Startups Directory

Guesty is an all-in-one property management platform that automates operations for short-term rental hosts and managers across 500,000+ properties in 100+ countries. The software unifies reservations, guest communication, channel management, and payments across 60+ OTAs including Airbnb, Booking.com, and Vrbo. Property managers save up to 20 hours per week through streamlined automation and real-time synchronization. The platform differentiates through superior channel integration (60+ vs competitors' 22), 24/7 support with 230-person team, and recent AI-powered revenue management tools.

Meter delivers enterprise networking as a fully integrated service, combining custom-built hardware (firewalls, switches, access points, 5G gateways), proprietary software, and managed operations into a single subscription. The company disrupts traditional networking by eliminating the need for separate hardware vendors and IT operations, delivering secure, reliable connectivity across branch offices, campuses, and data centers. Meter's vertically integrated approach—designing and manufacturing all components simultaneously—enables superior performance, security, and scalability compared to best-of-breed alternatives.

DataBahn.ai is an AI-powered data pipeline and fabric platform that enables enterprises to securely collect, enrich, orchestrate, and optimize telemetry across security, application, observability, and IoT/OT systems. The platform solves critical challenges in SOCs by automating the identification and filtering of redundant, duplicated, or noisy security telemetry—over 80% of which may be unnecessary—reducing SIEM costs by up to 50% while maintaining incident detection coverage. With 500+ integrations and AI agents like Cruz (which detects schema drift) and the newly launched AIDI (Autonomous In-Stream Data Intelligence), DataBahn processes data in transit rather than after delivery, ensuring it arrives normalized, classified, and ready for use.

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

SellersFunding is an AI-powered working capital platform that provides fully automated funding to online marketplace sellers on Amazon, Shopify, and other ecommerce channels. The platform uses machine learning to analyze seller transaction data and delivers funding decisions and deposits within 48 hours, with amounts up to $5M. It serves over 40,000 sellers globally with a suite of products including working capital loans, daily payouts, invoice factoring, and payment solutions. SellersFunding differentiates through specialized underwriting for ecommerce, rapid deployment, and a proprietary credit risk model built on seller behavioral data.

Signal AI is an enterprise AI platform that monitors and analyzes over 2 billion data points from traditional and social media across 226 markets and 120+ languages to identify external risks and opportunities in real-time. The platform combines discriminative and generative AI to surface relevant signals from noise, replacing traditional Boolean keyword-based monitoring with AI-powered accuracy. It serves Fortune 500 companies across compliance, reputation management, and risk intelligence use cases, with notable customers including Bank of America, Google, HSBC, Deloitte, and EY.

Awardco is an employee recognition and rewards platform that helps organizations build culture, drive engagement, and reduce attrition through customizable recognition programs. The platform integrates five core modules—Recognition, Celebrations, Incentives, Benefits & Perks, and Rewards—with direct access to Amazon Business and other retailers, eliminating traditional vendor markups. Trusted by 3,000+ organizations including AT&T, Adobe, and Hertz, Awardco was the first in its category to integrate with Amazon Business API, setting new standards for transparency and scalability.

SnapLogic is an Intelligent Integration Platform-as-a-Service (iPaaS) that enables enterprises to connect cloud applications, on-premises software, databases, data warehouses, and APIs through a visual, drag-and-drop interface. The platform supports ETL/ELT, reverse ETL, app-to-app integration, and full lifecycle API management with native AI capabilities. Founded by Gaurav Dhillon (former CEO of Informatica), SnapLogic serves Global 2000 companies across all verticals who need to accelerate data pipelines and automate business processes without extensive hand-coded development.

Xelix is an AI-powered accounts payable intelligence platform that bolts onto existing ERP and AP systems to enhance financial controls and prevent fraud. Unlike traditional AP automation vendors, Xelix focuses on assurance, overpayment detection, and vendor statement reconciliation using proprietary AI models trained on seven years of data. The platform processes $200B+ in annual invoice flow, reviewing 500+ data points per invoice to identify threats and errors in real-time, and has achieved a 98% customer retention rate.

OfBusiness is a tech-enabled platform that combines raw material procurement and credit/financing for Indian SMEs. The platform serves 700,000+ registered SMEs across 100+ product categories including metals, chemicals, polymers, and building materials. It uniquely integrates commerce with lending through its NBFC 'Oxyzo Financial Services', offering unsecured credit limits up to ₹2 crore without collateral. The company has achieved profitability since inception and generated ₹22,500Cr in annual revenue as of March 2025.

Mercury Fund is an operationally-focused venture capital firm that invests in early-stage B2B and B2B2C SaaS and data platforms enabling digital transformation. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Houston, Texas, Mercury provides portfolio companies with repeatable systems, processes, and operational resources to accelerate product growth and market entry. With $750M under management and 198 portfolio company investments, Mercury has created over $9 billion in value by backing entrepreneurs outside traditional tech hubs.

Dremio is a data lakehouse platform that enables fast SQL analytics on open data storage formats like Apache Iceberg, Amazon S3, and Azure Data Lake Storage without requiring data movement into proprietary systems. It combines the query performance of traditional data warehouses with the cost efficiency and flexibility of cloud object storage. The platform serves enterprises that want to query distributed data in place while maintaining interoperability and avoiding vendor lock-in. Dremio has raised $420M and is trusted by thousands of global enterprises including Shell, TD Bank, Michelin, and FactSet.

Tailscale is a Zero Trust identity-based connectivity platform that replaces legacy VPNs, SASE, and PAM solutions by enabling secure private networks through peer-to-peer mesh networking built on WireGuard. It connects remote teams, multi-cloud environments, CI/CD pipelines, Edge/IoT devices, and AI workloads without requiring port forwarding, firewall rule changes, or complex VPN configurations. The platform uses advanced NAT traversal (STUN/ICE) and DERP relay protocols to establish direct encrypted connections across any network topology. Trusted by 10,000+ paid business customers including Fortune 500 companies, AI startups like Mistral and Hugging Face, and enterprises like Duolingo, Instacart, and Revolut.

Delphi is an AI platform that creates digital clones of real people—capturing their knowledge, personality, reasoning, and opinions—enabling 1-on-1 personalized interactions at scale via text, voice, and video. It uses adaptive temporal knowledge graphs to build a 3D model of how someone thinks, not just what they know. The platform serves creators, coaches, executives, and experts who want to scale their influence and expertise without replicating themselves. What sets Delphi apart is its focus on authenticity: only the actual person can create their digital mind (verified by ID), guardrails prevent hallucination, and users maintain full control of their data.

Thought Machine builds Vault Core, a cloud-native core banking platform that enables banks to run any financial product they design using smart contracts and a real-time ledger architecture. Unlike legacy monolithic systems, Vault Core is cloud-agnostic, microservices-based, and allows banks to migrate existing products while innovating new ones without disruption. The company also offers Vault Payments for global payment processing. Backed by tier-1 banks including JPMorgan Chase, ING, and Lloyds Banking Group as both customers and investors, Thought Machine has become the infrastructure layer modernizing legacy banking systems.

Lumin Digital is a cloud-native digital banking platform that enables credit unions and community banks to compete with large financial institutions through modern retail and commercial banking solutions. The platform provides digital account opening, user engagement tools, AI-assisted features, and administrative capabilities with zero-downtime updates. Built entirely in the cloud, Lumin powers nearly 8 million consumer accounts across 90 financial institutions, with clients experiencing 2x asset growth and 8x market share growth compared to industry averages.

JumpCloud is a cloud-native directory platform that replaces on-premises Active Directory for modern, cloud-first organizations. It provides unified identity management, access control, device management, and SaaS visibility in a single platform. The solution serves mid-market and enterprise companies that need to manage hybrid workforces without legacy infrastructure, with deep integrations across Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android devices.

Parker is a corporate credit card platform purpose-built for e-commerce brands, offering credit limits up to $10 million with cash flow-optimized underwriting based on business performance. Unlike traditional business credit cards, Parker provides flexible statement cycles (daily, weekly, or monthly) and credit limits 10-20x higher than competitors like Brex and American Express. The platform bundles cards, banking, bill pay, and financial intelligence at no additional cost, generating revenue through interchange and transaction fees.

Observe is a modern observability platform that unifies logs, metrics, traces, and events in a single data lake powered by AI-driven SRE capabilities. Built on a context graph and data lake architecture using open standards like OpenTelemetry and Apache Iceberg, it enables enterprises to resolve software incidents three times faster at one-third the cost compared to traditional tools. The platform eliminates silos by providing a single language for analysis and unified user interface across all telemetry data. Observe was acquired by Snowflake in 2025, becoming part of the broader data cloud platform.

Lightmatter develops photonic processors and interconnects that dramatically reduce energy consumption and latency in AI computing by replacing electrical connections with optical ones. The company's Envise chip combines traditional electronics with integrated photonic elements for AI acceleration, while its Passage interconnect technology enables data to move 100x faster between chips. They serve hyperscale cloud providers and AI data center operators, addressing the critical bottleneck of data movement energy consumption in modern AI workloads.

Atlas Data Storage commercializes synthetic DNA-based data storage systems that encode digital information into DNA strands using semiconductor-based synthesis and enzyme engineering. Their flagship product, Atlas Eon 100, stores 60 petabytes in 60 cubic inches with 1,000x the density of traditional LTO-10 tape and offers 1,000+ year durability. The company targets enterprise, hyperscale, and government customers seeking permanent, scalable, energy-efficient archival storage solutions.

Altruist is a modern custodian and integrated software platform for independent RIAs that combines self-clearing brokerage services with front, middle, and back-office tools—account opening, trading, portfolio accounting, performance reporting, fee billing, and client portals—all in one streamlined solution. The platform eliminates data reconciliation headaches and reduces operational labor costs by 40-60% through vertical integration. With zero platform fees for custody accounts and optional AI-powered premium subscriptions, Altruist is modernizing wealth management infrastructure for the independent advisor market.

VideoAmp is a media performance platform that unifies audience data across linear TV, streaming, and digital channels using its proprietary VALID™ identity graph (40M households, 65M devices). It enables media buyers and sellers to deduplicate audiences, optimize campaigns, and measure real-world advertising impact across fragmented media ecosystems. The platform automates workflows and connects media exposures to advertiser sales outcomes, positioning itself as an independent measurement standard for the entire media industry.

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

Firework is an enterprise video commerce platform that enables brands to create interactive, shoppable video experiences embedded directly on their websites and apps. The platform combines in-video shopping, live streaming, and AI-powered content creation to drive customer engagement and conversion. Firework differentiates itself through seamless integration with 100+ commerce platforms, always-on virtual showrooms, and enterprise-grade features purpose-built for large-scale operations. Notable customers include Kraft Heinz, Unilever, Mattel, and American Express, with demonstrated conversion rate improvements of 7-13x industry averages.

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

Camino Financial is an AI-powered community lending platform providing affordable business loans to credit-invisible, cash-heavy small businesses that don't qualify for traditional bank financing. Using proprietary CaminoScore technology and community partnerships, they offer loans with monthly payments 40% lower than alternative products. The platform serves primarily minority-owned and first-time borrowers, having funded over $350 million across 12,000+ businesses as of December 2023.

Kore.ai is an enterprise conversational and agentic AI platform that enables organizations to build, deploy, and operate AI agents for customer service, employee support, and business process automation. The platform combines conversational AI, generative LLMs, RAG, and workflow orchestration to create intelligent virtual assistants that integrate with existing enterprise systems like Salesforce, NICE, and Genesys. Trusted by Global 2000 companies including PNC, AT&T, Cigna, and Coca-Cola, Kore.ai delivers significant ROI through automation—with customers reporting 30-80% reductions in agent workload and inquiry resolution times.

MaintainX is a mobile-first CMMS/EAM platform that digitizes paper-based maintenance workflows for industrial and frontline teams. The AI-powered software helps manufacturers, facilities, and distribution centers manage work orders, preventive maintenance, and assets across multiple sites. Customers report 34% reductions in unplanned downtime, 15% production capacity increases, and up to 32% savings in maintenance costs. The platform serves 6,500+ customers managing 11M+ assets globally.

Scandit provides enterprise-grade computer vision SDK technology that enables smart data capture—barcode scanning, text and object recognition—on any mobile device or smart camera. The platform allows third-party apps to integrate advanced barcode scanning that works reliably in extreme conditions: low light, damaged labels, and challenging angles. Scandit's proprietary algorithms achieve 5x faster scanning speeds compared to competitors and serve over 1,700 global customers across retail, logistics, healthcare, and manufacturing sectors.

Astera Labs designs high-speed connectivity solutions for data center and AI infrastructure, enabling seamless integration of CXL, Ethernet, NVLink Fusion, PCIe, and UALink technologies through their COSMOS software suite. Their Intelligent Connectivity Platform addresses the critical bottleneck in AI clusters—connectivity—as GPU density scales from single nodes to thousand-GPU fabrics. The company offers a portfolio including Aries Smart Retimers, Taurus active electrical cable modules, Leo CXL Memory Controllers, and Scorpio X-series fabric switches, achieving 69% gross margins through a hybrid of premium hardware and high-margin software subscriptions.

Matillion is a cloud-native ETL platform that extracts data from multiple sources, transforms it, and loads it into modern data warehouses like Snowflake, BigQuery, and Redshift. The platform uses push-down ELT technology to leverage warehouse compute power for complex transformations on massive datasets. It's purpose-built for each cloud data platform, generating native SQL to maximize performance. Matillion serves mid-market and enterprise data teams who need intuitive, scalable data integration without complex custom development.

RapidAPI is the world's largest API marketplace, hosting over 40,000 APIs that developers can discover, test, and integrate in minutes. The platform serves both individual developers seeking to reduce integration time and enterprises that need white-labeled API management solutions. RapidAPI's end-to-end workflow—featuring powerful search, in-browser testing, and code snippets in 15+ languages—collapses what traditionally took weeks into a matter of minutes.

Icertis is an enterprise contract lifecycle management (CLM) platform that transforms static contracts into strategic business tools through automation, AI, and intelligent data extraction. The platform streamlines the entire contracting process—from creation and negotiation to compliance and renewal—for large enterprises seeking to reduce risk, improve compliance, and unlock commercial savings. Vera, Icertis's AI component trained on millions of real contracts, provides domain-specific intelligence for industries and regulations. The company serves 33% of Fortune 100 companies and has achieved $5B unicorn valuation with $606M in total funding.

Contrast Security embeds runtime security sensors directly into application code to detect vulnerabilities and attacks in real time across the entire software lifecycle. Unlike traditional static or dynamic scanning tools, it uses patented deep security instrumentation to observe actual data flows and execution paths in development, testing, and production environments. The platform combines IAST (Interactive Application Security Testing) and RASP (Runtime Application Self-Protection) capabilities in a single solution, dramatically reducing false positives and enabling developers and security teams to act on real threats. Trusted by Fortune 500 companies including BMW, AXA, and NTT.

Ironclad is a cloud-based Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) platform that automates contract creation, negotiation, and management for enterprise teams. It combines workflow automation, AI-powered redlining, and a browser-based Word editor to streamline the entire contract lifecycle. The platform uses GPT-4 integration to flag risks, extract key terms, and suggest language, while maintaining audit trails and centralized contract repositories. Ironclad serves legal and procurement teams across mid-market and enterprise organizations looking to reduce contract cycle times and improve compliance.

Persona is an all-in-one identity verification platform that helps businesses verify individuals and organizations, manage user onboarding, and comply with KYC, AML, and age verification regulations. The platform uses machine learning, computer vision, and proprietary liveness checks to automate identity verification in seconds, with capabilities including document verification, biometric checks, database screening, and customizable workflow automation. Founded by former Dropbox and Square engineers, Persona serves high-growth companies across fintech, compliance, and trust & safety use cases.

Vanta is an agentic trust platform that automates compliance and security monitoring by performing 1,200+ control checks hourly across 35+ global frameworks. It replaces manual, point-in-time compliance processes with continuous monitoring and AI-powered automation that reduces audit completion times by 50%. The platform integrates with 300+ systems to collect evidence automatically and power real-time risk detection, enabling organizations to maintain compliance at scale without manual overhead.

Sublime Security is an AI-powered email security platform that deploys autonomous agents to detect, triage, and stop targeted email attacks in real time. Built on Message Query Language (MQL), a domain-specific language for email behavior detection, it enables security teams to write and deploy custom defenses without MX record changes across Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace. The platform combines transparency and flexibility with autonomous threat investigation, reducing manual review work by 62% while catching significantly more threats than traditional blackbox solutions.

Alpaca is a developer-first brokerage infrastructure platform that provides APIs for programmatic access to stocks, options, and cryptocurrencies. It enables fintechs, institutions, and individual traders to build customized investing applications without building brokerage infrastructure from scratch. The platform powers over 9 million brokerage accounts across 40+ countries and differentiates through its full-stack broker-as-a-service model, combining trading APIs with complete regulatory and custody infrastructure.

Wayflyer is a revenue-based financing platform that provides e-commerce merchants with fast, non-dilutive capital ranging from $10,000 to $20 million. The platform uses data-driven underwriting by connecting to Shopify, WooCommerce, Amazon, and ad accounts to assess merchant performance in real time, bypassing traditional credit scores. Merchants repay advances as a percentage of ongoing revenue (typically 5-10% fixed fee) with flexible terms aligned to business cycles, with no personal guarantees or equity dilution. Operating across the US, UK, Australia, and Europe, Wayflyer has funded over 5,000 businesses with $5 billion in total capital since 2019.

Deliverect is an AI-powered, API-first platform that integrates online orders from third-party delivery channels (Uber Eats, Deliveroo, Glovo, DoorDash) directly into restaurants' POS systems, eliminating manual order re-entry and reducing errors. The platform has expanded beyond restaurants to serve convenience stores, grocery retailers, and dark kitchens across 52 markets. With over 80,000 businesses using the platform and 1+ billion orders processed, Deliverect streamlines operations for everything from delivery and dine-in to take-out, drive-thru, and catering.

Glean is an AI-powered enterprise search and workplace assistant that builds a knowledge graph of an organization's internal data, people, and interactions to generate highly personalized, permissions-aware answers. Unlike general-purpose AI tools, Glean understands company context and combines it with large language models to solve real business problems. The platform has evolved from enterprise search to a general-purpose work assistant with an agent platform for automating workplace tasks. It serves enterprise organizations looking to unlock knowledge trapped across dispersed data sources.

Cloudbeds is an all-in-one cloud-based hospitality management platform that unifies reservations, channel management, revenue optimization, and guest experience tools for independent hotels, hostels, and property managers. The platform synchronizes inventory and rates across 300+ OTAs in real-time and uses AI-powered pricing intelligence to maximize revenue. Used by 26,000+ properties across 157 countries generating $15B+ in annual room sales, Cloudbeds differentiates through tight integration of operations and distribution rather than modular APIs.

Melio is an all-in-one bill pay and invoicing platform that digitizes business-to-business payments for small and mid-market businesses. It enables companies to pay vendors via ACH transfers, credit cards, or debit cards—even when vendors only accept checks—while automating accounts payable and receivable workflows. With features like batch payments, approval workflows, virtual cards, and international payments across 80 countries, Melio transforms traditionally manual payment processes into streamlined, automated operations that improve cash flow management and save teams 15+ hours monthly.

Xendit is a digital payment infrastructure platform enabling businesses across Southeast Asia to accept payments through 100+ payment methods including credit cards, e-wallets, bank transfers, and QR codes. The company solves the critical problem of low credit card penetration in emerging markets by offering virtual accounts and local payment integrations in a single API. Xendit processes payments, manages marketplaces, disburses payroll, and detects fraud for over 10,000 businesses. The platform generates revenue through transaction fees and has achieved unicorn status with $538M in total funding.

Ascend Money is a Southeast Asian fintech platform that provides digital financial services to the underbanked population across 7 ASEAN countries. The company operates TrueMoney, a 50-million-user e-wallet, alongside Ascend Nano (nano lending), digital savings, investment, and remittance services. Unlike traditional lenders, Ascend uses transaction data and behavioral patterns from its wallet to assess creditworthiness, enabling it to extend loans as small as $20 to customers rejected by banks. As Thailand's first fintech unicorn, Ascend serves 30 million active users and has become the region's largest digital financial services provider.

Selina Finance provides fast, flexible secured lending products to UK homeowners, including HELOCs and homeowner loans backed by property equity. The company differentiates through speed (funds in 24 hours), transparent pricing (starting at 4.95% APR), and flexibility (interest only on amounts drawn). Founded in 2019 and backed by $361M in total funding, Selina has processed over $100M in HELOC lending and won industry awards for service excellence.

Airbase is an all-in-one spend management platform that consolidates accounts payable automation, corporate cards, expense management, and accounting integrations into a single system. It serves mid-market companies (100-5,000 employees) looking to automate their entire spend workflow—from purchase requests and approvals to payments and reconciliation. Airbase differentiates itself by solving requests, payments, and accounting together rather than as separate point solutions, enabling companies to eliminate over 50% of spend-related manual work.

CHEQ is a go-to-market security platform that protects digital customer journeys by distinguishing legitimate users from bots, fraudsters, and malicious actors using real-time traffic, identity, and threat intelligence. The platform processes 6 trillion signals daily across 1 million domains with a false positive rate below 0.009%, serving over 15,000 brands globally. CHEQ's modular suite includes acquisition protection, form validation, analytics integration, and privacy compliance tools, delivering an estimated 671% ROI by eliminating wasted marketing spend on invalid traffic.