Category: Featured Startups

SumUp is a global fintech company on a mission to empower small businesses with simple, affordable, and powerful payment and financial tools. Founded in 2012, the company has grown from a single card reader into a comprehensive financial ecosystem — processing over 1 billion transactions annually and serving more than 4 million merchants across 36 […]

In the crowded enterprise software landscape, where customer relationship management (CRM) tools have long been dominated by legacy giants built for sales teams, DevRev emerged in 2020 with a provocative and original premise: what if the companies most responsible for building software — the engineers and product managers — had a CRM built specifically for […]

Pacaso is a real estate technology startup founded in 2020 that pioneered a new model for owning vacation homes. Co-founded by former Zillow executives Spencer Rascoff and Austin Allison, Pacaso targets the massive U.S. vacation-home market — estimated at $1.3 trillion — by enabling groups of buyers to co-own high-end properties at a fraction of […]

Trade Republic has done something that was once considered impossible in European retail finance: make investing genuinely frictionless and affordable for millions of people. Born in Munich in 2015 and headquartered today in Berlin, the company has grown from a three-person startup into a fully licensed bank with more than 10 million customers, €150 billion […]

Every marketing team knows the pain: a simple email campaign that should take an hour instead takes two weeks, bouncing between designers, developers, brand reviewers, and agencies before it ever reaches a customer’s inbox. Stensul, a New York-based marketing technology startup, built its entire business around eliminating that friction. Rather than chasing the crowded email-sending […]

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 […]