Top Technology Startups in 2024

QuillBot is an AI edtech writing platform with over 20 million monthly active users that provides students, attorneys, educators, ELLs, and bloggers with free online writing and research tools to help them become more effective, productive, and confident writers. Founded under the belief that learning and applying the knowledge is more rewarding than the mundane aspects of writing, The QuillBot team seeks to advance that idea by, automating those tasks and allowing their users to focus on what they write, not how they should write it. Whether one is writing emails, social media posts, or essays, QuillBot has their back. It has an arsenal of productivity-enhancing tools that are already changing the way the world writes, and we're looking for world-class talent to change the way people write. Join us if you want to help us lead the way.

Yieldmo is one of the world’s fastest-growing digital advertising and attention analytics companies. Agencies and brands use its premium marketplace to create, measure, model, and optimize their campaigns for unmatched scale and performance. Underpinned by AEROS Attention Analytics, advertisers can now truly understand how consumers are interacting with ads before the click, and after the initial view. Yieldmo ultimately delivers better results by harnessing the power of attention data to drive superior audience engagement and targeting.

We’ve developed a proprietary asset optimization software that generates significantly more revenue per truck and is light years ahead of anything in the industry. This allows us to pay our over-the-road truck drivers over 50% more, while also guaranteeing them significantly more time at home with friends and family.

Ground News Pro is the world’s first news source comparison platform. Drawing from more than 40,000 media outlets worldwide and featuring an average of 30,000 news stories per day, we empower readers to arrive at the truth themselves. For each news story, we find dozens of publications across the political spectrum and from around the world covering the same event. Readers can quickly get a comprehensive view of what’s being said, who is saying it, how it’s being presented, and where and when in the world it was published or aired.

Founded in 2009, TeamSnap has taken the organization of youth, recreational, and competitive sports into the 21st century. 25+ million coaches, administrators, players, and parents use TeamSnap’s web and smartphone apps to sign up, schedule, communicate and coordinate everything for the team, the club, and the season. Explore the TeamSnap blog for more information: blog.teamsnap.com.

Bestow is the first full-stack life insurance company, using technology to make coverage accessible to millions of underserved families. With Bestow, buying life insurance can take as little as five minutes and is 100% digital — No doctors. No needles. Just coverage. As an omnichannel software provider, Bestow powers best-in-class life insurance products and experiences for leading consumer brands. Founded in 2016, Bestow is reimagining the 400-year-old, $7 trillion life insurance industry to democratize access to valuable financial products. We are backed by leading investors and partners including Valar Ventures, NEA, 8VCd, Sammons Financial Group and MunichRe.

In the past four years, Flock Freight has grown over 25 times in size and has become one of the largest startups in San Diego. We’ve done some of our best work in the midst of a global pandemic and even hired over 75 new team members during the crisis. Whether we’re logging on from home or from the office, our mission remains the same: To reinvent North America’s $400-billion freight industry by relentlessly eliminating inefficiency and waste through algorithmic pooling. We’re using our proprietary technology to guarantee carbon neutral shared truckload service, the faster, safer, greener — just better — way to ship. As the first and only company in the freight space to earn a B Corp certification, we’re driven to provide a net-zero shipping option that reduces our industry’s carbon footprint. Our commitment to do the right thing doesn’t stop at the environment though; we’re tackling initiatives in many areas to build an inherently sustainable business model and a high-performance, high-care culture. Our team and our investors are extremely passionate about our pledge to use shipping as a force for good. SoftBank, Volvo Group Venture Capital, SignalFire, GLP Capital Partners, and GV (formerly Google Ventures) recently invested millions in our Series C round of funding, validating our vision to transform the freight industry. This pursuit would be nothing without our brilliant people, who obsess over growing our customer base, developing our carrier network, and improving our technology platform. Come join the Flock!

Skillz is the leading marketplace platform that helps players discover mobile games and compete against other players around the world. At the same time, the company helps developers build multi-million dollar franchises by enabling social competition in their games. Leveraging its patented technology, Skillz has hosted over 2 billion tournaments entries for 30 million mobile players worldwide and distributes over $60 million in prizes each month. Headquartered in San Francisco and Portland, the company is backed by leading venture capitalists, media companies, and professional sports leagues and franchises including the investment arm of the NFL and owners of the New England Patriots, Milwaukee Bucks, New York Mets and Sacramento Kings. Skillz has also earned recognition as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, CNBC’s Disruptor 50, Forbes’ Next Billion-Dollar Startups, and the #1 fastest-growing company in America on the Inc. 5000.

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!

Freenome is on a mission to empower everyone with the tools they need to detect, treat, and ultimately prevent diseases. If you crave challenges, understudied problems, and the chance to see your work impact the millions of lives touched by cancer, there’s no better place to be. We are committed to our core values of empathy, integrity, and trust enable us to push through challenges, learn from mistakes, and support one another to reach our fullest potential. By applying advanced ML techniques to recent breakthroughs in genomic science, Freenome is developing simple blood tests to detect early-stage cancer and make treatments more effective. The company has raised $238M from investors such as RA Capital, Polaris Partners, Perceptive Advisors, a16z, funds/accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc., GV (fka Google Ventures), Roche Venture Fund, Kaiser Permanente Ventures, American Cancer Society’s BrightEdge Ventures, Data Collective Venture Capital, & Verily Life Sciences.