Torod (طرود) is a Riyadh-based e-commerce logistics platform that acts as a shipping aggregator, letting online merchants connect to a wide network of local and international couriers through a single dashboard. Founded in 2022 by Faisal Almaklas and Ammar Almaatouq, it handles carrier selection, order tracking, cash-on-collection settlement, and returns, and plugs into store builders like Salla, Zid, Shopify and WooCommerce. The company has raised roughly $12.7M to date, including a ~$11.2M (42M SAR) pre-Series A round in February 2025 led by Wa'ed Ventures and Elm.
Ash (poweredbyash.com) is a New York-based health technology company that gives healthcare organizations a customizable, white-label platform for at-home diagnostic testing. Founded in 2019 as a direct-to-consumer sexual health testing service for the LGBTQ+ community, Ash pivoted to a B2B model that lets health plans, digital health companies and public health agencies launch branded testing programs across 100+ biomarkers in all 50 states. The company handles kit design, a vetted lab network, multilingual patient engagement, logistics and real-time reporting through one API, and has shipped more than 500,000 kits while helping organizations close care gaps and improve HEDIS and Star Ratings measures.
Briza is a Toronto-based insurtech that started as a unified, API-first platform for small-business commercial insurance - letting agencies, brokers and software platforms quote, bind and pay for policies like BOP, GL, WC and cyber through a single integration. Founded in 2016, the company has since narrowed its focus to carrier API reliability, applying manufacturing-style engineering discipline to reduce failed submissions and slow integrations that cost carriers premium.
RQD* Clearing is a New York-based correspondent clearing firm that provides clearing, custody, and execution services for broker-dealers on a cloud-native, real-time platform. Spun out of options market maker Volant, it self-clears U.S. equities, options, and ETFs, positioning itself as a modern alternative to legacy clearing providers with direct API integration, 24x5 availability, and infrastructure built on Microsoft Azure.
LinkToAny (formerly ShoppinPal) is a Los Angeles-based integration platform that helps commerce software providers onboard merchants, migrate data between systems, and connect the apps a business already runs. Its iPaaS-style platform links point-of-sale, ecommerce, accounting, loyalty and ordering systems - working with names like Shopify, Lightspeed, Clover, Intuit/QuickBooks, Square, GoDaddy and PayPal - so platforms can go live with new merchants in days rather than weeks, with an increasingly AI-native approach to onboarding and migrations.
Qualpay is a San Mateo-based payments company that combines a merchant account and a payment gateway into a single cloud-based platform. Founded in 2014 by payments-industry veterans, it lets businesses accept card and ACH payments across online, in-person, phone and recurring channels, with tokenization, a customer vault, real-time reconciliation reporting and PCI DSS Level 1 security. In 2022 Synovus Bank took a majority stake to build an embedded finance platform on top of Qualpay's technology.
Caddi is a Seattle-based AI company that turns screen recordings into working automations. Its 'record-to-code' platform watches a professional demonstrate a repetitive back-office task - client intake, document filing, billing, data entry - and generates deterministic, API-driven code that runs the workflow across 80+ tools. Aimed at law firms, financial advisors, accountants and consultants, Caddi pitches itself as a way to do more work at the same headcount without asking teams to learn yet another complicated tool.
Portable is a New York-based ELT platform that builds data connectors on-demand, specializing in the long tail of niche business applications that larger integration vendors ignore. Founded in 2020 by Ethan Aaron, it lets data teams pull data from thousands of sources into warehouses like Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, and PostgreSQL with no code, flat predictable pricing regardless of data volume, and hands-on custom connector development delivered in hours or days.
Rebill is a Latin America-focused payments infrastructure company that lets global and digital businesses collect payins, send payouts, and run subscriptions across the region through a single API. With over 100 local payment methods, multi-currency settlement, smart retries that recover failed charges, and a developer-first SDK, Rebill helps companies get paid 'like a local' in markets like Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay without opening local entities.
Youtility is a London-based fintech that lets banks and money apps embed household-bill management directly inside their own experience. Through APIs, its technology lets consumers compare, switch, renew and manage energy, broadband, digital TV and mobile contracts without ever leaving their banking app - turning a dreaded admin chore into a few taps that save the average switching household around £234 a year. Founded in 2016 by early open-banking believers, Youtility now powers subscription management for partners including Santander, Virgin Money, Wagestream and Pockit.
CREAO AI is an AI-native platform that turns plain-language requests into autonomous, full-stack 'Agent Apps.' Instead of asking users to wire together visual workflows, a cloud-based 'super agent' writes code, calls APIs, connects integrations and runs the work in a sandbox - then saves the result as a reusable, schedulable app with its own memory. Founded at the end of 2024 and headquartered in Cupertino, California, the company reached 200,000 organic users within months of its September 2025 launch and has raised roughly $25M across three rounds in under a year, most recently a $10M round led by Aramco's Prosperity7 Ventures.
Softjourn is a full-cycle software development and IT consulting company founded in 2001, headquartered in Fremont, California (Silicon Valley) with research and development offices in Ukraine, Poland, and Brazil. With 200-300 engineers and consultants, it builds custom software for three core verticals - Fintech and Cards & Payments, Event Ticketing, and Media & Entertainment - offering services from product design and development to QA, DevOps, AI/ML, blockchain, and dedicated development teams. Clients include Ticketmaster, Live Nation, Vendini, SecuTix, eTix, and PEX, and the firm has appeared on the Inc. 5000 list multiple years running.
Pinwheel is a New York-based fintech that builds the payroll-data and income connectivity layer behind a fairer financial system. Its APIs and embedded tools let banks, credit unions, and fintechs offer one-click direct deposit switching, income and employment verification, and bill management - helping institutions win and keep 'primacy' (becoming the account where a customer's paycheck lands). Pinwheel is one of the few players in the space operating as an FCRA-compliant Consumer Reporting Agency, and it connects to roughly 1,800+ payroll and HR platforms covering nearly all U.S. workers.
Pipedream is a developer-first integration and automation platform that lets engineers connect more than 3,000 APIs and 10,000+ pre-built actions to build workflows, products, and AI agents without managing infrastructure. Founded in 2019 in San Francisco, it grew to more than one million users on the strength of a serverless model that mixes drag-and-drop triggers with full Node.js, Python, Go, and Bash code. In 2025 it became the connective tissue for AI agents through its Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, and in late 2025 it agreed to be acquired by Workday.
TwelveLabs is a San Francisco-based AI company building video-native multimodal foundation models that give machines the ability to see, hear, and understand video the way humans do. Its flagship models - Marengo for embedding and retrieval and Pegasus for video-to-text generation - power enterprise applications in media, government, sports, and security, enabling precise semantic search, summarization, and insight extraction from video at scale. With 30,000+ developers on its platform and backing from NVIDIA, Databricks, Snowflake, and In-Q-Tel, TwelveLabs is becoming the standard infrastructure layer for video intelligence.