Startups Directory

Turn River Capital is a San Francisco-based private equity firm specializing in growth capital investments for B2B software companies. Founded in 2012, the firm combines flexible capital with an embedded growth operations team of SEO, SEM, and go-to-market experts to systematically scale portfolio companies. Turn River provides hands-on operational support including Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success Directors as a Service, differentiating itself through its operator-led, data-driven growth engineering approach. The firm manages $2.6B+ in assets across a concentrated portfolio of 19 platform companies, with recent marquee exits including the acquisition of Redwood Software and the take-private of SolarWinds for $4.4B.

Roleshare built a marketplace and management platform that matched two professionals to co-apply and share one full-time job, enabling companies to run job-sharing pilot programs. The platform allowed employees to post their current roles as shareable and matched talent pairs from both internal and external sources. Roleshare served enterprises like JP Morgan and BP seeking flexible workforce solutions. Note: The company is no longer operating.

Ramp is a unified finance operations platform that consolidates corporate cards, expense management, bill payments, procurement workflows, travel management, and accounting automation into a single system. Unlike traditional corporate card providers that incentivize spending through rewards, Ramp focuses on helping companies reduce expenses by an average of 5% annually while automating administrative work. The platform has helped customers spend $10 billion less than they would have otherwise and automated 27.5 million hours of work across 50,000+ companies including Shopify, Notion, Figma, and CBRE.

Naoma is an AI video sales agent that delivers live, personalized product demos directly in-browser 24/7 in any language. It qualifies leads, answers questions, and routes prospects to CRM or checkout without human involvement, reducing demo wait times from 24+ hours to 10 seconds. Unlike pre-recorded demo tools, Naoma runs on real product flows with genuine AI interaction, achieving 6-20% visitor-to-demo conversion rates.

Brex is a fintech platform that provides corporate credit cards, cash management accounts, and spend management solutions for businesses. It serves startups and mid-market companies with SaaS-driven tools for expense tracking, financial controls, and accounting integration. Brex differentiated itself by issuing high-limit credit cards to early-stage startups based on funding history rather than personal credit, and has since expanded to serve larger enterprises with comprehensive financial operations infrastructure.

Chainguard provides secure-by-default container images, language libraries, and VM images with zero known CVEs, eliminating vulnerabilities at the source rather than scanning after deployment. Every artifact includes built-in SBOMs, signed provenance, and daily security patches with an SLA-backed remediation guarantee. The platform delivers a 97.6% reduction in CVEs on average and serves enterprises and development teams building software supply chains that require compliance and security assurance.

Worki is an AI-native infrastructure platform that unifies fragmented healthcare workforce and HR systems into a single contextual data layer. The platform sits between existing tools like Workday, UKG, Oracle, and ServiceNow, mapping task-role architecture to identify where AI agents can augment or automate administrative work. Using a four-part system (Pathways, Unify, Amplifiers, Infrasharing), Worki enables health systems to reduce overhead by 20%+ while deploying AI agents with human governance across workforce operations.

Replit is a cloud-based IDE that lets developers write, run, and deploy code directly in the browser, supporting 50+ programming languages. With its AI-powered Agent (v2), non-technical users can now build complete applications by describing them in natural language—a shift toward "vibe coding." The platform combines real-time collaboration, integrated hosting, and AI-assisted development into a single workspace, enabling both individual developers and enterprises to build software faster.

Kai is an AI-native cybersecurity platform that autonomously performs critical security tasks across IT and OT environments without human intervention. Built from the ground up by the founders of category-defining companies Claroty and SecurityMatters, it integrates threat detection, vulnerability management, compliance automation, and remediation into a unified agentic AI system. Unlike legacy security tools that bolt AI onto fragmented dashboards, Kai reasons and acts at machine speed to eliminate human-speed bottlenecks in security operations.

Silo Team automates the entire developer lifecycle from onboarding to retention, using AI-powered templates and seamless integrations with tools like Slack, Notion, and Confluence. Built specifically for tech teams, it handles account provisioning, access requests, and customized role-based onboarding plans. The platform addresses the billions in annual losses from high developer turnover by accelerating time-to-productivity and fostering team belonging.

AskToSell is an AI-powered sales automation platform that deploys autonomous agents to contact leads, qualify prospects, prepare proposals, handle objections, and close deals automatically. Built for SMBs with repetitive, transactional sales processes, it enables companies to scale deal volume without burning out sales teams or inflating customer acquisition costs. The platform operates at 10-30x lower cost than human sales labor, with agents learning product details and autonomously managing the entire sales workflow until deal approval.

PalmPay is a digital banking platform built for Africa's informal economy, serving 40 million users across Nigeria, Kenya, and Tanzania. It offers instant onboarding, zero-fee transfers, savings (up to 22% APR), credit products, and business tools for merchants and mobile money agents. The company processes 15 million transactions daily and has built a network of 1 million agent merchants, positioning itself as the largest transaction processor in Nigeria by volume.

Shield Technology Partners is a New York-based platform that acquires stakes (60-90%) in regional IT service providers (MSPs) and scales them with AI-enhanced operations, national resources, and strategic support while preserving local leadership. The company combines investment capital, applied AI engineering, operational expertise, and M&A guidance to help mid-market IT firms expand capabilities and drive growth. As of early 2026, Shield operates a portfolio of nine MSP partners collectively serving 1,500+ customers across construction, energy, and healthcare sectors.

Ghost Financial is a fintech platform designed to serve ghost kitchens and restaurant operators with integrated financing, insurance, and payment solutions. The platform uses AI-powered underwriting and API integrations with POS systems (Toast) and delivery apps (DoorDash) to assess operational health and make fast lending decisions. It offers a 1% cash-back credit card for inventory purchases and expansion loans, with the ability to lift operator margins by up to 10%. However, the company appears to be inactive as of 2023-2024 based on multiple database sources.

AIRIA is an enterprise AI platform that unifies orchestration, security, and governance in a single solution, enabling organizations to build, deploy, and govern AI agents and automated workflows at scale. The platform provides a model-agnostic control layer with an Agent Builder supporting no-code, low-code, and pro-code development, plus out-of-the-box connectors for enterprise systems like Salesforce, Microsoft OneDrive, and Slack. AIRIA differentiates by eliminating tool sprawl—delivering all three dimensions (orchestration, security, governance) in one unified platform rather than stitching together disconnected point solutions.

Employee Navigator is a broker-centric benefits administration platform that consolidates benefits enrollment, compliance, onboarding, and payroll integration into a single system. It automates the exchange of benefits data between employers, brokers, insurance carriers, and payroll providers, reducing manual work and compliance risk. The platform connects 195,000+ employers, 7,000+ brokers, and 600+ partners, positioning itself as an agnostic marketplace rather than an enterprise HCM suite.

Upmesh is a live commerce SaaS platform that automates order capture and fulfillment for merchants selling via Facebook Live and Instagram Live. It eliminates manual order collection by automatically capturing orders from livestream comments, creating checkout links, and providing real-time inventory management and sales analytics. The platform serves fashion retailers, personal shoppers, and small merchants across Southeast Asia, with integrations to Stripe's PayUp payment gateway for secure transactions.

Lattica is a privacy-preserving AI inference platform built on Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) that enables organizations to run AI models on encrypted data without exposing sensitive information to model providers, cloud infrastructure, or intermediaries. The platform features a hardware-agnostic Homomorphic Encryption Abstraction Layer (HEAL) that optimizes FHE algorithms to run in parallel on GPUs, solving the historical CPU-bottleneck problem. It integrates seamlessly with PyTorch and standard ML frameworks, allowing developers to build privacy-preserving applications without cryptography expertise. Lattica targets enterprises in regulated industries handling sensitive data who need confidential AI inference in cloud environments.