Top Software Startups in North America

Linqia combines the science and accountability of online media with award-winning service to deliver guaranteed influencer marketing results for our clients. Our AI-driven platform and team of experts are leading the transformation of influencer marketing into a scalable media channel. The Linqia platform also serves as a social content lab, where marketers can organically test and amplify the best performing influencer content to drive greater ROI from their paid, owned and earned media. Founded in 2012, Linqia works with over 300 leading national brands including Black & Decker, Gerber, Herdez, Kimberly-Clark, Mezzetta, McDonald’s, NBC, Nestle, Purina, Square, Unilever, Uniqlo, Viacom and Walmart. Linqia is headquartered in San Francisco, CA, with offices in New York, Chicago, and Bentonville.

Every single firm that sends an invoice becomes a vendor to the enterprise. As a result, most enterprises now have more vendors than employees. Each vendor needs to be vetted via background checks, validating tax id, banking data, internal sign-offs, etc. This is currently done manually at significant cost, expense and risk to the enterprise. Certa is an automated vendor management platform that instantly vets vendors via direct integrations with IRS, D&B, social media, etc. and streamlines sign-offs via a highly configurable workflow.

Blue Orange Digital is a data science consulting and machine learning development firm. We help companies make sense of their data. From Fortune 500's and startups, we apply modern data analytics techniques to help them find business solutions. Founded by engineers, we love passionate technologists and data analysts. We have startup DNA meaning everyone on our team makes a direct contribution to the growth of the company.

We are on a mission to provide all pets with the quality health care they need from veterinarians and their caretakers. We aim to do this by modernizing the veterinary tech stack throughout a pet patient’s lifecycle from patient identification to preventive care, medical care, and monitoring & lifestyle. Existing vet tools are frustratingly hard to use, lack key features, and look like they are from the 90s. Our vision for a next-generation cloud platform includes a comprehensive medical record management system with delightful client communication tools. Predictive analytics will unlock clinical efficiencies, equip veterinarians with relevant medical data, and inform pet owners of proactive, tailored insights into their pets’ health.

Making the “Best Ideas Win” is our mission. We believe that innovation has the power to make the world a better place, is too important to be left to chance, and that every individual deserves an opportunity to make the most of their ideas. Our software is used by the most innovative companies in the world. We have over 200 customers that use Brightidea to give people a voice in sharing their ideas at large organizations. The problem we’re solving is complex, creative, and exciting. Each of our products can function as a powerful stand-alone tool or utilized as part of a tightly-integrated system. Our suite provides the most mature solution available to support the entire end-to-end innovation process.

Instrumentl is the best platform for nonprofits and grant writers looking to grow revenue (YC S16). Through a personalized process, grant seekers can discover, research and track their grants all in one place.

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.

Taskclan is a Canadian AI company building an integrated ecosystem across six connected pillars. Taskclan Intelligence develops our T1 model family: T1 Core, T1 Flow and T1 Max. Taskclan Cloud delivers AI infrastructure through Cloud Console and Cloud CLI. Taskclan Studio houses T1 Studio, where people and teams can build with our intelligence. Taskclan Engine transforms these shared capabilities into products, including GameNova, Nani, Forge3D and Spaces, TalentKit, ProposalAI and Ostrae. Taskclan Enterprise provides the governance organizations need through policy and residency controls, audit logs, SAML and SSO, and licensing. Taskclan Lab explores new technologies, experiments and future products. Each pillar strengthens the others: Intelligence creates the capabilities, Cloud delivers them, Studio makes them accessible, Engine proves them through products, Enterprise brings them to organizations, and Lab explores what comes next. We are a Toronto-based, remote-first team bringing together ambitious builders who want meaningful ownership and a direct role in building the next generation of Canadian AI.

Centari is the Deal Intelligence platform for law and finance. Our agentic model transforms unstructured documents into valuable insights, empowering professionals to forecast, analyze, and negotiate with the full force of their firm’s knowledge. We call it data-driven dealmaking, and it's transforming the economy as we know it. Today, Centari supports attorneys from global firms across M&A, debt finance, asset management, and real estate. We are backed by top investors in enterprise AI, including former DoorDash board member Jeremy Kranz, Seamless co-founder Andy Appelbaum, Jack Altman, South Park Commons, Recall Capital, and GTMfund.

MOLTEN is a cloud platform that streamlines core operations of media and entertainment enterprises. MOLTEN digitizes and transforms rights, content, and licensing operations across enterprises, empowering teams with real-time insight and automation tools to do more, accelerating deal-making and content monetization worldwide. MOLTEN offers multiple integrated cloud-based services to power back-end operations for media and entertainment enterprises, which include content rights, storage, delivery and licensing management.