Startups Directory

Trusted Health operates a dual-sided marketplace connecting nurses and allied health professionals with flexible travel jobs while providing healthcare systems with workforce management solutions. For clinicians, it offers real-time job matching with transparent compensation details and a dedicated Clinical Care Team. For hospitals and health systems, Works—their B2B product—enables data-driven staffing to manage both predictable and unpredictable workforce fluctuations, from seasonality to acute callouts.

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.

Copado is the #1 Intelligent DevOps Platform purpose-built for Salesforce, enabling enterprises to automate CI/CD, testing, compliance, and deployments across Salesforce environments. Trusted by 1,750+ global brands including Coca-Cola, Medtronic, and Volkswagen, it consolidates deployment automation, robotic testing, monitoring, and compliance into a single platform with embedded AI. The platform helps organizations achieve 20x more frequent releases, 95% less downtime, and 10x faster testing compared to manual processes.

Commercetools is a cloud-native, API-first headless commerce platform that enables enterprises to build custom e-commerce experiences at scale. Founded in 2006 and processing over $75B in annualized GMV across 600+ brands, it powers digital commerce for major retailers like LEGO, Sephora, BMW, and AT&T. The platform uses microservices architecture to give enterprises real-time flexibility to adapt, scale, and differentiate without legacy platform constraints. Commercetools is credited with pioneering the headless commerce movement and stands as the largest independent enterprise commerce technology company.

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.

Noname Security is an AI-powered API security platform that automatically discovers, inventories, and protects all APIs across an organization's environment. The platform identifies vulnerabilities including data leakage, authorization issues, misconfigurations, and suspicious behavior without requiring agents or network modifications. It serves enterprises across financial services, healthcare, retail, and public sector, protecting over 10 million APIs and nearly $3 trillion in revenue streams. Noname was acquired by Akamai in May 2024 for $450M and is being integrated into Akamai's API Security offering.

Solo.io provides API gateway and service mesh management tools that help enterprises connect, manage, and secure application traffic across microservices architectures. Built on industry standards like Envoy Proxy, Kubernetes, and Istio, their products—Gloo Edge, Gloo Mesh, Gloo Portal, and Gloo Extensions—enable organizations to modernize their internal application networking without relying on traditional ISV integrations. The company is led by cloud infrastructure veterans including Istio co-creators, giving it deep credibility in the cloud-native ecosystem. Solo.io focuses specifically on enterprises building and managing their own microservices, not those connecting third-party SaaS applications.

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.

Decagon is an AI agent platform that enables brands to deploy personalized, omnichannel customer service agents capable of handling complex workflows like refunds, identity verification, and escalations 24/7. The platform uses a centralized intelligence layer with Agent Operating Procedures (AOPs)—plain English instructions that allow AI to learn and improve from every interaction without requiring code changes. Customers like Chime, ClassPass, and Duolingo have achieved 60-80% support cost reductions and 95% improvements in resolution efficiency. Decagon's differentiator is its ability to handle sophisticated tasks across any channel while maintaining consistency and learning continuously from customer interactions.

Deepgram is a foundational AI company that builds vertically integrated voice AI infrastructure, controlling model development, data labeling, synthetic data generation, and its own data centers. The platform offers three core capabilities: Listen (speech-to-text), Think (language understanding), and Speak (text-to-speech), with particular strength in handling real-world audio conditions like background noise, overlapping speakers, accents, and technical terminology. Serving over 1,300 organizations including NASA, Spotify, and Twilio, Deepgram differentiates through superior accuracy, lowest latency, and 2-5x more affordable pricing than competitors by owning its entire stack.

ScaleOps is an autonomous platform that continuously monitors and optimizes Kubernetes and AI infrastructure resources in real-time, dynamically adjusting CPU, memory, GPU, and replica counts based on live workload behavior. It eliminates manual configuration and operates with full context awareness to prevent performance issues and downtime that plague other automation tools. Customers typically achieve up to 80% cost reduction while improving performance and stability across their infrastructure.

PayCargo is a cloud-based payment settlement platform that automates freight payments across air, sea, and land logistics. It connects shippers with over 4,000 vendors including major carriers like Hapag-Lloyd, MSC, and Air France, enabling cargo release within an hour of payment approval. The platform reduces processing costs and delays while offering integrated financing options for companies that prefer deferred payment.

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.

Tines is a no-code AI orchestration platform that enables security and IT teams to automate mission-critical workflows without writing code. It serves as the integration layer between disparate security and IT tools, allowing teams to build intelligent agents that monitor alerts, manage compliance, handle employee lifecycle, and orchestrate patch management. Founded by former security leaders from eBay and DocuSign who experienced the pain of manual security operations firsthand, Tines has grown to a $1.125B valuation with 378 employees.

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.

Hailo develops patented silicon AI accelerators that enable efficient deep learning inference on edge devices with minimal power consumption (<3W), eliminating cloud dependency while protecting privacy. The Hailo-8 and Hailo-10H chips integrate all required memory on the processor die, delivering 26+ TOPS of performance while maintaining exceptional power efficiency. Serving automotive, security, retail, industrial, and medical sectors, Hailo has secured over 300 customers including HP, Dell, BMW, Sony, and Bosch.

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.

Factorial is an AI-first business management platform that unifies HR, Finance, and Operations for mid-market companies. It combines time tracking, talent recruitment, performance management, payroll, benefits, and document management in a single platform. The platform serves 14,000+ clients and 1M+ daily users, distinguishing itself through simplicity and ease of use compared to complex enterprise solutions like Workday, without requiring dedicated IT teams.

Webflow is a visual web design platform that enables designers and teams to build, design, and launch responsive websites while automatically generating clean, semantic HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code. The platform has evolved into a comprehensive Website Experience Platform (WXP) that combines visual site building with CMS capabilities, analytics, A/B testing, personalization, and performance optimization—all without requiring developers. It serves designers, agencies, and businesses that need production-ready websites without writing code manually. Webflow differentiates itself by generating real, semantic code rather than abstract elements, appealing to design professionals who want both visual control and code quality.

Harmonic builds Aristotle, an AI-driven mathematical reasoning engine that uses formal verification via the Lean 4 proof assistant to solve complex mathematical problems with provable correctness. The platform translates natural-language math problems into formally verified proofs, eliminating the guesswork in mathematical reasoning. Harmonic serves mathematicians, quantitative researchers, software verification teams, and enterprises needing formally verified code generation. Unlike general-purpose AI models that can hallucinate intermediate steps, Aristotle guarantees each reasoning step is mathematically sound.

XBOW is an AI-powered autonomous penetration testing platform that identifies and exploits vulnerabilities in web applications without human intervention. Using swarms of AI agents, it simultaneously explores multiple attack vectors, reducing testing times from weeks to hours while providing reproducible proof of exploitation. The platform is trusted by Fortune 500 companies including UKG, Samsung SDS, and Moderna, and recently ranked #1 on the HackerOne leaderboard, outperforming thousands of human hackers.

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.

Brandtech Group is the world's leading digital-only marketing group and generative AI marketing company, founded by former Havas CEO David Jones. Its flagship platform Pencil uses AI to create ads 10x faster, 2x better performing, and 30-50% cheaper than traditional methods. The group operates a portfolio of specialized agencies (Mofilm, Oliver, Jellyfish, DP6, and others) serving 8 of the top 10 global advertisers through end-to-end AI-powered creative solutions backed by $1B in annual media spend across 5,000 brands.

IntelyCare is an AI-powered workforce management platform that uses machine learning and behavioral science to match nursing professionals with healthcare shifts while optimizing staffing for post-acute care facilities. The platform fills nursing shifts at three times the industry average by predicting staffing needs weeks in advance and enabling shift matching within 12 hours. It serves 1,600 healthcare facilities across 28 states, handling credentialing, scheduling, training, and direct payment to nursing professionals through a geofencing-validated mobile app.

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.

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.

Envoy is a workplace management platform that digitizes visitor management, space booking, deliveries, and emergency notifications for modern offices. Built for mid-market companies managing hybrid and multi-location workplaces, it replaces paper logbooks and fragmented tools with an integrated security and compliance solution. The platform handles over 100,000 daily sign-ins across 16,000+ workplaces globally, serving companies like Slack, Asana, Pinterest, and Warby Parker. Envoy's strength lies in combining security, audit trails, and operational efficiency into a single platform tailored for workplace safety.

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.

Teleport is an open-source identity and access management platform that replaces traditional VPNs and secret-based security with a unified, certificate-based access control layer for servers, databases, Kubernetes clusters, cloud applications, and AI infrastructure. It eliminates credential sprawl by issuing short-lived, automatically expiring certificates instead of long-lived SSH keys and passwords. The platform serves infrastructure teams at scale, from startups to Fortune 500 companies, providing zero-trust access enforcement across all computing resources.

TimescaleDB is an open-source PostgreSQL extension optimized for time-series data, delivering 10-100x faster query performance than MongoDB and InfluxDB while supporting millions of events per second with up to 95% storage compression. Built by Ajay Kulkarni and Michael Freedman (Princeton professor), it serves companies ingesting and analyzing massive volumes of time-stamped data across IoT, blockchain, maritime, and industrial applications. The product maintains full PostgreSQL compatibility—same drivers, clients, and SQL—while adding automatic time-partitioning (hypertables) and columnar compression.

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.

Cart.com is an integrated commerce operating system that combines e-commerce software, fulfillment services, marketplace connectivity, and analytics into a unified platform. The company serves 6,000+ customers processing 70+ million orders annually across 8.5 million square feet of fulfillment space. It differentiates itself by owning the entire value chain—from product listing through last-mile delivery—rather than acting as pure software, creating defensible competitive advantages and multiple revenue streams. Cart.com positions itself as the omnichannel commerce engine for D2C and B2B brands seeking to consolidate fragmented operations.

Docker is a containerization platform that packages applications and their dependencies into lightweight, isolated containers that run consistently across any infrastructure. It solves the 'works on my machine' problem by virtualizing the operating system rather than hardware, enabling developers to build, ship, and run applications faster. With over 10 million registered developers and 56,000 commercial customers including 70% of Fortune 100 companies, Docker has become the industry standard for application deployment and DevOps workflows.

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.

Overhaul is an enterprise supply chain visibility platform that provides real-time monitoring, predictive risk intelligence, and compliance management for high-value cargo across air, ocean, road, and rail. The platform combines SKU-level tracking with IoT sensor integration and telematics data to give global brands control over shipments in motion. Serving industries like automotive, life sciences, and high-tech, Overhaul achieves a 96% cargo theft recovery rate and 80% loss reduction compared to industry benchmarks. The platform is data-agnostic, integrating with existing infrastructure rather than requiring proprietary hardware.

Recogni develops AI inference processors that deliver 10x higher compute density, 10x lower power consumption, and 13x lower cost per query compared to GPU-based solutions. The company applies proprietary logarithmic number system (LNS) technology to enable efficient inference at scale for generative AI and autonomous vehicle applications. Recogni targets cloud data centers and automotive OEMs seeking to reduce the power, cooling, and infrastructure costs of AI deployment.

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.

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.

Fountain is an applicant tracking system (ATS) and talent platform purpose-built for high-volume frontline hiring in retail, logistics, hospitality, healthcare, and manufacturing. The platform automates the entire hiring pipeline—from applications and screening to interview scheduling and offer letters—reducing median time-to-hire from 36 days to 8.7 days. Unlike legacy ATS vendors designed for corporate roles, Fountain evolved specifically for the hourly and gig economy workforce, which comprises nearly 70% of the global labor market.

Tecton is an enterprise feature store that centralizes the management, serving, and governance of machine learning features used in production models. It solves the critical problem of training-serving skew by maintaining consistency between offline (batch) and online (real-time) feature environments, with online latencies under 5ms at 100K+ queries per second. The platform enables data teams to discover, reuse, monitor, and govern ML feature pipelines, reducing weeks from deployment cycles. Tecton was acquired by Databricks in August 2025.

Builder.ai was a no-code AI-powered app development platform that claimed to automate software development from concept to launch. The platform positioned itself as a hybrid between DIY no-code tools and traditional development agencies, combining AI acceleration with human expertise. However, the company ceased operations in May 2025 after entering insolvency, with investigations revealing that most development work was performed by human engineers rather than AI, contradicting its core marketing narrative.

FundGuard is a cloud-native, AI-powered investment accounting platform that serves as a core system of record for asset managers and fund administrators. It automates complex multi-asset accounting workflows, real-time NAV monitoring, and exception management across multiple books of record (IBOR, ABOR, X-BOR). The platform uses machine learning to automatically map financial data from any format (CSV, Excel, XML, screenshots) and transform accounting from reactive to proactive, reducing operational risk and manual effort.

LinkSquares is an AI-powered contract lifecycle management platform that helps in-house legal teams organize, analyze, and extract actionable insights from contracts. Its proprietary LinkAI engine uses predictive and generative AI to extract over 120 dates and clauses, automate redlining, and generate contract language. The platform excels at managing the second half of the contract lifecycle—post-signature analysis, compliance tracking, and obligation management—rather than initial drafting and negotiation.

Trigo is a computer vision and AI-powered platform that enables grocery retailers to operate fully or partially automated checkout-free stores. Using ceiling-mounted cameras and shelf sensors, the system creates a digital twin of the store to track shopper journeys and automatically detect product selections without facial recognition. The company offers three main solutions: autonomous checkout (EasyOut®), real-time loss prevention, and retail intelligence (StoreOS) for inventory optimization and pricing. Trigo has been deployed by major retailers including Tesco, REWE Group, Aldi Nord, and Netto across Europe.

Sendoso is a Sending Management Platform that enables B2B companies to break through digital noise with personalized physical gifts, direct mail, corporate swag, and handwritten notes. The platform provides access to 30,000+ products and handles full logistics, packing, and fulfillment globally. It integrates natively with 90+ business tools including Salesforce, HubSpot, Outreach, and Marketo, allowing teams to trigger sends directly from their existing workflows. The company operates its own warehouses across North America, EMEA, and APAC, ensuring direct control over inventory and shipping.