Developer Tools Startups

Unleash provides feature management tools for developers to simplify software development and enable faster delivery of applications. Built as an open-source project, the platform helps developers streamline their workflows while maintaining privacy and scalability.

5 investors

Uplevel provides data analytics and expert guidance to engineering leaders to diagnose organizational issues affecting developer productivity and team performance. The platform combines engineering metrics with organizational expertise to help leaders identify root causes and build capability for sustained improvement in engineering teams.

5 investors

Vercept built AI software that runs locally on personal computers to understand user screens and workflows, enabling direct interaction with user intent. The company was acquired by Anthropic to advance AI-assisted personal computing.

5 investors

Voxel51 provides data and model management tools for computer vision and AI development. The platform serves teams building autonomous vehicles, robotics, and other AI applications that rely on visual data.

5 investors

Walrus Memory is a portable memory layer for AI agents that stores encrypted, verifiable context on the Walrus data platform so agents retain memory across sessions, apps, and runtimes. It offers an SDK (Python, TypeScript, JavaScript) with programmable access permissions, native MCP support, and plugins for developers building multi-agent workflows, support agents, and personal assistants.

5 investors

Wasp is a full-stack web framework that reduces boilerplate code and provides built-in structure for web application development. It helps developers, particularly those working with AI, build applications with less code and fewer security vulnerabilities.

5 investors

Webiny is an AI-programmable headless CMS platform that enables developers to build and extend content systems using AI and code, with ready-made apps including a CMS, website builder, and file manager.

5 investors

WhyLabs provided AI observability and monitoring tools for responsible AI adoption, including platforms for data logging, privacy-preserving monitoring, and large language model oversight. The company has discontinued operations and open-sourced its technology.

5 investors

Zeplin is a collaboration platform that helps product teams organize design documentation and connect designs to code. It serves design, product, and development teams working on complex projects.

5 investors

ZeroTier is a networking platform that provides secure, endpoint-enforced connectivity without appliances or traditional VPN configurations, serving organizations of all sizes across sectors such as robotics, space, and retail. Its ZeroTier Quantum offering adds post-quantum cryptographic protections, is CNSA 2.0 compliant, and can be deployed in air-gapped environments.

5 investors

zkLink builds a ZK-based Aggregated Layer 3 and rollup infrastructure for Ethereum Layer 2s, letting developers deploy EVM and trading-specific zkVM applications with synchronized state across chains and access to pooled liquidity. It targets blockchain developers building high-performance ZK applications, addressing liquidity fragmentation and multi-chain deployment.

5 investors

TRUSTDOCK provides API-based identity verification (eKYC/KYC) and digital ID services, letting businesses confirm customer identities online. The company operates in Japan, serving both private-sector and government clients.

5 investors

100ms provides infrastructure for live video and real-time interactions, enabling companies in healthcare, commerce, education, and events to integrate video experiences with minimal development effort.

4 investors

2501 builds an AIOps platform with autonomous agents that monitor, predict, and remediate infrastructure issues without human intervention, aimed at enterprise, government, and financial services operations teams. It emphasizes on-premise and air-gapped deployment with security and data sovereignty built into the architecture.

4 investors

Adaptive provides a cloud cost optimization platform that detects, remediates, and prevents "shadow waste" and inefficiencies across multi-cloud, Kubernetes, AI platforms, data cloud, and code. It uses Cloud-to-Code technology, automated pull requests, a runtime sensor, and agentic remediation to govern spending, including LLM, ML, and GPU costs, for engineering teams.

4 investors

Africa's Talking offers communication and payments APIs — including Voice, SMS, and airtime — that let developers build mobile engagement and customer communication applications without integrating directly with mobile operators. The platform serves developers and businesses across Africa.

4 investors

AgileRL offers Arena, a platform that unifies training, tuning, and deployment of reinforcement learning models, with built-in evolutionary hyperparameter optimization and distributed multi-GPU training for single- and multi-agent tasks. It provides an open-source Python-first framework serving research labs and teams in defense, finance, robotics, and logistics, supporting on/off-policy, offline RL, bandit, and LLM fine-tuning workflows.

4 investors

ai.work provides autonomous AI agents that automate business processes across IT, procurement, HR, legal, finance, and operations teams. The platform orchestrates multi-agent workflows across enterprise systems and learns from interactions.

4 investors

Airtop provides cloud-based browser automation that turns plain-English descriptions of workflows into deterministic agents able to log in, browse, and act across the open web, behind logins, and inside legacy vendor portals. It targets developers and non-technical users, offering an agent builder and marketing-focused automation.

4 investors

Aiven provides an open source data platform designed for AI-readiness that enables businesses to build and deploy data applications across enterprise and startup segments globally.

4 investors

Akuity offers an enterprise software delivery platform built on the open-source Argo CD and Kargo projects, providing GitOps-based continuous deployment, policy-driven environment promotion, and AI-driven operations across Kubernetes, VMs, and cloud environments. It serves platform teams and SREs at startups and enterprises managing application delivery at scale.

4 investors

All Hands develops OpenHands, an open-source, model-agnostic platform for building and running AI coding agents, providing the interface, automation, and control layer to scale from a single local agent to an organization-wide system. It targets developers and engineering organizations.

4 investors

Alpic operates an AI infrastructure platform that lets B2B and DTC companies build AI-native interfaces such as MCP servers and ChatGPT integrations, with built-in security, observability, and distribution, alongside open-source frameworks and developer tools. The company was founded in July 2025 and is based in Paris and New York.

4 investors

Anam builds real-time interactive AI avatars that replicate human appearance and behavior for use in employee and customer-facing applications. The company combines research in photorealistic video generation with full-stack engineering to deliver avatars with sub-second latency and lip-sync synchronization.

4 investors