69 Best Startups in Virginia to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Startups in Virginia

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There are 117 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $5.2b. The average funding per company in this subset is $75.9m.

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

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$16.5m

Money raised

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

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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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$427.0m

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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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$162.0m

Money raised

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

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$20.0m

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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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$44.3m

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A company offering a data unification and data graphing platform.

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$35.0m

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

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$186.3m

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

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$13.4m

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

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$73.7m

Money raised

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

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$83.3m

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

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$15.2m

Money raised

CalypsoAI Corp. is an artificial intelligence company with offices in California, Virginia, and Dublin, Ireland. The company specializes in developing tools to help monitor and improve safety and reliability of machine learning models.

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$42.7m

Money raised

Territory Foods offers prepared meals in personalized weekly plans.

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Funding Rounds

$107.0m

Money raised

QOMPLX is a company that offers quantitative, SaaS-based solutions for data analytics, cybersecurity, insurance, and finance.

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$14.2m

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Second Front Systems is an Arlington, Virginia-based developer of cybersecurity solutions and products for the United States federal government.

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$47.9m

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Adlumin's cloud-native SIEM is built exclusively for financial institutions to help manage evolving threats and cybersecurity compliance requirements.

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$5.2m

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Dorsata is a company founded in 2011 by Dan Gibson, Greg Herrington and David Fairbrothers.

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$10.3m

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EarthOptics provides a cloud-based machine learning platform for soil and ground management.

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$22.1m

Money raised

Airside Mobile is a company founded in 2009 by Adam Tsao, Hans Miller, Florian Scholochow and Christina Scholochow.

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$10.7m

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NOVI is a company which uses edge computing for predictive maintenance of infrastructure.

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$16.5m

Money raised

RangeForce is a cloud Based Cyber Range Platform founded in 2014 by Jaanus Kink, Taavi Must and Margus Ernits.

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Privva is a cloud-based vendor risk assessment platform with offices in both Baltimore, Maryland and Arlington, Virginia. It was founded in 2016 by Ishan Girdhar and John Lemp.

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$89.0k

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Conatix was formed to apply recent advances in AI and other fields of technology to insider fraud, one of the most intractable problems in cybersecurity.

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$72.5m

Money raised

Shift5 is a Rosslyn, VA-based cybersecurity company which helps defend planes, trains, and tanks from cyberattack.

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$2.0m

Money raised

Syncurity is a Bethesda, Maryland-based cybersecurity company developing an automated incident response platform to mediate security incidents faster.

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$26.0m

Money raised

Paymerang provides electronic payment solutions for clients around the country in education, healthcare, media, manufacturing, services and beyond. Paymerang processes over billions in payments annually to a network of over 80,000 suppliers from coast to coast, with 75% receiving electronic payments over traditional checks. Like a boomerang, Paymerang is all about reciprocal actions. You pay out money, and money comes back to you. To

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$750.0k

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Card Isle is a company founded in 2013 by David Henry, Adam Donato and Stephan Sabo.

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$7.6m

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Pienso is a self-service platform to create machine learning applications founded in 2016 by Birago Jones.

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Encore Alert is a company founded in 2011 by James Li, Tammy Cho and Felipe Lopes.

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$3.0b

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Venture Global LNG develops, constructs, and operates liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facilities.

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$7.5m

Money raised

Bandura provides network security solutions for automated protection against inbound attacks and outbound data loss.

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$1.0m

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Nudge Coach is a company founded in 2012.

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$125.0k

Money raised

Sabel Systems Technology Solutions, Llc is a Virginia-based consulting company founded in 2002.

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$3.0m

Money raised

Trilogy Mentors is a company founded in 2015 by John Failla.

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$1.2m

Money raised

Hue.Ai is a technology company focused in vision products.

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$49.6m

Money raised

A Software Quality Governance platform revolutionizes the way software teams deliver software changes.

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$5.0m

Money raised

boodleAI is a company that uses AI and ML to model untapped data sitting in nonprofits, along with so many third party data points.

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2

Funding Rounds

$1.9m

Money raised

AnswersNow is a healthcare company founded in 2017.

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$14.2m

Money raised

Fraym is a company founded in 2015.

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$5.4m

Money raised

CounterFlow AI is an Artificial Intelligence start-up developing a network forensics platform for threat hunting.

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Funding Rounds

$13.0m

Money raised

SCYTHE is a software development company offering a cyber security platform.

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Funding Rounds

$4.8m

Money raised

Decision Lens is a company founded in 2003.

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$14.8m

Money raised

Vemo Education designs, implements, and sustains income share agreement programs for universities and alternative education providers.

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$8.7m

Money raised

Qrvey is a company founded in 2015.

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$3.3m

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Recurate is a full-service recommerce partner that enables a used product P2P market directly on e-commerce stores.

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$3.4m

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Ryse Health is a healthcare company founded in 2021 by Richard Gurley.

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$26.6m

Money raised

MondoBrain is a company founded in 2014.

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$11.3m

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Caveonix's RiskForesight TM solution is an automated, proactive risk and compliance platform designed for hybrid and multi-cloud.

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Electra.aero is a hybrid electric aircraft for regional mobility.

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$19.8k

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1787fp is a company founded in 2016.

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$1.5m

Money raised

FEND creates foldable bike helmets designed for a city bicycle rider.

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$1.3m

Money raised

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$28.5m

Money raised

SVT Robotics is a company founded in 2018 by Albert Schultz.

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$3.0m

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Ataata is an Arlington, Virginia-based cybersecurity company developing a security awareness platform.

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$12.5m

Money raised

3Pillar Global is a Virginia-based company founded in 2006.

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$11.0m

Money raised

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$24.0k

Money raised

Phone2Action offers advocacy software that enables organizations to create grassroots marketing campaigns to influence public policy.

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$3.0m

Money raised

ID Dataweb is a company founded in 2016.

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$15.0m

Money raised

Shenandoah Valley Organic is a company founded in 2014.

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$56.7m

Money raised

Zephyr AI is an AI Data Analysis founded in 2021.

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ByteCubed is a company founded in 2010.

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$20.0m

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REGSCALE, INC. is a company founded by Anil Karmel.

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Funding Rounds

$10.0m

Money raised

SANDBOXX is a Virginia-based company founded in 2012 by Sam Meek.

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Funding Rounds

$3.5m

Money raised

C2CNT is a Virginia-based developer of carbon capture and storage technology which uses the captured material to create carbon nanotubes.

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$764.0k

Money raised

Sehlke Consulting Llc is a Virginia-based company founded in 2011.

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Funding Rounds

$4.6m

Money raised

Intellispark Inc. is an education company founded in 2019.

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Funding Rounds

$7.7m

Money raised

Gravy Analytics is a company founded in 2011.

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Funding Rounds

$10.0m

Money raised

Giant Oak is a law enforcement company founded in 2013.

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Funding Rounds

$1.9m

Money raised

Industrial Intelligence, LLC is a company founded in 2019.

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