Startups Directory

Fractal Analytics is an enterprise AI company that delivers end-to-end data and AI solutions to Fortune 500 companies globally. The platform leverages machine learning, advanced analytics, and decision sciences to process structured and unstructured data, enabling predictive modeling, data visualization, and workflow automation. Fractal helps large enterprises reduce costs, enhance customer experiences, and improve business agility by embedding analytics into strategic decision-making across industries including retail, CPG, and contact centers.

PayJoy provides buy-now-pay-later smartphone financing for underbanked populations in emerging markets, with loans typically spanning 3-12 months at no interest and no hidden fees. The company uses the smartphone itself as collateral and employs machine learning to assess creditworthiness, achieving 20% lower default rates than traditional lenders. PayJoy has served over 15 million customers across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, and recently expanded into credit products like the PayJoy Card to help customers build traditional credit scores.

Flyntlok is a modern, cloud-based dealer management system (DMS) purpose-built for equipment dealers of all sizes—from small tools to mining trucks. Founded and operated by equipment dealers themselves, it streamlines mission-critical workflows including point-of-sale, inventory, rentals, fleet scheduling, and work orders while integrating in real-time with QuickBooks and Sage Intacct. Unlike legacy monolithic systems, Flyntlok was designed ground-up as modern SaaS software, focusing on best-in-class features dealers actually need rather than bloated all-in-one suites.

Bolt is a cloud-based checkout and payment processing platform that uses AI and machine learning to streamline eCommerce transactions across web and mobile. The platform recognizes returning customers through its Universal Shopper Network (80M+ customers) to enable password-free checkout, while offering 100% fraud coverage through analysis of 200+ transaction variables. It charges 0% fees for first-time customers and 2% for repeat purchases, helping retailers increase checkout conversion rates by 10-20% while reducing fraud risk.

Anchorage Digital is a global institutional crypto platform providing custody, trading, staking, governance, and settlement infrastructure for digital assets. As the first federally chartered crypto bank in the US (OCC-chartered in January 2021), it serves financial institutions, governments, and enterprises with institutional-grade security built by former security leaders from Square and Docker. The company differentiates through regulatory compliance, patent-holding security infrastructure, and Atlas—its proprietary settlement network that minimizes friction in crypto transactions.

Dutchie is an all-in-one SaaS platform that powers cannabis dispensary operations through POS, ecommerce, compliance, and payment processing. The platform serves 6,500+ dispensaries across the U.S. and Canada, processing over $22B in annual cannabis sales. Dutchie differentiates through two-way integrations with state traceability systems (METRC, Biotrack), a machine learning personalization engine for customer recommendations, and unified payment processing that reduces reliance on cash transactions.

Sysdig is a cloud-native security platform that stops cloud attacks in real time through runtime insights and AI-powered threat detection. It delivers unified visibility across cloud workloads, identities, and services to uncover hidden attack paths and prioritize vulnerabilities that matter most. The platform combines vulnerability management, adaptive runtime defense, compliance automation, and forensics in a single agent, serving enterprise DevOps and security teams managing containerized and Kubernetes environments. Sysdig differentiates through its ContainerVision and ServiceVision technologies, offering both security and observability capabilities that competitors typically provide separately.

Balance is a B2B eCommerce payments platform that enables businesses to process payments via check, card, or bank transfer with flexible terms (net 30/60/90, payment plans). Founded by PayPal alums, it addresses the $2 trillion offline B2B payments market by offering an omni-channel checkout with real-time risk assessment and instant settlement. The platform combines B2B payments, trade credit, AR management, and marketplace capabilities in a modular stack tailored for digital commerce at scale.

Crosslink Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 1989 that invests $1-9M in Seed and Series A technology companies across enterprise software, financial services, and IT infrastructure. Beyond capital deployment, the firm provides portfolio companies with access to its proprietary Alpha Network—an invite-only community of 2,000+ founders, CEOs, and operators—plus dedicated support teams in San Francisco and Menlo Park offering talent networks, business development, and strategic guidance. Crosslink manages over $4.2B in assets across venture and public equity strategies, with a track record including exits like Postmates (acquired by Uber), Chime, and Coupa.

DataBank operates a network of 90+ data centers across major U.S. metros, providing enterprise-class colocation, cloud, bare metal, and interconnection services with managed infrastructure options. The company serves enterprises, hyperscale cloud providers, and content platforms seeking secure, compliant, and available infrastructure. DataBank differentiates through multi-metro presence with edge facilities within 100 miles of over 60% of the U.S., contract portability to avoid vendor lock-in, and tailored managed services.

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.

Adept is an enterprise AI platform that automates complex, multi-step workflows across software applications by directly perceiving and acting on user interfaces like a human would. It uses proprietary models to locate elements on webpages, reason about documents, and execute end-to-end business processes—from data extraction and form population to license application processing. The platform is designed for enterprises seeking to offload repetitive tasks while keeping humans in the loop for critical decisions.

Mercor operates a dual-sided marketplace connecting domain experts (engineers, lawyers, consultants, doctors) with AI labs and enterprises for specialized evaluation, testing, and training work. The platform sources, vets, and places talent on project-based roles while AI companies use contractor feedback to refine frontier models. Mercor manages over 30,000 contractors paid collectively $1.5M daily, working with top-5 AI labs including OpenAI and Anthropic, and generates revenue through a margin on successful placements.

Cambridge Mobile Telematics builds AI-powered telematics software that transforms smartphones, car sensors, and dashcams into real-time driving risk detectors. Its DriveWell Fusion platform analyzes sensor data from millions of devices to measure driving behavior, enabling insurers to offer personalized pricing and help drivers save up to 50% on premiums. CMT also serves municipalities with traffic and road safety insights, and provides claims processing tools with real-time crash detection and damage assessment.

Wise is a fintech platform that enables individuals and businesses to send money internationally at real mid-market exchange rates with transparent, low fees (starting at 0.35%). Using a peer-to-peer matching system and local bank accounts across countries, Wise eliminates the need for physical currency conversion and traditional banking intermediaries. The platform solves the international payments problem that traditional banks created through hidden fees and unfavorable exchange rates, making cross-border money transfers faster, cheaper, and more transparent.

ID.me is a digital identity verification platform that enables users to complete one high-assurance identity verification (document + liveness check) and reuse that credential across government and private-sector portals. Operating as "Sign in with Google" for high-stakes identity, ID.me uses machine vision, AI, and SIM verification to authenticate users and allow them to maintain control of their digital identity. The platform eliminates repeated verification friction across multiple agencies and services, powering over 409 million logins annually.

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.

WritePath is a cloud-based translation platform that combines AI machine translation (Warren engine) with human translators to help non-English speaking listed companies disclose investor relations materials—financial reports, annual reports, ESG disclosures—in English for global investors. The platform serves over 300 publicly listed companies, including Foxconn, ASUS, and PwC. WritePath differentiates from traditional financial printers by blending proprietary machine translation trained on millions of financial-sector Chinese-English sentence pairs with human expertise, delivering faster turnaround and higher accuracy than standalone MT engines.

ElasticRun is a B2B logistics and fulfillment SaaS platform that powers India's supply chain through an asset-light model leveraging existing transportation infrastructure. The platform serves FMCG brands, e-commerce companies, and retailers by connecting them to over 12 lakh kirana stores across 500+ locations and 28 states. Its AI-powered control tower automates logistics operations, transforming rural and Tier II-IV distribution networks into efficient growth engines. ElasticRun uniquely focuses on underserved rural markets rather than competing in crowded urban e-commerce logistics.

Airwallex is a unified financial platform that consolidates global payments, spend management, digital banking, and FX into a single API-driven infrastructure for B2B companies. The platform processes $265B+ annually across 150,000+ customers and has saved them over $1.3B in fees. It enables businesses to generate local account numbers in 60+ countries, accept 160+ payment methods, and manage multi-currency operations with 95% of transactions settling within hours or same-day. Airwallex positions itself as the 'AWS of financial services'—replacing fragmented legacy banking with modern, developer-first financial infrastructure.

JobNimbus is an all-in-one growth platform built specifically for residential home services contractors—roofing, solar, siding, gutters, and exterior restoration. It combines CRM, project management, payments, and automation in a single cloud-based system to help contractors organize teams, close deals faster, and improve profitability. The platform serves over 8,000 business owners and delivers measurable results: 80% faster close times, 50% faster payments, and 67% of users respond to leads in under an hour. Unlike broad construction management platforms, JobNimbus is purpose-built for the specific workflows and pain points of residential contractors.

eSentire is a cloud-native managed detection and response (MDR) platform that combines AI/ML with 24/7 human-led threat hunting to detect and contain cyber attacks in under 15 minutes. The company serves 2,000+ organizations across 80+ countries and 35 industries, with particular strength in financial services, legal, healthcare, and government. eSentire differentiates through its Atlas XDR platform, elite threat hunter access, and Threat Response Unit (TRU) for advanced incident investigation, complemented by digital forensics capabilities acquired through CyFIR.

GoCardless is a global bank-payment platform enabling businesses to collect payments directly from customers' bank accounts through direct debit schemes (ACH, Bacs, SEPA, BECS, PAD, Autogiro) across 30+ countries. The platform handles recurring payments, single transactions, and invoicing with real-time tracking, reporting, and AI-powered retry optimization. It serves 100,000+ businesses processing $130 billion annually, with significantly lower fees than card-based processors and a focus on subscription and B2B payment collection.

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.

Navan (formerly TripActions) is an integrated platform combining corporate travel booking, expense management, and smart corporate cards into a single solution for global businesses. The platform uses real-time data to proactively monitor employee travel, alert users to disruptions, and provide 24/7 support—cutting average booking time from 60 minutes to 6 minutes. It integrates with major ERP systems like SAP, NetSuite, and Microsoft Dynamics to give finance teams real-time spend visibility. The company serves 5,000+ customers including Zoom, Lyft, Wayfair, and Adobe, with 90% adoption rates post-purchase.

Baseten is a serverless inference platform that converts machine learning models into production-ready APIs with auto-scaling GPU access across multiple cloud providers. It abstracts away infrastructure complexity—from GPU management and autoscaling to observability and billing—enabling ML teams to deploy and scale models without building custom infrastructure. The platform delivers up to 40% cost savings compared to in-house solutions and targets four to five nines of availability through model optimization and multi-cloud capacity management.

DeepL is an AI-powered neural machine translation platform that delivers enterprise-grade language translation with superior accuracy compared to competitors like Google Translate. The company uses advanced deep learning models trained on millions of translated texts to capture linguistic nuances and produce more natural, context-aware translations. Beyond translation, DeepL offers writing assistance (DeepL Write), real-time meeting translations (DeepL Voice), and an AI agent for business automation, serving over 200,000 business customers including a large portion of the Fortune 500.

Brex is a fintech platform that provides corporate credit cards, cash management accounts, and spend management solutions for businesses. It serves startups and mid-market companies with SaaS-driven tools for expense tracking, financial controls, and accounting integration. Brex differentiated itself by issuing high-limit credit cards to early-stage startups based on funding history rather than personal credit, and has since expanded to serve larger enterprises with comprehensive financial operations infrastructure.

Mercury is a modern online banking platform purpose-built for startups and technology-focused businesses. It eliminates friction in business banking by offering zero-fee checking and savings accounts, corporate cards, invoicing, bill pay, and spend management—all with a modern interface designed for founders. Unlike legacy banks that flag startup activity as suspicious, Mercury understands the funding and cash flow patterns of early-stage companies. The platform aggregates financial data across all accounts to provide real-time insights into company financial health.

Zinnia is the core infrastructure platform for the life and annuity insurance industry, enabling carriers to design, launch, and service insurance products across multiple distribution channels. The platform powers over 55% of digital annuity volume in the US and serves 70+ carriers and 225K+ advisors. Zinnia streamlines legacy insurance processes through cloud-based solutions like The Policy Processor, which handles 3M+ applications annually, while integrating with existing systems to deliver modern digital experiences for carriers, advisors, and policyholders.

BetterUp is a digital coaching and workforce development platform that delivers personalized one-on-one coaching at scale through a SaaS model combining human coaches with AI-powered insights. The platform serves enterprise customers seeking to develop leadership, resilience, and performance across their workforce. BetterUp differentiates itself by integrating coaching and mental health support in a single platform, moving beyond traditional workshop-based L&D to personalized 1:1 development delivered through a messaging-based interface with video sessions.

Deskimo is a mobile app that enables on-demand office space booking billed by the minute, targeting hybrid-work companies that want to downsize office leases. Companies create enterprise accounts and allocate monthly budgets to employees, who can book nearby workspaces for meetings, focused work, or client calls. The platform consolidates usage across all employees into a single monthly invoice. Unlike traditional coworking platforms, Deskimo competes with Starbucks by serving occasional workspace needs rather than dedicated desk rentals.

Quantinuum develops trapped-ion quantum computing hardware and software middleware for enterprise applications in cybersecurity, drug discovery, materials science, and financial modeling. The company operates Helios, the world's most accurate commercial quantum computer with 98 fully connected qubits and 99.9975% single-qubit gate fidelity. Its software products, including InQuanto for quantum chemistry simulations and TKET optimization toolkit, enable organizations to run production quantum applications on Quantinuum's hardware and other quantum platforms.

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.

Alpheya is a cloud-native, AI-powered wealth management infrastructure platform serving financial institutions across the MENA region. It provides end-to-end capabilities including client onboarding, portfolio construction, execution, reporting, and advisory workflows through personalized web/mobile applications and CRM tools. The platform addresses the $1 trillion+ in Gulf personal financial assets that remain deployed overseas or at risk of flight due to outdated regional banking systems. With nearly $50 billion in assets running on its platform, Alpheya is anchoring wealth back into regional financial systems through modern technology.

Xendit is a fintech platform that enables businesses across Southeast Asia to accept payments through 100+ methods (cards, e-wallets, bank transfers, QR codes) and disburse payouts to 450+ banks and e-wallets. Built specifically for the region's payment diversity—where credit card penetration is only 4%—Xendit serves SMBs, e-commerce platforms, and enterprises like Grab, Lazada, and Samsung Indonesia. The company differentiates through local in-market teams, transparent transaction-based pricing, and graduated tier discounts as volume increases.

Deel is a global payroll and compliance platform that enables companies to hire, onboard, and pay full-time employees and contractors across 150+ countries. The platform automates payroll in 120+ currencies, manages local tax compliance, and handles the entire employee lifecycle from recruitment to offboarding. It serves 35,000+ customers from startups to enterprises like Shopify, Nike, and Klarna.

Remote is a global Employer of Record (EOR) platform that enables companies to hire, manage, and pay employees across 70+ countries without establishing legal entities. The platform handles employment contracts, payroll, taxes, benefits, and compliance through in-house operations rather than third-party networks. Remote serves mid-market to enterprise companies looking to build distributed teams while avoiding costly subsidiary setup and contractor misclassification risks.

Madhive is a self-service connected TV (CTV) advertising platform that modernizes legacy TV ad buying through automation, precision targeting, and cross-device attribution. The company operates an OTT-first device graph that links audiences to devices in real-time, enabling advertisers to plan, target, activate, and measure campaigns across streaming and linear TV. Madhive serves broadcasters, media companies, and advertisers by licensing its ad tech software and taking a cut of facilitated transactions. The platform differentiates through its real-time device graph, advanced data analytics, machine learning algorithms, and focus on trust, transparency, and brand safety in the streaming advertising space.

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.

SandboxAQ develops Large Quantitative Models (LQMs)—physics-aware AI systems that solve complex problems in drug discovery, cybersecurity, and GPS-denied navigation. The company spun out from Alphabet in 2022 with six years of internal R&D and serves Global 1000 enterprises through cloud-delivered software subscriptions. Unlike general-purpose LLMs, SandboxAQ's models incorporate quantitative reasoning for measurable real-world outcomes in regulated, calculation-intensive domains.

Harvey AI provides customized large language models (LLMs) purpose-built for law firms and corporate legal teams to handle complex legal work. The platform handles document drafting, contract analysis, due diligence, and litigation support—tasks requiring deep domain knowledge and multi-step reasoning. Founded by a former O'Melveny & Myers litigator and Google DeepMind researcher, Harvey has embedded legal expertise across its product and go-to-market strategy, with 10% of its team dedicated to change management at customer firms. The company has grown to $190M ARR and achieved an $11B valuation by March 2026.

Black Forest Labs builds FLUX, a suite of state-of-the-art generative AI models for hyperrealistic image generation and editing from text prompts. The company serves enterprise creative platforms, content creators, and developers through both a managed API and open-source model releases. FLUX models deliver exceptional prompt adherence, character consistency, and sub-second latency at production scale, with editing capabilities (Fill, Depth, Canny, Redux) enabling precise, non-destructive visual control. Notable integrations include Adobe Creative Cloud, Meta, Microsoft, Canva, and xAI's Grok.

FLYR is an AI-powered revenue management and digital retailing platform serving airlines and hospitality companies. For airlines, it provides offer & order management, dynamic pricing, and ancillary revenue optimization. For hospitality, it delivers AI-driven pricing optimization and revenue strategy tools. FLYR differentiates through hourly price updates (vs. competitors' 4x daily) and automated room-level optimization, helping customers achieve 5-12% RevPAR growth.

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.

PayFit is Europe's leading cloud-based payroll and HR software that combines the control of in-house payroll with the expertise of outsourced services. It automates payroll calculations, tax deductions, and social contributions while offering integrated HR capabilities including absence management, time tracking, expense tracking, and onboarding. The platform targets SMBs with 20-300 employees across Europe, with particular strength in France and the UK, serving over 6,500 companies.

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.

Mapbox provides customizable mapping infrastructure and location intelligence APIs that enable developers to embed powerful maps, navigation, and routing capabilities into their own applications. Unlike Google Maps which focuses on consumer navigation, Mapbox offers complete control over design, styling, and data layers, making it ideal for enterprises that need to visualize complex data and build location-aware experiences. The platform powers 40% of Fortune 500 companies across fleet management, logistics, business intelligence, and other industries requiring precise location data and real-time insights.