The Software as a Service landscape includes major players across many fields, from artificial intelligence to financial technology. Companies like OpenAI have raised significant capital, reaching $78B in funding, while payment processor Stripe has secured $9.4B.
The field is broad, with companies tackling everything from developer operations to clean technology. This includes established players like Harness with $575M in funding and newer entrants like Tether, which has raised $1.5M.
Below is our list of 100 SaaS startups worth keeping an eye on.
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Get the Sheet for $50OpenAI develops some of the world's most advanced AI systems, including the popular conversational model, ChatGPT. The research and deployment company is guided by a core mission to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States |
| Year Founded | 2015 |
| Founders | Andrej Karpathy, Durk Kingma, Elon Musk, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, John Schulman, Pamela Vagata, Sam Altman, Trevor Blackwell, Vicki Cheung, Wojciech Zaremba |
| Funding Amount | $78B |
| Startup Size | Major Organization (1,001-5,000) |
| Last Funding Status | Venture Round |
| Top Investors | Andreessen Horowitz, TPG, NVIDIA, Citi, Khosla Ventures |
Stripe builds financial infrastructure for businesses operating on the internet. Their suite of software and APIs allows companies to accept payments, send payouts, and manage their operations online.
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States |
| Year Founded | 2010 |
| Founders | John Collison |
| Funding Amount | $9.4B |
| Startup Size | Enterprise Organization (5,001+) |
| Last Funding Status | Secondary Market |
| Top Investors | Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst, Temasek Holdings, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital |
Harness created a Continuous Delivery-as-a-Service platform that simplifies how engineering and DevOps teams ship software. The platform automates the entire CD pipeline, allowing teams to release applications into production with greater speed and reliability.
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States |
| Year Founded | 2017 |
| Founders | Jyoti Bansal, Rishi Singh, Rishi Singh |
| Funding Amount | $575M |
| Startup Size | Major Organization (1,001-5,000) |
| Last Funding Status | Debt Financing |
| Top Investors | Norwest Venture Partners, Gaingels, Menlo Ventures, Battery Ventures, IVP |
Tether builds an AI-powered platform that transforms parked electric vehicles into a vast, distributed energy storage network. This technology enables EV owners to sell surplus energy back to the grid, helping to stabilize power and promote the use of renewable sources.
| Headquarters | Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden |
| Year Founded | 2022 |
| Founders | Luis Medina Rivas, Martim Perestrelo |
| Funding Amount | $1.5M |
| Startup Size | Founding Team (1-10) |
| Last Funding Status | Pre-Seed |
| Top Investors | Techstars, K Fund, Draper B1, Enzo Ventures, Inclimo Climate Tech Fund |
MarqVision builds an AI-powered platform that helps brands automatically remove counterfeits from online marketplaces. Their technology protects intellectual property and safeguards brand reputation by monitoring for fakes and piracy at scale.
| Headquarters | Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Year Founded | 2020 |
| Founders | Mark Lee |
| Funding Amount | $94.3M |
| Startup Size | Mid-Size Team (51-250) |
| Last Funding Status | Series B |
| Top Investors | Peak XV Partners, HSG, Y Combinator, Salesforce Ventures, QuantumLight |
Alloy develops an identity verification platform for banks and fintechs to detect fraud and simplify identity management. Their automated system helps financial institutions make smarter risk decisions and securely onboard new customers.
| Headquarters | New York, New York, United States |
| Year Founded | 2015 |
| Founders | Charles Hearn, Laura Spiekerman, Tommy Nicholas |
| Funding Amount | $216.7M |
| Startup Size | Large Team (251-1,000) |
| Last Funding Status | Series C |
| Top Investors | Bessemer Venture Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Techstars, Primary Venture Partners, Canapi Ventures |
Momentum provides a revenue orchestration platform designed to help go-to-market teams automate their sales processes. Their system turns customer interactions from tools like Slack and Salesforce into structured data, driving real-time actions across the sales stack.
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States |
| Year Founded | 2020 |
| Founders | Ashley Wilson, Moiz Virani, Santiago Suarez Ordoñez |
| Funding Amount | $18M |
| Startup Size | Mid-Size Team (51-250) |
| Last Funding Status | Series A |
| Top Investors | South Park Commons, Inovia Capital, Leadout Capital, Stage 2 Capital, FirstMark |
OpenEvidence builds an AI-powered medical search engine for clinical decision support. The platform helps healthcare professionals get quick, evidence-based answers by synthesizing information from vast medical literature.
| Headquarters | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States |
| Year Founded | 2021 |
| Founders | Daniel Nadler, Zachary Ziegler |
| Funding Amount | $317M |
| Startup Size | Lean Team (11-50) |
| Last Funding Status | Series B |
| Top Investors | Sequoia Capital, Coatue, Conviction, Thrive Capital, Kleiner Perkins |
Workato builds an enterprise automation platform that helps businesses connect their various applications and automate complex workflows. The platform is designed to help organizations operate more efficiently without compromising on security and governance.
| Headquarters | Mountain View, California, United States |
| Year Founded | 2013 |
| Founders | Alexey Timanovskiy, Dimitris Kogias, Gautham Viswanathan, Harish Shetty, Vijay Tella |
| Funding Amount | $415M |
| Startup Size | Large Team (251-1,000) |
| Last Funding Status | Series E |
| Top Investors | Norwest Venture Partners, Insight Partners, Battery Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Geodesic Capital |
n8n develops a source-available workflow automation tool that helps technical teams connect different applications and services. Its node-based platform allows for building complex, custom automations that can integrate AI into core business processes.
| Headquarters | Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| Year Founded | 2019 |
| Founders | Jan Oberhauser |
| Funding Amount | $240.3M |
| Startup Size | Mid-Size Team (51-250) |
| Last Funding Status | Series C |
| Top Investors | Accel, Evantic Capital, Sequoia Capital, Highland Europe, Automattic, HV Capital, Redpoint |
90 Additional SaaS Startups Worth Following
Our top picks offer a glimpse into a much larger movement happening in software. Many of the most interesting new companies are focused on AI and fintech, and together they have raised billions in funding.
The list includes companies at every stage, from brand new ventures to established players. Below are the other startups shaping the SaaS ecosystem.
