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50 most popular technology startups (Q4 2024)
Nov
We analyzed brand search growth across 2,700 software companies to discover the hottest startups in tech.
Here’s how we created this list (and how you can do the same with Ahrefs):
- Used Keywords Explorer to search keyword data for each company’s brand (e.g. “stealthgpt” for StealthGPT)
- Trends filter applied to identify high growth keywords (sorts keywords by their 12-month growth trend¹ and determines minimum monthly search volume²)
- Filtered by keywords with brand intent³
- Several companies were excluded whose growth was driven by recent rebrandings (e.g. “Xodo Sign” rebranded from “Eversign”, “Mailgun” was acquired and became “Sinch Mailgun”)
| Degree | Business | Brand search development (12 months) | Global brand search volume | Fully funded | Estimated income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | StealthGPT | +139% | 9100 | $0.0 million | 0.5 million dollars |
| 2 | Dreamers | +76% | 600 | $0.0 million | $5.5 million |
| 3 | Spinach AI | +75% | 450 | $10.0 million | $5.5 million |
| 4 | AI embarrassment | +71% | 3,580,000 | $377.3 million | $17.5 million |
| 5 | Factored quality | +64% | 700 | $6.5 million | $5,500.0 million |
| 6 | Gym | +63% | 5200 | $29.5 million | $5.5 million |
| 7 | Non-physical | +58% | 3400 | $3.0 million | 0.5 million dollars |
| 8 | Cartpanda | +58% | 19,000 | 0.1 million dollars | $5.5 million |
| 9 | FlutterFlow | +54% | 142,000 | $23.2 million | $17.5 million |
| 10 | Hockey stack | +54% | 2800 | $2.9 million | $5.5 million |
| 11 | street | +52% | 35,000 | $49.7 million | $49.7 million |
| 12 | Blaze AI | +47% | 16,000 | $0.0 million | $5.5 million |
| 13 | Heptabase | +47% | 20,000 | $0.0 million | $37.5 million |
| 14 | Findymail | +46% | 3400 | $0.0 million | 0.5 million dollars |
| 15 | Arize AI | +44% | 4100 | $61.0 million | $55.5 million |
| 16 | DocuClipper | +43% | 3200 | $0.0 million | 0.5 million dollars |
| 17 | Cloud software group | +42% | 6600 | $1.3 million | $0.0 million |
| 18 | Storydoc | +42% | 2900 | $0.0 million | $5.5 million |
| 19 | PropelAuth | +42% | 600 | $2.8 million | 0.5 million dollars |
| 20 | Hey, flow | +42% | 4800 | $22.0 million | $75.0 million |
| 21 | Serif’s health | +42% | 200 | $2.5 million | 0.5 million dollars |
| 22 | Earth API | +42% | 1300 | $2.8 million | $5.5 million |
| 23 | Copernicus | +41% | 350 | $4.6 million | $5.5 million |
| 24 | Topline Pro | +40% | 500 | $17.1 million | $175.0 million |
| 25 | Health of Tuva | +40% | 200 | 0.5 million dollars | $5.5 million |
| 26 | One-short | +40% | 450 | $49.5 million | $17.5 million |
| 27 | Better fashion | +39% | 3300 | $7.5 million | $5.5 million |
| 28 | Rocket | +38% | 5600 | $45.0 million | $4.4 million |
| 29 | Growth machine | +36% | 5500 | $0.0 million | $5.5 million |
| 30 | Sign Noz | +40% | 450 | $5.4 million | $5.5 million |
| 31 | incident.io | +39% | 3300 | $38.9 million | $17.5 million |
| 32 | Easy DMARC | +38% | 5600 | $22.3 million | $5.5 million |
| 33 | Cradle | +36% | 5500 | $7.0 million | $17.5 million |
| 34 | DraftWise | +36% | 7600 | $28.0 million | $1.0 million |
| 35 | Excalidraw | +36% | 800 | $0.0 million | $5.5 million |
| 36 | Zenduta | +35% | 6100 | $1.9 million | $17.5 million |
| 37 | VEED.IO | +35% | 11,000 | $35.0 million | $175.0 million |
| 38 | Unlocking supplies | +35% | 1200 | 0.5 million dollars | 0.5 million dollars |
| 39 | Govly | +35% | 219,000 | $16.9 million | $5.5 million |
| 40 | It’s dripping | +34% | 1700 | $17.4 million | $17.5 million |
| 41 | Recover.ai | +34% | 28,000 | $11.0 million | $1.0 million |
| 42 | OneScheme | +33% | 2200 | $6.3 million | $5.5 million |
| 43 | Eleven laboratories | +33% | 300 | $101.0 million | $75.0 million |
| 44 | Powerful | +33% | 2000 | $5.3 million | 0.5 million dollars |
| 45 | A better stack | +32% | 1900 | $28.6 million | 0.5 million dollars |
| 46 | Codium | +32% | 1300 | $246.0 million | $17.5 million |
| 47 | Open replay | +32% | 1,300,000 | $5.4 million | $5.5 million |
| 48 | Clear triggers | +31% | 700 | $0.0 million | $1.0 million |
| 49 | Company Browser | +31% | 4200 | $335.8 million | $17.5 million |
| 50 | Riverside.fm | +31% | 65,000 | $47.0 million | $75.0 million |
Here are the 10 startups that saw the biggest growth in branded searches last year. The screenshots show historical and projected growth in brand searches in the US.
Year of establishment: 2023
Location: Miami, Florida
Estimated revenues: 0.5 million dollars
Total financing: 0 dollars
Global search volume: 9,100 searches per month
StealthGPT is an AI tool that generates human-like text designed to bypass AI detection systems. It offers tools for creating (supposedly) undetectable content, including academic articles and blogs, and also includes an AI humanizer that enhances AI-generated text.
Year of establishment: 2022
Location: Atlanta
Estimated revenues: $5.5 million
Total financing: 0 dollars
Global search volume: 600 searches per month
Dreamers is a cybersecurity platform that streamlines compliance processes for frameworks such as SOC 2, HIPAA, and ISO 27001. It offers penetration testing, security program development, and third-party audits aimed at simplifying business security compliance.
Year of establishment: 2021
Location: Remote
Estimated revenues: $5.5 million
Total financing: 10 million dollars
Global search volume: 450 searches per month
Spinach AI is an artificial intelligence-based meeting assistant. It automates note-taking, activity tracking, and ticket creation, and integrates with tools like Slack and Jira. Spinach supports over 100 languages and provides meeting summaries and insights to streamline your team’s workflow.
Year of establishment: 2022
Location: San Francisco
Estimated revenues: $17.5 million
Total financing: $377.3 million
Global search volume: 3,580,000 searches per month
Embarrassment.ai is an artificial intelligence-powered search engine that delivers concise, cited answers to user queries. It combines gigantic language models with real-time web data to provide exact and up-to-date information.
Year of establishment:
Location: Recent York, Recent York
Estimated revenues: $5,500 million
Total financing: $6.5 million
Global search volume: 700 searches per month
Factored quality is a platform that centralizes quality control and compliance activities for enterprises. It connects brands with a global network of inspectors, auditors and laboratories, facilitating the provision of services such as inspections, audits and compliance testing. The platform offers digital management tools, analytics and integrations to improve quality assurance processes in supply chains.
Year of establishment: 2016
Location: Shibuya
Estimated revenues: $5.5 million
Total financing: $29.5 million
Global search volume: 5,200 searches per month
Gym is gym management software for fitness centers, martial arts schools and yoga studios. It offers digital membership management, invoicing, attendance tracking, online booking and a website builder. The platform aims to simplify administrative tasks, allowing gym owners to focus on growing their business.
Year of establishment: 2022
Location: San Francisco
Estimated revenues: 0.5 million dollars
Total financing: $3.0 million
Global search volume: 3,400 searches per month
Non-physical is an open-source secrets management platform that enables teams to securely manage application configurations and secrets across various infrastructures. It provides tools such as a command-line interface for secret synchronization, a web-based management dashboard, secret leak prevention mechanisms, and secret versioning.
Year of establishment: 2019
Location: Delaware
Estimated revenues: $5.5 million
Total financing: 0.1 million dollars
Global search volume: 19,000 searches per month
Cartpanda is an e-commerce platform that enables users to sell physical and digital products worldwide through customizable online stores and checkouts. It offers office facilities to manage orders and payments, support for multiple currencies and languages, and tools to boost sales such as order growth and upsell funnels.
Year of establishment: 2020
Location: Mountain view, California
Estimated revenues: $17.5 million
Total financing: $23.2 million
Global search volume: 142,000 searches per month
FlutterFlow is a visual programming platform that enables users to quickly create mobile, web and desktop applications. It provides a drag-and-drop interface with over 200 pre-designed UI elements, supports integrations with Firebase and RESTful APIs, and allows the export of spotless Flutter code.
Year of establishment: 2021
Location: San Francisco, California
Estimated revenues: $5.5 million
Total financing: $2.9 million
Global search volume: 2,800 searches per month
Hockey stack is a B2B analytics platform that enables marketing and sales teams to effectively drive sales processes and close deals faster through attribution, buyer journey analytics and account insights.
Final thoughts
All height data in this article comes from Ahrefs. Do you want to find popular companies for yourself? Check out Keyword Explorer.
