List of Top 20 Startups in The World in 2021; Especially from US are;
1. Bird:
It founded by Travis Vander Zanden, formerly an executive at the Uber and Lyft. Bird is a dockless electric scooter rental service provider which aims to provide affordable transportation solution to the world. It is hugely funded by the Craft Ventures, Index Ventures, Sequoia Capital and many more.
So, It became the fastest company ever to reach the Unicorn Status.
Established In: 2017
Head Office: Santa Monica, California
Total Funding: $ 548 million
Net worth: $ 2.75 billion
2. Rubrik:
Rubrik, founded by ‎Bipul Sinha, Arvind Jain is a cloud data management company based in Palo Alto, California, United States. The founders of the Rubrik are the former Oracle, Facebook, and Google engineers. It is considered as the top 20 best startups in the World. Khosla Ventures, IVP, CISCO Former CEO are the main investors along with others.
 Established In: 2014
              Head Office: Palo Alto, California
              Total Funding: $ 261 million
              Net worth: $ 3.3 billion
3. Domino:
Domino, founded by Nick Elprin,  building branded apartment-hotels that offer the space and amenities of an Airbnb rental with the consistent upscale presentation of a nice hotel; the first of which debuted in January in New Orleans.
Established In: 2013
           Head Office: San Francisco
           Total Funding: $ 90 Million
           Net worth: $ 240 Million
4. Coinbase:
Coinbase, founded by Brian Armstrong and Fred Ehrsam in June 2012; a digital currency exchange. It focuses on investment in blockchain and cryptocurrency-related companies.
Coinbase broker exchanges of Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Ethereum Classic and Litecoin with fiat currencies in 32 countries. The major investors are Union Square Ventures, venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz, Union Square Ventures (USV), and Ribbit Capital.
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Established In: 2012
           Head Office: San Francisco
           Total Funding: $ 550 Million
           Net worth: $ 8 billion
5. Coursera:
Coursera, founded by Stanford professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller. It is an American online learning platform which offers a wide range of online courses, certifications, specializations, and degrees. Coursera has 33 Million users. Main investors are, the Soft Bank Group, EDB, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers and New Enterprise Associates.
Established In: 2012
           Head Office: California
           Total Funding: $ 210 million
           Net worth: $ 1 billion
6. Verkada:
Computer scientists of Stanford University and the former COO and co-founder of Meraki Filip Kaliszan, James Ren, Benjamin Bercovitz and Hans Robertson is the founder of Verkada. Verkada builds intelligent security cameras capable for the Internet of Things (IoT) era. Its mission is to modernize the world of physical security. With the vision of an autonomous, distributed system capable of understanding the physical world in real-time; they are growing magnificently with the expansion rate of 400%. Verkada’s IoT platform combines plug-and-play security cameras with intelligent, cloud-based software — all in a scalable, user-friendly system.
Established In: 2016
           Head Office: California
           Total Funding: $ 60 Million
           Net worth: $ 550 Million
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7. Voyage:
Voyage’s founder is CEO Oliver Cameron. It is the autonomous vehicle startup which spun out of Udacity. Franklin Templeton is the main investor. Other participants for the investment rounds are Khosla Ventures, Jaguar Land Rover’s, InMotion Ventures and Chevron Technology Ventures.
Established In: 2017
           Head Office: San Francisco
           Total Funding: $ 60 million
           Net worth: $ 120 million
8. Amperity:
Amperity is founded by Kabir Shahani. It is the leading Customer Data and Identity Platform; which helps in the world’s most trusted and loved brands; like Alaska Airlines, Starbucks, Gap Inc, Moët Hennessy USA, Wynn Las Vegas, Nordstrom, Kendra Scott, Lucky Brand, Sounders, Stanley along with many others. Leveraging machine learning and cloud-scale, Amperity is revolutionizing customer identity resolution and data management, and provides the core customer data foundation. Amperity is growing with the annual recurring revenue rate of 355% year-over-year.Â
Established In: 2015
           Head Office: San Francisco
           Total Funding: $ 50 million
           Net worth: $ 175 million
9. Giant Spoon:
Giant Spoon is founded by Haber and fellow co-founders Trevor Guthrie and Marc Simons. It is a modern full-service agency. Strategy based on a unique obsession with culture designed to leverage media, technology, and creativity to solve business problems. Giant Spoon’s specialities are into innovation, technology, disruption, media, marketing and advertising. Giant Spoon has worked with the media giants such as Netflix and HBO.
Established In: 2013
           Head Office: New York
           Total Funding: $ 35 million
           Net worth: $ 120 million
10. Confluent:
Confluent is founded by Jay Kreps, Neha Narkhede, Jun Rao; the original creators of Apache Kafka. It is a platform that processes data as a real-time stream pioneered the enterprise-ready event streaming platform. Confluent is benefitting the organizations from the first event streaming platform built for the enterprise with the ease-of-use, scalability, security and flexibility required by the most discerning global companies to run their business in real-time. Confluent is well funded by Sequoia, with participation from our other major investors, Index Ventures and Benchmark.
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Established In: 2014
           Head Office: California
           Total Funding: $ 125 Million
           Net worth: $ 2.5 Billion
11. Allbirds:
Allbirds, founded by Tim Brown and Joey Zwillinger. This startup is dedicated to making the most sustainable footwear using premium natural materials; designed for the to and fro of everyday life. With the commitment of making better shoes in a better way is fueled by a belief that the shoe industry needs to focus less on flash and more on thoughtfulness. It has hit the Unicorn status last year with a $1.4 billion valuation.
Allbirds startup is well funded by T. Rowe Price, Fidelity and Tiger Global along with some others.
Established In: 2014
           Head Office: San Francisco
           Total Funding: $ 50 million
           Net worth: $ 1.4 Billion
12. Sonder:
Francis Davidson, CEO and co-founder of Sonder is the founder of Sonder. It is building thousands of beautiful spaces for travel and life. Sonder is a transformation for the future of hospitality. Sonder ensures a unique, yet consistent experience. And with 24/7 on-demand service, crisp linens, and over 200 other quality standards, it is taking stay further for guests all around the world with a speciality in hospitality, property management, travel accommodations, internet, and software development. This content considers Top 20 Startups in The World in 2021; mainly from the USA. The data might be different and varied.
Sonder is hugely funded by A-Rod Corp and WestCap with some others.
Established In: 2012
           Head Office: San Francisco
           Total Funding: $ 225 Million
           Net worth: $ 1.5 Billion
13. Scale AI:
Scale AI, founded by Alexandr Wang. It is operating in the segment of Computer Vision, Data Annotation, Sensor Fusion, Machine Learning, Autonomous Driving, Self-Driving, APIs, Ground Truth Data, Training Data, Deep Learning, Sensor Fusion, Robotics, Drones, and NLP. Well funded and supported by Accel, Index, Coatue, Thrive, Spark, Y Combinator, Kevin Systrom, Mike Krieger, Adam D’Angelo, Drew Houston, Scott Belsky, Justin Kan, Nat Friedman, and Greg Brockman. Google’s Waymo and Lyft are using to super-charge their self-driving efforts.
Established In: 2016
           Head Office: San Francisco
           Total Funding: $ 130 million
           Net worth: $ 1 Billion
14. Convoy:
Convoy is a digital freight network solving problem in the $800B trucking industry. It is a partner with the best trucking companies and shippers to move millions of truckloads, rethink freight fundamentals, and design innovative solutions that address supply chain inefficiencies.
By continuing to raise the bar on tools, services, and insights available for shippers and carriers, Convoy is helping businesses to improve their transportation and create a more sustainable future.
It has claimed the Unicorn status with its funding and employee size.
Established In: 2015
           Head Office: WashingtonÂ
           Total Funding: $ 80 million
           Net worth: $ 210 million
15. Plaid:
Plaid is founded by Zach Perret and William Hockey. It is focused on enabling innovation and democratizing financial services through technology. It is the software powering well-known fin-tech apps along the line of the companies called Venmo and Coinbase. Plaid is building beautiful consumer experiences, developer-friendly infrastructure, and intelligence tools that give everyone the ability to create amazing products that solve big problems. This content considers Top 20 Startups in The World in 2021; mainly from the USA. The data might be different and varied.
Plaid is highly passionate about building a more efficient and inclusive financial infrastructure—together.
Plaid is hugely funded by 16 investors such as; Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Visa and American Express.
Established In: 2013
           Head Office: San Francisco
           Total Funding: $ 250 Million
           Net worth: $ 2.65 Billion
16. Outreach:
Outreach is founded by Gordon Hempton, Wes Heather and Andrew Kinzer. It is the leading Enterprise ready Sales Engagement Platform, accelerates revenue growth by optimizing every interaction throughout the customer lifecycle. The platform manages all customer interactions across email, voice and social, and leverages machine learning to guide reps to take the right actions. Their main functional areas and specialities are Sales acceleration, Sales Excellence, Sales efficiency, Sales effectiveness, Sales email tracking, Sales dialer, Account-based sales, Sales management analytics, Sales emails, Outbound sales tracking, Sales workflows, Automated sales workflows, Cold Calling, and sales engagement.
Outreach is well funded by top tier investors including Lone Pine, Meritech, Spark, DFJ Growth, Sapphire, Trinity, Floodgate, Mayfield, and Microsoft.
Established In: 2014
           Head Office: Washington
           Total Funding: $ 240 million
           Net worth: $ 1.2 Billion
17. Aaptiv:
Aaptiv is founded by Ethan Agarwal. It is the fastest-growing mobile fitness product on the market with more than 200,000 paid subscribers. It is the only service provider that turns your phone into an on-demand fitness studio with all your favourite classes and music. Aaptiv is building a fitness platform that enables us to develop long-term and personal relationships with users based on their data profiles. By analyzing user behaviour patterns, it creates and recommend content customized to specific fitness levels and interests.
It is well funded by many investors; Warner Music Group and Amazon Alexa Fund are the most recent investors.Â
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Established In: 2017
           Head Office: Dublin, Ireland
           Total Funding: $ 53 million
           Net worth: $ 250 million
18. DoorDash:
DoorDash is founded by Andy Fang; Stanley Tang; Evan. It is a technology company that connects customers with their favourite local and national businesses in over 4,000 cities and all 50 states across the United States and Canada. It has specialities in Local Logistics, Restaurant Delivery, On-Demand Delivery, and eCommerce.
DoorDash doubles its employee base every year in its six-year history. DoorDash is funded by 26 investors; T. Rowe Price and DST Global are the most recent investors.
Established In: 2013
           Head Office: New York
           Total Funding: $ 600 Million
           Net worth: $ 13 Billion
19. TripActions:
TripActions is founded by Ariel Cohen and Ilan Twig. It is the leading global business travel platform that empowers companies and travellers to show up and create growth. This has a mission to power the in-person connections that move people, ideas and businesses forward.
TripActions is working in the field of Business Travel, Employee Rewards, Modern Travel, Hotel Booking, Online Booking, Mobile Booking, Travel Apps, Company Savings, Hotels, Rental Cars, Flights, Technology, Customer Service, Support, E-Commerce, Travel, Travel Search, Reducing Travel Spend, and Work Trip.
The major investors of TripActions are Andreessen Horowitz. Zeev Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Group 11.
Established In: 2015
           Head Office: California
           Total Funding: $ 250 million
           Net worth: $ 4 Billion
20. Aurora:
Aurora, founded by Terry Booth, Steve Dobler, Dale Lebsack and Chris Mayerson. It works at the intersection of rigorous engineering and applied machine learning to address one of the most challenging, important, and interesting opportunities; transforming the way people and goods move.
It is working in the segment of Self-driving, Engineering, self-driving cars, and Automotive to transform the world.
It is self-driving startup founded by industry pioneers from Uber, Google, and Tesla.
Established In: 2016
           Head Office: California
           Total Funding: $ 700 Million
           Net worth: $ 3.7 Billion (estimated)
Closing Key Note:
Most of the western and US startups have clear Idea and vision about overall Product Development Life Cycle.
In comparison to India, these startups tend to immediately derive Product Market Fit before anything else. Especially, US startups are more rigorously following the Lean approach in building the right product for the right audience. The allocation of budget in technology and marketing makes them more different from Indian Startups. Most of the US startups have founder with technical or startup background. Also, US startups tend to take utmost care for creating great User Experience.
Reason behind such differences are the pedagogy style and easy access to a mature ecosystem;Â practical and upgraded education system. There is no doubt, the above scenario is changing rapidly as Indian startup ecosystem is improving. As a result, we see more and more quality and successful startups launched by Indians.
Nowadays, YOUNGSTERS are not afraid of doing experiments. With the experiments, innovation and discovery they are setting their feet across the globe.
Final Words:
The above mentioned top 20 startups in the World in 2021, is the clear indication of today’s thoughtful young and passionate entrepreneurs. The world is becoming more tech-savvy supported by IoT, BlockChains, Technology and other digital things. If you have any idea or business plan, just do it. It’s your life. Shape and change yourself with your set of skills and passion in time. Don’t wait for time to change you. And, Always keep in mind, that planning, execution and path of continuous improvement decides destiny. Otherwise, the path of success and failure are almost the same.
