YC Winter 2019 (W19) companies
As of Mar 26, 2026, 195 companies · 360 founders
Winter 2019 at a glance
- 195
- 360
- 1.8
- 12.5
Most common tags
- SaaS36 · 18%
- B2B29 · 15%
- Fintech26 · 13%
- Artificial Intelligence19 · 10%
- Developer Tools15 · 8%
- Marketplace12 · 6%
Where they are based
- SF Bay Area80 · 42%
- New York15 · 8%
- Los Angeles9 · 5%
- Boston8 · 4%
Companies in Winter 2019
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1910 builds an AI-native drug discovery platform that combines multimodal biological data, large AI models, and high-throughput lab automation to identify both small and large molecule therapeutics. The platform, called ITO, targets the earliest and most failure-prone stages of drug discovery, replacing conventional experimental screening cycles with computationally guided candidate selection. Pharmaceutical and biotech partners use it to accelerate the path from target to viable therapeutic candidate. | Healthcare | 20 |
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54Gene builds a genomics research and services platform focused on African genetic data, which is critically underrepresented in global medical databases. The company collects, sequences, and licenses this data to pharmaceutical and research partners developing precision medicines and diagnostics. Its work replaces reliance on datasets drawn almost entirely from European populations, giving drug developers access to genetic diversity that current biobanks lack. | Healthcare | 47 |
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Accept.inc (formerly BoardRE) lets mortgage-dependent homebuyers make all-cash offers by stepping in as the intermediary purchaser: the company buys the home with its own capital, then the buyer closes on their mortgage afterward. Sellers and agents transact with Accept.inc directly, cutting the traditional lender out of the initial deal and compressing closing timelines from weeks to days. The model targets the roughly 80% of buyers who require a mortgage but compete against cash buyers in tight markets. | Fintech | 80 |
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AccioJob trains job-seekers in India for careers in software engineering, data analytics, and AI through structured bootcamps delivered online, offline, and self-paced. Courses cover full-stack development, data science, and AI engineering, taught by industry mentors with hands-on projects. AccioJob replaces the traditional degree-to-job gap by pairing technical training directly with placement support and hiring drives across a broad network of partner companies. | Education | 250 |
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Adventurous Co builds a marketplace for curated, experience-driven travel activities, connecting consumers with hosts who offer distinctive, story-worthy outings. The platform targets travelers seeking memorable activities beyond standard tourism, replacing the work of sourcing and vetting experiences through scattered review sites or travel agencies. | Consumer | 2 |
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AI Insurance builds an all-in-one management platform for MGAs, MGUs, fronting carriers, reinsurers, and agencies running commercial and specialty insurance programs. It automates underwriting, submissions intake, claims processing, bordereaux parsing, billing, and bill review, replacing the spreadsheets and manual filing workflows that consume a large share of small-to-midsize insurers' revenue. A single platform covers the operational core that these teams previously stitched together by hand. | Fintech | 16 |
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Allo builds a mobile app that connects neighboring families for mutual, everyday support: sharing favors, coordinating childcare, and building the kind of local social network that makes asking a neighbor for help feel normal. It targets parents who want a real-world community around their family but lack a practical way to organize one, replacing the friction of cold outreach and the inadequacy of general-purpose social platforms. | Consumer | 2 |
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AllSome Fulfillment gives e-commerce sellers in Southeast Asia the infrastructure to own and operate their logistics without outsourcing to third-party couriers or 3PLs. Sellers get warehouse management, order dispatch, and last-mile coordination through a single platform, replacing ad-hoc fulfillment arrangements that erode margins and delivery reliability. | B2B | 18 |
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Allure Systems builds generative AI software for fashion retailers that produces on-model apparel images from a single product photo, eliminating the need for photoshoots and physical models. Retailers use it to generate images across any model size or look at scale, replacing the traditional photography pipeline for e-commerce product pages. Allure Systems was acquired by Farfetch in December 2021. | B2B | 18 |
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Alpaca provides a licensed brokerage API platform that lets developers and fintech companies embed stock, options, and crypto trading directly into their own products. It handles the regulated infrastructure, order execution, and market data that would otherwise require businesses to build or license independently. Customers range from early-stage fintech startups to hedge funds, robo-advisors, and crypto exchanges. | Fintech | 150 |
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AmpUp builds an EV charging management platform for commercial site operators, covering hardware selection, installer coordination, and ongoing station oversight in a single dashboard. It targets workplaces, multifamily properties, fleet depots, and hospitality sites where vehicles park for extended periods. The platform replaces fragmented, manual charging operations with centralized control over uptime, energy costs, and driver access. | Consumer | 45 |
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Ascen builds a back-office platform and employer-of-record service for staffing agencies, covering payroll, client invoicing, independent contractor compliance, and corp-to-corp payments. It replaces the manual administrative work staffing firms otherwise handle across disparate systems, handling both W-2 and IC/C2C workforce types. The platform also includes on-demand payroll funding to bridge the gap between contractor pay dates and client payment cycles. | B2B | 17 |
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Ashby builds an all-in-one recruiting platform for talent teams at companies ranging from early-stage startups to large enterprises. It combines an applicant tracking system, candidate relationship management, interview scheduling, and analytics in a single product, replacing the patchwork of point solutions and manual coordination that recruiting teams otherwise manage. The platform is designed to scale with an organization and embeds AI across sourcing, workflow automation, and reporting. | B2B | 110 |
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Askdata builds a natural-language interface for business data, letting analysts and business users query connected data sources by typing plain-English questions instead of writing SQL or building manual reports. It returns personalized insights drawn from the user's own apps and databases, replacing the need to route data requests through technical teams. | B2B | 17 |
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Atlas sells a premium charge card and concierge membership to affluent consumers who want priority access to hard-to-book restaurants, luxury hotels, and sold-out events. The app lets members browse curated hotel collections, book with points or negotiated rates, and secure reservations that are otherwise unavailable to the public. It replaces the manual legwork of calling concierges, monitoring availability, and paying full retail rates across fragmented booking platforms. | Fintech | 25 |
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Atomic Alchemy builds privately owned nuclear reactors dedicated to producing radioisotopes for nuclear medicine, including diagnostic imaging agents and cancer therapies. It targets a supply chain dominated by a handful of aging, government-run foreign reactors, most nearing the end of their operational lives. Its facility is designed to give hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, and researchers a domestic, scalable source of isotopes that today are difficult or impossible to obtain in sufficient quantities. | Industrials | 8 |
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Aura Vision builds in-store analytics software for physical retailers, turning existing security cameras into a measurement layer that tracks footfall, demographics, queue lengths, dwell time, heatmaps, and conversion. It replaces manual observation and guesswork that retail operations and strategy teams currently rely on to evaluate store performance. A plug-and-play hardware unit connects to the store's existing camera and internet networks, and a natural-language query tool lets teams pull answers without waiting on data teams. | B2B | 10 |
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AuroraQ builds an integrated quantum computing system that combines specialized quantum components for processing, communication, and memory into a single, unified architecture. The approach mirrors how classical computers achieve performance through component integration, a problem no other quantum hardware company has addressed. AuroraQ sources components from partners to assemble a complete system, replacing the current industry norm of single-function, non-integrated quantum hardware. | Industrials | 1 |
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Autodial prev Qwest builds a phone queue service that calls businesses on behalf of everyday consumers, cutting hold times from roughly an hour down to minutes. It covers thousands of lines across financial institutions, telecoms, home services, and government agencies, replacing the experience of sitting on hold. The company originally focused on restaurant and club reservations before pivoting during COVID to broader consumer phone needs. | Consumer | 1 |
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Avalanche builds a software development kit that lets startups launch and run customer referral programs. It replaces the custom engineering work teams would otherwise do to track referrals, manage rewards, and attribute new sign-ups to existing users. | B2B | 1 |
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Avo builds an analytics governance platform for product teams at companies like IKEA, Wolt, Fender, Sixt, and Condé Nast. It replaces the tracking plan spreadsheet with a collaborative workspace where product managers, engineers, and data scientists design, validate, and monitor event tracking together. The platform covers the full analytics release cycle: schema management, SDK-based observability, and implementation verification that catches bad data before it reaches downstream tools. | B2B | 10 |
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AXDRAFT builds document automation software for corporate legal teams, replacing manual copy-paste drafting with a guided Q&A workflow. It pulls data from public registers and internal databases, validates inputs, and routes documents through approval with e-signatures and access controls. The work it replaces is the slow, error-prone process of drafting and negotiating contracts by hand. | B2B | 34 |
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Balto builds contest automation software for operators running player competitions across consumer, sports, and gaming contexts. It replaces the manual work of tracking entries, managing participants, and sending communications at scale, handling workflows that would otherwise require significant staff time. The company was acquired by FuboTV. | Consumer | 5 |
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Basement builds a private social network for close-knit friend groups, giving users a dedicated space to share with their inner circle rather than a broad public feed. It replaces the awkward intimacy of posting to large general-audience platforms by keeping content within a small, trusted group. | Consumer | 2 |
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Basilica provides an API that converts high-dimensional data, such as images, into embeddings that developers can use to power search, recommendations, and classification features. It targets software teams that need machine learning capabilities without building or maintaining their own embedding infrastructure. The API replaces the work of training, deploying, and serving custom embedding models. | B2B | 2 |
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Bensen builds ordering infrastructure for restaurants, covering both online and phone channels for takeout and delivery. It targets food and beverage businesses that need a unified way to accept and manage customer orders without relying on third-party marketplaces. The product replaces fragmented or manual order-taking across channels. | B2B | 2 |
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Bentocart delivers perishable food from local Bay Area restaurants and specialty makers to consumers in a single combined shipment. Busy professionals choose meals from dozens of vendors each week, schedule a delivery, and stock their fridges, replacing both meal planning and multiple separate food pickups or orders. The logistics layer handles the last-mile complexity of moving fresh, perishable items from many kitchens to one doorstep. | Consumer | 3 |
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BlitzIQ builds a note-taking workspace for B2B sales teams, centralizing the information captured across prospect and customer conversations. It replaces scattered personal notes, disconnected docs, and manual logging by giving sales reps a shared, structured place to record and access deal context. | B2B | Not listed |
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Bottomless builds a subscription coffee service that uses a WiFi-connected kitchen scale to track how much coffee a customer has left and automatically reorders from a network of roasters before they run out. It replaces the manual work of remembering to reorder, timing a fresh bag to arrive before the current one runs out. Customers choose a curated rotation or get matched to one based on taste preferences, and the scale refines reorder timing as it learns their consumption habits. | Consumer | 2 |
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BrainKey builds AI software that analyzes brain MRI scans to extract biomarkers and produce clear visualizations of brain anatomy, targeting brain health assessment and dementia prevention. It serves individuals and clinicians who would otherwise receive raw medical images without the tools to interpret them. The product replaces manual, specialist-dependent reading of neuroimaging data with automated, accessible reports. | Healthcare | 20 |
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Brick Health builds in-person medical infrastructure that supports virtual care providers. It supplies diagnostics, nursing visits, point-of-care testing, and phlebotomy at transparent cash prices, letting telehealth clinicians order the physical services their remote patients need. The work it replaces is the ad-hoc, opaque process of sending virtual-care patients into traditional brick-and-mortar facilities to fill gaps in remote clinical capability. | Healthcare | 1 |
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Bunkerhill Health builds an AI agent platform for health systems that executes long-horizon clinical and operational work, from managing specialty referral queues to closing gaps in chronic disease documentation. The platform, Carebricks, lets health systems deploy AI agents that carry tasks to completion across weeks or months, replacing the manual knowledge work that drives outcomes in areas like revenue cycle, care coordination, pharmacy, and population health. | Healthcare | 30 |
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Buy Me a Coffee gives independent creators a single page to accept one-time payments, recurring memberships, and digital product sales directly from their audience. It replaces the need to stitch together a payment processor, a membership platform, and a storefront. Artists, podcasters, educators, and other online creators use it to turn fan appreciation into direct income. | Consumer | 30 |
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Canopy (was Encarte) builds fund administration software for private equity co-investments and SPVs, serving syndicate leads and fund managers. It handles the legal, wire, tax, and reporting work that managers otherwise coordinate manually across spreadsheets and outside counsel. Investors at any scale use it to set up vehicles, track committed capital, and share performance data with LPs online. | Fintech | 2 |
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Capture built a unified workspace for notes, tasks, and files, aimed at individuals managing high volumes of information and ideas daily. It replaced the fragmented use of separate note-taking, to-do, and file storage tools with a single fast environment for capturing thoughts, planning goals, and working through complex topics. The product is no longer available. | B2B | 4 |
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CareerTu teaches Chinese-speaking professionals the digital skills employers demand most, covering digital marketing, data analytics, and product design. Courses are built around real-world capstone projects, replacing generic coursework with hands-on practice tied to actual business problems. The goal is to make graduates immediately productive hires at technology and retail companies. | Education | 15 |
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Caribou handles transfer pricing end-to-end for multi-entity startups expanding across borders. It combines software with an in-house expert team to design intercompany structures, produce documentation, and maintain compliance as the business grows, replacing the patchwork of external tax consultants and manual processes that founders and finance leaders otherwise manage themselves. | Fintech | 13 |
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Catch builds a benefits platform for independent workers, freelancers, and gig workers who receive no employer-sponsored coverage. It replaces the manual work of shopping, enrolling, and managing health, dental, and vision insurance by guiding users to plans matched to their budget and applying tax credits automatically. Catch also handles tax withholding, retirement, and savings by monitoring income from a connected bank account and acting on a pre-set plan. | Fintech | 18 |
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Centaur produces annotated training and evaluation data for AI models, with a focus on healthcare. It combines specialist human annotators with AI outputs, then aggregates their judgments to produce labels that outperform either source alone, replacing in-house annotation pipelines and generic crowdsourcing vendors. | Healthcare | 45 |
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Chaser builds a no-code platform that lets non-engineers create apps for Zendesk, Salesforce, and Slack. Business teams can extend the tools they already use without writing code or relying on a developer. The product replaces custom engineering work that would otherwise block non-technical users from building integrations and workflows inside these platforms. | B2B | 2 |
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Cherry builds a workplace perks platform that lets employees select the consumer subscriptions they actually want, such as streaming, fitness, and ride-sharing services. Employers fund those choices directly rather than spending on fixed in-office amenities that go unused. The product replaces the traditional one-size-fits-all perks model with a personalized, employee-driven alternative. | B2B | 2 |
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Cityfurnish rents furniture and home appliances to people living in unfurnished or semi-furnished apartments across India. Renters subscribe to get beds, sofas, dining sets, refrigerators, washing machines, and other household items delivered, inspected, and restored to like-new condition, replacing the need to buy, move, or store owned goods. The service targets a large urban renting population that wants a furnished home without long-term financial commitment. | Consumer | 90 |
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Cocoon builds employee leave management software for People teams, automating compliance, claims, and payroll coordination across parental, medical, caregiver, and personal leave. It replaces manual, error-prone leave administration that HR teams otherwise handle through spreadsheets, state law research, and back-and-forth with carriers. Cocoon is now part of TriNet. | Consumer | 6 |
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Community Phone Company builds landline phone service for seniors, families, and small local businesses, including salons, auto-body shops, and local government agencies. It runs over cellular networks, requiring no internet connection or technical setup, and replaces traditional carrier-dependent landlines. Support, scheduling, and business texting are handled through the same platform, giving community-oriented organizations a single phone solution without the complexity of enterprise telecom. | Consumer | 70 |
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Comradery builds a white-label community platform for companies and online communities that want a branded, self-contained space for their members. It combines chat, threaded discussions, member profiles, a directory, an events calendar, and email digests under a single customizable interface with custom domains and API access. It replaces the need to stitch together generic social platforms or build community infrastructure from scratch. | B2B | 1 |
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Convex builds sales intelligence software for commercial services companies, including HVAC, fire and life safety, roofing, and facilities management providers. Sales and marketing teams use it to identify target properties, surface buying signals, and reach decision-makers, replacing manual prospecting methods like driving routes, Google Maps searches, and scattered spreadsheets. Convex is now part of ServiceTitan. | B2B | 110 |
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Convictional builds a decision environment for business leaders, replacing coordination through email threads, chat messages, and slide-deck meetings. Each major initiative gets a dedicated workspace that surfaces relevant metrics, prior decisions, and expert input automatically. The product keeps leadership teams aligned on goals as execution increasingly shifts to AI agents. | B2B | 13 |
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Cosmic builds a hosted, headless CMS with an API layer that lets content teams publish across websites, apps, and storefronts without depending on engineering. It replaces the work of building and maintaining custom CMS infrastructure, giving editors a web dashboard to manage content while developers fetch or update it through a REST API and SDK. AI agents handle repetitive content tasks inside the same platform. | B2B | 5 |
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Coursedog builds an integrated academic operations platform for colleges and universities, consolidating curriculum management, course scheduling, catalog publishing, syllabus creation, faculty workload tracking, and assessment into a single system. It replaces the fragmented mix of legacy software, spreadsheets, and manual processes that academic affairs and registrar offices use to run institutional operations. | B2B | 100 |
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CredPal builds a buy now, pay later platform for consumers and businesses in Africa. Shoppers use CredPal to split purchases into installments at partner merchants, replacing the need for a traditional credit card or upfront payment. The platform also includes a credit-builder product and an investment account, making it a broader personal finance tool for underserved markets in the region. | Fintech | 35 |
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Cuanto builds a mobile commerce platform for Latin American creators and small merchants who sell through social media. Sellers launch a storefront in minutes, then share it directly on WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok, and other channels where their audience already lives. The platform replaces manual order-taking and ad-hoc payment collection with a structured, phone-managed storefront and checkout. | Fintech | 4 |
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Dagger builds a programmable CI/CD engine for software engineering teams. Developers define pipeline logic as code, in their own language, and run it in standard OCI containers on a local machine, a CI runner, or Dagger's cloud, replacing environment-specific shell scripts and fragile per-platform pipeline configs. Every operation is cached automatically, making pipelines faster and consistent across environments. | B2B | 22 |
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DailyDoctor runs a telehealth clinic that provides daily remote monitoring for Medicare patients managing chronic conditions such as COPD, congestive heart failure, hypertension, and stroke risk. Patients complete a one-minute daily check-in by phone, text, or web, and a physician reviews the data and follows up the same day. The service replaces sporadic in-person visits and reactive emergency care with continuous, physician-led oversight designed to keep patients out of the hospital. | Healthcare | Not listed |
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Datamode builds a diagnostic tool for data engineers troubleshooting failures and anomalies in data pipelines. It integrates with a team's existing pipeline technologies to surface problems in one place, replacing the manual process of jumping between disparate tools to trace the source of bad data. The result is faster root-cause identification and higher reliability for downstream business data consumers. | B2B | 1 |
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Deel builds a unified HR and payroll platform for companies that hire across borders. It handles payroll, compliance, benefits, equipment, visas, and HR records for every worker type in over 120 countries, replacing the patchwork of local payroll vendors, employment lawyers, and separate HR systems that global hiring otherwise requires. The platform runs on Deel's own payroll infrastructure and owned entities rather than third-party rails. | B2B | 5000 |
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Demodesk builds AI meeting and coaching software for B2B sales teams. It records every sales call, whether online, by phone, or in person, then automatically writes call summaries, drafts follow-up emails, and pushes updated fields to the CRM. The product replaces the manual note-taking, data entry, and post-call admin that sales reps otherwise do by hand. | B2B | 25 |
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DevFlight builds managed data pipeline services for manufacturers, centralizing and automating the flow of equipment data across their operations. The product replaces manual data wrangling and bespoke integration work that engineering and operations teams would otherwise handle themselves. | B2B | 2 |
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Docbot builds AI-powered tools for gastrointestinal endoscopy, helping physicians detect polyps and other abnormalities during colonoscopy procedures. The software analyzes endoscopic video in real time, replacing manual visual review that can miss lesions. It targets gastroenterologists and endoscopy centers looking to improve adenoma detection rates. | Healthcare | Not listed |
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Dockup builds on-demand ephemeral deployment environments for engineering teams. It connects to a team's GitHub and AWS accounts and automatically provisions the full cloud infrastructure needed to spin up isolated, production-like environments for every pull request, letting engineers run manual and automated tests against their entire stack without mocking services. It replaces hand-configured DevOps pipelines and ad-hoc staging setups that slow down code review and merges. | B2B | 4 |
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Docucharm converts unstructured documents into structured data, automating the manual data-entry and extraction work that businesses otherwise do by hand. The current website describes a personal knowledge workspace product called Stacks, which consolidates bookmarks, notes, files, and browsing history into a single AI-powered hub. Because the website content does not clearly correspond to the document-automation product described in the program, the profile is based on the program description. | B2B | 2 |
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Doorport builds smart access hardware and software for existing apartment buildings, letting residents and property managers control entry without replacing legacy intercom or door systems. The product targets multifamily residential properties, replacing manual buzzer and key-based access with connected, app-controlled entry. Doorport was acquired by Alarm.com. | Real Estate and Construction | 3 |
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Doppler builds a centralized secrets management platform for engineering teams and the AI agents, CI/CD pipelines, and automated workflows that run alongside them. It replaces scattered environment variables, hardcoded credentials, and ad-hoc config files with a single source of truth that spans local development through production, across any language, stack, or cloud. Every human and non-human identity gets scoped, auditable access to credentials without per-agent fees. | B2B | 25 |
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Dyneti Technologies builds AI-powered credit card scanning software, called DyScan, for e-commerce platforms, marketplaces, and payment processors. It captures card details at checkout in under a second and verifies cards in real time to block stolen payment credentials before a transaction completes. This replaces manual card entry and after-the-fact chargeback dispute work for fraud and operations teams. | B2B | 3 |
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Eclipse Foods makes plant-based dairy products, including soft serve mixes and ice cream, that replicate the taste, texture, and creaminess of conventional dairy using starches from cassava, corn, rapeseed, and potato. The products target consumers who want non-dairy options without accepting a drop in quality, replacing the need for animal milk in finished frozen desserts. A chef co-founder with Michelin-starred kitchen experience leads product development. | Consumer | Not listed |
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Edyst builds a peer-to-peer online learning platform that trains students in India for tech employment. The platform replaces traditional offline coaching and low-engagement e-learning by connecting students through structured, outcome-focused courses designed to close the gap between graduation and a first job. | Education | 11 |
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Elph built digital payments infrastructure for businesses and was acquired by Brex, the corporate finance platform. Brex now delivers corporate cards, expense management, bill pay, banking, and travel tools to companies from startups to enterprises, replacing fragmented finance software and manual back-office work. | B2B | 5 |
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Emi Labs builds an AI-powered recruiting platform for high-volume frontline hiring. Companies like Walmart, Burger King, and Starbucks use it to attract, screen, schedule, and onboard hourly and operational workers through conversational AI over WhatsApp, SMS, and Messenger. The platform replaces manual recruiter touchpoints across the full candidate cycle, from first contact through document collection, identity validation, and HRIS enrollment. | B2B | 50 |
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Endpoint Health develops precision therapeutics and companion diagnostic tests for immune-driven critical and chronic diseases. It targets patients whose biology makes standard treatments ineffective, replacing one-size-fits-all prescribing with matched therapy selection. The company builds both the drugs and the tests needed to identify which patients will respond to them. | Healthcare | 23 |
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Evo.Do builds AI-powered QA bots for game developers. The bots automate gameplay testing, replacing manual QA testers who run repetitive in-game scenarios to catch bugs. Game studios use Evo.Do to cover test cases at scale without expanding human QA headcount. | B2B | 2 |
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Excepgen develops RNA-based vaccines with improved tolerability by targeting the cellular response to nucleic acids rather than their chemistry or delivery. Its RNAx platform encodes a protein that suppresses the overactive innate immune response triggered by mRNA vaccines and lipid nanoparticles, reducing side effects without sacrificing efficacy. The work addresses a biological limitation that existing capping, delivery, and modified-nucleoside approaches leave unsolved. | Healthcare | 3 |
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Exly builds an all-in-one business platform for coaches, trainers, and independent creators who sell knowledge online. It covers the full workflow from storefront to sale: course and webinar creation, live workshop hosting, one-on-one bookings, a built-in CRM, and payment collection. It replaces the patchwork of separate tools a creator would otherwise assemble for content delivery, customer management, and marketing. | Consumer | 95 |
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FIRST builds a delivery management platform for restaurants and pizza shops that want to run their own delivery operations. It consolidates orders from multiple channels into one dashboard, routes them to the best available driver or third-party carrier, and handles the post-purchase experience. It replaces the patchwork of marketplaces and manual dispatch that restaurants otherwise depend on to fulfill orders. | B2B | 12 |
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Flockjay builds a unified sales enablement platform that combines content management, learning, and deal coaching in one system. Sales enablement managers and revenue leaders use it to organize collateral, run training, and deliver rep-specific coaching automatically, replacing fragmented tools and manual coaching workflows. Generative AI powers search, content tagging, call scoring, and pitch grading to surface the right material for each rep at each stage of a deal. | B2B | 10 |
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FLOWER CO. operates a legal, vertically integrated cannabis delivery service across multiple California cities, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sacramento. Customers browse and order flower, cartridges, concentrates, edibles, prerolls, and wellness products online for next-day delivery. The service replaces the dispensary trip, bringing a broad catalog of third-party brands alongside FLOWER CO.'s own products directly to the door. | Consumer | 30 |
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Forage builds online job simulations that let college students experience the day-to-day work of junior roles at major employers. Companies use the platform to attract and recruit high-intent candidates from a wide range of universities and backgrounds, replacing traditional early-talent pipelines that favor name-brand schools and personal networks. Students complete real task replicas, benchmark their work against model answers, and earn certificates, all at no cost to them. | B2B | 65 |
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Frubana Inc supplies restaurants across Latin America with food and other operating goods, replacing the fragmented network of local distributors and middlemen that restaurant operators traditionally depend on. It combines procurement, logistics, and payments into a single platform, letting restaurant owners order everything they need from one source rather than managing multiple suppliers. | B2B | 384 |
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Fuse builds a unified API layer for financial data aggregation, letting fintech companies connect to Plaid, MX, Teller, Finicity, and Yodlee through a single integration. A drop-in UI component handles bank search and selection, while Fuse automatically routes each connection to the most reliable aggregator for that bank. This replaces the engineering work of maintaining separate integrations, reconciling data models, and managing API quirks across multiple vendors. | Fintech | 7 |
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Fuzzbuzz delivers automated fuzz testing as a managed service for software teams. It replaces the manual effort of setting up, running, and scaling fuzzing infrastructure by handling the full pipeline in the cloud. Security and engineering teams use it to surface memory corruption bugs, crashes, and vulnerabilities in code before they reach production. | B2B | Not listed |
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Geosite builds an enterprise SaaS platform that aggregates public and commercial geospatial data, including satellite imagery and IoT sensor feeds, into a single searchable marketplace with integrated data management and collaboration tools. Commercial operators in oil and gas and defense customers, including special operations units, use it to search, purchase, assemble, and manage spatial datasets for planning and field operations. It replaces the manual, fragmented work of sourcing geospatial data across disconnected vendors and internal silos. | B2B | 40 |
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Glide builds a no-code, AI-first platform that turns spreadsheets and business data into internal apps, portals, and agents. Operations teams, field workers, managers, and customers each get a tailored view connected to the same underlying data. The product replaces custom software development and the manual work of maintaining parallel spreadsheets across departments. | B2B | 46 |
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Globe operates a global cryptocurrency derivatives exchange, offering perpetual futures, spot trading, and unified margin products to retail and active crypto traders. It targets users who want to trade digital assets with high leverage across desktop and mobile, replacing reliance on traditional centralized exchanges with a platform built around low-latency execution and deep derivatives functionality. Globe originated the Bitcoin VIX volatility index and was among the first exchanges to offer low-latency perpetual futures. | Fintech | 20 |
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GoLinks turns long internal URLs into short, memorable go-links, such as go/metrics or go/directory, so employees can navigate to any company resource without bookmarking or hunting for links. It brings the internal link-shortening system long used at companies like Google and LinkedIn to the broader market as a managed service. The suite has since expanded to include GoSearch, an AI-powered enterprise workplace search tool, and GoProfiles, a people directory and culture hub. | B2B | 70 |
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Gordian Software builds an API that connects travel platforms and airlines to a standardized layer for selling ancillary products, specifically seat selection and baggage, at the point of booking. It replaces direct, one-off integrations with each airline's systems, which are costly to build and slow to maintain. Travel platforms plug in once and immediately offer ancillaries across Gordian's full network of airline connections. | Consumer | 30 |
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Green Energy Exchange sells retail electricity plans sourced entirely from renewable energy to homes and businesses in Texas. It operates as a licensed retail electric provider, cutting out intermediaries to offer lower prices to consumers and better returns to energy generators. The company replaces traditional utility and broker arrangements that bundle fossil-fuel generation with higher margins. | Industrials | 3 |
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Handle.com builds an enterprise platform that manages the financial and compliance operations of construction suppliers, covering lien rights, payment waivers, deadline tracking, and accounts receivable. It serves material suppliers, equipment dealers, and subcontractors, replacing manual, state-by-state paperwork and disconnected credit workflows. The platform targets credit and finance teams, from credit managers to CFOs, who need accurate, real-time control over payment protection across every job. | Real Estate and Construction | 55 |
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Hatch builds an AI communications platform for home services and home improvement businesses, handling the customer-facing work that CSRs would otherwise do manually. Its AI agents conduct voice calls, SMS, and email conversations to answer inbound inquiries, book appointments, follow up on estimates, and re-engage past customers around the clock. The platform replaces or augments human CSR labor across the full customer lifecycle, from first contact through invoicing. | B2B | 73 |
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Heart Aerospace builds all-electric regional aircraft, currently developing the ES-36 passenger plane with a 250-mile electric range. The aircraft targets regional airline routes, replacing conventional turboprop and regional jet operations that run on fossil fuels. Airlines serve as both early customers and strategic partners, positioning the platform as a lower-cost, zero-emission alternative for short-haul commercial aviation. | Industrials | 50 |
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Herald builds a shared repository that lets product and customer teams collect, organize, and analyze user feedback together. It pulls feedback from tools like Intercom, Slack, and email into one place, then quantifies that feedback against business goals so teams can prioritize what to build. Teams can keep it internal, share feedback history with specific customers, or publish a public product roadmap and changelog. | B2B | 2 |
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Hypnos builds a digital sleep journal for consumers who want to improve their sleep quality. Users log their mood and daily activities, which the app pairs with data from a connected sleep tracker to surface personalized insights about which habits help or hurt their sleep. It replaces manual guesswork and disconnected note-taking with a single, data-linked view of behavior and rest. | Consumer | 3 |
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Inito builds an at-home fertility monitor for couples trying to conceive, replacing clinic lab tests and single-hormone ovulation strips. The device measures four hormones, estrogen, LH, PdG, and FSH, across independent tracks using fluorescence and colorimetric imaging, then delivers personalized insights based on each user's actual hormone values. That combination identifies the full fertile window and confirms whether ovulation occurred, work that previously required repeated lab visits or offered only a partial hormonal picture. | Healthcare | 100 |
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Insight builds an extensible browser for iOS, giving iPhone and iPad users a web browser that supports extensions, a capability Apple's own Safari ecosystem has historically restricted. It targets mobile users who want the same browser customization and add-on functionality that desktop browsers provide, replacing the need to settle for a locked-down browsing experience on iOS. | Consumer | 3 |
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Instapath Inc. builds Nova, an automated digital pathology imaging device for fresh tissue. Pathologists load an uncut, unfixed tissue sample and receive high-resolution digital images within minutes, replacing the manual steps of cutting, fixing, and slide preparation that traditional workflows require. The device preserves tissue integrity and does not interfere with downstream analytical testing, fitting into existing clinical and research pathology environments. | Healthcare | 6 |
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Intact Therapeutics develops smart gel formulations that deliver drugs locally within the gastrointestinal tract, improving absorption at the site of disease. The platform targets GI disorders where systemic drug delivery leaves patients underserved. It replaces conventional oral dosing approaches that distribute drugs broadly rather than concentrating them where they are needed. | Healthcare | 4 |
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Intelline builds fuel-agnostic engines for industrial power generation, targeting data centers and oil and gas producers. The engines run on fuels that conventional diesel engines cannot handle, including flare gas, syngas, ammonia, and hydrogen, and can switch between fuel types while running. This replaces the need for separate, fuel-specific generator sets and cuts fuel operating costs for operators handling difficult or stranded fuel sources. | Industrials | 3 |
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InterPrime automates treasury management for startups and private companies, investing idle corporate cash into high-grade government securities and cash equivalents. It replaces the manual work of setting investment policies, monitoring balances, and selecting instruments by sweeping funds automatically based on each company's liquidity and safety requirements. Assets are held individually in the company's name at established custodians, giving finance teams direct ownership and daily liquidity. | B2B | 3 |
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JetPack Aviation builds compact, turbine-powered VTOL aircraft designed to carry cargo or passengers between urban points without rotor systems, eliminating the rotor-strike risk that constrains conventional multicopters in dense areas. The target use case is fast intracity and intercity freight or transport, replacing ground logistics on routes where distance and congestion make road delivery slow. The company designs and manufactures its aircraft entirely in-house. | Industrials | 9 |
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JuziBot deploys AI employees, including AI sales agents, AI customer service reps, and AI shopping advisors, into enterprise workflows across WeChat and more than ten other messaging channels. It serves businesses in education, insurance, healthcare, financial services, and e-commerce, replacing human sales and support staff for tasks like lead follow-up, customer onboarding, and post-sale service. Rather than selling software seats, JuziBot delivers completed business outcomes, with sales roles priced on a cost-per-lead basis. | B2B | 34 |
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Kalshi operates the first federally regulated exchange in the U.S. for trading event contracts, instruments whose value is tied to the outcome of real-world events. Regulated by the CFTC, it created a new asset class that lets traders take positions on everyday occurrences rather than traditional financial instruments. The exchange replaces informal prediction markets and unregulated offshore platforms with a legal, centralized venue. | Fintech | 100 |
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Keeper builds an AI-powered tax filing platform for individuals and small businesses with complex returns: freelancers, S-corps, rental property owners, and investors. It automates the preparation work that accountants traditionally handle by hand, while in-house tax professionals review returns and provide guidance. The result is a direct substitute for hiring an outside accountant, delivered at a lower cost. | Fintech | 21 |
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Keynua builds an electronic signature platform for Latin American businesses that need legally valid signatures with strong identity verification. Signatories record a short video that doubles as approval of the document and proof of identity, cross-checked against official records and social profiles, with each transaction written to a blockchain ledger. The platform replaces in-person signing and manual identity checks for financial services, real estate, HR, and other document-heavy workflows. | B2B | 15 |
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Kopa built a marketplace for furnished, medium-term rentals and compatible housemate matching, serving students and mobile renters on stays of one to twelve months. It replaced the fragmented process of finding short-lease housing and roommates through unverified listings, offline coordination, and cash transactions. Kopa has since shut down. | Real Estate and Construction | 6 |
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Kovi rents cars to ride-hailing drivers in Brazil, offering both flexible short-term plans and annual contracts with a purchase option. Rentals include insurance, maintenance, registration costs, and roadside assistance, removing the credit checks and bureaucracy that block most gig drivers from accessing a vehicle. The service replaces the need to own or finance a car outright. | Fintech | 890 |
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Landed builds an AI-powered hiring platform for frontline employers in restaurants, hospitality, retail, and similar hourly-workforce industries. It handles the full recruiting cycle, from placing job ads and vetting candidates to scheduling interviews and completing digital onboarding, replacing the manual work that HR and operations teams do across high-volume, shift-based roles. The platform targets multi-unit and franchise operators who need to fill hourly and management positions quickly and at scale. | B2B | 50 |
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Latchel builds an AI front-office platform for residential property managers, handling the two jobs that consume the most frontline time: maintenance coordination and inbound calls. Its AI engine triages maintenance requests at intake, resolving straightforward issues without dispatching a technician, and answers every resident call around the clock with human backup for escalations. Property managers replace their after-hours answering service and manual work-order routing with a single platform, scaling their portfolios without adding headcount. | B2B | Not listed |
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LEAH Labs develops CAR-T cell therapies for dogs with cancer, starting with B cell lymphoma, the canine equivalent of human non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. The company's virus-free gene editing platform, GeneWeld, cuts the cost of engineering a CAR-T dose to roughly $500, replacing palliative care as the standard option for pet owners and general practice veterinarians. Data and biological insights from canine trials directly inform the next generation of human CAR-T therapies. | Healthcare | 4 |
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Lezzoo builds a super app for consumers across Iraq and Kurdistan, consolidating food, grocery, pharmacy, and utility delivery alongside a digital wallet, a B2B marketplace for FMCG suppliers, local social networking, and in-app games into a single platform. It replaces the fragmented combination of cash transactions, phone-based ordering, and separate apps that Iraqis previously used to handle everyday logistics and commerce. On the B2B side, it digitizes the food supply chain between suppliers and vendors. | Consumer | 190 |
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Mage runs a marketplace for buying and selling collectible trading cards, built around a real-time bid/ask model that executes transactions automatically when buyer and seller prices meet. Every card passes through in-house expert authentication before it ships to the buyer, replacing the trust and verification risk that burdens peer-to-peer resale platforms. | Consumer | 3 |
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Maitian.ai builds low-cost, cashierless grab-and-go retail stores powered by computer vision, bringing Amazon Go-style checkout-free shopping to a fraction of the price. The platform targets chain restaurants and similar partners as operators, who handle fulfillment and logistics in exchange for access to a new customer base. Maitian.ai replaces traditional staffed checkout and store operations with automated, frictionless point-of-sale infrastructure. | B2B | 5 |
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Maple Materials converts CO2 into battery-grade graphite and oxygen using a low-cost electrolysis process. It targets the lithium-ion battery supply chain, producing graphite anode material at roughly one-third the cost of conventional sources. When run on renewable power, the process is carbon negative, replacing carbon-intensive graphite mining and refining. | Industrials | 6 |
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Mars Auto builds and operates autonomous Class 8 trucks for long-haul freight carriers and shippers across South Korea and the United States. Its vision-only, map-free AI driving system learns from real driving data and handles roads it has never encountered before, replacing the human driver on commercial cargo routes. The system runs under supervised self-driving today, with fully unmanned operation targeted for 2028. | Industrials | 15 |
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MedCrypt builds a cybersecurity platform for medical device manufacturers, covering compliance, vulnerability management, SBOM analysis, encryption, and incident response. It replaces fragmented, manual security work that device teams would otherwise handle across the FDA submission lifecycle. A shared network across installations enables real-time anomaly detection and cross-vendor threat intelligence. | Healthcare | 16 |
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Memfault builds an embedded observability platform for IoT hardware teams, covering real-time performance monitoring, remote firmware debugging, and over-the-air update management across deployed device fleets. It targets embedded engineers and DevOps teams who previously had to wait for customer support tickets, physical returns, or on-site visits to diagnose and fix in-field device failures. Memfault replaces that reactive, hands-on process with continuous telemetry, automated fault detection, and remote remediation. | B2B | 80 |
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Middesk builds a business identity and KYB platform for banks, lenders, and fintech platforms. Its Identity product pulls from over 400 government and authoritative sources to give financial services companies the verified business data they need to make onboarding decisions, replacing manual research and fragmented checks. Its Agent product handles state and federal agency filings that employers must complete to register and operate across the country. | B2B | 130 |
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Mobot builds a QA-as-a-service platform that runs mobile apps on physical iOS and Android devices using human-supervised mechanical robots. Mobile engineering teams use it to test scenarios that emulators and software frameworks cannot reach, including biometrics, Bluetooth, push notifications, and camera functions. It replaces thousands of hours of manual QA work and catches bugs before app store releases. | B2B | 40 |
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Mudrex builds a crypto trading and investing platform for retail investors in India. Users can buy and sell 650+ cryptocurrencies via spot and futures markets, or invest through curated theme-based baskets called Coin Sets that handle allocation and rebalancing automatically. The platform replaces the need to manually research, select, and rebalance a crypto portfolio. | Fintech | 11 |
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Nabis operates a licensed cannabis wholesale platform connecting brands and dispensaries across California, New York, and Nevada. It handles the full distribution chain, from warehousing and fulfillment to payment processing, financing, and data analytics, replacing the fragmented logistics and financial workflows that brands and retailers would otherwise manage separately. | B2B | 300 |
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NALA builds cross-border payment infrastructure for migrants and diaspora communities sending money to emerging markets across Africa and Asia. Its consumer app gives users a multi-currency account to receive, hold, convert, and send funds to 35-plus countries, replacing slow and expensive traditional remittance services. Its Rafiki API extends the same payment rails to businesses via stablecoin settlement. | Fintech | 168 |
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NaturAll Club makes fresh, food-based hair care products for people with natural hair, with a focus on curly and coily textures. Formulations draw on whole ingredients such as avocado, flaxseed, and Jamaican black castor oil, replacing conventional hair care products built on synthetic or processed bases. The line spans conditioners, styling products, and growth serums sold directly to consumers. | Consumer | 17 |
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Nebullam (DBA Clayton Farms) installs small-scale farms inside restaurant spaces, growing produce on-site so diners receive fresher, more nutritious food. The company targets restaurants looking to serve higher-quality ingredients without relying on conventional supply chains. This replaces the standard model of sourcing pre-harvested produce from distributors. | Consumer | 2 | Not listed | ||
Nowports builds a digital freight forwarding platform for companies moving ocean, air, and ground cargo between Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the United States. It handles container coordination, real-time shipment tracking, cargo insurance, and trade finance, replacing the manual broker workflows that drive container delays and documentation errors. The target customer is any Latin American importer or exporter that ships internationally and needs end-to-end operational visibility in a single platform. | B2B | 550 |
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Numero builds fundraising software for political campaigns and nonprofits, replacing spreadsheets and disconnected tools with an integrated donor CRM, call time app, and broadcast email and text tools backed by payment processing pages. Campaign staffers use it to organize donor contacts, identify prospects, and manage contribution outreach from a single platform. | Fintech | 15 |
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Okteto builds an environment platform for software teams and AI coding agents, spinning up isolated, production-like Kubernetes environments on demand. Developers and agents get a full-stack environment in seconds instead of configuring local setups or chasing bugs that only appear in production. Each environment is ephemeral and self-contained, so agents can build, run, and verify changes against real services before a human ever reviews the work. | B2B | 30 |
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Our World in Data builds a free, open-access publication that translates global research and datasets on poverty, health, climate, education, and conflict into interactive charts and topic summaries. It serves researchers, journalists, policymakers, and the general public who need to understand long-run trends across the world's most consequential problems. The work it replaces is the manual effort of synthesizing scientific literature and raw data into accessible, visual form. | Education | 19 |
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OutRival, Inc. builds conversational AI agents for customer experience teams at high-volume businesses, starting with admissions departments at higher education institutions. The agents handle student inquiries, enrollment guidance, financial aid questions, and proactive follow-ups across channels, replacing the manual work that human staff would otherwise do at each stage of the applicant journey. The platform lets non-technical teams configure and deploy these agents using their existing resources. | B2B | 6 |
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Overview builds AI-powered machine vision systems for manufacturers, combining custom industrial cameras, edge AI hardware, and software to automate quality inspection on the production line. Its products detect defects in real time across industries including automotive, electronics, aerospace, and pharmaceuticals. The work it replaces is manual visual inspection and legacy rule-based machine vision systems that catch problems too late or too inconsistently to prevent waste at scale. | Industrials | 40 |
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Pachama builds a technology-verified marketplace that connects corporations to reforestation and conservation projects that sequester carbon. Satellite imagery and computer vision are used to validate and monitor forest carbon credits, replacing manual field audits and unverified offset purchases. Corporate buyers use the platform to direct capital to vetted forest projects across Brazil, Mexico, India, the United States, and other regions. | Industrials | 85 |
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Parker builds a digital bank targeting businesses, delivering financial services without the overhead of traditional banking. It replaces the friction of legacy bank accounts and credit products with a streamlined, digital-first alternative for business customers. | Fintech | 10 |
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Pengram builds an augmented reality indoor navigation app for mobile phones. Facilities technicians in fire protection, HVAC, and security use it to locate equipment scattered across a building during field work. It replaces manual searches with phone-based mapping and AR-guided wayfinding to pre-set device locations. | B2B | 2 |
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PerShop builds a personalized clothing store for individual shoppers. It curates apparel selections tailored to each user, replacing the work of browsing multiple retailers to find clothes that match personal taste and style. | Consumer | 2 |
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PNOĒ builds a clinical-grade breath analysis platform for health professionals, replacing bulky lab-only metabolic testing equipment with a portable device, proprietary software, and metabolic expert support. A 10-minute breath test measures cardiopulmonary, cellular, and nervous system function, then generates personalized nutrition, exercise, and bio-optimization protocols for each patient. Clinics use it to individualize client programs, track progress over time, and offer add-on services, all without managing the analysis work themselves. | Healthcare | 70 |
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Pools (fka Withfriends) builds a membership platform for independent event organizers in art, music, and cultural communities. It embeds membership upsells directly into the ticket checkout flow, converting ticket buyers into paying members with perks such as discounts, advance access, and members-only benefits. This replaces the manual, disconnected outreach organizers would otherwise use to recruit and manage supporters. | Consumer | 2 |
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Portal Entryways retrofits existing motorized swing doors with a small hardware receiver and a mobile app, giving anyone hands-free entry by simply approaching a door. The product targets facilities managers at buildings that already have low-energy accessible doors, replacing the need to press a button or rely on another person to open the door. A companion management app lets facility teams monitor door usage, track maintenance needs, and view analytics across all entryways from a single interface. | B2B | 4 |
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Positive supplies fresh, healthy packaged grab-and-go food, including salads, sandwiches, wraps, drinks, and snacks, to retailers, grocers, universities, hospitals, and corporate campuses. Its customers include specialty grocery chains, health system cafeterias, film studio lots, and food service operators who stock the products in their own venues. Positive replaces the work of sourcing, producing, and managing a fresh prepared-foods program in-house. | Consumer | 47 |
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Postscript builds an AI-native retention marketing platform for e-commerce merchants, covering SMS, RCS, and email. It replaces manual campaign management and generic broadcast messaging with automated, personalized outreach, letting brands grow subscriber lists, run AI-driven one-to-one marketing journeys, and optimize messages at scale. Customers like Ruggable, Dr. Squatch, and Thrive Cosmetics use it to drive repeat revenue from their existing shopper base. | B2B | 180 |
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Preflight builds a no-code web application testing tool that lets non-engineers create, run, and maintain end-to-end UI and API tests without writing code. It targets teams that would otherwise rely on Selenium or Cypress scripts, replacing manual test authoring and brittle selector maintenance with a point-and-click recorder that adapts to page changes automatically. Workflow sequencing and auto-populated API tests from recorded network traffic are included out of the box. | B2B | 5 |
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Probably Genetic builds a patient intelligence platform that identifies and connects people living with rare genetic diseases to diagnoses, clinical trials, and treatments. Drug developers and patient advocacy groups use its platform to find undiagnosed patients online, assess their disease state through machine learning and at-home genetic testing, and communicate with them in a compliant way. The product replaces manual patient recruitment and fragmented diagnostic pathways for rare disease programs. | Healthcare | 20 |
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Prometheus Fuels converts electricity, captured CO2, and water into carbon-neutral liquid fuels, including jet fuel, diesel, and methanol, using direct air capture and electrochemistry. The fuels work in existing aircraft, trucks, and ships without engine modification, replacing fossil fuels barrel for barrel. Prometheus targets aviation, shipping, defense, and long-duration energy storage, positioning its process as an alternative to fossil extraction rather than a retrofit of end-use hardware. | Industrials | 25 |
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Pronto builds a ride-sharing and delivery platform for second-tier cities across Latin America, where cash-based economies make commission-driven models unworkable. Riders book trips through a mobile app and pay in cash or in-app, while drivers keep 100% of their fares. The platform replaces the absence of any formal ride-sharing infrastructure for hundreds of millions of people in smaller cities that larger players have not served. | Consumer | 62 |
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Pulse Active Stations Network deploys a network of IoT-enabled smart health kiosks across India to screen individuals for non-communicable disease risk factors such as obesity and hypertension. The machines replace manual, clinic-based health check-ups by enabling mass screening at scale in accessible locations. People receive on-the-spot health data to make informed decisions for themselves and their families. | Healthcare | 10 |
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Pyxai builds an AI-powered assessment platform that screens job candidates on soft skills and culture fit, replacing first-round interviews and phone screens. Employers run candidates through job simulations and video assessments to get ranked, comparable data on the traits that predict long-term retention, work that hiring teams and recruiters otherwise do manually and inconsistently. | B2B | 5 |
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Ravn builds augmented reality heads-up displays for soldiers, letting them view live video feeds from weapon-mounted cameras, drones, and robots while remaining behind cover. The display consolidates situational awareness into a lightweight near-eye optic, replacing the need to physically expose oneself to observe a threat. It targets military operators who currently must break cover to identify and engage an enemy. | Government | 10 |
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rct AI builds AI-powered non-player characters and AI-generated content tools for game studios, replacing hand-scripted NPC behavior and static content pipelines with deep learning and reinforcement learning systems. Game developers use the platform to create dynamic, adaptive in-game characters and worlds that respond intelligently to player actions. The company also targets the broader metaverse space, where AI-generated content substitutes for manually authored virtual environments and experiences. | Consumer | 40 |
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Reelables builds thin, printable smart labels that give logistics and supply chain operators real-time location visibility for shipments, freight, and inventory from activation through delivery. Each label emits an encrypted signal picked up by smartphones, IoT access points, and vehicle telematics, then relayed to a cloud tracking platform, replacing dedicated GPS hardware and manual status checks. Labels connect via Bluetooth or cellular and work across a crowdsourced network of over 100 million devices, with cellular coverage active in 29 countries. | B2B | Not listed |
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ResistanceBio builds AI-driven drug discovery tools targeting cancer drug resistance. The platform helps researchers and pharmaceutical teams identify why tumors stop responding to treatment and find new therapeutic strategies to overcome it, replacing slow, largely manual preclinical analysis workflows. | Healthcare | 15 |
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Rune operates a mobile platform where friend groups hang out on voice chat and play indie multiplayer games together. Indie developers build games on the Rune SDK, which handles all backend and cloud infrastructure so a game can ship without writing server code. Rune replaces the separate stack of a game backend, a distribution channel, and a voice communication layer. | Consumer | 3 |
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Sapling.ai builds a language model toolkit for enterprise developers and customer-facing teams. Its API and SDK give developers single-request access to grammar checking, autocomplete, rephrasing, AI detection, and sentiment analysis, while a browser-based assistant layers real-time writing suggestions directly into CRMs and messaging platforms. The product replaces manual response drafting and patchwork integrations with separate writing tools. | B2B | 2 |
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Schoolable builds a tuition collection platform for K-12 private schools in Africa. It pays school fees to schools upfront on behalf of parents, who then repay in flexible monthly installments. This replaces the slow, uneven fee collection cycle that leaves schools cash-strapped at the start of each term. | Education | 10 |
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SciTok builds a video-sharing platform where scientists publish and distribute their research directly to a public audience. It replaces dense written papers and conference presentations as the primary medium for communicating scientific findings, giving researchers a consumer-style channel to reach viewers beyond academia. | Consumer | 2 |
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Searchlight builds AI-powered talent tools that help companies make better hiring decisions. It targets recruiting teams and HR leaders who need to assess candidate quality more rigorously, replacing manual, gut-driven evaluation with structured, data-driven signals. The product sits between sourcing and selection, helping organizations predict which candidates will perform well after they are hired. | B2B | 20 |
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Seawise Capital provides working capital financing to Indian small and mid-sized exporters by advancing funds against outstanding invoices from their large international customers. The financing is collateral-free, with repayment tied to the creditworthiness of the overseas buyer rather than the exporter. This replaces the need for traditional secured loans or waiting on lengthy international payment cycles. | Fintech | 3 |
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Shef connects home cooks and independent chefs with local consumers who want freshly prepared, homemade meals delivered to their door. Chefs build their own menus, cook in small batches, and handle delivery, replacing both restaurant takeout and meal-kit prep for buyers who want home-cooked food without cooking it themselves. | Consumer | 70 |
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Shiok Meats grows shrimp and other seafood in the laboratory using cellular agriculture, producing meat from cells rather than harvested animals. The product targets seafood consumers and food producers who want the same taste, texture, and nutritional profile as conventional seafood without the environmental and animal welfare costs of traditional fishing or aquaculture. | Healthcare | 9 |
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Shipper builds an end-to-end logistics platform for Indonesian businesses, covering courier aggregation, warehousing, fulfillment, freight forwarding, and supply chain financing in one system. It serves both large enterprises managing complex domestic and international supply chains and e-commerce brands handling marketplace orders, returns, and last-mile delivery. The platform replaces the need to contract and coordinate multiple carriers, warehouse operators, and freight providers separately. | B2B | 600 |
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Simmer aggregates dish-level reviews from blogs, social media, and news sources to surface the best-reviewed dishes across all delivery platforms in one place. Hungry consumers browse by dish first, then get routed to a delivery app to complete the order, replacing the scroll-through-restaurants experience that delivery apps impose today. | Consumer | 2 |
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Skill-lync offers online postgraduate engineering programs to job-seeking students in India across disciplines including mechanical, electrical, civil, and computer science engineering. Students learn through pre-recorded video courses, complete industry projects, and receive placement support to land roles at engineering and technology companies. The platform replaces traditional offline coaching and bridges the gap left by conventional college curricula that do not meet employer expectations. | Education | 3000 |
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Slapdash built a unified command bar for knowledge workers, pulling together search and actions across cloud apps into a single, low-latency interface. It replaced the need to switch between browser tabs and app windows to find files, run commands, or navigate tools. The product has since been sunset, with its functionality folded into ClickUp's Command Center. | B2B | 6 |
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Sorting Robotics builds hardware automation systems for cannabis manufacturers, replacing hand-rolling and manual infusion work. Its machine lineup covers pre-roll filling, hash-hole and vape infusion, kief coating, and autonomous packaging, letting brands run continuous production at scale. Customers are cannabis brands producing pre-rolls, coated joints, and concentrate-infused products. | B2B | 12 |
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SpaceRyde builds a balloon-launched rocket system for delivering cargo to orbit without the atmospheric emissions or ozone-layer particulates produced by conventional ground-launched rockets. After completing a delivery, the rocket stays powered in orbit and joins a shared network for follow-on in-space tasks: refuelling, deep-space missions, debris removal, and de-orbiting. The system targets satellite operators and in-space economy players who need on-demand, sustainable cargo transport beyond Earth's atmosphere. | Industrials | 33 |
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Spiral Genetics builds genomic data mining software that lets customers compare whole human genomes across large populations. Genetic testing companies, pharma firms, and national governments use it to run population-scale analyses that machine learning powers toward new diagnostics and drug targets. The software replaces manual or piecemeal genome comparison workflows that cannot operate at this scale. | Healthcare | 7 |
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Spire Law defends businesses and business owners in Federal and State litigation across Florida, New York, Georgia, and California. The firm handles employment matters, including FLSA collective actions, ADA, Title VII, FMLA, and EEOC claims, as well as contract disputes and shareholder actions. A proprietary technology layer, built by its sister entity Spire Tech Services, replaces the manual case management and client communication workflows typical of conventional litigation practices. | B2B | 10 |
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Spring in Africa builds a digital wallet and neobanking platform for individuals and businesses in emerging markets who need to move money across borders. Customers can receive payments via custom payment links, send funds to stablecoin or Ethereum wallets, and hold both cryptocurrency and fiat balances in one account. The platform replaces fragmented cross-border payment workflows by combining digital asset transfers and traditional fiat transactions under a single interface. | Fintech | Not listed |
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Sublime Black builds AI-driven automation for cybersecurity incident response, targeting enterprise security teams. It replaces the manual triage, investigation, and coordination work that analysts perform when a security event is detected, compressing the time between alert and resolution. | B2B | Not listed |
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Sunsama builds a daily planner for professionals who manage work across multiple tools, calendars, and task lists. Each morning, users pull in tasks and meetings from their existing apps, assign time blocks, and build a single plan for the day. The product replaces the habit of juggling disconnected tools by giving knowledge workers one structured view to plan, focus, and close out each workday. | B2B | 7 |
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Superb AI builds a full-stack computer vision platform for enterprise teams in mobility, security and defense, logistics, and manufacturing. The platform covers data labeling, model training, and video analytics, replacing manual annotation pipelines and fragmented MLOps tooling. Engineers use it to move from raw sensor or camera footage to production-grade defect detection, anomaly detection, and object recognition without rebuilding infrastructure at each stage. | B2B | 65 |
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Supernova builds a design system platform that keeps design and code data in a single source of truth, serving product teams that work across both Figma and engineering. It ingests design tokens, components, and variables, then generates and synchronizes code for any tech stack, so manual hand-off and documentation drift between designers and developers are replaced by automated exports and shared, always-current documentation. | B2B | 20 |
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Switchboard builds a fleet management and compliance platform for commercial trucking fleets in North America. It combines hardware installed on vehicles with software that handles electronic logging device (ELD) mandates, hours-of-service tracking, IFTA reporting, GPS and asset tracking, weigh station bypass, and dashcam video. The platform replaces manual logs, disconnected compliance paperwork, and piecemeal tracking tools for fleet operators, dispatchers, and safety managers. | B2B | 24 |
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Taali Inc makes snacks from popped water lily seeds, positioning the product as an alternative to conventional popcorn. The company targets consumers looking for a different grain-free or novelty snack option, replacing the role that popped corn holds in the everyday snack category. | Consumer | Not listed |
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Tailor-ED builds an AI-powered learning platform that delivers personalized employee training inside tools like Slack and Microsoft Teams. It targets corporate learning and development teams, replacing manual course creation and generic training programs by automatically identifying skill gaps and generating individualized learning paths. The platform is also used by learning institutions, education publishers, and learning platforms. | Education | 10 |
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Tailornova/Couturme builds AI software that generates production-ready garment designs, patterns, and sizing documentation for fashion brands and apparel companies. It replaces the manual, months-long process of collection design and development, cutting the cycle down to minutes. Brands get complete technical output, including graded patterns and manufacturing specs, without the traditional design and sampling workflow. | B2B | 9 |
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Taobotics builds mobile robots and autonomous ground vehicles for retail, industrial, agricultural, and research applications. Its hardware lineup spans ROS-based educational robots, autonomous guided vehicles, outdoor unmanned cars, and mapping systems, all built on in-house navigation, sensing, and control software. The products replace manual material handling, inspection, surveying, and logistics tasks across corporate and academic customers. | Industrials | 11 |
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Termius builds an SSH client for engineering and DevOps teams that works across desktop and mobile. It stores server credentials, host lists, and shell snippets in an encrypted cloud vault, replacing ad hoc credential sharing and scattered server inventories. Teams organize hosts into tagged groups, share live terminal sessions via a single link, and distribute reusable shell commands, cutting the manual coordination that slows remote infrastructure work. | B2B | 35 |
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The Juggernaut publishes subscription journalism covering South Asian culture, politics, film, food, and profiles for the South Asian diaspora and the globally South Asia-curious. It replaces the scattered, generic coverage of South Asian stories in mainstream Western media with dedicated, in-depth reporting built specifically for this audience. | Consumer | 5 |
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Thrive Agric connects smallholder farmers across Africa to input financing, data-driven agronomic guidance, and commodity markets for local and international buyers. The platform replaces fragmented, informal channels that left rural farmers without credit, technical support, or reliable offtake. Farmers gain the full production cycle: loans to purchase inputs, extension services to improve yields, and a marketplace to sell their harvests. | Industrials | 227 |
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Traverse Technologies builds AI-powered engineering software for wind farm developers, replacing traditional manual prospecting and feasibility work. It scans country-scale geographies to identify high-return project sites and optimizes individual project configurations across billions of permutations, cutting front-end engineering time by a factor of ten. The target customer is a renewable energy developer evaluating where and how to build greenfield wind projects. | B2B | 6 |
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Trexo Robotics builds wearable robotic exoskeletons that move a child's legs through a full gait cycle, over the ground, at the child's own pace. The product targets children with mobility impairments such as Cerebral Palsy, replacing passive wheelchairs and therapist-assisted gait training with an FDA-cleared device usable at home, outdoors, and in clinic. The company's broader goal is to extend the technology to adults and the elderly. | Healthcare | 30 |
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Truora builds background check and fraud prevention infrastructure for Latin American businesses, covering identity verification, KYC, biometric validation, document authentication, and electronic signatures. Marketplaces, fintechs, financial institutions, and HR firms use it to vet users, drivers, vendors, and job candidates, replacing manual checks and fragmented compliance workflows across six countries. | B2B | 80 |
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Ultralight builds a GPU-accelerated HTML rendering toolkit for game developers and native app developers who need to embed web-based UI directly inside their products. It runs on a lightweight WebKit fork, integrates with existing rendering pipelines via Direct3D, Metal, and OpenGL, and targets platforms including Windows, macOS, Linux, Xbox, PlayStation, and ARM64 devices. It replaces heavier browser-based solutions like Chromium-derived renderers, which carry far greater memory and resource overhead. | B2B | 1 |
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Union Apartment provides furnished co-living apartments for international students. It handles the housing search, furnishing, and move-in setup that students would otherwise navigate alone in an unfamiliar rental market. The product targets a renter segment that faces language barriers, lack of credit history, and short-term lease needs. | Real Estate and Construction | 12 |
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Upsolve builds free legal and financial tools for low-income Americans struggling with debt. Its flagship product walks users through Chapter 7 bankruptcy filings without an attorney, replacing work that would otherwise require paid legal help. It also runs a large financial education library and is expanding into AI-powered tools to help users address debt problems before they reach the bankruptcy stage. | Fintech | 12 |
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Valo builds modular hydrofoil systems for boat manufacturers, enabling vessels to lift out of the water and fly above the surface. The technology cuts energy consumption dramatically compared with conventional hull-in-water designs, replacing traditional propulsion and hull architecture with an integrated foiling platform. Boatbuilders adopt the system to offer fast, quiet, low-emission craft without engineering the underlying hydrofoil technology themselves. | Industrials | 3 |
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Vectordash streams high-end PC games to low-powered laptops, letting consumers play titles that would otherwise require expensive gaming hardware. The service replaces the need to own or upgrade a dedicated gaming PC by running games remotely and delivering them over the internet. | Consumer | 3 |
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Verto builds a cross-border payments and foreign exchange platform for businesses operating in and across emerging markets, with a strong focus on Africa. Companies use it to hold, convert, send, and receive funds across 49 currencies, replacing fragmented bank relationships and opaque FX arrangements. A marketplace model connects businesses directly with liquidity providers, FX brokers, and payment institutions so they can lock rates on their own terms. | Fintech | 170 |
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Visly builds a visual design tool for creating React components, targeting front-end engineers and designers who work within component-driven development workflows. Teams use it to design and build UI components together in a single environment, then import those components directly into production codebases using standard developer tooling. It replaces the handoff gap between design tools and code, where designed components typically have to be rebuilt by hand. | B2B | 6 |
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Volk Wireless builds consumer wireless services. No program description or website content is available to specify the product, the customer job, or the work it replaces. | Consumer | Not listed |
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Volta Labs, Inc. builds Callisto, a digital fluidics instrument that automates genomic sample preparation, covering DNA and RNA extraction, library prep, hybridization capture, and size selection. Genomics labs and clinical sequencing teams use it to run workflows from Illumina, PacBio, Oxford Nanopore, and other platforms with consistent, reproducible results. The instrument replaces the manual, error-prone bench work that scientists perform before sequencing. | Healthcare | 50 |
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VotingWorks builds open-source voting machines and tabulation software for US county election officials. Its system replaces aging, proprietary voting equipment with federally certified hardware and software whose source code any observer can inspect and verify. The product targets the large share of counties running outdated machines they cannot afford to replace, offering a more secure and lower-cost alternative. | Government | 18 |
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Wanderlog builds a travel planning app for vacationers who would otherwise juggle browser tabs, spreadsheets, and mapping tools to piece together a trip. It combines itinerary building, place discovery, and booking management into a single collaborative workspace, with plans displayed alongside a live map. Users can import bookings directly from email confirmations and browse community-created travel guides to surface places to stay and visit. | Consumer | 5 |
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WeatherCheck tracks hail damage on individual properties in real time, alerting insurers before and after severe weather strikes. The platform processes geo-weather data to give property and casualty insurers a live view of their exposure across a portfolio, replacing manual post-storm assessments and slow claims triage. | Fintech | 10 |
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Windsor builds an AI-powered video personalization platform for B2B companies. A sender records one video, and Windsor clones it into millions of individualized versions, each addressing a specific recipient by name, company, and location. This replaces the manual work of recording individual outreach videos or settling for generic mass-video campaigns. | B2B | 5 |
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Windwalk builds and operates gaming communities, serving players and game-focused audiences in the consumer and gaming sectors. The company handles the development, growth, and ongoing management of these communities, replacing the fragmented, manual work studios and publishers would otherwise do themselves. | Consumer | 25 |
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WorkClout builds SaaS software for industrial operations and HR teams, centralizing employee training, safety and quality procedures, troubleshooting guides, and performance tracking into a single platform. It replaces the mix of paper-based processes, tribal knowledge, and disconnected tools that factory and industrial floor teams rely on to onboard workers and maintain production standards. | B2B | 6 |
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XGenomes builds a DNA sequencing platform that eliminates library preparation, integrates extraction and sequencing into a single instrument, and reads both strands of the double helix concurrently to produce highly accurate, complete genomic data. The system uses super-resolution fluorescence imaging and machine learning to capture single-nucleotide variants, structural variants, haplotype phase, and epigenetic information in one workflow. It targets precision healthcare providers and researchers who currently rely on multi-step sequencing pipelines requiring separate preparation, sequencing, and bioinformatics stages. | Healthcare | 6 |
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YourChoice Therapeutics develops non-hormonal contraceptives for both men and women. Its lead candidate, YCT-529, is an oral, once-daily pill for men that blocks RAR-alpha, a receptor required for sperm production, with reversible effect in preclinical studies. The company targets the gap left by 60-plus years of hormonal female contraception and a male market served only by condoms and vasectomy. | Healthcare | 3 |
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ZeroDown buys homes outright on behalf of buyers who cannot yet qualify for a traditional mortgage, letting them move in and build ownership credit toward an eventual purchase. A portion of each monthly payment accumulates as purchase credits that the resident can apply when ready to buy the home from ZeroDown. The model replaces the binary rent-or-own decision for working professionals priced out of high-cost markets like San Francisco. | Real Estate and Construction | 13 |
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ZeroStorefront builds a data platform for restaurant brands, centralizing and routing data across the two dozen or more applications a typical restaurant operation runs. It connects those tools to a single warehouse, then surfaces that data to improve analytics, marketing, operations, and finance workflows. The product replaces manual data wrangling and disconnected reporting across point-of-sale, CRM, loyalty, and other restaurant software. | B2B | 7 |
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