Mattermark uncovers the most promising startups for investors by analyzing market traction and team composition of the fastest growing private companies. Lots of people are out looking for jobs and we thought it would be helpful to share a list of the fastest growing companies that are also hiring right now.
What Makes Them the Fastest Growing
What makes a company the fastest growing? Mattermark looks at web traffic, mobile app downloads, social media engagement and employee growth as signals. We then score companies each week and assign points to companies that are consistently growing week after week.
Upworthy started with the mission of making important stuff as viral as a video of some idiot surfing off his roof. They describe themselves as serving The Daily Show generation: people who care about what’s going on in the world but don’t want to be boring about it.
Hiring for: Analytics Engineer, Junior Web Engineer, Senior Ruby Engineer
Where: work from home
Coindesk covers news and provides analysis on the trends, changes, technologies, companies and people in the Bitcoin and digital currency world. CoinDesk is an independent publication with reporters all over the world.
Hiring for: editorial, programmers, design
Where: London
Shameless self-promotion: Mattermark is hiring too, and we’re one of the fastest growing B2B companies. We launched in June 2013 and are already used by more than 300 of the top VCs and Angel investors using us to find the next great startup.
Hiring for: Senior Engineer, Research Analyst
Where: San Francisco
Lyft is a popular ride sharing app you’ve probably heard about. What you might not know is the company was originally founded in 2007 as Zimride. Since rebranding to Lyft, they’ve taken off like a rocket ship.
Hiring for: Data Infrastructure Engineer, Data Scientist, DevOps Engineer, Graphic Designer, Software Engineer
Where: San Francisco
The Curious.com team wonders why there are hundreds of high-tech ways to share silly photos, and military-grade technology can help us find our friends at a bar, but teachers have few quality tools to help them succeed online. They’ve build an edu-tech site to change that.
Hiring for: Software Engineer, UX Designer
Where: Menlo Park
Plated lets you choose the meals you want to cook, and then each week delivers all the ingredients to you’ll need to cook it yourself. The company graduated from Techstars and raised $1.4 million in May, and is expanding to cover more cities.
Hiring for: marketing
Where: New York
RelateIQ builds CRM software without all the annoying manual entry and complicated bells and whistles that make packages like Salesforce annoying to use. They launched their beta this year.
Hiring for: your guess is as good as ours, but you can check out their application form.
Where: Palo Alto
Stylr is a mobile app that lets you shop the clothing stores around you from your mobile phone.
Hiring for: UX Designer, Marketing and BD
Where: New York
Twitch is the leading video community for gamers. One recent hire remarks, “You can code something, test it, and push it out in front of millions of people. In an hour.”
Hiring for: Analytics Engineer, QA Analyst, Senior Platforms Engineer, VP of Engineering, Sys Admin, and more
Where: San Francisco
Sulia is a different kind of news aggregation site. PandoDaily’s Erin Griffin sums it up best, “Sulia users sign up and choose the subjects, or “channels,” they’re interested in. Those channels are populated by experts and enthusiasts in the field, tapped by Sulia. Experts are identified not my algorithms or magical Klout scores, but by the one judge of influence on Twitter created by humans: Twitter lists.”
Hiring for: Engineer, Customer Development
Where: New York
Ink helps developers build their products faster by taking out the hassle of integrating 3rd party services like Dropbox or Google Drive.
Hiring for: the company doesn’t list specific positions, but you can apply on their site.
Where: San Francisco
P1 builds software for private social networking. The company is one of the few we’ve seen seeking Go language programmers. If you’re a seasoned Go programmer, this might be the perfect company for you.
Hiring for: Engineers
Where: China
Sverve connects brands with female influencers. The company just graduated from 500 Startups as one of the fastest growing in its batch.
Hiring for: Lead Designer, Developer, Marketing Intern, Sales Director
Where: New York
Spartoo is a European online retailer of shoes and footwear. The company has grown its web traffic by 30% to over 3 million monthly uniques in just two months.
Hiring for: PHP developer, and more
Where: France
At Oculus you might just get the chance to work with John Carmack. If that isn’t enough for you, how about revolutionizing the gaming industry with the device that might finally fulfill the Virtual Reality promises of the 90s.
Hiring for: Android Engineer, Web Engineer, hardware engineers, and more
Where: Irvine and Dallas