Startups Directory

Zinnia is the core infrastructure platform for the life and annuity insurance industry, enabling carriers to design, launch, and service insurance products across multiple distribution channels. The platform powers over 55% of digital annuity volume in the US and serves 70+ carriers and 225K+ advisors. Zinnia streamlines legacy insurance processes through cloud-based solutions like The Policy Processor, which handles 3M+ applications annually, while integrating with existing systems to deliver modern digital experiences for carriers, advisors, and policyholders.

Automation Anywhere provides an enterprise agentic process automation platform that combines RPA, AI, and cognitive technologies to enable organizations to automate mission-critical business processes at scale. The platform deploys software bots that handle repetitive, rule-based tasks 24/7 with higher accuracy than humans, incorporating natural language processing, computer vision, and machine learning. It serves large enterprises across industries seeking to automate end-to-end workflows while maintaining security and compliance. The company is recognized as a Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader for RPA for the seventh consecutive year.

Demandbase is an AI-powered account-based marketing (ABM) platform that helps B2B companies identify high-intent target accounts, engage them across multiple channels, and accelerate revenue growth. The platform combines advertising, marketing orchestration, and account intelligence to show which target accounts are visiting your website, consuming relevant content, and displaying buying signals. With over 2,800 customers including Salesforce, Adobe, and DocuSign, Demandbase unifies fragmented go-to-market data into actionable insights for sales and marketing alignment.

⚠️ COMPANY STATUS: Near Intelligence filed for bankruptcy in December 2023 and is permanently closed. The following profile is provided for historical reference only. Near was a location intelligence SaaS platform that processed data from 1.6 billion unique user IDs and 70 million points of interest across 44+ countries. Its flagship product, Allspark, enabled marketing and operations teams to understand consumer online and offline behaviors through natural language queries. The platform served enterprises in retail, real estate, QSR, travel, telecom, and financial services.

AppDirect is a cloud service commerce platform that enables businesses to build, sell, and distribute software subscriptions globally. It provides end-to-end solutions for marketplace creation, billing, payment processing, and reseller management, serving as both a B2B SaaS marketplace and a white-label commerce platform. The platform supports complex pricing models (usage-based, tiered, recurring) and integrates with major cloud providers like Microsoft, Google, and Box. AppDirect is particularly strong with telecom providers and enterprises seeking to monetize their software offerings at scale.

Josys is an Autonomous Identity Governance Platform that unifies SaaS management, device management, and identity security for IT teams. It automates manual IT operations like access reviews, license optimization, and shadow IT detection while providing 360° visibility into an organization's SaaS and device portfolio. Built by proven founders (Raksul's Yasukane Matsumoto and experienced product leader Sanjay Rajasekhar), Josys replaces spreadsheet-driven processes with AI-powered workflows that reduce operational risk and optimize technology spend.