Top 10 Productivity Software startups

Updated: February 15, 2024

Productivity software startups are disrupting the industry by introducing innovative features such as AI-powered task management systems, real-time collaboration tools, seamless integration with popular productivity platforms, and intuitive user interfaces that redefine how individuals and teams work, challenging the established players in the market.
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Country: USA | Funding: $453.2M
Asana provides a leading work management platform that helps teams organize and manage all of their work.
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Country: USA | Funding: $290M
Evernote is a suite of software and services designed for notetaking and archiving. Evernote supports a number of operating system platforms (including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Android, iOS and WebOS), and also offers online synchronization and backup services. Acquired by Bending Spoons
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Country: USA | Funding: $76.4M
Clockwise is an intelligent calendar system that uses artificial intelligence to help people get a dedicated block of time to be productive.
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Country: USA | Funding: $41.4M
TextExpander is a SaaS firm that empowers teams and individuals to accelerate repetitive communication tasks.
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Country: USA | Funding: $29.1M
Mem Labs is building a free note taking app called Mem, dedicated to pushing users to quickly jot down their thoughts without focusing too heavily on the underlying organization of them.
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Country: USA | Funding: $24.3M
prezent.ai is an AI-powered presentation productivity platform for enterprise teams.
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Country: USA | Funding: $14.5M
Pocket is an application that allows users to save and retrieve documents and videos from websites. Acquired by Mozilla
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Country: USA | Funding: $6.4M
Vimcal is a calendar app that serves as an exective assistant.
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Country: Israel | Funding: $6M
Any.do is here to help you manage life in a simple clever & fun way. Any.do is a family of apps designed to help you have a good day, every day: interesting, productive, well-balanced & fun. Featuring innovative & modern life planning tools. Any.do free alternatives are Bitrix, Producteev, Remember The Milk.
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Country: USA
The Omni Group develops online diagramming tool OmniGraffle
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Country: USA
Instapaper is a web application that allows users to save online content for future references.
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Country: China
The Most Popular Mind Mapping Tool. Millions of people use XMind to clarify thinking, manage complex information, run brainstorming and get work organized. Unlike most alternatives XMind is an open source project, which means it's free to download and free to use forever. XMind Plus/Pro with more professional features are also available.
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Country: Germany
Meister develops and provides web-based productivity tools focusing on simplicity, usability and easy collaboration.
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Country: USA | Funding: $4.8M
Friday is a remote work orchestration platform that frees you up to do your best work (from home).
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Country: USA | Funding: $3.7M
Slapdash is a unified interface for cloud applications
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Country: USA | Funding: $3.3M
Magical creates a new calendar, reimagined from the ground up, to help busy teams take back control of their time.
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Country: France | Funding: $2.4M
Azendoo is a Teamwork Application. Organize your tasks, plan your projects, share your documents and sync with your team, without email. Azendoo groups all your teamwork in one place so that you can plan, share and get organized, together.
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Country: USA
Remember the Milk (RTM) is an application for web-based task- and time-management. It allows users to manage tasks from computer as well as offline. It is being developed by an Australian/international team.
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Country: UK | Funding: £1.1M
We are OpenGenius, creators of the pioneering Mind Mapping, brainstorming and project planning software, iMindMap and uniquely visual task management app, DropTask. Over a million people have used our tools to improve their creativity, productivity and leadership skills.
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Country: USA | Funding: $920K
RescueTime is an elegant and intuitive web-based time management tool. Intuitive time-management analytics. Instantly know how much time you’re spending
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Country: UK | Funding: £750K
Daybridge is a productivity and time management app.
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Country: Serbia | Funding: $800K
LeadDelta is a social capital and network intelligence management platform built for modern professionals. Whether selling, marketing, fundraising, or hiring, LeadDelta allows you organize your business contacts your way.
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Country: Germany | Funding: €600K
Fruux offers a cross-platform synchronization service that enables users to synchronize contacts and calendars across different devices.
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Country: Ukraine | Funding: $500K
Noty.ai is a ChatGPT-powered meeting assistant that transforms meetings into transcriptions, action items, summaries, and follow-ups in seconds.
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Country: USA | Funding: $250K
Teamly is a tool that helps businesses and individuals to improve their performance in the workplace. It helps people move beyond their mile-long to-do list and focus instead on what’s truly important.
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Country: Spain | Funding: $40K
Todoist lets you manage your tasks anywhere. At home. At school. At work. Online. Offline. And on 13 platforms and devices. Collaborate on shared tasks. Access tasks everywhere.
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Country: France
Memotoo helps consumers sync and store data in their iCloud.
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Country: Germany
Cultured Code is a software company that makes Things, an award-winning task manager for Mac, iPad, iPhone, and Apple Watch.
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Country: USA
HiTask is a web based task manager and to do list tool. Using HiTask as your task manager, you can handle your to do list, manage teamwork, and use it as your personal scheduler and appointment setter.
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Country: Poland
Nozbe is the company behind Nozbe web application for getting things done. The company is devoted to creating a whole array of Nozbe-related projects for improving productivity for personal as well as business users.
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Country: USA
Toodledo is a task list application that shows current to-do items from an online collaboration and project management tool.
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Country: China
Appest Limited is the team behind TickTick - Todo list, checklist and task manager app for Android, iPhone and Web.