Top Software Startups in 2024

We offer a suite of financial infrastructure APIs that enable developers to build programmable experiences connected to purchases made in real-time using a card. Our tools are transforming how merchants and users interact by powering real-time, event-driven engagements, best-in-class loyalty and rewards programs and revolutionizing processes from reimbursements to expense management. Our APIs are used by start-ups through global enterprises including Google, British Airways, TopCashback, Perkbox, Royal Bank of Canada, and Blackhawk Networks, and are supported by the world’s largest card networks, including Visa, Mastercard and American Express. Launched in 2018, Fidel is headquartered in London, with offices in Lisbon, New York, and remote employees globally. Fidel is backed by investors including Nyca Partners, QED Investors, Citi Ventures, RBC Capital and Commerce Ventures.

Sawback Technologies is developing a proprietary solution to visualize and analyze underground data, to address a $1.59 billion market in the excavation market that relies on this information to avoid costly infrastructure damage and fatalities. This solution, which can be carried by personnel, or drone, is capable of covering large areas quickly and efficiently, and the data is accurately interpreted for the end-user, without the need for skilled personnel.

Born at Y Combinator in Silicon Valley and now based in Toronto, Taplytics is an intelligent customer experience company that A/B tests mobile & web applications and push notifications. Our software processes a huge amount of user data: over a trillion monthly events occurring on over a billion devices around the world. Growing our product from here is a complex & compelling challenge. This exciting technical space is directly applicable to larger enterprise customers who have invested heavily by implementing Taplytics into their own applications. These large-sized deals have given our sales and support teams the chance to make a big impact on their businesses and to grow our company quickly. Taplytics is growing fast in Toronto and we are searching for the technical talent that can take on big architecture challenges and sales talent that can navigate large enterprise deals. Taplytics has a bright future. Come grow your career with us.

As Y Combinator's first cannabis start-up, Meadow launched out of the Winter 2015 class. Meadow builds powerful Point of Sale and eCommerce software for retailers in the legal cannabis industry. Meadow’s all-in-one platform allows dispensaries to sell products, manage menus and inventory, reward customers, dispatch delivery and pick-up orders, and create exceptional in-store experiences for customers. Meadow powers dispensaries and delivery services of all sizes, utilizing technology to maintain compliance with local and state regulations, scale with the Adult Use market, and create operational efficiencies that allow these businesses to thrive in a regulated industry. Meadow’s team is dedicated to making the best retail software in cannabis, and to creating a more collaborative and inclusive legal cannabis industry. To learn more about Meadow, visit getmeadow.com.

Arya helps flex workforce companies get smarter about compensation, incentives and rewards so they can grow faster, and with happier workers.

We provide cloud-based software via subscription that enables any company in any industry to successfully launch, manage, and transform into a subscription business. Our vision is simple. We call it “The World Subscribed.” It’s the idea that one day every company will be a part of the Subscription Economy. Our mission is to enable all companies to be successful in the Subscription Economy. Architected specifically for dynamic, recurring subscription business models, our solution functions as an intelligent subscription management hub that automates and orchestrates the entire subscription order-to-cash process, including billing and revenue recognition. Our cloud-based software solution is the system of record for subscription businesses. Learn more here: zuora.com/resource/zuora-product-overview

Crunchyroll connects anime and manga fans across 200+ countries and territories with the content they love. Best known as a top streaming service delivering AVOD and SVOD content, Crunchyroll also provides experiences to deepen fan engagement through content distribution, social, events, games, consumer products, and manga publishing. Fans have access to the largest collection of licensed anime through Crunchyroll, Anime Digital Network (in partnership with Citel, a subsidiary of Média-Participations), and Anime on Demand video streaming services, translated in multiple languages for viewers worldwide. Viewers can also access simulcasts — top series available immediately after Japanese broadcast. Crunchyroll's services also extend to licensing of theatrical, TV, home video, and consumer product rights. Fans engage further with events (including owned events Crunchyroll Expo, Anime Awards, Crunchyroll Movie Nights, KAZÉ Movie Nights), consumer products through eCommerce and retail partners (Crunchyroll, KAZÉ, AV Visionen), Crunchyroll Games, KAZÉ Games, and manga (KAZÉ Manga, Crunchyroll Manga app, Crunchyroll Manga Store). Crunchyroll was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in Los Angeles, Tokyo, Paris, Lausanne, Berlin (AV Visionen) and Chisinau. VRV (U.S.) and Eye See Movies (Germany) are also Crunchyroll brands.

Lokalise is the fastest-growing language-tech B2B SaaS. Our goal is to eliminate the hassle of localization by providing tools to automate, integrate, and better manage translations. Lokalise is a better way for growth-minded businesses to expand their mobile apps, games, software, or digital content into multiple languages. Launched in 2017, Lokalise is a remote-only, series-B funded, tech scale-up that works with awesome customers like Starbucks, Revolut, and Amazon. And we're not done yet - now, we are breaking barriers. We are breaking the barrier to prosperity using language. How do we do this? With our amazing team! Our global team of highly dedicated and ambitious people operates like a professional sports team. We continuously support each other, and we always favor our teams’ success over individual egos.

Braze (Nasdaq: BRZE) is a leading, comprehensive customer engagement platform that powers interactions between consumers and brands they love. With Braze, global brands like Burger King, Delivery Hero, HBO Max, Mercari, and Venmo can ingest and process customer data in real time, orchestrate and optimize contextually relevant, cross-channel marketing campaigns, and continuously evolve their customer engagement strategies. And we do it at scale – last fiscal year our customers used Braze to send approximately 1.5 trillion messages to billions of monthly active users.

Klue is an AI-powered Competitive Enablement platform designed to help product marketers collect, curate, and deliver actionable competitor insights to empower revenue teams to win more business. We obsess about your competition so you don't have to. We’re also an award winning company, recently named one of Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Cultures by Waterstone HC, included on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50 list, and winning Tech Culture of the Year at the Technology Impact Awards. We’ve also raised $62M in Series B funding, led by Tiger Global and Salesforce Ventures. We're just a group of experienced biz + tech entrepreneurs solving a problem 85m+ companies have. We care about what we build and iterate at a sprinter's pace. Led by amazing leaders Jason Smith and Sarathy Naicker, who have proven themselves not only in the industry, but also as people first leaders. We think there is something pretty special going on here... Don’t miss your chance to have a seat on the rocketship before it takes off. ?