64 Best Local Search Internet Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Local Search Internet 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 7,143 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $48.3b. The average funding per company in this subset is $755.3m.

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Funding Rounds

$18.2b

Money raised

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment platform.

2

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$21.0m

Money raised

Ozon is a Russian e-commerce platform.

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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.

6

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$799.8m

Money raised

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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$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.

3

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$17.5m

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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.

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$31.0m

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An online publishing platform used by amateur and professional writers. Membership fees are used to pay writers.

1

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$60.0m

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4

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$230.0m

Money raised

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

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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.

9

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$3.9m

Money raised

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

3

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$900.0k

Money raised

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

9

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$1.5b

Money raised

Faire is a curated boutique wholesale marketplace connecting local retailers with thousands of emerging and established brands.

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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.

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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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3

Funding Rounds

$2.3m

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A web and API platform that provides Bitcoin and Altcoin conversion.

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

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2

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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

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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10

Funding Rounds

$269.5m

Money raised

Rigetti Computing is a quantum computing company based in Berkeley, California.

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$27.5k

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Full Circle Biochar is a developer of products and technologies based on bio-charcoal for the agricultural markets.

4

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$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.

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$8.5m

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CUJO AI is a network intelligence software company.

9

Funding Rounds

$217.2m

Money raised

Density is a San Francisco-based company building a people-counting system to measure the number of people in or passing through a physical space such as a hallway, lobby, or conference hall.

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7

Funding Rounds

$81.3m

Money raised

Kepler Communications is a company that has a focus on satellite production and communication networks.

7

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$294.0m

Money raised

Augury is a B2B company developing hardware and software solutions to help monitor and diagnose a machine's health through wireless sensors and artificial intelligence capabilities.

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.

4

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$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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5

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$83.0m

Money raised

Kajeet, the industry leader for safe, mobile student Internet connectivity outside the classroom, helps students succeed in school.

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5

Funding Rounds

$286.0m

Money raised

Quora is a question-and-answer website founded in 2010 by Adam D'Angelo and Charlie Cheever.

8

Funding Rounds

$431.5m

Money raised

Coursera is an online education technology company founded in 2012 by Daphne Koller.

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Hypergiant Industries is a machine learning and artificial intelligence company offering client-focused services and research and development in various fields. The company was founded by Ben Lamm and John Fremont in 2018.

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$1.1b

Money raised

GetYourGuide is a travel booking and planning platform.

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2

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$13.9m

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Tacit Knowledge is a London-headquartered software and IT consulting company developing enterprise software solutions for digital commerce companies.

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6

Funding Rounds

$898.4m

Money raised

Wise, previously TransferWise, is a company that offers money transfers services founded by Kristo Käärmann and Taavet Hinrikus.

6

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$46.9m

Money raised

AirMap is a California-based drone industry company improving low-altitude-airspace infrastructure to help drone operators fly safely and legally.

8

Funding Rounds

$180.7m

Money raised

Bugcrowd is an enterprise cloud computing and computer security crowdsourcing company that offers a platform for security testing, web, mobile, source code, and client-side applications.

6

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$168.0m

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Developer of fully interactive advanced lab simulations designed to create scalable science training software. The company's simulations offer a virtual laboratory based on mathematical algorithms that support open-ended investigations along with molecular three-dimension animations, quiz questions, and background theory.

9

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$3.9m

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Toyon Research Corporation is a Goleta, California-based company that researches and develops radio frequency and antenna systems that was founded in 1980.

11

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$4.1b

Money raised

The World's First Digital Clinic for Back and Joint Pain

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$144.4m

Money raised

Ayla Networks is a technology company developing a platform as a service (PaaS) for managing internet of things (IoT) devices.

2

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$4.2m

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Footprint is an all-in-one analysis platform to visualize your discoveries in blockchain data

4

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$477.4m

Money raised

Grove Collaborative is an online, subscription-based retailer selling natural home and health products.

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5

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$84.5m

Money raised

FogHorn Systems is a Real-Time Edge Intelligence for Industrial IoT founded in 2014 by Sastry Malladi.

3

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$113.0m

Money raised

DuckDuckGo is a company developing an Internet search engine that emphasizes protecting searchers' privacy and avoiding filtered results to meet personalized search results.

14

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$2.5b

Money raised

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

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5

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$2.1b

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Commonwealth Fusion Systems is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based research and development company developing fusion power systems based on ARC tokamak reactors.

5

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$19.7m

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Khan Academy is a nonprofit online educational organization that was founded in 2008.

3

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$35.5m

Money raised

SAM Seamless Network is a cybersecurity technology platform that protects the connected home by tackling cyber security threats at the source.

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9

Funding Rounds

$462.2m

Money raised

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.

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4

Funding Rounds

$51.0m

Money raised

Adarga is a UK-based artificial intelligence software provider working with customers across defense, national security, and commercial organizations.

12

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$1.7b

Money raised

Revolut is a London-based Fintech startup and bank offering mobile banking, card payments, money remittance, and foreign exchange services.

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7

Funding Rounds

$66.0m

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Superplastic is a creative product and experience studio founded in 2018.

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2

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$80.9m

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Hawkers is an Elche, Spain-based sunglass brand.

7

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$207.3m

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

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5

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$8.4m

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Speech recognition software that provides voice-enabled experiences for kids of all ages, accents, and dialects while prioritizing privacy.

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$1.2b

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Scopely - leading mobile game development company.

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7

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$119.2m

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Seeq is a company that offers an application that processes data analytics.

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4

Funding Rounds

$126.0m

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Mercury is a company making banking products for startups based in San Francisco and backed by a16z.

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4

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$30.4m

Money raised

Moz is a company developing and providing inbound marketing analytics software.

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$14.5m

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CasperLabs is a Zug-based company and blockchain platform founded in 2018 by Mrinal Manohar, Clifford Sarkin and Medha Parlikar.

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Funding Rounds

$84.9m

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Physna is a Cincinnati-based 3D modelling software company offering 3D models understandable by software applications for manufacturing, engineering, product design, 3D printing, augmented reality and virtual reality applications.

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$1.1b

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4Paradigm is a China-based artificial intelligence start-up company developing machine learning software.

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