Startups Directory

Cursor is an AI-assisted integrated development environment (IDE) built as a fork of Visual Studio Code that enables developers to write, edit, and debug code using natural language prompts and AI agents. It combines autocomplete, codebase awareness, and task automation to boost developer productivity, with agents capable of building, testing, and demoing features end-to-end. The platform is used by over 67% of Fortune 500 companies and generates an estimated 150 million lines of enterprise code daily. Cursor differentiates itself through obsessive focus on sub-second response times, accurate code predictions, seamless VS Code integration, and real-time human-AI collaboration.

Temporal is an open-source durable execution platform that guarantees reliable execution of long-running workflows by automatically tracking progress and enabling recovery from failures. It eliminates the need for custom retry logic, error handling, and state management by providing an Event History that logs every step of execution. Companies like Snap, Coinbase, Netflix, and Airbnb use Temporal to power mission-critical workflows at scale, from processing transactions to managing bookings.

Assent Compliance provides a cloud-based SaaS platform that automates the collection, validation, and management of supply chain compliance data for large manufacturers. The platform replaces manual Excel-based vendor audits with centralized data management and delivers actionable insights into supply chain risks across compliance, ESG, and sustainability requirements. Assent serves over 30% of S&P 500 product companies and 300,000+ clients in regulated industries like aerospace, automotive, and electronics, helping them identify labor trafficking risks, manage harmful substances, ensure conflict minerals compliance, and build defensible ESG programs.

Starburst provides an enterprise-ready SQL query engine built on the open-source Trino project, enabling organizations to query data across multiple sources without moving or consolidating it. The platform decouples compute from storage, supporting on-premises, hybrid, cloud, and multi-cloud deployments through Starburst Enterprise, or cloud-only querying via their SaaS offering Starburst Galaxy. Trusted by enterprises like Comcast, Grubhub, and Priceline, Starburst differentiates with advanced security features, enterprise support, and optimizations that open-source Trino users must build themselves.

Abnormal Security is an AI-native email and cloud application security platform that uses behavioral anomaly detection and natural language processing to stop sophisticated Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks and account takeovers. The platform deploys via API in minutes and ingests thousands of behavioral signals to block socially engineered, payloadless attacks that bypass traditional email filters. It protects over 3,200 organizations including 25%+ of Fortune 500 companies across email, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, and 12+ SaaS applications including Salesforce, Workday, and Slack. What sets Abnormal apart is its AI-first approach that replaces legacy Secure Email Gateways with autonomous threat detection that learns legitimate business communication patterns.

dbt Labs provides a data transformation platform that turns raw data in data warehouses into analysis-ready datasets through modular SQL queries, testing, and version control. The company offers dbt Core (open-source), dbt Cloud (hosted platform with IDE and job scheduling), and the dbt Semantic Layer for consistent metric management across BI tools. Used by over 40,000 companies including Nasdaq, JetBlue, and Canva, dbt has become the industry standard for analytics engineering in the modern data stack.

Sigma Computing is a cloud-native analytics platform that auto-generates SQL, enabling business users to analyze billions of rows of data directly from cloud warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, Redshift) using a familiar spreadsheet interface—without writing code or extracting data. The platform eliminates the need for data engineers as middlemen by allowing non-technical stakeholders to self-serve analytics with live, zero-copy query execution. Sigma positions itself as the bridge between spreadsheet simplicity and modern cloud data architecture, combining spreadsheet familiarity with enterprise-grade BI capabilities.

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.

Cribl is a vendor-neutral observability pipeline that sits between data sources and downstream analytics tools, providing complete control over data collection, filtering, enrichment, normalization, and routing. It helps enterprises reduce observability data volumes by 25%+ while eliminating cloud waste across tools like Splunk and Datadog. The platform abstracts the complexity of managing multiple data sources and destinations, allowing teams to process telemetry data in-flight without vendor lock-in. Cribl serves Fortune 100/500 companies that struggle with exploding observability costs and data sprawl.

Fal is a serverless inference platform that hosts 1,000+ production-ready generative AI models (image, video, audio, 3D) as easy-to-use APIs with custom-optimized CUDA kernels for lightning-fast inference. The platform eliminates traditional deployment friction—no GPU configuration, cold starts, or autoscaler setup—enabling developers and enterprises to integrate generative media into applications at scale. Fal serves over 2 million developers and 300+ enterprises including Adobe, Canva, and Shopify, generating $100M+ ARR through pay-as-you-go and enterprise usage-based pricing.

Monte Carlo is an end-to-end Data + AI Observability Platform that monitors data warehouses, lakes, ETL pipelines, and BI tools to automatically detect anomalies, identify root causes, and alert teams to data issues before they impact business. The platform uses machine learning and baseline-driven anomaly detection to eliminate manual threshold-setting and validation rules. It serves data-driven enterprises like Nasdaq, Honeywell, and Roche who need real-time visibility into data health across their entire stack.

Blaize provides a full-stack edge AI platform combining purpose-built hardware (GSP-based processors delivering 16 TOPS inference at 7W power) with a no-code/low-code software suite (AI Studio) for rapid deployment. The platform enables real-time AI inference at the network edge with 60% greater efficiency and 10x lower latency than cloud-optimized alternatives. Serving automotive, surveillance, retail, and industrial automation verticals, Blaize eliminates the complexity of deploying AI on power- and thermally-constrained devices.

Imply provides a real-time analytics platform built on Apache Druid, enabling organizations to analyze streaming and batch data with sub-second query response times. The platform serves enterprises that need interactive analytics at scale, processing millions of events per second across petabytes of data. Unlike traditional data warehouses that struggle with latency and cost at scale, Imply's analytics-in-motion approach delivers fast, scalable, cost-effective insights on event-driven data.

Cyberhaven is a unified data security platform that combines DSPM, DLP, insider risk management, and AI security with deep data lineage capabilities. It records every event for every piece of data—every move, copy, edit, and share—across endpoints and cloud applications to provide complete visibility into how data moves throughout an organization. The platform delivers 95% fewer false positives than traditional DLP solutions and enables customers to investigate incidents up to five times faster. Founded by five PhD researchers, it's trusted by top 5 North American banks, Fortune 500 companies, and highly regulated enterprises.

Coro is a unified cybersecurity platform that consolidates 14 integrated modules—including EDR, SASE, email security, and threat detection—into a single solution for SMBs and mid-market companies. Using AI-driven automation, it detects and remediates over 92% of threats automatically while maintaining ease of use and affordability. The platform is designed to replace 15-25 disparate security tools, reducing complexity and cost for organizations that lack dedicated security teams.

ControlUp ONE is an Autonomous Endpoint Management (AEM) platform that unifies digital employee experience (DEX) monitoring, remediation, and AI-powered support across virtual desktops, physical endpoints, and cloud environments. It provides IT teams real-time visibility into performance metrics, user sessions, and applications with proactive troubleshooting and no-code automation capabilities. The platform serves large enterprises managing complex hybrid IT environments, with customers including four of the top five U.S. health insurance companies and over 50 Fortune 100 companies. ControlUp differentiates through specialized VDI endpoint monitoring, script-based automation, and autonomous remediation workflows powered by agentic AI.