69 Best Product Research Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Product Research Startups

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There are 981 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $13.5b. The average funding per company in this subset is $196.1m.

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$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.

3

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$17.5m

Money raised

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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$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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6

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$95.0m

Money raised

ClimaCell is a Boston-based weather intelligence platform for automated weather predictions.

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11

Funding Rounds

$1.9b

Money raised

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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$38.0m

Money raised

Salesken.ai is a conversational intelligence platform.

7

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$711.5m

Money raised

Perfect Day Foods (formerly Muufri) engineered yeast capable of producing the proteins found in cows milk. They use these proteins to make their own line of animal-free dairy products.

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5

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$18.0m

Money raised

Krisp is a technology company developing an AI-powered app designed to eliminate background noise during online communications.

5

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$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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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

$20.3m

Money raised

New Wave Foods is a biotechnology company developing plant-based shellfish food products. The company is based out of San Francisco, California and was founded in 2015 by Dominique Barnes and Michelle Wolf.

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$12.5m

Money raised

A bio-based chemical manufacturer focusing on human and animal nutrition, health, and materials markets.

5

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$433.0m

Money raised

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

4

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$390.0m

Money raised

An Israeli startup company that is working to make sustainable "animal-free" cell-based meat products available at the local level by adapting the distributed manufacturing model

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8

Funding Rounds

$220.0m

Money raised

Just, Inc. (formerly known as Hampton Creek) is a food technology company developing and selling plant based food products around the world.

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4

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$119.8m

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Aleph Farms is an Israeli cellular agriculture start-up founded by Didier Toubia and Shulamit Levenberg in 2017 developing technologies for culturing meat products into 3D structures.

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4

Funding Rounds

$580.8m

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Upside Foods is a San Francisco-based company making cultured meat products. The company was founded by Uma Valeti, Nicholas Genovese, and Will Clem.

5

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$335.0m

Money raised

Notion is a software company offering a platform for writing, planning, and organizing note-taking.

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3

Funding Rounds

$5.9m

Money raised

Lucigen is a biotechnology company offering research and testing products and services to life science professionals. The company was founded in 1998, and is headquartered in Middleton, Wisconsin.

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$7.0m

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Polarity is a computer software company. It has developed a system that analyzes the contents of users'​ computer screens and gives them real-time access to information without affecting their existing workflow.

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9

Funding Rounds

$462.2m

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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

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$51.0m

Money raised

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

6

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$200.0m

Money raised

A software company making a workplace email communication platform for remote and office work.

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8

Funding Rounds

$71.3m

Money raised

Notable Labs is a company providing personalized drug combination testing service for cancer patients.

4

Funding Rounds

$295.0m

Money raised

Califia Farms makes plant-based dairy products (primarily almond based) such as plant-based milks, plant-based creamers, juices, and dairy-free probiotic yoghurts. The company was founded in 2010 by Greg Steltenpohl and is located in San Joaquin Valley, California.

7

Funding Rounds

$281.0m

Money raised

Salt Security is a Palo Alto, California-based protection platform for APIs and associated API integrations.

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5

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$41.6m

Money raised

SignalWire is a developer of an API and products platform.

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5

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$104.5m

Money raised

A cellular agriculture company making fresh and frozen cultured seafood products.

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7

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$99.0m

Money raised

NOCD provides online therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

4

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$49.6m

Money raised

Inato matches the right sites to the right clinical research study, globally.

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5

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$28.9m

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Antidote.me closes the gap between clinical trials and patients

7

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$114.3m

Money raised

Geltor is a cellular agriculture company making essential proteins, such as collagen and gelatin, using microbes in their own bio-fermentation recombinant protein production facility.

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9

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$24.2m

Money raised

Seattle Food Tech is a food manufacturing technology and production company producing plant-based meats. They make plant-based food and plant-based chicken nuggets.

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6

Funding Rounds

$330.5m

Money raised

Casper is a memory-foam mattress retailer.

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5

Funding Rounds

$490.0m

Money raised

Grammarly is a web application for checking spelling, grammar, and plagiarism.

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Integriculture is a Japanese cellular agriculture company making lab grown foie gras and other clean meat and cellular agriculture products. The company was founded in on October 23, 2015 and is located in Tokyo, Japan.

6

Funding Rounds

$159.5m

Money raised

Evernote is a company offering notetaking software and online service founded in 2008 by Stepan Pachikov.

5

Funding Rounds

$191.8m

Money raised

The EVERY Company (formally Clara Foods) is a biotechnology company founded by two New Harvest community members David Anchel and Arturo Elizondo in 2014. The company is based out of San Francisco, California and manufactures animal- free proteins using using yeast bio-fermentation techniques fore use in food products.

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$162.5m

Money raised

A company offering a communications platform allows developers to quickly build features that connect to every email, calendar, and contacts provider in the world.

3

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$400.0k

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Buffer is a company founded by Joel Gascoigne, Leo Widrich and Tom Moor.

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4

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$76.3m

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AiCure is an advanced data analytics company that uses artificial intelligence to understand how patients respond to treatments.

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5

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$373.0m

Money raised

Gupshup is an AI-powered messaging platform that integrates with communication software and protocols for commerce, marketing, and support applications.

5

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$167.6m

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Kong (formerly Mashape) is a San Francisco-based company that offers open source microservice API gateway.

1

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$32.0m

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Air Protein is a Berkeley-based biotechnology company producing protein with microorganisms that are fed carbon dioxide in a mission to replace animal agriculture.

6

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$15.8m

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Massive Bio is a New York-based company founded by Selin Kurnaz, Dr. Arturo Loaiza-Bonilla and Cagatay M. Culcuoglu, offering precision oncology services to cancer patients, providers, and pharmaceutical companies.

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$25.0m

Money raised

Hungry Planet is a food technology startup company founded in 2016 by siblings Todd and Jody Boyman. Hungry Planet is located in St.Louis, Missouri, and produces plant-based meats. The company offers beef, Italian sausage, chorizo, chicken, pork, crab and turkey - available in chubs (ground), crumble and patties.

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1

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$9.4m

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Datatron is an artificial Intelligence company providing machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data science models for user models.

6

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$366.0m

Money raised

NotCo is a food science company located in Santiago, Chile, making plant-based Greek yogurt, milk, cheese and mayonnaise, with the help of their artificial intelligence software called Giuseppe.

2

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$500.0k

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Ocean Hugger Foods is making a plant-based raw tuna substitute called Ahimi out of a mixture of 5 ingredients; tomatoes, filtered water, soy sauce, sesame oil, and sugar. The company is located in New York City, New York and was founded in 2015.

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$20.4m

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Stoplight is an Austin, Texas based company developing an API design and documentation platform.

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2

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$3.2m

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SuperMeat is an Israeli biotechnology company, founded on December 15, 2015. SuperMeat is working to develop chicken meat products cultured from extracted chicken cells.

1

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$490.0k

Money raised

One Planet Pizza is a company making plant-based pizza founded in 2016.

6

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$120.0m

Money raised

Daily Harvest is a New York City-based company founded in 2015 by Rachel Drori.

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5

Funding Rounds

$1.4b

Money raised

A project management platform with customization tailored to each individual project and team.

4

Funding Rounds

$84.5m

Money raised

SCiFi Foods (formerly Artemys Foods) is a company that makes and provides meat that is animal-free

5

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$20.4m

Money raised

Shiok Meats is a Singapore-based cellular agriculture company focusing on making cultured seafood.

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4

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$45.0m

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Almanac is a San Francisco-based cloud-based knowledge platform for professionals to create, fork, and share open-source work documents.

3

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$31.2m

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Deep Lens is an Artificial Intelligence company matching patients with clinical trials.

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9

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$973.2m

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Thumbtack is a company operating an online platform for finding and hiring workers for particular tasks.

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5

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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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$155.6m

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Athelas is a company developing blood testing device that utilizes deep learning and computer vision.

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Clinithink is a Natural Language Processing AI for structuring medical chart notations

4

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$82.7m

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Good Catch is a New York-based food technology company focused on the production of plant-based seafood alternatives.

3

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$34.0m

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Deep 6 AI is an artificial Intelligence company founded by Wout Brusselaers.

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7

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$24.0m

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Headset is a tech company providing an IT solution for the cannabis industry.

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4

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$258.3m

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An artificial Intelligence company making a business intelligence platform.

2

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$3.9m

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StatusToday is an artificial Intelligence company for Employee Behavioral Analytics founded in 2015 by Ankur Modi.

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$5.3m

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Fakespot is a New York City-based data analytics platform that works to spot fake online product reviews and help consumers make better choices. Fakespot was acquired by Mozilla in May 2023.

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$25.0m

Money raised

SmartBear Software is a company developing tools for various software development and API management tasks.

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