Top B2B Startups in North America

Podium exists to help local businesses win. Using Podium’s technology, local businesses are able to simplify the way they build their business and modernize the way they communicate with their customers – from collecting payments, facilitating online reviews, launching marketing campaigns, and much more. Our work and focus on local business and helping them to build thriving businesses has been recognized across the industry, including Forbes’ Next Billion Dollar Startups, Forbes’ Cloud 100, the Inc. 5000 (#13), and Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies. For more about our product, watch this video. Podium has a positive, inclusive, and supportive culture and was recently named one of Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces for 2021 (4 years in a row). We look for people who are curious, creative and are willing to do the work to be a little better every day. We also embody our company values in all that we do, which always starts with being Customer Obsessed, followed by Be a Founder, Zero Drama, and Enjoy the Ride.

Modern Health is a mental health benefits platform for employers. They are the only solution to cover the full spectrum of mental well-being needs through both evidence-based technology and professional support from a certified coach or therapist. Whether someone wants to proactively manage stress or treat depression, Modern Health guides people to the right care at the right time and helps companies save money in engagement and healthcare costs. Modern Health has raised over $11M from Kleiner Perkins and Y Combinator and works with top companies that want to take a proactive approach to mental well-being.

Check is a payroll-as-a-service API that lets you embed payroll directly in your vertical SaaS, HR, or time-tracking platform. Our API abstracts away the complexities of running payroll: tax calculation, remittance, and filing, plus the movement of money between companies and employees. This enables companies to easily build fully integrated payroll products to offer to their customers. Check believes in a future where small business owners don’t have to think about payroll — it’ll simply be embedded in the platforms they already use to run their businesses. With the strong tailwinds of (1) the rise of vertical software and (2) the growth of embedded fin-tech at our back, Check is building the infrastructure to power that future, and ultimately we believe we’ll enable thousands of new platforms, millions of businesses, and hundreds of millions of workers.

Wynter is an on-demand market research platform for B2B. It's the fastest way to get feedback from your target customers and learn how your messaging is resonating with them.

UpClear (upclear.com) is a technology SaaS company with a global customer base that is changing how Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) companies manage their Trade Promotions. UpClear’s BluePlanner software is a best-in-class platform for Revenue Management, covering Sales Planning, Trade Promotion Management (TPM), Analytics, and Optimization (TPO). BluePlanner has been acknowledged by the Consumer Goods Technology publication as one of the leading solutions for Trade Promotion Management. UpClear is growing quickly and has been recognized for the sixth year in a row (2014 to 2019) as one of the fastest growing private companies by Inc 5000. UpClear serves clients in 25+ countries across Americas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific from its primary offices in New York (US), London (UK), Paris (France), and Hong Kong (China), and branch in Sydney (Australia).

Luminary's technology platform enables wealth advisors to deliver generational gift and philanthropic giving solutions at scale. More than $100 billion in family and philanthropic giving capacity is created each year. But flaws in the current process impose over a billion in annual costs in order to access it. We are building the first product for wealth managers to automate the complex, and inefficient estate planning process.

We’re building the defense layer that keeps humanity in control of increasingly intelligent machines. Technology is bleeding into the physical world faster than society can secure it. Rogue devices, autonomous systems, and AI-driven automation now surround us — and the stakes have never been higher. Sweep exists to detect them, expose them, and stop them. We’re assembling a lean, hardened team of engineers and operators to build the real-world defense network for the machine age — the layer that protects people wherever they move, work, and lead. If that’s you, this is your chance to do your life’s work and help solve one of the most important technical challenges of our time.

Sama is tackling the $8.8 trillion employee engagement problem by democratising professional coaching. Sama is building a scalable B2B2C subscription-based solution to provide employees of all levels their own digital coach. Coaching helps empower employees, to be more engaged, productive and ultimately happier. Sama is purpose-driven and aims to tackle employee engagement. Its solution also allows it to address inclusion and diversity challenges within organisations. We are tapping into the $156bn professional education sector. Our strategy is to launch and establish ourselves in the UK and then expand internationally. A coach in your pocket – employees are matched with the best qualified coach to address their needs or challenges through an app which connects them to the coach either through instant messaging or via a scheduled video call.

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.