Startups Directory

Upland Software is a cloud-based enterprise software platform that helps organizations unlock critical knowledge, automate content workflows, and drive measurable ROI through AI-powered knowledge management, content lifecycle automation, and digital marketing solutions. The company serves 1,100+ enterprise customers across industries including financial services, manufacturing, and professional services. Upland has grown through 31 strategic acquisitions, building a comprehensive portfolio that spans business operations, legal, marketing, and project management tools. The platform enables enterprises to capture, organize, distribute information securely, and comply with regulatory requirements while enhancing both customer and employee experiences.

DataStax provides Astra DB, a cloud database-as-a-service built on Apache Cassandra, along with DataStax Enterprise for on-premises deployments and Astra Streaming for event streaming. It solves the operational complexity of managing distributed databases at scale by automating deployment, scaling, backup, and recovery across multiple cloud regions. The platform enables enterprises to build real-time AI applications with low-latency data access and multi-model support (tabular, search, graph) through a serverless, pay-as-you-go architecture.

CommerceIQ is an AI-powered retail ecommerce management platform that helps consumer brands optimize sales across major online marketplaces like Amazon, Walmart, Target, and Instacart. It unifies digital shelf optimization, retail media advertising, and supply chain management through machine learning and automation to drive profitable market share growth. The platform serves over 2,200 brands globally, including Nestle, Colgate, and Whirlpool, delivering measurable results like 40% incremental sales increases and 32% reduction in out-of-stock rates.

IntelyCare is an AI-powered workforce management platform that uses machine learning and behavioral science to match nursing professionals with healthcare shifts while optimizing staffing for post-acute care facilities. The platform fills nursing shifts at three times the industry average by predicting staffing needs weeks in advance and enabling shift matching within 12 hours. It serves 1,600 healthcare facilities across 28 states, handling credentialing, scheduling, training, and direct payment to nursing professionals through a geofencing-validated mobile app.

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.

Rescale is an enterprise cloud simulation platform that enables research scientists and engineers to run high-performance computing (HPC) workloads—including finite element analysis (FEA), computational fluid dynamics (CFD), and AI simulations—on their choice of cloud providers without infrastructure setup or maintenance. The platform automates hybrid cloud orchestration with built-in security, architectural controls, and financial governance. Engineers can configure complex engineering analyses for computation in minutes via a web browser, dramatically reducing time-to-market for product design cycles. Rescale serves 300+ customers including 7 of the top 10 automakers, 7 of the top 10 aerospace companies, and 3 of the top 6 life science companies.

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.

Spendesk is an all-in-one spend management platform that consolidates corporate cards, expense reimbursements, invoice payments, budgets, approvals, and reporting into a single solution. It serves mid-market and enterprise businesses across Europe, particularly SMBs, eliminating fragmented spending processes and giving finance teams visibility and automation across all employee spending. The platform processed €20 billion in spend in 2024 and is trusted by over 5,000 businesses including Algolia, Soundcloud, Doctolib, and Gousto. What differentiates Spendesk is its unified 7-in-1 approach versus point solutions, combined with European compliance focus and recent AI agent capabilities.

Aiwyn is an AI-driven practice automation platform that helps mid-to-large accounting firms modernize their entire revenue management lifecycle—from invoicing and collections to tax preparation and client collaboration. The platform automates manual accounts receivable workstreams, integrated time tracking, billing, project management, and tax workflows, enabling accounting firms to accelerate cash flow by 51% on average and reduce days to collection from 50+ to 30-40 days. Built for Top 500 CPA firms seeking a unified operating system rather than stitched-together point solutions, Aiwyn serves 800+ firms including roughly half of the IPA Top 500.

Payhawk is a unified spend management platform that combines corporate credit cards, payments, invoices, and expenses into a single system with real-time reconciliation and AI-powered data extraction. It eliminates manual finance work by automatically matching receipts to transactions and integrating with accounting software like NetSuite, Xero, and QuickBooks. The platform is built for mid-market and enterprise finance teams that need multi-entity visibility, advanced ERP integrations, and automated compliance workflows. Founded in 2018, Payhawk has raised $239M and serves over 1,000 customers including Vinted, Babbel, and Wallbox.

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.

Envoy is a workplace management platform that digitizes visitor management, space booking, deliveries, and emergency notifications for modern offices. Built for mid-market companies managing hybrid and multi-location workplaces, it replaces paper logbooks and fragmented tools with an integrated security and compliance solution. The platform handles over 100,000 daily sign-ins across 16,000+ workplaces globally, serving companies like Slack, Asana, Pinterest, and Warby Parker. Envoy's strength lies in combining security, audit trails, and operational efficiency into a single platform tailored for workplace safety.

VidMob is an AI-powered creative analytics platform that helps brands and agencies optimize their advertising creative performance. The platform combines intelligent creative scoring, metadata extraction, and sentiment analysis to identify which creative elements (logos, copy, colors, emotions, etc.) drive campaign performance. VidMob also operates a curated global Creative Network of vetted freelancers and provides an end-to-end production workflow system. The company is the only platform certified as a creative marketing partner by every major social and digital platform (Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, YouTube, etc.).

Pendo is an end-to-end product experience platform that combines product analytics, in-app guidance, feedback collection, and roadmapping into a single no-code solution. It enables product teams to understand user behavior through automatic event capture with retroactive analysis, deliver contextual in-app messages, and gather user sentiment data. The platform serves B2B SaaS companies and enterprise software teams who need to optimize user experiences without requiring technical implementation. Pendo differentiates itself through its retroactive analytics capability, allowing teams to tag features after installation and analyze historical usage data.

Voltron Data builds Theseus, a GPU-accelerated query engine that enables petabyte-scale data analytics directly on data lakes, lakehouses, and warehouses using Apache Arrow standards. The platform allows organizations to query massive datasets 10-100x faster while reducing infrastructure costs dramatically—one retailer cut server count from 1,400 CPU machines to 14 GPU servers. Unlike traditional CPU-based analytics platforms, Voltron's approach is designed to complement existing systems like Spark and DuckDB, letting users scale without vendor lock-in.

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.

Ascendx Cloud is a CRM software holding company that acquires and supports Salesforce-native applications, building a curated ecosystem of best-in-class tools for enterprise data optimization and automation. The company owns portfolio companies like Ortoo (workflow automation), Eposly (retail/POS), and CapStorm (secure data management), enabling Fortune 500 companies to act on customer data more intelligently. Ascendx provides portfolio companies with product development, go-to-market strategy, security, compliance, and scaling support while allowing founders to maintain operational leadership. Over 500 enterprise customers across banking, life sciences, manufacturing, and other sectors rely on Ascendx's integrated solutions.

Labelbox is a data-centric AI platform that helps AI teams and Fortune 500 enterprises create, manage, and iterate on high-quality labeled training data at scale. The platform combines a collaborative annotation software with managed labeling services and generative AI automation (Foundry) to reduce the time and cost of producing training data. It processes petabytes of multimodal data and serves over 80% of Fortune 500 AI teams, positioning itself as a command center for the entire ML training data iteration loop.

SirionLabs is an AI-native contract lifecycle management (CLM) platform that extracts, normalizes, and organizes contract data across the entire contract lifecycle—from negotiation through post-signature performance monitoring. The platform delivers 85% faster contract insights and validates invoices against contract terms to reduce overpayments and disputes. Built for large enterprises managing complex buy-side and sell-side contracts, SirionLabs differentiates itself by providing visibility into contract performance and relationships, not just storage, while integrating seamlessly with Salesforce, SAP, and other enterprise systems.

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.

Teleport is an open-source identity and access management platform that replaces traditional VPNs and secret-based security with a unified, certificate-based access control layer for servers, databases, Kubernetes clusters, cloud applications, and AI infrastructure. It eliminates credential sprawl by issuing short-lived, automatically expiring certificates instead of long-lived SSH keys and passwords. The platform serves infrastructure teams at scale, from startups to Fortune 500 companies, providing zero-trust access enforcement across all computing resources.

SpyCloud is a cybercrime analytics platform that recaptures and analyzes darknet breach and malware data to protect enterprises from identity-based attacks. The company operates the world's largest repository of compromised credentials and malware intelligence, enabling organizations to detect and remediate exposures across employees, contractors, customers, and non-human accounts in minutes. SpyCloud integrates with existing security infrastructure (EDR, IdP, SIEM, SOAR) to automate identity risk mitigation at scale, serving half of the Fortune 10 and government agencies globally.

Heap is a cloud-based product analytics platform that automatically captures all user interactions across web, mobile, and cloud applications without requiring manual tagging or engineering effort. Unlike legacy analytics tools, Heap enables retroactive analysis of customer behavior and provides automated insights into user paths, friction points, and conversion drivers. The platform serves B2B SaaS companies that need fast, comprehensive analytics without the overhead of traditional event-based tracking systems.

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.

TimescaleDB is an open-source PostgreSQL extension optimized for time-series data, delivering 10-100x faster query performance than MongoDB and InfluxDB while supporting millions of events per second with up to 95% storage compression. Built by Ajay Kulkarni and Michael Freedman (Princeton professor), it serves companies ingesting and analyzing massive volumes of time-stamped data across IoT, blockchain, maritime, and industrial applications. The product maintains full PostgreSQL compatibility—same drivers, clients, and SQL—while adding automatic time-partitioning (hypertables) and columnar compression.

CAST AI is a machine learning-powered platform that automatically optimizes Kubernetes clusters and cloud infrastructure in real time, reducing cloud costs by 50% or more while improving application performance and security. Unlike competitors that merely monitor and recommend fixes, CAST AI actively implements optimizations across AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-premises environments. The platform uses advanced ML algorithms to continuously analyze workload behavior, automate resource allocation, and eliminate waste through intelligent bin packing and pod scheduling.

Pismo is a cloud-native core banking and payments platform that unifies real-time payments, card issuance, digital wallets, and banking services through a microservices architecture. It serves banks, fintechs, and retailers across Latin America, Europe, North America, and Asia with a single SaaS platform rather than fragmented legacy systems. The platform processes over 4 billion API calls monthly and hosts 25+ million accounts handling $3B+ in monthly transactions. NOTE: Pismo was acquired by Visa in January 2024 for $1 billion and now operates as a Visa subsidiary.

Veza is the authorization platform for data security built on a graph-based architecture that maps access permissions across 300+ integrations in hybrid and multi-cloud environments. It enables enterprises to visualize, manage, and control granular access down to specific data objects, tables, and cloud resources. Used by Global 500 companies like Expedia, Blackstone, and Wynn Resorts to solve privileged access monitoring, non-human identity security, and identity governance challenges. Recently acquired by ServiceNow in December 2025 at a $1B-$1.5B valuation.

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.

Cart.com is an integrated commerce operating system that combines e-commerce software, fulfillment services, marketplace connectivity, and analytics into a unified platform. The company serves 6,000+ customers processing 70+ million orders annually across 8.5 million square feet of fulfillment space. It differentiates itself by owning the entire value chain—from product listing through last-mile delivery—rather than acting as pure software, creating defensible competitive advantages and multiple revenue streams. Cart.com positions itself as the omnichannel commerce engine for D2C and B2B brands seeking to consolidate fragmented operations.

Docker is a containerization platform that packages applications and their dependencies into lightweight, isolated containers that run consistently across any infrastructure. It solves the 'works on my machine' problem by virtualizing the operating system rather than hardware, enabling developers to build, ship, and run applications faster. With over 10 million registered developers and 56,000 commercial customers including 70% of Fortune 100 companies, Docker has become the industry standard for application deployment and DevOps workflows.

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.

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.

Perk (formerly TravelPerk) is an AI-native corporate travel and spend management platform that combines consumer-grade booking with enterprise-grade policy controls. It solves the problem that 50% of business travel happens outside company policy by offering a single platform with real-time policy enforcement, AI-powered itinerary management via assistant Juno, and integrated expense tracking. The platform serves 12,000+ companies globally and differentiates through FlexiPerk flexible cancellation coverage, TravelCare duty of care management, and seamless multi-modal transportation comparison.

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.

Conexiom uses AI and OCR to automatically capture, correct, and transform purchase orders from emails and documents into ERP-ready data, eliminating manual order entry for manufacturers and distributors. The platform integrates with 40+ ERP systems and helps enterprises reduce order errors by 50%, cut late deliveries by 30%, and free up teams to focus on revenue growth. Trusted by 16 of the top 20 distributors and manufacturers representing over $1.5T in combined revenue.

Together AI is an AI Acceleration Cloud platform that enables developers and enterprises to train, fine-tune, and deploy generative AI models with 2-3x faster inference than hyperscalers. Supporting 200+ open-source models across all modalities, it provides the complete AI lifecycle from training to inference without vendor lock-in or infrastructure management burden. The platform powers 450,000+ AI developers and enterprises including Salesforce, Zoom, and SK Telecom with enterprise-grade security, model ownership, and performance.

Recogni develops AI inference processors that deliver 10x higher compute density, 10x lower power consumption, and 13x lower cost per query compared to GPU-based solutions. The company applies proprietary logarithmic number system (LNS) technology to enable efficient inference at scale for generative AI and autonomous vehicle applications. Recogni targets cloud data centers and automotive OEMs seeking to reduce the power, cooling, and infrastructure costs of AI deployment.

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.

DevRev is an AI-native enterprise software platform that unifies customer data and automates work through OneCRM (a purpose-built CRM for SaaS teams) and Computer (an AI agent that powers enterprise workflows). The platform connects developers, support, product, and sales teams on a single system by using proprietary knowledge graphs and real-time data synchronization. DevRev targets SaaS companies looking to increase product velocity, reduce customer churn, and consolidate fragmented business tools.

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.

Domino Data Lab provides an enterprise MLOps platform that unifies data science teams, tools, and infrastructure to industrialize AI at scale. It replaces fragmented workflows with a seamless lifecycle management system—from data exploration through model deployment, monitoring, and governance. The platform serves highly regulated enterprises (20% of Fortune 100) with open-source tool support, automatic versioning, and flexible deployment options. What differentiates Domino is its focus on organizational discipline and reproducibility rather than individual data scientist productivity.

H2O.ai is an open-source, distributed in-memory machine learning platform that democratizes AI by enabling organizations to build, deploy, and scale machine learning models at speed. The platform supports gradient boosted machines, generalized linear models, deep learning, and industry-leading AutoML functionality that automatically evaluates algorithms and hyperparameters. Used by over 20,000 global organizations including half of the Fortune 500, H2O.ai combines open-source accessibility with enterprise subscriptions and cloud offerings, setting itself apart through highest-in-industry NPS (78) and employment of top Kaggle Grandmasters.

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.

Fountain is an applicant tracking system (ATS) and talent platform purpose-built for high-volume frontline hiring in retail, logistics, hospitality, healthcare, and manufacturing. The platform automates the entire hiring pipeline—from applications and screening to interview scheduling and offer letters—reducing median time-to-hire from 36 days to 8.7 days. Unlike legacy ATS vendors designed for corporate roles, Fountain evolved specifically for the hourly and gig economy workforce, which comprises nearly 70% of the global labor market.

Thomson Reuters is a publicly traded enterprise information platform serving legal, tax, accounting, and corporate professionals worldwide. The company bundles authoritative content (Westlaw, Checkpoint, Reuters), workflow software, and generative AI tools into subscription and usage-based models. With $7.26B in annual revenue and 27,100 employees, Thomson Reuters maintains mission-critical relationships with 78% of U.S. courts and serves 75% of revenue from the U.S. market.

Ordergroove is an AI-powered subscription commerce platform that enables enterprise and mid-market brands to convert one-time transactions into recurring revenue streams. The platform provides end-to-end subscription lifecycle management, including a customer-facing subscription manager, AI-driven churn prediction, retention incentives, and dynamic pricing tools. With 15+ years of expertise and 500+ customers including Walmart, Nestlé, and L'Oréal, Ordergroove positions itself as both software and strategic partner for subscription optimization.