Top 32 Productivity Software startups

Dec 25, 2024 | By Fernando Lopez

These startups develop personal task organizers, calendars, note-taking apps, time-trackers and other productivity tools.
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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.
2
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
3
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.
4
Country: USA | Funding: $41.4M
TextExpander is a SaaS firm that empowers teams and individuals to accelerate repetitive communication tasks.
5
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.
6
Country: USA | Funding: $24.3M
prezent.ai is an AI-powered presentation productivity platform for enterprise teams.
7
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.
9
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
Instapaper is a web application that allows users to save online content for future references.
11
Country: Germany
Meister develops and provides web-based productivity tools focusing on simplicity, usability and easy collaboration.
12
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.
13
Country: USA
The Omni Group develops online diagramming tool OmniGraffle
14
Country: USA | Funding: $4.8M
Friday is a remote work orchestration platform that frees you up to do your best work (from home).
15
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.
17
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.
18
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
Editor: Fernando Lopez
Fernando Lopez is a senior editor for SaaStartups. He joined the company after having previously spent over three years at ReadWriteWeb. Prior to his work as a reporter, Fernando worked in I.T. across a number of industries, including banking, retail and software. Fernando graduated from the University of Buenos Aires (Computer Science). He is more-than-averagely interested in photography and can often be found with a camera slung over his shoulder. He wrote a book about pitching startups to investors. You can contact Fernando at fernandolopez(at)saastartups(dot)com