Startups Directory

FuriosaAI designs and manufactures high-performance, energy-efficient AI accelerators (NPUs) for data center deployments of large language models, multimodal applications, and computer vision workloads. Their flagship RNGD chip delivers 2.25x better inference performance per watt compared to traditional GPUs while consuming only 180W of power. The company serves enterprise customers and hyperscalers seeking cost-effective alternatives to Nvidia GPUs for AI inference at scale.

Omni is a modern AI-native analytics platform that combines a governed semantic layer with flexible SQL and UI tools for data exploration, visualization, and reporting. It sits between raw data and users, defining metrics, access controls, and calculation rules in one place. Built by Looker and Stitch veterans, Omni resolves the traditional governance vs. agility trade-off in business intelligence, enabling self-service analytics without chaos or siloed SQL exploration.

Parloa is an AI Agent Management Platform (AMP) that enables enterprise contact centers to automate customer service at scale using generative AI agents designed through natural language briefings rather than scripts. The platform specializes in voice-first interactions across phone, chat, and messaging channels, allowing businesses to deploy teams of autonomous AI agents that engage in dynamic, natural conversations with customers. Trusted by Fortune 200 companies like Allianz, Booking.com, and SAP, Parloa has achieved $50M+ ARR with 150% net revenue retention, positioning itself as an industry-first solution for agentic AI in customer service.

JUMO is a Banking as a Service platform that uses AI to power financial services in emerging markets. The platform provides end-to-end banking infrastructure (Core) and an AI processor (Unify) that makes credit decisions using non-traditional data points like GSM records and mobile wallet transactions. JUMO enables credit access for entrepreneurs without prior financial history, partnering with mobile network operators and banks across Africa to disburse loans and reach underserved populations.

CloudPay is a global payroll SaaS platform that processes payroll, payments, and workforce management for multinational organizations across 140+ countries. It handles 3+ million payslips annually and over $24 billion in payment transactions, consolidating fragmented payroll processes across geographies, currencies, and regulatory environments. The platform automates calculations, ensures local compliance, and provides centralized visibility into payroll costs and performance. CloudPay serves enterprise customers including Visa, Wayfair, Wells Fargo, Expedia, and the London Stock Exchange.

Versa Networks provides a unified SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) platform that converges SD-WAN, next-generation firewall, zero-trust network access, and security services on a single OS and software stack. Built from the ground up rather than assembled from point products, Versa serves enterprises and service providers globally with on-premises, cloud, and hybrid deployment options. The platform eliminates vendor sprawl and complexity by delivering full network and security convergence with centralized management and policy enforcement across WAN, LAN, cloud, and data center environments.

Verda is a vertically integrated AI cloud infrastructure provider that manages the entire stack from physical servers and data centers to developer tools for building and deploying AI workloads. The company offers GPU instances, bare-metal clusters, and managed endpoints for AI inference at up to 90% lower cost than hyperscalers. Built by experienced cloud entrepreneurs, Verda targets AI developers and teams who need production-grade GPU resources with a developer-first experience and no sales friction.

Chronosphere is a cloud-native observability platform that ingests and analyzes metrics, events, logs, and traces at scale. Built by former Uber engineers on technology powering Uber's M3 metrics system, it solves the cost explosion problem that plagues observability at massive scale by moving data-shaping decisions to the point of ingestion. Unlike traditional platforms that charge for all telemetry data collected, Chronosphere lets customers control what data to retain, reducing volumes and costs by 84% on average while cutting critical incidents by up to 75%. It's purpose-built for high-scale tech companies like Robinhood, DoorDash, and Snap where observability bills become prohibitively expensive.

Fingercheck is an all-in-one payroll and HR management platform built specifically for small businesses with hourly and deskless workers. The platform consolidates time tracking, payroll processing, scheduling, hiring, onboarding, benefits administration, and job costing into a single system that deploys in hours rather than months. Fingercheck serves over 5,000 companies across construction, healthcare, retail, and professional services, and recently raised $115M in growth funding to expand its market presence.

Luminary Cloud is a cloud-based SaaS platform that enables engineers to encode physics into AI, dramatically accelerating computational simulations for product design and optimization. The platform runs high-fidelity CFD and thermal simulations 100x faster than legacy software by leveraging GPU and cloud processing, with an AI copilot (Lumi AI) that automates tedious setup tasks like mesh generation. Customers across aerospace, automotive, and sporting equipment industries use Luminary to compress months of iteration into days or hours, with usage-based pricing that scales from quick conceptual designs to complex analyses. Key differentiator: AI-driven automation of simulation workflows combined with near-real-time cloud performance, versus traditional per-user licensing models.

Enfabrica develops specialized networking chips and systems that solve critical data movement bottlenecks for AI and machine learning workloads at hyperscale. Their Accelerated Compute Fabric (ACF) SuperNIC chip delivers multi-terabit Ethernet connectivity and memory disaggregation, enabling GPUs, CPUs, and memory to communicate 4x faster than competing solutions. Built by former Broadcom and Google infrastructure leaders, the company bridges PCIe/CXL memory semantics with RDMA networking to reduce AI processing costs and improve efficiency.

Turing is a three-pronged AI platform founded in 2018 that works with frontier AI labs to advance LLM reasoning and coding capabilities, builds enterprise AI applications for Fortune 500 companies, and operates a talent cloud of 4M+ vetted software engineers and data scientists. The company powers its services through an AI-driven vetting and matching engine plus ALAN, a fine-tuning platform for model development. Turing has evolved from a remote engineering hiring marketplace into a critical infrastructure player in AGI advancement and enterprise AI deployment.

Karat operates the world's largest technical interviewing cloud platform, connecting companies with a vetted network of 24/7 interviewers to conduct fair, consistent technical screens at scale. Rather than burdening internal engineering teams with interview responsibilities, Karat handles candidate assessment using standardized rubrics, interview formats, and AI-enhanced evaluation. The platform serves enterprise and growth-stage tech companies looking to screen hundreds or thousands of engineering candidates annually while reducing hiring bias and improving candidate experience.

Reka is an AI research and product company that develops multimodal AI models capable of understanding text, images, video, and audio natively. The company builds frontier AI models that match or exceed competitors like GPT-4 and Gemini Ultra while requiring significantly less computational power. Reka serves enterprises and government organizations through products like Reka Core (multimodal model), Reka Vision (video/image analysis platform), and Reka Research (agentic AI for information synthesis). What differentiates them is their focus on efficiency—achieving state-of-the-art performance with orders of magnitude lower compute demands than competitors.

Dash0 is an OpenTelemetry-native observability platform that helps engineering teams monitor metrics, logs, traces, and resources with built-in alerting, dashboards, and AI-powered troubleshooting. Unlike legacy observability tools, Dash0 generates vendor-agnostic, standardized data that isn't locked into proprietary formats. The platform solves the observability crisis—too noisy, too expensive, and too complex—with transparent consumption-based pricing and an AI copilot called Agent0 for intelligent incident investigation.

Solutions by Text is a compliance-first enterprise text messaging platform that enables real-time payments through SMS—the only end-to-end solution combining native text and payment capabilities for consumer finance. Built on FinText™ technology, it helps lenders, servicers, and collection agencies conduct compliant customer communications and accept payments directly through text messages. The platform serves over 1,500 customers in regulated industries, with 60% of new customers previously avoiding SMS due to compliance concerns.

Pasqal develops quantum processing units (QPUs) based on neutral atom technology, where individual atoms trapped by optical tweezers serve as qubits. The company integrates quantum computing into HPC and cloud environments to solve optimization, simulation, and AI workloads for enterprises. Pasqal's neutral atom approach offers coherence times an order of magnitude higher than competing architectures (superconducting qubits, ion traps) and enables flexible 2D/3D atomic arrangements that reduce computational overhead.

IntegrityNext is a supply chain sustainability intelligence and orchestration platform that automates supplier compliance, ESG assessments, and risk detection across complex global supply chains. The platform helps large enterprises embed sustainability into their operating model by automating data collection, compliance workflows, and generating early-warning signals before issues become disruptions. Serving 600+ customers managing ~2.8M suppliers across 190 countries, IntegrityNext delivers measurable ROI—a third-party study quantified 180% ROI over three years with break-even in eight months.

Prytek Holdings is a technology investment group that builds and operates financial services infrastructure through a dual-arm model: a corporate services division providing managed financial services, cybersecurity education, and recruiting solutions; and a venture capital division investing in fintech, regtech, cybersecurity, and data companies. The company operates a vertically integrated ecosystem of 25+ portfolio companies serving over 140 financial institutions and 1,000 corporate clients. Prytek differentiates through its integrated platform approach, combining multiple complementary technologies and services under one structure rather than competing as standalone products.

Persivia is an AI-powered population health management platform that unifies clinical, claims, social, and operational data from hundreds of sources into a single longitudinal patient record. The platform serves hospitals, health systems, payers, and ACOs managing value-based care contracts by automating risk stratification, care coordination, eligibility determination, and clinical decision-making. It analyzes over 1,600 data points per patient to achieve 90% accuracy in identifying high-cost patients and forecasting hospitalization risks. Persivia differentiates by managing the entire care lifecycle from risk identification through point-of-care intervention with comprehensive, vendor-agnostic data integration.

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.

Atlan is a metadata platform that transforms data catalogs from static inventories into active governance control planes. It automatically captures column-level lineage, propagates governance context across the modern data stack, and surfaces quality signals inside tools like Snowflake and Databricks. Built for enterprises managing complex data ecosystems, Atlan serves as the missing context layer for enterprise AI, enabling both humans and AI agents to act on trusted data.

Eudia is an AI-powered legal intelligence platform that creates a 'Company Brain' by digitizing institutional legal knowledge from contracts, templates, and playbooks. It deploys specialized AI agents called MINDs to handle complex legal tasks like contract redlining and M&A due diligence, reducing review times from hours to minutes. The platform is purpose-built for Fortune 500 in-house legal teams, integrating into existing workflows via Microsoft 365, ServiceNow, and iManage while encoding how organizations actually make legal decisions.

Antithesis is a deterministic simulation testing platform that automatically validates software reliability by running fully automated, massively parallel simulations of entire system architectures in a controlled environment. It compresses months of production behavior into hours, injecting faults and exploring edge cases to uncover bugs before they reach production. The platform's key differentiator is complete determinism—any failure discovered can be perfectly reproduced, eliminating flaky tests and enabling engineers to diagnose even rare production mysteries. It's trusted by high-stakes organizations like Jane Street, Ethereum, and MongoDB where software failures carry significant consequences.

Temporal is a durable execution platform that enables developers to build resilient applications by guaranteeing reliable execution of complex, long-running workflows as code. It eliminates the need for custom infrastructure like message queues, pub/sub systems, and schedulers by providing built-in retries, event sourcing, state checkpointing, and task management. Used by companies like Stripe, Netflix, Datadog, and Snapchat to power millions of workflows daily, Temporal abstracts away distributed systems complexity so developers can write resilient code naturally.

Stability AI develops open-source and commercial generative AI models for image, video, audio, 3D, and text generation. The company's flagship Stable Diffusion model has been downloaded over 150 million times and runs on consumer hardware with minimal GPU requirements, making advanced AI accessible to creators, enterprises, and developers. Unlike proprietary competitors, Stability AI emphasizes open-source accessibility, customizability, and the ability to run models locally without API dependencies or subscription fees.

Redpanda is a Kafka-compatible streaming data platform built from the ground up to be 10x faster, lighter, and simpler than Apache Kafka. It eliminates external dependencies like JVM and ZooKeeper while offering built-in schema registry, HTTP proxy, and WebAssembly-based data transforms. The platform powers real-time data processing for enterprises like Activision Blizzard, Cisco, and Moody's, with a strategic focus on the Agentic Data Plane for AI-driven applications.

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.

Visa Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Visa Inc., investing in innovative fintech, payments, and commerce technology companies globally. The fund identifies and partners with early-stage companies across Series A-C and seed stages, providing portfolio companies with access to Visa's global network, strategic insights, and operational support. With a focus on emerging technologies like generative AI, stablecoins, and embedded finance, Visa Ventures has deployed approximately 48-75 investments across all stages, with over 50% of portfolio companies based outside North America.

Celestia is a modular data availability layer that decouples consensus and data availability from execution, allowing rollups and app-chains to scale without running their own blockchain infrastructure. Built on Data Availability Sampling (DAS), it enables light nodes to verify data availability without downloading full blocks, reducing costs by ~95% compared to monolithic blockchains. Over 56 live rollups use Celestia for DeFi, AI applications, and infrastructure services, positioning it as foundational infrastructure for the modular blockchain stack.

Shield Technology Partners is a New York-based platform that acquires stakes (60-90%) in regional IT service providers (MSPs) and scales them with AI-enhanced operations, national resources, and strategic support while preserving local leadership. The company combines investment capital, applied AI engineering, operational expertise, and M&A guidance to help mid-market IT firms expand capabilities and drive growth. As of early 2026, Shield operates a portfolio of nine MSP partners collectively serving 1,500+ customers across construction, energy, and healthcare sectors.

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.

Cloudinary is a cloud-based media management platform that automates the storage, transformation, optimization, and delivery of images and videos at scale. It provides developers with APIs, SDKs, and widgets to integrate media workflows into applications with minimal code. The platform serves 5,500 customers managing nearly 30 billion assets, from e-commerce giants like Walmart and DoorDash to fashion brands like Reformation. Cloudinary combines digital asset management with real-time media transformation capabilities, positioning itself as a hybrid solution that commands premium pricing versus point solutions like Imgix or ImageKit.

Upwind Security is a cloud security platform that protects cloud infrastructure, workloads, applications, and APIs through a runtime-first approach using eBPF technology. The platform combines posture management, vulnerability and identity security, container and serverless protection, and cloud detection and response in a single environment. Its key differentiator is reducing alert noise by ~95%, enabling security teams to focus on critical threats. The company serves enterprise customers globally including Waste Management, Siemens, Carvana, Roku, and others.

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.

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.

DealHub is an agentic Quote-to-Revenue platform that consolidates AI-powered CPQ, Contract Lifecycle Management, subscription and usage-based billing into a single system. It enables enterprises to design, launch, and scale modern monetization models—from Sales-Led to Product-Led Growth—without manual processes or developer intervention. The platform's no-code environment allows operations teams to adapt pricing and product configurations in real-time, while streamlining the entire revenue lifecycle from quoting through revenue recognition.

Global Processing Services provides GPS Apex, a multi-award-winning issuer processing platform that enables fintechs, digital banks, and embedded finance providers to process and manage credit, debit, and prepaid card transactions globally. Built by payment experts, the platform integrates seamlessly with issuers, program managers, card manufacturers, and service providers, powering next-generation payment segments including BNPL, expense management, B2B payments, crypto, and open banking. As of January 2022, GPS services operate in 48 countries, have processed 1.3+ billion transactions, and support 190 million issued cards across 180+ clients using 150+ currencies.

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.

Talon Cyber Security develops an enterprise-grade secure browser built on Chromium that isolates data and protects against threats across managed and unmanaged devices. The platform combines advanced data isolation techniques (screenshot prevention, clipboard restrictions) with workspace security and Zero Trust access policies for remote and hybrid workforces. It serves large enterprises seeking to prevent data breaches and enable secure access to corporate applications regardless of device type or operating system. The company was acquired by Palo Alto Networks in December 2023 for $625 million.

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.

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.

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.

Maltego is an all-in-one investigation platform that transforms complex, dispersed data into actionable insights through link analysis and visualization. Used by 2,000+ government organizations and 4,000+ companies—including the FBI, INTERPOL, and half of the Dow 30—it enables investigators to conduct OSINT investigations, analyze large datasets, monitor threats in real-time, and capture digital evidence. The platform's key differentiator is its ability to automatically merge matching information from multiple sources into a single graph, enabling teams to uncover hidden connections and patterns in minutes rather than days.

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.

Josys is an Autonomous Identity Governance Platform that unifies SaaS management, device management, and identity security for IT teams. It automates manual IT operations like access reviews, license optimization, and shadow IT detection while providing 360° visibility into an organization's SaaS and device portfolio. Built by proven founders (Raksul's Yasukane Matsumoto and experienced product leader Sanjay Rajasekhar), Josys replaces spreadsheet-driven processes with AI-powered workflows that reduce operational risk and optimize technology spend.

Nozomi Networks provides an industrial cybersecurity platform that delivers unified visibility, threat detection, and automated remediation for operational technology (OT), IoT, and cyber-physical systems. The platform uses AI-powered analysis to classify assets, detect anomalies, and prioritize vulnerabilities across complex industrial environments. Built by experts in industrial network security and AI, Nozomi protects over 105 million devices across critical infrastructure, energy, manufacturing, and utilities sectors globally.

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.

Railway is a cloud infrastructure platform that automates deployment, scaling, and infrastructure management with a developer-friendly interface. It bills by the second on actual CPU and memory utilization rather than fixed instance sizes, enabling near-zero costs for idle services. The platform is built on vertically integrated infrastructure including custom data centers, delivering faster deployments and lower costs than traditional cloud providers. It serves 2M+ developers across startups, enterprises including 31% of Fortune 500, and AI-native teams.