Startups Directory

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.

ClickUp is a converged workspace platform that natively integrates tasks, documents, real-time chat, goals, and whiteboards into a single unified interface. It positions itself as an all-in-one alternative to fragmented productivity stacks, eliminating context switching through deep feature integration rather than loose API connections. The platform offers 15+ customizable layouts and advanced capabilities like automation, time tracking, and dashboards at lower price tiers than competitors like Asana and Monday.com.

Fireworks AI provides a unified inference and fine-tuning platform for open-source large language, vision, and multimodal models, eliminating the need for users to manage GPU infrastructure. The platform serves over 100 state-of-the-art models with 4x lower latency than competitors like vLLM and up to 12x faster inference than comparable engines. Built by former Meta and Google AI leaders, Fireworks enables developers and enterprises to deploy, customize, and scale AI models with enterprise-grade compliance and zero data retention by default.

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.

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.

CoachHub is a global digital coaching platform that connects employees with certified business coaches through AI-enabled matching and seamless video/messaging tools. The platform scales personalized one-on-one coaching across organizations while reducing costs and logistics of traditional in-person coaching. CoachHub recently launched AIMY, an AI-powered coaching solution, and serves enterprise clients including Fujitsu, KPMG, and Electrolux. The platform combines behavioral science frameworks with a network of 3,500+ certified coaches across 90 countries.

Drata is a security and compliance automation platform that continuously monitors an organization's tech stack to collect evidence of security controls and automate compliance workflows. It integrates with SaaS apps, cloud providers, and employee devices to centralize compliance data across 30+ frameworks including SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and GDPR. The platform automates 80% of evidence collection and unifies risk, controls, and audits in a single dashboard, reducing manual compliance work from hundreds of hours to actionable automation.

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.

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.

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.

Persona is an all-in-one identity verification platform that helps businesses verify individuals and organizations, manage user onboarding, and comply with KYC, AML, and age verification regulations. The platform uses machine learning, computer vision, and proprietary liveness checks to automate identity verification in seconds, with capabilities including document verification, biometric checks, database screening, and customizable workflow automation. Founded by former Dropbox and Square engineers, Persona serves high-growth companies across fintech, compliance, and trust & safety use cases.

Sublime Security is an AI-powered email security platform that deploys autonomous agents to detect, triage, and stop targeted email attacks in real time. Built on Message Query Language (MQL), a domain-specific language for email behavior detection, it enables security teams to write and deploy custom defenses without MX record changes across Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace. The platform combines transparency and flexibility with autonomous threat investigation, reducing manual review work by 62% while catching significantly more threats than traditional blackbox solutions.

Cents is a fully integrated software, hardware, and payments platform built specifically for the laundry industry. It unifies point-of-sale systems, on-machine payments, pickup and delivery management, dynamic pricing, marketing automation, and business intelligence into a single dashboard. The platform powers nearly 1 in 6 laundromats in the U.S. and processes over $1 billion in payments annually across 4,500+ locations. Unlike fragmented competitors, Cents is the only company making a full commitment across software, hardware, and payments all under one roof.

LeadSquared is a unified sales execution and marketing automation platform that helps enterprises and mid-market businesses automate lead capture, distribution, engagement, and conversion across sales, marketing, field force, and customer service teams. The platform combines CRM and marketing automation in a single interface, enabling businesses to track and manage leads through the entire customer lifecycle. LeadSquared differentiates itself through affordable pricing (starting at $25/user/month), deep industry-specific solutions for financial services, real estate, education, and healthcare, and tight integration between sales and marketing workflows. Since 2011, it has grown to serve 2,000+ customers including Practo, LIC Housing Finance, and Hippo Homes.

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.

Observe.AI is an AI-powered conversation intelligence platform for contact centers that analyzes customer interactions in real-time and post-interaction to improve agent performance, operational efficiency, and customer experience. The platform combines real-time agent assistance, automated quality assurance, AI-powered agents, and summarization capabilities to help enterprises transform conversations into business outcomes. Trusted by 350+ global enterprises including SoFi, DoorDash, Uber, and Prudential, Observe.AI enables contact centers to handle high-volume calls, reduce after-call work, and maintain compliance while delivering measurable ROI.

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.

Gtmhub (rebranded to Quantive in December 2022, acquired by WorkBoard in May 2025) was a cloud-based OKR and strategy execution platform that connected to 150+ business systems to automatically update key results and enable real-time performance visibility. The platform helped organizations break down internal silos, align employees with long-term goals, and execute strategy faster without waiting between quarterly reviews. With $161M in total funding—more than any competitor in the space—Gtmhub served 500,000+ users across 75+ countries, including enterprise clients like Adobe, Red Hat, Experian, Société Générale, and Absa.

Akur8 is an AI-powered SaaS platform that automates insurance pricing and reserving using machine learning while maintaining regulatory transparency. The platform enables actuaries to build predictive pricing models 5x faster than traditional methods by combining gradient-boosted machine learning accuracy with GLM-comparable explainability. Serving 300+ insurers including AXA, Generali, and Munich Re across 40+ countries, Akur8 solves the critical problem of reconciling advanced AI sophistication with insurance regulatory compliance requirements.

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.

SeekOut is an AI-powered talent acquisition platform that searches nearly one billion public profiles and ATS data to help companies source, screen, and engage qualified candidates at scale. The company offers two main products: SeekOut Recruit, an intelligent recruiting platform with job-specific workflows and labor market insights, and SeekOut Spot, an agentic AI service that delivers interview-ready candidates in 14 days with human recruiter guidance. SeekOut differentiates through unique sourcing capabilities for GitHub profiles and patent/research publication data across engineering and life sciences, enabling companies to find untapped deep tech talent efficiently.

Spendesk is an all-in-one spend management platform that consolidates corporate cards, expense reimbursements, invoice payments, budgets, approvals, and reporting into a single solution. It serves mid-market and enterprise businesses across Europe, particularly SMBs, eliminating fragmented spending processes and giving finance teams visibility and automation across all employee spending. The platform processed €20 billion in spend in 2024 and is trusted by over 5,000 businesses including Algolia, Soundcloud, Doctolib, and Gousto. What differentiates Spendesk is its unified 7-in-1 approach versus point solutions, combined with European compliance focus and recent AI agent capabilities.

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.

CAST AI is a machine learning-powered platform that automatically optimizes Kubernetes clusters and cloud infrastructure in real time, reducing cloud costs by 50% or more while improving application performance and security. Unlike competitors that merely monitor and recommend fixes, CAST AI actively implements optimizations across AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-premises environments. The platform uses advanced ML algorithms to continuously analyze workload behavior, automate resource allocation, and eliminate waste through intelligent bin packing and pod scheduling.

Statsig is a unified experimentation and feature management platform that enables product teams to run A/B tests, deploy features safely via feature flags, and analyze user behavior without redeploying code. The platform combines feature flagging, experimentation, session replay, and analytics into a single workflow, with a warehouse-native option that operates within customers' existing data infrastructure like Snowflake and BigQuery. Used by companies like Notion, Microsoft, Brex, and Electronic Arts, Statsig accelerates product innovation by democratizing experimentation across developers, PMs, and designers. The company has achieved $40M ARR and raised $153.4M at a $1.1B valuation.

Firebolt is a cloud data warehouse built for sub-second query performance on massive datasets at high concurrency. It decouples metadata, storage, and compute to enable independent scaling, allowing organizations to run complex SQL queries on petabyte-scale data with millisecond latency. The platform supports diverse workloads from batch analytics to customer-facing AI applications, with real-world customers like Similarweb querying petabytes in production while ingesting terabytes daily.

Tackle.io is a cloud marketplace platform that helps independent software vendors (ISVs) list and sell their products through AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud marketplaces without requiring engineering resources. The platform eliminates the technical burden of marketplace integration, management, and compliance, allowing software companies to accelerate their cloud go-to-market strategy. Tackle has enabled over 600 ISVs to reach cloud marketplaces, with customers including Auth0, CrowdStrike, GitLab, HashiCorp, Okta, and PagerDuty achieving significant revenue growth through the platform.

CaptivateIQ is a Sales Performance Management (SPM) platform that automates commission calculations, quota management, territory planning, and incentive forecasting for sales operations teams. The platform aggregates data from systems like Salesforce and NetSuite to replace manual spreadsheets with real-time visibility and scalable governance. Built for mid-market and enterprise organizations, CaptivateIQ combines spreadsheet-like flexibility with enterprise automation, enabling teams like Gong to process monthly payouts 60x faster while reducing commission inquiries by 30%. The platform now includes AI-powered planning capabilities and personalized payee experiences launched in 2025.

Osapiens is a cloud-based, AI-powered compliance and operations automation platform that helps large enterprises manage supply chain compliance, sustainability, and regulatory requirements at scale. The platform integrates with existing ERP systems like SAP and Microsoft Dynamics, offering no-code workflow builders, real-time monitoring, and pre-built compliance modules for regulations like EUDR, CSDDD, and Germany's Supply Chain Due Diligence Act. With over 2,500 customers worldwide, Osapiens positions itself as the go-to solution for distributed organizations needing coordinated process management and audit readiness across complex operations.

Laurel is an AI-native time intelligence platform that passively captures digital work activity and uses firm-specific large language models to automatically generate structured, compliant time entries and billing narratives. Built specifically for enterprise professional services firms, it eliminates manual timekeeping while helping lawyers and accountants recover an average of 28 billable minutes per day—translating to 4-11% profit increases. Laurel is the first and only company applying generative AI to enterprise timekeeping, processing over $4.4 billion in professional time annually.

Micronotes is an end-to-end prescreen marketing platform that uses machine learning and credit bureau data to identify loan and refinancing opportunities for financial institutions. It delivers personalized offers through email, direct mail, and digital banking channels while generating FCRA-compliant firm offers. The platform serves 140+ banks and credit unions by enabling them to compete with larger institutions through sophisticated data analytics, cross-sell automation, and proprietary MicroInterview® engagement technology that delivers 23x higher click-through rates than traditional banner ads.