69 Best Industry Association Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Industry Association 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 16,261 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $49.0b. The average funding per company in this subset is $710.3m.

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Funding Rounds

$18.2b

Money raised

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment platform.

3

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$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

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$570.0m

Money raised

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

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$21.0m

Money raised

Ozon is a Russian e-commerce platform.

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$1.5m

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

4

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$910.0m

Money raised

An end-to-end blockchain and NFT solution for video games.

7

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$60.6m

Money raised

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

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$12.7m

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Creare offers engineering research, development, and consulting services.

4

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$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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$9.0m

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

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6

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$799.8m

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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.

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$142.5m

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The first and most experienced company in bitcoin payments, BitPay builds powerful tools for spending, accepting, and building with bitcoin. The company has offices in North America, Europe, and South America and has raised over $70 million from top investors including Index Ventures, Aquiline Technology Growth, Menlo Ventures, Founders Fund, and S

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$140.4m

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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.

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$35.0m

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Fractal is a gaming marketplace developed to facilitate non-fungible tokens (NFTs).

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$43.0m

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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.

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3

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$250.0m

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Firefly Aerospace is an end-to-end space transportation company developing technology for launching, landing, and operating space missions.

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$510.0k

Money raised

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

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$454.1m

Money raised

Mythical Games is a Los Angeles-based video game development company developing games for playable non-fungible tokens to identify game characters that players can own and offers players a secondary market.

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$583.6m

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

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$17.0m

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Zapper is an interface for managing DeFi assets and liabilities.

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$60.0m

Money raised

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$16.5m

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DeepSig is an early-stage startup that develops deep learning software to reinvent wireless communications.

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$230.0m

Money raised

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

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$1.7b

Money raised

Discord is an American company that offers users a free messenger with support for IP telephony and video conferencing. About 56 million people use the Discord messenger every month, and its total audience exceeds 270 million users.

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$50.0k

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Pembient uses advances in biotechnology to fabricate horn and other wildlife products to combat the threat to endangered species.

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

$307.0m

Money raised

Forge, formerly Equidate, is a company that offers a marketplace for private stock liquidation.

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11

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$1.9b

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Impossible Foods is a plant-based meat company making meat and dairy products that are made to look and feel like animal products by manufacturing heme, the oxygen binding molecule found in blood, using engineered yeast grown in bioreactors.

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$3.9m

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

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$900.0k

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

8

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$406.4m

Money raised

Bolt Threads is a biotechnology company that makes high performance fabrics and materials using biology.

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$37.0m

Money raised

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

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$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

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$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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4

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$60.6m

Money raised

Kumu Networks provides a proprietary self-interference cancellation technology that increases the efficiency of wireless networks.

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Company developing space manufacturing technologies to support exploration, national security, and sustainable space settlement.

7

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$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

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$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.

9

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$995.5m

Money raised

Luminar Technologies is an Orlando, Florida-based automotive industry company.

3

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$34.0m

Money raised

Parallel Finance is a decentralized lending and staking protocol on Polkadot and Ethereum.

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$165.1m

Money raised

Figment is a blockchain infrastructure and software provider.

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2

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$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.

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$3.8b

Money raised

Klarna is a financial technology company providing e-commerce payment solutions for merchants and shoppers.

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Amentum is a technical and engineering services partner working with the United States defense, security, intelligence, energy, and environmental programs.

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$110.1m

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Coinhouse is the developer of an investment platform for cryptocurrency assets.

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11

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$46.4m

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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.

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10

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$6.0b

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Flexport is a licensed freight forwarder and shipping company based in San Francisco, CA, USA. They manage global logistics for businesses.

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$3.6m

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Splinterlands is a digital trading card game built on blockchain technology.

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10

Funding Rounds

$1.6b

Money raised

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

2

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$24.0m

Money raised

Ondo Finance is an open, permissionless, decentralized investment bank

10

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$1.3b

Money raised

Brex is a credit card company that issues corporate credit cards with no security deposit.

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4

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$49.0m

Money raised

Siklu is a San Jose, California and Petah Tikva-based telecommunications company developing multi-gigabit wireless fiber connectivity systems for urban, suburban, and rural areas.

1

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$150.0k

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

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$336.0m

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

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7

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

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$21.8m

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

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$764.7m

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

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$408.0m

Money raised

Space-based automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) for global air traffic surveillance.

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$1.0m

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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.

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$81.5m

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Kasisto is a company that develops conversational AI for financial institutions.

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

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6

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$157.0m

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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.

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$137.0m

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Upstox is an India-based investment platform founded by Shrini Viswanath, Ravi Kumar, Kavitha Subramanian, and Raghu Kumar.

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$12.1m

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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

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$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

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$165.0m

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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.

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$164.5m

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

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