Category: Featured Startups

ServiceTitan is a cloud-based software platform designed for service-based businesses such as HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and other similar industries. It is used by service contractors to manage and streamline their daily operations, including dispatching technicians, scheduling jobs, tracking inventory, and invoicing customers. ServiceTitan offers a range of features such as real-time dispatching, mobile access, custom […]

Renting a home in Brazil has traditionally involved significant paperwork and financial requirements. Many landlords have required tenants to provide a fiador—a guarantor who accepts legal responsibility for unpaid rent and other obligations. This requirement can make renting more difficult for people who have recently moved, lack local family connections, or cannot find someone willing […]

Pine Labs began in 1998 as a software company focused on payment and loyalty solutions for petroleum retailers. Today, it is a publicly listed fintech infrastructure company providing payment acceptance, affordability solutions, prepaid and issuing services, and technology for merchants, banks and consumer brands. The company has expanded beyond physical point-of-sale (POS) terminals into online […]

FirstCry, operated by Brainbees Solutions Limited, is one of India’s leading omnichannel platforms for baby, kids’ and maternity products. Founded in 2010, the company has expanded from an online retailer into a multi-channel business spanning e-commerce, physical stores, private labels, international retail and its GlobalBees portfolio of consumer brands. The platform brings together third-party brands […]

Data is not just a by-product of doing business — it has become business itself. Every customer interaction, every transaction, every sensor reading and every AI-generated output is a data point. For the world’s largest enterprises, the challenge is not finding data; it is trusting it, governing it, and putting it to work in a […]

Every few years, a startup comes along that doesn’t just build a better product — it rewrites what the product category can look like. Brex is one of those companies. Founded in 2017 by two Brazilian entrepreneurs who dropped out of Stanford, Brex reimagined the corporate credit card from first principles: no personal guarantees from […]

What started in 2005 as a Stanford PhD project to make computers understand music has evolved into one of the most compelling voice AI companies in the world. SoundHound AI, Inc. — founded by Keyvan Mohajer, Majid Emami, and James Hom — has spent two decades building technology that lets machines understand human speech the […]

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 […]