Top Information Technology Startups in 2024

The world’s first checkout experience platform, Bolt offers a lightning-fast, one-click checkout, and connects millions of shoppers to retailers through a unified, cross-brand network. Hundreds of forward-thinking retailers like Forever 21, Badgley Mischka, Milk Makeup, and more rely on Bolt to convert, retain, and delight shoppers.

WorkBoard is the pioneer of Enterprise Strategy and Results Management solutions and the only OKR offering for large enterprises. While every business has strategic priorities and an urgency to achieve them, few have a systematic, data driven and reliable process to evolve those priorities, get everyone aligned on them, drive results and measure progress. WorkBoard’s Strategy and Results platform enables high-growth and high-scale companies to align on outcomes and cohesively measure results across the organization. Customers relying on WorkBoard include Microsoft, Reliance Industries, AmTrust, Samsung, 8X8, Disys, Intellidyne, eSilicon, EDMI, TrendKite, Influitive, and others. For more information, visit workboard.com or follow the company on Twitter @WorkBoardInc.

Cirkled in is an award-winning, cloud-based, 21st-century recruitment platform matching colleges and universities to high school students based on students’ detailed rich portfolio. Colleges spend over $10 Billion every year on recruitment of High School students with only 1% return. They struggle to meet their enrollment goals and diversity and equity goals. And we know how excruciating and painful the process is for students. Cirkled in is a recruitment platform for colleges to get the holistic view of students’ achievement, strengths, and talents, identify the best-fit candidates for their institution and recruit them. Using proprietary data analytics, Cirkled-in will match colleges with the best-fit candidates. Cirkled in puts every student at the center of the circle, empowers them to showcase themselves in the best possible way and get discovered by colleges. Just like LinkedIn has revolutionized corporate recruiting, Cirkled in will revolutionize the college recruiting!

At every company, there's someone who's most painful job is wrangling CSV files in Excel. OneSchema (oneschema.co) makes cleanup of messy CSVs 10x faster (demo). Our product is smart spreadsheet that makes data cleansing as simple as a few clicks. Our vision is to automate the “long tail of ETL” processes that today are painstaking, manual, and repetitive. We get our customers out of spreadsheets and back to the meaningful, creative work they love.

MindsDB is a fast-growing open-source infrastructure company that enables developers to quickly integrate machine learning into applications and connect any data source with any ML framework easily, all in one place. We are the largest & fastest growing open source Applied Machine Learning project in the world with over 14k Github stars. MindsDB is a fast-growing open-source company that enables developers to quickly integrate Artificial Intelligence Logic into applications and ship AI-powered solutions from prototyping & experimentation to production in a fast & scalable way. MindsDB was founded in 2017 by Adam Carrigan (COO) and Jorge Torres (CEO) and based in San Francisco, California, is backed with over $50M in total funding from Mayfield, Benchmark, YCombinator, OpenOcean, Walden Catalyst Ventures, MMC, Speedinvest, TQ Ventures and the University of California Berkeley SkyDeck fund. MindsDB is also recognized by Forbes as one of America's most promising AI companies (2021) and by Gartner as a Cool Vendor for Data and AI (2022).

Prodigal is a cloud-based Consumer Finance Intelligence solution that analyzes agent and customer conversations to enhance profits, experience, and compliance. Collection agencies, healthcare providers, and lenders depend on Prodigal to unlock insights that drive win-win financial outcomes. With decades of industry and data science expertise, Prodigal is ready to work with clients to optimize operations and quality assurance. Nearly one in five U.S. borrowers have already engaged with Prodigal during more than 200 million interactions. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, Prodigal’s global team is on a mission to build the intelligence layer that powers Consumer Finance. With the backing of domain experts, technology leaders, and top investors, including Accel, Menlo Ventures, and Y-Combinator, Prodigal is poised to become the next iconic vertical SaaS company. An intent engine that combines the strengths of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and natural language processing (NLP) powers Prodigal’s core apps: ProAssist, ProNotes, and ProVoice. ProAssist guides agents to say and do the right thing every time. ProNotes auto-writes call notes, creating hours of new capacity and freeing agents to focus on experience. ProVoice analyzes and scores 100% of calls to minimize risk and increase QA effectiveness.

At FarmWise, we harness the power of AI to find solutions to combat food production challenges, and help growers thrive in this new farming era. We work hand in hand with growers to understand their constraints, address their priorities, and build products that are changing their lives for good. Join us!

Ontra is the global leader in Contract Automation and Intelligence. The Ontra platform combines the best of artificial intelligence and software with a global network of talented lawyers to offer a complete and scalable solution for recurring legal workflows, such as processing routine contracts and tracking obligations in complex agreements. Ontra delivers purpose-built contract workflow and data management tools to easily manage obligations, answer key questions, and analyze trends and benchmarks. By streamlining repetitive legal processes and transforming contracts into data, Ontra helps customers lower costs, improve quality, reduce turnaround times, and provide actionable insights, ultimately freeing internal resources to focus on impactful and engaging work. Ontra is headquartered in San Francisco, with global operations across North America, Europe, and Asia. Learn more at ontra.ai.

Modyfi brings next-generation tech to design with a high-performance, browser-based application offering AI-powered tooling, non-destructive workflows, frictionless collaboration, and more. We inspire creatives by removing the mundane, making teamwork easy, accelerating the design process, and making the creation of better images faster than ever.

Authoring effective visual communication is time-consuming and challenging for everyone - but especially those without design skills. Beautiful.AI is creating software that actually understands the rules of great design and provides smart, design-aware templates that visualize and communicate hundreds of concepts, making it effortless for anyone to build stunningly beautiful visual documents in a fraction of the time.