New startups are still finding plenty of capital. In the first quarter of 2026, early-stage funding hit $41.3 billion, up 41% year over year, as investors kept backing the next wave of companies.
But the money is getting harder to win: seed deal counts fell 30% year over year even as total seed dollars rose, so funding is concentrating into fewer, bigger rounds, which makes real organic demand the clearest sign of a startup actually breaking out.
So the question we set out to answer is: which young tech startups, across every category from fintech to dev tools to consumer apps, are actually breaking out right now?
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Below are the 25 fastest growing tech startups whose brand-name search demand has climbed fastest this year versus last, ordered from the steepest growth down, each with a chart, the key numbers, and a short read on why they’re taking off.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +120%
- Search growth forecast: +19%
- Monthly brand searches: 2,200
- Organic traffic (monthly): 11,484
- Year founded: 2022
- Location: San Francisco
What they do
Infisical is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted secrets management platform that lets engineering teams store and sync environment variables and API keys across their infrastructure without the usual sprawl.
Infisical has raised about $19.3 million total across three rounds, with the most recent being a $16 million Series A in June 2025, led by Elad Gil with participation from Y Combinator, Gradient Ventures, and Dynamic Fund.
Infisical is the fastest growing company on this list, and given that it’s only been around since 2022, a +120% jump in brand searches is a real signal. The rise tracks with a broader shift in how engineering teams think about security: hardcoded credentials and scattered .env files are increasingly a liability, and Infisical has become a go-to name for teams looking for a cleaner alternative.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +110%
- Search growth forecast: -5%
- Monthly brand searches: 500
- Organic traffic (monthly): 1,175
- Year founded: 2020
- Location: Montreal, Canada
What they do
Basedash is a database UI tool that lets teams query, edit, and visualize their data without needing to write SQL or build internal dashboards from scratch.
Basedash raised a $4.5 million seed round in May 2023, led by Matrix, with Y Combinator, Form Capital, and Worklife also participating.
Basedash is one of the more established companies on this list, having been around since 2020, which makes the +110% search growth this year all the more interesting. It’s a hint that the market for lightweight internal tooling is still expanding, with more non-technical teams looking for ways to get closer to their own data without pulling in an engineer every time.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +71%
- Search growth forecast: +21%
- Monthly brand searches: 800
- Organic traffic (monthly): 4,504
- Year founded: 2020
- Location: Los Angeles, CA
What they do
MarqVision is a brand protection platform that uses AI to help global brands find and remove counterfeit listings across thousands of e-commerce platforms and websites worldwide.
MarqVision has raised $90 million total in venture funding, with its most recent round being a $48 million Series B announced in September 2025, backed by Peak XV Partners, HSG, Salesforce Ventures, and Coral Capital.
Brand protection has historically been a slow, manual legal process, and the brands dealing with it at scale have been quietly desperate for a better solution. MarqVision’s +71% growth in brand searches suggests that word is getting around: more IP and e-commerce teams are actively researching the category and landing on MarqVision by name.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +70%
- Search growth forecast: -27%
- Monthly brand searches: 2,500
- Organic traffic (monthly): 10,049
- Year founded: 2020
- Location: San Francisco, CA
What they do
Tavus is a generative AI video platform that lets developers build personalized video experiences at scale, including digital twin and face-cloning capabilities, through an API.
Tavus has raised $64.1 million total across three rounds, with the most recent being a $40 million Series B announced in November 2025, led by CRV with participation from Scale Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, Y Combinator, and HubSpot Ventures.
AI-generated video went from a novelty to a serious product category fast, and Tavus has been one of the names developers reach for when they want to build it into their own products. The +70% climb in brand searches reflects how quickly that developer demand has matured, with teams actively looking for a production-ready API rather than a demo tool.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +61%
- Search growth forecast: +50%
- Monthly brand searches: 1,300
- Organic traffic (monthly): 31,117
- Year founded: 2020
- Location: London
What they do
Tiiny Host is a simple file hosting service that lets designers, developers, and small teams publish websites, PDFs, and prototypes online with a single drag-and-drop.
Tiiny Host is bootstrapped and has raised no outside venture capital, growing entirely on revenue from its user base.
With ~30K monthly visitors and a +61% rise in brand searches, Tiiny Host is pulling meaningful organic numbers for a product that solves an almost embarrassingly simple problem. The fact that the forecast shows another +50% makes it one to watch: in a world of over-engineered deployment workflows, there’s clearly a large audience for something that just works immediately.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +57%
- Search growth forecast: +24%
- Monthly brand searches: 700
- Organic traffic (monthly): 1,271
- Year founded: 2020
- Location: New York, NY
What they do
Topline Pro is an AI-powered platform that helps home service businesses get found online, build credibility, and accept bookings directly, handling websites, local listings, and social content in one place.
Topline Pro has raised $44 million total in venture funding, including a $27 million Series B announced in August 2025 and led by Northzone.
Topline Pro has one of the smaller monthly brand search volumes on this list, which makes the +57% growth rate more impressive: it’s coming off a modest base, but the trajectory is clearly pointing up. Home services is a huge, underserved market for software, and an AI product that removes the website and marketing burden from a plumber or landscaper has an obvious value prop.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +49%
- Search growth forecast: -8%
- Monthly brand searches: 1,200
- Organic traffic (monthly): 6,259
- Year founded: 2023
- Location: San Francisco, California
What they do
AISDR is an AI sales development tool that handles outbound email prospecting, personalization, and follow-up sequences on behalf of sales teams, positioning itself as a software replacement for entry-level SDR work.
AISDR raised a $3 million seed round in November 2023, with investors including Y Combinator, Rebel Fund, SID Venture Partners, and Pioneer Fund among others.
As one of the youngest companies on this list, AISDR’s +49% growth in brand searches is a decent early signal that the AI SDR category is forming into real named demand, beyond hype. Sales teams that once dismissed AI outreach tools as too generic are now actively searching for them by name, and AISDR has established itself as one of the brands people land on.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +49%
- Search growth forecast: +19%
- Monthly brand searches: 1,000
- Organic traffic (monthly): 13,800
- Year founded: 2021
- Location: Toronto, Ontario
What they do
Secoda is a data catalog and governance platform that helps data teams at companies like Remitly, Cardinal Health, and Vanta search, document, and manage their data assets in one place.
Secoda has raised $16 million total across two rounds, with a $14 million Series A announced in September 2023 and led by Craft Ventures.
Data teams are drowning in undocumented tables, stale dashboards, and pipelines nobody fully understands, and the pain has gotten acute enough that companies are now searching for dedicated tooling to fix it. Secoda’s +49% climb in brand searches reflects that shift: data governance went from a compliance checkbox to something ops and engineering teams are actively shopping for.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +49%
- Search growth forecast: +20%
- Monthly brand searches: 3,500
- Organic traffic (monthly): 12,896
- Year founded: 2021
- Location: San Francisco, California
What they do
HockeyStack is a B2B revenue analytics platform that gives marketing and sales teams a unified view of the buyer journey, from first touch through closed deal, with attribution and account-level insights.
HockeyStack has raised over $50 million in total funding as of April 2026, with Bessemer Venture Partners leading the most recent round alongside Y Combinator and Uncorrelated Ventures.
B2B marketers have been burned by attribution tools that lie convincingly, and HockeyStack has built a reputation for being more honest about what’s actually driving pipeline. The +49% growth in brand searches suggests that reputation is spreading, with revenue and marketing teams actively seeking it out rather than stumbling across it.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +48%
- Search growth forecast: +32%
- Monthly brand searches: 700
- Organic traffic (monthly): 3,191
- Year founded: 2021
- Location: San Francisco
What they do
Typedream is a no-code website and digital product builder, acquired by newsletter platform beehiiv in June 2024, that lets creators and small teams publish and sell online without touching code.
Typedream raised $650K total before being acquired by beehiiv in June 2024 for an undisclosed amount, with earlier backing from Y Combinator.
Since being folded into beehiiv’s ecosystem, Typedream has continued to see its brand searches grow, up +48% this year, which points to a product that found a clearer audience inside a larger platform than it might have managed on its own. Creators looking for a simple way to sell and publish are increasingly finding Typedream as part of a beehiiv-native workflow.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +46%
- Search growth forecast: +35%
- Monthly brand searches: 800
- Organic traffic (monthly): 2,500
- Year founded: 2020
- Location: New York, NY
What they do
Heron Data is a fintech infrastructure company that helps small business lenders, managing general agents, and insurance carriers automate financial data analysis and underwriting decisions using AI.
Heron Data has raised $17.8 million total across two rounds, with a $16.6 million Series A announced in July 2025 and led by Insight Partners, with Y Combinator, BoxGroup, and Flex Capital also participating.
Underwriting has historically been slow because the data is messy and the manual review burden is high, particularly for lenders working with small businesses that don’t have clean financial histories. Heron Data’s +46% brand search growth suggests that lenders and carriers are actively looking for AI-native tooling to fix that, and Heron is becoming one of the names they find.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +44%
- Search growth forecast: +25%
- Monthly brand searches: 1,000
- Organic traffic (monthly): 1,803
- Year founded: 2022
- Location: Atlanta
What they do
Oneleet is a cybersecurity and compliance platform that helps businesses work toward security certifications like SOC 2 without having to hire a dedicated security team.
Oneleet has raised $36 million total across two rounds, with a $33 million Series A announced in October 2025 and led by Dawn Capital, with Y Combinator, Foundation Capital, Goat Capital, and angels including Frank Slootman and Emmett Shear participating.
Security compliance has become a sales prerequisite for a huge chunk of B2B software: if you can’t show a SOC 2 report, you lose deals. That pressure has created a fast-growing market for products that make the process less painful, and Oneleet’s +44% growth in brand searches reflects just how many companies are now actively looking for help.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +41%
- Search growth forecast: +27%
- Monthly brand searches: 1,600
- Organic traffic (monthly): 11,354
- Year founded: 2021
- Location: San Francisco, CA
What they do
Rootly is an AI-powered incident management platform that runs natively inside Slack, used by engineering teams at companies like NVIDIA, Canva, Grammarly, and Figma to handle on-call, response, and retrospectives.
Rootly has raised $15.2 million total across three rounds, with a $12 million Series A in August 2023 led by Renegade Partners, with Google Gradient Ventures and XYZ Ventures participating.
Incident management is a category where engineers have strong opinions, and Rootly has earned a genuinely good reputation among on-call teams who want something that lives where they already work rather than in yet another tab. The +41% brand search growth, paired with a positive forecast, suggests that reputation is steadily turning into named demand.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +40%
- Search growth forecast: +17%
- Monthly brand searches: 3,400
- Organic traffic (monthly): 27,828
- Year founded: 2021
- Location: San Francisco
What they do
Storylane is a no-code interactive demo platform that lets marketing and sales teams build product walkthroughs and embed them on websites, in emails, or in the sales cycle without touching engineering.
Storylane has raised approximately $2 million total across multiple rounds, with backing from Y Combinator and AltaIR Capital, and has since made at least one acquisition (PreSkale).
Interactive demos have become a standard part of the PLG playbook: buyers want to try before they talk to sales, and Storylane gives teams a way to build that experience quickly. The ~30K monthly organic visitors and +40% brand search growth suggest the product is genuinely finding users at scale, beyond getting traction in a small niche.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +34%
- Search growth forecast: -2%
- Monthly brand searches: 1,200
- Organic traffic (monthly): 24,848
- Year founded: 2021
- Location: Taipei
What they do
Heptabase is a visual note-taking and knowledge management tool built around whiteboards, designed for researchers, students, and deep thinkers who want to map out ideas spatially rather than in linear documents.
Heptabase has raised $2.2 million total across two rounds, with a $1.7 million seed in April 2022, backed by Kleiner Perkins, Y Combinator, and Tonic Fund.
The personal knowledge management space is crowded, but Heptabase has carved out a distinct position among users who find linear note-taking tools genuinely inadequate for complex thinking. The +34% growth in brand searches, on top of ~20K monthly organic visitors, suggests that audience is bigger than the tool’s modest funding might imply.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +34%
- Search growth forecast: +23%
- Monthly brand searches: 3,000
- Organic traffic (monthly): 18,141
- Year founded: 2020
- Location: Walnut, California
What they do
Rocketlane is a customer onboarding and professional services automation platform that helps software companies manage implementation projects, collaborate with customers, and track time and profitability in one place.
Rocketlane has raised $105 million total in venture funding, with a $60 million Series C announced in March 2026 and led by Insight Partners.
Customer onboarding is one of those categories that looks unglamorous until you realize how much ARR gets lost when it goes badly. Rocketlane has made a bet that there’s a dedicated platform to be built here, and the +34% brand search growth alongside a fresh $60M Series C suggests investors and customers are both arriving at the same conclusion.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +34%
- Search growth forecast: +0%
- Monthly brand searches: 27,000
- Organic traffic (monthly): 10,013
- Year founded: 2022
- Location: San Francisco, California
What they do
Pump.co is a cloud cost optimization platform that pools companies together to get group buying discounts on AWS and uses AI to reduce cloud spend around the clock, with no engineering work required.
Pump.co has raised $4.5 million total across two rounds, including a $4 million seed in March 2023, with backing from Y Combinator, Darling Ventures, and Blumberg Capital among others.
Pump.co is one of the biggest brands on this list by monthly search volume, with ~30K brand searches a month, and the +34% growth on top of that base is genuinely impressive. Cloud bills have become one of the loudest pain points for startups and scale-ups alike, and a product that cuts AWS costs without requiring any engineering effort has an almost universally obvious pitch.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +32%
- Search growth forecast: +0%
- Monthly brand searches: 900
- Organic traffic (monthly): 5,085
- Year founded: 2021
- Location: Dublin
What they do
Noloco is a no-code internal tools builder that lets non-developers create client portals, admin panels, and business applications by connecting to their existing data sources, without writing any code.
Noloco has raised $5.5 million total across three rounds, with a $4 million Series A closing in August 2024, backed by Y Combinator and other investors.
The no-code internal tools category has plenty of competition, but Noloco has found traction specifically with operations and customer success teams who need a client-facing portal and don’t have the engineering resources to build one. The +32% brand search growth from a Dublin-based team is a decent signal that word-of-mouth is doing real work here.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +32%
- Search growth forecast: +21%
- Monthly brand searches: 24,000
- Organic traffic (monthly): 244,952
- Year founded: 2021
- Location: New York, New York
What they do
beehiiv is a newsletter publishing platform built by the team behind the Morning Brew, designed for creators and media operators who want to grow, monetize, and own their audience.
beehiiv has raised about $49.7 million total in venture funding, with a $33 million Series B announced in April 2024 and led by NEA, with Sapphire Sport and Lightspeed Venture Partners also participating.
beehiiv is one of the biggest brands on this list, with ~20K monthly brand searches and ~240K monthly organic visitors, and it’s still growing at +32%. The creator economy didn’t collapse the way some predicted: newsletters have become a serious distribution and monetization channel, and beehiiv has positioned itself as the platform of choice for operators who treat it like a business.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +28%
- Search growth forecast: +28%
- Monthly brand searches: 2,900
- Organic traffic (monthly): 8,083
- Year founded: 2020
- Location: New York, NY
What they do
Navattic is a no-code interactive demo platform that lets go-to-market teams build hands-on product experiences for prospects to explore before ever talking to sales.
Navattic has raised $5.58 million total across several rounds, with its most notable round being a $4.25 million growth seed led by Canvas Ventures with participation from 645 Ventures.
Navattic sits in the same interactive demo category as Storylane (also on this list), and the fact that both are growing points to a category that’s genuinely expanding rather than a zero-sum fight. With a +28% growth forecast matching its current rate, Navattic looks like it’s holding its momentum well.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +25%
- Search growth forecast: +5%
- Monthly brand searches: 1,300
- Organic traffic (monthly): 10,216
- Year founded: 2022
- Location: Île-de-France
What they do
Findymail is a B2B email finder that lets sales and outreach teams pull verified contact emails from LinkedIn, Sales Navigator, and Apollo, with a Chrome extension for prospecting on the go.
Findymail is bootstrapped, with backing only from TinySeed at an undisclosed amount, and has grown entirely on revenue from its user base.
As one of the younger companies on this list, Findymail’s +25% brand search growth is a reasonable signal that it’s building real mindshare in a crowded space. The fact that it’s doing it without VC fuel, growing to ~10K monthly organic visitors largely on the strength of the product itself, makes the trajectory worth paying attention to.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +25%
- Search growth forecast: +20%
- Monthly brand searches: 15,000
- Organic traffic (monthly): 19,700
- Year founded: 2020
- Location: Palo Alto, CA
What they do
Beeper is a universal messaging app that consolidates chats from 15 or more networks into a single inbox, now operating as part of Automattic following its acquisition in April 2024.
Beeper had raised $16 million in outside funding before being acquired by Automattic for $125 million in April 2024, with Initialized having led an $8 million Series A and Y Combinator, Samsung Next, and Liquid2 Ventures also among the backers.
Even after being absorbed into Automattic, Beeper’s brand search volume has kept climbing, up +25% this year on top of ~15K monthly searches. That’s a hint that the idea of a unified inbox still has genuine appeal: people are still searching for it by name, which suggests the product has held its audience through the acquisition rather than losing momentum.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +24%
- Search growth forecast: +26%
- Monthly brand searches: 700
- Organic traffic (monthly): 2,618
- Year founded: 2020
- Location: Palo Alto, California
What they do
GrowthBook is an open-source feature flagging and A/B testing platform that plugs into a company’s existing data warehouse, giving engineering and product teams an in-house experimentation setup without having to build one from scratch.
GrowthBook has raised $22.75 million total across two rounds, with a $22.62 million Series A closing in June 2025, backed by investors including Khosla Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners, and Y Combinator.
There’s been a quiet but steady migration of engineering teams away from expensive proprietary experimentation tools toward open-source alternatives they can self-host and control. GrowthBook has benefited from that shift, and the +24% brand search growth with a +26% forecast suggests the momentum is continuing rather than plateauing.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +24%
- Search growth forecast: -7%
- Monthly brand searches: 2,100
- Organic traffic (monthly): 677,052
- Year founded: 2020
- Location: Covina, United States
What they do
Signaturely is a lightweight e-signature tool aimed at small businesses and freelancers who need a simple, affordable way to send and sign documents online.
Signaturely is bootstrapped and has raised no outside venture funding, building its user base and revenue without external capital.
Signaturely is one of the highest-traffic sites on this list, pulling in ~680K monthly organic visitors, which puts it in a different league from most of the other companies here. The +24% brand search growth on that kind of traffic base is harder to achieve than it looks, and it suggests the e-signature market still has room for a no-fuss alternative to the category’s bigger names.
- Brand search growth (this year vs last): +21%
- Search growth forecast: +14%
- Monthly brand searches: 5,300
- Organic traffic (monthly): 10,281
- Year founded: 2020
- Location: New York, NY
What they do
doola is a business formation and compliance platform that helps international founders set up a US LLC, open a US bank account, and handle US tax filing, all remotely.
doola has raised $13 million total in venture capital, including a strategic investment from HubSpot Ventures announced in January 2024, with Nexus Venture Partners, Y Combinator Continuity Fund, and Hustle Fund also among its backers.
Remote entrepreneurship has been a slow-building wave: more founders outside the US want to tap into American markets and payment infrastructure, and the paperwork to do it has historically been confusing enough to put people off. doola’s +21% brand search growth, on top of ~5.3K monthly searches, points to a market that’s still expanding and a product that’s becoming the go-to name for international founders navigating it.
The full 25: fastest growing tech startups by brand search
| # | Company | Industry | Brand search growth | Monthly brand searches |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Infisical | Dev tools | +120% (this year vs last) | 2,200 |
| 2 | Basedash | Analytics | +110% (this year vs last) | 500 |
| 3 | MarqVision | Security | +71% (this year vs last) | 800 |
| 4 | Tavus | Video | +70% (this year vs last) | 2,500 |
| 5 | Tiiny Host | Dev tools | +61% (this year vs last) | 1,300 |
| 6 | Topline Pro | Marketing | +57% (this year vs last) | 700 |
| 7 | AISDR | Sales / CRM | +49% (this year vs last) | 1,200 |
| 8 | Secoda | Data infrastructure | +49% (this year vs last) | 1,000 |
| 9 | HockeyStack | Analytics | +49% (this year vs last) | 3,500 |
| 10 | Typedream | No-code | +48% (this year vs last) | 700 |
| 11 | Heron Data | Fintech | +46% (this year vs last) | 800 |
| 12 | Oneleet | Security | +44% (this year vs last) | 1,000 |
| 13 | Rootly | Dev tools | +41% (this year vs last) | 1,600 |
| 14 | Storylane | Sales / CRM | +40% (this year vs last) | 3,400 |
| 15 | Heptabase | Productivity | +34% (this year vs last) | 1,200 |
| 16 | Rocketlane | Customer support | +34% (this year vs last) | 3,000 |
| 17 | Pump.co | Fintech | +34% (this year vs last) | 27,000 |
| 18 | Noloco | No-code | +32% (this year vs last) | 900 |
| 19 | beehiiv | Marketing | +32% (this year vs last) | 24,000 |
| 20 | Navattic | Sales / CRM | +28% (this year vs last) | 2,900 |
| 21 | Findymail | Sales / CRM | +25% (this year vs last) | 1,300 |
| 22 | Beeper | Productivity | +25% (this year vs last) | 15,000 |
| 23 | GrowthBook | Dev tools | +24% (this year vs last) | 700 |
| 24 | Signaturely | Productivity | +24% (this year vs last) | 2,100 |
| 25 | doola | Fintech | +21% (this year vs last) | 5,300 |
Brand search growth = growth in average monthly searches for the company name this year versus last year (last 12 months vs the prior 12 months). Monthly brand searches = current US search volume for the brand name. Data: Ahrefs · June 2026.
You can rebuild this entire analysis yourself in Ahrefs. Here’s the short version:
- Open Keywords Explorer, enter a company’s brand name as the keyword, and look at the Volume graph. The trend over the last few years is the brand-search growth we ranked on, and the forecast line is Ahrefs’ projection.
- To compare many companies at once, drop a list of brand names into Keywords Explorer and sort by Volume or by Growth to see which names are climbing fastest.
- Use Site Explorer on each company’s domain to pull the Organic traffic, Referring domains, and other figures in the profiles above.
- Or skip the manual work and let Agent A run the whole pull, filtering, and ranking for any niche you choose, the same way it built this list.
What stands out across this list of trending tech startups is how varied the categories are: secrets management, brand protection, newsletter publishing, cloud cost optimization, and incident response all show up here, which is a useful reminder that fresh demand isn’t concentrated in any one corner of tech.
A lot of the fastest growing startups here are solving problems that aren’t new, just newly painful enough that teams are actively searching for dedicated tools instead of cobbling something together themselves.
If you’re watching where the next wave of software demand is forming, these are the names worth keeping an eye on.
