Top 32 Collaboration Software startups

Updated: Mar 22, 2026
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These startups develop project management, team communication platforms, workflow management tools and productivity suites.
1
Smartsheet
Country: USA | Funding: $3.4B
Smartsheet is developing a cloud-based platform for managing workflows and projects within a spreadsheet interface. Smartsheet AI tools enable instant insights into your business and answer questions with charts and metrics. Built-in AI assistant uses projects and processes as a unified context and enables problem-solving through conversation. Built-in AI agents plan and optimize projects, connect systems, mitigating risks and automatically moving work forward under your approval and control. AI in spreadsheets accelerates workflows with intelligent columns, instantly transforming data, analyzing customer sentiment, and categorizing information.
2
DropBox
Country: USA | Funding: $2.4B
Dropbox provides secure file sharing, collaboration, and storage solutions.
3
Box
Country: USA | Funding: $1.5B
Box is an online file sharing and cloud content management service offering unlimited storage, custom branding, and administrative controls.
4
Slack
Country: USA | Funding: $1.4B
Slack is the leading global collaboration hub that makes people’s working lives simpler, more pleasant and more productive. Acquired by Salesforce
5
Symphony
Country: USA | Funding: $511M
Symphony transforms the way users communicate effectively and securely with a single workflow application.
6
Asana
Country: USA | Funding: $453.2M
Asana provides a leading work management platform that helps teams organize and manage all of their work.
7
Calendly
Country: USA | Funding: $350.6M
Calendly is a modern scheduling platform that helps individuals, teams, and organizations automate meeting by removing the back and forth.
8
Notion
Country: USA | Funding: $343.2M
Notion is the all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases
9
Basecamp
Country: USA
Basecamp is a private, secure space online where people working together can organize and discuss.
10
Mattermost
Country: USA | Funding: $73.5M
Mattermost provides enterprise-grade messaging solutions for organizations on a vibrant open source platform.
11
Skello
Country: France | Funding: $54.4M
Skello makes schedule in a few clicks, communicate with teams and automatically process payroll.
12
Teamflow
Country: France | Funding: $49.9M
Teamflow is a virtual office for your team to hang out in. Bring back the presence of being in the office, the energy of working in the same room, the spontaneity of hallway conversations — the joy of feeling like a team.
13
Spatial
Country: USA | Funding: $47.8M
Spatial has developed a “holographic” collaboration platform that people use to speak and work together in virtual rooms through the use of strikingly effective avatars
14
SmartSuite
Country: USA | Funding: $38M
SmartSuite is a work management platform that integrates databases, spreadsheets, documents, collaboration tools, and automation.
15
Eko
Country: Thailand | Funding: $28.7M
Eko builds tools to unlock the potential of mobile messaging in the workplace which boost enterprise productivity and security.
16
Wrike
Country: USA | Funding: $26M
Wrike provides social project management and collaboration software.
17
Toss Lab
Country: South Korea | Funding: $25.8M
Toss Lab is a SaaS enterprise software company that provides enterprise messaging and collaboration tool JANDI .
18
Teambition
Country: China | Funding: $17M
Teambition is a team collaboration platform that is efficient , simple and elegant.
19
ONLYOFFICE
Country: Latvia
ONLYOFFICE is a free and open source office suite integrated with a set of productivity tools: projects, CRM, mail, calendar.
20
Vibe
Country: USA | Funding: $15.2M
Vibe is a remote collaboration solution that combines a touchscreen whiteboard with software that you can use on your computer or tablet.
21
Skiff
Country: USA | Funding: $14.2M
Skiff is a privacy-first collaboration platform with expiring links, secure workspaces, and password protection.
22
MangoApps
Country: UK
MangoApps helps companies modernize their employee-facing applications. It brings intranet, communications, training & work management together in one platform to provide the most adaptable, intuitive, and unified experience in the market today.
23
Convo
Country: USA | Funding: $9.6M
Convo provides an enterprise social collaboration platform that enables easy, secure conversations between desk/non-desk workers.
24
BeaTrust
Country: Japan | Funding: ¥1.1B
BeaTrust helps each employee to connect easily, accelerating collaboration and driving innovation.
25
Layer
Country: Germany | Funding: $6.7M
Layer enables collaboration on massive spreadsheets and managing data inputs from across an organization — such as for budgeting, financial reporting or HR functions — by adding a granular control access layer on top.
26
Climedo Health
Country: Germany | Funding: €6.2M
Climedo Health brings the best treatment to every patient by empowering healthcare professionals with smart clinical research solutions.
27
Bitrix24
Country: Russia
Russian service that creates a united work space for your company and enables collaboration to make everyone more effective. Includes activity streams, tasks, file storage (with version control), calendar, photogalleries, instant messager, extranet, CRM, workflow builder, time tracker, profiles, reports, mobile version
28
Azendoo
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.
29
Fleep
Country: Estonia | Funding: €1.4M
An Ideal way to communicate. Fleep is a flexible messenger that integrates with email and lets you store and share files easily.
30
9mCollab
Country: USA | Funding: $430K
Empowering people with new collaboration tools and relevant knowledge in order to make smart decisions fast.
31
Troop Messenger
Country: India
Troop messenger is a Unified Business Communication Platform that includes Instant Messaging, Video Call, Video Conferencing, File Sharing, Desktop Sharing, Work Schedules and Projects.
32
Copper Project
Country: Australia
Copper Project develops online project management and collaboration tool used to share projects, tasks, files, contacts and events.
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