Startups Directory

Saviynt's Identity Cloud is an AI-powered platform that maps, governs, and secures all types of identities—human, machine, and AI agents—across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. The platform unifies identity governance and administration (IGA), privileged access management (PAM), application access governance, and identity security posture management into a single SaaS solution. It helps enterprises automate lifecycle tasks like onboarding, offboarding, access reviews, and compliance reporting while enforcing just-in-time security principles. Saviynt serves 600+ enterprises including more than one-fifth of the Fortune 100, managing over 100 million identities at half the cost of competitors like SailPoint.

Nexthop AI builds custom networking infrastructure purpose-built for AI workloads in hyperscale cloud data centers. The company combines custom hardware, software, and optical integration using a JDM (Joint Development Manufacturer) model to deliver tightly integrated solutions for GPU clusters. Nexthop's Disaggregated Spine architecture achieves up to 30% reductions in energy consumption and infrastructure costs while supporting extreme throughput (50-100+ terabits) compared to traditional networking vendors like Cisco and Juniper.

CData Software provides data integration and connectivity solutions that enable organizations to seamlessly access and move data across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments. The company offers three main business models: CData Sync for data replication, embedded connectors for ISVs, and Connect AI for giving AI systems direct access to enterprise data. Over 7,000 organizations including FedEx, Office Depot, and Salesforce rely on CData to solve complex data connectivity challenges across 350+ systems.

Hammerspace is a metadata-driven data orchestration platform that sits above file and object storage systems, providing a unified global namespace for accessing unstructured data across on-premises and public cloud infrastructure. Rather than storing data itself, it acts as a software layer that enables enterprises to access files regardless of storage type, vendor, or location while optimizing performance for AI and HPC workloads. The platform automatically transitions data between high-performance Tier 0 storage during compute-intensive operations and cost-efficient object storage during idle periods, eliminating GPU idle time caused by data bottlenecks.