Top Tech Startups in North America in 2024

We all depend on healthcare throughout our lifetimes, for ourselves, and our families and friends, but it is notoriously difficult to navigate and understand. As an industry that comprises 20% of the US economy we think healthcare should work better for all of us. At Steer Health we believe it’s time for a new day in healthcare where as healthcare consumers we are informed and empowered to make the right care choices when the decisions are urgent and critical. Our All-in-One growth platform offers a user-friendly healthcare telemedicine enterprise that empowers healthcare providers to deliver personalized patient care in real-time resulting in new practice revenues, enhanced staff efficiencies, and higher levels of patient satisfaction.

We are a team of MIT and Berkeley engineers + revenue leaders with diverse experiences spanning from Wall Street exotics trading to delivering growth, product, and revenue at companies like Verkada (backed by Sequoia, Felicis, First Round, etc) and Wiz (backed by Sequoia, Salesforce, Index, Insight), the fastest growing company in history to reach $100M in ARR. We have raised capital led by Felicis Ventures and Crossbeam Venture Partners, with participation from Liquid2 Ventures and GPs/Executives at BOND Capital, Roblox, and Nium. We’re solving a fundamental problem in sales - businesses need new customers, and there are hundreds of millions of people globally in business development/sales roles. All businesses everywhere rely on sales. This is our marketplace. There are analogies to Uber (transportation), Doordash (delivery), Linkedin (business networking), and Ali Baba (marketplace), in that order. We’ve built phone dialing and calendar scheduling infrastructure into our marketplace. We make it seamless for businesses to list an outbound sales campaign on our platform. We make it seamless for sales people to create an account, set up a profile, make money, track and improve their stats, and become better sales people. From this data, we make it easy for businesses to gain insights about how their messaging is being received by prospective customers, and insights about prospective sales hires through real data, accelerating their growth. Also from this data, we make it easy for sales people to gain insights and increase their sales skills, and stand out to hiring managers for full-time sales roles.

CoverRight is an insurance technology (‘insurtech’) startup on a mission to make Medicare more accessible to the 60 million Medicare beneficiaries across the country. We help the 10,000 people retiring every day make one the most complex but important decisions as they age into retirement – finding the right health insurance. We're backed by reputable venture capital investors and have assembled a passionate and driven team to tackle an industry long overlooked by technology. Our mission is to become the most trusted partner in navigating the early-stages of retirement.

Rentazon provides a local renting solution that is fast and affordable by building a User-friendly and customer-centric online rental community. Rentazon’s POS CRM management system provides all-in-one inventory management, bookings, and payments.

We are developing better humans at work and improving workplace culture. We do this by developing critical interpersonal skills that drive engagement, retention, and belonging (e.g., trust-building, communication, collaboration skills) at scale. Every year, companies lose $450 Billion to disengaged employees, despite spending over $26 Billion on interpersonal skills development. AwakeTeams is an AI-powered collaborative learning platform that develops high priority interpersonal skills for enterprise customers at scale. Proprietary monthly data reports track progress and trigger personalized learning paths. AwakeTeams customers include The White House President’s Management Agenda Team, Northwestern Mutual, and Nord-Lock Group, reporting up to +20% improvement in team performance, +30% in productivity, and +40% in constructive conflict. Founder is former Fortune 100 executive with expertise in neuroscience and behavior change Current team includes part-time software engineers, data scientists, PhD behavioral scientist, and world class facilitators.

We're an educational technology service company - we don't make a single product and sell it. Almost all our sales are "unearned inbound" leads, that come to us based on our reputation for ethics, expertise, and effectiveness. We do release a fair bit of open source code, and we often reuse this code on multiple projects, so we in some ways we are an open-source company, but again, we don't look like a typical open source product or platform company. We make money by earning it every day. On the plus, that means we are a profitable company, and have sustainable revenue. On the downside, it means we aren't on the "J-curve" for growth. On the upside, we don't have any investors pushing for fast growth, high-risk strategies.

FilmUp's software enabled film studios and film production companies to staff, manage, and pay crew across all their productions.

Left Hook is a software company that builds and manages universal integrations for B2B software companies. Our hands-on experience with over 200 different SaaS APIs, our JavaScript-based MERN-stack skills, and our marketer’s understanding of partnerships form a rare expertise highly valued by our SaaS clients. We specialize in “no code” apps that empower non-developers to self-manage integrations without needing to understand code or APIs. These self-serve integration apps are typically distributed through marketplaces in partnership with other B2B SaaS products, and are often referred to as “tech partnerships.” Our developers are experts in APIs and microservice architecture that leverages the MERN stack and serverless technologies. We are also pioneering a new software framework (built on Node.js and the Serverless.com framework) that accelerates development and will soon become an open source project of its own.

Medical bills are a huge problem. They are confusing, 40% of them contain errors, 17% of them are denied by insurances, and can represent very large sums of money. As a result, 100 million people are saddled with healthcare debt, and medical bills cause nearly 70% of personal bankruptcies. Identifying and resolving medical billing issues is time-consuming, complex and very stressful. Stuck between their providers, payers and bill collectors, consumers have to make numerous phone calls, send letters and faxes, and fill out complex forms. This article from ProPublica explains the complexity of insurance appeals, and this does not even touch on resolving billing errors or negotiating bills. Thanks to AI and new healthcare regulations around data access and price transparency, we are now able to automate this grunt work and empower consumers to fight back this broken system. While our initial focus is on helping people once they’ve received a bill, we are committed to helping people through their entire healthcare journey as they look for care or choose insurance plans. wellfound.com/blog/from-the-founder-or-julien-nakache-founder-of-medbill-ai

Our platform is designed to offer a wide array of AI-based tools that cater to various aspects of teaching, from lesson planning to student engagement, all to facilitate a more personalized and efficient learning environment.