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40 Skyrocketing SaaS Companies & Startups (2025)

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by Josh Howarth
Last Updated: May 16, 2025

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It’s no secret that SaaS has exploded over the last decade.

Estimates have the total size of the SaaS market projected to reach $908.2 billion by 2030. 

SaaS’s attractive business model, combined with simplicity and flexibility for end-users, is part of the reason that “software is still eating the world”.

The SaaS startups on our list are all rapidly growing and varied in the industries and roles they help serve.

From HR departments to sales teams to IT orgs, our SaaS startups cover the gamut of use cases and applications.

Here’s our list of some of the SaaS companies making waves in 2025.

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1. InVideo

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5-year search growth: 2,125%

Search growth status: Exploding

Year founded: 2017

Location: Singapore, Singapore

Funding: $52.5M (Series B)

What they do: InVideo is a SaaS video creation platform featuring ready-made templates and a large media library. The startup boasts a sizable user base of over 7 million that produces hundreds of thousands of videos per month. InVideo recently received a $40M Series B with interest from highly active startup investor Tiger Global and others.

2. Linktree

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5-year search growth: 116%

Search growth status: Peaked

Year founded: 2016

Location: Melbourne, Australia

Funding: $165.7M (Series C)

What they do: Linktree is a service that can be used across multiple social networks to provide access to a brand or individual’s most important content, all in one place. Businesses and individuals can use the tool to create actionable links for services (like Instagram) that don’t allow direct linking from posts.

While other “link-in-bio” tools exist, Linktree was, according to its founders, the first of its kind in the SaaS space. Since its 2016 inception, the company has raised over $165M and surpassed 50 million total users in May 2024. 

3. Printify

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5-year search growth: 533%

Search growth status: Exploding

Year founded: 2015

Location: Wilmington, North Carolina

Funding: $54.3M (Series A)

What they do: Printify is a freemium printing platform for artists, entrepreneurs, and other merchants to produce printed materials ranging from T-shirts to tablecloths. The platform offers Premium and Enterprise plans for a monthly fee, as well as a free plan that allows users to run small-scale eCommerce operations and only pay for production.

Printify brought in $45M in an H2 2021 Series A funding round from Index Ventures and an eclectic mix of other investors, including H&M Group and Will Smith’s own investment firm. For the first time since its inception, Printify reached profitability in 2023 and plans to expand into on-demand consumer packaged goods.  

4. Nitropack

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5-year search growth: 221%

Search growth status: Regular

Year founded: 2018

Location: Sofia, Bulgaria

Funding: $2.32M (Seed)

What they do: NitroPack is an automated website speed optimization SaaS product. NitroPacks’ features include caching, CDN, HTML, image optimization, and other tasks that can be easily automated on different CMSs. The platform is currently available via extension or plugin on WordPress, OpenCart, WooCommerce, and Magento. According to the startup, more than 246,000 customers have NitroPack installed on their websites. 

5. Abacus AI

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5-year search growth: 99x+

Search growth status: Exploding

Year founded: 2019

Location: San Francisco, CA

Funding: $90.3M

What they do: Abacus AI is a machine learning and artificial intelligence platform that provides end-to-end solutions for building, deploying, and managing AI models. It differentiates itself by offering a fully managed service that automates the creation of deep learning models, making it easier for businesses to implement AI without requiring extensive expertise in data science.

Abacus AI primarily targets enterprises and developers seeking to integrate AI into their products and services with minimal complexity.

6. Tailscale

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5-year search growth: 99x+

Search growth status: Exploding

Year founded: 2019

Location: Toronto, Canada

Funding: $115.4M

What they do: Tailscale is a service that provides secure network connectivity using WireGuard technology. It allows users to create a virtual private network (VPN) that connects devices across different networks as if they were on the same local network, simplifying the process of setting up and managing VPNs by handling network configuration, firewall rules, and NAT traversal.

Tailscale is particularly useful for remote teams, developers, and IT professionals who need to securely connect to resources across different locations without the hassle of traditional VPN setups.

7. Supabase

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5-year search growth: 99x+

Search growth status: Exploding

Year founded: 2020

Location: San Francisco, CA

Funding: $196.1M (Series C)

What they do: Open-source platform designed as an alternative to Firebase, offering a suite of tools including a Postgres database, authentication, instant APIs, edge functions, and real-time capabilities.

Supabase differentiates itself by providing a comprehensive backend solution that is easy to set up and integrates seamlessly with existing applications, enabling rapid development and deployment. It is primarily targeted at developers and businesses looking for a scalable and efficient backend infrastructure to support their applications.

8. Shapr3D

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5-year search growth: 222%

Search growth status: Exploding

Year founded: 2015

Location: Budapest, Hungary

Funding: $21.8M (Series B)

What they do: The CAD (computer-aided design) market is expected to grow to over $18 billion in the next few years, and Shapr3D is trying to be at the forefront of the industry. Shapr3D’s product is simply an app that works on iPad or Mac and is compatible with the Apple Pencil.

The smooth UI and features like live feedback allow product teams to get quick answers and iterate rapidly on the design process.

9. Lokalise

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5-year search growth: 106%

Search growth status: Exploding

Year founded: 2017

Location: Dover, Delaware

Funding: $56M (Series B)

What they do: Translating applications into different languages can be a time-consuming process. Lokalise automates language translation for leading companies’ apps, including Starbucks, Hyundai, Mastercard and more.

Used by managers, translators, developers, and designers, Lokalise provides a cloud platform for managing the translation and localization process. A global study by CSA Research showed that 76% of people are more likely to buy goods or services online from a provider that communicates with them in their own language.

10. Miro

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5-year search growth: 79%

Search growth status: Regular

Year founded: 2011

Location: San Francisco, California

Funding: $476.3M (Series C)

What they do: Miro has constructed a SaaS business around their innovative collaborative whiteboard product. Allowing teams to set up everything from agile workflows to diagrams and even workshops that let everyone on the team draw or iterate, Miro’s flexible platform facilitates it all. Miro has 60 million users and counting.

11. QRFY

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5-year search growth: 99x+

Search growth status: Exploding

Year founded: 2021

Location: Sant Cugat Del Vallès, Spain

Funding: Undisclosed

What they do: QRFY is a personalized QR code generator for small and large businesses. Users can quickly create a free QR Code for websites, PDFs, videos, and more by inputting basic information like their URL, message, or background image. Customers can also draw inspiration from their database of past designs for business and marketing use. 

12. Fieldwire

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5-year search growth: 60%

Search growth status: Exploding

Year founded: 2013

Location: San Francisco, California

Funding: $41.2M (Series C)

What they do: Construction is a notoriously old-fashioned industry. Fieldwire wants to disrupt that. Providing teams a full platform for checklists, inspections, real-time messaging, and scheduling, construction crews now have a single source of truth for their data while on a project.

Markups and edits of building layouts can all be done digitally on iPads or mobile devices, and typical construction documents all organized cleanly within Fieldwire’s cloud platform.

13. N8n

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5-year search growth: 99x+

Search growth status: Exploding

Year founded: 2019

Location: Berlin, Germany

Funding: $20M (Series A)

What they do: N8n is a secure and AI-native workflow automation tool designed for technical users. It enables users to connect various applications, automate tasks, and insert custom code when necessary, with the option to host the tool on their own infrastructure, providing flexibility and control. N8n is particularly beneficial for developers and IT professionals seeking to streamline processes and enhance productivity through automation.

14. Recorded Future

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5-year search growth: 92%

Search growth status: Regular

Year founded: 2009

Location: Somerville, Massachusetts

Funding: $79M (Series Unknown)

What they do: Recorded Future is a complete intelligence platform designed to provide active recommendations around security. International clients, including Dupont, McAfee, Raytheon, and Accenture, are all users of Recorded Future’s SaaS intelligence platform.

Companies can easily add different intelligence modules to their platform based on the current needs of the business and teams within it. Today, the company supports over 1,900 clients in 80+ countries.

15. BambooHR

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5-year search growth: 118%

Search growth status: Regular

Year founded: 2008

Location: Lindon, Utah

Funding: Undisclosed (Series Unknown)

What they do: BambooHR is one of the leaders in the HR startup space, providing SMB HR teams a platform with capabilities that range from hiring to payroll to performance reviews. Full-service implementation and award-winning customer service make it likely that BambooHR will continue to grow.

16. Intercom

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5-year search growth: 28%

Search growth status: Exploding

Year founded: 2011

Location: San Francisco, California

Funding: $240.8M (Secondary Market)

What they do: When customers go to a website, they often have questions as soon as they hit the page. Questions about products and services always exist, and so Intercom was born. Intercom does everything from live chat, intelligent chatbots, product tour, and beyond. Its goal is to be the number one conversational SaaS platform. With over 17,000 users and $50M in ARR, making it the second fastest-growing SaaS company of all time (behind Slack).

Intercom has managed to build a staggering stable of clients that include AWS, Shopify, Sotheby’s, and Facebook.

17. Langfuse

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5-year search growth: 99x+

Search growth status: Exploding

Year founded: 2022

Location: Berlin, Germany

Funding: $4M (Seed)

What they do: Langfuse is a software tool designed to monitor and observe the performance and behavior of AI models, particularly in the context of language models. It offers detailed analytics, debugging, and tracing capabilities to help developers understand how their models interact with data, improve model performance, and ensure better AI outcomes.

Langfuse is primarily targeted at AI developers, machine learning engineers, and data scientists who require advanced tools to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize the deployment of language models.

18. Tanium

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5-year search growth: 24%

Search growth status: Exploding

Year founded: 2007

Location: Kirkland, Washington

Funding: $1B (Secondary Market)

What they do: Tanium is the SaaS answer to a comprehensive, real-time view of organizational security for large companies. Giving users and teams the ability to spot gaps in their IT security is an invaluable feature in a world of increasingly brazen cyberhacking and phishing.

5 branches of the U.S. Military trust Tanium to manage endpoint security and data protection of the highest sensitivity. The startup has raised an eye-catching $1.1B in funding since its inception in 2007.

19. Klaviyo

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5-year search growth: 254%

Search growth status: Exploding

Year founded: 2012

Location: Boston, Massachusetts

Funding: $778.5M (Secondary Market)

What they do: Marketing automation and personalized email at scale are the name of the game for Klaviyo, one of the fastest-growing marketing SaaS startups today. Klaviyo aims to deliver customer-centric email that incorporates data that companies have about their customers, allowing them to deliver customized, curated experiences across email and text (commonly called “owned channels”).

Instead of relying on third parties like Google or Facebook for advertising and marketing, Klaviyo’s owned channels give companies the power to control their customer data and channels. Klaviyo’s promise has led to the latest funding round of $320 million for continued growth and enterprise user adoption

20. LeadIQ

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5-year search growth: 45%

Search growth status: Exploding

Year founded: 2015

Location: San Francisco, California

Funding: $42M (Series B)

What they do: LeadIQ is a sales SaaS product with one simple product at the heart of their business: a browser plug-in that’s integrated with Google, Salesforce, Hubspot, and Marketo, among others. On average, customers see lead database growth of around 325%. Sales professionals can simply scroll through a prospect’s LinkedIn and LeadIQ will serve up comprehensive data that can be pulled into most CRM platforms.

21. Hosthub

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5-year search growth: 7,900%

Search growth status: Regular

Year founded: 2017

Location: Athens, Greece

Funding: $380K (Pre-seed)

What they do: Hosthub, formerly Syncbnb, helps property owners maintain their rental listings across multiple booking sites. The company uses machine learning technology to power bi-directional syncing capabilities and guarantees no double bookings. Co-founders Alexander Caravitis and Petros Ziogas started Hosthub in 2017 as a response to Caravitis’ own experience with managing multiple rental listings.

22. Cockroach Labs

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5-year search growth: 75%

Search growth status: Exploding

Year founded: 2015

Location: New York, New York

Funding: $633.1M (Series F)

What they do: Cockroach Labs has developed a cloud-native database solution that automatically scales as data and workloads increase or decrease.

The startup also emphasizes its extreme reliability based on innovative features like live rolling upgrades. These rolling updates perform software updates without any downtime for the network. In 2021, the company raised $160 million at a valuation of $2 billion, doubling its value in just eight months.

23. Canva

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5-year search growth: 933%

Search growth status: Exploding

Year founded: 2012

Location: Sydney, Australia

Funding: $589M (Series F)

What they do: Canva is an online SaaS platform that provides design and publishing tools that can be used by the everyday person. They’ve designed their tools with simplicity as a top priority. The goal is to allow anyone to create incredible Instagram posts, colorful and exciting presentations, print marketing products, and more.

Canva has expanded from being a free-to-use platform to offering a variety of licenses ranging from enterprise to education to pro-individual users.

24. Mighty Networks

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5-year search growth: 33%

Search growth status: Regular

Year founded: 2017

Location: Palo Alto, California

Funding: $67M (Series B)

What they do: Mighty Networks is community-building software designed to help creators nurture their most engaged followers. With the MightyNetworks software, professionals can create community sites, launch events, establish membership pricing, and more. The company raised $50M in early 2021 from Owl Ventures and other investors, including Marie Forleo, entrepreneur and author of Everything is Figureoutable.

25. Shiprocket

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5-year search growth: 383%

Search growth status: Regular

Year founded: 2012

Location: New Delhi, India

Funding: $349M (Series E)

What they do: Shiprocket provides shipping logistics services to the Indian eCommerce market, acting as a communication link between brands and logistics providers. The startup’s differentiators include affordable shipping rates, locally and internationally, reliable couriers, and global reach. In September 2021, Shiprocket’s valuation was slated to hit upwards of $800M as soon as an impending $200M investment came through.

26. ClickUp

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5-year search growth: 362%

Search growth status: Exploding

Year founded: 2017

Location: San Diego, California

Funding: $537.5M (Series C)

What they do: ClickUp is a productivity platform for scheduling tasks, streamlining communication, and more. Used by over 800K companies, ClickUp aims to take the place of multiple different content creation and project management tools. Despite operating in a crowded market of task management and productivity tools, ClickUp has received ample investor interest, including a $400M investment announced in October 2021.

27. HiPeople

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5-year search growth: 61%

Search growth status: Regular

Year founded: 2019

Location: Berlin, Germany

Funding: $6.8M (Seed)

What they do: HiPeople offers a SaaS platform that unlocks job candidate insights through automating and streamlining the reference check process. Used by professionals at IBM, Celonis, Staffbase, and other companies, the startup has also gained investor interest, with a $3M all-remote seed round announced in January 2021.

28. Confluent

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5-year search growth: 90%

Search growth status: Exploding

Year founded: 2014

Location: Mountain View, California

Funding: $455.9M (Secondary Market)

What they do: Apache Kafka is one of the most popular open-source platforms for processing data streams in real-time. Confluent has built a cloud-native streaming platform that frees up time and resources for IT teams by self-managing Kafka at an enterprise scale.

Confluent has established a foothold with large clients including Bosch, Expedia, Home Depot and more.

29. Adalo

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5-year search growth: 226%

Search growth status: Regular

Year founded: 2018

Location: St Louis, Missouri

Funding: $9.8M (Series A)

What they do: Adalo is an app-building platform for creating and launching applications without the assistance of a developer. Adalo received $8M in a Series A funding round with investment firm Tiger Global leading the pack. Tiger Global, which had already made investments in 120+ startups as of mid-2021, is known for being a startup “unicorn hunter”.

30. Databricks

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5-year search growth: 350%

Search growth status: Exploding

Year founded: 2013

Location: San Francisco, California

Funding: $14.7B (Series J)

What they do: Databricks is a technology startup focused on helping companies leverage data to provide insights and drive decision-making across multiple industries and areas. The startup has gained popularity with well-known brands (Conde Nast, Adobe, Biogen, and H&M) and investors alike and recently announced a Series J funding round that amounted to a staggering $10B.

31. Notion

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5-year search growth: 389%

Search growth status: Exploding

Year founded: 2013

Location: San Francisco, California

Funding: $343.2M (Series C)

What they do: Notion is a SaaS work productivity platform that can help companies customize processes and workflows. For example, Notion can be used to create and collaborate on product roadmaps, organize meeting notes, hold documents, and more. The startup boasts a $10B valuation, over 100M users, and the unique achievement of virality in the B2B SaaS space.

32. Dukaan

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5-year search growth: 5%

Search growth status: Regular

Year founded: 2019

Location: Bangalore, India

Funding: $23.9M (Series A)

What they do: Dukaan is a SaaS online business management platform for entrepreneurs of all kinds, from restaurants to proprietors of kiranas—local, family-owned stores. The platform aims to simplify the process of setting up an online store and selling products, and has raised around over $20M in total.

33. Omnisend

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5-year search growth: 70%

Search growth status: Regular

Year founded: 2014

Location: London, England

Funding: $1.57M (Seed)

What they do: Omnisend is a multi-functional SaaS automation platform for SMS and email marketing. The startup enables professionals to craft targeted campaigns that help boost conversion rates and revenue. According to co-founder and CEO Rytis Lauris, Omnisend started life as the email marketing solution Soundest but expanded its focus to omnichannel based on customer needs.

34. ZenBusiness

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5-year search growth: 224%

Search growth status: Exploding

Year founded: 2015

Location: Austin, Texas

Funding: $277M (Series Unknown)

What they do: ZenBusiness is a SaaS business platform focused on helping entrepreneurs launch internet businesses. The startup offers assistance from the initial step of registering a business name to additional services such as creating a website, managing invoices, engaging in business banking, and more. In November 2021, the company announced a $200M funding round, reached a valuation of $1.7B, and publicized a new partnership with well-known businessman Mark Cuban.

35. Mentimeter

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5-year search growth: 37%

Search growth status: Regular

Year founded: 2014

Location: Stockholm, Sweden

Funding: $42.6M (Series C)

What they do: Mentimeter is a drag-and-drop presentation-building tool that aims to help professionals create more engaging content, featuring polls, Q&As, and other interactive features. According to the company’s website, 25M users in over 200 countries use the platform to present information more effectively on distributed or traditional in-office teams.

36. LeadSquared

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5-year search growth: 41%

Search growth status: Regular

Year founded: 2011

Location: Bangalore, India

Funding: $204M (Series C)

What they do: LeadSquared is a sales technology platform that uses automation to boost productivity in call centers and on sales and marketing teams. Founded in 2011, the company has managed to increase revenue by 100% every year, raising over $200M along the way.

37. Kajabi

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5-year search growth: 66%

Search growth status: Exploding

Year founded: 2010

Location: Irvine, California

Funding: $550M (Private Equity)

What they do: Kajabi is a SaaS business management platform that helps coaches and entrepreneurs monetize their expertise through coaching programs, courses, and members-only content. The platform enables website creation, course creation, payment processing, and more. After a decade of bootstrapping, Kajabi is now valued at $2B+ and raised $550M in mid-2021 with plans to continue the growth of their company.

38. ProtonVPN

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5-year search growth: 284%

Search growth status: Exploding

Year founded: 2016

Location: Geneva, Switzerland

Funding: Undisclosed (Seed)

What they do: ProtonVPN is a VPN service that touts a heightened focus on security, a free, no-ad version of their VPN, and increased speed as differentiators. The Swiss startup recently added Nigeria, Vietnam, and several others to its list of covered countries, bringing the total to 61.

39. Userpilot

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5-year search growth: 275%

Search growth status: Exploding

Year founded: 2017

Location: Middletown, Delaware 

Funding: $5.9M (Seed)

What they do: Userpilot enables product professionals to better understand and optimize the user experience of their software. The insights and tools provided by their solution can ultimately help software companies convert and keep more new customers. Co-founder Yazan Sehwail started UserPilot in 2017, just four years after launching his first business, InnerChip, at the age of 21.

40. Bubble.io

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5-year search growth: 226%

Search growth status: Exploding

Year founded: 2011

Location: New York, New York

Funding: $106.3M (Series A)

What they do: Bubble is a no-code platform that helps users create fully functional apps without writing traditional code. Unlike most no-code platforms, Bubble allows you to build back-end logic for more complex applications. Currently, the platform has more than 2 million users

Key Takeaways

As one of the hottest industries worldwide and one of the few that withstood the onslaught brought on by the COVID pandemic, SaaS startups continue to push technology further and deeper into our daily lives.

The startups on this list are disrupting industries like finance, marketing, sales, IT, and more. And like all software companies, they continue to accelerate the pace of innovation worldwide. Be sure to keep an eye on these explosive startups as they continue to scale and expand.

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