Category: Featured Startups

ArmorCode – Founders, Business Model, Funding & Competitors

ArmorCode is a Palo Alto–based cybersecurity startup founded in 2020, offering an AI-powered platform for unified vulnerability and exposure management across software applications, infrastructure, and cloud environments. Its mission is to “democratize and simplify software security,” tackling the challenge that modern DevOps pipelines often release code faster than security teams can vet. The platform consolidates […]

OpenSpace – Founders, Business Model, Funding & Competitors

OpenSpace.ai is a cutting-edge startup delivering a 360° reality capture and AI-driven analytics platform for the construction industry. Founded in 2017 by three MIT Media Lab graduates, the company provides contractors, developers, and owners with a single source of truth for jobsite conditions. Leveraging AI to automatically stitch together images captured from hardhat-mounted 360° cameras, […]

People.ai – Founders, Business Model, Funding & Competitors

People.ai is an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered revenue intelligence startup that helps businesses unlock growth by leveraging data from every sales and marketing interaction. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, People.ai has built a platform that captures and analyzes all go-to-market (GTM) activities – emails, calls, meetings, and more – to provide actionable […]

Trainual – Founders, Business Model, Funding & Competitors

Trainual is a Scottsdale, Arizona-based SaaS startup that provides a platform for small businesses to create online training manuals, document standard operating procedures (SOPs), and streamline employee onboarding. Founded in 2018, Trainual has positioned itself as the “world’s first business playbook software,” enabling organizations to easily capture their processes, policies, and company knowledge in one […]

Cosm – Founders, Business Model, Funding & Competitors

Cosm is a Los Angeles-based experiential media and immersive technology startup that is redefining how audiences experience live sports, entertainment, art, and educational content. Launched in 2020, Cosm creates large-scale dome venues where guests are surrounded by massive wraparound LED screens, high-end spatial audio, and interactive effects that blend the physical and virtual worlds. The […]

Lovevery – Founders, Business Model, Funding & Competitors

Lovevery is a Boise, Idaho–based early childhood products company founded in 2015 by Jessica Rolph and Roderick Morris. The company is best known for its stage-based Play Kits, which deliver Montessori-inspired learning toys for children from birth through age four. A Certified B Corporation, Lovevery emphasizes research-backed design and sustainability in its toys and content. […]

Moveworks – Founders, Business Model, Funding & Competitors

Moveworks is a pioneering enterprise AI platform that automates employee support and workflow tasks across an organization. Founded in 2016, the Mountain View-based startup has built an “agentic AI” assistant that understands natural language and can plan and execute actions autonomously. The platform integrates with enterprise tools like Slack, Teams, ServiceNow and Salesforce to resolve […]

BillionToOne – Founders, Business Model, Funding & Competitors

BillionToOne is a precision diagnostics startup that has rapidly risen to prominence with its groundbreaking UNITY prenatal testing platform. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Silicon Valley, the company’s mission is to make molecular diagnostics more accurate, efficient, and accessible. BillionToOne’s flagship UNITY Screen has redefined prenatal care by combining traditional non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) […]

Kodiak Robotics – Founders, Business Model & Competitors

Kodiak Robotics is an autonomous trucking company that has rapidly emerged as a notable player in the self-driving vehicle industry. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, Kodiak focuses on developing self-driving Class 8 trucks for long-haul freight delivery. In an era of rising logistics demands and driver shortages, Kodiak’s mission is to […]

LinearB – Founders, Business Model, Funding & Competitors

LinearB is a software delivery intelligence and engineering analytics platform that empowers software development teams to improve their operational efficiency and align engineering work with broader business goals. Founded in 2018, the company has rapidly emerged as a leader in the nascent field of software delivery management, offering tools that give engineering leaders visibility into […]

Smartcat – Founders, Business Model, Funding & Competitors

In the fragmented world of global business, language has historically been the highest barrier to entry. For decades, the translation industry was a siloed landscape of slow-moving agencies, clunky desktop software, and disjointed email threads. Then came Smartcat. Smartcat is not merely a translation tool; it is an all-in-one enterprise language AI platform that has […]

Openly – Founders, Business Model, Funding & Competitors

In the late 2010s, the insurance technology (“insurtech”) sector was defined by a singular, deafening narrative: disintermediation. The prevailing wisdom among Silicon Valley disruptors was that the future of insurance lay in removing the middleman. Startups like Lemonade, Hippo, and Kin burst onto the scene with a mission to sell directly to consumers (DTC), arguing […]

Accrete AI – Founders, Business Model, Funding & Competitors

Accrete AI is a New York-based artificial intelligence startup founded in 2017 with a mission to combat information overload by encoding human expertise into “Knowledge Engine” AI agents. Serving both government and commercial clients, Accrete has positioned itself as a dual-use enterprise AI provider – meaning its technology is applied in defense as well as […]

Persefoni – Founders, Business Model, Funding & Competitors

Persefoni AI, Inc. (branded simply as Persefoni) is a leading climate management and carbon accounting platform aimed at helping organizations measure, analyze, and report their greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions. Founded in early 2020, Persefoni offers a cloud-based “ERP for carbon data” that enables enterprises and financial institutions to calculate their carbon footprints in real time, in […]

Stoke Space – Founders, Business Model, Funding & Competitors

Stoke Space Technologies is an American aerospace startup founded in 2019–2020 by former Blue Origin rocket engineers. Headquartered in Kent, Washington, Stoke is pursuing a radical vision: fully and rapidly reusable rockets that can launch with aircraft-like frequency. The company’s mission is “low-cost, on-demand transport to, through, and from space”. From the outset, co-founder Andy […]

acceldata – Founders, Business Model, Funding & Competitors

Acceldata is a Silicon Valley–based enterprise software company specializing in data observability – the end‐to‐end monitoring and management of data pipelines, quality, infrastructure and cost. Founded in 2018, Acceldata developed what it calls “the world’s first enterprise Data Observability Cloud”. Its platform leverages AI/ML to give large organizations real‑time visibility into data reliability at petabyte/exabyte […]

Lumos – Founders, Business Model, Funding & Competitors

Lumos is a San Francisco–based startup (founded 2020) that addresses the burgeoning challenge of SaaS sprawl and identity management in large enterprises. With companies averaging 650+ SaaS applications on their tech stacks, IT and security teams struggle to provision access efficiently and control costs and compliance across dozens of vendors. Lumos positions itself as an […]

LambdaTest – Founders, Business Model, Funding & Competitors

LambdaTest is a cloud-based software testing platform that enables developers and quality assurance (QA) teams to test web and mobile applications across an extensive range of browsers, operating systems, and devices. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with significant operations in Noida, India. LambdaTest has quickly become a leader in the […]

Ridgeline– Founders, Business Model, Funding & Competitors

Introduction Ridgeline is an enterprise cloud platform for investment management firms, offering a unified front-to-back software solution tailored to asset managers’ needs. Founded in 2017 by Dave Duffield – the legendary software entrepreneur behind PeopleSoft and Workday – Ridgeline set out to modernize an industry long plagued by fragmented legacy systems. Headquartered in Incline Village, […]

BuildOps – Founders, Business Model, Funding & Competitors

Introduction BuildOps is a Los Angeles-based startup providing an all-in-one cloud software platform for commercial contractors in trades like HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and mechanical services. Founded in 2018, the company addresses a critical gap in the construction and facility service industry: many contractors responsible for keeping hospitals, data centers, and commercial buildings running have long […]

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