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Software Startups

Updated October 2026

Enterprise and consumer software companies building productivity tools, platforms, and applications that transform how businesses and individuals work.

Explore 19,691 recently funded software companies with verified founder contact information and fundraising data.

Total Companies
19,691
Total Funding
$531.5M
Avg Funding
$21.3M
Global Reach
9
countries

Top Cities for Software

Sheffield
Pescara
Rotterdam
Chicago
San Francisco
London

Recently Funded Companies

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Sheffield, United Kingdom

IntelliAM's mission is to transform the landscape of asset management through the unparalleled capabilities of machine learning.

$340K raised
Jul 2024

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Pescara, Italy

HUI is the first SaaS/Cloud platform that allows you to manage all the processes and business units of your company.

$27.2M raised
Jul 2024

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Re-keying mesh: an ephemeral keys and credentials engine made for cloud-native and api-first companies.

$979K raised
Jul 2024

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Chicago, United States

Quiller is an artificial intelligence copilot campaign helps to develop quality, effective fundraising content.

$1.2M raised
Jul 2023

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

San Francisco, United States

Septerna is a biotech firm unlocking diverse drug discovery potential in G protein-coupled receptors across various diseases.

$150.0M raised
Jul 2023

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

London, United Kingdom

Building the operating system for enterprise service agents

$6.0M raised
Jul 2023

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Düsseldorf, Germany

consalio is an advisor spend management solution company.

$1.3M raised
Jul 2023

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

San Diego, United States

Oloren AI offers molecular descriptor that leverages informations from millions of publically curated datasets.

Jul 2023

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

San Francisco, United States

Dashworks is a knowledge assistant that helps employees find the information they need while also increasing productivity.

$5.0M raised
Jul 2023

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Los Angeles, United States

Stem Disintermedia helps creators, artists, and musicians collect digital revenue and enables them to track and share their earnings.

$250.0M raised
Jul 2023

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Trieste, Italy

Picosats is a developer of telecommunication systems for cubesats.

$2.3M raised
Jul 2023

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

New York, United States

Pylons is a Tendermint-incubated NFT chain built using the Cosmos SDK. They are focused on making fast, free, easily programmable NFTs.

$3.2M raised
Jul 2023

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Lincoln, United States

Sentinel Fertigation develops the fertigation management platform that uses aerial imagery.

$250K raised
Jul 2023

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Dublin, Ireland

Roadie is a hosted developer portal and service catalog built on Spotify's backstage that aids in the scaling of growing engineering teams.

$3.7M raised
Jul 2023

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Campbell, United States

Gainfront is a market-leading end-to-end Procurement solution built for global enterprises

$3.0M raised
Jul 2022

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

San Diego, United States

Family Proud is a care management tool that makes it simple to create circles of care around people in need.

$100K raised
Jul 2022

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

New York, United States

Asset Class provides software solutions for the Private Equity, Venture Capital, Commercial Real Estate and broader Private Capital Sector

$11.6M raised
Jul 2022

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

New York, United States

Boardroom is an integrated governance management platform improving distributed decisionmaking across crypto networks

Jul 2022

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Melbourne, Australia

InternMatch is the leading internship platform connecting people with a world of opportunity.

$6.7M raised
Jul 2022

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Irvine, United States

Performa Labs provides a software platform that allows faster, safer training for professionals with mission-critical careers.

$4.6M raised
Jul 2022

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Montreal, Canada

Shaddari leverages data with their artificial intelligence based APIs to build decision support tools in healthcare.

$269K raised
Jul 2022

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Seattle, United States

Engineering intelligence platform, software development analytics, digital transformation consulting

$20.0M raised
Jul 2022

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Salt Lake City, United States

Continuum Technology offers a software that manages executive availability, contracts, invoices, and payments.

$12.0M raised
Jul 2022

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Paris, France

ZML builds a chip-agnostic AI inference stack without Python.

$20.0M raised
Jul 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Bristol, United Kingdom

Pioneering AI-enabled 3D ultrasound sensing for safe, reliable perception in autonomous mobility, infrastructure, and assisted living.

$1.7M raised
Jul 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

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About the Software Startup Ecosystem

The software industry remains one of the largest and most active sectors in venture capital. Enterprise SaaS, developer tools, and vertical software platforms continue to attract significant investment as companies across every industry adopt cloud-based solutions. The shift to remote work has further accelerated demand for productivity, collaboration, and infrastructure software.

Funding Trends in Software

Software companies consistently raise capital across all funding stages, from pre-seed to late-stage growth rounds. The sector benefits from strong recurring revenue models, high gross margins, and scalable distribution. Investors are particularly drawn to companies with strong net revenue retention, product-led growth strategies, and large addressable markets.

Growth Outlook

The software sector is expected to continue growing as artificial intelligence, automation, and cloud computing create new categories and expand existing ones. Companies that successfully integrate AI capabilities into their products, address underserved vertical markets, or build platform ecosystems are well-positioned for long-term growth.

Software Funding Breakdown

Here is how funding is distributed among the 19,691 software companies tracked in the VCBacked database.

Average Funding
$21.3M
Total Funding Tracked
$531.5M
Countries Represented
9

Distribution by Funding Stage

Other25 companies

Top Cities for Software

1.New York
3 companies$14.8M
2.San Francisco
2 companies$155.0M
3.San Diego
2 companies$100K
4.Sheffield
1 companies$340K
5.Pescara
1 companies$27.2M

Related Industries

Companies in the software sector often overlap with or complement businesses in adjacent industries. Exploring related verticals can help you discover additional companies, identify partnership opportunities, and understand the broader competitive landscape.

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