The Most-Searched Startups on Kingscrowd (2025)

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CHART OF THE WEEK 📈

By Brian Belley | Read

Chart of the Week: The Most-Searched Startups on Kingscrowd (2025)

If you want to see where other data-driven, knowledgeable Kingscrowd readers are looking, this week’s Chart of the Week—a 2025 word cloud based on site searches—shows it at a glance. It ranks the most-searched companies on our site so far this year, with repeat issuers and several larger Reg A+ names standing out (and yes, StartEngine is back with another raise).

You’ll also see a bunch of past and current Top Deals in the spotlight—and we’ve pulled a few open raises you can dive into next.

See the word cloud and the takeaways →

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KINGSCROWD PODCAST

By Sam Fiske / Watch | Apple | Spotify

This week, Brian and Scott discuss Robinhood’s proposed NYSE-traded venture fund (and the NAV premium/discount reality), token rails vs. actual liquidity, and why late-stage may be a better retail lane. Teddy joins to cover Healthcare Originals acquiring Imago Rehab and what to watch next. Plus, a reminder to register for Investment Crowdfunding Week (ICW25), Sept 29–Oct 2.

REGISTER FOR ICW25

Next week is Kingscrowd’s Investment Crowdfunding Week, happening September 29 – October 2. This four-day virtual event brings together founders, investors, and platforms for the most comprehensive look at the private markets today. With 40+ startups pitching live, fireside chats with industry leaders, and exclusive knowledge sessions, you’ll get insider access to both sides of the crowdfunding equation—how founders raise and how investors evaluate.

Built around the theme “The Full Spectrum,” Investment Crowdfunding Week delivers everything from deal flow intelligence and platform differentiation to founder strategies and market trends. Whether you’re investing, fundraising, or simply exploring the future of alternative assets, this is your chance to connect with the full ecosystem. Reserve your spot today and join us for the premier virtual event in investment crowdfunding.

Check out some of our sessions below 👇

ICW Session Previews

PITCH REVIEW 💸

By Teddy Lyons \ Deal Report

Brief: AMASS Brands offers a botanical lifestyle portfolio spanning body care products like soaps and lotions alongside spirits, non-alcoholic alternatives, and cannabis-infused beverages. With $65 million in lifetime revenue and 1,000% year-over-year growth driven by sales and partnerships, AMASS is scaling rapidly.

Teddy’s Take: AMASS Brands is a company we’ve seen many times before, with the company now on its fifth crowdfunding raise. While I do think this is a strong company, I’m more so featuring it as this week’s pitch review due to the unique circumstances of their 35% revenue decline in 2024. And to fully understand it, we need to talk about a former (now bankrupt) company you may have heard of: Winc.

Winc was once a darling of the wine subscription boom, with trendy labels like Summer Water and Folly of the Beast winning fans during the COVID era. But as the world reopened, subscriptions shrank while costs ballooned, and by late 2022 Winc filed for bankruptcy. At that point, AMASS stepped in as a stalking horse bidder. To carry out the acquisition, AMASS formed several new subsidiaries: Project Crush Acquisition Corp (PCAC), which temporarily held Winc’s assets, and Project Crush Wholesale Sub, which was renamed Maison Thomas to serve as the permanent home for Winc’s wholesale and brand portfolio. AMASS acquired much of Winc’s business in early 2023, then just a few months later sold off the Winc.com subscription platform to Full Glass Wine Co, keeping the wholesale and branded wine lines under Maison Thomas.

This timeline explains why AMASS’s financials can look confusing. In 2023, PCAC booked nearly $25 million of revenue from Winc, which temporarily boosted AMASS’s consolidated revenue to $33.5M. By 2024, PCAC was inactive, those revenues had shifted into Maison Thomas, and AMASS’s reported company-wide revenue fell to $21.7M. On the surface, that looks like a steep decline — but in reality, Maison Thomas grew to $17.5M, while AMASS’s legacy brands also expanded. Stripped of the one-time Winc.com sale, the continuing business actually nearly tripled year over year.

This is why reading offering circulars is so important in this industry. What looks like a horrific revenue decline (or a revenue spike in some cases) can often be the result of acquisitions, sales, and restructurings that need to be understood before making an investment decision.

STAFF PICKS 🌶️

Worksport

By Teddy Lyons

Publicly traded as WKSP, WorkSport is expanding beyond tonneau covers into solar-integrated truck beds and mobile power systems. With revenue up 455% last year and a $20-$25M 2025 target, the company’s preferred stock raise offers private-style terms in a public equity story.

Carbon Country

By Teddy Lyons

Raising capital to scale beyond its 74-acre pilot farm, Carbon Country merges food production, clean energy, carbon credits, and Bitcoin mining into a flywheel structure—designed to generate cash flow, tax credits, and long-term asset appreciation.

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