Developer Tools Startups

Handshake is a decentralized, peer-to-peer naming and certificate authority protocol that serves as an alternative to centralized DNS systems and certificate authorities. It enables permissionless domain name registration and cryptographic key management through a blockchain-based network secured by economic incentives.

14 investors

Hyperlane is an open source, permissionless interoperability framework for connecting over 150 blockchains, enabling cross-chain messaging, asset bridging, swaps, asset issuance, and governance across EVM, Solana, Cosmos, and custom VM architectures. It serves developers, asset issuers, and chains building multichain applications, with modular security models and an optional Hyperlane-as-a-Service offering.

14 investors

Invisible builds AI systems embedded into enterprise operations and workflows, focusing on integrating AI infrastructure into existing business processes rather than deploying standalone software solutions.

14 investors

Lava Network provides decentralized RPC access for interacting with blockchains, handling requests such as trading, swapping, deploying, and staking across multiple chains. It serves web3 users and node operators, and reports handling over 160 billion requests across 28+ chains for 1M+ weekly users.

14 investors

Manta Network is a modular Layer 2 blockchain platform offering low gas fees and high performance for building decentralized applications. It provides a builder program, staking, on-chain governance, and hosts an ecosystem of Web3 dapps across its Manta Pacific, Manta Atlantic, and Calamari networks.

14 investors

MindsDB is an AI-data platform that lets companies connect, unify, and query data to build AI capabilities and move from experimentation to production. Originating as an open-source project, it serves engineering and data teams and is used widely across a global developer community.

14 investors

Mux provides video infrastructure for developers, including tools to ingest, encode, and stream adaptive video and to measure viewer engagement and playback quality. Its offerings include a web-based video player built as a web component with features like adaptive streaming, preview thumbnails, and built-in analytics.

14 investors

Netlify is a platform for building, deploying, and scaling modern web applications, serving millions of developers and thousands of enterprises. The company provides tools for running composable web applications in production, including global corporate sites, e-commerce platforms, and SaaS applications.

14 investors

Particle provides an IoT platform with built-in security spanning hardware devices and cloud, including per-device private keys, encrypted messaging, access controls, and a Device Cloud with ISO-certified hosting. It serves developers and businesses building connected products.

14 investors

Recall.ai provides meeting recording and transcription APIs and SDKs that capture individual speaker audio for accurate, multi-speaker transcripts. The platform serves developers and enterprises building meeting intelligence, legal tech, and AI assistant features into their products.

14 investors

Second Front delivers software solutions to government and allied democracies to accelerate access to emerging technologies. The company operates as a public-benefit corporation focused on strengthening global security through improved technology acquisition and deployment.

14 investors

Tailscale provides secure connectivity infrastructure. The company serves developers, network engineers, and security-minded builders through a community-driven platform.

14 investors

Weights & Biases is an AI developer platform that enables teams to build, train, and monitor AI agents, applications, and models with tools for experiment tracking, model management, and agent evaluation.

14 investors

Apollo GraphQL builds open-source and commercial GraphQL technologies—including a client, server, and gateway—used by engineering teams to unify and develop their GraphQL efforts. Its tools are used in production by large enterprises such as Walmart, Expedia, and PayPal.

13 investors

Fillout is a platform for building forms, surveys, and quizzes that also connects to other business tools to automate and scale data-collection workflows. It serves organizations across industries and offers an enterprise solution for companies with data residency and security requirements.

13 investors

Browser Use provides AI-powered browser automation infrastructure with anti-detection capabilities, CAPTCHA solving, and custom LLMs designed for web-based agent tasks at scale.

13 investors

Prove AI provides observability and auditing tooling for multi-agent AI systems, letting AI engineers trace how and why agents reach decisions, evaluate outcomes at runtime, and replay candidate fixes against trace archives to catch regressions. It aims to make AI outcomes explainable, traceable, and cost-efficient while keeping a human in the loop.

13 investors

CircleCI develops continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) tooling that helps software development and developer-experience teams build, test, and ship code faster and more reliably. It serves engineering teams and businesses across the software delivery lifecycle.

13 investors

Decart builds infrastructure and real-time AI models for live, interactive experiences, optimizing the stack from hardware to live models. Its products include DOS and Cogito as a performance layer and Lucy and Oasis as real-time models for live video transformation and AI-generated game worlds serving consumer and enterprise applications.

13 investors

Finch provides an API platform for applications to securely access employer and employee data with explicit consent, serving businesses that need workforce data integration. The company prioritizes enterprise-grade security, encryption, and compliance standards.

13 investors

Hyperbolic operates an AI cloud platform that provides developers and researchers with affordable access to GPU compute and open-source AI models by tapping underutilized hardware. It targets developers, startups, and research teams needing scalable infrastructure for AI/ML development.

13 investors

InfluxData builds InfluxDB, an open-source time series platform for storing and analyzing metrics and events, aimed at developers building monitoring, analytics, and IoT applications. It serves DevOps and IoT use cases, handling data from humans, sensors, and machines.

13 investors

LanceDB is an AI-native multimodal lakehouse platform that unifies training data across multiple systems to accelerate model development and dataset creation at scale.

13 investors

Magna is an all-in-one platform for crypto companies to launch, manage, and scale tokens, offering token operations, treasury management, stablecoin management, and distribution across a global web3 ecosystem. The platform serves founders, investors, employees, CFOs, and other stakeholders seeking to simplify token management and earn yield on assets.

13 investors