer data. 

The startup has been operational for over three years and is currently in the process of scaling up its technical team in order to support continued growth. It’s targeting a range of positions from Backend Software Engineer to Backend Solution Engineer Lead, and as of time of writing had over 15 open positions.

Year Founded: 2016
Headquarters: London, UK
Industry: Advertising, Marketing
Total Funding: £6.1M

Founded in 2016 and based out of London, Good-Loop is an innovative new advertising platform that’s seeking to change the way that the advertising industry operates for good. The company has a unique approach in which it follows a ‘view ads to donate’ model which empowers brands to receive more meaningful engagement while providing viewers a cost-effective means of philanthropy. 

Good-Loop has raised £6.1 in funding, which it plans on using to accelerate its product roadmap, as well as to open new offices and recruit more team members. It’s on the hunt for new AdTech Software Developers and Data Analysts, as well as a plethora of other professionals to aid it in the growth it’s fostering.

Year Founded: 2016
Headquarters: Seattle, USA
Industry: SaaS, Software, E-Commerce 
Total Funding: $293.5M

Fabric is an exciting startup founded in 2016 looking to capitalize on the growing world of e-commerce and support the B2B sector. Operating out of Seattle, it designed what is being called a ‘headless’ e-commerce platform which combines the ease of drag-and-drop configuration abilities with the capacity to create rich user experiences. After raising $43M in Series A funding,  Fabric has been through a total of four funding rounds, with a total amount of $293.5 million raised.

With its new funding, the company has said it will be expanding its marketing team while also working to improve the product. It’s furthermore interested in market expansion and building a larger suite of co-pilot apps in the future. As of the time of writing, the startup is looking to hire a range of new team members, offering countless positions in Software Development, Data Engineering,, and other roles worldwide, both on-site and remotely.

As can be seen, there’s plenty to be excited about in the world of startups, and that’s only going to continue growing in the years to come. There are countless innovative new companies out there looking for talented individuals to help them reach their goals – if you’re looking for an exciting career opportunity, it’s definitely worth considering.