Startups Directory

ApertureDB is a unified database that natively stores and manages images, videos, documents, embeddings, and metadata in a single system with built-in knowledge graph and vector search capabilities. It eliminates the need for enterprises to manually integrate cloud storage, vector databases, and processing libraries by providing a single interface for multimodal AI workloads. The platform is 35x faster at mobilizing multimodal datasets than traditional approaches and 2-4x faster than open-source vector databases, reducing infrastructure setup time by 6-12 months.

Ten Eleven Ventures is the original cybersecurity-focused venture capital firm investing across all stages, from seed to growth equity. Founded in 2014 and managing over $1 billion in assets under management, the firm exclusively targets exceptional founders addressing critical digital security challenges, including AI defense systems and privacy technologies. Beyond capital deployment, Ten Eleven operates as a platform for the cybersecurity community through technical coaching and curated retreats connecting portfolio founders with senior security professionals. The firm has generated 7 unicorns and 21 acquisitions including Cylance ($1.4B), KnowBe4 ($4.6B), and Ping Identity.

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.

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.

Pangeam uses anonymous AI sensing and deep-learning technology to measure how workspace design actually performs against intent by tracking anonymous presence and ergonomic movements. The platform reveals detailed utilization patterns—foot traffic heatmaps, connection zones, dwell times—that go far beyond binary occupancy data. Enterprise real estate teams use Pangeam to optimize office layouts, support return-to-office strategies, and make data-driven capital expenditure decisions that can save millions.

Deskimo is a mobile app that enables on-demand office space booking billed by the minute, targeting hybrid-work companies that want to downsize office leases. Companies create enterprise accounts and allocate monthly budgets to employees, who can book nearby workspaces for meetings, focused work, or client calls. The platform consolidates usage across all employees into a single monthly invoice. Unlike traditional coworking platforms, Deskimo competes with Starbucks by serving occasional workspace needs rather than dedicated desk rentals.

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.

H Company builds enterprise AI agents and agentic models capable of autonomously interfacing with software systems to automate complex workflows. The company's Holo3 family of models can understand and interact with any graphical user interface—web applications, desktop software, cloud platforms—to perform multi-step tasks like clicking, typing, and navigation. H's product suite includes Runner H (workflow automation API), Surfer H (web interface automation), and Tester H (automated software testing), claiming 92.2% success rates while reducing operational costs by up to 5.5x compared to OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. Founded in 2023 by DeepMind veterans and backed by $220M from Eric Schmidt, Amazon, and tier-1 investors, H is positioned as Europe's leading agentic AI startup.

Atlas Data Storage commercializes synthetic DNA-based data storage systems that encode digital information into DNA strands using semiconductor-based synthesis and enzyme engineering. Their flagship product, Atlas Eon 100, stores 60 petabytes in 60 cubic inches with 1,000x the density of traditional LTO-10 tape and offers 1,000+ year durability. The company targets enterprise, hyperscale, and government customers seeking permanent, scalable, energy-efficient archival storage solutions.

Inferact commercializes vLLM, the world's most popular open-source LLM inference engine, delivering 2-4× throughput improvements over competing systems. Built by the original vLLM creators from UC Berkeley, Inferact serves enterprises and AI companies seeking to deploy frontier models at scale without proprietary lock-in. The company owns the roadmap of a widely-adopted community project with 2,000+ contributors while maintaining a lean 14-person team.

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.

Novel Capital is a revenue-based financing platform serving early-stage B2B SaaS and subscription companies with $350K+ ARR. The company provides non-dilutive growth capital from $100K to $5M through two products: RevShare Capital (up to 30% of expected annual revenue) and Upfront Capital (8% upfront fee, 18% APR). Beyond financing, Novel's Capital Intelligence Platform offers strategic support in sales growth, talent acquisition, and operational planning, with founders able to access capital flexibly based on their approved credit facility (10-40% of ARR).

Voltron Data builds Theseus, a GPU-accelerated query engine that enables petabyte-scale data analytics directly on data lakes, lakehouses, and warehouses using Apache Arrow standards. The platform allows organizations to query massive datasets 10-100x faster while reducing infrastructure costs dramatically—one retailer cut server count from 1,400 CPU machines to 14 GPU servers. Unlike traditional CPU-based analytics platforms, Voltron's approach is designed to complement existing systems like Spark and DuckDB, letting users scale without vendor lock-in.

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.

Grow Credit is a financial inclusion platform that helps consumers with no credit or thin credit files establish and build credit scores by leveraging their existing subscription payments (Netflix, Spotify, Disney+, cell phone bills). The platform reports on-time payments to major credit bureaus (Equifax, Experian, TransUnion) through a virtual Mastercard-backed loan mechanism. Users can build credit for free or upgrade to premium tiers with higher credit lines and spending limits, making credit building accessible to an estimated 100M underserved consumers.

Stability AI develops open-source and commercial generative AI models for image, video, audio, 3D, and text generation. The company's flagship Stable Diffusion model has been downloaded over 150 million times and runs on consumer hardware with minimal GPU requirements, making advanced AI accessible to creators, enterprises, and developers. Unlike proprietary competitors, Stability AI emphasizes open-source accessibility, customizability, and the ability to run models locally without API dependencies or subscription fees.

Modular is an AI infrastructure platform that unifies model serving and GenAI deployment through the Mojo programming language and MAX framework. It abstracts hardware complexity to run popular open models with 10-100x performance improvements over Python, without vendor lock-in. The platform addresses AI's fragmented infrastructure by rebuilding the entire stack from compilers up, enabling developers to deploy across CPUs, GPUs, and edge devices seamlessly.

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.

Tranch was an invoice-to-payment platform that enabled enterprises to optimize cash flow by offering flexible payment options to their clients. The platform provided three payment methods: Pay Now (instant bank transfers via FedNow), Pay by Card (virtual terminals for billing teams), and Pay Later (invoices spread over 2-12 months). Tranch served law firms, SaaS companies, consulting firms, and agencies, allowing suppliers to get paid upfront while customers settled invoices worth up to $500,000 on flexible terms. **IMPORTANT: Tranch was acquired by Elite on January 3, 2025, and is no longer independently operating.**

Senser is an AIOps platform that uses eBPF technology to monitor enterprise production environments with zero instrumentation or configuration required. It leverages machine learning to automatically identify root causes and business impact of outages, reducing mean time to detect by an average of 83%. The platform serves DevOps and SRE teams managing complex distributed systems, differentiating itself through AI-powered insights that replace alert floods with actionable intelligence about actual system events rather than symptoms.

P0 Security provides a unified cloud identity control platform that replaces fragmented IAM, PAM, and IGA stacks with a single cloud-native solution for orchestrating just-in-time, least-privilege access across AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes. The platform enables engineers to grant secure, fine-grained permissions in real-time through Slack or CLI, governing both human identities and machine identities (including AI agents) while enforcing Zero Standing Privilege policies. P0 differs from legacy PAM tools by eliminating vaults and bastions, automating access governance, and providing native bastion-less JIT SSH/Sudo provisioning across cloud platforms.

Writ is a data intelligence platform that transforms how organizations make decisions by turning dashboards into collaborative communication tools. Co-founded by Adam Weinstein and Jason McGhee (the team behind Cursor, acquired by DataRobot), Writ enables teams across departments—from board members to store managers—to share, discuss, and track data-driven decisions in one place. The platform eliminates siloed email threads and provides a trackable record of what data influenced business outcomes, making operational reporting accessible beyond just data scientists and executives.

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.

Futr builds secure AI chatbots and co-piloted live chat platforms that eliminate hallucination risks through proprietary guardrails and real-time validation. The platform automates customer support across 145+ languages with intelligent escalation and operates in highly regulated environments including government, police, and financial services. Key differentiators include context-aware filtering for sensitive data, seamless handover from bot to agent, and integrations with major platforms like Shopify, Salesforce, and Stripe.

Objective is a low-code API platform that enables developers to build multimodal search applications handling text, images, video, and audio. Unlike traditional keyword-based search, it uses contextual semantic understanding and learns from human feedback to deliver relevant results. The platform makes sophisticated AI-powered search accessible to developers without requiring custom in-house solutions.

Schematic allows businesses to outsource pricing and packaging with a few lines of code, enabling them to quickly launch new packaging models, take the burden off of engineering, and flexibly adjust their pricing and packaging to individual customer preferences.