Startups Directory

Insider is a Growth Management Platform (GMP) that helps digital marketers drive growth across the entire customer funnel—from acquisition through activation, retention, and revenue—using AI-powered predictive segmentation and real-time personalization. The platform unites customer data, personalization, and journey orchestration across web, mobile, email, SMS, WhatsApp, and in-app channels with a native CDP at its core. Trusted by 2,000+ global brands including Samsung, L'Oréal, Unilever, and Toyota, Insider differentiates through its integrated approach to growth management rather than point solutions, delivering measurable results like 259% AOV increases and 350% conversion rate improvements for customers like Adidas and Carrefour.

Seedtag is an AI-powered contextual advertising platform that uses proprietary AI technology called 'Liz' to interpret interest, emotion, and intent signals in real-time content and deliver highly relevant ads across CTV, video, and the open web. Unlike traditional targeting methods, Seedtag's contextual audiences use zero personal data, making it privacy-compliant and ideal for the post-cookie advertising landscape. The platform serves global brands including Unilever, Amazon, Toyota, and LG, enabling precise ad delivery that mirrors human cognitive processes without relying on user identifiers.

StackAdapt is a self-serve programmatic advertising platform (DSP) that automates the buying and optimization of ad inventory across multiple channels including display, video, native, connected TV, audio, in-game, and digital out-of-home. The platform serves digital marketers and agencies by consolidating campaign planning, execution, and analysis into one streamlined interface with machine learning-powered optimization. StackAdapt eliminates the complexity of managing programmatic ads across fragmented channels and supply sources, delivering transparent pricing with no hidden tech fees.

Treasure Data is an enterprise customer data platform (CDP) that unifies customer data from 200+ sources into a single, actionable customer profile without requiring a dedicated data warehouse. The platform enables data collection, unification, segmentation, and activation across marketing channels, solving the problem that organizations spend ~80% of their time integrating and processing scattered data. Treasure Data serves over 450 global enterprises including Subaru, AB InBev, and Stellantis, and recently pioneered a 'No Compute' pricing model that decouples costs from processing resources.

Pattern is an eCommerce growth platform that partners with brands to accelerate sales across 60+ online marketplaces without charging fees or commissions. The company buys inventory upfront, manages pricing, advertising, content, and fulfillment using proprietary AI and software, while brands keep all margin improvements. Pattern has scaled 100+ brands including Panasonic, Black Diamond, and SPANX, with typical first-year revenue growth of 40%.

6sense is a predictive intelligence platform that identifies in-market B2B accounts before they contact you by processing billions of intent signals weekly through its proprietary 6AI™ engine and Signalverse™ data network. It combines first-party and third-party data to surface buying signals across anonymous research phases that traditional systems miss. The platform prioritizes accounts by purchase readiness and enables targeted outreach to key stakeholders throughout the sales cycle. It solves the core problem that 83% of B2B buying happens without direct vendor contact.

Workato is an enterprise automation and orchestration platform that connects applications, data sources, and workflows across organizations through a low-code interface. It bridges the gap between simple tools like Zapier and overly technical enterprise platforms, enabling business users to build complex automations for sales, HR, IT, and marketing without coding. The platform includes event-driven triggers, real-time data sync, API management, and enterprise governance features like audits and role-based access. Workato serves mid-market to enterprise organizations seeking to automate cross-system processes at scale.

Viral Nation is a global influencer marketing and talent management company that combines full-service agency capabilities with proprietary AI-powered software. The company operates across multiple divisions including VN Marketing (digital agency), VN Talent and VN Sports (creator/athlete representation), and VN Tech (software platform CreatorOS). They help brands connect with influencers while using AI technology to vet creators for brand safety and measure campaign ROI.

GWI is an AI-powered audience intelligence platform that combines survey data from millions of global panelists with advanced analytics to deliver consumer insights at scale. The platform democratizes market research by replacing expensive, slow traditional methods with self-service dashboards, AI-assisted analysis (Agent Spark), and automated presentation generation (Canvas). It serves marketing teams, agencies, and brands across 50+ markets with 200,000+ profiling data points covering demographics, behavior, media consumption, and social trends. GWI differentiates through real-time AI integration, global coverage, and instant insights versus traditional market research's slow turnaround.

Element451 is an AI-powered CRM platform purpose-built for higher education institutions to automate and personalize student recruitment, admissions, enrollment, and success workflows. The platform deploys AI agents to handle high-volume tasks like application reviews, prospect guidance, and personalized outreach, enabling colleges and universities to scale engagement while reducing staff workload. Serving 300+ institutions, Element451 helps enrollment teams reclaim time for human connection while improving yield and persistence metrics.

Demandbase is an AI-powered account-based marketing (ABM) platform that helps B2B companies identify high-intent target accounts, engage them across multiple channels, and accelerate revenue growth. The platform combines advertising, marketing orchestration, and account intelligence to show which target accounts are visiting your website, consuming relevant content, and displaying buying signals. With over 2,800 customers including Salesforce, Adobe, and DocuSign, Demandbase unifies fragmented go-to-market data into actionable insights for sales and marketing alignment.

Zoovu is an AI-powered product discovery and guided selling platform that transforms messy product data into semantically enriched information powering conversational buying experiences. It serves enterprise retailers and brands across e-commerce, B2B, and complex product categories by replacing generic keyword search with intelligent question-based navigation. The platform integrates search, guided selling, product configuration, and bundling from a single system, enabling customers to discover products through natural language interactions rather than static product listings. Zoovu's differentiation lies in its unified approach and advisor-model questioning sequences that match how buyers naturally navigate complex product categories.

DoubleVerify is a SaaS measurement and verification platform that independently validates digital ad delivery across the entire ecosystem, including open web, CTV, social media, and commerce networks. The platform certifies ads as viewable, fraud-free, brand-safe, and geo-targeted using proprietary AI and machine learning that processes over 8.3 trillion media transactions annually in 100+ languages. It serves 1,500+ customers including 49 of the top 50 global advertisers, providing both pre-bid avoidance and post-bid monitoring capabilities. DoubleVerify differentiates through its independent verification methodology and unbiased analytics, helping advertisers optimize ad spend and protect brand reputation at scale.

mParticle is a real-time customer data platform (CDP) purpose-built for multi-channel consumer brands to unify data from web, mobile, CRM, and third-party sources. The platform standardizes and enriches data in real-time before activating it across 300+ downstream systems including analytics, marketing automation, and data warehouses. Founded in 2013 with native mobile SDKs as architectural DNA, mParticle differentiates through superior mobile data collection, data quality enforcement (Data Planning), and identity resolution (IDSync). In January 2025, mParticle was acquired by Rokt for $300 million to create a hybrid CDP combining real-time activation with cloud-native analytics.

Alembic Technologies is a Causal AI platform that connects marketing spend to revenue outcomes with deterministic attribution and forecasting. Using graph neural networks and epidemiological mathematics applied to 2.5M+ data sources, it predicts revenue, close rates, and customer counts up to 2 years in advance with 95% confidence. The platform unifies brand, performance, and omnichannel marketing measurement into a single causal model, eliminating attribution blind spots endemic to traditional marketing analytics.

ManyChat is a chat marketing platform that automates direct messaging conversations across Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, TikTok, Telegram, SMS, and email through a visual Flow Builder interface. The platform enables businesses to generate leads, drive sales, and engage customers with minimal technical effort, achieving 80% message open rates compared to 20% for email. Used by over 1 million users across 170 countries including Nike and The New York Times, ManyChat helps brands close deals and generate revenue through omnichannel messaging automation.

LeadSquared is a unified sales execution and marketing automation platform that helps enterprises and mid-market businesses automate lead capture, distribution, engagement, and conversion across sales, marketing, field force, and customer service teams. The platform combines CRM and marketing automation in a single interface, enabling businesses to track and manage leads through the entire customer lifecycle. LeadSquared differentiates itself through affordable pricing (starting at $25/user/month), deep industry-specific solutions for financial services, real estate, education, and healthcare, and tight integration between sales and marketing workflows. Since 2011, it has grown to serve 2,000+ customers including Practo, LIC Housing Finance, and Hippo Homes.

SOCi is a CoMarketing Cloud platform that automates and scales localized digital marketing for multi-location enterprises. It uses AI-powered agents to manage local search optimization, social media content, and reputation management across hundreds or thousands of locations simultaneously. The platform solves the operational chaos of maintaining consistent, location-specific digital presence across search, social, reviews, and ad networks. SOCi serves nearly 1,000 brands including Ford, Ace Hardware, and Jersey Mike's.

Brandtech Group is the world's leading digital-only marketing group and generative AI marketing company, founded by former Havas CEO David Jones. Its flagship platform Pencil uses AI to create ads 10x faster, 2x better performing, and 30-50% cheaper than traditional methods. The group operates a portfolio of specialized agencies (Mofilm, Oliver, Jellyfish, DP6, and others) serving 8 of the top 10 global advertisers through end-to-end AI-powered creative solutions backed by $1B in annual media spend across 5,000 brands.

GRIN is an end-to-end creator management platform that helps DTC brands find, engage, and manage relationships with influencers at scale. The platform streamlines influencer outreach, manages creator relationships through a private CRM, automates product seeding, tracks content rights, and provides revenue attribution through direct e-commerce integration with Shopify and Magento. Unlike transactional platforms, GRIN focuses on building authentic, relationship-based partnerships while eliminating traditional rev-share fees. The platform recently launched GIA, an agentic AI system to automate campaign workflows and optimize creator engagement.

Copy.ai is an AI-powered Go-To-Market (GTM) platform that helps sales and marketing teams generate high-volume content, from blog posts and product descriptions to sales outreach and account research. The platform uses advanced language models (GPT-4o, Claude 3.5) and features Content Agent Studio, which allows teams to create endless content variations while maintaining brand voice—without prompt engineering. Founded in 2020 and acquired by Fullcast in October 2025, Copy.ai serves enterprise customers like Datadog, Thermo Fisher, and Siemens across 50+ countries.

Visit Group is a Nordic-focused software ecosystem enabling hospitality and tourism operators (ski resorts, tour operators, DMOs, attractions) to manage bookings, inventory, pricing, and distribution across 100+ external channels. The platform consists of three integrated brands—BookVisit (accommodation distribution), iTicket (ticketing and activities), and Citybreak (multi-product CRS)—that automate complex financial flows and enable direct sales-focused operations. Serving 2,200+ customers across 25 countries, Visit Group differentiates through deep Nordic expertise, network effects, and ecosystem integration rather than competing as a global generalist platform.

AskToSell is an AI-powered sales automation platform that deploys autonomous agents to contact leads, qualify prospects, prepare proposals, handle objections, and close deals automatically. Built for SMBs with repetitive, transactional sales processes, it enables companies to scale deal volume without burning out sales teams or inflating customer acquisition costs. The platform operates at 10-30x lower cost than human sales labor, with agents learning product details and autonomously managing the entire sales workflow until deal approval.

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.

Blend360 is a professional services firm specializing in data science, analytics, and digital talent solutions for enterprise clients. The company offers machine learning, predictive analytics, data engineering, business intelligence, and strategy advisory services, alongside a talent recruitment division connecting hiring leaders with marketing, analytics, and technology professionals. Their BlendX platform transforms rigid scripts into intelligent workflows with enterprise-grade governance, enabling rapid experimentation at consumer-AI speed. Blend360 serves Fortune 500 companies across financial services, retail, hospitality, and streaming sectors.

Klaviyo is an AI-powered email marketing and SMS platform that unifies customer data to drive personalized omnichannel experiences across email, SMS, WhatsApp, and ecommerce. It enables brands to build automated workflows triggered by customer behavior—like abandoned cart, welcome series, and replenishment reminders—that generate 30-50% of total email revenue without manual intervention. The platform serves ecommerce and direct-to-consumer brands by transforming raw customer data into actionable insights and revenue-driving automations.

InMobi is a full-stack mobile advertising platform that combines a demand-side platform (DSP) for advertisers, a supply-side platform (SSP) and exchange for publishers, AI-powered audience targeting, and privacy-compliance tools. The company serves brands, app marketers, and publishers across in-app, mobile web, and emerging channels with programmatic, data-driven media buying. Beyond advertising, InMobi operates Glance, an AI-powered content discovery platform for smartphone lock screens that has achieved unicorn status separately.

HubSpot is a cloud-based customer platform that helps businesses grow through inbound marketing, sales, and customer service tools built on a unified CRM foundation. Founded in 2006, it pioneered the inbound marketing methodology—attracting customers through helpful content rather than interruptive tactics. The platform serves over 248,000 customers across 135+ countries through integrated 'Hubs' (Marketing, Sales, Service, Content) that share a single source of truth for customer data. HubSpot has scaled from an MIT startup to a $2B+ revenue company competing with Salesforce and Adobe.

⚠️ COMPANY STATUS: Near Intelligence filed for bankruptcy in December 2023 and is permanently closed. The following profile is provided for historical reference only. Near was a location intelligence SaaS platform that processed data from 1.6 billion unique user IDs and 70 million points of interest across 44+ countries. Its flagship product, Allspark, enabled marketing and operations teams to understand consumer online and offline behaviors through natural language queries. The platform served enterprises in retail, real estate, QSR, travel, telecom, and financial services.

OSF Digital is a enterprise digital transformation consultant specializing in Salesforce implementation, commerce platforms (CRM, CMS, OMS), and AI-driven agentic workflows. The company serves Fortune 500 brands across retail, cosmetics, banking, and hospitality sectors, having completed 1,907+ employees across 12 acquired agencies globally. They differentiate through 14+ years of Salesforce partnership expertise, exclusive expert distinction in four commerce categories, and a patent-pending AI platform (AllAi) for operationalizing enterprise workflows.

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.

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.

MoEngage is an AI-powered customer engagement platform that orchestrates personalized omnichannel experiences across mobile, web, email, SMS, and social media. It serves enterprise and mid-market brands by consolidating customer data from multiple touchpoints and automating targeted communications at scale. The platform processes 3.2 billion messages daily for 1,350+ global brands like Flipkart, Domino's, and Deutsche Telekom, combining real-time analytics with machine learning-driven journey orchestration.

Cognigy.AI is a low-code conversational AI platform that enables enterprises to automate customer and employee communications through intelligent voice- and chatbots across any channel (web, phone, SMS, mobile). The platform combines Large Language Models with structured logic workflows, allowing organizations to deploy sophisticated AI agents capable of independent decision-making while maintaining precise intent recognition. Available as SaaS or on-premise, it supports multilingual conversations and integrates seamlessly with backend systems. Now part of NICE following a $955M acquisition in September 2025.

Micronotes is an end-to-end prescreen marketing platform that uses machine learning and credit bureau data to identify loan and refinancing opportunities for financial institutions. It delivers personalized offers through email, direct mail, and digital banking channels while generating FCRA-compliant firm offers. The platform serves 140+ banks and credit unions by enabling them to compete with larger institutions through sophisticated data analytics, cross-sell automation, and proprietary MicroInterview® engagement technology that delivers 23x higher click-through rates than traditional banner ads.