Data & Infrastructure Startups

ShardSecure provides agentless, file-level encryption and its patented Microshard technology to secure data across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid/multi-cloud environments for enterprises. Its platform defends against ransomware with self-healing data resilience and includes an MCP Secure Gateway that controls enterprise data retrieval for AI inference.

4 investors

SheerID provides an identity verification platform that instantly confirms whether consumers belong to specific communities—such as students, military, educators, and first responders—using over 200,000 authoritative data sources. It is used by brands to gate exclusive personalized offers, reduce offer abuse, and collect verified first-party data for loyalty programs.

4 investors

Shelf Engine developed automated demand forecasting and ordering technology for grocery retailers, using machine learning to predict sales of perishable goods and reduce food waste. Its assets were acquired by Crisp in 2024.

4 investors

ShotTracker provides basketball analytics using video, sensor data, and AI to track player and ball movement on the court. Its products, including a connected suite called The Coaching Stack, serve coaches, scouts, players, executives, and broadcast teams for scouting, coaching insights, and fan engagement.

4 investors

Sieve creates high-quality multimodal datasets and training environments for frontier AI labs developing generative media, robotics, and agentic systems. The company combines exabyte-scale infrastructure with novel data collection and processing techniques to serve AI research teams and enterprise customers.

4 investors

Siftwell is a healthcare technology company founded by former health plan operators and clinicians that applies data analytics and operational expertise to improve managed care organization (MCO) operations and member outcomes.

4 investors

Similarweb provides web analytics showing traffic market share across mobile, desktop, and tablet platforms, including device traffic trends and top platforms by country. It serves businesses analyzing digital audience and regional traffic data.

4 investors

Siren is a data search and intelligence platform that connects disparate data sources and enables advanced queries on billions of records for national security, law enforcement, and corporate fraud investigations. The platform serves government intelligence agencies, law enforcement, and enterprise security teams to perform real-time analysis of unstructured data including classified and open-source intelligence.

4 investors

Skimlinks provides automated affiliate technology that monetizes product links for publishers and content creators, enabling them to earn commissions from commerce-related content across channels including articles, social, and newsletters.

4 investors

JustPark Insights is a parking data platform that centralizes information from equipment, payments, and applications to provide real-time visibility into parking metrics. It enables parking operators to optimize occupancy, pricing, and revenue through business intelligence and automated reporting.

4 investors

Snowflake is a fully managed cloud data platform for ingesting, processing, analyzing, and modeling data, and for building and sharing data and AI applications across multiple clouds. It provides enterprises with agentic AI tools, unified security and governance, and interoperability with open table formats.

4 investors

Speedata develops an Analytics Processing Unit (APU), a purpose-built semiconductor chip designed to accelerate database analytics and AI workloads for enterprises. The company integrates hardware and software to deliver high-performance analytics infrastructure for data-intensive computing tasks.

4 investors

Spinwheel provides an API platform delivering real-time consumer credit data and embedded payments for lenders, personal finance managers, and debt management platforms. The platform enables consumer verification with minimal data input and supports the full consumer credit lifecycle from acquisition to repayment.

4 investors

SPREAD provides a unified engineering platform that integrates data from PLM, CAD, ERP, and ALM systems into a single connected ontology for complex product manufacturers. It serves automotive OEMs and other companies building complex products across Europe.

4 investors

SQream provides a GPU-accelerated data and analytics platform that runs SQL, data preparation, in-database model training, and inference across petabyte-scale datasets. It serves enterprises and small-to-medium businesses across industries such as finance, retail, telecom, manufacturing, and healthcare that need to process massive datasets for AI and machine learning.

4 investors

Squadle (now part of Crunchtime) provides remote temperature monitoring with patented ZeroTouch technology and digital checklists that automate food safety compliance and daily operations for multi-unit restaurant and franchise operators. Its integrated suite includes real-time temperature alerts, digital food safety logs, and shift management tools.

4 investors

SSV.network provides distributed validator technology (DVT) infrastructure for Ethereum staking, distributing validator duties across independent operators for fault tolerance and security. It targets institutional users such as exchanges, custodians, treasuries, and ETP issuers.

4 investors

Staking Rewards operates an independent rating platform that grades staking infrastructure providers and DeFi yield protocols on a single AAA-to-D scale focused on downside risk. It serves institutional allocators, staking providers, and platforms, covering 90+ verified providers across 120+ crypto assets.

4 investors

Stardog provides an Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform that enables enterprises to unify hybrid and varied data based on meaning. The platform serves banks, manufacturers, and pharmaceutical companies undergoing digital transformations.

4 investors

StarTree provides a real-time analytics platform built on Apache Pinot that enables organizations to query petabyte-scale data at speed and cost efficiency. The platform serves data-driven decision makers across enterprises requiring fast insights on massive datasets.

4 investors

Stears provides financial databases and market intelligence for institutional investors focused on African investments. The platform offers comprehensive data and insights for global funds seeking to invest across Africa.

4 investors

StyleSage (Centric Market Intelligence) provides retail market intelligence software that collects and normalizes competitor eCommerce data to analyze assortments, pricing, discounting, and product trends. It serves retail and fashion brands and retailers making merchandising, pricing, and product assortment decisions using computer vision and natural language processing.

4 investors

Sumble provides GTM teams with a structured view of target accounts, mapping teams, reporting lines, technologies in use, hiring activity, and buying signals so reps can identify decision-makers and personalize outreach. It serves sales, growth, RevOps, and GTM teams selling into technical or complex accounts.

4 investors

Supper is a business intelligence platform that generates data analysis and dashboards automatically by connecting to SaaS tools and databases. It enables business leaders to ask questions in natural language and receive insights on metrics like ARR, CAC, and retention across customer segments and channels, replacing manual analyst work.

4 investors