10 Top Enterprise Software Startups

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As diverse and interesting startups spring up to meet the diverging and growing needs of a changing world, these startups and companies have needs of their own. Standard software packages often don't fully encompass the requirements of specific brands, and in response, enterprise software startups are creating innovative industry- and brand-specific applications and software to fill the gap. 

From autonomous warehouse drones to compensation management tools, we've rounded up the top enterprise software companies that you should be following. 

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Enterprise Software Companies to Watch

Every year, new startups pull to the forefront of their industry through exciting innovation and industry-disrupting business models. We’ve rounded up several enterprise software startups that startup-lovers, investors, and aspiring entrepreneurs should follow. 

Disclaimer: With so many exciting startups launching and growing worldwide, we aren’t able to cover them all. Furthermore, the startups that are listed below are not officially ranked and are listed in no particular order.

1. ASAPP

Location: New York, New York
Funding: Series C, $380 Million

ASAPP is an enterprise software startup that is transforming the way customer care agents handle incoming telephone and online queries from customers. The startup uses artificial intelligence (AI) to provide customer care agents with the correct solutions to customers' pains in real-time and by using machine learning, it uses successful resolutions from other representatives within the organization to provide new options to their colleagues while they're interacting with customers. 

2. ClickUp

Location: San Diego, California
Funding: Series C, $537.5 Million

ClickUp provides cloud-based collaboration applications intended to increase team productivity. This enterprise software startup is innovative in that it provides team members with the capability to work together on multiple projects in various forms on the same platform. 

3. Drift (Acquired by Vista Equity Partners)

Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Funding: Secondary Market

Drift calls itself a revenue acceleration platform. It uses conversational marketing and sales to improve its clients' revenue. Drift's playbooks and tools evolve quickly to meet the needs of its users and help to unlock insights it finds buried within conversations to find potential customers, increase sales, and provide an overall higher quality user experience. 

4. Nova Health Labs

Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Funding: Pre-Seed, Undisclosed 

Nova Health Labs is one of the few enterprise software startups in the healthcare space. This startup focuses on improving process automation and workflow for cancer and health care communications. Nova hopes to help avoid burnout in oncology care teams and resulting human errors by automating communication and administrative workflows.

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5. Pave

Location: San Francisco, California
Funding: Series C, $163 Million

Pave helps employers to leverage real-time equity and HR integration to improve planning, communication, and the benchmarking of compensation. This enterprise software startup's compensation transparency tools help to measure, track, and communicate compensation numbers for employees. Their planning tools also allow for accurate budgeting and reporting. 

6. Hubilo

Location: San Francisco, California
Funding: Series B, $153 Million

Hubilo has developed an event analytics platform, which it says is designed to bring together intelligence and experiences. Using the Hubilo platform, companies can host online events, communicate with delegates across the world, and arrange breakout sessions to encourage meaningful interaction. Essentially, this enterprise software startup gives businesses the ability to plan, promote, analyze, manage, and host online events all on one platform. 

7. AiDash

Location: San Jose, California=
Funding: Convertible Note, $43 Million

AiDash is an enterprise software startup that has created an AI-first in its satellite-powered operations and maintenance used in energy, utility, and other core spaces utilizing geographically distributed assets. AiDash's tools use multispectral, high-resolution imagery combined with SAR data from satellite constellations and feed this data into proprietary AI models, which produce timely predictions for operations and maintenance activities. 

8. Emitwise

Location: London, United Kingdom
Funding: Series A, $16.6 Million

Emitwise combines enterprise software with sustainability and green outcomes by providing an AI-technology-powered solution for companies that helps measure, report, and reduce their carbon footprint across their entire supply chain and operation. Emitwise has tackled a previously difficult-to-achieve goal of accurate carbon emission tracking, where most companies have been forced to track and measure various aspects of their organization individually. The startup hopes to help future-proof businesses and aim for a zero-carbon world.

9. Ware

Location: San Francisco, California
Funding: Seed, $2.5 Million

Ware focuses their enterprise software solutions in the warehousing space. Their products and services include self-flying, autonomous drones which operate inside warehouse spaces and help with automatic inventory tracking. The multi trillion-dollar warehousing industry still regularly deals with inventory management issues despite many advances in technology, and Ware hopes to change this. 

10. Peek

Location: New York, New York
Funding: Seed, $3.8 Million

Peek is an enterprise software startup that focuses on the real estate industry. Peek's product allows real estate companies and agents to host virtual tours of available properties which are backed by powerful AI-driven tools that help agents close deals faster and easily manage their real estate businesses. The company positions itself and its products as a data-driven solution to assist companies on their leasing journey using analytics, interactive tours, marketing tools, and content management. 

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