Top Internet Infrastructure Startups in 2024

3Box Labs is a crypto company focused on building protocols and tools for Web3 application development. We're inventors of Ceramic, the high-performance data layer for building real-time Web3 data applications. Ceramic enables user data sovereignty, multi-application data interoperability, and is used by the leading distributed web projects and protocols. Founded in 2018, 3Box Labs is a remote-first, globally-distributed team backed by world-class investors like USV, Multicoin, Placeholder, and many more.

Convex's mission is to fundamentally change how software is built on the Internet and who gets to build it. We aim to empower teams, large or small, to build fast, reliable, and dependable dynamic systems at scale. Developers shouldn't have to form an opinion on Alpine Linux vs. Ubuntu or have the slightest idea how to configure Kafka. We believe with the right abstractions, it's possible to develop sophisticated apps entirely on your laptop, deploy them seamlessly on managed backends, and head out to dinner—confident your application will run identically in production at scale. No DevOps. This is the fulfillment of the exciting new serverless movement, and we're going to make it happen. Our team includes Principal Engineers and Engineering Directors who have led exabyte-scale storage projects, built custom global databases with trillions of records, and shipped desktop and mobile software onto billions of devices. All of us have deep experience with managing critical shared user state in large, successful services. Now, together at Convex, we've reflected on those collective lessons, and we have asked, listened, and learned about the needs of modern web and mobile teams. We've started to create something we believe is an entirely new and substantially better platform for teams of the future. We're eager to create the solution we wished we'd had for all those tricky frontend and backend problems we've wrestled to the ground over the years. We're motivated by the prospect of a new wave of teams using Convex and excited to empower them to solve challenges that only recently were quite daunting.

Data-driven team management for modern sales organizations. Atrium is based in San Francisco, and is backed by Bonfire Ventures, Bullpen Capital, Charles River Ventures, First Round Capital, and notable individual investors. Join us ([email protected]) to enable a powerful change in the way people work.

Rhombus is a Silicon Valley startup and NASA Research Park partner. We are leaders in bringing big-data insights to Enterprise planning and decision-making at strategic, operational and tactical levels. Our advisory board includes two Nobel Laureates and a Draper Prize winner. We choose to solve pressing problems in National Security and Energy sectors using cutting edge cross-disciplinary approaches. Are you ready to help the US win the AI race?

"CodeNotary, provided by vChain Inc., is the leading Open Source trust solution that delivers tamperproof integrity for all digital assets. Via immutable notarization and authentication, from code to production, it builds continuous trust in the entire DevOps process. CodeNotary today already processes over 10 million code and container authentications every single month."

Meter helps companies save time and money with our all-in-one solution. Unlike traditional internet solutions, Meter’s approach is vertically-integrated across engineering and operations. We work on hardware (including routers, switches, and wireless access points) and software to manage thousands of devices, process millions of packets, and scale operations. Meter operates in every major US city, and our customer base is expanding quickly. We serve customers across a number of industries including e-commerce, financial services, life sciences, software as a service, and robotics. We can deploy our products and services across a variety of commercial spaces including labs, office buildings, and warehouses. You can find more details regarding our customers by visiting meter.com/customers (meter.com/customers).

Governments and companies have failed to move the needle against many of humanity’s most important challenges and opportunities. We need new organizational structures. At Tephra Labs, we believe that decentralized human networks have the potential to be the right meta-coordinating structures for these large-scale problems. These networks can engage diverse participants and grow to unprecedented sizes (hundreds of millions of people). Further, they do not rely on the same kind of centralized direction-setting that is characteristic of governments and companies – making them lower overhead organizational structures overall. Tephra Labs’ mission is to enable large-scale human coordination to address humanity’s most important challenges and opportunities. We aim to build the infrastructure to scale decentralized networks to billions of people, and to support network participants in leading consistent, purposeful, and fulfilling lives. Our hypothesis is that hyper-scale decentralized networks will grow by engaging people as independent workers, rather than employees. So, we are building the necessary products, tooling, and services to help independent workers thrive. Our first product is Radius (radius.space). Radius is a decentralized network that connects independent workers and teams to the best projects in web3. As part of the Radius project, we are building decentralized reputation systems, skills attestation protocols, and a user-owned and value accretive economy. In accordance with our mission, we will also build educational curricula and programs to help train Radius workers and onboard them successfully into web3 work opportunities. We are excited to build the necessary infrastructure to enable the first billion-person organizations in human history. If this mission also inspires you, consider joining us.

In the heart of the Himalayas and downtown San Francisco, a groundbreaking team is transforming how AI interacts with video. VideoDB is pioneering the shift from viewing videos as static files to treating them as dynamic data. This innovation allows AI to process and understand videos with the same ease as text, enabling instant search, modification, and streaming of video content. By making every frame and sound a data point, VideoDB is not only enhancing AI capabilities but also redefining video storage, access, and interaction, paving the way for the next leap in AI technology.

Ably provides an infrastructure layer to handle complex, behind-the-scenes realtime communication that powers things like chat, live updates in maps or apps, IoT device control, and more. There's no infrastructure to provision or manage - just simple yet powerful and versatile SDKs and APIs that let you quickly add innovative realtime capabilities to your application with a few lines of code.