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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
$562.9M
Avg Funding
$22.5M
Global Reach
7
countries

Top Cities for Software

Oakland
Newark
Excelsior
Chicago
Åbyhøj
Zürich

Recently Funded Companies

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Oakland, United States

LaunchDarkly is a feature management platform that allows software development teams to deliver to their customers.

$200.0M raised
Aug 2021

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Newark, United States

Little SaaS is a Software Development firm.

$250K raised
Aug 2021

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Excelsior, United States

SendSquared provides digital marketing and internet marketing services.

$1.0M raised
Aug 2021

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Chicago, United States

A modern and unified Transport Management System

$300K raised
Aug 2021

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Åbyhøj, Denmark

Capturi is a company that uses AI and Speech Analytics to improve customer interactions.

$4.7M raised
Aug 2021

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Zürich, Switzerland

Columba is a B2B services marketplace for technology and marketing professionals to shop and engage vetted service providers.

$609K raised
Aug 2021

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

London, United Kingdom

General Purpose Low-Code IDE

$1.3M raised
Aug 2021

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

New York, United States

FireHydrant is an incident management tool that helps companies recover from IT disasters more quickly.

$23.0M raised
Aug 2021

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Foleon is a content creation platform that makes it easy for anyone to create interactive content that is 100% on brand.

$10.5M raised
Aug 2021

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

London, United Kingdom

We partner with ambitious startup founders and equip them with the team, tools, expertise and scale to build highly successful startups.

$2.1M raised
Aug 2021

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

New York, United States

Intelligencia is a SaaS company that applies machine learning to assess and mitigate the risk in clinical development strategy/design.

$12.0M raised
Aug 2021

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Los Angeles, United States

We build the most advanced Gen-AI technology for VFX and interactive experiences, including visual dubbing, face swaps, and deepfakes.

$2.0M raised
Aug 2021

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Schweinfurt, Germany

SKILLCOURT provides a sensor-based diagnostic and training system for visual, cognitive, and motor skills.

$1.9M raised
Jul 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Pasadena, United States

Tap Systems is a developer of a wearable Tap Strap & TapXR wearable controllers.

$71K raised
Jul 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Des Moines, United States

Legible AI is the artificially intelligent policy analyst for Government Affairs professionals.

$3.4M raised
Jul 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Toronto, Canada

Ollama is a software firm that develops local inference platform designed to run large language models.

$65.0M raised
Jul 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Brooklyn, United States

Gauntlet develops quantitative risk management and yield optimization solutions for DeFi protocols and institutional participants.

$125.0M raised
Jul 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Honolulu, United States

Onebrief is an AI-powered platform that supports operational planning, collaboration, and decision workflows for military and command teams.

$114K raised
Jul 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Salt Lake City, United States

Databento is a SaaS company that offers market data APIs for real-time and historical data.

$97.0M raised
Jul 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Edmonton, Canada

AltaML provides technical and strategic expertise to build transformative applications using applied AI.

$4.3M raised
Jul 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

San Francisco, United States

Benchmark Labs provides asset-specific weather forecasting for the agricultural sector, and beyond.

$75K raised
Jul 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

New York, United States

Dark Forest OS is a software development company that offers an operating system for private internet.

$3.3M raised
Jul 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Philadelphia, United States

KickUp helps professional development teams differentiate teacher support through analytics.

Jul 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Frankfurt, Germany

Lissi provides software for issuing, verifying, and managing digital credentials and EUDI wallet integration.

$4.0M raised
Jul 2026

Founder Contacts

41,000+ verified contacts

Alexandria, United States

SFEWorks is a company that offers technology related products and services.

$950K 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 19,430 software companies tracked in the VCBacked database.

Average Funding
$22.5M
Total Funding Tracked
$562.9M
Countries Represented
7

Distribution by Funding Stage

Other25 companies

Top Cities for Software

1.New York
3 companies$38.3M
2.London
2 companies$3.4M
3.Oakland
1 companies$200.0M
4.Newark
1 companies$250K
5.Excelsior
1 companies$1.0M

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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