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70+ Best Startups You Need to Watch Out for in 2024

With each passing day, we are inching towards an AI-first world, and this is a great time for tech startups to make their mark. As we all know, AI and robots will rule the future, many Venture Capital firms and tech investors have a bird’s eye view of the tech industry for all the novel ideas that you can turn into reality. It’s time to DREAM BIG, ACT NOW – is the new motto.

Before we proceed any further, let’s have a look at 2024’s top unicorn startups. These are some startups who managed to turn things around for their business quite successfully in the last couple of years.
Since there are hundreds of new startups launching every day, the real question is:

How can you filter out the best startups that will flourish in 2024 We have decided to save you the trouble. Check out the list of the most promising new startups of 2024 based on their success stories, and venture-backed funding they have raised so far.

List of Best Startup Categories

  1. AI Startups
  2. Ecommerce Startups
  3. EdTech Startups
  4. FinTech Startups
  5. Food and Beverages Startups
  6. Health Care Startups
  7. Blockchain Startups
  8. IoT Startups
  9. Software and SaaS Startups
  10. Transport and Travel Startups
  11. Mobile Apps Startups
  12. Fashion Startups

SurveyAuto

  • Industry: AI
  • Funding: Undisclosed
  • Investors: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Surveying people has just gotten easier with SurveyAuto – one of the latest startups in the AI industry that collects precise survey results through geolocation, call records, hyperspectral imagery, and open street maps. SurveyAuto is the brainchild of Dr. Umer Saif, a Pakistani entrepreneur.
The startup has been operational for the past two years but has recently received funding of an undisclosed amount from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
According to the CEO, Dr. Umar Saif, “SurveyAuto uses a crowdsourcing model and relies on machine learning to decide who reports data, where it is collected, and when and how often it is reported. This reduces cost and minimizes human errors.”
Sounds promising. Only time will tell how fast it excels.

Spacemaker

  • Industry: AI
  • Funding: $25M
  • Investors: Atomico

Spacemaker is another great startup that aims to develop sustainable infrastructure that can help companies grow while decreasing environmental pollution. It is one of the millennium development goals of the United Nations.
Infrastructure designers can get the services of Spacemaker to provide the smartest ways to maximize the value of their real-estate structure.

They will generate and explore billions of site proposals, sort out the best ones, and give the infrastructure developers detailed statistics about each of them. Spacemaker use machine intelligence to come up with eco-friendly designs.

Capacity

  • Industry: AI
  • Funding: $61.5M
  • Investors: Equity.com

Can’t you find that presentation? Have you forgotten that assignment on your desktop? Can’t locate the book you need on your flight? Well, there is a solution to all this. Capacity – a successful AI startup company.

Capacity is an AI platform that interlinks everything you need (all the apps of your choice) on a single platform. Never lose a digital file ever again – is the motto of the Capacity startup. The software uses AI to find out what apps you need at what time and keep them ready for you. This helps you and your team manage time gain knowledge about things that matter and focus on achieving the business goals.

Observe.AI

  • Industry: AI
  • Funding: $213M
  • Investors: Scale Ventures

Operating a call center? Need a coach for your sales and support team? Observe.AI is your go-to platform. It is an AI-powered voice assistant that can turn your contact centers into profit-generation machines. How does it do that? Well, Observe.AI uses multiple technologies such as machine learning, natural language processing, and a list of error checks to ensure that all your voice calls are following the same procedures. It tracks, monitors, and educates the call agents to ensure that each of your calls can generate sales – thereby increasing profitability and decreasing the number of uninterested callers.
Scale Venture Partners, Nexus Venture Partners, Y Combinator, and Emergent Ventures back Observe.AI. In a short period, it has gained the trust of Tripadvisor, Microsoft, ERCBPO, Talkdesk, and other VC firms.

Eyewear tech

  • Industry: AI
  • Funding: Undisclosed
  • Investors: High Tech Grunderfords

Eyeware Tech is a revolutionary startup in the camera tracking and recognition industry. It monitors a person’s gaze and ascertains the motive. The software is developed to cater to real-world issues such as security, buyer choice, human intentions, etc. It uses patent-pending computer vision oalgorithms, to increase human-machine engagement.

The 3D eye-tracking software senses depth through cameras, and allows gaze tracking in 3D remotely – all this is done with consumer 3D cameras. It helps capture real-world interactions, user attention, intentions, motives, and interests.

Streem

  • Industry: AI
  • Funding: $10.5M
  • Investors: Flying Fish Partners

Customer support just got easier with Streem. Customers tend to get disgruntled when they don’t get the support they expect from the company.

Introducing Streem, a revolution in customer support that helps your customers pinpoint the problem through the lens of their smartphone, and your team can guide them through AR cues right in the instant.
Streem equips the product support engineers to get crucial information using proprietary spatial mapping, OCR, and object & pose estimation technology.

Snackpass

  • Industry: Ecommerce
  • Funding: $400M+
  • Investors: Andreessen Horowitz

Why wait in line when you can simply order your food on your phone and pick up your order when you get to the restaurant? It is even better than the ‘drive-in’ concept because you don’t have to wait for even a minute.

Before Snackpass, the restaurant owners were worried about the customers not collecting their orders. With Snackpass, they don’t have to fear anything. As soon as a customer places an order, the app automatically deducts money from his wallet. Simple, right?
Snackpass is now used in multiple universities across the US and is backed by some of the bigshots of the tech industry.

Cazoo

  • Industry: Ecommerce
  • Funding: $2B
  • Investors: DMG Ventures

Shopping for cars online? Sounds skeptical, right? Wrong! Buying a car is now as easy as it gets right at your home.
Cazoo has made buying used cars simple. It is an inspection-cum-car selling store. It has a comprehensive 150+ point checklist that every car has to go through. Moreover, once you have placed an order, the car will be delivered to your doorstep in the next 72 hours. If for some reason you don’t like the car, you can always return it for no extra charge.

Wheels

  • Industry: Ecommerce
  • Funding: $96.3M
  • Investors: DBL Partners

Wheels is a shared electric mobility platform that’s designed to promote smart city projects around the world. Wheels lets you rent wheels (motor pods) for a day, a month, or even a year. They will take care of the maintenance and all other expenses related to it. If the motor pod stops working, you will find a new one parked just for you.

The company offers hybrid electric vehicles with a sleek design, swappable parts, batteries, built-in Bluetooth speakers, and many charging points so that you commute with ease and remain safe.

Verishop

  • Industry: Ecommerce
  • Funding: $70M
  • Investors: DBL Partners

Verishop is a lifestyle ecommerce store for your daily fashion needs. What makes Verishop stand out from the rest is the quality of the products it offers. The brand features only premium products from top brands.
Verishop aims to be a go-to lifestyle shopping destination for customers who are looking for high-quality products. Verishop ecommerce store is operated from Santa Monica, California, and it has been quite successful in the last two years.

Ling

  • Industry: Edtech
  • Funding: Bootstrapped
  • Investors: NA

Ling is one of the fastest growing language apps on the market. It differentiates from the competition by focusing on offering languages other apps don’t have. With Ling, you can access Eastern European and Asian languages to learn how to read, write, speak over 40 languages through interactive learning.

Eatigo

  • Industry: Ecommerce
  • Funding: $25.5M
  • Investors: Trip Advisor

Eatigo claims to be the number one restaurant reservation platform in Asia. It is backed by Trip Advisor and offers dining deals and restaurant reservations in Thailand, India, Hong Kong, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Singapore. What makes it the NEXT BIG THING in the food industry is the quality of service it offers. Users can search for restaurants, reserve online, and enjoy deals with a special discount, within minutes.
Restaurant locations, pictures, reviews, and menus are also available on the platform for the users to see and decide in real-time, whether it is a good fit for them. Eatigo was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Bangkok, Thailand.

NutSpace

  • Industry: EdTech
  • Funding: Undisclosed
  • Investors: N/A

NutSpace aims to get children future-ready with 21st-century skills. It uses a Proprietary Inventive Thinking™ Methodology that teaches children “how to learn”. NutSpace also runs an in-classroom program that offers experiential learning to develop independent thinking skills among children.

The content helps children improve their imagination, listening, and language skills.

CoachHub

  • Industry: EdTech
  • Funding: $332.3M
  • Investors: N/A

CoachHub is a mobile coaching cloud platform that provides personalized coaching to employees at all career levels.
The platform has a pool of top certified coaches from across the world. You can also become a coach if you fulfill the requirements. It offers live coaching sessions through video conferencing with flexible learning hours for the employees. With this coaching, you can turn your managers into inspiring leaders, boost team performance, and help employees grow.
The startup operates from Berlin. It has already become a hub for experienced business coaches, personnel development experts, serial entrepreneurs, and leading IT engineers.

Coded Minds

  • Industry: EdTech
  • Funding: AED10M
  • Investors: Al Arabi Investments

Coded Minds is a technology-education startup that aims to revolutionize the paradigm of tech education. Coded Minds focuses on methods. It starts with the problem and inculcates a practical, hands-on project-based curriculum.
The startup aims to focus on real-world issues and fix them using technology and innovation.
It provides education to students of all ages in the Middle East, North Africa, Asia Pacific, South Asia, and the Americas. It believes that education is purpose-driven. That’s why it empowers children and adults to be creative, innovative, entrepreneurial, and disruptive.

Springboard

  • Industry: EdTech
  • Funding: $53.2M
  • Investors: Reach Capital

Springboard offers users in-demand job skills that can support them in advancing their professional careers. Since these courses are available online, one can easily learn at any time. Springboard is offering courses on data science, design, analytics, marketing, and security. The motto of the company is A new approach to education.
According to the company, education is no longer a one-time investment, it’s a lifelong pursuit. And, the company aims to develop courses that can help its students thrive in their respective fields.

Labster

  • Industry: EdTech
  • Funding: $105.5M
  • Investors: Owl Ventures

Labster is an online platform that provides high school students the opportunity to perform various experiments online in a risk-free environment. Labsters is a perfect solution for third-world countries where most students don’t have access to modern labs for performing Science, Physics, and Chemistry experiments.
With Labster, they can learn about the latest technologies, new ways of experimenting, and get an experience of practical learning, right from their homes.
The motive of the company is to build easily scalable online solutions that improve learning significantly with standard methods at substantially reduced costs.
The Labster platform also includes molecular 3D animations, quiz questions, and background theories that engage students in an immersive, game-like multimedia experience.

Pleo

  • Industry: EdTech
  • Funding: $428.1M
  • Investors: Stripes

Wouldn’t it be better if instead of getting your salary transferred to your bank account – which usually takes days – you get your salary instantly in your company’s ID card? You can use this card at ATMs, at service stations, at restaurants, and even at local banks.
It makes life a lot easier, right? That’s what Pleo, a company credit card service does for you. This card is a win-win for both companies and employees. Instead of opening bank accounts, companies can issue these cards to all employees. They can use this credit card service as per their needs and whenever they need to pay for any service. For a company, the benefit is tracking. They will know how much and where the employees are using their cards and then they can create discount deals for their employees. Moreover, it also helps the company invest in funds. The company then gives a share of the earned revenue to its employees i.e., if employees have money above a certain limit in their accounts. Sounds interesting right?

Securitize

  • Industry: FinTech
  • Funding: $100.2M
  • Investors: Stripes

Securitize is a blockchain-enabled company that facilitates capital markets by allowing traders to trade in private companies using trusted global solutions. The platform is secure and offers a high-quality experience for investors. It is integrated with multiple US-based marketplaces, so traders can trade without any fear of losing their earnings. The company has received over $26 million in funding and aims to become one of the biggest US marketplaces.

NuovoPay

  • Industry: FinTech
  • Funding: Bootstrapped
  • Investors: N/A

NuovoPay is a startup that aims to safeguard device leasing and support Haas (hardware as a service). Several finance companies and mobile phone carriers have not jumped on the bandwagon of device leasing to make mobile devices available to individuals without a credit score. This is an essential part of empowerment achieved by mobility and leasing is a critical element to bridge the digital divide.
NuovoPay, with its proprietary device locking software, enables device leasing companies- financial institutions, and carriers to protect their leased devices against nonpayment. NuovoPay’s non-intrusive software sits on the leased mobile devices and can be used to flash payment reminders on device screens and block access to the device when a payment is missed. When the end-user completes the pending payment, the device is unlocked, the device data remains intact and it can be used as-is. On the NuovoPay dashboard, the leasing companies can keep a record of their leased devices, automate payment reminders or schedule them, and block or unblock device access with a click.

Radpay

  • Industry: FinTech
  • Funding: $78.8M
  • Investors: Stripes

Radpay is an online payment solution that helps customers pay faster for their purchases, resulting in a reduced number of cart abandonments. It is one of the top blockchain startups that connects blockchain with PCI-compliant card payment and banking infrastructure. It ensures secure transactions for merchants through a combination of mobile apps, browser plugins, application programming interfaces (APIs), pre-configured ecommerce cart plug-ins, and credit card terminal apps.
It is perfect for merchants who want an alternative to the current payment solutions that charge a high fee and provide below-average service. Depending on your business, Radpay can help you improve margins by as much as 200%.

BUTTON Wallet

  • Industry: FinTech
  • Funding: $600K
  • Investors: Fulgur Ventures

Do you love trading in cryptocurrency? With Button Wallet, you can buy, sell, and trade cryptocurrency with a telegram app. It is a perfect app for people who trade cryptocurrency on the go. With the app, instead of using a third-party platform to trade currencies, they can do it with the Telegram communication app. Button Wallet is fast and secure. You can trade with your friends and even strangers using the same payment system without any hurdles. For a detailed crypto review of Button Wallet and its features, exploring user experiences and expert insights would provide a comprehensive understanding.

Hastee

  • Industry: FinTech
  • Funding: $257.7
  • Investors: Fulgur Ventures

Hastee is an app that features employee benefits allowing employers to take a portion of their earned pay, on-demand. It promotes financial well-being and allows employees to have more liberty in using their salary as per their needs while earning investments on it.
Hastee is known for its quality service and the value it offers. It lets employees take an advance salary when a company makes a sale.

Finn AI

  • Industry: FinTech
  • Funding: €13.9M
  • Investors: HV Holtzbrinck Ventures

With Finn, you can enjoy your commute. Instead of buying a car, you can now rent a car and use it. You just have to choose, drive, and pay a monthly subscription fee. With Finn, you can also choose more than one cars depending on your current subscription plan. You can even upgrade the plan when the need arises.

CNote

  • Industry: FinTech
  • Funding: $25.4M
  • Investors: Golden Angel Investors

CNote believes that financial products should not just serve a few wealthy individuals. That’s why CNote rewards money savers with financial plans that help them earn passive income, thereby helping CNote users make as much as 2.5% profit on their earnings annually. CNote is certified by the U.S. Treasury and uses the U.S. Treasury-certified financial institution called CDFI. The money savers can enjoy a low-risk, high-yield return through inclusive economic investments.

Meatable

  • Industry: Food and Beverages
  • Funding: $172.8M
  • Investors: Golden Angel Investors

Meatable is an organic meat production company that produces and sells lab-grown meat in the market. The founders of the company hold the point of view that current meat production is not capable of meeting future demands, and it is way too ‘cruel’ to kill animals for food.
Meatable picks a single cell from animals’ bodies, and then develops the whole organ in labs. In the natural environment, this process will take three years, while this company can replicate the same process within three weeks.
Meatable may have found the answer to increased food security without compromising on taste, health, and of course real meat.

Kitopi

  • Industry: Food and Beverages
  • Funding: $804M
  • Investors: VentureSouq

Kitopi stands for Kitchen. Operation. Innovation. It is a state-of-the-art kitchen network that prepares and delivers food to other retail outlets. It is a managed cloud kitchen network, where a restaurant can place orders and get them delivered in a quick time. It helps restaurants, food brands, and eateries to focus on what matters the most, i.e., marketing, budget, and product innovation.

TapRm

  • Industry: Food and Beverages
  • Funding: $10.4M
  • Investors: The Broe Group

Getting beer in the US is no more difficult. With TapRm, a new ecommerce store, you can get your beer delivered right to your doorstep. As of now, the service of TapRM is only available in New York. The company has received approximately $1.7 million in funds for scaling the service to other US states.

Choco

  • Industry: Food and Beverages
  • Funding: $309.8M
  • Investors: The Broe Group

Cooking a meal is a tedious process, even top chefs will endorse this. Couple this with the management of resources. It is a wholesome exercise. There is one app that’s changing the trend. Choco is an app that makes ordering and communication with your suppliers faster, simpler, and FREE!
Choco is a new startup to connect restaurants and suppliers. It simplifies ordering and communication and has the potential to help millions of people worldwide.

Chisel

  • Industry: AI-based solution for the global insurance industry
  • Funding: $4.8M
  • Investors: Angel, venture capital, accelerator.

Chisel is the most comprehensive agile product management software on the market perfectly balancing the three dimensions of product management: product road mapping, team alignment, and customer connection. It empowers product teams to communicate with one another, prioritize what to build next, and engage with their customers. You can use Chisel to track bugs, defects, and feature requests. It provides a forum for collaboration between product managers and engineers. This allows you to keep up-to-date on product development by creating a master task list, managing tasks in scrum teams, and tracking release dates.

It is a stand-alone application that integrates with your existing bug-tracking and ticketing system. You can also use it to create product releases, manage tasks, track progress, and set milestones. It has the ability to create visual roadmaps that help Product Managers communicate their vision with stakeholders, customers, and team members to deliver the product that everyone wants.

NuvoAir

  • Industry: Health Care
  • Funding: $28.2M
  • Investors: Industrifonden

NuvoAir is your go-to platform for respiratory health tracking, improvement, and cure. This new startup offers devices to track and monitor the respiratory health of individuals – young and old alike. This data is automatically transferred to the user’s mobile app allowing him/her and the doctor to make relevant decisions and provide medical care based on accurate data.
The platform is designed after extensive patient research and insights from leading pulmonologists and researchers. It aims to empower patients and caregivers around the world.

iRise

  • Industry: FinTech
  • Funding: $47.6M
  • Investors: Deutsche Bank

iRise Mechanics is working on next-generation technologies including intelligent bots, AI systems for health safety and improvement. The company has developed robotic mobility devices to help people with limb disabilities. These robotic hands run through software and help their users manage daily tasks effortlessly.
IRise Mechanics aims to make the quality of life of disabled people safe and healthy. Rise Mechanics is working on next-generation technologies including intelligent bots, AI systems for health safety and improvement. The company has developed robotic mobility devices to help people with limb disabilities. These robotic hands run through software and help their users manage daily tasks effortlessly. Rise Mechanics aims to make the quality of life of disabled people safe and healthy.

Kindbody

  • Industry: Health Care
  • Funding: $181.3M
  • Investors: GV

Kindbody is an end-to-end fertility care solution. It provides female care services from standard gynecological care to conception, nutrition mental wellness, and more. Kindbody has revolutionized the field of medical science, helping users get expert treatment with complete ease. It offers services like intrauterine insemination, donor support, and embryo freezing to improve the overall health and well-being of women.

Zenyum

  • Industry: Health Care
  • Funding: $55.1M
  • Investors: RTP Global

Zenyum aims to help individuals bring back their confident smiles. The startup offers 3D-printed invisible braces to patients. You can easily get the braces sent right to your home. The 3D printer braces are customized to suit your face orientation.
Zenyum is a product developed by experienced entrepreneurs and local orthodontists. Recently, it has raised significant funding from investors and other companies in the healthcare and tech space.

NeuroFlow

  • Industry: Health Care
  • Funding: $57M
  • Investors: Builders VC

The NeuroFlow digital health application tracks assesses and manages your mental wellbeing through an easy tool. The NeuroFlow tool supports your journey for holistic well-being. However, not everyone can sign up for the NeuroFlow application. Since it is a healthcare tool, you will need a doctor’s written note to get its subscription. The HIPAA-compliant platform tracks and engages patients through a suite of tools, remote monitoring, and behavioral health integration.

Lenscope

  • Industry: Health Care
  • Funding: $1M
  • Investors: N/A

Lenscope makes lens replacement easier. With Lenscope, you can order lenses online and get them delivered right at your doorstep. Lenscope also offers optical glasses for anyone who would like to make one. They can order the glasses online and get the delivery at home. Lenscope also repairs glasses. If your glasses need repairs, the Lenscope team can pick them up from your house and deliver them back after the repairs are done. Lenscope is only available in Brazil at the moment, but the company is expanding its services to other countries soon. They don’t charge any collection and delivery costs. You only pay the value of the lens and the frame.

Eligma

  • Industry: Blockchain
  • Funding: $22.3M
  • Investors: Bitcoin.com

Eligma is the new revolution in the blockchain and bitcoin sector. Have you ever thought about how you can use a cryptocurrency that isn’t driven by public demand? That’s where Eligma comes in. It is setting new standards for bitcoin in particular and blockchain in general. It is also the power behind Slovenia’s latest Bitcoin City project. The startup aims to use blockchain technology to establish communication standards for crypto payment networks.

Mythical Games

  • Industry: Blockchain
  • Funding: $260M
  • Investors: Javelin Ventures

The Mythical Games studio is setting new benchmarks for the gaming industry with its blockchain-based games. The company aims to bring game developers and content creators closer to the games they love. With a team of veteran game and platform experts, it is developing world-class products that help consumers adopt distributed ledger technology through games.

Dapper Labs

  • Industry: Blockchain
  • Funding: $612.5M
  • Investors: Andreessen Horowitz

Remember Cryptokitties? The game that was an instant hit on the internet? Well, that was from DapperLabs. What is DapperLabs? It is a gaming company that develops games powered by cryptocurrency. Not only it is developing games, but it also plays a vital role in making blockchain a reality. Currently, only a few people – gamers, innovators, and early adopters – are tinkering with the blockchain. To make it successful, common people have to adopt this technology.

Farm

  • Industry: IoT
  • Funding: €20.7M
  • Investors: TiVenture

The agricultural business is becoming more complex due to legal requirements and product certifications. xFarm is a startup that aims to transform agricultural processes by leveraging digital technology. It provides innovative tools to support farmers and food supply chain, stakeholders.
The main focus of the organization revolves around convenience, intuitiveness, and adaptability for agricultural retailers. The digital ecosystem includes a free agricultural application, available on both mobile and desktop and integrated with advanced premium modules, an analytical dashboard dedicated to professionals, and a line of IoT sensors selected, optimized, and connected by xFarm.

Infraspeak

  • Industry: IoT
  • Funding: $16.7M
  • Investors: TiVenture

With Infraspeak, any user in an organization can report a technical failure directly to the relevant technicians in a quick time. The tool identifies and notifies the failures in an electrical system concerning the type, location, equipment, or priority. They can mark these failures ‘solved’, or otherwise assign them to the relevant person who is working at that location.

Zypp

  • Industry: IoT
  • Funding: $20.9M
  • Investors: IANFund

Zypp is an electric scooter-sharing app that is helping many people across India. Users can unlock Zypp for Rs. 5/- only, with a charging fee of Re.1/minute. It has over 500K users in India alone and the number is going up fast. The interesting thing about Zypp is that most of its funding comes from Indian banks and VC firms.
Using Zypp is easy. You just need an app to unlock the vehicle, ride it, and once done, park it at a Mobycy parking zone.

Nodle.io

  • Industry: IoT
  • Funding: $5M
  • Investors: Blockchain Ventures

Connecting objects has just got easier. With Nodle, you can now connect anything from home appliances, and smart watches, to air sensors, fitness trackers, etc.
Nodle is providing new opportunities for hardware manufacturers and decreasing barriers to entry for IoT solutions and hardware experts. It provides an alternative source of revenue for device makers, network operators, and app developers who want to make a mark in the IoT world.

Smarten Spaces

  • Industry: IoT
  • Funding: $12M
  • Investors: Symphony Holdings

Booking anything is now easier than ever. Whether you want to book an event, a co-working space, a tenant space, or anything else, the tech startup ‘Smarten Spaces’ is the solution for you. The company understands the vital role smart technologies play in our routine activities. Walking to an event space, just to know about its price is a mess. That’s where Smarten Space is changing the landscape. It aims to transform places of work and leisure into state-of-the-art sustainable architectures.

Seekify

  • Industry: IoT
  • Funding: $1.5M
  • Investors: Surge Ahead

Seekify is a great platform to deliver a wow customer experience to your clients, it is said to be one of the best startups in the IOT industry,
Users can integrate Seekify with different business software and aggregate all data together on a single platform. With this software, companies can set clear goals, and KPIs, and provide data-driven insights using AI and Machine Language to automate workflows.
Companies that want to focus on actionable insights to achieve goals can use Seekify’s Supernova data intelligence service.

Speechly

  • Industry: Software and SaaS
  • Funding: €2M
  • Investors: Cherry Ventures

Alexa and Siri are two great voice assistants of our time. What if you want to add the same feature of voice assistance to your mobile app? That’s where Speechly comes in. It lets you leverage app APIs to create engaging experiences for customers with applications of your choice.
The result? Better customer experience, improved retention rate, an intuitive voice UI, and sure profit. Speechly is perfect for ecommerce stores that want to encourage shopping through voice UIs.

ButterCMS

  • Industry: Software and SaaS
  • Funding: N/A
  • Investors: N/A

Headquartered in San Francisco, ButterCMS was founded by Jake Lumetta on the 1st of January 2014. It’s a headless CMS that enables developers to add a content management system and blog engine to their modern web applications regardless of tech stack. The headless CMS delivers your content as data via API disconnecting it from the front-end of your website.
Butter provides an intuitive dashboard for organizing your content so that your marketing team can add or update website content without the need for developers to make changes to the code base. For those interested in exploring its performance and user experiences, don’t forget to check out Butter’s hosting reviews for comprehensive insights.
Better still, the CMS integrates seamlessly with new and existing Python apps, with a simple content API and drop-in Python SDK. So you can use Python tricks and coding while building a great, flexible blog. When it comes to deploying your Python-powered blog, exploring CMS hosting options can ensure a smooth and efficient hosting environment for your content management system.

Neo

Neo is crafted with a focus on solopreneurs, freelancers, and small-scale business professionals, aiming to empower them to create meaningful customer relationships. In addition, Neo caters to users without their own domains by providing business email services. It furnishes a complimentary domain name and a simplistic single-page website, aiding users in establishing a unique brand presence and fostering online trust. Equipped with a suite of handy features like a gratis co.site domain name, user-friendly single-page website builder, schedule send, email templates, reminders for follow-up, and a priority inbox, Neo is engineered to facilitate growth and efficiency for small businesses.
Neo enhances productivity by incorporating calendars, contacts, and storage into the email platform in a seamless manner. Users can consolidate their business processes and find all necessary tools under one roof. Discover the potential of Neo, offering support for multiple accounts, generous email storage of 50GB, and an attachment limit of up to 30 MB. See firsthand how Neo can elevate your business communications and operations. There are many more email marketing platforms like notifyvisitors, hubspot, mailchimp, smartmail that can provide you with various options for finding the best automation tools tailored to your specific needs. Additionally, exploring Smartmail alternatives can help you discover other effective email marketing solutions.

Tego

  • Industry: Software and SaaS
  • Funding: €19.5M
  • Investors: Cherry Ventures

Tego is a premium app and security device that you can use for location tracking of your loved ones. It is safe for girls, kids, and even grown-ups who are going on a tour. The app will send the location of the people to 11 of their loved ones through an app or desktop interface in real time. In case of any emergency, a user can alert his friends with the click of a button.

Clumio

  • Industry: Software and SaaS
  • Funding: $186M
  • Investors: Cherry Ventures

Clumio is transforming the SaaS industry through its enterprise backup technology. You no longer have to create on-premise backups because Clumio takes care of that all. It is a 3rd party app that helps avoid the complexities and costs of running 3rd party backup software on the cloud.
Clumio is one of the most successful apps that you can integrate with top cloud-native platforms and native AWS servers. It ensures that your cloud services remain secure and meet the current and future backup requirements of the demanding enterprises.

Optovision

  • Industry: Software and SaaS
  • Funding: €2M
  • Investors: Cherry Ventures

Every hospital keeps a record of a patient but they rarely share this data with anyone else. With Optovision, sharing data doesn’t only get easier but faster, reliable, and accessible everywhere. It aims to bring a revolution in the medical industry through technology.

Soundsuit

  • Industry: Software and SaaS
  • Funding: Bootstrapped
  • Investors: N/A

Creating a new playlist for your restaurant, office, gym, and events can be a difficult task. Soundsuit lets you create one without any issues. The Soundsuit application asks you for your favorite music, and your event’s theme, and gets the job done for you. With Soundsuit smart assistant, you can easily create the perfect playlist in just a few clicks.

Finverity

  • Industry: Software and SaaS
  • Funding: Undisclosed
  • Investors: NA

Investors from developing markets are always looking for places they can invest in. Stocks, real estate, shares, whatever it is, they are ready for it. The fact is that there are challenges for them in the growing market.
That’s where the Finverity platform comes in. It connects investors with small-medium enterprises and growing markets. The investment procedure gets easier for investors and foreign direct investment (FDI) flows into the economy of emerging markets. It is a win-win for both!

Get Quuie

  • Industry: Software and SaaS
  • Funding: Bootstrapped
  • Investors: N/A

Developing a website right from your mobile phone screen is as easy as it gets. Quuie is a software that helps users do just that. You don’t have to learn coding to get Quuie websites live. It just takes a few clicks and swipes on the smartphone screen to develop a website. Quuie is one of the best software for those individuals who want to develop a website for themselves.

InVideo

  • Industry: Software and SaaS
  • Funding: $52.5M
  • Investors: Sequoia Capital India and Tiger Global

InVideo is an online software program that offers seamless inventive video creation services. It helps marketers, entrepreneurs, agencies, other small businesses to make professional-looking videos with ease. InVideo works with the associated intention to allow users to create videos in a simple and frictionless method.

It is incredibly easy to use, with a video design platform that enables users to turn their ideas into gold-standard videos in mins, even if you’ve never edited a video before for less than $10/month. The program offers 4000+ fully customizable templates covering every major use-case or industry + pre-built elements in their asset library such as CTAs, stickers, and overlays + an in-built library of 3M+ stock images, video clips, and music to make videos look as professional as ever. It also offers an automatic text-to-video feature that one can use to make videos for their articles and blog posts or tell a story through their content.

Cloudtalk

  • Industry: Software and SaaS
  • Funding: €7.3M
  • Investors: HenQ, Point Nine Capital, and Presto Ventures

CloudTalk is a next-generation business-calling software for data-driven teams. It offers advanced call quality you need to connect faster, easier and more efficiently with your clients. CloudTalk also provides data intelligence, AI, and machine learning to transform customer experience and adapt it perfectly to the unique demands of each user.
With CloudTalk, customer support, and sales teams can automate their workflows and use built-in analytics to track performance indicators in real-time. This allows your business to seamlessly identify new growth opportunities. Furthermore, CloudTalk has a comprehensive set of native features, dozens of integrations with CRMs, helpdesk solutions, and other tools.

LuggageHero

  • Industry: Travel
  • Funding: $3.9M
  • Investors: N/A

Traveling? Want to store your luggage at a secure site? That’s what Luggage Hero – the latest addition to the list of startup companies – does. It is a simple platform that lets you safely store your luggage at a storage point for a small charge. You can easily take a stroll around the city and visit the exotic places of your choice. This facility is perfect for travelers who want to go sightseeing on foot. Luggage Hero is just like a daycare center for your luggage.

Airlift

  • Industry: Transport
  • Funding: $14.2M
  • Investors: Fatima Ventures

Finding buses and taxis is quite a hassle in Pakistan. That’s where Airlift – a new startup app – comes in handy. With funding of over 14 million, the smart bus startup aims to revamp the transport sector in Pakistan by introducing safe, certified, and trackable buses. Users of Airlift can book a ride for themselves and their loved ones via their smartphones. They can also select the time of the ride. Unlike Careem and Uber, they can only select designated bus routes and rides.

Grab

  • Industry: Transport
  • Funding: $15.5B
  • Investors: Hyundai Motors

Grab started as a ride-hailing platform to connect commuters with riders in Singapore. It has topped the list of the best startups to invest in 2019. After getting funds from multiple companies it has introduced new services like GrabTaxi, GrabCar, GrabHitch, GrabShare, GrabCoach, GrabShuttle, GrabShuttle Plus, GrabFamily, JustGrab, GrabNow, and GrabRental.
Unlike Uber and Lyft in the USA, the Grab mobile platform is available for city transportation for driver-partners and customers in Southeast Asia only.

Airalo

  • Industry: Travel
  • Funding: $7.3M
  • Investors: Lightspeed Ventures

Are you planning to travel abroad? With the new startup Airalo, getting an eSIM is more affordable than ever. The Airalo SIM lets you travel to multiple destinations of your choice. It covers over 100 destinations. You can get the eSIMs at an affordable price from around the world. Airalo SIM cards are compatible with all smartphones, tablets and even some PCs.
The advantage of Airalo is that where your regular SIM card doesn’t work, you can use Airalo to stay connected.

Swvl

  • Industry: Transport and Travel
  • Funding: $264M
  • Investors: Dash ventures

Taking you from point A to point B in the city is now easier than ever. No need to wait at the bus stop all day just to get that bus. Find out when it is arriving, where it will stop, and get to that place at the right time. Swvl is a premium bus booking app that lets you book fixed-rate rides on buses and vans in your area.
It allows people to share a ride either in a van or on a bus in the morning and evening. You can easily book a ride at an affordable rate with the Swvl mobile app.

Chipper Cash

  • Industry: Transport and Travel
  • Funding: $337.2M
  • Investors: Deciens Capital

Traveling and cash both go hand-in-hand. Now, imagine, what if you are traveling outside your country and you run out of cash? That’s where Chipper Cash service comes in handy. It helps users make instant cross-border mobile money transfers as easy as sending a text message. For now, the service is available only in Africa, but it is changing the financial landscape quite fast. Hopefully, the service will spread around the world soon enough.

HqO

  • Industry: Mobile Apps
  • Funding: $106.9M
  • Investors: Insight Partners

HqO is said to be the best startup in mobile app industry, Hqo is an app that helps landlords carve places that their tenants love. It is an onsite retail and services app that helps landlords know in real time about the features that are not available at the premises. As a result, they can take quick action and solve the problem on time. They can even set a time for the repair and renovation with the tenant through the app.

Porch Services

  • Industry: Mobile Apps
  • Funding: $315.8M
  • Investors: Antler

Now calling your local plumber, electrician, maid, or carpenter is as simple as clicking a button – thanks to Porch – a new startup. It provides a mobile platform that users can use to call home repair services. The best part? All of these are freelancers. This means you can get a plumber from your area who offers the lowest rates. Once the work is done, you can also rate the repair service guys. The ratings will be helpful for others in assessing and acquiring the services of those individuals. Porch is transforming the way home services are consumed throughout the Nordic countries.

ERA Timepieces

  • Industry: Fashion
  • Funding: $2.7M
  • Investors: Crowdfunding

The ERA Prometheus tourbillon is said to be the best startup in the watch industry, The ERA is a game-changer in the world of luxury watches. It has raised nearly $1.1 million on Kickstarter and Indiegogo. People only bought a Tourbillon because of the delicacy of watchmaking involved. Thanks to ERA Prometheus, now people have multiple options available to buy luxury watches.

Wardrobe

  • Industry: Fashion
  • Funding: $5.6M
  • Investors: Ludlow Ventures

Consider Wardrobe as your fashion closet. The ecommerce app lets people borrow luxury clothes, sell used luxury clothes, and share ideas on designing custom clothes. The wardrobe is eco -friendly, convenient, and affordable.

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