69 Best App Store Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of App Store 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 547 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $14.9b. The average funding per company in this subset is $215.6m.

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

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Cere Network logo

Cere Network

Cere Network is a decentralized data cloud platform built on Polkadot.

7

Funding Rounds

$10.1m

Money raised

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Chime Bank

A bank offering online banking services with no user no bank fees, and an option to receive direct deposit up to two days early. Chris Britt and Ryan King founded Chime in 2013, and the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

6

Funding Rounds

$799.8m

Money raised

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Numerai

Numerai is a hedge fund with stock market trades determined by crowdsourced artificial intelligence models. The best models receive rewards in the form of a cryptographic token called Numeraire (NMR) on the Ethereum blockchain.

3

Funding Rounds

$17.5m

Money raised

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CryptoKitties

CryptoKitties is a game built on the Ethereum blockchain in which users can collect and trade virtual kittens.

2

Funding Rounds

$27.0m

Money raised

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ClimaCell

ClimaCell is a Boston-based weather intelligence platform for automated weather predictions.

6

Funding Rounds

$95.0m

Money raised

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Sisense

Sisense is a software company offering a platform for data analysts and data engineers to transform data into actionable business insights.

8

Funding Rounds

$274.7m

Money raised

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Hasura

Hasura is a software and development tools company, offering tools for developers to simplify application development.

5

Funding Rounds

$241.5m

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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42Crunch

42Crunch is an enterprise API security platform with integrated services, including an API firewall, to discover and remediate API security vulnerabilities.

5

Funding Rounds

$37.7m

Money raised

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Auth0

Auth0 is an authentication and authorization service for application developers.

9

Funding Rounds

$332.3m

Money raised

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Postman

Postman is a San Francisco-based software company offering an API development environment.

5

Funding Rounds

$433.0m

Money raised

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Unifonic

Unifonic is a Saudi-based cloud communication startup.

2

Funding Rounds

$146.0m

Money raised

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Plivo

Plivo is a cloud-based communications platform as a service (CPaaS) company headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company allows software developers to integrate phone calls, text messages, and other communication functions into their applications using its web service APIs.

2

Funding Rounds

$2.0m

Money raised

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Bigchain DB

BigchainDB is a scalable blockchain database that enables developers and enterprise to deploy blockchain proof-of-concepts, platforms and apps with a scalable blockchain database.

2

Funding Rounds

$5.4m

Money raised

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Contentful

Contentful's platform helps teams deliver digital experiences faster with an API-first approach.

20

Funding Rounds

$363.4m

Money raised

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Fortress Identity

Fortress Identity is a Miami-based cybersecurity developer offering multi-factor authentication with biometrics inherence factors to secure iOS and Android applications, active directory environments and Citrix applications.

2

Funding Rounds

$3.0m

Money raised

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PolyAI

PolyAI is a company building an enterprise conversational platform with AI-generated voice assistants to improve customer experience.

4

Funding Rounds

$68.4m

Money raised

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Strapi

Strapi is a company offering an open-source headless content management system (CMS).

5

Funding Rounds

$90.0m

Money raised

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N26 (bank)

N26 is a is a mobile banking company headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

14

Funding Rounds

$2.5b

Money raised

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Algolia

Algolia is a company designing and building search and discovery API for websites and mobile apps. It participated in the W14 cohort of Y Combinator.

9

Funding Rounds

$462.2m

Money raised

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MuleSoft

A technology company, now part of Salesforce, providing an integration platform for connecting SaaS & enterprise applications.

7

Funding Rounds

$259.0m

Money raised

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Replit

Replit is a San Francisco-based IDE and software development environment company making a browser application platform for coding in over fifty programming languages.

7

Funding Rounds

$207.3m

Money raised

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EVEN Financial

EVEN Financial offers a B2B2C API to help connect financial institutions to consumers, and connect consumers to personalized financial products.

3

Funding Rounds

$46.8m

Money raised

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SendBird

SendBird is a developer of a messaging API for mobile applications and websites.

7

Funding Rounds

$218.1m

Money raised

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Salt Security

Salt Security is a Palo Alto, California-based protection platform for APIs and associated API integrations.

7

Funding Rounds

$281.0m

Money raised

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Stardust

Stardust is a company that develops solutions for gaming in the metaverse.

2

Funding Rounds

$35.0m

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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Crunchbase

Crunchbase is company that offers an online platform for discovering information related to private and public businesses.

6

Funding Rounds

$276.5m

Money raised

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Exotic Markets

Exotic Markets is a decentralized wealth management and structured products founded by Joffrey Dalet.

1

Funding Rounds

$5.0m

Money raised

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MachineMetrics

MachineMetrics is a developer of industrial IoT analytics and a machine monitoring platform.

6

Funding Rounds

$37.7m

Money raised

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Flatiron Health

Flatiron Health is a startup that organizes real-time oncology data to help cancer patients and doctors.

3

Funding Rounds

$313.0m

Money raised

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Onfido

Onfido is an identity verification service for enterprises.

7

Funding Rounds

$309.9m

Money raised

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Symbl.ai

Symbl is an API platform for businesses looking to deploy conversational intelligence.

6

Funding Rounds

$23.7m

Money raised

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Upland

Upland is a property trading metaverse connected to real-world addresses.

3

Funding Rounds

$20.0m

Money raised

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Bitski

Bitski is a company making a dApp wallet SDK for decentralized applications.

4

Funding Rounds

$23.3m

Money raised

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RapidAPI

Rapid API is a software company specializing in developing a platform for application programming interfaces.

7

Funding Rounds

$272.5m

Money raised

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Segment (company)

Segment is a company providing a data infrastructure for businesses.

3

Funding Rounds

$239.6m

Money raised

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Airwaive

Airwaive is an online marketplace that connects wireless service providers with home and business owners who earn an income operating wireless access points.

1

Funding Rounds

$3.0m

Money raised

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Railsr

Railsr, formerly Railsbank, is a London-based open-API banking and compliance platform that gives regulated and un-regulated companies access to global bankings.

4

Funding Rounds

$118.2m

Money raised

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MonkeyLearn

MonkeyLearn is an artificial intelligence data analysis and visualization platform.

4

Funding Rounds

$3.2m

Money raised

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Kairos (company)

Facial recognition company Kairos today announced the alpha release of the Kairos Protocol, a biometric verification system for cryptocurrency transactions.

6

Funding Rounds

$9.8m

Money raised

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Tribal Credit

Tribal Credit is a company in San Francisco.

6

Funding Rounds

$103.4m

Money raised

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Corsha

Corsha provides API security software that aims to prevent network attacks through multi-factor authentication for APIs.

3

Funding Rounds

$13.9m

Money raised

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Sano Intelligence

Sano is a technology company making a biometric sensor that provides users with information about how their body metabolizes glucose. Sano Intelligence was acquired by One Drop in April 2020.

3

Funding Rounds

$14.3m

Money raised

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Noname Security

Noname Security is a Palo Alto, California-based cybersecurity and network security company developing products to protect APIs.

3

Funding Rounds

$220.0m

Money raised

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Etherscan

Etherscan is a block explorer for Ethereum.

2

Funding Rounds

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Seerslab

Seerslab is an augmented reality (AR) company providing mobile augmented reality (AR) and vision AI-based solutions to app developers.

3

Funding Rounds

$2.9m

Money raised

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Nylas

A company offering a communications platform allows developers to quickly build features that connect to every email, calendar, and contacts provider in the world.

5

Funding Rounds

$162.5m

Money raised

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SickWeather

An app that aggregates social media data to produce a real-time map of sickness.

5

Funding Rounds

$2.3m

Money raised

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Uphold

Uphold (formerly Bitreserve) is a cloud-based digital money platform. Users can buy, hold, convert and transact across currencies and commodities, including cryptocurrencies.

1

Funding Rounds

$8.0m

Money raised

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AssemblyAI

AssemblyAI is a speech AI company developing AI models capable of transcribing and understanding human speech.

5

Funding Rounds

$108.1m

Money raised

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Spire Health

Spire is a company developing tags that provide health tracking including respiration, sleep, stress, activity, and pulse rate.

5

Funding Rounds

$48.1m

Money raised

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Gupshup

Gupshup is an AI-powered messaging platform that integrates with communication software and protocols for commerce, marketing, and support applications.

5

Funding Rounds

$373.0m

Money raised

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Kong (company)

Kong (formerly Mashape) is a San Francisco-based company that offers open source microservice API gateway.

5

Funding Rounds

$167.6m

Money raised

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DrChrono

DrChrono is a company providing EHR, Practice Management, and Revenue Cycle Management Solution APIs. It participated in the W11 cohort of Y Combinator.

9

Funding Rounds

$57.5m

Money raised

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Practice Fusion

Practice Fusion is a San Francisco-based developer of electronic health record and medical practice management software.

8

Funding Rounds

$132.0m

Money raised

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Sinch

Sinch offers programmable SMS, voice, video, and verification tools.

6

Funding Rounds

$2.8b

Money raised

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Cardiogram (company)

Cardiogram is a company building a personal healthcare assistant, using Deep Learning to turn consumer wearables into continuous health monitors. Cariogram can now detect 4 medical conditions Sleep Apnea, High Blood Pressure, Atrial Fibrillation, and Diabetes.

1

Funding Rounds

$2.0m

Money raised

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StopLight

Stoplight is an Austin, Texas based company developing an API design and documentation platform.

4

Funding Rounds

$20.4m

Money raised

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GYANT

A patient connection and relationship management company, using artificial intelligence-enabled technology to drive more meaningful patient-doctor engagements while improving care utilization and pathways.

2

Funding Rounds

$20.4m

Money raised

Fullcontact logo

Fullcontact

A company building an identity resolution & insights platform

5

Funding Rounds

$33.9m

Money raised

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SkillWallet

SkillWallets are NFT IDs that unlock the true power ofWeb3 Communities

1

Funding Rounds

$1.7m

Money raised

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Jaspersoft

A software platform for data visualization and embedding reports & dashboards.

4

Funding Rounds

$43.5m

Money raised

Keen logo

Keen

Keen is a company founded in 2011 by Kyle Wild, Ryan Spraetz and Dan Kador.

3

Funding Rounds

$15.6m

Money raised

AppDirect logo

AppDirect

AppDirect is a company providing an end-to-end cloud commerce platform for businesses.

7

Funding Rounds

$430.8m

Money raised

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Sanity

Sanity is a software company offering a customizable headless content management system (HCMS).

7

Funding Rounds

$86.8m

Money raised

Zopa logo

Zopa

Zopa is a peer-to-peer lending platform founded in 2005 by Giles Andrews.

14

Funding Rounds

$1.2b

Money raised

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ChainML

ChainML is a Web3 startup building a decentralized machine learning protocol.

1

Funding Rounds

$4.0m

Money raised

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PubNub

U.S-based company providing cloud infrastructure for global software and hardware development and deployment.

7

Funding Rounds

$134.0m

Money raised