Build the Tooling — Startup Opportunities

PROVENFounder's Box$50M

A Great Product Is Invisible Without a Great Story

SaaS/Productivity · build tooling

PROVENSiro$75M

AI Sales Coaching Has a Blind Spot – $50M to Fix It

AI/Agents · build tooling

PROVENCroissant$52M

Don't Build Another Resale Marketplace – Build the Infrastructure

E-commerce/Marketplace · build tooling

PROVENCarro$50M

Instead of Running Ads, Let Other Retailers Sell for You

E-commerce/Marketplace · build tooling

PROVENVoyantis$60M

Real Marketing Isn't Driving Traffic – It's Finding Buyers Who Stay

SaaS/Analytics · build tooling

PROVENGlimpse$53M

Retailers Pocket a Third of Supplier Profits – Called Deductions

AI/Agents · build tooling

PROVENAnrok$54M

Selling Software Globally Is Easy – Until Tax Season

SaaS/Vertical · build tooling

PROVENButter Payments$29M

Butter Payments Recovers Subscription Revenue Lost to Failed Charges

E-commerce/Subscriptions · build tooling

PROVENPassionfroot$14M

Cold Calls Are Dead. B2B Influencers Are the New Pipeline.

SaaS/Marketplace · build tooling

PROVENKevel$45M

E-Commerce's Hidden Revenue Stream: Retail Media

E-commerce/Marketplace · build tooling

PROVENUpstock$13M

Equity Incentives Done Right Are a Startup Superpower

HR/Benefits · build tooling

PROVENBemyfriends$44M

Everyone Is a Fan of Something – and That's a Business

E-commerce/Marketplace · build tooling

PROVENUnderstory$19M

Experience Sellers Have No Shopify – Until Now

E-commerce/Marketplace · build tooling

PROVENDefault$11M

Inbound Is Now Where B2B Deals Start

SaaS/CRM · build tooling

PROVENInstruqt$15M

Instruqt Turns B2B Sales Pitches Into Interactive Product Demos

SaaS/Productivity · build tooling

PROVENLottie$26M

Lottie Built a Senior Living Marketplace With Real-Time Bed Availability

SaaS/Marketplace · build tooling

PROVENVoyantis$19M

LTV Was Always a Guess – Now It's a Prediction

AI/MLOps · build tooling

PROVENMakerSights$37M

MakerSights Gives Fashion Teams a Shared Workspace for Assortment Decisions

E-commerce/Marketplace · build tooling

PROVENMozaic$31M

Mozaic Automates Revenue Splits for the Creator Economy

SaaS/Productivity · build tooling

PROVENPaid$11M

Outcome-Based Pricing for AI Agents – Who Captures the Value

AI/Agents · build tooling

PROVENRostra$40M

People Don't Buy From Ads – They Buy From Stories

SaaS/Productivity · build tooling

PROVENPaid$33M

Per-Seat Pricing Breaks When the Agent's Job Is to Reduce Headcount

AI/Agents · build tooling

PROVENRhythms$26M

Rhythms Raised $26M Pre-Launch to Help Teams Replicate Top Performance

SaaS/Analytics · build tooling

PROVENMealMe$21M

Solved Distribution by Becoming Infrastructure, Not a Consumer App

SaaS/Vertical · build tooling

PROVENSpines$24M

The $137B Book Market Has a New Publishing Layer Worth Owning

E-commerce/Marketplace · build tooling

PROVENStackOne$24M

The App Era Is Over – Integration Is the New Frontier

SaaS/Productivity · build tooling

PROVENScription$11M

The Best Revenue Is What You Earn for Not Working

SaaS/Vertical · build tooling

PROVENEdra$30M

The Biggest Money in Enterprise AI Is in Implementation

AI/Agents · build tooling

PROVENVoiceflow$39M

Voiceflow Brings Multi-Team Collaboration to AI Chatbot Building

SaaS/Collaboration · build tooling

PROVENDuel$21M

Your Customers Are Your Biggest Untapped Acquisition Channel

SaaS/Productivity · build tooling

PROVENZephr$11M

Zephr Lets Publishers Build Subscription Packages as Flexible Entitlement Bundles

E-commerce/Subscriptions · build tooling

RISINGChannel3$7M

AI Agents Are About to Replace You at Checkout

AI/Search · build tooling

RISINGThe AI Film Company$5M

AI Film Needs Infrastructure, Not Just Better Tools

AI/Generative · build tooling

RISINGRedpine$9M

Building a Niche AI Agent? The Real Money Is in the Data It Needs.

AI/Agents · build tooling

RISINGShowrunner$10M

Direct Episodes Inside a Shared AI Universe

AI/Generative · build tooling

RISINGThose Beyond$8M

The 2% of Fans Who Actually Want to Pay More

SaaS/Productivity · build tooling

RISINGr.Potential$6M

Two Executives for Human and AI Workers Is Already Obsolete

HR/Remote · build tooling

RISINGHupside$2M

95% of Enterprise AI Pilots Fail – and the Fix Isn't Better Technology

AI/Agents · build tooling

PLAYBOOKSkyfire$9M

AI Agents Can Research, Draft, and Plan – But They Can't Pay

AI/Agents · build tooling

PLAYBOOKHelloSky$8M

AI Won't Kill Hiring – It Will Make It Far More Rigorous

HR/Recruiting · build tooling

PLAYBOOKPaylode$6M

Close the Deal With Someone Else's Budget

E-commerce/Marketplace · build tooling

RISINGVoker$2M

Everyone Deploys AI Agents. Nobody Measures If They Actually Help.

AI/Agents · build tooling

RISINGInstaSwitch$5M

Everyone Locks Users In. What If You Helped Them Switch?

SaaS/Productivity · build tooling

PLAYBOOKInclusively$7M

Inclusively Connects Employers to the 61 Million Americans With Disabilities

E-commerce/Marketplace · build tooling

PLAYBOOKReef.ai$7M

Reef.ai Turns Net Dollar Retention Into a Measurable, Actionable Metric

SaaS/Analytics · build tooling

RISINGHoneyjar$2M

Smart PR Beats Paid Ads – Especially When You Can't Afford Both

SaaS/Productivity · build tooling

RISINGJuo$4M

Subscriptions Work for Physical Products Too – the Numbers Are Wild

E-commerce/Subscriptions · build tooling

PLAYBOOKTorchlite$7M

Torchlite Brings CRM-Style Tools to Partner Channel Management

SaaS/CRM · build tooling

PLAYBOOKAnon$7M

Your AI Agent Is Useless Without This

AI/Agents · build tooling

PLAYBOOKAdopt$6M

Your Users Are About to Tell You: Ditch the Interface

AI/Agents · build tooling

RISINGLocus$500K

AI Agents Need Their Own Email, Wallet, and Identity

AI/Agents · build tooling

PLAYBOOKHuman Native AI$4M

AI Needs Licensed Content – and the Gold Rush Is Just Starting

AI/Generative · build tooling

PLAYBOOKBrandefy$4M

Brandefy Sells $9 Dupes of $80 Skincare Products

E-commerce/Marketplace · build tooling

RISINGRubric$500K

Building AI Platforms Is Cheap. Verifying Their Output Is Valuable.

AI/MLOps · build tooling

PLAYBOOKContext$4M

Context Analyzes What Users Are Actually Asking Your AI Chatbot

SaaS/Analytics · build tooling

RISINGTecto$500K

Corporate AI Adoption Is a Mess – and That's a Business Opportunity

AI/Agents · build tooling

RISINGAgentMail$500K

Email Infrastructure Built for AI Agents, Not Humans

AI/Agents · build tooling

PLAYBOOKEscalate$1M

Escalate Turns Frontline Workers Into Middle Managers to Fix Retention

SaaS/Analytics · build tooling

PLAYBOOKVideobot$2M

Everything "Normal" Is About to Become Video

AI/Generative · build tooling

PLAYBOOKRamdam$4M

Most Influencer Ads Don't Sell – These 50,000 Creators Know Why

AI/Generative · build tooling

RISINGKampala$500K

Seven Years of Reverse-Engineering Sneaker Bots, Turned Into a Real Business

DevTools · build tooling

PLAYBOOKShareWillow$4M

ShareWillow Automates Profit-Sharing Plans for US Companies

SaaS/Industry-Specific · build tooling

PLAYBOOKStoriaverse$3M

Storiaverse Invented a New Format Between Comics and Video

AI/Generative · build tooling

PLAYBOOKSyntegra$3M

Synthetic Patient Data That's Statistically Real but Legally Safe

AI/Generative · build tooling

RISINGMaven$500K

The AI Voice Agent That Collects Payment Mid-Call

AI/Voice · build tooling

RISINGNixo$500K

The Deeper You Embed, the Harder You Are to Remove

SaaS/Productivity · build tooling

RISINGGrade$500K

The End of Paying for Time – AI Is Making Outcome-Based Pay Inevitable

HR/Benefits · build tooling

RISINGHumwork$500K

The Org Chart Is About to Flip Upside Down

AI/Agents · build tooling

PLAYBOOKCohora$3M

To Sell More, Sell Less

E-commerce/DTC · build tooling

PLAYBOOKArcube$2M

Two Students Cracked Loyalty Programs With One Psychological Trick

SaaS/Productivity · build tooling

PLAYBOOKViralMoment$3M

You Only See TikTok After the Algorithm Decides You Should

AI/Computer Vision · build tooling

RISINGVaave$782K

Your Alumni Network Is an Untapped Business Asset

HR/Recruiting · build tooling

RISINGScope$500K

Your Next Power User Is an AI Agent – and It Hates Your UX

AI/Agents · build tooling

PLAYBOOKBilanc$500K

Are Your AI Coding Tools Actually Making Developers More Productive?

SaaS/Productivity · build tooling

PLAYBOOKResonance$500K

Dollar Retention Matters More Than User Retention

SaaS/Productivity · build tooling

PLAYBOOKMesmer$500K

Everyone's Replacing Engineers With AI – No One's Replacing CTOs

AI/Agents · build tooling

PLAYBOOKDrooidundisclosed

News Aggregation Is Dumb – Perspective Aggregation Is Interesting

AI/NLP · build tooling

PLAYBOOKRe:invent$150K

Re:invent Automates Cross-Promotional Campaigns Between B2C Brands

SaaS/Marketplace · build tooling

PLAYBOOKBuster$500K

The 90% of SaaS Work Nobody Talks About – And a Platform That Eliminates It

SaaS/Productivity · build tooling

PLAYBOOKKOAHundisclosed

The Ad Network Built for AI Chatbots – Not Banners

AI/Generative · build tooling

PLAYBOOKCoLaunchlyundisclosed

Who's Going to Market Your Product?

SaaS/Productivity · build tooling

SEEDLINGPensieveundisclosed

AI Agents Need Onboarding. Nobody Knows How to Do That Yet.

AI/Agents · build tooling

SEEDLINGSkalaundisclosed

An AI Lawyer on Call – and a Global Business Set Up Before Breakfast

AI/NLP · build tooling

SEEDLINGMockeundisclosed

Bad Email Campaigns Don't Just Underperform – They Kill Your Audience

AI/Generative · build tooling

SEEDLINGSoofteundisclosed

Communities 2.0: Built Around Action, Not Small Talk

SaaS/Productivity · build tooling

SEEDLINGEmploykidsundisclosed

Pay Your Kids for Chores, Open a Roth IRA – Retire Them Rich

Fintech/WealthTech · build tooling