Startups Directory

OSF Digital is a enterprise digital transformation consultant specializing in Salesforce implementation, commerce platforms (CRM, CMS, OMS), and AI-driven agentic workflows. The company serves Fortune 500 brands across retail, cosmetics, banking, and hospitality sectors, having completed 1,907+ employees across 12 acquired agencies globally. They differentiate through 14+ years of Salesforce partnership expertise, exclusive expert distinction in four commerce categories, and a patent-pending AI platform (AllAi) for operationalizing enterprise workflows.

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.

Aiven is a fully managed, open source data platform that handles the operational complexity of streaming, storing, and serving data across AWS, Azure, GCP, and other cloud providers. The platform eliminates the need for companies to hire expensive DevOps specialists by managing infrastructure, scaling, upgrades, and migrations automatically. Built on open source services like Apache Kafka, PostgreSQL, and OpenSearch, Aiven prevents vendor lock-in while delivering enterprise-grade reliability. It serves businesses from startups to Fortune 500 companies across 60+ countries seeking simplified multi-cloud data infrastructure.

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.

Hasura automatically generates unified GraphQL APIs from databases, REST endpoints, and other data sources, enabling developers to access and compose data instantly without building custom APIs. The platform supports PostgreSQL, MongoDB, ClickHouse, and MS SQL Server, with a compiler-based approach that optimizes queries at any depth. Used by enterprises like Airbus, Atlassian, Walmart, and Swiggy, Hasura differentiates through open-source flexibility, multi-database support, enterprise-grade security, and fine-grained access control—eliminating the need for custom API infrastructure.

Render is a modern cloud platform that enables developers and teams to build, deploy, and operate applications without managing infrastructure. It provides native-language runtimes, autoscaling, managed databases, private networking, and zero-downtime deploys—positioning itself as a contemporary alternative to Heroku with capabilities built for today's infrastructure needs. The platform supports web services, static sites, background workers, and AI agent workflows, serving thousands of companies from startups to enterprises like OpenAI, Shopify, and Alibaba.

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.

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.

Codat is a universal API platform that enables software providers and financial institutions to access, synchronize, and interpret small business financial data in real-time. It connects to 35+ accounting, banking, and commerce platforms through a single standardized API, making integrations 6x faster than building in-house. The platform serves over 300 global clients including major banks and fintechs like Brex, Jeeves, and PayPal Zettle, with 150,000+ small businesses connected.

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.

Swap Commerce is an e-commerce operating system that unifies backend operations—shipping, returns, inventory, tax, compliance, and cross-border workflows—into a single platform. It serves rapidly scaling D2C and e-commerce brands that need to manage complex global logistics without maintaining multiple disconnected tools. The platform reduces operational costs by up to 30% and increases revenue by 8% through AI-driven inventory management and automated cross-border compliance. Swap has evolved from a returns-focused solution into a comprehensive commerce backbone that enables brands to expand internationally without manual overhead.

Swiftly is a vertical SaaS platform and retail media marketplace that unifies first-party shopper data across POS, loyalty, ecommerce, and mobile to enable identity resolution, audience targeting, and closed-loop attribution. The platform serves both grocery retailers and CPG brands, allowing independent and regional grocers to compete with Amazon and Walmart through digital engagement tools, personalized loyalty programs, and high-margin media monetization. Major customers including PepsiCo, Red Bull, and Kraft Heinz use Swiftly to drive in-store sales across 33,000+ locations. Swiftly operates a two-sided marketplace where retailers gain digital surfaces and CPG brands access premium, retailer-owned inventory via a unified campaign engine.

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.

Fazz is a B2B neobank and payment infrastructure platform serving businesses across Southeast Asia, from warungs to Fortune 500 companies. The platform enables businesses to accept payments (e-wallet, bank transfer, credit card), maintain business cash accounts with 4% interest, access corporate cards, and utilize lending products like invoice financing. Fazz addresses the $300 billion funding gap for MSMEs by providing enterprise-grade financial tools at accessible price points, processing over $6 billion in annualized GTV.

BitGo is the largest independent digital asset custodian, securing approximately 20% of all on-chain Bitcoin transactions and holding over $100 billion in digital assets. The company provides a full-stack platform combining multisignature wallet technology, regulated custody, and prime brokerage services for institutions including banks, fintechs, hedge funds, and asset managers. BitGo pioneered multi-sig architecture that eliminates single points of failure, differentiating it from competitors by providing insurance-grade security with clear legal title to custodied assets.

Unit is a banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platform that enables companies to embed financial features—checking accounts, cards, payments, and lending—directly into their products via APIs, SDKs, and white-labeled UIs. The platform reduces what typically takes 18 months of bank negotiations and compliance work into a 5-week deployment. Unit differentiates by owning its own ledger, the most critical and sensitive part of the ecosystem, delivering superior technical control and user experience compared to competitors.

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.

Sure is an API-driven infrastructure platform that enables businesses to embed insurance products directly into their customer experiences in milliseconds. The company provides policy management, claims settlement, and quoting infrastructure that allows brands and carriers to launch digital insurance programs without building from scratch. Sure serves enterprises like Tesla, MasterCard, Intuit, and Carvana, differentiating through fully embedded end-to-end experiences built from the ground up rather than rebranded legacy solutions.

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.

Apna is a mobile-first digital marketplace connecting entry-level and blue/gray-collar job seekers to employers across India. The platform features 70+ professional communities (carpenters, painters, telecallers, delivery personnel, etc.) and uses AI-driven matching to enable bulk hiring campaigns, automated candidate sourcing, and integrated chat for interview coordination. Employers can post jobs, filter profiles, unlock contact details, and engage candidates via WhatsApp, while job seekers access real-time alerts, interview prep tools, and social networking features.

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.

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.

Xanadu develops photonic quantum computing hardware and software platforms that operate at room temperature, eliminating the extreme cooling requirements of competing approaches. The company offers Aurora, a 12-qubit universal photonic quantum computer, alongside software tools like Pennylane for quantum programming and Lightning for high-performance simulation. Its continuous-variable encoding approach provides inherently higher tolerance to manufacturing imperfections, enabling faster progress toward quantum advantage. Xanadu serves defense, aerospace, pharmaceutical, semiconductor, and automotive sectors through cloud-based access and direct partnerships.

Gem is a talent acquisition platform that combines candidate relationship management (CRM) with applicant tracking system (ATS) functionality to streamline recruiting workflows. It aggregates candidate data from sources like LinkedIn, automates outreach and follow-ups, and provides team collaboration features with automatic pipeline tracking. Built by former engineering leaders from Dropbox and Facebook, Gem serves over 800 companies including Spotify, Lyft, DoorDash, and Slack, filling the gap between LinkedIn's candidate databases and HRIS systems like Workday.

Infleqtion engineers neutral atom quantum computers, precision atomic clocks, and quantum software for governments, corporations, and research institutions. The company delivers full-stack quantum systems with real-world deployments on the International Space Station and in national labs, achieving record-breaking 99.73% CZ gate fidelity. With $311M in total funding and $32.5M in 2025 revenue, Infleqtion serves defense, aerospace, and commercial customers through products like Sqale quantum computers and Tiqker atomic clock systems.

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.

Cognigy.AI is a low-code conversational AI platform that enables enterprises to automate customer and employee communications through intelligent voice- and chatbots across any channel (web, phone, SMS, mobile). The platform combines Large Language Models with structured logic workflows, allowing organizations to deploy sophisticated AI agents capable of independent decision-making while maintaining precise intent recognition. Available as SaaS or on-premise, it supports multilingual conversations and integrates seamlessly with backend systems. Now part of NICE following a $955M acquisition in September 2025.

Clay is a data enrichment and automation platform that enables sales and growth teams to find, research, and personalize outreach to leads at scale. It functions as a smart spreadsheet that orchestrates data from 150+ sources, applies AI-powered workflows for enrichment and content generation, and automates prospecting without manual labor. Clay uses signal-led prospecting to identify buyers based on real-world triggers like funding rounds or hiring, making personalized outreach possible without expensive tools or manual work.

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.