Category: Featured Startups

RudderStack is a venture-backed startup that provides customer data infrastructure through a warehouse-native Customer Data Platform (CDP) built for developers. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, RudderStack enables organizations to collect, unify, and route customer data in real time without storing it on a third-party server. The company’s platform emphasizes a “warehouse-first” approach: […]

Ergeon is a technology-enabled home-improvement company built to make outdoor projects—fences, decks, concrete, and artificial turf—as simple and predictable as shopping online. The traditional experience is messy: phone tag with contractors, hand-drawn sketches, unclear bids, and project timelines that drift. Ergeon flips that script with a digital intake, remote estimating, transparent scopes, coordinated scheduling, and […]

LucidLink is a cloud-native file collaboration startup that delivers instant, secure access to cloud-hosted files, enabling remote and hybrid teams to work on large datasets as if they were local. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company pioneered a “storage collaboration” platform purpose-built for modern workflows, eliminating the need to download or […]

Attentive is a leading startup in marketing technology, offering an SMS and email marketing automation platform tailored for e-commerce and retail brands. Founded in 2016 and based in New York, Attentive enables businesses to engage consumers with personalized, mobile-first messaging campaigns. The company’s platform spans the entire subscriber lifecycle – from growing opt-in lists to […]

In an era where healthcare generates approximately 30% of the world’s data yet remains frustratingly fragmented, Datavant has emerged as the definitive solution to one of healthcare’s most persistent challenges. Founded in 2017, this Phoenix-based health data platform company has grown from a startup with a bold vision to become the nation’s largest health data ecosystem, […]

Vanta is a leading startup in the security and compliance automation space, providing software that helps businesses streamline their security certifications and IT audits. Founded in 2018, Vanta has grown rapidly to become a unicorn valued at $4.15 billion as of mid-2025. The company’s cloud-based platform continuously monitors security controls and gathers compliance evidence, enabling […]

DevRev is an AI-native enterprise software company (often called a DevCRM platform) that unifies product development, customer support and business data for product-led growth companies. Its mission is “to help build the earth’s most customer-centric companies” by connecting every developer (“Dev”) directly with customers and revenue (“Rev”). In practice, DevRev provides a cloud platform where […]

Contentstack is an enterprise-focused headless content management system (CMS) and composable digital experience platform (DXP) provider. It enables businesses to manage content centrally and deliver omnichannel digital experiences across web, mobile, and emerging channels – from websites and apps to kiosks, voice assistants, and augmented reality. As a pioneer in the headless CMS space and […]

Solifi is a global fintech software platform that specializes in secured finance, offering end-to-end solutions for asset finance, automotive finance, floorplan (wholesale) finance, and working capital finance. Formerly known as International Decision Systems (IDS), the company has a 50-year legacy in providing mission-critical software to banks, equipment leasing companies, auto finance firms, and other financial […]

Skyflow is a Silicon Valley startup that pioneered a “data privacy vault” delivered via API. In essence, it provides a secure cloud database for sensitive customer information, accessible through simple API calls. Businesses use Skyflow to isolate and encrypt personal data (PII, payment details, health records) in a zero-trust vault, instead of storing it in […]

Glean is an AI-powered enterprise search and knowledge discovery platform that is transforming how employees find information at work. Founded in 2019 by a team of former Google engineers – and backed by Silicon Valley’s top investors – Glean has rapidly grown into a unicorn startup with a multi-billion dollar valuation. The company’s core product […]

VAST Data stands as one of the most remarkable success stories in enterprise technology, transforming from a startup founded in 2016 to a $9.1 billion valuation powerhouse that has fundamentally reimagined data infrastructure for the AI era. The company has achieved what many consider impossible in enterprise software: hypergrowth combined with profitability, maintaining positive cash flow for over five consecutive […]

Mill is a climate-tech startup on a mission to “outsmart waste” by turning household food scraps into resources rather than landfill fodder. The company’s core product is a smart kitchen bin that dehydrates and grinds food scraps overnight. Once full, the dry “Food Grounds” are sent back to Mill (via prepaid USPS shipping) and transformed […]

Pacaso is a real estate startup (founded 2020) that pioneered a new model for owning vacation homes. Founded by former Zillow executives Spencer Rascoff and Austin Allison, Pacaso targets the large U.S. vacation-home market (estimated at $1.3 trillion) by letting groups of buyers co-own high-end properties. Its platform creates a dedicated LLC for each home, […]

Wiz is an Israeli-American cloud security startup founded in early 2020. Its founders, all veterans of Israel’s elite Unit 8200, envisioned an all-in-one platform to secure modern, multi-cloud environments. In just a few years Wiz became a market leader: by 2024 it was protecting some 5 million cloud workloads and scanning 230 billion files daily, […]

Anthropic is a San Francisco–based startup (incorporated as a public-benefit corporation) focused on building large language models (LLMs) with safety and alignment at their core. Founded in 2021, Anthropic’s flagship AI assistant Claude is designed to be “helpful, harmless, and honest,” directly competing with OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini. The company emphasizes a mission-driven approach: […]

Whatnot is a U.S.-based livestream commerce startup launched in late 2019. It enables users to buy and sell collectibles and other goods via live video auctions. The platform began with a focus on toys and hobby collectibles (notably Pokémon cards and Funko Pop figures) but has since added dozens of product categories. Investors describe it […]

Mercury is a financial technology company that offers banking services tailored to startups and small businesses. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, Mercury provides FDIC-insured checking and savings accounts, debit and credit cards, and a suite of financial tools — all delivered through a modern, software-driven platform. Importantly, Mercury itself is not a […]

Lunar Energy, founded in 2020 by Kunal Girotra, is a clean energy startup on a mission to revolutionize the way homes generate, store, and use energy. The company’s goal is to provide homeowners with a seamless, integrated energy solution that harnesses the power of solar energy and advanced energy storage systems, while enabling smart management […]

Hightouch is a San Francisco–based data-activation platform that pioneered the reverse ETL approach. Rather than importing data into a warehouse, Hightouch extracts curated data from warehouses (Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, etc.) and loads it into operational SaaS tools (CRMs, email platforms, ad networks, customer support, etc.). In practice, Hightouch lets business teams (marketing, sales, finance, support) […]