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.

Celonis is a process intelligence platform that uses process mining and AI to analyze event log data from enterprise systems (SAP, Salesforce, ServiceNow, etc.) and create a digital twin of how business processes actually execute. The platform identifies bottlenecks, inefficiencies, rework loops, and deviations from intended workflows in real-time, then provides actionable recommendations for optimization. It serves large enterprises across finance, supply chain, operations, and customer service looking to unlock millions in operational savings.

Fleetio is a cloud-based fleet maintenance management operating system that centralizes vehicle inspections, work orders, preventive maintenance, parts inventory, and fuel management for businesses across 100+ countries. The platform integrates with telematics and fuel card systems to provide real-time data, helping fleets minimize downtime and optimize maintenance workflows. Supporting over 8 million vehicles across 8,000+ fleets and processing 13 million repair orders annually, Fleetio differentiates itself through transparent pricing, unlimited users across all plans, and a network of 110,000 integrated repair shops.

ClickHouse is an open-source columnar database management system optimized for real-time online analytical processing (OLAP), enabling complex SQL queries at massive scale with sub-second latency. It achieves hundreds of millions of rows per second throughput—100x faster than competing systems—through its vectorized Merge Tree storage engine and native support for distributed, replicated architectures. The platform serves enterprises handling massive analytical workloads, from event ingestion to interactive dashboards, and is used by companies like Microsoft, Walmart, Tesla, and eBay to process billions of events per minute.

Anchorage Digital is a global institutional crypto platform providing custody, trading, staking, governance, and settlement infrastructure for digital assets. As the first federally chartered crypto bank in the US (OCC-chartered in January 2021), it serves financial institutions, governments, and enterprises with institutional-grade security built by former security leaders from Square and Docker. The company differentiates through regulatory compliance, patent-holding security infrastructure, and Atlas—its proprietary settlement network that minimizes friction in crypto transactions.

Dutchie is an all-in-one SaaS platform that powers cannabis dispensary operations through POS, ecommerce, compliance, and payment processing. The platform serves 6,500+ dispensaries across the U.S. and Canada, processing over $22B in annual cannabis sales. Dutchie differentiates through two-way integrations with state traceability systems (METRC, Biotrack), a machine learning personalization engine for customer recommendations, and unified payment processing that reduces reliance on cash transactions.

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.

Forto is a digital freight forwarder and logistics management platform that consolidates ocean, air, and rail freight booking, shipment tracking, and logistics operations into a single interface. The platform addresses a critical supply chain pain point: companies currently spend up to 100 hours booking and managing shipments through fragmented email, phone, and fax communications. Forto serves 2,500+ customers across 50+ countries with real-time quotations, automated documentation, customs clearance, and proactive shipment alerts powered by analysis of 1.2M+ monthly data points.

Papaya Global is an enterprise-grade global payroll and payments platform that centralizes workforce operations across 160+ countries and 130 currencies. It serves mid-market to enterprise companies managing both employees and contingent workers globally. The platform differentiates through AI-powered data consolidation, its own licensed payments infrastructure enabling 72-hour payment delivery, and compliance automation that reduces go-live time from years to weeks.

Grafana Labs provides an open-source observability platform that unifies monitoring, visualization, and alerting across multiple data sources without requiring data ingestion to a vendor backend. Built with Go (backend) and TypeScript/React (frontend), it connects to Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, and 100+ other sources via a plugin architecture. Teams use Grafana to correlate metrics, logs, and traces in one place to accelerate incident root-cause analysis and reduce MTTR.

Hugging Face provides an open-source library and cloud platform for building machine learning applications, primarily focused on natural language processing. The platform offers pre-trained models, datasets, and deployment tools (Spaces, Inference Endpoints) hosted as Git repositories, eliminating barriers to ML development. By democratizing access to powerful transformer models that previously required specialized expertise and significant computing resources, Hugging Face has become the de facto hub for ML practitioners globally, with 50,000+ organizations using the platform.

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.

Taxfix is Europe's leading AI-native mobile tax filing app that simplifies complex tax returns through a conversational interface, reducing filing time from hours to 22 minutes. The platform serves individual taxpayers across Germany, Italy, and Spain, offering both self-filing (€39.99) and expert-assisted services (20% of refund). With over 8 million tax returns filed and €4.5 billion in refunds processed, Taxfix has helped millions of eligible employees claim an average of €1,172 in unclaimed refunds.

Verkada is an AI-powered, cloud-native security platform that unifies video surveillance, access control, alarms, intercoms, and air quality monitoring through a single integrated software interface called Verkada Command. Built by Stanford founders and a Meraki veteran, it replaces legacy hardware-based security systems with a modern, subscription-based model where sensors stream to secure cloud infrastructure with hybrid architecture for continuous operation during outages. The platform processes over 20 million images per hour to provide actionable insights like occupancy rates, foot traffic patterns, and security violations across enterprise campuses.

Podium is a unified customer communication platform that centralizes all interactions for local service businesses—from text messages and web chat to social media—into a single inbox. The platform automates review requests, appointment scheduling, and customer engagement, and includes an AI Employee ('Jerry') that handles inquiries, books appointments, and processes transactions autonomously. Podium serves over 100,000 businesses including auto dealerships, dental offices, HVAC services, and retailers, with customers reporting 30% sales increases and 56% higher appointment show rates.

Paddle is a Merchant of Record (MoR) platform that handles payments, billing, taxes, and compliance for SaaS and software companies globally. Rather than requiring businesses to build their own payment infrastructure, Paddle acts as the merchant of record, processing transactions across 200 markets while managing currency conversion, tax remittance, fraud prevention, and regulatory compliance. The platform processes 122M+ transactions annually and has remitted $89M in sales taxes, serving 3,000+ customers including Verizon, ServiceNow, and Fortinet.

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.

Thought Machine builds Vault Core, a cloud-native core banking platform that enables banks to run any financial product they design using smart contracts and a real-time ledger architecture. Unlike legacy monolithic systems, Vault Core is cloud-agnostic, microservices-based, and allows banks to migrate existing products while innovating new ones without disruption. The company also offers Vault Payments for global payment processing. Backed by tier-1 banks including JPMorgan Chase, ING, and Lloyds Banking Group as both customers and investors, Thought Machine has become the infrastructure layer modernizing legacy banking systems.

Kore.ai is an enterprise conversational and agentic AI platform that enables organizations to build, deploy, and operate AI agents for customer service, employee support, and business process automation. The platform combines conversational AI, generative LLMs, RAG, and workflow orchestration to create intelligent virtual assistants that integrate with existing enterprise systems like Salesforce, NICE, and Genesys. Trusted by Global 2000 companies including PNC, AT&T, Cigna, and Coca-Cola, Kore.ai delivers significant ROI through automation—with customers reporting 30-80% reductions in agent workload and inquiry resolution times.

Scandit provides enterprise-grade computer vision SDK technology that enables smart data capture—barcode scanning, text and object recognition—on any mobile device or smart camera. The platform allows third-party apps to integrate advanced barcode scanning that works reliably in extreme conditions: low light, damaged labels, and challenging angles. Scandit's proprietary algorithms achieve 5x faster scanning speeds compared to competitors and serve over 1,700 global customers across retail, logistics, healthcare, and manufacturing sectors.

Vanta is an agentic trust platform that automates compliance and security monitoring by performing 1,200+ control checks hourly across 35+ global frameworks. It replaces manual, point-in-time compliance processes with continuous monitoring and AI-powered automation that reduces audit completion times by 50%. The platform integrates with 300+ systems to collect evidence automatically and power real-time risk detection, enabling organizations to maintain compliance at scale without manual overhead.

Deliverect is an AI-powered, API-first platform that integrates online orders from third-party delivery channels (Uber Eats, Deliveroo, Glovo, DoorDash) directly into restaurants' POS systems, eliminating manual order re-entry and reducing errors. The platform has expanded beyond restaurants to serve convenience stores, grocery retailers, and dark kitchens across 52 markets. With over 80,000 businesses using the platform and 1+ billion orders processed, Deliverect streamlines operations for everything from delivery and dine-in to take-out, drive-thru, and catering.

Cloudbeds is an all-in-one cloud-based hospitality management platform that unifies reservations, channel management, revenue optimization, and guest experience tools for independent hotels, hostels, and property managers. The platform synchronizes inventory and rates across 300+ OTAs in real-time and uses AI-powered pricing intelligence to maximize revenue. Used by 26,000+ properties across 157 countries generating $15B+ in annual room sales, Cloudbeds differentiates through tight integration of operations and distribution rather than modular APIs.

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.

Platform.sh (rebranded as Upsun) is a managed cloud application platform that abstracts away infrastructure complexity, allowing developers to deploy and scale applications using Git-based workflows. It supports 100+ frameworks across 14 programming languages and enables instant production-to-preview environment cloning with exact data, code, and configuration parity. The platform serves enterprise and mid-market teams worldwide—including Adobe, Nestlé, and UNICEF—who need managed infrastructure, compliance capabilities, and predictable deployments without infrastructure overhead.

Torq is an AI-driven security hyperautomation platform that automates threat detection, investigation, prioritization, and response across enterprise security operations. The platform uses agentic AI (notably its Socrates agent) to autonomously handle alert triage, case management, and threat remediation at scale, claiming to resolve 95% of Tier-1 alerts without human intervention. It serves Fortune 500 enterprises and MSSPs seeking to reduce mean time to respond (MTTR) and investigation overhead, positioning itself as an open, modern alternative to monolithic legacy SOAR platforms from Palo Alto Networks and Splunk.

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.

Akeneo is a Product Experience Management (PXM) platform that centralizes product data, content, and intelligence across all sales channels. It serves enterprise retailers and manufacturers who need to manage complex product catalogs at scale, with AI-driven capabilities that govern data in real-time from supplier to post-sale. The platform combines a free open-source community edition with enterprise SaaS editions, making it accessible to both SMBs and Fortune 500 companies. Akeneo's differentiation lies in its focus on making product data 'perform'—driving traffic, conversions, and AI discoverability—rather than just managing it.

Cresta is an AI-first enterprise contact center platform that transforms customer conversations into revenue opportunities. The platform combines an AI Agent for automated customer interactions, Agent Assist for real-time guidance to human agents, and Conversation Intelligence for actionable business insights. Built by former Google and OpenAI leaders, Cresta serves Fortune 500 companies like Hilton, Cox Communications, and CarMax to improve customer satisfaction, resolution rates, and operational efficiency.

Ardoq is a data-driven enterprise architecture platform that automatically visualizes an organization's entire IT landscape by connecting live data from applications, systems, and business processes. Built on a proprietary graph database, it replaces static architectural diagrams with dynamic, connected insights that map dependencies, model transformation scenarios, and align strategy with execution. The platform enables organizations to tackle application rationalization, portfolio management, and risk management at scale—solving the problem that traditional EA tools create more maintenance burden than strategic value.

Tulip Interfaces is a cloud-based frontline operations platform that enables manufacturers to digitize and automate shop floor processes through no-code and low-code applications. The platform connects people, machines, devices, and enterprise systems to streamline workflows, capture real-time data, and provide AI-assisted operator guidance. Companies like Jabil, New Balance, and Stanley Black & Decker use Tulip to reduce defects by up to 70%, improve labor efficiency by 15%, and achieve a 448% ROI over three years. Unlike traditional MES solutions, Tulip charges per active interface rather than per user, making it more flexible for distributed manufacturing operations.

Silverfort provides agentless, proxyless Runtime Access Protection (RAP) that extends MFA, risk-based authentication, and Zero Trust policies across all enterprise systems—on-premise, cloud, and legacy applications—without requiring endpoint or application modifications. It integrates directly with existing Active Directory and identity systems to analyze authentication risk in real-time and enforce MFA on resources previously unprotectable by traditional solutions. Silverfort serves over 1,000 enterprise customers globally and differentiates through its ability to protect legacy, custom, and command-line tools that competitors cannot cover.

CommerceIQ is an AI-powered retail ecommerce management platform that helps consumer brands optimize sales across major online marketplaces like Amazon, Walmart, Target, and Instacart. It unifies digital shelf optimization, retail media advertising, and supply chain management through machine learning and automation to drive profitable market share growth. The platform serves over 2,200 brands globally, including Nestle, Colgate, and Whirlpool, delivering measurable results like 40% incremental sales increases and 32% reduction in out-of-stock rates.

Rescale is an enterprise cloud simulation platform that enables research scientists and engineers to run high-performance computing (HPC) workloads—including finite element analysis (FEA), computational fluid dynamics (CFD), and AI simulations—on their choice of cloud providers without infrastructure setup or maintenance. The platform automates hybrid cloud orchestration with built-in security, architectural controls, and financial governance. Engineers can configure complex engineering analyses for computation in minutes via a web browser, dramatically reducing time-to-market for product design cycles. Rescale serves 300+ customers including 7 of the top 10 automakers, 7 of the top 10 aerospace companies, and 3 of the top 6 life science companies.

VidMob is an AI-powered creative analytics platform that helps brands and agencies optimize their advertising creative performance. The platform combines intelligent creative scoring, metadata extraction, and sentiment analysis to identify which creative elements (logos, copy, colors, emotions, etc.) drive campaign performance. VidMob also operates a curated global Creative Network of vetted freelancers and provides an end-to-end production workflow system. The company is the only platform certified as a creative marketing partner by every major social and digital platform (Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, YouTube, etc.).

Labelbox is a data-centric AI platform that helps AI teams and Fortune 500 enterprises create, manage, and iterate on high-quality labeled training data at scale. The platform combines a collaborative annotation software with managed labeling services and generative AI automation (Foundry) to reduce the time and cost of producing training data. It processes petabytes of multimodal data and serves over 80% of Fortune 500 AI teams, positioning itself as a command center for the entire ML training data iteration loop.

SirionLabs is an AI-native contract lifecycle management (CLM) platform that extracts, normalizes, and organizes contract data across the entire contract lifecycle—from negotiation through post-signature performance monitoring. The platform delivers 85% faster contract insights and validates invoices against contract terms to reduce overpayments and disputes. Built for large enterprises managing complex buy-side and sell-side contracts, SirionLabs differentiates itself by providing visibility into contract performance and relationships, not just storage, while integrating seamlessly with Salesforce, SAP, and other enterprise systems.

SpyCloud is a cybercrime analytics platform that recaptures and analyzes darknet breach and malware data to protect enterprises from identity-based attacks. The company operates the world's largest repository of compromised credentials and malware intelligence, enabling organizations to detect and remediate exposures across employees, contractors, customers, and non-human accounts in minutes. SpyCloud integrates with existing security infrastructure (EDR, IdP, SIEM, SOAR) to automate identity risk mitigation at scale, serving half of the Fortune 10 and government agencies globally.

Heap is a cloud-based product analytics platform that automatically captures all user interactions across web, mobile, and cloud applications without requiring manual tagging or engineering effort. Unlike legacy analytics tools, Heap enables retroactive analysis of customer behavior and provides automated insights into user paths, friction points, and conversion drivers. The platform serves B2B SaaS companies that need fast, comprehensive analytics without the overhead of traditional event-based tracking systems.

Veza is the authorization platform for data security built on a graph-based architecture that maps access permissions across 300+ integrations in hybrid and multi-cloud environments. It enables enterprises to visualize, manage, and control granular access down to specific data objects, tables, and cloud resources. Used by Global 500 companies like Expedia, Blackstone, and Wynn Resorts to solve privileged access monitoring, non-human identity security, and identity governance challenges. Recently acquired by ServiceNow in December 2025 at a $1B-$1.5B valuation.

Perk (formerly TravelPerk) is an AI-native corporate travel and spend management platform that combines consumer-grade booking with enterprise-grade policy controls. It solves the problem that 50% of business travel happens outside company policy by offering a single platform with real-time policy enforcement, AI-powered itinerary management via assistant Juno, and integrated expense tracking. The platform serves 12,000+ companies globally and differentiates through FlexiPerk flexible cancellation coverage, TravelCare duty of care management, and seamless multi-modal transportation comparison.

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.

Horizon3.ai provides NodeZero, an autonomous penetration testing platform that safely executes real attack techniques at scale without agents or network disruption. The platform discovers and exploits vulnerabilities by chaining attack paths together—exactly as real attackers would—across internal networks, external surfaces, cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, Kubernetes), and web applications. Built by veterans in tech and military, it's trusted by 3,000+ organizations including Fortune 500 companies and national defense partners who need continuous proof of their security posture.

Fundbox is an embedded capital platform that uses machine learning to provide working capital solutions to small businesses. The platform offers credit lines and term loans to SMBs based on revenue analysis and credit assessments, with transparent pricing and fast automated approval decisions. Fundbox solves the problem of capital tied up in unpaid invoices—over $1 trillion in the U.S. alone—by connecting businesses with credit when they need it. The company positions itself as a pioneer in embedded working capital, integrating directly into business software platforms like QuickBooks and FreshBooks.

Amplience is a headless CMS and digital asset management platform that enables enterprise retailers to create, manage, and deliver personalized shopping experiences at scale. The platform combines content management, AI-powered content generation, and performance insights to unify ecommerce experiences across channels. Processing 11B+ daily content requests and managing 500M+ digital assets, Amplience serves 400+ global brands including Ulta Beauty, Gap, Coach, and John Lewis with enterprise-grade infrastructure delivering sub-30ms API response times.

Instabase is a cloud-based platform that automates document processing and unstructured data extraction using multi-modal LLMs and agentic AI. It enables enterprises to build intelligent workflows that classify, extract, and analyze complex documents—from invoices to regulatory filings—without manual data entry. The platform combines proprietary AI models with GPT integration and pre-built connectors, serving financial services, insurance, and government sectors. What differentiates Instabase is its vertically integrated solution purpose-built for enterprise document workflows, moving beyond generic LLM building blocks to deliver domain-specific automation at scale.

Framer is a React-powered design-to-web platform that lets designers build, animate, and publish production-ready websites without handing off to engineering. It combines Figma-like design capabilities with full website building and CMS functionality, enabling teams to go from interactive mockup to live site in a single tool. Used by 500K+ monthly designers including Miro, Perplexity AI, and 55% of Y Combinator's latest batch, Framer eliminates the traditional design-to-development handoff gap.

Redpanda is a Kafka-compatible streaming data platform built from the ground up in C++ to be 10x faster and 6x more resource-efficient than Apache Kafka. It eliminates external dependencies like ZooKeeper and JVM overhead, offering both fully-managed cloud deployment and self-hosted options. The platform supports inline WebAssembly transformations for real-time data enrichment and delivers predictable latency at scale by managing its own memory and disk I/O.

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.

Apollo.io is an all-in-one sales intelligence and execution platform that combines verified B2B contact data (270M+ contacts), automated lead generation, and multi-touch engagement workflows in a single interface. It eliminates tool fragmentation by integrating with CRMs, email providers, and sales tools, reducing the 10+ tools most sales teams use. Apollo serves 500,000+ companies by enabling sales reps to spend more time selling and less time on data entry and repetitive tasks.