Category: Featured Startups

Attentive is one of the most consequential startups in the history of mobile marketing — a company that turned the humble text message into a $500M+ ARR platform that powers personalized commerce for thousands of brands worldwide. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, Attentive offers an SMS, email, and push notification marketing automation […]

In a world where artificial intelligence headlines are dominated by large language models and chatbots, LandingAI has quietly built a different kind of AI business — one rooted in computer vision, industrial inspection, and document intelligence. Founded by Andrew Ng, one of the most recognized names in machine learning, LandingAI set out to solve a […]

Urban Company is India’s leading managed home-services marketplace—a technology platform that connects customers with trained, background-verified professionals for beauty, wellness, home repairs, cleaning, appliance servicing, and more. What started in 2014 as a scrappy on-demand services startup called UrbanClap has grown into a publicly listed company on India’s NSE and BSE, with a ₹1,144 crore […]

Every year, the world discards approximately 62 million tonnes of electronic waste — a number growing three times faster than the world’s population. A cracked iPhone abandoned in a drawer, a laptop replaced after two years, a gaming console gathering dust in a cupboard. This is the problem Back Market decided to solve in 2014 […]

MineralTree is an innovative fintech startup that provides end-to-end Accounts Payable (AP) and payment automation solutions for mid-market businesses. Established in 2010 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company has been dedicated to transforming the AP processes by reducing manual tasks and increasing automation, thereby allowing companies to focus more on strategic financial operations and […]

Grab at a Glance (2026) Introduction: What Is Grab? If you live or work in Southeast Asia, Grab is as fundamental to daily life as a mobile phone. It books your ride to the airport, delivers your lunch, moves your parcels, and — increasingly — holds your savings, approves your loan, and processes your insurance […]

The global energy transition has placed nuclear power at a crossroads. After decades of public scepticism, cost overruns at conventional large-scale plants, and the lingering shadows of Chernobyl and Fukushima, a new generation of nuclear companies is working to rewrite the story entirely. Among the most credible and technically advanced of these is Kairos Power […]

In an era defined by software sprawl and mounting technology budgets, a new category of company has emerged to bring order to corporate chaos: the SaaS spend management platform. Among the most compelling stories in this space is Spendbase — a Ukrainian-born startup that turned the adversity of launching during a wartime economy into a […]

In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, few challenges are as fundamental as the problem of scale. As AI models grow larger, datasets expand to unprecedented volumes, and enterprises race to deploy machine learning across every business function, the underlying infrastructure must keep pace. Anyscale occupies a critical position in this ecosystem as the […]

Founded in 2019, Deel has rapidly become a leading global payroll and HR technology platform that enables companies to hire, manage, and pay employees and contractors in over 150 countries. Rather than relying on fragmented local vendors, Deel delivers a unified “operating system for work” that automates the entire payroll stack through software. Its platform […]

Billd is a fintech startup founded in 2018 in Austin, Texas, that provides working capital solutions for construction subcontractors. It partners with material suppliers and general contractors to offer subcontractors extended payment terms (up to 120 days) and cash advances on work in progress, addressing the chronic cash-flow gaps in the construction industry. Billd’s mission […]

CyberFOX is a rising cybersecurity startup specializing in privileged access management (PAM) and identity management solutions tailored for managed service providers (MSPs) and small-to-medium businesses. Launched as a unified brand in 2022, CyberFOX gained recognition by bringing together two MSP-focused security products – AutoElevate for endpoint privilege management and Password Boss for password management – […]

Clarity AI is a rapidly growing sustainability technology startup that provides advanced ESG (environmental, social and governance) data and analytics to financial institutions and corporations. Founded in 2017, Clarity AI describes itself as a “globally recognized and awarded sustainability tech platform”. Its mission is to “bring societal impact to markets” by giving investors and organizations transparent, […]

Pathstream is an education technology startup on a mission to “unlock the unrealized human potential of the frontline workforce.” Founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, Pathstream partners with tech companies and higher-education institutions to deliver career-focused training and coaching to workers. Its platform provides project-based, software-centric learning – including certified programs in areas […]

Novakid is an educational technology startup that began with a simple yet ambitious idea: to reinvent how children learn English. Founded in 2017 by two friends with a shared dream, the company has grown into a global online school trusted by over 940,000 parents in 50+ countries. Novakid delivers live, immersive English lessons through a […]

Placer.ai is a leading location analytics startup that provides insights into consumer foot traffic and physical location trends for businesses in retail, real estate, hospitality, and other sectors. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Los Altos, California (with R&D offices in Tel Aviv, Israel), Placer.ai has developed a platform that uses anonymized location data from […]

The trajectory of ClickUp, from a bootstrapped internal tool in 2017 to a multi-billion dollar enterprise software incumbent by 2025, represents a defining case study in the cyclical nature of the software industry—specifically, the oscillation between unbundling and rebundling. For nearly a decade, the dominant philosophy in Silicon Valley was the proliferation of “best-of-breed” point […]

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.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, […]