69 Best Access Control Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Access Control Startups

We track 71,000+ companies and rank them dynamically using our Seedtable Score – a score that uses quantitative and qualitative data points to signal the momentum behind a company. We then monitor the list manually leveraging our expertise as founders and investors.

There are 503 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $15.5b. The average funding per company in this subset is $224.7m.

Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.

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READY Robotics

READY Robotics is a company developing an industrial brand-agnostic operating system (Forge/OS) for industrial robots and automation.

7

Funding Rounds

$60.6m

Money raised

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Immuta

Immuta is a Boston-based provider of a cloud-native data governance platform for organizations to automate data access control, security, and privacy compliance.

7

Funding Rounds

$267.5m

Money raised

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ProntoForms

A software company offering a low-code development platform for creating mobile business forms.

6

Funding Rounds

$21.8m

Money raised

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Mighty Buildings

Mighty Buildings is a company working in the construction industry with 3D printing technology and advanced composite materials, funded by Y Combinator.

6

Funding Rounds

$97.8m

Money raised

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DataRobot

DataRobot sells a machine learning platform that helps users build and deploy accurate predictive models. The Boston-based company was founded in 2012 by Jeremy Achin.

10

Funding Rounds

$1.0b

Money raised

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Zapier

Zapier is an American for-profit corporation and a web-based service that allows end users to integrate the web applications they use.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.2m

Money raised

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AppZen

AppZen is a San Jose, California-based company that provides an AI-based auditing platform for finance teams.

6

Funding Rounds

$100.9m

Money raised

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H2O.ai

H2O.ai is the creator of H2O, an open-source machine learning and artificial intelligence platform.

8

Funding Rounds

$251.1m

Money raised

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Anduril Industries

Anduril builds AI platforms to protect troops, fight wildfires, perform search & rescue missions, and provide border surveillance. It was founded in 2017 and is located in Irvine, California.

7

Funding Rounds

$2.2b

Money raised

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Sight Machine

Sight Machine's manufacturing software platform uses an artificial intelligence (AI) platform to help improve quality and efficiency across a manufacturing enterprise.

6

Funding Rounds

$53.9m

Money raised

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Itential

Itential is an Atlanta-based network company developing intelligent network automation tools for multi-domain networks.

2

Funding Rounds

$25.5m

Money raised

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Directly

Directly is a San Francisco-based developer of artificial intelligence systems of customer experience and chatbots founded by Antony Brydon, Jean Tessier and Jeff Patterson.

7

Funding Rounds

$97.8m

Money raised

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Boston Dynamics

An engineering and robotics design company founded in 1992 and headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. The company is engaged in the creation of robots and the development of software to simulate human behavior. Among the clients are SpaceX and the US Army.

1

Funding Rounds

$37.0m

Money raised

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BenchSci

BenchSci is a biotechnology company with a machine learning platform for researching biological compounds. It was founded in 2015 and is located in Toronto, Canada.

6

Funding Rounds

$83.3m

Money raised

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ScaleFactor

ScaleFactor is an Austin, Texas-based SaaS company offering services in bookkeeping and accounting.

4

Funding Rounds

$102.5m

Money raised

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Anomali

Anomali is a Redwood City, California-based cybersecurity company offering real-time threat intelligence capabilities.

6

Funding Rounds

$96.3m

Money raised

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Kryon (company)

Kryon offers a robotic process automation-as-a-service (RPAaaS) and analytics solution for businesses of any size.

3

Funding Rounds

$53.0m

Money raised

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Tasktop

Tasktop provides companies with visibility into software portfolios and develops actionable insights for business value.

4

Funding Rounds

$129.6m

Money raised

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Shift Technology

An insurance technology company offering artificially intelligent software for insurance fraud detection and claims handling.

10

Funding Rounds

$568.0m

Money raised

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OpsRamp

OpsRamp is an IT Operations management software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform.

2

Funding Rounds

$57.5m

Money raised

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Kindred AI

Kindred AI is a company founded in 2014 by George Babu, Geordie Rose, James Bergstra and Suzanne Gildert.

3

Funding Rounds

$80.0m

Money raised

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Observe.AI

Observe.AI is the creator of an AI platform for call centers.

6

Funding Rounds

$214.0m

Money raised

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Yewno

Yewno is a company that has built AI technology for research and idea generation.

3

Funding Rounds

$30.5m

Money raised

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Macondo Vision, Inc.

Macondo Vision is an AI platform provider specializing in computer vision systems for tracking objects and workers' actions and providing machine learning-based analytics.

3

Funding Rounds

$1.1m

Money raised

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Amplemarket

Amplemarket provides lead generation, email outreach, and lead qualification on autopilot.

1

Funding Rounds

$12.0m

Money raised

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Fivetran

Fivetran is a California based data software company that helps analysts use cloud data warehouses to store and access their data.

6

Funding Rounds

$727.4m

Money raised

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Ada

Ada is a brand interaction platform that enables the automation of conversations with customers and employees via an AI-based chatbot.

6

Funding Rounds

$190.7m

Money raised

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Automation Anywhere

Automation Anywhere is a company developing cognitive Robotic Process Automation (RPA) software.

6

Funding Rounds

$1.8b

Money raised

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Neighborly

Neighborly drives investment in world-positive infrastructure projects like broadband, solar microgrids, and libraries.

2

Funding Rounds

$50.0m

Money raised

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LabGenius

Synthetic biology company that uses AI, DNA synthesis, and robotics to discover biological molecules.

8

Funding Rounds

$101.4m

Money raised

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Chronicled

Chronicled is a blockchain company founded by Ryan Orr, Samantha Radocchia, Maurizio Greco and David Aho.

10

Funding Rounds

$36.3m

Money raised

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ConveyIQ

Company

6

Funding Rounds

$17.4m

Money raised

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Oxitec

A British biotechnology company developing insect-based biological control systems for safe and sustainable control of insects that transmit disease to humans and destroy crops.

8

Funding Rounds

$39.0m

Money raised

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75F

75F is a Bloomington, Minnesota-based technology company offering an Internet of Things (IoT) building automation system for HVAC, lighting, and equipment control.

5

Funding Rounds

$69.9m

Money raised

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Moveworks

Moveworks is an AI, machine learning, enterprise natural language understanding (NLU) and chatbot platform that resolves IT Service Desk support issues.

3

Funding Rounds

$305.0m

Money raised

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Actiondesk

A software company headquartered in San Francisco, California providing spreadsheet workflow automation software for businesses.

2

Funding Rounds

$7.9m

Money raised

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HyperScience

HyperScience is a AI enabled company for office work company founded in 2014 by Peter Brodsky, Krasimir Marinov and Vladimir Tzankov.

6

Funding Rounds

$238.9m

Money raised

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Gideon

Gideon is a robotics company that creates products for industrial settings.

3

Funding Rounds

$34.7m

Money raised

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Swimlane

Swimlane is the developer of a security organization and response platform that allows businesses to automate their security.

7

Funding Rounds

$247.0m

Money raised

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Tipalti

Tipalti automates the way companies pay suppliers, partners, publishers and employees with cloud-based solutions which addresses all phases of the payables workflow.

10

Funding Rounds

$2.5b

Money raised

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Kontron

Kontron is a company developing embedded computing technologies (ECT) with a portfolio of solutions for secure hardware, middleware, and services for IoT and Industry 4.0 applications.

1

Funding Rounds

$48.8m

Money raised

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ThoughtSpot

ThoughtSpot is a business intelligence platform for exploring, analyzing, and sharing real-time business analytics data.

6

Funding Rounds

$613.7m

Money raised

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R3 Printing

R3 Printing is a company offering 3D-printed products.

5

Funding Rounds

$11.9m

Money raised

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Takeoff Technologies

Takeoff Technologies provides an automated grocery fulfillment solution for grocers.

5

Funding Rounds

$217.0m

Money raised

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Strateos

A software-as-a-service technology company with a focus on robotic solutions for laboratories. It was founded in 2019 and is located in Menlo Park, California.

8

Funding Rounds

$100.4m

Money raised

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AtoB

The trucking and logistics industry provides the backbone of the economy. But the payments infrastructure on which it runs is from the past century and broken.

3

Funding Rounds

$310.0m

Money raised

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Tray.io

Hosted programming platform for developing with public APIs.

9

Funding Rounds

$186.1m

Money raised

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Fellow AI

Fellow AI is a Mountain View Acres, California-based company providing computer vision and robotics solutions for automating supply chain tasks.

4

Funding Rounds

$225.0k

Money raised

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Mendel.ai

Mendel.ai is a life science company offering an artificial intelligence platform to aid clinical experts improve their clinical cancer research.

7

Funding Rounds

$65.4m

Money raised

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Kolena Inc.

Kolena Inc. is a startup developing a machine learning platform with tools for testing, benchmarking, and validating the performance of artificial intelligence models.

2

Funding Rounds

$21.0m

Money raised

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Pliant

Pliant is a company offering a workflow orchestration and infrastructure automation platform.

6

Funding Rounds

$42.3m

Money raised

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Decisions (company)

Decisions is a no-code business automation platform focusing on process automation as well as data handling and business rule execution.

2

Funding Rounds

$45.0m

Money raised

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Opentrons

Opentrons is a company building robots to automate experiments of life scientists.

8

Funding Rounds

$232.9m

Money raised

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Beta Hatch

Beta Hatch is an insect protein for farming company founded in 2015 by Virginia Emery.

6

Funding Rounds

$41.3m

Money raised

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Pipefy

Pipefy is a software company offering a workflow management and process improvement platform.

6

Funding Rounds

$138.7m

Money raised

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ProdPerfect

A company offering a platform for automatically building, running, and maintaining web application QA testing.

4

Funding Rounds

$18.2m

Money raised

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Alpaca (company)

Alpaca is a company that supplies a trading platform designed for investors and traders. It was founded in 2015 and is located in San Mateo, California.

8

Funding Rounds

$71.8m

Money raised

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Simbe Robotics

Simbe Robotics builds automation solutions for shelf auditing and analytics.

6

Funding Rounds

$76.0m

Money raised

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IFTTT

IFTTT is a smart-home technology company and software, focused on connecting Internet-of-Things enabled smart devices.

3

Funding Rounds

$32.5m

Money raised

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Nucleai

An artificial intelligence company with a focus on developing solutions for the healthcare industry. It was founded in 2017 and is located in Tel Aviv, Israel.

2

Funding Rounds

$11.5m

Money raised

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Online Shop

Online Shop is a platform for users to develop e-commerce stores.

2

Funding Rounds

$533.9k

Money raised

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Mythic

Mythic is a U.S-based artificial intelligence hardware and software company.

10

Funding Rounds

$233.6m

Money raised

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Grabit

A company that develops material-handling technology for manufacturing and warehouse logistics.

2

Funding Rounds

$21.0m

Money raised

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Rethink Robotics

Rethink Robotics developed and patented Sawyer, a robot that can replace human labor where danger is likely or difficult.

12

Funding Rounds

$208.0m

Money raised

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HighRadius

Receivables and Treasury cloud software, powered by AI to optimize working capital.

3

Funding Rounds

$475.0m

Money raised

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Meta (academic company)

Artificial intelligence company specializing in big data analysis of scientific and technical literature.

2

Funding Rounds

$9.0m

Money raised

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Tango

Tango is a software development company that has developed an extension for digital documentation purposes.

2

Funding Rounds

$19.7m

Money raised

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AImotive

A global provider of camera-first, AI powered self-driving technology, formerly AdasWorks.

7

Funding Rounds

$98.0m

Money raised

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AlgoSec

AlgoSec is a Ridgefield Park, New Jersey-based developer of network security software automating security policy management and business applications and ensuring security compliance.

2

Funding Rounds

$72.0m

Money raised