69 Best Design Tool Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Design Tool 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 7,823 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $38.2b. The average funding per company in this subset is $553.5m.

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

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Funding Rounds

$18.2b

Money raised

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment platform.

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3

Funding Rounds

$364.2m

Money raised

Neuralink is a company that develops brain-computer interface (BCI) devices to assist people with paralysis and blindness and technologies that may expand the abilities of humans.

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9

Funding Rounds

$570.0m

Money raised

Dialpad is a San Francisco-headquartered business communications platform company.

1

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$1.5m

Money raised

Developer of low-latency and high-throughput broadband networks for AR/VR, IoT, robotics, and other emerging technologies.

7

Funding Rounds

$60.6m

Money raised

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

25

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$12.7m

Money raised

Creare offers engineering research, development, and consulting services.

4

Funding Rounds

$166.5m

Money raised

Celestia is a stripped-down layer-1 blockchain that focuses solely on ordering transactions and making the data for transactions available. The blockchain does not handle smart contracts or perform computations.

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1

Funding Rounds

$9.0m

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Tendermint is now Ignite. Tendermint was the core contributor to the Cosmos blockchain network.

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15

Funding Rounds

$140.4m

Money raised

Synthace is a software company based out of London, UK, building automation software that gives biologists the ability to control and analyze the performance of lab hardware.

15

Funding Rounds

$43.0m

Money raised

What3words is a London-based company developing a global address system. The company was founded by Jack Waley-Cohen, Chris Sheldrick, Mohan Ganesalingam, and Michael Dent.

1

Funding Rounds

$510.0k

Money raised

Wavel.ai is a voice AI solution for scaling and localizing video content.

4

Funding Rounds

$583.6m

Money raised

TriNet Zenefits is a software as a service (SaaS) company providing a digital human resources platform for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

5

Funding Rounds

$72.2m

Money raised

Arzeda is a biotechnology and software company designing custom microorganisms for industrial applications through computational enzyme design, protein optimization, and metabolic engineering.

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1

Funding Rounds

$60.0m

Money raised

4

Funding Rounds

$230.0m

Money raised

Humane develops and commercializes consumer hardware, software, and services.

7

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$124.0m

Money raised

Company providing user behavioral analytics for revenue optimization for websites and smartphone applications

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9

Funding Rounds

$3.9m

Money raised

Charles River Analytics is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based R&D solutions provider in 1983.

3

Funding Rounds

$900.0k

Money raised

Pitney Bowes is a Stamford, Connecticut-based company founded in 1920 by Walter Bowes.

5

Funding Rounds

$37.0m

Money raised

Gemalto is an Amsterdam-based electronics company that has been acquired by Thales.

6

Funding Rounds

$722.0m

Money raised

Cerebras is an AI company building computer systems designed to accelerate AI workflows.

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6

Funding Rounds

$214.0m

Money raised

ScienceLogic is an IT Operations Management company providing IT infrastructure monitoring and AIOps solutions for hybrid cloud management.

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5

Funding Rounds

$349.2m

Money raised

HashiCorp is a software company providing tools for developers and security professionals to provision, secure, and run infrastructure for distributed applications for organizations.

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7

Funding Rounds

$267.5m

Money raised

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

8

Funding Rounds

$274.7m

Money raised

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

7

Funding Rounds

$165.1m

Money raised

Figment is a blockchain infrastructure and software provider.

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2

Funding Rounds

$103.5k

Money raised

Terminal Africa is the developer of a delivery aggregator platform designed to make it easier for Africans to send and receive products globally.

11

Funding Rounds

$46.4m

Money raised

Cropin, also known as Cropin Technology solutions, is a company that offers an intelligent and self-evolving system that delivers farming solutions to the agricultural sector.

10

Funding Rounds

$1.6b

Money raised

Snyk is a technology company offering a software development security platform using open-source code.

2

Funding Rounds

$24.0m

Money raised

Ondo Finance is an open, permissionless, decentralized investment bank

1

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$150.0k

Money raised

GitStart is a "Pull Request as a Service" platform founded in 2019 by Hamza Zia.

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2

Funding Rounds

$336.0m

Money raised

Mysten Labs creates foundational infrastructure to accelerate the adoption of Web3.

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7

Funding Rounds

$11.1m

Money raised

Sky Engine AI is an advanced data science technology and research company that develops evolutionary AI platform for deep learning in virtual reality for any computer vision applications.

Urbit is a stack that allows for a decentralized filesystem address space created by startup Tlon.

6

Funding Rounds

$21.8m

Money raised

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

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3

Funding Rounds

$764.7m

Money raised

Bitmain is a Beijing-based multinational semiconductor company, founded in 2013, that manufactures products for blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) applications.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.0m

Money raised

Applied Voice & Speech Technologies, Inc. (AVST) is a privately held software company headquartered in Orange County, California. It specializes in developing business communications solutions focusing on medium to large enterprise, government, higher education, healthcare, and hospitality markets.

JSquare is a San Francisco-based company founded in 1985 by Jeff Herman.

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6

Funding Rounds

$157.0m

Money raised

Data.ai, formerly known as App Annie, is a unified data and artificial intelligence (AI) company that combines consumer and market data to provide AI-powered insights into mobile app market data.

2

Funding Rounds

$12.1m

Money raised

Sky and Space Global is an Australian nanosatellite company focused on IoT networks.

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7

Funding Rounds

$875.5m

Money raised

C3 AI is an enterprise artificial intelligence software company providing a family of integrated products for accelerating digital transformation.

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15

Funding Rounds

$3.2b

Money raised

Bolt, previously Taxify, is a technology start-up and developer of an on-demand transportation platform.

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4

Funding Rounds

$165.0m

Money raised

Elastic is a software company that creates products for searching for information on the Internet. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco and Amsterdam.

4

Funding Rounds

$164.5m

Money raised

Aisera is an artificial intelligence company offering a platform for information technology, cloud computing, customer service, and operations.

8

Funding Rounds

$99.0m

Money raised

Hadean is a venture-backed computing technology company that aims to make the nature of computing more accessible.

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4

Funding Rounds

$38.0m

Money raised

Salesken.ai is a conversational intelligence platform.

5

Funding Rounds

$241.5m

Money raised

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

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9

Funding Rounds

$2.5b

Money raised

Cockroachs Labs is the New York based company behind Cockroach DB, an open source, distributed SQL database.

5

Funding Rounds

$121.0m

Money raised

A company offering an email client designed to be the fastest email experience. The company was founded by Conrad Irwin, Rahul Vohra, and Vivek Sodera in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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6

Funding Rounds

$203.6m

Money raised

Loom is a software company that develops communication software for asynchronous presentations through sharable video recordings.

4

Funding Rounds

$107.0m

Money raised

TrustArc is a San Francisco-based developer of privacy compliance and risk management software for GDPR, CCPA, and related regulations.

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8

Funding Rounds

$741.4m

Money raised

Desktop Metal is a Burlington, Massachusetts-based metal 3D printing company founded in 2015 by Ric Fulop, Jonah Myerberg, and Ely Sachs.

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9

Funding Rounds

$1.1b

Money raised

Circle is a peer-to-peer payments technology company that is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts and was founded in 2013 by Jeremy Allaire and Sean Neville.

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5

Funding Rounds

$87.5m

Money raised

CodeSignal is developing a skills-based assessment platform for unbiased hiring within companies.

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3

Funding Rounds

$2.9m

Money raised

Caban Systems is a Burlingame, California-based renewable energy and energy storage company developing modular energy storage platforms for critical infrastructure power needs.

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10

Funding Rounds

$1.0b

Money raised

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.

8

Funding Rounds

$390.0m

Money raised

Exabeam is a San Mateo, California-based data security analytics company offering cybersecurity and early cyber attack detection software.

1

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$1.2m

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

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9

Funding Rounds

$427.0m

Money raised

Interos is a Virginia-based company developing a logistics assurance platform designed for supply chain risk management, through a breakthrough AI SaaS platform.

5

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$37.7m

Money raised

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

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4

Funding Rounds

$6.7m

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Provider of 4G and 5G mobile network solutions.

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6

Funding Rounds

$136.5m

Money raised

Egnyte delivers secure content collaboration, compliant data protection, and simple infrastructure modernization, all through a single SaaS solution.

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4

Funding Rounds

$12.0m

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LotusFlare is a developer of digital engagement platforms intended to help companies acquire, engage, retain, and monetize users on digital channels.

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4

Funding Rounds

$108.0m

Money raised

PlanetScale is a database-as-a-service platform acting as a middleware system for MySQL.

7

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$109.7m

Money raised

Esper provides a DevOps platform for Android-based devices. The platform features cloud management tools for device deployment, app development, and monitoring.

2

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$226.0m

Money raised

Writer is an AI writing assistant developed for content teams. It provides individuals, teams, and companies the ability to create and enforce a writing style guide to help them improve their branding.

2

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$19.5m

Money raised

Phylum helps developers identify and mitigate risk.

1

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$50.0k

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HYPRES is a developer of superconducting microelectronics for defense, wireless, and optical network industries.

6

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$100.9m

Money raised

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

5

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$433.0m

Money raised

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

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