65 Best Software Startups in United States to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Software Startups in United States

We track 71,000+ companies and rank them dynamically using our Seedtable Score – a score that uses quantitative and qualitative data points to signal the momentum behind a company. We then monitor the list manually leveraging our expertise as founders and investors.

There are 502 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $15.2b. The average funding per company in this subset is $233.1m.

Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.

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Funding Rounds

$1.5m

Money raised

Developer of low-latency and high-throughput broadband networks for AR/VR, IoT, robotics, and other emerging technologies.

1

Funding Rounds

$510.0k

Money raised

Wavel.ai is a voice AI solution for scaling and localizing video content.

4

Funding Rounds

$583.6m

Money raised

TriNet Zenefits is a software as a service (SaaS) company providing a digital human resources platform for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

5

Funding Rounds

$349.2m

Money raised

HashiCorp is a software company providing tools for developers and security professionals to provision, secure, and run infrastructure for distributed applications for organizations.

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7

Funding Rounds

$165.1m

Money raised

Figment is a blockchain infrastructure and software provider.

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3

Funding Rounds

$764.7m

Money raised

Bitmain is a Beijing-based multinational semiconductor company, founded in 2013, that manufactures products for blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) applications.

10

Funding Rounds

$1.0b

Money raised

DataRobot sells a machine learning platform that helps users build and deploy accurate predictive models. The Boston-based company was founded in 2012 by Jeremy Achin.

8

Funding Rounds

$390.0m

Money raised

Exabeam is a San Mateo, California-based data security analytics company offering cybersecurity and early cyber attack detection software.

1

Funding Rounds

$50.0k

Money raised

HYPRES is a developer of superconducting microelectronics for defense, wireless, and optical network industries.

6

Funding Rounds

$100.9m

Money raised

AppZen is a San Jose, California-based company that provides an AI-based auditing platform for finance teams.

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2

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Hypergiant Industries is a machine learning and artificial intelligence company offering client-focused services and research and development in various fields. The company was founded by Ben Lamm and John Fremont in 2018.

3

Funding Rounds

$22.8m

Money raised

Distil Networks was an American cybersecurity company founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

6

Funding Rounds

$200.0m

Money raised

A software company making a workplace email communication platform for remote and office work.

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4

Funding Rounds

$42.5m

Money raised

Vungle (Vungle, Inc.) is startup which powers video advertisements inside of mobile apps and games.

7

Funding Rounds

$169.8m

Money raised

An artificial intelligence company offering a call tracking and conversational analytics for marketers.

6

Funding Rounds

$317.0m

Money raised

BigPanda offers a platform that helps IT Ops, NOC, and DevOps teams detect, investigate, and resolve IT incidents.

4

Funding Rounds

$138.9m

Money raised

Verkada is a software company offering a cloud-based internet of things (IoT) platform for security camera systems.

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8

Funding Rounds

$1.4b

Money raised

A company developing a cloud-based collaboration platform for professional teams to build software specific to their line of work or particular project. It was founded in 2013 and is located in San Francisco, California.

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6

Funding Rounds

$39.7m

Money raised

Also known as the Daily Muse, The Muse is a company developing an online career platform that provides job listings and career advice to people. It participated in the W12 cohort of Y Combinator. It was founded in 2011 and is located in New York City, New York.

3

Funding Rounds

$53.1m

Money raised

Censys is an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based computer and network security company.

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2

Funding Rounds

$300.0m

Money raised

ClickHouse is an open-source database management software developed originally by Yandex before being incorporated in 2021 by Aaron Katz, Alexey Milovidov, and Yury Izrailevsky.

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5

Funding Rounds

$42.5m

Money raised

Textio is a writing-enhancement service powered by big data.

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6

Funding Rounds

$324.5m

Money raised

MoneyLion is a mobile banking platform for borrowing, saving, and investing.

6

Funding Rounds

$214.0m

Money raised

Observe.AI is the creator of an AI platform for call centers.

6

Funding Rounds

$9.8m

Money raised

Facial recognition company Kairos today announced the alpha release of the Kairos Protocol, a biometric verification system for cryptocurrency transactions.

7

Funding Rounds

$225.5m

Money raised

Sentry is cross-platform application monitoring, with a focus on error reporting.

6

Funding Rounds

$159.5m

Money raised

Evernote is a company offering notetaking software and online service founded in 2008 by Stepan Pachikov.

2

Funding Rounds

$6.0m

Money raised

Ananda Networks is a networking company allowing organizations to create private networks, connecting users, devices, and services across branches and remote locations.

8

Funding Rounds

$286.6m

Money raised

SparkCognition is an artificial intelligence and cybersecurity company offering cognitive computing analytics for the information technology, operational technology, and the internet of things (IoT) industries.

6

Funding Rounds

$714.0m

Money raised

An insurance technology offering a platform for companies to manage health insurance policies for their employees.

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Funding Rounds

$7.0m

Money raised

An artificial intelligence company developing a platform that helps analysts process and understand information.

7

Funding Rounds

$1.5b

Money raised

Dataminr is a company providing a real-time AI platform delivering information on high-impact events and breaking news.

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7

Funding Rounds

$330.3m

Money raised

LaunchDarkly is a feature management platform for software development.

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Notch is a talent platform that focuses on software developers.

2

Funding Rounds

$17.0k

Money raised

inDinero is a company developing software for tracking and managing for startups and small businesses.

1

Funding Rounds

$50.0m

Money raised

Vyond is a video animation software company.

3

Funding Rounds

$95.5m

Money raised

PlayVS is a company providing a platform for e-sports competitions for high school students.

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5

Funding Rounds

$150.3m

Money raised

Snorkel AI is a data-centric artificial intelligence company born out of Stanford University's AI Lab.

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7

Funding Rounds

$260.5m

Money raised

Menlo Security is a cloud-based internet isolation to prevent cyber attacks founded in 2013 by Amir Ben-Efraim, Gautam Altekar and Poornima DeBolle.

7

Funding Rounds

$281.3m

Money raised

MindTickle is a company that has developed software tools for business sales

4

Funding Rounds

$135.3m

Money raised

Fortanix is a Mountain View, California-based cybersecurity company developing cloud security and privacy products.

9

Funding Rounds

$1.2b

Money raised

A company developing artificial intelligence-based technology designed for autonomous vehicles. It was founded in 2016 and is located in Fremont, California.

5

Funding Rounds

$33.9m

Money raised

A company building an identity resolution & insights platform

3

Funding Rounds

$54.1k

Money raised

ApexQubit is a biotechnology company that is harnessing a proprietary technology for discovery of new medicines to treat patients with undruggable diseases.

3

Funding Rounds

$2.9m

Money raised

Artificial Intelligence company using Augmented Reality for collaborative professional services

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2

Funding Rounds

$122.5m

Money raised

Together is a San Francisco-based developer of a decentralized cloud for artificial intelligence.

2

Funding Rounds

$22.8m

Money raised

Emerald Therapeutics is a biotechnology company located in San Fransisco, California, founded by Brian Frezza and DJ Klienbaum in 2010. Emerald Therapeutics offers cloud a based software and hardware platform that allows researchers to remotely perform automated scientific laboratory experiments.

10

Funding Rounds

$356.8m

Money raised

An automated assistant platform that manages legal paperwork for businesses, founded by Cai GoGwilt and Jason Boehmig.

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2

Funding Rounds

$23.6m

Money raised

Molecula is a data virtualization company that enables instantaneous, secure access to large, fragmented and geographically dispersed datasets to support demanding Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) workloads.

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10

Funding Rounds

$36.3m

Money raised

Chronicled is a blockchain company founded by Ryan Orr, Samantha Radocchia, Maurizio Greco and David Aho.

2

Funding Rounds

$24.0m

Money raised

Company providing consultation for security standards and regulatory compliance for technology startups

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6

Funding Rounds

$107.6m

Money raised

Zapata Computing is a company developing quantum software and algorithms for business founded in 2017 by Christopher Savoie, Alán Aspuru-Guzik, Jhonathan Romero Fontalvo, Jonathan Olson, Peter Johnson and Yudong Cao.

5

Funding Rounds

$487.0m

Money raised

Anchorage Digital is a global regulated crypto platform that provides institutions with integrated digital asset financial services and infrastructure solutions.

4

Funding Rounds

$73.0m

Money raised

Wickr is a telecommunications and security company that builds secure communication tools, such as a messaging application. It was founded in 2012 and is located in San Francisco, California.

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3

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OpenZeppelin provides security products to build, automate, and operate decentralized applications.

3

Funding Rounds

$305.0m

Money raised

Moveworks is an AI, machine learning, enterprise natural language understanding (NLU) and chatbot platform that resolves IT Service Desk support issues.

8

Funding Rounds

$217.3m

Money raised

A blockchain and cryptocurrency development company developing blockchain based business solutions for investment funds, administrators, trading firms, exchanges and accounting firms.

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4

Funding Rounds

$20.1m

Money raised

Call analytics platform that uses artificial intelligence to transcribe and analyze sales calls, providing enterprises with actionable feedback to improve the performance of their sales teams.

15

Funding Rounds

$249.8m

Money raised

Sift Science is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2011 by Brandon Ballinger.

12

Funding Rounds

$296.1m

Money raised

BigID is a cybersecurity company developing a platform for data protection and privacy compliance.

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7

Funding Rounds

$247.0m

Money raised

Swimlane is the developer of a security organization and response platform that allows businesses to automate their security.

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5

Funding Rounds

$385.5m

Money raised

An insurance technology company offering automobile insurance at a base rate combined with payments for miles driven.

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3

Funding Rounds

$38.2m

Money raised

Tact.ai is an A.I. assistant company founded in 2012 by Chuck Ganapathi.

4

Funding Rounds

$45.0m

Money raised

Company providing service to identify and classify textual content with Artificial Intelligence

3

Funding Rounds

$66.8m

Money raised

Propel builds software dedicated to helping low-income Americans improve their financial health with technology.

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