Top Tech Startups in North America in 2024

Point is the first FinTech platform where homeowners can sell equity in their homes, giving investors access to a new asset class – owner-occupied residential real estate. Historically, the only way a homeowner could unlock the wealth in their home was to take on further debt. Now with Point, they can de-leverage and diversify their wealth so they can invest in their small businesses, make home repairs, pay off debt, or go back to school. Point is the first consumer finance product that is truly aligned with the customer. When the homeowner does well, Point and its investors do well. We are a well-financed, fast-growing startup backed by top investors like Andreessen Horowitz, located in downtown Palo Alto just minutes from Caltrain. Point's founders have previously co-founded TrialPay (acquired by Visa), Yub (acquired by Coupons.com), Metails (acquired by Buy.com), SiteAdvisor (acquired by McAfee), Affirm, SendGrid (acquired by Twilio), and TXN (aquired by Envestnet).

Collective is on a mission to redefine the way businesses-of-one work. Collective’s technology and team of trusted advisors enables our members to achieve financial independence by taking care of everything from business incorporation to accounting, bookkeeping, tax services and access to a thriving community, all in one integrated platform. We believe in empowering self-employed people to enjoy the same tax savings that big companies get. Featured in Forbes, Business Insider, Yahoo, Bloomberg, Financial Times, Techcrunch and more. We’re backed by General Catalyst, Sound Ventures (Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary), QED Investors, Google’s Gradient Ventures, Expa and prominent investors who have financed and built iconic companies like YouTube, Substack, Twitch, Box, Hims, Instacart, Lyft, and more.

Marigold Health uses novel natural language processing to integrate text-based peer support groups with substance use and behavioral health care, giving stigmatized patients 24/7 access to personalized care, while allowing existing care managers and peer coaches to see a 10x gain in patient capacity.

Using machine learning, Relyance AI builds a dynamic, real-time data inventory and map so your organization can monitor how personal data moves through your code, applications, infrastructure, and to third-party vendors. Relyance AI thrives off of and celebrates diversity. We are committed to creating a safe, healthy, and inclusive work environment no matter our employees' race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status, and encourage diverse candidates to apply.

Monad Labs is accelerating the Ethereum Virtual Machine so that decentralized apps can eat the world. The EVM is the ubiquitous standard of web3; over 96% of all capital in DeFi is in EVM apps. In spite of this, EVM-compatible blockchains have extremely low throughput: Ethereum supports roughly 10 transactions per second, and no EVM rollup is over 50 tps. We are solving this problem with Monad, the performant Layer-1 blockchain that introduces parallel execution and superscalar pipelining to the EVM. Deep optimization is needed across all levels of the stack - from the database layer, to the virtual machine layer, to the consensus and networking layer - in order to streamline EVM transaction processing. Monad introduces these low-level optimizations, allowing consumer-grade hardware to deliver exceptional performance while maintaining a high degree of decentralization. We recently raised $225M in series A funding to scale our team in bringing the Monad blockchain to production.

Leading brands rely on Conductor Searchlight for web presence management and SEO, allowing them to engage customers throughout their buying journey. The results are clear: more traffic, more conversions, more revenue.

Hive is the leading provider of cloud-based AI solutions to understand, search, and generate content, and is trusted by hundreds of the world's largest and most innovative organizations. Hive empowers developers with a portfolio of best-in-class, pre-trained AI models, serving billions of customer API requests every month. Hive also offers turnkey software powered by proprietary AI models and datasets, unlocking breakthrough applications for critical business needs with deep learning and generative AI. Collectively, Hive's technology is transforming approaches to platform integrity / content moderation (including AI-generated content detection), brand protection, sponsorship measurement, context-based ad targeting, and more. Hive has raised over $120M from leading investors, including General Catalyst, 8VC, Tomales Bay Capital, and Glynn Capital. In April 2021, Hive announced a $50M Series D at a $2B valuation. The San Francisco-based company has 200+ full-time employees globally, in addition to a distributed workforce of more than 5 million global contributors that supports data labeling operations.

Mobot is a QA-as-a-service platform using actual mechanical robots to automate testing of repetitive functions on real mobile devices. Mobot's human-supervised robots make it possible to automate mobile app tests that emulators, virtual devices, and existing frameworks can't. This approach eliminates thousands of hours of manual testing, increases testing efficiency and physical device coverage, and captures more bugs in-app before app store launches than software can do alone. Our mission is to revolutionize the way engineering teams test & develop their products. We work with software teams in all kinds of industries – mobile, e-commerce, FinTech, health, and IoT (to name a few) – providing automated testing of their mobile products and smart devices. We’ve raised money from world-class B2B enterprise SaaS investors, including Cota Capital, Heavybit, Uncorrelated, Primary Venture Partners, Bling Capital, Y Combinator, and more.

Pontera empowers advisors to see, trade, and manage client assets in 401k, 403b, 529, and other held away accounts. This empowers advisors to offer comprehensive, holistic services to their end clients, and enables end-clients to rest assured that the entirety of their portfolios are purposely directed. Pontera clients range from Fortune 100 financial services firms and large independent broker dealers, to small independent RIA’s and advisory firms. We recently raised a large round of capital from some of the world's top VCs and are aggressively growing our team.

Forage is an online payment solution for government subsidies— the Stripe of government payment systems. Our first software offering helps online grocery stores accept EBT payments online. EBT is like the Visa of government money, and it currently distributes over $80 Billion in food subsidies a year. finsmes.com/2022/08/forage-raises-22m-in-series-a-funding.html