Top Small and Medium Businesses Startups in 2024

Small and Medium Business (SMB) are the backbone of our economy, yet they struggle to get capital essential to grow their business as the current financial system determines capital eligibility based on the ability to jump application hoops rather than the health of the business. We at Parafin want to change this. We want to enable businesses that serve these SMBs and are in a unique position to help these SMBs to offer them growth capital. We abstract away all the complexity of offering growth capital into easy to integrate APIs and SDKs. About the founders: Ralph, Vineet and Sahill met at Robinhood in early 2016 and were amongst the first 35 employees. They helped scale the Robinhood user base by 40x, took two of the biggest revenue sources from zero to one and built a lot of the core data infrastructure, risk and fraud mitigation and machine learning systems. Between them they have a Pure Math PhD from Stanford, Particle Physics PhD from CERN, the title of Putnam Fellow, discovered the Higgs-Boson and have opened sourced Faust.

Novo is a powerfully simple business banking platform providing better business checking accounts to small business owners, entrepreneurs, and freelancers. We don't charge any hidden fees, and our goal is to empower our customers by connecting directly to the tools that they already use -- instead of upselling you on our own products, like traditional, big banks. Dribbble: dribbble.com/banknovo

Founded by IIT-Delhi graduates Vidit Aatrey and Sanjeev Barnwal, Meesho is building a disruptive social distribution channel via social sellers selling on WhatsApp, Facebook and other social channels. Meesho has so far enabled 8,00,000+ social sellers across 500+ towns to start and grow their online business, with tools around sourcing, logistics and payments. These social sellers are small retailers, housewives, students, retired citizens and many other aspiring entrepreneurs across India. It is Series B funded by SAIF Partners, Sequoia Capital, Y Combinator and Venture Highway.

Criya AI, a Y Combinator and venture backed AI startup is an intelligent content system that reads across all your data sources and in 1-click produces stunning, hyper-personalized client-ready assets, by combining research, branding, authoring and engagement analytics.

We hold a firm conviction that small businesses serve as the backbone of our economy and are an essential part of the social fabric that connects people. With the advancements in technology and access to resources, starting a small business has become more accessible than ever before. However, despite this progress, many small businesses struggle to succeed due to the high cost of business tools and services, which are often priced for larger enterprises. This unfortunate reality puts small businesses at a disadvantage, as they lack the resources to invest in expensive tools and services that could help them grow and compete in their respective markets. They are often unable to allocate significant funds towards marketing and advertising, which are critical for expanding their reach and attracting new customers. We believe that small businesses deserve access to affordable tools and services that can help them thrive and compete with larger companies. Our mission at Social Cat is to provide small business owners the tools and resources to run marketing as a professional without breaking the bank. Our goal is to level the playing field for small businesses and help them grow, succeed, and make a positive impact on the economy and the communities they serve.

We're a company that specializes in cloud accounting services, offering an all-in-one business invoicing and accounting solution. Our software is easy to use, and since it's using cloud based technology, you can carry it everywhere you go, on PC or mobile devices. Our software also connects with a lot of the business world's most commonly used apps, such as Stripe, G Suite, and Shopify, so you don't have to change your core business payment model in order to integrate our software! With plans starting at $15 a month (even less when billed in bulk)< Our software along with our A-grade customer service will fit all of your business's accounting needs.

Joist, an EverCommerce solution group and member of the EverPro suite of products, is an end to end vertical software platform for small & medium-sized trades contractors. We have a simple mission: Make Contractors Heroes. Joist provides web and mobile applications for small business contractors to estimate, invoice, record, and process payments, and manage projects from anywhere. From humble beginnings, we're now helping over 1 million contractors across North America, the UK, and Australia, making us one of the largest trades platforms in the world and we have major growth planned!

Founded in 2013, DoorDash is a San Francisco-based technology company passionate about transforming local businesses and dedicated to empowering new ways of working, earning, and living. Today, DoorDash connects customers with their favorite local and national businesses in more than 1,000 cities across the United States and Canada. By building intelligent, last-mile delivery technology for local cities, DoorDash aims to connect people with the things they care about — one dash at a time.

We're changing the way millions of small businesses make money, spend money and track money. Wave delivers innovative financial services and award-winning free software to small- and micro-businesses around the world. By improving cash flow (Payments), delivering money to employees (Payroll), helping businesses get paid (Invoicing), preparing for tax time and providing business insights (Accounting, Receipts), Wave covers the spectrum of a small business owner's financial life, and helps businesses grow and thrive.

The largest online marketplace offering artistic flower arrangements from top local florists across the country. Matched with exceptional service, each original design is made and delivered by hand to recreate the in shop customer experience.