The year is not 2015.
Starting and growing a SaaS company was never easy, but it’s definitely gotten harder.
- The market is more saturated than ever, which makes it difficult for new entrants to differentiate themselves.
- From social media to PPC, all marketing channels have gotten more expensive, leaving less room for experimentation–and net profit.
- Investors now prioritize sustainable growth and profitability over rapid expansion.
- And data privacy laws like GDPR and CCPA have made marketing more complex.
Despite the many hurdles, however, the SaaS market doesn’t show any signs of slowing down.
We made a list with the best of them, both vertical and horizontal.
1. Anthropic [enterprise AI platform]
Year founded: 2021
Headquartered in: San Francisco, California, US
Company size: 300–500 employees
Funding round: Series E
Total funding raised: $7.3B
Last valuation: $61.5B
Anthropic builds Claude, an AI model tailored for enterprise use. In 2025, it launched Claude for Teams—an AI assistant for legal, finance, and customer ops workflows – and signed $100M+ deals with companies like Databricks.
Unlike general-purpose models, Claude is built around alignment and risk reduction. That focus makes it easier for companies to adopt at scale. Backed by AWS, Salesforce, and Google, Anthropic is now pulling in over $4B in annualized revenue.
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2. Artisan [AI business dev agent platform]
Year founded: 2023
Headquartered in: San Francisco, California, US
Company size: ~37 employees
Funding round: Series A – $25 million
Total funding raised: ~$36 million
Last known ARR: ~$6 million
Artisan builds AI employees for outbound sales. Its flagship agent, Ava, automates lead identification, personalized messaging across email and LinkedIn, and meeting scheduling, without oversight. The company now serves ~250 customers and runs ~$5 million in annual recurring revenue.
Artisan’s edge is a multi-agent architecture built for autonomy. Ava searches for real-time buying signals—job postings, funding, leadership changes – to time outreach precisely. Two new agents, Aaron (Inbound SDR) and Aria (Meeting Assistant) are slated to launch by year‑end.
3. Base44 [conversational no‑code app builder]
Year founded: 2024
Headquartered in: Tel Aviv, Israel
Company size: ~6 employees at acquisition time
Funding round: Bootstrapped
Acquisition: ~$80 million from Wix (June 2025)
Projected ARR by end of 2025: $40–50 million
Coming out of the no-code revolution, Base44 lets users build web apps using natural language. It handles everything from front end to backend, logic, and hosting without plugins or integrations. The product launched quietly, scaled quickly, and reached 100,000 users within weeks. It became profitable before raising a single dollar.
In mid-2025, Wix acquired the company for $80 million in cash. Base44 now runs independently within Wix’s ecosystem, serving small teams that want to ship tools fast without relying on engineers. The promise is simple: describe what you want, and it builds it.
4. Ryft [enterprise data infrastructure]
Year founded: 2024
Headquartered in: Tel Aviv, Israel
Company size: 11–20 employees
Funding round: Seed
Total funding raised: $8M
Ryft helps data teams manage Apache Iceberg tables without engineering bottlenecks. The platform supports governance, recovery, schema evolution, and optimization across any storage layer. It’s designed to give enterprises full control over their data architecture without locking them into specific clouds or vendors.
The company raised an $8 million seed round in mid-2025 from Index Ventures, Bessemer, and several cybersecurity founders. Early traction is coming from teams in finance, gaming, and adtech that are moving off traditional data stacks to build around open formats.
5. Pendo [product experience platform]
Year founded: 2013
Headquartered in: Raleigh, North Carolina, US
Company size: 750+ employees
Funding round: Series F
Total funding raised: ~$568M
Last valuation: ~$1B
Pendo helps companies improve how users experience their software. The platform combines in-app guides, analytics, feedback tools, session replays, and usage heatmaps. In 2025, it launched Pendo Predict, an AI-powered layer that scores retention and churn risk based on user behavior.
Its latest momentum came through the acquisition of Forwrd.ai, which added predictive analytics to the stack. The platform is used across product, marketing, and CS teams looking to tighten user engagement without relying on dev cycles. Pendo remains one of the few horizontal SaaS tools to scale usage without burning capital.
6. Observe.AI [conversation intelligence platform]
Year founded: 2017
Headquartered in: Redwood City, California, US
Company size: ~360 employees
Funding round: Series C (April 2022)
Total funding raised: $213M
Observe.AI transforms contact centers by embedding AI into every customer interaction. Its platform delivers real-time agent assistance, auto summaries, QA automation, coaching, and full interaction analysis. In 2024, the company generated $44.2M in revenue, a 47 percent increase from the previous year.
The platform runs on proprietary models trained on contact center data, giving it an edge in call context and intent tracking. Adoption surged in 2024 with a 155 percent lift in new bookings and usage across more than 350 contact centers. Results are measurable and immediate, which keeps expansion fast and sticky.
7. Abacus AI [agentic automation for CPA firms]
Year founded: 2024
Headquartered in: United States
Company size: Undisclosed
Funding round: Seed
Total funding raised: $6.6M
Abacus AI builds AI agents that automate tax preparation and financial workflows for accounting firms. The platform extracts, classifies, and reconciles data with minimal human review. It replaces manual prep work, giving firms the capacity to scale without expanding headcount.
In July 2025, Abacus raised $6.6 million in seed funding led by Menlo Ventures. The team is made up of ex-Stanford engineers with deep experience in automation. Their early edge is speed – firms are reporting shorter cycles and fewer errors within weeks of onboarding.
8. Anysphere (Cursor) [AI IDE for developers]
Year founded: 2022
Headquartered in: San Francisco, California, US
Company size: ~60 employees
Funding round: Series C
Total funding raised: $1.1B
Last valuation: ~$9.9B
Cursor is an AI-first IDE that streamlines how engineers build software. The product combines intelligent code generation, autocomplete, refactoring, and search, all within a VS Code-compatible interface. Developers can prompt Cursor in natural language and get full-stack output that is context-aware, accurate, and fast.
In 2025, Anysphere raised $900 million at a valuation close to $10 billion. ARR has crossed $500 million, with traction driven by bottom-up adoption and deep integration into daily developer workflows. Cursor is positioned to become the standard for AI-native software development.
9. Neysa [AI acceleration cloud system]
Year founded: 2023
Headquartered in: Mumbai, India
Company size: ~60 employees
Funding round: Series A
Total funding raised: $50M
Neysa delivers full-stack infrastructure for enterprise AI. Its platform combines managed GPU cloud, orchestration, security, and cost control into a single environment. With Velocis, its flagship product, companies can deploy GenAI models at scale while maintaining governance and compliance.
After raising $20 million in seed capital, Neysa closed a $30 million Series A in late 2024. The platform now powers workloads for more than 20 paying clients and is expanding into new regions. Its value lies in replacing the complexity of multi-vendor setups with one purpose-built AI infrastructure layer.
10. Workato [enterprise AI-powered automation]
Year founded: 2013
Headquartered in: Mountain View, California, US
Company size: ~1,200 employees
Funding round: Series E
Total funding raised: ~$415M
Last valuation: ~$1.7B (2025, secondary market)
Workato helps enterprises automate workflows across apps, teams, and systems, making it a strong option alongside traditional workflow management software. The platform’s no-code “recipes” are used by more than 11,000 customers worldwide to streamline everything from finance ops to sales and support.
In 2025, the company launched Workato One, a suite of AI tools including Agent Studio and AgentX, designed to turn automations into smart, responsive agents. With enterprise demand growing for scalable, trusted automation, Workato remains one of the few platforms delivering both reach and intelligence in one stack.
Honorable Mentions
1. Contentful [content management platform]
Year founded: 2013
Headquartered in: Berlin, Germany
Company size: ~850 employees
Funding round: Series F
Total funding raised: ~$350M
Last valuation: $3B
Contentful powers enterprise content delivery through a composable, headless CMS. The platform serves over 4,000 customers with tools that help developers and marketers publish across web, mobile, and digital screens without relying on legacy stacks. It hit $200 million in revenue in 2024 and remains a go-to option for global brands.
The platform enables digital teams to unify content in a single hub, structure it for use in any digital channel, and integrate seamlessly with hundreds of other tools through open APIs. Though there are some decent alternatives to Contentful, it remains a top choice for businesses looking to streamline content operations and improve efficiency.
2. GoCharlie.AI [marketing productivity assistant]
Year founded: 2021
Headquartered in: San Francisco, California, US
Company size: ~9 employees
Funding round: Seed
Total funding raised: ~$25K
Last valuation: Private
A leading Generative AI company, GoCharlie specializes in developing cognitive agents and models optimized for businesses. Founded by Brennan Woodruff, Despina Christou, Kostas Hatalis, and Ryan Carlton, GoCharlie.AI helps entrepreneurs and enterprises create content that performs across text, images, and more.
The platform aims to maximize engagement and drive business through all marketing channels. Currently, the company has 6 investors, including SRI International and Davidovs Venture Collective.
3. Gumlet [secure media delivery & enterprise video hosting]
Year founded: 2018
Headquartered in: Singapore (with operations in Bangalore, India)
Company size: ~35 employees
Funding round: Seed
Total funding raised: $1.6M
Latest revenue: ~$3M ARR
Gumlet provides a secure, enterprise-grade video hosting and streaming platform. Its features include multi-DRM protection (Google Widevine, Apple FairPlay), dynamic watermarking, signed URLs, domain restrictions, and an ad-free white-label player.
Positioned as a modern alternative to Vimeo, Gumlet serves more than 6,000 customers and manages millions of media files with high reliability. Gumlet’s growth metrics show that it has carved out a niche. From its founding in 2018, it has raised $1.6 million, grown to above $3 million in revenue by 2024.
4. MegazoneCloud [cloud optimization startup]
Year founded: 2018
Headquartered in: Seoul, South Korea
Company size: 500–1,000 employees
Total funding raised: ~$515M
Last valuation: ~$1.9B
MegazoneCloud is the largest AWS Premier Managed Service Provider in Asia-Pacific. It delivers cloud adoption, AI-native platforms, and cybersecurity for enterprise clients across Korea and Southeast Asia. In 2024, it handled digital transformation projects for over 1,500 customers, including Samsung, LG, and major public-sector institutions.
With $515 million in funding and a valuation near $2 billion, MegazoneCloud is pushing deeper into AI. Its AIR suite embeds AI across platforms, governance, and operations. It’s positioned as the bridge for enterprises transitioning confidently and reticent into scalable, AI-powered infrastructure.
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