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Software Startups

Updated June 2026

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

Explore 6,580 recently funded software companies with verified founder contact information and fundraising data.

Total Companies
6,580
Total Funding
$549.9M
Avg Funding
$22.0M
Global Reach
8
countries

Top Cities for Software

Brugge
San Francisco
London
Santiago
Palo Alto
Oakland

Recently Funded Companies

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Brugge, Belgium

Alice creates a verifiable flow between people, facts, documents, and ideals.

$1.2M raised
Jan 2026

Founder Contacts

19,000+ verified contacts

San Francisco, United States

Anytool is an applied research lab focused on transforming how teams build and use internal tools through AI collaboration.

$1.0M raised
Jan 2026

Founder Contacts

19,000+ verified contacts

London, United Kingdom

Swap Commerce provides an e-commerce operating system that helps online brands unify and manage their commerce operations.

$100.0M raised
Jan 2026

Founder Contacts

19,000+ verified contacts

London, United Kingdom

AgileRL is streamlining reinforcement learning with RLOps and democratising access to building human-level artificial intelligence systems.

$5.4M raised
Jan 2026

Founder Contacts

19,000+ verified contacts

Santiago, Chile

Enerlink provides a hardware-agnostic and multi-purpose Charge Management Software (CMS) for EV businesses (B2B SaaS)

$3.1M raised
Jan 2026

Founder Contacts

19,000+ verified contacts

Palo Alto, United States

Articul8 AI is an enterprise-generative AI platform that helps organizations build, deploy, and manage AI applications.

$35.0M raised
Jan 2026

Founder Contacts

19,000+ verified contacts

Oakland, United States

Apella Technology is an AI startup that brings modern engineering to improve surgery.

$80.0M raised
Jan 2026

Founder Contacts

19,000+ verified contacts

Rochester, United States

Blackbird.AI develops narrative and risk intelligence tools for detecting emerging dangers and staying ahead of real-world harm.

$28.0M raised
Jan 2026

Founder Contacts

19,000+ verified contacts

San Francisco, United States

Watershed serves as an enterprise climate platform utilized by companies to assess, report, and address their carbon emissions.

$14.5M raised
Jan 2026

Founder Contacts

19,000+ verified contacts

San Jose, United States

Cohere is a software company focused on mobile technology.

$15.0M raised
Jan 2026

Founder Contacts

19,000+ verified contacts

San Francisco, United States

AI Infrastructure on Autopilot

$500K raised
Jan 2026

Founder Contacts

19,000+ verified contacts

San Jose, United States

Sibros powers software-defined vehicle success with its vehicle-to-cloud platform for better software and data management.

$9.0M raised
Jan 2026

Founder Contacts

19,000+ verified contacts

Redwood City, United States

Presto is a software company that provides AI and automation solutions to the restaurant industry.

$10.0M raised
Jan 2026

Founder Contacts

19,000+ verified contacts

Taipei, Taiwan

Linker Vision is an IT company that expertise in AI, machine learning and offers distributed training, and wokrplace safety.

$35.0M raised
Jan 2026

Founder Contacts

19,000+ verified contacts

San Francisco, United States

Automated AI Research for Inference Optimization

$1.8M raised
Jan 2026

Founder Contacts

19,000+ verified contacts

Mountain View, United States

Poetiq develops an AI meta-system that improves large language models for complex reasoning and problem solving.

$45.8M raised
Jan 2026

Founder Contacts

19,000+ verified contacts

Irvine, United States

PEAR Health Labs is a health and fitness software platform that delivers digital coaching solutions.

$2.9M raised
Jan 2026

Founder Contacts

19,000+ verified contacts

Denver, United States

Northslope develops mission-specific AI applications on the Palantir operating system for enterprise customers.

$22.0M raised
Jan 2026

Founder Contacts

19,000+ verified contacts

New York, United States

Datalinx AI provides a platform that cleans, transforms, enriches, and monitors data to enable accurate AI insights and automated workflows.

$4.2M raised
Jan 2026

Founder Contacts

19,000+ verified contacts

Madrid, Spain

TetraxAI is a clean technology company that provides an AI-powered software platform for renewable energy infrastructure projects.

$1.4M raised
Jan 2026

Founder Contacts

19,000+ verified contacts

München, Germany

RobCo manufactures flexible robotic automation solutions designed to automate repetitive and manual tasks in manufacturing settings.

$100.0M raised
Jan 2026

Founder Contacts

19,000+ verified contacts

Stuttgart, Germany

Metergrid provides software and services to plan and execute tenant electricity projects using locally generated solar power.

$12.0M raised
Jan 2026

Founder Contacts

19,000+ verified contacts

San Francisco, United States

Cleric is an AI teammate that frees software engineers up from on-call support.

$5.5M raised
Dec 2025

Founder Contacts

19,000+ verified contacts

Durham, United States

Opine helps to automate the pre-sales efforts for enterprise software transaction by removing the hassle of managing POCs.

$5.0M raised
Dec 2025

Founder Contacts

19,000+ verified contacts

Florence, Italy

Europe's Top-Tiered Agentic AI Hacker, Mastering API Security Testing

$11.6M raised
Dec 2025

Founder Contacts

19,000+ 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 6,580 software companies tracked in the VCBacked database.

Average Funding
$22.0M
Total Funding Tracked
$549.9M
Countries Represented
8

Distribution by Funding Stage

Other25 companies

Top Cities for Software

1.San Francisco
5 companies$23.3M
2.London
2 companies$105.4M
3.San Jose
2 companies$24.0M
4.Brugge
1 companies$1.2M
5.Santiago
1 companies$3.1M

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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