Startups Directory

4 funded startups. Filter by industry or funding round. Updated weekly.

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Company Round Amount Date Industry Location
ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs is an AI voice platform that synthesizes realistic speech from text, clones voices, dubs content across 20+ languages, and powers conversational AI agents. Used by 41% of Fortune 500 companies including Disney, Washington Post, and Epic Games, it enables enterprises to scale audio content creation while preserving speaker emotion and intent. The company builds proprietary AI models for TTS, ASR, dubbing, and music generation, positioning itself as a full-stack voice AI provider rather than a specialized point solution.
Series D $500M 2026-02-09 Artificial Intelligence (AI) United States
RapidAPI
RapidAPI is the world's largest API marketplace, hosting over 40,000 APIs that developers can discover, test, and integrate in minutes. The platform serves both individual developers seeking to reduce integration time and enterprises that need white-labeled API management solutions. RapidAPI's end-to-end workflow—featuring powerful search, in-browser testing, and code snippets in 15+ languages—collapses what traditionally took weeks into a matter of minutes.
Series D $150M 2022-03-23 Cloud Computing United States
Alpaca
Alpaca is a developer-first brokerage infrastructure platform that provides APIs for programmatic access to stocks, options, and cryptocurrencies. It enables fintechs, institutions, and individual traders to build customized investing applications without building brokerage infrastructure from scratch. The platform powers over 9 million brokerage accounts across 40+ countries and differentiates through its full-stack broker-as-a-service model, combining trading APIs with complete regulatory and custody infrastructure.
Series D $150M 2026-01-14 Financial Services Japan
Besto
Bestow is a cloud-native SaaS platform purpose-built for life insurance carriers, providing end-to-end coverage from digital distribution and underwriting through policy administration and TPA services on a single unified system. The platform enables carriers to launch new products in 4-6 months versus traditional industry timelines of 12-14 months, with case studies showing 200%+ conversion rate increases and 22% underwriting cost reductions. Bestow differentiates through deep insurance domain expertise from founding team members who built category-leading companies, modern API-first architecture, and proven results with top carriers including Nationwide, Transamerica, and USAA.
Series D $120M 2025-05-13 Developer APIs United States