Top Information Technology Startups in 2024

Harry’s Inc. started in 2013 with a specific goal: disrupt the shaving industry by creating an innovative, everyday product at a fair price. Since then, Harry’s has expanded to Canada and Europe, developed relationships with retailers such as Target and Walmart, expanded our grooming brand into a personal care powerhouse, launched two new brands including Flamingo and Cat Person, and made our first brand acquisition with Lumē. The key to our success? Our amazing people. From chemists, mechanical engineers, CX associates, to creative directors, sourcing managers, and logistics specialists, the Harry’s team is composed of some of the most brilliant, diverse, and humble people you’ll ever meet. Our brands answer unmet consumer needs, but our company is a place of inclusion and innovation that attracts some of the brightest minds across industries, geographies, and backgrounds. Whether we have a team of 5 or 500, our core values and our startup mentality remain; we value continuous improvement and learning, teamwork and collaboration, creative problem solving, and open and direct dialogue and feedback.

Zenefits is the leading all-in-one HCM (human capital management) solution for small and medium businesses. Designed as an interconnected ecosystem of apps, Zenefits delivers the most complete HR experience by combining its own powerful apps with dozens of best-of-breed providers on the Zenefits platform. Built on a modern technology stack, Zenefits’ platform provides a comprehensive Employee Record tightly integrated with Zenefits’ apps like onboarding, payroll, compliance and benefits administration and partner apps like email, expense management, 401(k) and employee engagement. The result is a powerful HCM solution that helps mid-market businesses manage their people, stay compliant and save thousands of hours in lost time. Mission: To help businesses thrive by creating a complete HR platform that empowers employees and manages change.

Varsity Tutors is a live learning platform that connects students and professionals with personalized instruction to achieve any goal. To date, students have accessed more than three million hours of live instruction on the platform. Experts are available to meet in person or through the company’s award-winning online and mobile platforms, which account for the majority of all sessions.

StockX is the world’s first online consumer “stock market of things” for high-demand, limited edition products. We feature a live marketplace where participants can buy and sell limited edition consumer products (initially sneakers) with stock market-like visibility. We review every item sold on StockX for authenticity in person to keep both buyers and sellers safe during every step of the transaction. StockX also offers buyers and sellers historical price and volume metrics, real-time Bids and offers (Asks), time-stamped trades, individualized portfolio tracking and analysis, as well as in-depth market analysis and news.

We are building deep learning based product that allows companies to automate data extraction from any kind of document with a few samples and integrate it into their manual workflow.

Lumen5 is a video creation platform designed for brands and businesses to produce social content for driving audience engagements online. The goal of the platform is to allow anyone without training or experience to easily create engaging video content within minutes. Our technology enables marketing teams to focus on the story and narrative while relying on our system to do the heavy lifting. Not only does the platform offer tools to create a video, Lumen5 takes it a step further to supply you with all the resources needed to produce shareworthy videos. The platform offers a built-in media library containing millions of copyright-free photos, videos, and audio tracks. This means that your team will have access to everything you need without having to record or purchase any digital assets externally.

OmniSync is a venture and government backed dual use software and service company, transforming the way public and private sectors innovate. Our best-in class AI/NLP-powered marketplaces democratize access to public / private innovation funds. We make it quick and easy for anyone who needs deep market intelligence, predictive insights, and critical resources to make informed decisions. Ideas are easy execution is hard! We don’t just say it, we live it. Our founders have had multiple successes and achievements in the past, and we’ve been off to the races since our Seed raise launching products with the commercial markets, as well as obtaining contracts with the Department of Energy, US Air Force, and Under Secretary of Defense, Research and Engineering. Our platforms include: - TurboSBIR, assisting innovators in finding and applying for innovation grants and contracts from US Federal government agencies. - TurboInnovate, generates comprehensive market research reports within minutes. Subscribers have access to and the ability to review, track, and predict innovation trends for their preferred domains, and much more. Democratizing systems, especially funding, is not easy – but we like solving the hard problems to make real impact and bring about meaningful change. Running multiple product lines is not easy, but we believe that we owe it to ourselves to solve something that we are a good fit for solving and fits within our overall mission.

We have created a brand new class of financial product - an "Obligo". It is something between a security deposit and a pre-auth (billing authorization). Our platform is solving a huge problem for both tenants and landlords, and the demand is out of this world. The conditions are ripe for Obligo to become the new industry standard!

Paylode helps companies elevate customer experience while unlocking a new channel of ancillary revenue for their business. Every day we work with companies that want to leverage partnerships as a way to grow their brand and bring additional value to their customer base. We love SaaS and are working hard to make it easy for businesses to collaborate.

Our AI powered platform uniquely supercharges B2B distributors sales through three channels: reps, email and e-commerce. By understanding which customers are likely to purchase each product and when, from new items to items which are frequently re-ordered our AI is able to direct sales reps on which customers to talk with and about what products. We also allow companies to send targeted emails tailored to each customer which sync with the messaging from the sales team. Finally, our customers customers get a personalized buying experience online. At one enterprise customer, we increased rep effectiveness by 9x in a control trial. At another customer, we are projected to drive a 10% increase in revenue with one year of use of our product. Reps love using our platform, saying it “makes me a killer.”