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Q1 2025

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Hot 25 Startups

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Q1 2025

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Founder
s
:
Headcount
:
Latest Funding
:
$35,000,000
,
LangChain offers a suite of products that support the development, deployment, and management of applications utilizing large language models (LLMs), emphasizing context-aware reasoning. The platform includes flexible frameworks for integrating components and advanced infrastructure for efficient lifecycle management of LLM applications.
2
Headcount
:
~50
Latest Funding
:
$15M
Seed
,
Feb 2024
Build apps with no coding needed. Founded in 2023, Lovable has exploded in early 2025 after raising money from Scandinavian VC strongholds, byFounders and Creandum, as well as Hummingbird.
3
Headcount
:
~20
Latest Funding
:
$2M
Seed
,
Sep 2023
SEC & FINRA compliance in one platform. Co-founders Som, Allen, and Thomas are back for their second act—after launching Quantbase (acquired by Surmount), they’re now tackling compliance with Hadrius.
4
4
AI agents for procurement.
Headcount
:
~15
Latest Funding
:
$7M
Seed
,
Jul 2024
5
5
Helping brands gain AI visibility.
Headcount
:
~20
Latest Funding
:
$3.5M
Seed
,
Aug 2024
21
21
Norm Ai offers an AI-powered regulatory compliance solution that utilizes AI agents to proactively identify and mitigate compliance risks, shorten compliance timelines, and collaborate seamlessly with compliance teams. The technology employs AI agents developed by a diverse team of AI researchers, lawyers, compliance professionals, and software engineers, operating within networks of large language models to understand the full scope of relevant regulations.
Founder
s
:
Headcount
:
Latest Funding
:
$38,100,000
,
Jun 2024
7
7
Browser automation with AI agents.
Headcount
:
<10
Latest Funding
:
$500K
Pre-seed
,
Jan 2025
8
8
AI agents for accountants
Headcount
:
~25
Latest Funding
:
$34M
Series A
,
Dec 2024
11
11
Wordware offers an AI toolkit with an IDE for prompt engineering, supporting multiple large language model providers and enabling real-time collaboration and multimodal workflows. The platform empowers both technical and non-technical users to iterate independently, featuring seamless logic and integration for rapid iteration.
Founder
s
:
Headcount
:
28
Latest Funding
:
$1,900,000
Seed
,
9
9
Meeting assistant for financial advisors.
Headcount
:
~30
Latest Funding
:
$13.8M
Series A
,
Mar 2025
10
10
AI employees, automating outbound.
Headcount
:
~110
Latest Funding
:
$11.5M
Seed
,
Oct 2024
11
11
Financial analysis platform for enterprises.
Headcount
:
<10
Latest Funding
:
$8.7M
Seed
,
Oct 2024
12
12
Build and deploy automated agent workflows.
Headcount
:
~20
Latest Funding
:
$18M
Series A
,
Oct 2024
13
13
Human-AI collaboration to optimize software deployment lifescycles
Headcount
:
62
Latest Funding
:
$20M
Series A
,
Jun 2024
13
13
Space-based data centers.
Headcount
:
<10
Latest Funding
:
$21M
Seed
,
Dec 2024
14
14
Insurance brokerage for SMBs.
Headcount
:
<10
Latest Funding
:
$500K
Pre-seed
,
Jan 2025
15
15
R&D platform for chemistry and materials science.
Headcount
:
<10
Latest Funding
:
$23M
Series A
,
Dec 2024
8
8
Revenue automation for B2B
Headcount
:
~60
Latest Funding
:
$25M
Series A
,
Oct 2024
10
10
LlamaIndex is a versatile data framework that connects custom data sources to large language models, offering data ingestion, indexing, query interface, document Q&A, data augmented chatbots, knowledge agents, and structured analytics. It supports unstructured, structured, and semi-structured data sources and is available in Python, Typescript/Javascript, and other platforms such as LlamaHub and Discord.
Founder
s
:
Headcount
:
Latest Funding
:
$8,500,000
,
18
18
SEC & FINRA compliance tools.
Headcount
:
<10
Latest Funding
:
$4.5M
Seed
,
May 2024
19
19
Customer support platform, built for B2B.
Headcount
:
~50
Latest Funding
:
$17M
Series A
,
Aug 2024
20
20
Contract management platform.
Headcount
:
~10
Latest Funding
:
$3M
Pre-seed
,
Aug 2024
21
21
AI meeting notepad.
Headcount
:
~20
Latest Funding
:
$20M
Series A
,
Oct 2024
22
22
AI coworker.
Headcount
:
<10
Latest Funding
:
$500K
Pre-seed
,
Feb 2025
23
23
Voice solutions for customer support in financial services.
Headcount
:
<10
Latest Funding
:
$500K
Pre-seed
,
Jan 2025
24
24
Agentic AI for go-to-market.
Headcount
:
~50
Latest Funding
:
$13M
Seed
,
Sep 2024
25
25
End-to-end platform for building AI applications.
Founder
s
:
Ankur Goyal
Headcount
:
~20
Latest Funding
:
$36M
Series A
,
Oct 2024
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LangChain (rank 1 Q2 2025)
A platform to build AI apps from prototype into production. Langchain was founded in 2022 by Harrison Chase and Ankush Gola who met while working at Robust Intelligence. The company boasts a list of impressive clients and raised money from Benchmark and Sequoia.
Ankush Gola, Harrison Chase
Series A
$25M
~60
Lovable (rank 2 Q2 2025)
Build apps with no coding needed. Founded in 2023, Lovable has exploded in early 2025 after raising money from Scandinavian VC strongholds, byFounders and Creandum, as well as Hummingbird.
Anton Osika (https://linkedin.com/in/antonosika); Fabian Hedin (https://linkedin.com/in/fabian-hedin-2377b0144)
Seed
$15M
~50
Hadrius (Rank 3 Q2 2025)
SEC & FINRA compliance in one platform. Co-founders Som, Allen, and Thomas are back for their second act—after launching Quantbase (acquired by Surmount), they’re now tackling compliance with Hadrius.
Allen Calderwood, Som Mohapatra, Thomas Stewart
Seed
$2M
~20
Didero-Q2 2025
AI agents for procurement.
Tim Spencer, Lorenz Pallhuber, Tom Petit
Seed
$7M
~15
Profound-Q2 2025
Helping brands gain AI visibility.
Dylan Babbs, James Cadwallader
Seed
$3.5M
~20
Norm Ai-Q2 2025
AI agents for regulatory compliance
John Nay
Series B
$48M
~35
Browser Use-Q2 2025
Browser automation with AI agents.
Gregor Žunič, Magnus Müller
Pre-seed
$500K
<10
Basis-Q2 2025
AI agents for accountants
Mitchell Troyanovsky, Matt Harpe
Series A
$34M
~25
Wordware-Q2 2025
Build production ready AI across modalities
Filip Kozera, Robert Chandler
Seed
$30.5M
28
Zocks-Q2 2025
Meeting assistant for financial advisors.
Ákos Ratku, Mark Gilbert
Series A
$13.8M
~30
Artisan-Q2 2025
AI employees, automating outbound.
Sam Stallings (https://linkedin.com/in/samantha12345); Jaspar Carmichael-Jack (https://linkedin.com/in/jaspar-carmichael-jack)
Seed
$11.5M
~110
Sapien-Q2 2025
Financial analysis platform for enterprises.
Ron Nachum (https://linkedin.com/in/ron-nachum); Ron Nachum (https://linkedin.com/in/ron-nachum); Ron Nachum (https://linkedin.com/in/ron-nachum); Ron Nachum (https://linkedin.com/in/ron-nachum); Arya Grayeli (https://linkedin.com/in/aryagrayeli); Arya Grayeli (https://linkedin.com/in/aryagrayeli); Arya Grayeli (https://linkedin.com/in/aryagrayeli); Arya Grayeli (https://linkedin.com/in/aryagrayeli); Pranav Ravella (https://linkedin.com/in/pranav-ravella-610044206); Pranav Ravella (https://linkedin.com/in/pranav-ravella-610044206); Pranav Ravella (https://linkedin.com/in/pranav-ravella-610044206); Pranav Ravella (https://linkedin.com/in/pranav-ravella-610044206); Pranav Ravella (https://linkedin.com/in/pranavravella); Pranav Ravella (https://linkedin.com/in/pranavravella); Pranav Ravella (https://linkedin.com/in/pranavravella); Pranav Ravella (https://linkedin.com/in/pranavravella)
Seed
$8.7M
<10
CrewAI-Q2 2025
Build and deploy automated agent workflows.
João (Joe) Moura, Rob Bailey
Series A
$18M
~20
Factory-Q2 2025
Human-AI collaboration to optimize software deployment lifescycles
Matan Grinberg, Eno Reyes
Series A
$20M
62
Star Cloud-Q2 2025
Space-based data centers.
Philip Johnston, Ezra Feilden, Adi Oltean
Seed
$21M
<10
Harper-Q2 2025
Insurance brokerage for SMBs.
Dakotah Rice, Tushar Nair
Pre-seed
$500K
<10
Albert Invent-Q2 2025
R&D platform for chemistry and materials science.
Zach Kisner, Ken Kisner, Nick Talken, Neelesh Vaikhary
Series A
$23M
<10
Tabs-Q2 2025 16
Revenue automation for B2B
Rebecca Schwartz, Deepak Bapat, Ali Hussain
Series A
$25M
~60
LlamaIndex-Q2 2025
Build LLM-powered knowledge agents on top of any private data source
Simon Suo, Jerry Liu
Series A
$19M
~45
Greenboard-Q2 2025
SEC & FINRA compliance tools.
Dave Feldman, Edward Schembor
Seed
$4.5M
<10
Pylon-Q2 2025 19
Customer support platform, built for B2B.
Marty Kausas, Robert Eng, Advith Chelikani
Series A
$17M
~50
Agree-Q2 2025
Contract management platform.
Will Hubbard, Evan Dudla, Marty Ringlein
Pre-seed
$3M
~10
Granola-Q2 2025
AI meeting notepad.
Sam Stephenson (https://linkedin.com/in/stephensonsam); Christopher Pedregal (https://linkedin.com/in/pedregal)
Series A
$20M
~20
General Agency-Q2 2025
AI coworker.
Harvey Hu, Mo Nasir
Pre-seed
$500K
<10
Trace-Q2 2025
Voice solutions for customer support in financial services.
Yash Vardhan Pansari, Saner Cakir, Kayla Lee
Pre-seed
$500K
<10
Landbase-Q2 2025
Agentic AI for go-to-market.
Emily Zhang, Daniel Saks, Raheem Syed
Seed
$13M
~50
Braintrust-Q2 2025 25
End-to-end platform for building AI applications.
Ankur Goyal
Series A
$36M
~20

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