Startups Directory

Nscale builds and operates AI-native data centers providing vertically integrated GPU cloud infrastructure for training, fine-tuning, and running large language models. Unlike competitors reliant on expensive third-party colocation, Nscale owns and operates its own facilities, enabling cost-effective deployment of 10,000+ GPU clusters with up to 20 MW of contiguous capacity. The company offers serverless inference, managed Kubernetes orchestration, and domain-specific model fine-tuning through an API-driven platform with pay-per-use pricing.

Roleshare built a marketplace and management platform that matched two professionals to co-apply and share one full-time job, enabling companies to run job-sharing pilot programs. The platform allowed employees to post their current roles as shareable and matched talent pairs from both internal and external sources. Roleshare served enterprises like JP Morgan and BP seeking flexible workforce solutions. Note: The company is no longer operating.

Armis provides an agentless cybersecurity platform that identifies, monitors, and protects managed, unmanaged, and IoT devices across enterprise networks in real-time. Unlike traditional solutions requiring agent installation, Armis uses passive network monitoring and an AI-powered Asset Intelligence Engine to detect threats across the entire attack surface regardless of device type or operating system. The platform serves Fortune 100/500 companies and government entities, delivering comprehensive asset visibility and threat detection without the operational overhead of agent deployment.

SimPRO is a cloud-based field service management platform built specifically for trade and specialty contracting businesses. The platform integrates estimating, scheduling, compliance, invoicing, and fleet management into a single operating system, helping 250,000 trades professionals across plumbing, electrical, HVAC, solar, and security industries eliminate inefficiency and scale profitably. Founded by an electrical contractor and software engineer, SimPRO has become the 3rd-ranked competitor in its space with $397M in total funding.

Udaan is India's largest B2B e-commerce marketplace connecting manufacturers, wholesalers, traders, and retailers across 900+ cities. The platform serves over 3 million small businesses including kiranas, pharmacies, and retailers with products across FMCG, electronics, pharmaceuticals, and agriculture. It digitizes India's fragmented wholesale trade by eliminating middlemen, enabling direct ordering, price comparison, and access to credit through Udaan Capital's BNPL solutions.

Together AI is an AI Acceleration Cloud platform enabling developers and researchers to train, fine-tune, and deploy generative AI models at scale. The platform supports over 200 open-source models across all modalities (chat, image, audio, vision, code, embeddings) with 2-3x faster inference than hyperscalers, OpenAI-compatible endpoints, and infrastructure scaling from 16 to 100,000+ GPUs. Founded by Stanford professors and serial entrepreneurs, Together AI is positioned as the cloud infrastructure layer for the open-source AI ecosystem, with recent expansion into data transformation through the Refuel.ai acquisition.

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.

Ripple operates the XRP Ledger, a decentralized blockchain enabling cross-border payments that settle in 3-5 seconds with near-zero fees. The platform serves financial institutions, payment providers, and digital asset custodians seeking faster, cheaper alternatives to traditional settlement networks. Ripple's differentiator is its energy-efficient consensus protocol, institutional-grade custody solutions, and direct integration with legacy banking infrastructure through products like xCurrent and on-demand liquidity (ODL).

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.

Leadfeeder is a B2B website visitor identification and intent data platform that reveals which companies are browsing your site by mapping IP addresses to a proprietary company database. It integrates with Google Analytics and CRM tools to automatically surface high-intent leads that have already shown interest in your services. Unlike outbound lead generation tools, Leadfeeder focuses on inbound intent signals, helping sales teams prioritize warm prospects over cold outreach.

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.

Kite is an 'every channel' commerce platform designed to help digital-first consumer product brands scale across e-commerce, social, retail, and direct-to-consumer channels. The platform uses predictive, assistive, and evaluative AI to optimize customer acquisition and supply chain management, while leveraging what the company calls the 'Kite Effect'—where the platform learns and adapts as more products utilize it. Founded by Rob Solomon (former CEO of GoFundMe) in 2022 and backed by $200M from Blackstone and Juxtapose, Kite positions itself as a modern commerce infrastructure provider, though some characterize it as an e-commerce aggregator model.

Meter delivers enterprise networking as a fully integrated service, combining custom-built hardware (firewalls, switches, access points, 5G gateways), proprietary software, and managed operations into a single subscription. The company disrupts traditional networking by eliminating the need for separate hardware vendors and IT operations, delivering secure, reliable connectivity across branch offices, campuses, and data centers. Meter's vertically integrated approach—designing and manufacturing all components simultaneously—enables superior performance, security, and scalability compared to best-of-breed alternatives.

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.

CHEQ is a go-to-market security platform that protects digital customer journeys by distinguishing legitimate users from bots, fraudsters, and malicious actors using real-time traffic, identity, and threat intelligence. The platform processes 6 trillion signals daily across 1 million domains with a false positive rate below 0.009%, serving over 15,000 brands globally. CHEQ's modular suite includes acquisition protection, form validation, analytics integration, and privacy compliance tools, delivering an estimated 671% ROI by eliminating wasted marketing spend on invalid traffic.

Temporal is a durable execution platform that enables developers to build scalable, fault-tolerant applications using Workflows-as-Code. Instead of building complex retry logic and state management separately, developers write business logic in their preferred programming language while Temporal handles persistence, retries, task queues, and error recovery. The platform is built on 20+ years of expertise from the engineers behind AWS SQS, AWS SWF, Azure Durable Functions, and Uber's Cadence orchestration engine.

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.

Solo.io provides API gateway and service mesh management tools that help enterprises connect, manage, and secure application traffic across microservices architectures. Built on industry standards like Envoy Proxy, Kubernetes, and Istio, their products—Gloo Edge, Gloo Mesh, Gloo Portal, and Gloo Extensions—enable organizations to modernize their internal application networking without relying on traditional ISV integrations. The company is led by cloud infrastructure veterans including Istio co-creators, giving it deep credibility in the cloud-native ecosystem. Solo.io focuses specifically on enterprises building and managing their own microservices, not those connecting third-party SaaS applications.

Logicbroker is a cloud-based commerce orchestration platform that automates dropship and marketplace operations by connecting retailers, brands, suppliers, and logistics providers. It enables businesses to expand product offerings without inventory investment through automated catalog management, order fulfillment, and inventory synchronization. The platform uniquely supports both B2B and B2C dropship and marketplace models at scale, with rapid vendor onboarding (under 1 hour) and AI-driven commerce discovery capabilities.

KINEXON provides a real-time location intelligence platform (KINEXON OS) that converts UWB, BLE, RFID, and GPS data into a digital twin of industrial operations. The platform enables precise centimeter-level asset tracking and automated control of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs/AGVs) across manufacturing and logistics environments. With over 10,000 daily users across BMW plants, Continental, and other Fortune 500 manufacturers, KINEXON delivers measurable ROI through operational automation and cost savings. The company is a Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader for Indoor Location Services.

Platform Science is a configurable fleet management software platform that unifies drivers, vehicles, and back-office systems on a single operating system. The company's Virtual Vehicle platform leverages factory-installed OEM systems to provide fleets access to real-time telematics, ELD compliance, driver monitoring, and a marketplace of pre-integrated third-party apps—eliminating the need for redundant aftermarket hardware. It serves large carriers like Schneider National, Werner Enterprises, and Walmart's 12,000-truck fleet, differentiating through an open OEM-integrated approach that reduces total cost of ownership while ensuring data availability even in areas with poor cellular coverage.

Exein develops embedded runtime security that integrates directly into device firmware to detect and prevent threats in real-time at the kernel level. The platform uses eBPF-based observability and AI-driven behavior analysis to protect IoT, industrial, automotive, and aerospace devices without degrading performance or requiring hardware changes. Unlike traditional endpoint security that detects breaches after compromise, Exein blocks malicious execution paths before they can run, eliminating entire attack classes at the edge.

Silo Team automates the entire developer lifecycle from onboarding to retention, using AI-powered templates and seamless integrations with tools like Slack, Notion, and Confluence. Built specifically for tech teams, it handles account provisioning, access requests, and customized role-based onboarding plans. The platform addresses the billions in annual losses from high developer turnover by accelerating time-to-productivity and fostering team belonging.

MinIO is a high-performance, S3-compatible object storage platform designed for enterprises that need complete control over their data infrastructure. Built for Kubernetes-native deployments across edge, on-premises, and cloud environments, it enables organizations to run their own S3-compatible storage without vendor lock-in. The software-defined architecture optimizes for AI/ML workloads, analytics, and large-scale data processing, with support for objects up to 50TB and deployment flexibility that traditional cloud storage cannot match.

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.

Momenta is an Industrial Impact venture capital firm founded in 2012 that accelerates digital innovators across energy, manufacturing, smart spaces, and supply chain. The firm combines early-stage funding ($775K–$3.5M checks) with operator-led co-creation, leveraging deep industry expertise to help founders deploy AI, IIoT, and Edge Intelligence solutions. Beyond capital, Momenta provides digital strategy, M&A execution, and go-to-market guidance, partnering with industrial leaders like Rockwell Automation to drive Industry 5.0 adoption.

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.

Render is a modern cloud platform that enables developers and teams to build, deploy, and operate applications without managing infrastructure. It provides native-language runtimes, autoscaling, managed databases, private networking, and zero-downtime deploys—positioning itself as a contemporary alternative to Heroku with capabilities built for today's infrastructure needs. The platform supports web services, static sites, background workers, and AI agent workflows, serving thousands of companies from startups to enterprises like OpenAI, Shopify, and Alibaba.

Stronghold creates virtual payment networks that instantly settle transactions and enable interoperability between legacy banking systems and blockchain-based payment rails. The platform offers card processing, ACH transfers, merchant financing, and checkout services, with the unique ability to bridge traditional and modern payment infrastructure. They specifically serve high-compliance industries like gambling and alcohol that struggle to access financial services, rewarding transaction volume with SHx tokens that offset fees.

Human Security provides AI-powered bot management and fraud detection software that protects digital interactions across websites, apps, and APIs. The platform verifies over 20 trillion digital interactions weekly for 500+ global brands, detecting everything from basic scripts to sophisticated botnets and transaction fraud. Human Security differentiates itself through advanced behavioral analysis and multi-method detection that blocks fraudulent actors while enabling legitimate traffic and trusted AI agents to move freely.

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.

AngelList Venture is a marketplace and back-office software platform that connects early-stage startups with angel investors, syndicates, and venture funds while providing compliance, legal, and fund management infrastructure. The platform serves fund managers, syndicates, and startups by removing operational friction from fundraising and fund administration. As of 2025, the platform supports $171 billion in assets under administration across 25,000+ active investment vehicles and has helped 108 unicorn companies secure early-stage capital.

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.

You.com is an AI-powered search and agent platform that solves hallucination in large language models by grounding them with real-time, accurate web and private data. The company provides enterprise-grade search APIs and AI tools designed for AI agents and knowledge workers who need trustworthy, contextual information at scale. Founded by former Salesforce chief scientist Richard Socher, You.com has pivoted from consumer search toward B2B enterprise sales, serving finance, biotech, legal, and academic sectors with privacy-first infrastructure built for the agentic era.

Emergence builds mission-critical agentic infrastructure for enterprises, enabling verified and governed AI agents that plan, reason, and act across complex systems. Their flagship Emergence Orchestrator is an autonomous meta-agent that intelligently routes tasks to optimal AI models, with a core innovation called 'Agents Creating Agents™' that allows systems to autonomously build, train, and deploy new agents recursively. The company positions itself as research-heavy with cross-vendor compatibility as a key differentiator, serving use cases from semiconductor design to enterprise operations automation.