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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
$188.2M
Avg Funding
$7.5M
Global Reach
9
countries

Top Cities for Software

Munich
Miami Beach
New York
Berlin
Barcelona
São Paulo

Recently Funded Companies

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Munich, Germany

The Digital Demand Aggregator acquires Content Websites and scales them by leveraging custom tech, growth playbooks & portfolio synergies.

$6.5M raised
Apr 2022

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Miami Beach, United States

Decent Labs creates innovative products resistant to censorship, fraud, and human error.

$10.0M raised
Apr 2022

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

New York, United States

Celeri is a property technology company that helps multi-family operators verify applicant income and prevent fraud.

$2.0M raised
Apr 2022

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Berlin, Germany

Software that helps retailers track and cut carbon in real-time.

$11.5M raised
Apr 2022

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

New York, United States

Spruce is building a future where users control their identity and data across all digital interactions.

Apr 2022

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Barcelona, Spain

Nuclia, the Agentic RAG-as-a-Service company.

$5.4M raised
Apr 2022

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

São Paulo, Brazil

Smart and Autonomous Procurement System for Fragmented Foodservice Retailers

$10.8M raised
Apr 2022

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Seattle, United States

AI Native IDE for regulated industries

$1.0M raised
Apr 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

San Francisco, United States

Autonomous construction on Earth and beyond.

$4.0M raised
Apr 2025

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Vilnius, Lithuania

Softloans is a fintech platform that offers embedded lending tools to facilitate revenue based lending for e-commerce clients.

$1.1M raised
Apr 2024

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Tokyo, Japan

Clepseadra is a software company that creates sound and realistic audio files for personal and commercial uses.

$970K raised
Apr 2024

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Paris, France

Tabsters is a project management solution, collaborative, in real-time, backed by the Microsoft office suite.

$1.3M raised
Apr 2024

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

San Francisco, United States

Yoz Labs is a simplifying web3 notifications.

$3.5M raised
Apr 2023

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Mountain View, United States

LayUp securely integrates with your company's applications, providing seamless configuration with your knowledge base.

Apr 2023

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Wilmington, United States

The AI powered operating system for sustainability

Apr 2023

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Santa Clara, United States

Protecting enterprise applications, APIs, and AI from attacks, abuse, and fraud while enabling rapid, safe agentic AI access.

Apr 2023

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

New York, United States

Layup Labs offers AI-driven onboarding and user guidance tools to help software products engage users and reduce support tickets.

$500K raised
Apr 2023

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Stockholm, Sweden

Development Platform for building robust type-safe distributed systems with declarative, fully-automated, infrastructure in your cloud.

$2.7M raised
Apr 2022

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Palo Alto, United States

STRIVR is an E-Learning company that provides virtual reality training solutions.

$35.0M raised
Apr 2022

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

New York, United States

Transpose is a Web3 data and infrastructure startup.

$3.0M raised
Apr 2022

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Zürich, Switzerland

Experify is a SaaS solution to drive conversions for ecommerce brands, by connecting undecided shoppers with already existing customers.

$4.0M raised
Apr 2022

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Chicago, United States

A B2B SaaS company building AI-powered document discovery tools for biopharma companies

$1.6M raised
Apr 2022

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Carmel, United States

CSA360 is a Security Operation Management platform designed for security operations and daily use.

$1.3M raised
Apr 2022

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Dublin, United States

HomeTown Ticketing provides online ticketing solutions for high schools, universities, and athletic conferences.

$75.0M raised
Apr 2022

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Golden, United States

Pathware is creating hardware and software to simplify digital pathology workflows.

$7.0M raised
Apr 2022

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
$7.5M
Total Funding Tracked
$188.2M
Countries Represented
9

Distribution by Funding Stage

Other25 companies

Top Cities for Software

1.New York
4 companies$5.5M
2.San Francisco
2 companies$7.5M
3.Munich
1 companies$6.5M
4.Miami Beach
1 companies$10.0M
5.Berlin
1 companies$11.5M

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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