Startups Directory

Vercel is a frontend-as-a-service platform that automates deployment, scaling, and optimization of web applications through Git-connected CI/CD pipelines. The company maintains Next.js, the world's most popular React framework with 15M weekly downloads, and recently launched v0, an AI model for full-stack web development that has generated over 100M applications in under a year. Vercel serves developers and engineering teams at companies like OpenAI, PayPal, Nike, and Netflix with managed infrastructure, serverless functions, edge computing, and AI-powered development tools.

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.

SpotOn is an integrated restaurant management platform that unifies point-of-sale, online ordering, labor management, kitchen operations, and payment processing into a single system. The company serves restaurants of all sizes—from local establishments to MLB stadiums—with flexible software tiers and optional payment processing. SpotOn differentiates by allowing merchants to choose their payment processor or use existing systems, avoiding vendor lock-in common with competitors like Square and Toast. Founded by payment industry veterans Matt and Zach Hyman alongside Doron Friedman, SpotOn has raised $923M and serves thousands of restaurants seeking integrated operations without forced processor dependencies.

O9 Solutions provides an AI-powered SaaS platform that unifies enterprise planning across supply chain, demand forecasting, inventory optimization, and revenue management. Built on a proprietary Enterprise Knowledge Graph and in-memory Graph-Cube architecture, the platform ingests data from ERP systems, POS terminals, and syndicated sources to power scenario-based decision-making. The company differentiates through modular planning applications and generative AI agents that enable cross-functional analysis and root-cause investigations, positioning itself to capture customers migrating from legacy planning systems like SAP APO.

Chainguard provides secure-by-default container images, language libraries, and VM images with zero known CVEs, eliminating vulnerabilities at the source rather than scanning after deployment. Every artifact includes built-in SBOMs, signed provenance, and daily security patches with an SLA-backed remediation guarantee. The platform delivers a 97.6% reduction in CVEs on average and serves enterprises and development teams building software supply chains that require compliance and security assurance.

Protekt is an enterprise risk management (ERM) software platform that helps large organizations structure, monitor, and manage risk across governance, compliance, operational resilience, vendor management, and business continuity. Founded in 1999 by former PwC risk leaders, the company has grown to 183 employees and recently raised $280M from PSG Equity. With a 97% annual customer retention rate and recognition as a G2 Top 50 GRC vendor and Gartner representative vendor, Protekt serves Fortune 500 companies and financial institutions globally.

Ascend is an all-in-one finance automation platform purpose-built for insurance retailers, brokers, MGAs, and carriers. It automates the entire payment lifecycle—from customer premium payments and financing to commission distribution and carrier payables—while providing financial insights and treasury management. The platform eliminates the collections gap that traditionally exists between policy binding and payment, reducing operational friction for insurers and customers alike. Ascend has processed over $1B in annual premiums and serves 3,000+ insurance businesses across all 50 U.S. states.

Cockroach Labs builds CockroachDB, a distributed SQL database that combines the ACID transaction guarantees and relational model of traditional databases with the horizontal scalability and fault tolerance of NoSQL systems. It's PostgreSQL wire-compatible and designed to survive datacenter failures with zero manual intervention. The platform serves enterprises and innovators requiring always-on, globally distributed databases that scale seamlessly across cloud providers and on-premises infrastructure.

Worki is an AI-native infrastructure platform that unifies fragmented healthcare workforce and HR systems into a single contextual data layer. The platform sits between existing tools like Workday, UKG, Oracle, and ServiceNow, mapping task-role architecture to identify where AI agents can augment or automate administrative work. Using a four-part system (Pathways, Unify, Amplifiers, Infrasharing), Worki enables health systems to reduce overhead by 20%+ while deploying AI agents with human governance across workforce operations.

DriveNets provides a cloud-native, software-based routing platform that disaggregates network software from proprietary hardware, enabling communication service providers to scale from 2.4Tbps to 921Tbps on commodity white-box infrastructure. The company's Network Cloud and Network Cloud-AI products apply cloud architecture principles to telecom networks, reducing costs and increasing flexibility. Already deployed across major tier-1 operators including AT&T (handling 52% of core traffic), Comcast, Vodafone, and Orange, DriveNets is transforming how global networks are built and operated.

Uniphore is an AI-native platform that enables enterprises to deploy agentic AI across business functions through a composable, secure infrastructure. The Business AI Cloud combines a unified data layer, autonomous small language model factory, governed model foundation, and workflow-based agent orchestration—designed specifically for large enterprises requiring production-grade AI with data governance and security. Uniphore powers over 750,000 end users across 1,600 enterprises in 20 countries, with customers including JPMorgan Chase, Verizon, DHL, and the U.S. Coast Guard.

Ampla is an all-in-one financing platform for omnichannel consumer brands, combining a flexible line of credit, modern banking services (checking account, debit card, corporate Visa card), and data analytics. The platform uniquely underwriters businesses by considering omnichannel revenue streams—including stores, wholesale, and e-commerce—rather than just online sales. Ampla originated over $2B in loans and processed $5T in transaction volume before its acquisition by FundThrough in April 2025.

Fundamental builds Nexus, a Large Tabular Model (LTM) purpose-built for structured data analytics that delivers accurate predictions from raw tabular data with minimal configuration. Unlike traditional ML requiring months of preprocessing and data science work, Nexus learns complex feature interactions automatically, often through a single line of code. The company serves Fortune 100 enterprises using it for demand forecasting, price optimization, fraud detection, and customer churn prediction.

Collibra provides a unified Data Intelligence Cloud platform that combines data catalog, governance, lineage, quality, and privacy capabilities into a single source of truth for enterprise metadata. The platform helps large organizations break down data silos and establish clear data ownership and provenance across teams. Built on a graph-based repository, it enables businesses and technical teams to collaborate on data governance while supporting regulatory compliance and data product delivery. Collibra serves Fortune 500 companies like HSBC, Pfizer, and Shell that struggle with data chaos and the need for enterprise-wide data governance.

Replit is a cloud-based IDE that lets developers write, run, and deploy code directly in the browser, supporting 50+ programming languages. With its AI-powered Agent (v2), non-technical users can now build complete applications by describing them in natural language—a shift toward "vibe coding." The platform combines real-time collaboration, integrated hosting, and AI-assisted development into a single workspace, enabling both individual developers and enterprises to build software faster.

Axelera AI develops purpose-built hardware and software platforms that accelerate AI inference at the edge using proprietary digital in-memory computing (D-IMC) technology. Their flagship Metis™ AI Platform combines CPU and memory into a single chip, eliminating energy-intensive data movement between cloud and device, delivering 10x better energy efficiency than standard computing. The company serves industrial, defense, robotics, and retail customers who need low-latency, privacy-preserving AI processing on devices rather than cloud.

Island is an enterprise-grade secure browser built on Chromium that replaces legacy security tools like SASE platforms and VDI by embedding security controls directly into the browser. It enables organizations to enforce granular, context-based policies that allow data to flow freely between enterprise apps while preventing unauthorized sharing, data leakage, and malicious activities. The browser provides last-mile controls over print, downloads, screenshots, and copy/paste even outside the browser environment, giving enterprises complete visibility and governance over user activity.

Salesforce Ventures is a multi-stage venture capital firm founded in 2009 that invests in enterprise software and cloud computing companies from seed through growth stages. With over $6 billion deployed across 630+ portfolio companies, it leverages Salesforce's decades of cloud expertise and deep relationships with Fortune 500 decision-makers to provide portfolio companies with unparalleled market access, strategic partnerships, and customer introductions. The firm operates with an evergreen funding model and has achieved 75 unicorns, 29 IPOs, and 111 acquisitions in its portfolio, including notable exits like Stripe, Zoom, Snowflake, and DocuSign. Its recent $1 billion AI fund commitment reflects a strategic focus on enterprise AI innovation.

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

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

Verbit is a verbal intelligence platform that combines proprietary AI-based automatic speech recognition (ASR) with a human transcriber network to deliver 99.9% accurate transcriptions 10X faster than industry standards. The platform uses generative AI (Gen.V™) to transform raw audio into actionable insights through real-time summaries, keywords, and metadata. Serving 3,000+ businesses across education, legal, media, government, and corporate sectors, Verbit differentiates itself through industry-specific AI training and a hybrid human-AI approach that maximizes both accuracy and efficiency.

Fireworks AI provides a unified inference and fine-tuning platform for open-source large language, vision, and multimodal models, eliminating the need for users to manage GPU infrastructure. The platform serves over 100 state-of-the-art models with 4x lower latency than competitors like vLLM and up to 12x faster inference than comparable engines. Built by former Meta and Google AI leaders, Fireworks enables developers and enterprises to deploy, customize, and scale AI models with enterprise-grade compliance and zero data retention by default.

Beacon Software is a permanent holding company that acquires profitable, mission-critical software businesses serving Main Street sectors—education, finance, logistics, recreation—and modernizes them using AI and applied technology rather than cost-cutting. Founded by Nilam Ganenthiran (ex-President of Instacart) and Divya Gupta (ex-Sequoia partner), Beacon acquires roughly one company every two weeks and has expanded acquired companies' Rule of 40 by an average of 1,000 basis points within one year. Unlike private equity firms focused on 3-7 year exits, Beacon commits to permanent ownership, reinvestment in growth, and building net-new technology capabilities across its portfolio.

Upwind Security is a cloud security platform that consolidates CSPM, CWPP, CDR, vulnerability management, identity security, and container security into a single offering. It uses eBPF kernel-level monitoring paired with cloud telemetry to detect malicious activity and correlate runtime context with build-time data, reducing alert noise by ~95%. The platform serves enterprise security teams protecting cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and other environments.

Harness is an AI-powered DevOps platform that automates software deployment, testing, and verification across the development lifecycle. The platform uses machine learning to detect deployment anomalies, intelligently rollback failed releases, and manage progressive delivery strategies. Unlike generalist CI/CD tools, Harness specializes exclusively in continuous delivery and deployment decisions, providing deep optimization for complex deployment scenarios. It serves enterprise engineering teams looking to reduce manual deployment work and improve release reliability.

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

Cato Networks delivers a cloud-native SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) platform that converges WAN and network security into a single unified service, eliminating the need for traditional MPLS and dispersed security stacks. Built on a globally distributed private backbone, the platform uses physical or virtual Cato Sockets at network edges to route and inspect traffic through Cato's cloud infrastructure with integrated security enforcement. The company serves 3,000+ enterprises including Carlsberg and TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E, replacing legacy on-premises architectures with a subscription-based, cloud-native alternative.

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

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.

Addepar is a cloud-based wealth management platform that aggregates portfolio data from over 350 custodians across 45 countries, enabling RIAs and wealth managers to track complex holdings including alternative investments like private equity, venture capital, and real estate. The platform ingests daily data from 7+ million accounts and serves over 800 firms managing $4 trillion in assets. Key differentiation comes from its specialized handling of difficult-to-model alternative assets and recent expansions into trading/rebalancing (Addepar Trading, Sept 2024) and private fund data management (Feb 2025).

Ontic is a Connected Intelligence Platform that unifies security operations by aggregating threat indicators, OSINT data, and case management into a single system of record. It serves Fortune 500 companies and federal agencies to identify threats, assess risk, and respond faster to protect people and organizations. The platform consolidates research, incident investigation, real-time threat detection, and vulnerability assessments—solving the problem that investigators lose up to 50% of their time chasing down disparate data sources.

Clari is a revenue orchestration platform that uses AI to unify data from 200+ customer-facing enterprise systems—including CRM, email, calendar, marketing automation, and conversations—to deliver predictive forecasting and revenue intelligence. It serves sales, marketing, and customer success teams at enterprise companies like Okta, Adobe, Workday, and Zoom, helping them achieve predictable revenue through AI-driven insights and automated workflows. The platform stands out by capturing time-series activity data across the entire revenue stack and applying continuous AI analysis to guide revenue leaders with forecasts, deal intelligence, and recommended actions.

Inflection AI develops a large language model (350B+ parameters) designed to understand emotional context and provide empathetic conversational AI. Originally launched as Pi, a consumer chatbot focused on emotional intelligence, the company has pivoted to a B2B API-first model under new CEO Sean White. The company's differentiation centers on EQ-aware responses and efficient training (40% compute vs GPT-4) while maintaining competitive quality metrics.

dbt Labs provides a data transformation platform that turns raw data in data warehouses into analysis-ready datasets through modular SQL queries, testing, and version control. The company offers dbt Core (open-source), dbt Cloud (hosted platform with IDE and job scheduling), and the dbt Semantic Layer for consistent metric management across BI tools. Used by over 40,000 companies including Nasdaq, JetBlue, and Canva, dbt has become the industry standard for analytics engineering in the modern data stack.

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

Multiverse Computing develops compressed AI models and quantum software that enables enterprises to run large language models 4x-12x faster with 50-80% lower inference costs. Using tensor network mathematics from quantum mechanics, their CompactifAI platform compresses LLMs by up to 95% with minimal precision loss, while their Singularity platform allows organizations to leverage quantum computing for optimization without specialized hardware. Serving over 100 global customers including Iberdrola, Bosch, and the Bank of Canada, they're positioned as Europe's largest quantum software company focused on practical, cost-effective AI and quantum solutions for manufacturing, finance, energy, and defense sectors.

AI21 Labs builds enterprise AI systems spanning consumer writing tools (Wordtune), developer APIs (Jurassic-1, Jamba), and AI orchestration platforms (Maestro). The company serves enterprises needing reliable, traceable AI for complex workflows, with particular strength in regulated industries like banking and healthcare. Their differentiation lies in efficient token economics (~30% cost advantage), open-weights models, and agentic orchestration that improves accuracy of leading LLMs like GPT-4o and Claude.

Spreetail is a wholesale distributor and ecommerce acceleration platform specializing in big-and-bulky products. The company purchases inventory directly from brands and manufacturers, then handles multi-channel marketplace distribution, fulfillment, and logistics across 20+ platforms including Amazon, Walmart, and Target. Unlike traditional 3PLs charging service fees, Spreetail operates on wholesale margin capture, investing upfront in inventory and brand success while providing AI-powered tools for listing optimization, pricing strategy, and advertising incrementality.

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

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

Tipalti is a global accounts payable automation platform that enables mid-market and enterprise companies to pay contractors, employees, suppliers, and vendors across 190+ countries in 120+ currencies. The platform automates the entire payment workflow—from supplier onboarding and invoice processing via OCR to multi-step approvals, payment execution, and reconciliation—eliminating up to 80% of manual AP work. Unlike payment processors focused on collections (PayPal, Stripe), Tipalti specializes in mass disbursements, handling compliance, tax forms, and local regulatory requirements at scale.

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.

Automation Anywhere provides an enterprise agentic process automation platform that combines RPA, AI, and cognitive technologies to enable organizations to automate mission-critical business processes at scale. The platform deploys software bots that handle repetitive, rule-based tasks 24/7 with higher accuracy than humans, incorporating natural language processing, computer vision, and machine learning. It serves large enterprises across industries seeking to automate end-to-end workflows while maintaining security and compliance. The company is recognized as a Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader for RPA for the seventh consecutive year.

Dataiku is a centralized AI and data analytics platform that enables organizations to develop, deploy, and manage machine learning models and AI applications at scale. It serves enterprise teams across data science, analytics, and AI governance with tools for data preparation, model building, and responsible AI deployment. The platform bridges the gap between data experts and business users, providing a controlled environment for analytics and AI without requiring deep technical expertise. Customers like Unilever, Morgan Stanley, and J&J use it for use cases ranging from predictive maintenance to supply chain optimization.

Altana is a Value Chain Management System that uses AI and a proprietary knowledge graph of 2.8B shipments to provide enterprises with unprecedented visibility into their global supply chains—from raw material origins to finished product distribution. The platform lets companies connect internal data, documentation, and third-party analytics to create a unified, editable view of their value chains and identify risks, opportunities, and supplier relationships deep within their networks. Unlike competitors relying solely on public data, Altana's proprietary network gives it 2x the supply chain visibility of competitors. It serves enterprises, governments, and logistics providers seeking to curate, document, and collaborate on supply chain intelligence.

Andela is a global talent marketplace that connects companies with vetted software engineers across 135+ countries. Using proprietary AI matching algorithms, Andela sources, screens, and onboards developers while handling the entire hiring lifecycle—offering flexible engagement models from individual contractors to fully managed teams. The company specializes in application development, AI, data engineering, cloud, and DevOps roles, and has evolved to provide the human compute layer behind modern AI systems. Andela's core value is reducing hiring friction through speed, quality, and cost-efficiency via its Adaptive Hiring model.

Sigma Computing is a cloud-native analytics platform that auto-generates SQL, enabling business users to analyze billions of rows of data directly from cloud warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, Redshift) using a familiar spreadsheet interface—without writing code or extracting data. The platform eliminates the need for data engineers as middlemen by allowing non-technical stakeholders to self-serve analytics with live, zero-copy query execution. Sigma positions itself as the bridge between spreadsheet simplicity and modern cloud data architecture, combining spreadsheet familiarity with enterprise-grade BI capabilities.

Aviatrix is a cloud networking platform that builds secure, software-defined network overlays across multi-cloud and hybrid environments. It solves the problem of inefficient cloud traffic routing by creating a hub-and-spoke topology that keeps inter-region traffic within the cloud rather than backhauling through traditional enterprise networks. The platform provides unified management, micro-segmentation, and routing automation across AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-premises data centers for 550+ global enterprises.

Salsify is a cloud-based product content management platform that helps brands, manufacturers, and retailers manage, optimize, and syndicate product information across e-commerce channels and digital shelves. The platform connects the retail supply chain by centralizing product content (descriptions, images, specs, digital assets) and enabling distribution to marketplaces like Amazon, Walmart, and Instagram. With AI-powered automation and digital shelf analytics, Salsify helps enterprises reduce time-to-market, unify cross-functional teams, and compete effectively in agentic commerce.

ConsenSys is a global blockchain infrastructure and software company founded by Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin that builds developer tools, enterprise applications, and scaling solutions powered by Ethereum. Its flagship products—MetaMask (self-custodial wallet securing $60B in assets) and Infura (node infrastructure serving millions of transactions)—serve as critical infrastructure for the Web3 ecosystem. The company also develops Linea (Layer 2 scaling), Quorum (enterprise blockchain platform acquired from JPMorgan), and provides smart contract auditing and staking services to enterprises and developers.