Startups Directory

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.

Built Technologies provides cloud-based construction lending software that automates manual workflows and centralizes loan administration for banks and financial institutions. The platform enables same-day draw request processing, reduces back-office staff by 80%, and delivers measurable ROI—one early client saw $2.5M in value creation from a $50K annual subscription. Built serves over 150 leading U.S. construction lenders, including U.S. Bank, Fifth Third Bank, and Citizens Bank, making it the market leader used by nearly half of the top 100 construction lenders.

Productboard is a product management system that unifies customer feedback from multiple sources, enabling teams to prioritize development work based on specific user needs. The platform provides roadmap management, idea management, feedback consolidation, and user personas—with a core strength in creating audience-specific roadmap views for team alignment. Over 6,000 companies including Zoom, Microsoft, and Salesforce use it to connect customer insights directly to product strategy. Recently launched Productboard Spark, an AI-powered product agent that automates workflows from customer discovery through launch orchestration.

SparkCognition is an industrial AI company that delivers machine learning solutions for predictive maintenance, anomaly detection, and cybersecurity. The platform uses IoT sensor data and advanced algorithms to predict equipment failures before they occur, identify cyber threats, and optimize operations across industrial assets like turbines, pumps, and generators. SparkCognition serves energy, manufacturing, and maritime sectors, helping operators avoid costly downtime and reduce operational inefficiencies by billions of dollars.

Blue J is an AI-powered tax research platform that enables tax professionals, accountants, and legal teams to complete hours of manual research in seconds using large language models and authoritative source verification. The platform automates tax research, legal analysis, and client communication drafting, with over 2,800 organizations including Big Four accounting firms and Fortune 100 companies relying on it. Users save an average of 2.7 hours per week, allowing them to redirect time toward higher-margin advisory work. Blue J is purpose-built for tax professionals and is the only major platform specifically designed for this use case.

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.

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.

Flexe operates a Logistics Cloud platform that converts static warehouse capacity into a flexible, pay-as-you-go network for enterprises. The company connects Fortune 500 retailers and brands to 2,000+ distributed fulfillment sites, enabling dynamic inventory placement without long-term leases or fixed capital. Flexe's 'single pane of glass' dashboard routes inventory for 1-2 day delivery to 98% of the U.S., delivering 20-30% reductions in logistics costs and enabling new network activation in ~30 days versus industry standard six months.

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.

TIFIN is an AI platform that builds and operates fintech companies focused on personalizing investment experiences for wealth managers and their clients. The company has created 12 companies (10 still operating under TIFIN) that serve 3-4 million individuals through a network of ~3,000 financial advisors. Its core AI platform coordinates multiple agents across advisory, operational, and investment workflows, backed by institutional investors including JPMorgan, Morningstar, and Franklin Templeton.

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.

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.

Qventus develops AI-powered automation software that optimizes healthcare operations across inpatient and perioperative settings. The platform uses generative AI, machine learning, and behavioral science to predict bottlenecks, automate administrative tasks, and recommend interventions for hospital care teams. Health systems using Qventus reduce patient length of stay by up to one day, recover 20-35% of excess bed days, and achieve 10X average annualized ROI. The company functions as an 'AI teammate' integrated with existing enterprise systems like EHRs, surfacing data and automating workflows without replacing staff.

CleverTap is a customer engagement and retention platform that combines product analytics, user segmentation, and campaign automation into a single system. It tracks user behavior across mobile and web, segments audiences based on actions and attributes, and automates targeted campaigns across multiple channels. Trusted by 1,200 companies including Gojek, EA, and AirAsia, CleverTap helps digital brands maximize user lifetime value by turning behavioral data into retention-focused actions.

Netlify is a cloud platform that automates the build, deploy, and scaling of modern web applications by connecting directly to Git repositories and serving content via CDN. The platform eliminates traditional deployment inefficiencies by providing a one-stop solution for static site generation, serverless functions, and edge computing. Built for teams adopting the Jamstack architecture, Netlify enables developers to ship websites faster and more securely while reducing infrastructure complexity.

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.

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.

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.

Optibus is an AI-powered SaaS platform that enables public transportation agencies and operators to plan and manage complex transit networks end-to-end. The platform automates route planning, scheduling, rostering, real-time operations, and passenger communication, reducing optimization work from days to minutes using advanced algorithms. Optibus powers operations in over 6,000 cities across 35+ countries, including 70% of UK buses and major operators like First Bus and LADOT, serving more than 7 billion annual passenger trips.

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.

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.

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.

Totango is a cloud-based customer success platform that processes billions of customer signals to help teams identify at-risk customers, predict churn, and uncover expansion opportunities in real-time. The platform unifies three products—Unison (AI-powered customer intelligence), Totango (enterprise CS platform), and Catalyst (customer growth platform)—around a common dataset. It serves customer success and sales teams at mid-market to enterprise SaaS companies seeking to optimize revenue retention and growth through proactive customer engagement.

Clip is Mexico's leading mobile point-of-sale and digital payment platform that enables small businesses and independent merchants to accept card payments via smartphones and tablets. The platform eliminates traditional barriers to payment acceptance—monthly fees, minimum transaction requirements, and excessive paperwork—while addressing Mexico's cash-heavy economy where 80% of personal consumption expenditure occurs offline. Beyond card readers, Clip offers inventory management, online commerce solutions, payment links, and business financing services, serving over 1 million merchants.

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.

LeafLink is a B2B wholesale e-commerce platform that connects cannabis brands and retailers, processing over $9 billion in annual gross merchandise volume across 30+ U.S. markets. The platform provides an integrated suite of tools including marketplace connectivity, order management, payment processing, logistics coordination, and compliant banking solutions. LeafLink serves over 12,000 sellers and buyers and commands more than 52% of the U.S. wholesale cannabis market, making it the dominant infrastructure layer for cannabis supply chain commerce.

Horizon3.ai provides NodeZero, an autonomous penetration testing platform that continuously simulates real-world attacks without agents or human intervention. The SaaS solution safely executes attack chains across AWS, Azure, and Kubernetes infrastructure to show exactly how attackers compromise systems and what data they access. Organizations use it to verify security fixes in production and stay ahead of evolving threats at scale.

Snorkel AI is a data development platform that enables enterprises to programmatically label and curate training data for AI systems, including LLMs and RAG pipelines. Rather than expensive manual labeling, it uses labeling functions that encode expert intuition through heuristics, legacy models, and LLM calls to scale data preparation. Used by Fortune 500 companies, top US banks, and government agencies to build production AI applications faster and more cost-effectively. It represents a shift toward data-centric AI, where high-quality labeled data is the bottleneck rather than model architecture.