Startups Directory

PayJoy provides buy-now-pay-later smartphone financing for underbanked populations in emerging markets, with loans typically spanning 3-12 months at no interest and no hidden fees. The company uses the smartphone itself as collateral and employs machine learning to assess creditworthiness, achieving 20% lower default rates than traditional lenders. PayJoy has served over 15 million customers across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, and recently expanded into credit products like the PayJoy Card to help customers build traditional credit scores.

Mixpanel is an event-based product analytics platform that helps companies measure user behavior through detailed event tracking, retention analysis, and funnel visualization. The platform goes beyond traditional page-view analytics to capture specific user interactions like clicks, scrolls, and video plays, providing AI-powered insights into user engagement. Built by former Slide employees who recognized that startups lacked access to sophisticated analytics tools, Mixpanel now serves nearly 20,000 companies including 14% of Fortune 500 companies like Netflix, Uber, and Pinterest.

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.

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.

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.

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.

MFS Africa is Africa's largest mobile money interoperability hub, connecting over 400 million mobile wallets and millions of bank accounts across 40+ countries through a single API. The platform enables enterprises—from fintech companies to NGOs—to scale digital payment strategies by providing seamless cross-border transfers, merchant payments, bulk payouts, and bank-to-wallet services. With partnerships spanning 180+ mobile money operators and global remittance providers like Western Union and MoneyGram, MFS Africa has become the infrastructure backbone for digital payments across the continent.

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.