Startups Directory

Assent Compliance provides a cloud-based SaaS platform that automates the collection, validation, and management of supply chain compliance data for large manufacturers. The platform replaces manual Excel-based vendor audits with centralized data management and delivers actionable insights into supply chain risks across compliance, ESG, and sustainability requirements. Assent serves over 30% of S&P 500 product companies and 300,000+ clients in regulated industries like aerospace, automotive, and electronics, helping them identify labor trafficking risks, manage harmful substances, ensure conflict minerals compliance, and build defensible ESG programs.

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.

d-Matrix develops specialized AI inference accelerator hardware for data centers, featuring the Corsair inference accelerator card, JetStream I/O networking accelerator, and SquadRack rack-scale system. The company uses digital in-memory compute architecture to deliver 3x better cost-performance and 10x faster token generation compared to traditional GPU-based inference solutions. d-Matrix targets the massive AI inference market—where most compute costs occur after model training—by optimizing for real-time latency, energy efficiency, and cost at scale.

Inxeption is a cloud-based Industrial Commerce (I-commerce) platform that digitizes the B2B supply chain by combining marketplace, logistics, search, and payment services on a single integrated dashboard. The platform enables industrial suppliers and manufacturers to sell across B2B and B2C channels while managing multimodal shipments (parcel, LTL, FTL, ocean), accessing embedded financial services, and leveraging real-time network analytics. It serves industrial companies looking to accelerate digital transformation and reach new customers without building separate systems for e-commerce, fulfillment, and payments.

Genspark is an AI super agent platform that automates complex, multi-step tasks by orchestrating 30+ foundation models, 150+ in-house tools, and 20 premium datasets to deliver finished outputs like presentations, videos, code, and real-world actions. It serves knowledge workers and enterprises seeking end-to-end task autonomy rather than step-by-step guidance. The platform bundles research, content creation, data analysis, and task automation into a unified workspace, differentiating itself from point-solution AI tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity through its integrated, all-in-one approach.

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.

Personio is a cloud-based HR management platform that centralizes recruiting, onboarding, time tracking, performance management, and compliance in a single system for SMEs and startups. The platform eliminates fragmented HR processes by consolidating employee data, workflows, and analytics while offering AI-powered insights through Personio Assistant. It integrates with over 200 business applications and serves as an alternative to legacy HR systems, enabling HR teams to operate more efficiently while improving employee experience.

Clear Street is a cloud-native capital markets platform that replaces legacy 1970s-80s mainframe infrastructure with modern real-time ledger technology. It unifies trading, risk management, financing, clearing, and custody for institutional clients on a single platform. The company serves sophisticated institutional investors—hedge funds, market makers, and ETF issuers—who are too complex for retail platforms but underserved by major bulge-bracket prime brokers. Clear Street generates revenue primarily through net financing (margin, securities lending, and collateralized financing) rather than commissions.

Mambu is a cloud-native SaaS core banking platform that powers digital-first lending and deposit services for financial institutions. It replaces expensive, slow legacy banking software with a composable architecture where implementation takes months instead of years, integration takes minutes, and updates deploy continuously. Serving over 260 customers across 65 countries including N26, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, and Western Union, Mambu enables banks and fintechs to rapidly launch innovative customer journeys via APIs connected to payment providers and complementary SaaS services.

Next Insurance is a digital-first insurance platform that enables small businesses to obtain commercial insurance coverage—including general liability, professional liability, workers' compensation, and commercial auto—in as little as 10 minutes through a 100% online process. The company serves over 750,000 small businesses across 1,300+ professions with instant proof of insurance and U.S.-based support. Unlike traditional brokers requiring weeks of back-and-forth, Next Insurance provides tailored quotes and immediate binding, eliminating the friction of legacy insurance purchasing. In July 2025, the company was acquired by Munich Re Group's ERGO for $2.6 billion.

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.

Kao Data operates UK-based hyperscale data centers optimized for high-performance computing, AI, and enterprise workloads. The company pioneered Europe's first OCP-Ready colocation facility with 100% free-cooling and PUE <1.2, enabling customers to deploy NVIDIA DGX systems and intensive AI/HPC applications. Their Built-to-Suit service supports cloud providers and enterprises in funding and operating custom ultra-sustainable data centers. Kao Data serves as critical infrastructure for advanced computing at UK scale.

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.

Convoy was a digital freight network that connected shippers with trucking carriers through automation, machine learning, and real-time data. The platform eliminated empty truck miles and inefficient appointment scheduling by enabling instant load matching between shippers and carriers. Operating a network of 400,000 trucks with GPS tracking on 95% of loads, Convoy served major enterprises including Home Depot, Procter & Gamble, and Unilever. The company ceased operations in November 2023, with its assets acquired by Flexport.

OppZo provides AI-driven working capital loans for SMB government contractors, addressing the 120-day payment gap between contract execution and government reimbursement. The platform finances up to 20% of unbilled contract value ($100K-$1M+) at rates as low as 8% with no personal guarantees. OppZo digitizes traditionally manual lending processes through proprietary technology, serving an underserved market segment across 42 U.S. states.

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.

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.

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.

Iwoca is a UK-based fintech lender that uses machine learning and real-time business data to provide fast, flexible loans to SMEs rejected by traditional banks. Since 2012, it has lent £4 billion to 100,000+ businesses with decisions in 24 hours and interest rates starting at 1.5% per 30 days. Unlike conventional loans, borrowers only pay interest on outstanding balances with flexible repayment terms from 1 day to 24 months and no early repayment penalties.

Wasabi Technologies provides hot cloud object storage at 80% lower cost than AWS S3 with 6x faster performance, zero egress fees, and no complex pricing tiers. Built for organizations storing unlimited data that need predictable, transparent billing and instant access without surprise charges. The company serves over 100 countries across industries including media, sports, backup, and archiving with 16 global storage regions.

BILT is a payments and commerce network that enables renters to earn rewards on rent and HOA payments—the first platform to make housing expenditures rewardable. The company powers rental payments in 25% of U.S. apartment buildings, serving 5.5 million members across a network of 1-in-4 apartment buildings nationwide. Members earn points on every on-time payment redeemable for travel, rent credits, fitness classes, student loan payments, or down payment assistance. BILT generates revenue through interchange fees, merchant partnerships (40,000+ nationwide), and referral fees.

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.

Devo is a cloud-native security analytics platform that provides SIEM, SOAR, and UEBA capabilities for information security and operations teams. Unlike traditional solutions that index and transform data, Devo stores raw data in hot format with micro-indexing, delivering query results in milliseconds and maintaining 400 days of always-hot data retention. The platform excels at real-time alerting, threat detection, compliance, and fraud prevention, with particular strength in correlating security data for deeper context and faster incident response.

HoneyBook is an AI-powered business management platform built for independent service professionals and creative entrepreneurs like photographers, designers, event planners, and consultants. It automates back-office workflows—from lead capture and proposals to invoicing, contracts, scheduling, and payments—enabling freelancers to focus on their craft. The platform integrates client communication, project management, and financial tools in one place, with recent expansions into lending and financial services. What sets HoneyBook apart is its laser focus on the needs of solo entrepreneurs and small service teams rather than general-purpose business software.

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.

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

Rain is a full-stack fintech infrastructure platform that enables developers, fintechs, and financial services firms to embed stablecoin payments into their products through a unified API. The platform handles money-in, storage, spending, and money-out across multiple blockchains while managing complex back-end operations like tokenization, compliance, and settlement. Rain's proprietary settlement stack allows Visa card transactions to interoperate with stablecoins, making them practical for everyday purchases. The company pioneered the ability to settle Visa transactions using stablecoins seven days a week, reducing working capital requirements and enabling near-instant liquidity.

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.

Coalition is an active cyber insurance provider that combines continuous vulnerability scanning, threat detection, and automated response with traditional insurance coverage. Unlike reactive cyber insurance that only pays claims, Coalition proactively monitors policyholders' internet-facing devices 65,000 times weekly to identify and remediate risks before incidents occur. The company serves over 100,000 SMB and mid-market customers across North America, delivering 70% lower claims frequency than the industry average while resolving 56% of incidents at no cost to policyholders.

Sunbit is a B2B2C point-of-sale financing platform that embeds fast, transparent installment payment options into merchant checkout workflows, primarily in auto repair and healthcare. Using proprietary AI/ML, the platform approves 90% of applicants in under 30 seconds with just a driver's license, phone, and email. Merchants receive guaranteed upfront payment while Sunbit assumes credit risk, enabling 20-30% higher average order values and improved customer retention.

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.

Flutterwave is a pan-African payment infrastructure platform that enables merchants and payment service providers to accept payments across multiple African countries through a single integration. The platform processes 500,000+ payments daily across 15+ payment methods including cards, mobile money, bank transfers, and digital wallets. It serves over 900,000 businesses globally and solves the critical problem of payment system interoperability across Africa, where local solutions rarely work across borders. Beyond core payments, Flutterwave offers remittances (Send App), card issuing, and business incorporation services (Grow).

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.

Starburst provides an enterprise-ready SQL query engine built on the open-source Trino project, enabling organizations to query data across multiple sources without moving or consolidating it. The platform decouples compute from storage, supporting on-premises, hybrid, cloud, and multi-cloud deployments through Starburst Enterprise, or cloud-only querying via their SaaS offering Starburst Galaxy. Trusted by enterprises like Comcast, Grubhub, and Priceline, Starburst differentiates with advanced security features, enterprise support, and optimizations that open-source Trino users must build themselves.

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.

BitSight is a cybersecurity intelligence platform that measures and monitors security performance through proprietary security ratings (250-900 scale) based on billions of cyber events and data points. The company serves enterprises, insurers, governments, and investment firms to manage third-party cyber risk, conduct M&A due diligence, and underwrite cyber insurance policies. BitSight created the security ratings category and operates one of the world's largest cyber risk datasets, processing 540B+ cyber events annually and monitoring 65K+ vendors globally.

Deliverr is a distributed fulfillment platform that enables small and medium-sized e-commerce merchants to offer fast, 1-2 day delivery across major marketplaces like Amazon, Walmart, eBay, Shopify, and Target. The company uses predictive analytics and machine learning to position inventory across a network of third-party warehouses and cross-docks near anticipated demand. Deliverr provides end-to-end fulfillment services including receiving, picking, packing, packaging, and shipping, allowing SMB merchants to compete with Amazon Prime-like speed without building their own infrastructure.

Abnormal Security is an AI-native email and cloud application security platform that uses behavioral anomaly detection and natural language processing to stop sophisticated Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks and account takeovers. The platform deploys via API in minutes and ingests thousands of behavioral signals to block socially engineered, payloadless attacks that bypass traditional email filters. It protects over 3,200 organizations including 25%+ of Fortune 500 companies across email, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, and 12+ SaaS applications including Salesforce, Workday, and Slack. What sets Abnormal apart is its AI-first approach that replaces legacy Secure Email Gateways with autonomous threat detection that learns legitimate business communication patterns.

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.

CloudBees provides enterprise-grade continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) solutions that automate software development and deployment across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Built on Jenkins and optimized for Kubernetes, the platform enables organizations to manage complex deployment pipelines, reduce manual errors, and scale CI practices across teams. CloudBees serves over 500 of the world's largest companies in finance, technology, healthcare, and government sectors, offering both cloud-native and on-premise solutions.

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.

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.

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.