Startups Directory

Pasqal develops quantum processing units (QPUs) based on neutral atom technology, where individual atoms trapped by optical tweezers serve as qubits. The company integrates quantum computing into HPC and cloud environments to solve optimization, simulation, and AI workloads for enterprises. Pasqal's neutral atom approach offers coherence times an order of magnitude higher than competing architectures (superconducting qubits, ion traps) and enables flexible 2D/3D atomic arrangements that reduce computational overhead.

Pismo is a cloud-native core banking and payments platform that unifies real-time payments, card issuance, digital wallets, and banking services through a microservices architecture. It serves banks, fintechs, and retailers across Latin America, Europe, North America, and Asia with a single SaaS platform rather than fragmented legacy systems. The platform processes over 4 billion API calls monthly and hosts 25+ million accounts handling $3B+ in monthly transactions. NOTE: Pismo was acquired by Visa in January 2024 for $1 billion and now operates as a Visa subsidiary.

RedotPay is a stablecoin-based fintech platform that combines crypto payment cards, cross-border payout rails, and multi-currency accounts into a unified financial app. It serves consumers in emerging markets facing currency instability and limited banking infrastructure by enabling global spending and transfers using cryptocurrencies without fiat conversion. With 6+ million users across 100+ countries and $10B+ annualized payment volume, RedotPay has achieved unicorn status ($1B+ valuation) in under 3 years, backed by tier-one investors including Lightspeed, Coinbase Ventures, and Goodwater Capital.

MinIO is a high-performance, S3-compatible object storage platform designed for enterprises that need complete control over their data infrastructure. Built for Kubernetes-native deployments across edge, on-premises, and cloud environments, it enables organizations to run their own S3-compatible storage without vendor lock-in. The software-defined architecture optimizes for AI/ML workloads, analytics, and large-scale data processing, with support for objects up to 50TB and deployment flexibility that traditional cloud storage cannot match.

Temporal is a durable execution platform that enables developers to build resilient applications by guaranteeing reliable execution of complex, long-running workflows as code. It eliminates the need for custom infrastructure like message queues, pub/sub systems, and schedulers by providing built-in retries, event sourcing, state checkpointing, and task management. Used by companies like Stripe, Netflix, Datadog, and Snapchat to power millions of workflows daily, Temporal abstracts away distributed systems complexity so developers can write resilient code naturally.

InstaDeep builds AI-powered decision-making systems that solve complex industrial problems across logistics, pharmaceuticals, and infrastructure. The company combines deep reinforcement learning and GPU-accelerated computing with productized innovation—translating research into enterprise-grade platforms like DeepPack (cargo planning), DeepChain (protein design), and chip design optimization. They serve Fortune 500 enterprises and global organizations including BioNTech, Deutsche Bahn, and the UN's FAO, differentiating through proven commercial deployments and strategic partnerships that turn customers into investors.

Nfinite is an AI-powered SaaS e-merchandising platform that enables retailers to create, manage, and display unlimited photorealistic product visuals through 3D CGI technology. The platform allows brands to generate product imagery from any angle, distance, or lighting configuration without expensive traditional photoshoots—reducing costs by up to 7x while accelerating time to market. Nfinite serves major retailers like Lowe's, Staples, and Wayfair, driving significant improvements in conversion rates (up to 53% lift) and customer engagement.

Typeface is an enterprise AI platform that generates on-brand, personalized content at scale across email, social, and web channels. It solves the content paradox by combining brand governance with high-velocity content creation, using dedicated AI models trained on each customer's brand guidelines, assets, and voice. The platform recently launched its Marketing Orchestration Engine, enabling governed, repeatable cross-channel campaign execution. It's backed by $206M in funding and counts Fortune 500 companies and digital-native brands among its customers.

Quincus is an enterprise SaaS platform that optimizes supply chain operations through AI-driven multi-modal logistics orchestration and real-time visibility. The platform serves e-commerce, logistics, and freight companies across Asia-Pacific, Americas, and Europe with machine learning-powered shipment allocation and a centralized control tower for end-to-end tracking. The company differentiates through advanced AI optimization that reduces fleet requirements by 33% while increasing stops per vehicle by 50%, and currently processes over 70 million shipments monthly.

Pryon is an AI Memory Layer that transforms unstructured enterprise data into searchable, conversational interfaces. The platform ingests multimodal content (text, audio, images, video) from dozens of sources like SharePoint, Salesforce, and Google Drive, then deploys proprietary AI models to provide accurate, grounded answers without hallucinations. It enables employees to instantly find and leverage knowledge scattered across the organization, reducing search time and unleashing unused enterprise content.

Hebbia is an AI co-pilot platform that helps knowledge workers in finance, law, government, and pharmaceuticals extract insights from massive document libraries through natural language queries. Matrix, their flagship product, uses an 'agent swarm' architecture powered by OpenAI o1 to break down complex multi-step questions, route tasks to optimal AI models, and synthesize answers with full citations. The platform processes entire documents rather than excerpts and handles larger LLM jobs than competing tools, delivering measurable ROI: investment bankers save 30-40 hours per deal, and law firms reduce contract review time by 75%.

⚠️ INACTIVE: Prime Trust was a technology-driven trust company that provided API-based financial infrastructure for fintech and digital asset companies, offering custody, funds processing, compliance, and transaction settlement services. The company served nearly 700 B2B clients including Swan, Abra, Dapper Labs, and Binance US. Prime Trust filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in August 2023 and is no longer operating.

Cowbell Cyber is the leading provider of adaptive cyber insurance for small and medium-sized enterprises, serving nearly 30,000 businesses across the U.S., UK, and Australia. The company uses AI-powered continuous underwriting (Cowbell Factors) to compress the insurance process from submission to issuance in under 5 minutes, with renewal pricing directly tied to observed risk profiles throughout the year. Beyond insurance, Cowbell offers integrated Resiliency Services including MDR SOC, penetration testing, security training, and identity AI. Their largest cyber insurance distribution network in the U.S. spans over 14,000 producers and monitors 23 million businesses.

Swiftly is a digital operating system for brick-and-mortar retail that unifies retail data, enables real-time shopper segmentation, and powers omnichannel campaigns. It helps independent and regional grocers compete with giants like Amazon and Walmart by providing mobile engagement, personalization, loyalty integration, and closed-loop retail media capabilities. The platform operates on a revenue-sharing model where Swiftly's success is directly tied to the retail media revenue generated by its clients. Swiftly shoppers spend 1.5x more than average customers and drive over 25% of product and payment volume for participating retailers.

Bitwarden is an open-source password manager that enables individuals, teams, and enterprises to securely store and manage credentials with zero-knowledge encryption—meaning Bitwarden cannot access user data. The platform serves over 10 million users across 180+ countries and offers specialized products including a Password Manager, Secrets Manager for developers, and Passwordless.dev for building FIDO2 WebAuthn authentication. Bitwarden differentiates through open-source transparency, client-side encryption, fast enterprise deployment (70% live in under a month), and a freemium model that converts users to paid plans.

Aztec is a privacy-first Layer 2 rollup for Ethereum that enables encrypted transaction execution and private smart contracts while maintaining public verifiability through zero-knowledge proofs. Unlike privacy blockchains like Zcash, Aztec is programmable—developers can specify privacy at granular levels (users, data, metadata, or full contract logic) using the Noir language. It uses client-side proof generation to keep sensitive data off centralized servers, enabling institutions and users to conduct confidential DeFi operations on Ethereum.

AngelList Venture is a marketplace and back-office software platform that connects early-stage startups with angel investors, syndicates, and venture funds while providing compliance, legal, and fund management infrastructure. The platform serves fund managers, syndicates, and startups by removing operational friction from fundraising and fund administration. As of 2025, the platform supports $171 billion in assets under administration across 25,000+ active investment vehicles and has helped 108 unicorn companies secure early-stage capital.

Wrapbook is a vertical SaaS platform for the entertainment industry that automates production payroll, accounting, and crew management at scale. It serves as an Employer of Record (EOR) for payroll taxes, withholdings, and compliance, while unifying cost tracking and reporting in a single platform. Built-in union compliance for 16 collective bargaining agreements and a team of industry experts from SAG-AFTRA, DGA, and IATSE give it a distinct competitive edge in managing hundreds to thousands of crew members per production.

Kushki is a regional payments infrastructure platform that standardizes Latin America's fragmented payment ecosystem by integrating credit/debit cards, bank transfers, and 300,000+ cash payment points through a single API. Operating as the first non-bank acquirer licensed in the region, it enables businesses across LatAm to accept payments globally, receive funds in local currency, and process transactions end-to-end with direct VISA/Mastercard connections. The platform provides omnichannel solutions spanning e-commerce, m-commerce, and physical retail through customizable integration options including APIs, SDKs, plugins, and payment buttons.

TerraPay is a mobile-first international payment network that interconnects financial services providers—banks, mobile wallets, money transfer operators, and payment platforms—through a single API. Operating as an asset-light, network-heavy model, TerraPay enables seamless cross-border fund transfers to 139 receive countries with access to 7.5+ billion bank accounts and 2.1+ billion mobile wallets. The platform reduces integration friction for partners while capturing transaction routing and settlement economics, positioning itself as a preferred rails provider for remittances, gig platforms, and marketplaces in emerging markets.

Railway is a cloud infrastructure platform that automates deployment, scaling, and infrastructure management with a developer-friendly interface. It bills by the second on actual CPU and memory utilization rather than fixed instance sizes, enabling near-zero costs for idle services. The platform is built on vertically integrated infrastructure including custom data centers, delivering faster deployments and lower costs than traditional cloud providers. It serves 2M+ developers across startups, enterprises including 31% of Fortune 500, and AI-native teams.

Inspiren is an AI-powered platform that unifies resident safety, care planning, staffing, and emergency response for senior living communities. The system combines proprietary hardware (the AUGi care companion device using geometric exoskeletal monitoring) with integrated software to detect falls, behavioral risks, and care utilization patterns in real-time while preserving resident privacy. Deployed across 230+ senior living communities, Inspiren has demonstrated measurable clinical outcomes including fall reduction and timely emergency response, with customers like Arrow Senior Living and Heritage Communities achieving 86% reductions in bedroom-related falls with injury.

Decart is an AI research lab building the fastest and most efficient generative AI models for real-time video generation and manipulation. Their flagship products—Oasis (real-time AI game world) and Mirage (live video editing via text prompts)—achieve 10x better efficiency than competitors like OpenAI's Sora, reducing inference costs from $100/hour to $0.25/hour. The company combines a proprietary LLM inference engine (built from scratch in C++ and CUDA) with advanced video generation capabilities, serving developers, enterprises, and streaming/gaming platforms.

Insurify is an AI-driven digital insurance agent licensed in all 50 states that connects consumers with real-time, bindable car insurance quotes from 100+ carriers in minutes. The platform uses proprietary RateRank technology to match individual risk profiles to optimal carriers and coverage, eliminating the friction of traditional insurance shopping. Since 2016, Insurify has served over 196 million quotes and generated $200 billion in total coverage, with customers saving hundreds of dollars annually.

Apiiro is an Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) platform that unifies application risk visibility, prioritization, and remediation across the entire software development lifecycle using proprietary Risk Graph technology and Deep Code Analysis. It provides contextual security insights starting from the design phase through production, integrating software supply chain security with native CI/CD pipeline and source control visibility. Built by former Microsoft and IDF cybersecurity experts, Apiiro serves enterprise organizations seeking a developer-centric approach to application security that minimizes backlogs and triage time.

DataSnipper is an intelligent automation platform that embeds directly into Excel, allowing auditors to extract data from unstructured sources (invoices, bank statements, documents) with automatic reconciliation and complete audit trails. Used by 600K+ professionals across all Big Four accounting firms and 175+ countries, it solves the manual, error-prone work of matching and verifying financial data. The platform's key differentiator is working within Excel workflows rather than forcing migration to new systems, enabling rapid adoption and high user loyalty.

EnCharge AI develops analog in-memory computing hardware that performs AI computations directly within memory cells, eliminating energy-intensive data movement between processing and storage. The company's EN100 accelerator delivers 200+ TOPS of AI compute in an 8.25W power envelope for laptops and workstations, achieving up to 20x better performance per watt than competing solutions. Available in M.2 and PCIe form factors, EN100 brings advanced AI capabilities to edge devices and client platforms with unprecedented efficiency.

Basis builds AI agents that autonomously execute complex accounting workflows end-to-end, including tax return preparation, audit testing, and reconciliation tasks. The platform ingests data from accounting systems and ERPs, performs analysis and calculations, and delivers finished work for human review. Top accounting firms use Basis to shift their teams from execution to review, achieving 20-50% efficiency gains across tax, audit, and advisory practices.

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.

Dream Security is an AI-native cybersecurity platform purpose-built for governments and critical infrastructure operators requiring sovereign deployment capabilities. The company's proprietary cyber language model—trained on threat intelligence datasets rather than general-purpose LLMs—automates threat detection, prediction, and response while operating entirely within national infrastructure, including classified and air-gapped systems. Dream transforms raw data into actionable threat narratives and defense strategies, with a founding team combining Israeli cyber expertise (NSO Group co-founder), Austrian political leadership, and IoT intelligence experience.

Noma Security is an enterprise AI security platform that discovers, secures, and monitors AI systems across entire organizations. The platform provides three integrated capabilities: Discovery maps the complete AI ecosystem including models, agents, and data sources; Secure defines approved AI supply chains and runs continuous security validation; Protect enforces real-time runtime policies to block unauthorized actions and malicious prompts. Built by former Israeli military intelligence leaders, Noma has raised $132M in under two years and serves Fortune 500 companies across finance, life sciences, retail, and technology.

ZaiNar provides real-time sub-meter positioning and location intelligence using patented phase-based signal processing and sub-nanosecond time synchronization on existing radio infrastructure. The system achieves sub-10cm accuracy indoors, outdoors, and through walls without GPS, operating system permissions, or device manufacturer cooperation. It serves enterprises and carriers across healthcare, construction, smart cities, and industrial sectors, with over $450M in contracts and deployments on multiple continents.

PhotoRoom is an AI-powered product photography platform that automates image editing for e-commerce sellers. It uses deep learning to remove backgrounds, generate AI backgrounds and shadows, expand scenes, upscale images, and create product photos from scratch—all without requiring Photoshop expertise. The platform serves e-commerce businesses, marketplaces, and creative teams at scale, with APIs integrated by Shopify, Netflix, and Warner Bros. PhotoRoom's focus on simplicity and speed distinguishes it from broader photo editing tools like Photoshop.