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Bista Solutions makes the software fit the business
An ERP subscription buys the tools. Bista Solutions tackles the awkward part: making orders, warehouses, accounts, and people work together.
Capsitech wants to put the back office on speaking terms
From accounting software to a technology institute in Jodhpur, Capsitech is building around one stubborn business problem: the work that falls between people, systems and skills.
Rippling Wants One Employee Record to Run the Whole Company
The $16.8 billion software company started with onboarding and kept going - into payroll, laptops, app access, corporate cards, compliance, and AI. The wager is simple: if worker data is clean, the back office can finally stop copying and pasting.
Magic Software spent 43 years making old systems talk - then joined a bigger machine
The Israeli software veteran outlasted several computing eras by connecting what companies already owned. Its products carry the story, but services pay most of the bills - and a 2026 merger gives that model a larger engine.
Webidoo Bet $25 Million That Small Businesses Don’t Need Another App - They Need One Layer
After years of building websites and campaigns for small firms, the Milan-born company reached a blunt conclusion: the problem wasn’t access to software. It was getting twenty disconnected tools to do useful work together.
The $99-a-Month On-Ramp to Enterprise Software
Jcurve built a business around the awkward moment when accounting software stops being enough. Its answer is an ERP ladder - start small, connect the moving parts, and keep climbing without ripping everything out again.
SWK Technologies Wants to Make the Back Office Disappear
For growing companies stuck between QuickBooks and enterprise-scale complexity, SWK sells something more useful than another dashboard: a way to make finance, inventory, operations and IT behave like one system.
The Dhaka Company Quietly Building WordPress’s Business Layer
From a rented house in Bangladesh to hundreds of thousands of businesses worldwide, weDevs built a product company around one practical bet: small firms should be able to run serious operations without assembling an enterprise software stack.
Sage
Sage grew from a pub-side solution for one printer's paperwork into financial infrastructure for millions of businesses. Its next act is less about replacing the accountant than teaching software to chase invoices, explain anomalies and show its working.
Topline Pro
Topline Pro is a New York-based software company that builds an AI-powered platform for home service businesses - landscapers, roofers, painters, plumbers and other trades. It bundles a custom website, local SEO, review collection, social posting, lead follow-up, online booking, CRM, and invoicing into a single subscription, run by AI agents that handle marketing, sales, and operations so owners can stay in the field. Founded in 2020 by Nick Ornitz and Shannon Kay (Y Combinator W21), the company has helped pros book more than $655 million in work and raised a $27M Series B in 2025.
Zapier
Zapier is the automation platform that connects more than 8,000 apps so people can build workflows - called Zaps - without writing code. Founded in 2011 by Wade Foster, Bryan Helmig and Mike Knoop, the fully remote company has grown from a Y Combinator side project into a roughly $5 billion business serving millions of users, and it is now reorienting around AI agents that don't just move data between apps but make decisions inside the workflow.