Developer Tools Startups

IOTA operates a public blockchain network that uses Delegated Proof of Stake consensus with up to 150 validators and supports decentralized applications via smart contracts written in the Move language. Its object-centric ledger model is aimed at developers building on distributed ledger technology.

3 investors

JBoss is an open-source software community associated with Java-based middleware and application server projects, publishing blogs and tutorials for developers. The page is a farewell notice announcing the end of the community's editorial newsletter.

3 investors

Red Hat provides enterprise open source software, including hybrid cloud infrastructure, application services, cloud-native development, automation, and AI solutions. Its products serve enterprises deploying and running IT workloads across on-premise, cloud, and edge environments.

3 investors

Jetify TestPilot is an AI agent for end-to-end software testing that navigates an application from a single URL, generates test plans, runs test suites daily, and detects and fixes broken tests. It uses image recognition and generative AI to test web and mobile apps across languages and platforms without setup or coding.

3 investors

Jimo is an AI-powered onboarding platform that delivers personalized product tours, checklists, and in-context guidance within applications to accelerate user activation and adoption. It reduces onboarding time and support workload by automating first-value walkthroughs and enabling self-service learning for SaaS and web application teams.

3 investors

JuziBot provides smart marketing and sales tools for businesses operating on the WeChat platform, helping SMBs build key opinion customer (KOC) channels and assisting corporate clients with customer acquisition and sales conversion. It serves customers in industries such as education, insurance, and healthcare.

3 investors

Iru provides an AI-powered unified platform for endpoint management, identity, threat detection, and compliance automation serving IT and security teams. The platform consolidates workforce identity, endpoint detection and response, vulnerability management, and compliance tools into a single system.

3 investors

Karamba Security provides runtime protection and binary hardening software for edge devices, embedded systems, and containerized workloads to prevent AI-enabled attacks and supply chain compromises. The company also offers vulnerability intelligence and compliance automation through its VCode platform for software supply chains.

3 investors

Katanemo provides AI infrastructure and engineering services to help companies develop and deploy AI agents to production. The company combines research and open-source technologies to accelerate agent development.

3 investors

Keep provides AI-powered AIOps solutions to help teams navigate observability data. The company is committed to open source and targets organizations managing infrastructure monitoring and incident response.

3 investors

Keploy provides automated testing software that helps developers prevent regressions during development. The platform is designed for software development teams.

3 investors

Keystroke is a platform for building specialized agents and workflow automations that integrate with coding agents like Claude Code and Cursor, allowing users to build actual TypeScript code that lives in their repository and deploy to the Keystroke platform for credential management, logging, and access control.

3 investors

Kilo (Kilo Code) is an open-source, MIT-licensed AI coding agent that works across VS Code, JetBrains, CLI, and cloud, giving developers access to 500+ AI models at cost with no markup, plus support for bring-your-own-keys and local models. It also offers KiloClaw, a hosted always-on agent that connects to Telegram, Discord, or Slack to run shell commands, scheduled tasks, and workflows after the IDE closes.

3 investors

Kirha offers an AI-powered financial analyst tool that reviews lengthy filings such as 10-Ks and earnings calls to surface trends, risks, and opportunities. It builds AI agents connected to fragmented and unstructured data sources to support competitive analysis, market intelligence, and due diligence for financial professionals.

3 investors

Kite was an AI-powered code assistant for developers that operated from 2014 to 2021, aiming to accelerate software development through machine learning capabilities. The company shut down after failing to achieve product-market monetization and determining the underlying AI technology was not sufficiently mature.

3 investors

Kodem provides AI security posture management (AI-SPM) that reconstructs the runtime hierarchy of AI agents, tools, MCP servers, models, and credentials running inside applications from runtime evidence. It attributes actions to specific agents and maps reachable risk to enable per-agent policy and enforcement through AI gateways.

3 investors

Kogniz is a digital platform and content hub that covers technology trends, innovation, and emerging platforms including mobile apps, VR, and PaaS solutions. It serves tech enthusiasts, developers, startup founders, and business leaders with insights, thought pieces, and analysis on how technology shapes daily life and business.

3 investors

Komment develops documentation automation solutions for developers. The company focuses on improving developer productivity through tools that automate complex documentation processes.

3 investors

Invicti offers an application security testing platform that combines DAST, SAST, software composition analysis, API security, container scanning, and application security posture management (ASPM) with proof-based scanning to validate exploitable vulnerabilities. It serves security and development teams looking to correlate alerts, reduce false positives, and remediate vulnerabilities across web applications and APIs.

3 investors

Konvu builds AI agents for autonomous vulnerability management, covering the full lifecycle from prevention and detection through triage, remediation, and verification, initially for code and expanding to cloud and infrastructure. It is aimed at security and engineering teams, with configurable autonomy levels ranging from recommendations to fully automated fixes.

3 investors

Kortix is an open AGI platform that lets companies build, host, manage, and monitor AI agents, with agents, skills, connectors, triggers, and memory stored as files in a single git repository. It can run on a company's own infrastructure and plans to add layers for training custom models and running evaluations on a company's own agent sessions.

3 investors

Kubeark is an AI-powered integration and automation engine that connects existing systems, SaaS apps, and internal APIs through pre-built connectors and orchestrates cross-department workflows. It offers agentic automation with AI agents that can run on-premise to meet data governance and compliance requirements, aimed at enterprises undergoing digital transformation.

3 investors

Kubit is an agent analytics platform that maps user behavior, intent, and sentiment to LLM traces, correlating clickstream events, tool calls, and prompt versions to help debug AI agents. It integrates with observability tools like Langfuse, LangSmith, and Arize and feeds context into coding environments such as Claude Code and Cursor via MCP for AI product engineers.

3 investors

Kusari builds a software supply chain security platform that maps direct and transitive dependencies from source, prioritizes vulnerabilities by reachability and exploitability, and generates continuous, audit-ready SBOMs. It serves security teams and integrates with existing scanners and SBOM tools to provide visibility, autonomous code review, and automated remediation.

3 investors