Top Information Technology Startups in 2024

Kiln is the leading enterprise-grade staking platform, enabling institutional customers to stake assets, and to whitelabel staking functionality into their offering. Our platform is API-first and enables fully automated validators, rewards, and data and commission management. With over $1.9 billion crypto assets being programmatically staked, Kiln has a particularly strong track record on Ethereum as we run about 3% of the network; this includes 22,000+ validators with 0 slashing events. The team is made up of 45 ecosystem enthusiasts formerly at Google, Circle, Ledger, Chainalysis and other leading technology and cryptocurrency companies. Join Kiln and help us make the web more secure, stable, decentralized and fair!

Digit is a fast-growing B2B SaaS startup revolutionizing how manufacturers manage inventory, production, and material planning. We believe manufacturers are the backbone of the economy. Our mission is to give them the software they deserve. Founded in 2022 by former manufacturing and startup executives, we’ve gathered significant funding and brought on an enthusiastic set of first customers. Now we’re ready to scale.

Our thorough research reports allow Strategic Sourcing teams to add value during the vendor selection process. Our customers include top-tier public companies with a combined market cap of $79 billion dollars.

MOLTEN is a cloud platform that streamlines core operations of media and entertainment enterprises. MOLTEN digitizes and transforms rights, content, and licensing operations across enterprises, empowering teams with real-time insight and automation tools to do more, accelerating deal-making and content monetization worldwide. MOLTEN offers multiple integrated cloud-based services to power back-end operations for media and entertainment enterprises, which include content rights, storage, delivery and licensing management.

Infinium is a dynamic and forward-thinking Venture Studio that operates at the intersection of venture capital and technology innovation. The Infinium team consists of experienced professionals with expertise in founding, product management, UI/UX, digital marketing, system architecture, and everything that it takes to build successful start-ups. With a keen focus on emerging sectors and transformative technologies, Infinium Venture empowers entrepreneurs with the resources, mentorship, and strategic guidance they need to thrive. We are committed to fostering a vibrant ecosystem of innovation, driving positive change, and shaping the future of industries across the globe.

Laasie powers a new kind of loyalty for 1,000+ hotels & resorts through AI and a network of 1,000+ instant gratification partners. No points, no tiers, no waiting for qualification. Awarded the #1 Direct Booking Platform by HotelTechAwards, Laasie incentivizes conversion and retention, driving over $500 million in direct bookings. Today’s savvy customers are uninspired by yesterday’s rigid loyalty programs, often leaving with unused points and limited brand affinity. Laasie uses artificial intelligence and big data to dynamically create loyalty with personalized, instant rewards that motivate customer actions like booking directly, making a return visit, joining a marketing program for offers, and more. The result? Customers enjoy enriched experiences with each brand interaction and partners benefit with increased net revenue, actionable data insights, strengthened customer relationships, and a scalable loyalty program that increases the lifetime value of every customer. Laasie has 2 core products with the foundation of AI x Instant Gratification: - Laasie Convert: incentivizing direct bookings with personalized instant gratification, driving revenue and conversions. We always see more users booking when we surface incentives in their booking path, driving substantial ROI for our hotel partners. - Laasie Retain: next generation loyalty platform - no points, no tiers, no waiting for qualification. A simple, turnkey, instant reward-based loyalty program making it very achievable for consumers to stay loyal with a brand. Laasie powers Margaritaville's instant reward-based loyalty program: margaritavilleperks.com It’s an exciting time for our growing team: we’ve raised a strong fundraising round from strategic investors, have a solid technology team, have achieved transformative results for our hotel clients and are looking to grow exponentially.

daydream is a platform that automates programmatic SEO, end-to-end. The platform helps businesses identify search patterns, creates content at scale, and automatically improves that content. We've raised $2.5M from leading investors like Basis Set Ventures, WndrCo, SOMA Capital and current and former Heads of Growth/Product Growth at companies like Notion, Airtable, Webflow and Dropbox. Our customers include Product Hunt, Notion, Tome and other venture-backed companies. We're on a high-growth trajectory and we're looking for people who want to join us on the journey to building a billion-dollar company. Our team previously worked together at Flixed, a startup we bootstrapped to $2M+ in revenue almost purely on the back of programmatic SEO.

Emerald Energy (emeraldenergy.co) is solving the critical shortage of clean energy technicians. Its platform will source and assess, train, and certify them using better technology. We are looking to use automation and AI to match nontraditional candidates with contractors and then get them up the learning curve faster through a copilot and targeted training. Emerald is starting by filling the gap in heat pump installers, then will expand into EVs/batteries, wind, and solar workers as we scale. We piloted with one of the largest heat pump-focused contractors in the Northeast, which helped it generate $250K in new revenue, cut hiring time by 50%, and save $35K in recruiting costs. Emerald will serve companies, unions, and community colleges as a B2B partner. We received funding from the state energy agencies in NY and MA and were selected to participate in Techstars, Venture for ClimateTech and Village Capital accelerators.

Measuring model ability is the most challenging part of creating applications that are capable of automating any given part of the economy. There are no good techniques or benchmarks for evaluating LLM performance on business-relevant tasks, so adoption for enterprise production settings has been limited (see Wittgenstein’s ruler). This problem materializes in each place where LLMs have potential: in understanding whether the AI tool companies are building a product will satisfy a customer demand, determining how feasible models and vendors are for a given enterprise in making purchasing decisions, for researchers who need a north star to which to expand model ability. Today, answering these questions amounts to hiring a human review team to manually evaluate model outputs. This is prohibitively expensive and slow. Vals AI is building the enterprise benchmark of LLM and LLM apps on real-world business tasks. In doing so we are creating the infrastructure + certification to automatically audit LLM applications, verifying they are ready for consumption. We've raised mid-seven figures from some of the top institutional investors and strategic angels in Silicon Valley. See our benchmarks and launch announcement in Bloomberg: bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-04-11/this-startup-is-trying-to-test-how-…

Every model in AI & ML depends on data quality first to perform, and Ensemble offers immediate ROI for ML by enriching data quality with a completely new approach. Extremely lightweight, Ensemble can drop into any existing ML pipeline, boosting model accuracy by approximating unobserved 'missing' variables without the need for any external data. This advancement lets any model learn from better, richer data no matter the industry. With Ensemble, substantial improvements in prediction power and efficiency are achieved quickly and privately on proprietary data.