16 Best Open Data Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Open Data 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 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $438.7m. The average funding per company in this subset is $27.4m.

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

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Unsplash

Unsplash is a website dedicated to sharing copyright-free photography under the Unsplash license.

2

Funding Rounds

$31.3m

Money raised

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Teleport (company)

Teleport is a Palo Alto, California-based company developing a software to assist users to find their ideal place to live and work based on their preferences for income, living costs, and quality of life.

1

Funding Rounds

$2.5m

Money raised

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Messari

Messari is a cryptocurrency data and analytics firm. It's mission is to promote transparency and smarter decision-making in the cryptoasset community. Their open-source data library helps researchers, investors, and regulators make sense of the industry.

6

Funding Rounds

$61.0m

Money raised

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Urbint

A data intelligence company aiding urban opeartors in decision making

2

Funding Rounds

$95.0m

Money raised

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CARTO

CARTO is a developer of a platform turning spatial data into delivery routes, behavioral marketing, and strategic development.

2

Funding Rounds

$122.0m

Money raised

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Green City Solutions

Green City Solutions is a Berlin-based company working to address the problem of air pollution with an installed moss culture and IoT technology.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.4m

Money raised

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Socrata

Socrata is a Seattle-based company founded in 2007 by Kevin Merritt.

2

Funding Rounds

$24.5m

Money raised

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Kaggle

Kaggle is a company involved with machine learning challenges founded in 2010 by Anthony Goldbloom.

2

Funding Rounds

$22.0m

Money raised

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Scoop.it

Scoop.it is a San Francisco-based content curation tool.

1

Funding Rounds

$2.6m

Money raised

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OpenDataSoft

Opendatasoft is the data sharing platform teams use to access, reuse and share data that grows business.

3

Funding Rounds

$55.5m

Money raised

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StreetCred

StreetCred was a company that was developing a blockchain marketplace to decentralize location data. It was acquired by Snap Inc. in January 2021.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.0m

Money raised

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Seneca Systems

A company designing and developing constituent system-of-record and service request management software for local government

1

Funding Rounds

$3.5m

Money raised

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APPCityLife

APPCityLife is an Albuquerque, New Mexico-based company founded in 2009 by Lisa Abeyta.

2

Funding Rounds

$1.9m

Money raised

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Quandl

Quandl is a Toronto-based company founded in 2009.

3

Funding Rounds

$13.3m

Money raised

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OpenCorporates

Database on corporate entities under share-alike, open licence

1

Funding Rounds

$100.0k

Money raised

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CityGrows

CityGrows is a company founded by CityGrows.

2

Funding Rounds

$1.1m

Money raised