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Software Startups

Updated August 2026

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

Explore 19,430 recently funded software companies with verified founder contact information and fundraising data.

Total Companies
19,430
Total Funding
$466.8M
Avg Funding
$18.7M
Global Reach
11
countries

Top Cities for Software

Denver
Toronto
Seattle
Castle Rock
Fort Collins
Wilmington

Recently Funded Companies

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Denver, United States

Kanso Software helps others by assembling the best team of people possible and using software to solve extremely difficult problems.

$250K raised
May 2023

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Toronto, Canada

Software company that enables intelligent energy in smart cities

$20.0M raised
May 2023

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Seattle, United States

Optimize is a software solution for operational performance visualization and operational cost optimization.

$6.0M raised
May 2023

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Castle Rock, United States

Recycle Global Exchange is a digital marketplace for business eWaste and IT asset disposal.

$250K raised
May 2023

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Fort Collins, United States

Dark Sky Technology is Developing security, reliability, and trust in open source software.

$250K raised
May 2023

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Wilmington, United States

Unisight is a software development company.

$2.5M raised
May 2023

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

London, United Kingdom

Strategic Innovation Consultancy

$5.1M raised
May 2022

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

St. Petersburg, United States

Mirror your dreams. All-in-one game engine.

$2.3M raised
May 2022

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Singapore, Singapore

NodeReal helps developers and investors to explore blockchains with the most reliable solutions.

$16.0M raised
May 2022

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

London, United Kingdom

Climate Edge is cloud based software for farmers that helps in developing agriculture, SMS, smallholders, and small holders agriculture.

$617K raised
May 2022

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Sandnes, Norway

Globus is redefining the staffing industry by giving recruiters a SaaS platform, with AI technology, to place more candidates, faster.

$4.8M raised
May 2022

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

San Francisco, United States

HumanSignal provides human data services and infrastructure to evaluate, train, and fine-tune AI.

$25.0M raised
May 2022

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Miami, United States

Tally Labs is build characters, and tools of the metaverse.

$12.0M raised
May 2022

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

San Francisco, United States

Creating, publishing, and scaling the very best in mobile games.

$46.0M raised
May 2022

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Barcelona, Spain

Durcal is an eldercare mobile app.

$8.4M raised
May 2022

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Paris, France

Palette develops a sales compensation software that helps companies easily create, manage, and automate compensation plans.

May 2022

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Fredericton, Canada

Plato Testing is a software information technology company located in Fredericton.

$2.0M raised
May 2022

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Reykjavík, Iceland

Alda is a Diversity, Equality and Inclusion solutions provider focused on combining its successful track record in DE&I consulting.

$2.3M raised
May 2022

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

San Francisco, United States

SpotOn provides mobile payment technology and a management system for restaurants and small businesses.

$300.0M raised
May 2022

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Noisy-le-roi, France

Mapstr is a mobile application designed to bookmark favorite places around the world.

$1.5M raised
May 2022

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Munich, Germany

Nimmsta produces industrial smart wearables and intralogistics freehand workflows to create robust business processes.

$2.5M raised
May 2024

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Helsinki, Finland

Send your loved one touch anywhere in the world

May 2023

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands

Chainlink is a web3 services platform that connects people, businesses, and data to the blockchain.

May 2023

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Denver, United States

FLINTpro develops natural capital and carbon reporting software that supports organizations throughout their sustainability journey.

$9.0M raised
May 2023

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

New York, United States

Integrate School is a lesson planning tool for k-12 schools that helps streamline lesson creation, saving significant time for educators.

May 2023

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 19,430 software companies tracked in the VCBacked database.

Average Funding
$18.7M
Total Funding Tracked
$466.8M
Countries Represented
11

Distribution by Funding Stage

Other25 companies

Top Cities for Software

1.San Francisco
3 companies$371.0M
2.Denver
2 companies$9.3M
3.London
2 companies$5.7M
4.Toronto
1 companies$20.0M
5.Seattle
1 companies$6.0M

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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