Data & Infrastructure Startups

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Zone is a regulated blockchain network that enables payments and acceptance of digital currencies, operating as a blockchain-based payment infrastructure company. It has carved out its original banking technology business into a separate company, Qore, which provides an operating system to power fully digital and automated banks.

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Arcana Network (operating as Avail Nexus) provides multi-chain infrastructure that lets decentralized applications operate across blockchains without rebuilding, including unified balances that combine tokens across chains and a verifiable data availability layer for high-throughput applications. It targets dApp developers, DEXs, aggregators, and wallets, and its $AVAIL token connects users and liquidity across multiple blockchains.

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Archipelago operates a data network for insurance brokers and their commercial property customers, connecting brokers, owners, insurers, and service providers to replace spreadsheet-based processes with more accurate property risk data. It serves the property insurance market with tools to manage and share risk data across the value chain.

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Arcserve Unified Data Protection (UDP) is a backup and disaster recovery product that protects cloud, on-premises, virtual, and hyperconverged workloads across multiple hypervisors, with AI-driven anomaly detection and automated recovery testing. It targets organizations needing data resilience and ransomware protection, offering instant VM and bare-metal recovery, immutable storage, and management through a unified console.

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ArDrive is a cloud storage application built on permanent, blockchain-based storage that lets users upload, encrypt, manage, and access files with no upload limits and a one-time payment model. It supports file licensing, site and app hosting, content streaming, and version tracking, and is used for personal, business, and NFT project data.

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Arrakis provides onchain liquidity and market-making infrastructure for crypto projects, covering token launches, liquidity design, and yield-bearing assets. It also publishes original research on decentralized exchange liquidity and onchain market dynamics.

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Artemis provides fundamental data and metrics for digital finance, covering crypto companies and protocols. It offers tools to pull data into spreadsheets and query Artemis data tables via SQL or Python through Snowflake Data Share or Hex, serving investors and companies.

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Artemis Health provides data analytics and insights software to U.S. employers, advisors, and payers to optimize health benefits and reduce healthcare costs. The platform aggregates medical, pharmaceutical, and claims data to help benefits teams make decisions that improve outcomes and lower spending.

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Societies creates AI-powered simulations of human personas and attitudes to enable market research, audience analysis, and consumer insights at scale. The platform synthesizes real-world audience data with artificial intelligence to help businesses understand decision-makers and validate strategies.

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Ascend was a data engineering platform that provided declarative pipeline technology, unified ingest/transform/orchestration capabilities, and agentic data engineering solutions to help data engineers.

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Astrada provides an API that connects platforms directly to card networks, letting employees enroll existing personal or corporate cards through an embedded widget so structured transaction data flows to the platform at authorization or clearing. It targets fintech and finance software platforms seeking real-time spend visibility without bank feeds or screen scraping, with coverage across the US, Canada, UK, and Europe.

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Atlas Grid provides data contextualization and access services. The company was founded by former employees from Dropbox, Meta, and Life360.

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Autonomys provides permanent, verifiable decentralized data storage designed to keep AI agent memory auditable and tamper-proof. It uses sharded, erasure-coded storage across independent nodes with a Proof-of-Archival-Storage consensus protocol, offering optional client-side AES-256-GCM encryption and one-time payment for permanent storage.

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Ava Labs is a company building blockchain infrastructure and tools for creating and using finance applications. Its team spans computer science, economics, finance, and law, with a focus on decentralized finance technology.

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Avant-garde Health provides software that gives healthcare providers detailed visibility into clinical, financial, and operational data across physicians, departments, and hospital systems to identify improvement opportunities and reduce costs. The platform enables providers to benchmark performance, compare findings across departments, and develop actionable strategies to improve care value and clinical outcomes.

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Baffle provides an enterprise data security platform that applies masking, tokenization, and encryption with role-based access control to protect data as it is ingested and used in object stores, databases, analytics, and GenAI workflows. It serves enterprises, including financial services and healthcare organizations, offering capabilities like Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) and queryable encryption.

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BallotReady provides nonpartisan data on ballots, elections, and elected officials, along with tools for voter registration, polling place lookup, contacting officials, and running for office. It serves voters and civic participants across the United States with comprehensive, researched information covering local, state, and federal government.

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BeeHero provides managed, data-driven pollination services for commercial crop growers, using in-hive and in-field sensors to monitor bee activity and colony strength and measure actual pollination outcomes. Its solutions target growers of crops such as almonds, seed crops, and high-value orchard crops.

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Betterteem is an AI-powered platform that analyzes employee experience and performance data from multiple systems (HRIS, payroll, ATS, LMS, CRM, productivity tools) to predict employee attrition risk and help organizations take proactive steps to reduce workforce churn. The platform provides behavioral, operational, and sentiment insights for HR and executive teams to mitigate workforce risks in advance.

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Bigeye is a data observability platform that monitors and improves the reliability of datasets and pipelines for data engineering teams. The platform automates data quality checks while maintaining transparency and is designed to help organizations scale their data operations.

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Bindplane provides an observability platform that collects, processes, and routes telemetry data from IT infrastructure and applications. The platform serves DevOps and ITOps teams managing cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments.

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Bitly is a technology company that provides link management products, including URL shortening and related connection tools for its customers. It offers a platform serving businesses and users with link creation and analytics.

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Bitmovin provides video infrastructure software including a player, encoding, and streaming capabilities for online video providers building streaming services.

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