Startups Directory

Nscale builds and operates AI-native data centers providing vertically integrated GPU cloud infrastructure for training, fine-tuning, and running large language models. Unlike competitors reliant on expensive third-party colocation, Nscale owns and operates its own facilities, enabling cost-effective deployment of 10,000+ GPU clusters with up to 20 MW of contiguous capacity. The company offers serverless inference, managed Kubernetes orchestration, and domain-specific model fine-tuning through an API-driven platform with pay-per-use pricing.

DayOne develops hyperscale data center infrastructure optimized for cloud, AI, and edge computing workloads. The company offers modular build systems, advanced liquid cooling, and infrastructure management tools designed for rapid deployment and operational resilience. DayOne serves US and Chinese hyperscalers with a focus on sustainability, strategic new markets, and fast time-to-deployment. The company has secured approximately 1GW of customer commitments and operates as a next-generation colocation platform with greenfield developments across Asia-Pacific and Europe.

Orca Security provides agentless cloud security scanning for AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud environments using proprietary SideScanning technology that analyzes block storage without deploying agents or impacting workload performance. The platform delivers instant visibility across multi-cloud infrastructure, detecting vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, malware, and compliance violations. Orca serves enterprise organizations requiring rapid deployment, complete cloud asset visibility, and minimal operational overhead. The company has achieved $1.8B valuation with backing from Google, Temasek, and other tier-one investors.

Nerdio is a cloud management platform that automates the deployment, scaling, and cost optimization of Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 environments. It helps Managed Service Providers and enterprise IT teams reduce Azure infrastructure costs by up to 80% through intelligent resource right-sizing and automation. The platform extends Microsoft Azure's native capabilities with advanced auto-scaling, license optimization, security, compliance, and monitoring features, replacing manual processes that typically take weeks with automated workflows executable in hours.

Mercury is a modern online banking platform purpose-built for startups and technology-focused businesses. It eliminates friction in business banking by offering zero-fee checking and savings accounts, corporate cards, invoicing, bill pay, and spend management—all with a modern interface designed for founders. Unlike legacy banks that flag startup activity as suspicious, Mercury understands the funding and cash flow patterns of early-stage companies. The platform aggregates financial data across all accounts to provide real-time insights into company financial health.

Ontic is a Connected Intelligence Platform that unifies security operations by aggregating threat indicators, OSINT data, and case management into a single system of record. It serves Fortune 500 companies and federal agencies to identify threats, assess risk, and respond faster to protect people and organizations. The platform consolidates research, incident investigation, real-time threat detection, and vulnerability assessments—solving the problem that investigators lose up to 50% of their time chasing down disparate data sources.

Paradox AI provides Olivia, a conversational AI assistant that automates candidate screening, interview scheduling, and follow-ups within existing ATS platforms. The platform integrates with systems like Workday and SAP SuccessFactors to engage candidates via mobile chat, reducing time-to-hire by 50% and increasing applicant conversion by 5x. Used by 500+ companies globally including Unilever, Nestle, and McDonald's, Paradox eliminates manual recruiting work at scale.

Genesis Global is a cloud-based low-code application development platform purpose-built for financial markets firms. It enables developers to build mission-critical, real-time applications 5x faster than traditional development with less code and lower cost, featuring event-driven architecture optimized for low-latency, high-throughput scenarios. The platform differentiates from generic low-code solutions by being specifically designed for the complexities of financial markets, replacing the traditional buy-vs-build challenge with a buy-to-build approach.

Everphone is a Device-as-a-Service (DaaS) platform that enables enterprises to procure, manage, and deploy corporate smartphones and tablets through a subscription model. The company converts device expenses from capital expenditure to predictable monthly operating costs, handling the entire lifecycle including sourcing, MDM configuration, deployment, repairs, and data erasure. Everphone currently manages over 250,000 devices for more than 1,000 companies, including DAX companies and major consulting firms, freeing IT teams approximately 2 hours per device.

Pleo is a European spend management platform that issues smart corporate payment cards (physical and virtual) integrated with real-time expense tracking and accounting software. It automates the entire employee spending workflow—from card transactions to receipt capture to invoice management—while giving finance teams budget controls and fraud detection. Pleo serves 40,000+ small and medium-sized businesses across 14 European markets, positioning itself as the dominant player in a spend management category worth $80B+ globally.

n8n is a workflow automation platform that combines visual no-code building with code-based customization, designed for technical teams. It supports 500+ integrations, self-hosting, and native AI agent capabilities with memory, evaluations, and multi-agent orchestration. Unlike purely visual tools like Zapier, n8n includes a built-in VS Code-style code editor for JavaScript and Python, enabling complex, multi-step automations. The platform powers mission-critical workflows for 3,000+ enterprises globally.

Meter delivers enterprise networking as a fully integrated service, combining custom-built hardware (firewalls, switches, access points, 5G gateways), proprietary software, and managed operations into a single subscription. The company disrupts traditional networking by eliminating the need for separate hardware vendors and IT operations, delivering secure, reliable connectivity across branch offices, campuses, and data centers. Meter's vertically integrated approach—designing and manufacturing all components simultaneously—enables superior performance, security, and scalability compared to best-of-breed alternatives.

Zoovu is an AI-powered product discovery and guided selling platform that transforms messy product data into semantically enriched information powering conversational buying experiences. It serves enterprise retailers and brands across e-commerce, B2B, and complex product categories by replacing generic keyword search with intelligent question-based navigation. The platform integrates search, guided selling, product configuration, and bundling from a single system, enabling customers to discover products through natural language interactions rather than static product listings. Zoovu's differentiation lies in its unified approach and advisor-model questioning sequences that match how buyers naturally navigate complex product categories.

Tailscale is a Zero Trust identity-based connectivity platform that replaces legacy VPNs, SASE, and PAM solutions by enabling secure private networks through peer-to-peer mesh networking built on WireGuard. It connects remote teams, multi-cloud environments, CI/CD pipelines, Edge/IoT devices, and AI workloads without requiring port forwarding, firewall rule changes, or complex VPN configurations. The platform uses advanced NAT traversal (STUN/ICE) and DERP relay protocols to establish direct encrypted connections across any network topology. Trusted by 10,000+ paid business customers including Fortune 500 companies, AI startups like Mistral and Hugging Face, and enterprises like Duolingo, Instacart, and Revolut.

Observe is a modern observability platform that unifies logs, metrics, traces, and events in a single data lake powered by AI-driven SRE capabilities. Built on a context graph and data lake architecture using open standards like OpenTelemetry and Apache Iceberg, it enables enterprises to resolve software incidents three times faster at one-third the cost compared to traditional tools. The platform eliminates silos by providing a single language for analysis and unified user interface across all telemetry data. Observe was acquired by Snowflake in 2025, becoming part of the broader data cloud platform.

MaintainX is a mobile-first CMMS/EAM platform that digitizes paper-based maintenance workflows for industrial and frontline teams. The AI-powered software helps manufacturers, facilities, and distribution centers manage work orders, preventive maintenance, and assets across multiple sites. Customers report 34% reductions in unplanned downtime, 15% production capacity increases, and up to 32% savings in maintenance costs. The platform serves 6,500+ customers managing 11M+ assets globally.

CHEQ is a go-to-market security platform that protects digital customer journeys by distinguishing legitimate users from bots, fraudsters, and malicious actors using real-time traffic, identity, and threat intelligence. The platform processes 6 trillion signals daily across 1 million domains with a false positive rate below 0.009%, serving over 15,000 brands globally. CHEQ's modular suite includes acquisition protection, form validation, analytics integration, and privacy compliance tools, delivering an estimated 671% ROI by eliminating wasted marketing spend on invalid traffic.

Temporal is a durable execution platform that enables developers to build scalable, fault-tolerant applications using Workflows-as-Code. Instead of building complex retry logic and state management separately, developers write business logic in their preferred programming language while Temporal handles persistence, retries, task queues, and error recovery. The platform is built on 20+ years of expertise from the engineers behind AWS SQS, AWS SWF, Azure Durable Functions, and Uber's Cadence orchestration engine.

BuildOps is a cloud-based SaaS platform that serves as "mission control" for commercial specialty contractors, consolidating invoicing, billing, scheduling, estimates, proposals, payments, and financial reporting into a single unified system. The platform is purpose-built for the commercial contracting sector—hospitals, data centers, and building maintenance—rather than residential contractors. Key differentiators include 80% faster quoting cycles, dramatic improvements in cash flow (reducing receivables from 90-120 days to 30 days), and integrated project and financial visibility across field operations.

FuriosaAI designs and manufactures high-performance, energy-efficient AI accelerators (NPUs) for data center deployments of large language models, multimodal applications, and computer vision workloads. Their flagship RNGD chip delivers 2.25x better inference performance per watt compared to traditional GPUs while consuming only 180W of power. The company serves enterprise customers and hyperscalers seeking cost-effective alternatives to Nvidia GPUs for AI inference at scale.

Omni is a modern AI-native analytics platform that combines a governed semantic layer with flexible SQL and UI tools for data exploration, visualization, and reporting. It sits between raw data and users, defining metrics, access controls, and calculation rules in one place. Built by Looker and Stitch veterans, Omni resolves the traditional governance vs. agility trade-off in business intelligence, enabling self-service analytics without chaos or siloed SQL exploration.

Parloa is an AI Agent Management Platform (AMP) that enables enterprise contact centers to automate customer service at scale using generative AI agents designed through natural language briefings rather than scripts. The platform specializes in voice-first interactions across phone, chat, and messaging channels, allowing businesses to deploy teams of autonomous AI agents that engage in dynamic, natural conversations with customers. Trusted by Fortune 200 companies like Allianz, Booking.com, and SAP, Parloa has achieved $50M+ ARR with 150% net revenue retention, positioning itself as an industry-first solution for agentic AI in customer service.

Chronosphere is a cloud-native observability platform that ingests and analyzes metrics, events, logs, and traces at scale. Built by former Uber engineers on technology powering Uber's M3 metrics system, it solves the cost explosion problem that plagues observability at massive scale by moving data-shaping decisions to the point of ingestion. Unlike traditional platforms that charge for all telemetry data collected, Chronosphere lets customers control what data to retain, reducing volumes and costs by 84% on average while cutting critical incidents by up to 75%. It's purpose-built for high-scale tech companies like Robinhood, DoorDash, and Snap where observability bills become prohibitively expensive.

Enfabrica develops specialized networking chips and systems that solve critical data movement bottlenecks for AI and machine learning workloads at hyperscale. Their Accelerated Compute Fabric (ACF) SuperNIC chip delivers multi-terabit Ethernet connectivity and memory disaggregation, enabling GPUs, CPUs, and memory to communicate 4x faster than competing solutions. Built by former Broadcom and Google infrastructure leaders, the company bridges PCIe/CXL memory semantics with RDMA networking to reduce AI processing costs and improve efficiency.

Karat operates the world's largest technical interviewing cloud platform, connecting companies with a vetted network of 24/7 interviewers to conduct fair, consistent technical screens at scale. Rather than burdening internal engineering teams with interview responsibilities, Karat handles candidate assessment using standardized rubrics, interview formats, and AI-enhanced evaluation. The platform serves enterprise and growth-stage tech companies looking to screen hundreds or thousands of engineering candidates annually while reducing hiring bias and improving candidate experience.

Atlan is a metadata platform that transforms data catalogs from static inventories into active governance control planes. It automatically captures column-level lineage, propagates governance context across the modern data stack, and surfaces quality signals inside tools like Snowflake and Databricks. Built for enterprises managing complex data ecosystems, Atlan serves as the missing context layer for enterprise AI, enabling both humans and AI agents to act on trusted data.

Redpanda is a Kafka-compatible streaming data platform built from the ground up to be 10x faster, lighter, and simpler than Apache Kafka. It eliminates external dependencies like JVM and ZooKeeper while offering built-in schema registry, HTTP proxy, and WebAssembly-based data transforms. The platform powers real-time data processing for enterprises like Activision Blizzard, Cisco, and Moody's, with a strategic focus on the Agentic Data Plane for AI-driven applications.

Alkira is a cloud-native network infrastructure-as-a-service platform that unifies connectivity across multiple clouds, data centers, and on-premises environments through a single control plane. It solves the fragmentation of east-west traffic between clouds by providing enterprises with an intuitive design canvas to deploy and manage network connectivity in minutes without hardware or agents. Founded by the team behind Viptela (acquired by Cisco for $610M), Alkira has raised $184M from top-tier investors including Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, and Tiger Global Management.

CyCognito is an attack surface discovery platform that autonomously simulates attacker techniques to identify internet-exposed and unmanaged assets across an organization's infrastructure. Using machine learning, NLP, and graph data models, it discovers business relationships, subsidiaries, and cloud environments without requiring customer integration or configuration. The platform prioritizes critical risks by filtering false positives through advanced AI, enabling security teams to focus remediation efforts on actual threats rather than vulnerability lists.

Cape is a privacy-first mobile carrier that owns and operates its own mobile core and SIMs, addressing network-layer vulnerabilities that app-based solutions cannot fix. Unlike traditional MVNOs that resell carrier services, Cape embeds privacy and security at the cellular infrastructure level to protect against SIM swaps, surveillance, and metadata breaches. Founded by former Palantir executives with national security expertise, Cape serves U.S. government agencies, enterprise executives, journalists, and privacy-conscious consumers across the country.

Anyscale provides a fully managed platform for building, scaling, and deploying AI applications on Ray, an open-source distributed computing engine. It eliminates the infrastructure complexity of scaling Python-based AI workloads across CPUs, GPUs, and accelerators by providing a unified runtime that abstracts away distributed systems engineering. Developers can start locally and seamlessly scale to thousands of machines without rewriting code. The platform serves enterprises running compute-intensive AI applications at scale, with customers including Apple, Uber, OpenAI, and LinkedIn.

Pave is a real-time compensation management platform that replaces outdated spreadsheets and stale consultant data with live, integrated salary benchmarking and pay planning tools. The platform helps mid-market and enterprise companies plan merit cycles, manage pay ranges, benchmark compensation, and communicate total rewards through automated integrations with HRIS, ATS, and EMS systems. Pave differentiates itself through real-time market data updated monthly and persistent system integrations, enabling data-driven compensation decisions at scale.

Veriff is an AI-powered identity verification platform that automatically verifies customer identities using facial recognition, document validation, and behavioral analysis. The company serves fintech, marketplaces, and regulated industries through an API-based service that achieves 99.6% fraud detection accuracy in ~6 seconds. Veriff differentiates itself with support for 12,500+ identity documents (vs. competitors' ~2,500) and industry-leading speed, enabling businesses to reduce verification drop-offs and improve conversion rates.

ThreatLocker is a zero trust endpoint protection platform that stops ransomware and cyberattacks by using a deny-by-default application control model—only allowing approved software to run rather than trying to block threats after they appear. The platform includes application control, storage control, privileged access management, network access control, and EDR/MDR capabilities, with a learning mode that automatically catalogs apps and recognizes over 13,000 pre-built applications. It serves mid-market to enterprise organizations across all industries, with a particular focus on MSPs serving their customers. Over 50,000 businesses worldwide have adopted ThreatLocker to shrink their attack surface and reduce security incidents.

You.com is an AI-powered search and agent platform that solves hallucination in large language models by grounding them with real-time, accurate web and private data. The company provides enterprise-grade search APIs and AI tools designed for AI agents and knowledge workers who need trustworthy, contextual information at scale. Founded by former Salesforce chief scientist Richard Socher, You.com has pivoted from consumer search toward B2B enterprise sales, serving finance, biotech, legal, and academic sectors with privacy-first infrastructure built for the agentic era.

Kandji is a unified platform for securing, managing, and automating Apple device fleets at scale, supporting macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and tvOS. It combines device management, endpoint security, compliance, and automation—eliminating manual IT work through zero-touch deployment, security baselines, and real-time compliance monitoring. The platform integrates with 150+ enterprise tools including Apple Business Manager, Slack, Microsoft 365, and Drata. Kandji serves enterprises across 40+ industries, with 30%+ of customers and revenue outside North America.