69 Best Developer Startups to Watch in 2026

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Developer 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 661 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $11.7b. The average funding per company in this subset is $169.6m.

Last update to the database: Apr 7, 2026. See changelog.

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$5.0b

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AI safety and research platform.

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5

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$118.0m

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Qredo is a cross-chain protocol for asset managers and traders active in the digital asset markets.

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$106.4m

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Moralis is a Web3 development platform.

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$11.1m

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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.

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8

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$99.0m

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

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5

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$241.5m

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

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5

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$37.7m

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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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$363.4m

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

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5

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$90.0m

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

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$3.9m

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Donut Lab is a mobile game developer of the Donut Punks action game.

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6

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$97.1m

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Coder is an Austin, Texas-based developer of open-source tools and an enterprise platform to configure, secure, and scale development environments.

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5

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$21.0m

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Memgraph is an in-memory Cypher-compatible graph database.

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6

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$317.0m

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BigPanda offers a platform that helps IT Ops, NOC, and DevOps teams detect, investigate, and resolve IT incidents.

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$248.0m

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Sourcegraph offers universal code search for developers and enterprises.

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$90.0m

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SimScale is a cloud-based CAE software that helps users perform simulations of CAD models.

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4

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$159.0m

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Aera Technology is a software company offering business automation functions.

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$53.0m

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Provider of autonomous AI agent for Java software testing.

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2

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$268.8m

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ProbablyMonsters is an Issaquah, Washington-based game development studio.

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2

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$8.5m

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LlamaIndex is an open-source data framework for connecting custom datasets with large language models (LLMs) in order to build applications.

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$3.0m

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Mundfish is a game development studio specializing in the production of role playing games.

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8

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$171.8m

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A fully customizable all-code backend for content-driven websites and apps, their builders and creators. Power all your content operations from a single platform.

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$12.0m

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CY Vision is California-based company developing computational holographic technology for cars.

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Atirath is a Hyderabad, India-based mobile game development company developing puzzle, casual, and strategy games.

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$3.5m

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Pratexo is an Austin, Texas-headquartered edge computing company offering edge orchestration and management tools that bring edge computing into the cloud and bring artificial intelligence to the edge.

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$8.9m

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PixieBrix is a New York City-based developer of a low-code platform to allow users to add automation, integrations, collaborations, and artificial intelligence to web apps.

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$36.7m

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Weaveworks is a company developing a delivery pipeline platform for building and operating applications, helping developers connect, monitor, and manage microservices and containers.

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$31.4m

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Company developing collaboration platform for teams to create and maintain design system documentation

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5

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$81.8m

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Fauna Inc is a data application programming interface for applications.

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$4.6m

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Tool for developers that runs Docker container builders on the cloud.

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$10.0m

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Lava Labs is a game development studio.

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$16.5m

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Dust is a French artificial intelligence start-up using large language models (LLMs) on internal company data to improve productivity.

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5

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$88.6m

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Spacelift is an AI-powered infrastructure orchestration platform founded in 2020 by Marcin Wyszynski.

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$81.0m

Money raised

Developer of an open banking API platform intended to access and interpret data from end-users in an easy and scalable way.

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$426.9m

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Typeform is a technology company that allows users to build well-designed, conversation-based forms for collecting data

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5

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$74.1m

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Founded in 2017, Comet provides tools that assist in the development of machine learning and deep learning models for other organizations and enterprises.

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$3.9m

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Twin Suns Corp. is a Bainbridge Island, Washington-based video game development studio developing action games for console and PC.

5

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$127.8m

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Jedox provides users with a platform for EPM to accelerate planning, forecasting and reporting through automation and predictive analytics.

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$19.0m

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Platform that protects online assets by using community-shared information on IP behavior and reputation.

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$21.8m

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Privacy Automation Platform made to help businesses deliver transparent, trustworthy online experiences on autopilot

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$106.0m

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Lokalise is a web-based translation system

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8

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$293.8m

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A company providing an API allowing its users to encode, host and stream videos.

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$7.9m

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Teller is an algorithmic credit risk protocol, built to enable the creation of decentralized lending markets that can offer unsecured loans, without the need for collateral.

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$255.0m

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Weights and Biases is a software company that makes developer tools for machine learning.

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$26.4m

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Slite is an information organizing platform for corporate teams, for the purpose of collaborative productivity.

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$20.2m

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Rerun is an AI-powered open-source visualization infrastructure platform founded in 2022 by Nikolaus West, Emil Ernerfeldt and Moritz Schiebold.

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9

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$58.1m

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EVRYTHNG is a New York-based data services company founded in 2011 by Vlad Trifa, Dominique "Dom" Guinard, Niall Murphy, and Andy Hobsbawm.

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$11.0m

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Cerbos is an access control decision engine for software.

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5

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$195.0m

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Homa Games is a digital tools for mobile games developers founded in 2018.

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4

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$43.9m

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Deepnote is a company that has created an online platform for data scientists. It was founded in 2019 and is located in San Francisco, California.

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3

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$99.2m

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Provider of a purpose-built tool for modern product development.

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$500.0k

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NewsCatcher is a developer of a data scraping and crawling API that helps enterprises get instant access to news and events.

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$4.9m

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Platform for building modern reactive apps with realtime collaboration and offline capabilities.

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$3.2m

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TabbyML is a company developing an open-source, self-hosted AI coding assistant called Tabby, which provides multi-line and full-function suggestions in real time.

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$83.3m

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Flock is a real-time messaging and collaboration app for team communication.

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$27.7m

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Cast.ai is an AI-driven cloud optimization company based in Miami, FL.

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$38.5m

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Merge is a B2B integrations platform.

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5

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$34.0m

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ViSenze is an Artificial Intelligence company founded in Singapore, as part of NExT, a joint research centre between the National University of Singapore and Tsinghua University of China.

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4

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$520.0m

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Checkr is a company developing an API to automate professional background checking.

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4

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$152.6m

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Enable is a cloud-based software tool for managing business-to-business rebates founded in 2016 by David Hunt, Denys Shortt and Andrew Butt.

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$70.0m

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A software company offering a headless content management system with a visual composer.

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9

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$352.2m

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Netlify is a San Francisco-based website hosting and publishing company.

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$75.0m

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Duda is a responsive website builder for digital marketing agencies, hosting companies, and online directories.

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$20.0m

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Flock Cover is an insurance technology startup based in London.

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5

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$410.8m

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Copado is a provider of a DevOps platform for Salesforce users.

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$18.0m

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Sqreen is a San Francisco-based cybersecurity company developing a monitoring and protection platform for corporations.

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3

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$102.0m

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Technology platform that provides touchless interfaces for interacting with digital content.

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$106.3m

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Bubble is a software company allowing users to build web apps without code

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$56.2m

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Provider of historical financial market data and analytics.

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A property insurance platform that eliminates the need for office space deposits. Its office is located in London, England and it was founded in 2018.

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