69 Best Startups in Virginia to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Startups in Virginia

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 693 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $8.7b. The average funding per company in this subset is $126.4m.

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

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Funding Rounds

$16.5m

Money raised

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

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

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$408.0m

Money raised

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

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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Funding Rounds

$427.0m

Money raised

Interos is a Virginia-based company developing a logistics assurance platform designed for supply chain risk management, through a breakthrough AI SaaS platform.

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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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Funding Rounds

$3.3m

Money raised

NanoSonic Inc. is a Pembroke, VA-based advanced materials company specializing in thermal management solutions (such as thermal arrays) and related safety equipment

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$34.1m

Money raised

Logically is a UK-based technology company that uses AI to identify harmful misinformation and deliberate disinformation online.

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Funding Rounds

$314.2m

Money raised

HawkEye 360 is a Herndon, Virginia-based data analytics company developing radio frequency mapping technologies for use in space.

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Funding Rounds

$365.0m

Money raised

Ligado is developing solutions for reliable and secure 5G mobile private networks.

1

Funding Rounds

$100.0m

Money raised

Voyager Labs is an artificial intelligence-based analytics and investigation solution provider, offering insights about individuals, groups, and topics.

3

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$13.9m

Money raised

Corsha provides API security software that aims to prevent network attacks through multi-factor authentication for APIs.

5

Funding Rounds

$140.0m

Money raised

Omnispace offers hybrid connectivity solutions based on satellite and terrestrial networks for a variety of industries.

4

Funding Rounds

$487.0m

Money raised

Axios Media is a news media company known for its short-form articles. Axios Media was founded in 2016 by three former staff of Politico.

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$44.0m

Money raised

DEFCON AI is a modeling, simulation, and analysis (MS&A) company providing technology solutions for logistics and mobility decision making.

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Funding Rounds

$4.5m

Money raised

Cellink AB is a biotechnology research company based in Gothenburg.

5

Funding Rounds

$162.0m

Money raised

Federated Wireless is a shared spectrum wireless provider offering private 5G networks.

5

Funding Rounds

$95.7m

Money raised

Percipient.ai is an analytics firm offering a machine learning and artificial intelligence platform using open source technology for national security intelligence and security applications.

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$60.0m

Money raised

TEOCO is a Fairfax, Virginia-based telecommunications company.

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$10.0m

Money raised

Lynk is a Falls Church, Virginia-based telecommunications and satellite communications company offering connectivity for cell phone users globally.

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Funding Rounds

$105.0m

Money raised

Elliptic is a blockchain security company founded by Tom Robinson, Adam Joyce, and James Smith.

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$45.0m

Money raised

Decisions is a no-code business automation platform focusing on process automation as well as data handling and business rule execution.

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Funding Rounds

$107.2m

Money raised

Endpoint security company acquired by Elastic in June 2019. Endgame's technology was implemented as Elastic Endpoint Security

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Funding Rounds

$50.0m

Money raised

Anodot is a software development company that has created a business monitoring platform.

5

Funding Rounds

$465.1m

Money raised

Somatus is a healthcare company that provides integrated care to help patients delay or prevent kidney disease.

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Funding Rounds

$286.9m

Money raised

Ambiq Micro is an Austin, Texas-based semiconductor company manufacturing low-power chips for edge intelligence systems founded in 2010 by Scott Hanson.

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Funding Rounds

$27.0m

Money raised

Nisos Group is a cybersecurity managed intelligence company offering security, intelligence, and safety services.

2

Funding Rounds

$294.0m

Money raised

Amwell is a telemedicine company.

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Funding Rounds

$50.0m

Money raised

A company with API Integration and API Management software to create APIs to leverage core (legacy) systems and deliver digital transformation projects using a microservices approach. It was founded in 2013 and has headquarters in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Funding Rounds

$20.0m

Money raised

Zeno Power Systems is an Arlington, Virginia-based developer of a radioisotope power system intended to convert heat from recycled nuclear waste into electricity.

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Funding Rounds

$44.3m

Money raised

A company offering a data unification and data graphing platform.

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Funding Rounds

$35.0m

Money raised

Thetanuts Finance is a protocol designed to help users access crypto-structured products on multiple decentralized networks.

9

Funding Rounds

$165.3m

Money raised

Everactive provides a hardware toolkit and managed network purpose-built for self-powered devices.

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Funding Rounds

$5.0m

Money raised

ElectroTempo is a software firm that specializes in helping customers de-risk their major electric vehicle investments.

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Funding Rounds

$748.0m

Money raised

Cross River Bank is a New Jersey-based company founded in 2008.

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$3.0m

Money raised

Anno.ai is a Reston, VA-based company developing artificial intelligence technologies for the defense sector.

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Funding Rounds

$4.0m

Money raised

DoubleDutch is a McLean, Virginia-based company founded in 2011 by Mathew Spolin, Pankaj Prasad and Lawrence Coburn.

5

Funding Rounds

$70.9m

Money raised

Ekso Bionics is a Richmond, California-based company founded in 2005 by Homayoon Kazerooni, Nathan Harding, Russ Angold and Max Scheder-Bieschin.

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Funding Rounds

$93.2m

Money raised

A Finnish VR company that specializes in cutting edge technology.

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$4.0m

Money raised

Hinge is a company founded in 2002 by Justin McLeod.

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Funding Rounds

$15.4m

Money raised

Embody, Inc. is a regenerative medicine company focused on the development and commercialization of implantable medical devices to address unmet needs in soft tissue restoration and regeneration.

$80.0m

Money raised

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Funding Rounds

$186.3m

Money raised

ThreatQuotient is a Reston, Virginia-based cybsecurity company developing a threat intelligence platform centrally managing and correlating unlimited external sources.

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Funding Rounds

$284.4m

Money raised

Wagestream Ltd is a financial super app for waged workers founded in 2018 by Portman Wills.

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Funding Rounds

$35.0m

Money raised

Verato offers two cloud-based solutions powered by Referential Matching technology that enable you to match and link your patient or customer data across your enterprise with unprecedented ease and accuracy. Verato Auto-Steward is a simple cloud-based plug-in for your EHR, EMPI, or MDM that automatically finds and resolves its missed matches and duplicate recordswithout disrupting any of your existing processes or IT systems. The Verato Universal MPI is the most accurate, easiest to implement, most secure, and most cost effective EMPI or customer MDM solution on the market. It is a HITRUST-certified SaaS solution that you can deploy in as little as six weeks at any scale. Both solutions are powered by Referential Matching, the new gold standard in patient matching and customer matching technology. Referential Matching is not simply a better algorithmit is a completely different approach that is a quantum leap more accurate than the matching technologies found in conventional EHR, EMPI, and MDM tools.

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Funding Rounds

$9.9m

Money raised

Crypto investment platform.

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Funding Rounds

$3.0m

Money raised

Sensor and surveillance technology company based in Fredericksburg, Virginia.

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Funding Rounds

$13.4m

Money raised

Brazen is a virtual events and virtual career fair platform provider.

9

Funding Rounds

$209.3m

Money raised

Clarabridge is a company that powers businesses with insights to deliver good customer experience.

5

Funding Rounds

$46.8m

Money raised

Upskill is a technology company producing a software platform, Skylight, which powers smart glasses and other wearable devices to be utilized in factories, warehouses, and job sites to measurable and improve productivity, quality, and compliance.

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Funding Rounds

$284.6m

Money raised

GridPoint is an Arlington County, Virginia-based developer of hardware and software services for energy management.

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$10.0m

Money raised

Contraline is a company developing contraceptive for men founded in 2015 by Kevin Eisenfrats.

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Funding Rounds

$706.9m

Money raised

Expel is a managed Detection & Response founded in 2016 by Yanek Korff, Dave Merkel and Justin Bajko.

5

Funding Rounds

$200.0k

Money raised

Ario is a Norfolk, Virginia-based company founded in 2016 by Jacob Galito.

7

Funding Rounds

$73.7m

Money raised

WireWheel is a company founded in 2016 by Chris Getner, Justin Antonipillai and Amol Deshpande.

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Funding Rounds

$98.8m

Money raised

Decipher Biosciences is focused on utilizing genomic information to transform and improve cancer patient care by delivering accurate tests for determining the true nature of prostate and bladder cancers and enabling each patient to have a treatment plan based on the unique biology of their tumor.

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Funding Rounds

$5.2m

Money raised

UbiquitiLink, or Lynk, is a company that looks to provide a mobile network for cellular phone users

6

Funding Rounds

$465.8m

Money raised

Highview Power is a company that provides CRYOBattery which delivers a clean and long-duration energy storage to enable a 100% renewable energy future.

9

Funding Rounds

$26.9m

Money raised

Droneshield is a company that offers security drones to its clients.

2

Funding Rounds

$28.0m

Money raised

LYNK Global is a company founded by Peggy Choi.

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Funding Rounds

$40.0m

Money raised

Fermata Energy is bringing together electric vehicles and the electricity grid

6

Funding Rounds

$83.3m

Money raised

MotoRefi is a mission- based FinTech startup that uses technology to help car owners save money and time.

5

Funding Rounds

$34.5m

Money raised

Accure is a company that provides software platforms for scientists, data engineers, analysts, and automation engineers to solve machine learning problems.

2

Funding Rounds

$13.6m

Money raised

MSi is a specialized provider of next generation cyber defense solutions protecting control systems and critical physical assets in energy, transportation and defense.

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Funding Rounds

$70.0m

Money raised

As a B2B marketplace, it is challenging to grow without offering pay later credit. We provide the credit and take the risk, while you get the cash upfront.

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Funding Rounds

$73.0m

Money raised

Productiv is a Palo Alto, California-based software development company providing a spend management platform.

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Funding Rounds

$50.0m

Money raised

XO Communications is an Herndon, Virginia-based company founded in 1996 by Craig McCaw.

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$100.0k

Money raised

Morcom International is a Chantilly, Virginia-based company founded in 1984 by Manuel Ojeda.

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