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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
$1.8B
Avg Funding
$72.4M
Global Reach
6
countries

Top Cities for Software

Mexico City
San Francisco
Wilmington
Nijmegen
Milpitas
Toronto

Recently Funded Companies

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Mexico City, Mexico

Dev.f is an education technology company focused on developing people in an accessible and inclusive way.

Sep 2023

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

San Francisco, United States

0xPass develops a wallet connector with inbuilt support for authentication, identity management, and account abstraction.

$1.8M raised
Sep 2023

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Wilmington, United States

DevDynamics is a single platform for data-driven engineering - Metrics, Insights, Investments, Working Agreements and more.

$600K raised
Sep 2023

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Thirona is a software solutions firm that offers services for software and image analysis services for the health care industry.

$5.4M raised
Sep 2023

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Milpitas, United States

Classified marketplace for corporate employees

$250K raised
Sep 2022

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Toronto, Canada

Vivid Machines is a startup company that revolutionizes agricultural production to help fruit and vegetable farmers produce more food.

$1.2M raised
Sep 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

San Francisco, United States

Edviro provides an AI-powered facilities and energy management platform that detects waste, automates work orders, and optimizes schools.

$500K raised
Sep 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

New Hill, United States

Clinware was founded on a thorough grasp of the post-acute care ecosystem.

$4.9M raised
Sep 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

London, United Kingdom

Xapien provides AI-powered due diligence and risk intelligence for researching people, organizations, and business relationships.

$55.9M raised
Sep 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

San Francisco, United States

Motive is a fleet management and driver safety platform that helps improve the safety, productivity, and profitability of fleet operations.

$1.3B raised
Sep 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Milan, Italy

Bending Spoons is a technology company that develops and acquires digital products and software platforms.

$295.0M raised
Sep 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

New York, United States

Luminary is a software company that develops an AI platform for wealth transfer and estate planning.

$22.0M raised
Sep 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

San Francisco, United States

Dawn Industries is an AI platform that builds VIM, an intelligent system for diagnosing and fixing faults in industrial automation cells.

$500K raised
Sep 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Pleasanton, United States

Graph AI develops a pharmacovigilance platform that supports patient safety and regulatory operations across the pharmaceutical lifecycle.

$13.3M raised
Sep 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Boston, United States

Rindler develops a Model Context Protocol (MCP) platform enabling AI agents to interact reliably with websites that lack APIs.

$500K raised
Sep 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

San Francisco, United States

Markov is a data engineering company that builds expert computer-use datasets for frontier AI labs.

$500K raised
Sep 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

San Francisco, United States

Induction Labs builds foundation AI models that learn from human-computer interactions to execute tasks autonomously.

$500K raised
Sep 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

San Francisco, United States

Kebra develops AI software that automates field-service documentation and back-office workflows.

$500K raised
Sep 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

San Francisco, United States

Decawork AI provides software for IT teams to deploy, govern, and maintain internal AI agents.

$500K raised
Sep 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Spilimbergo, Italy

BizAway is the ultimate solution to book, manage and control business travel.

$11.6M raised
Sep 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

San Francisco, United States

Markov is a data engineering company that builds expert computer-use datasets for frontier AI labs.

$500K raised
Sep 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Halifax, Canada

Galaxia is a space system company that manufactures cloud and AI-based computing systems for satellites.

$3.3M raised
Sep 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

San Francisco, United States

Touchmark provides AI infrastructure solutions focused on solving pricing challenges through artificial intelligence technologies.

$500K raised
Sep 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

San Francisco, United States

Decawork AI provides software for IT teams to deploy, govern, and maintain internal AI agents.

$500K raised
Sep 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Brooklyn, United States

Sequen is an AI-native Behavior Design Engine and reinforcement-learning-driven platform that powers adaptive in-session relevance.

$90.0M raised
Sep 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Showing 1401 to 1425 of 19,691 companies

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
$72.4M
Total Funding Tracked
$1.8B
Countries Represented
6

Distribution by Funding Stage

Other25 companies

Top Cities for Software

1.San Francisco
11 companies$1.3B
2.Mexico City
1 companiesUndisclosed
3.Wilmington
1 companies$600K
4.Nijmegen
1 companies$5.4M
5.Milpitas
1 companies$250K

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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