Top 33 Productivity Software startups

Updated: Nov 15, 2025
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These startups develop personal task organizers, calendars, note-taking apps, time-trackers and other productivity tools.
1
Asana
Country: USA | Funding: $453.2M
Asana provides a leading work management platform that helps teams organize and manage all of their work.
2
Evernote
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
Clockwise
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
TextExpander
Country: USA | Funding: $41.4M
TextExpander is a SaaS firm that empowers teams and individuals to accelerate repetitive communication tasks.
5
Prezent.ai
Country: USA | Funding: $39.3M
prezent.ai is an AI-powered presentation productivity platform for enterprise teams.
6
Mem
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.
7
Pocket
Country: USA | Funding: $14.5M
Pocket is an application that allows users to save and retrieve documents and videos from websites. Acquired by Mozilla
8
Vimcal
Country: USA | Funding: $6.4M
Vimcal is a calendar app that serves as an exective assistant.
9
Any.do
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.
10
The Omni Group
Country: USA
The Omni Group develops online diagramming tool OmniGraffle
11
Instapaper
Country: USA
Instapaper is a web application that allows users to save online content for future references.
12
XMind
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
Meister
Country: Germany
Meister develops and provides web-based productivity tools focusing on simplicity, usability and easy collaboration.
14
Friday
Country: USA | Funding: $4.8M
Friday is a remote work orchestration platform that frees you up to do your best work (from home).
15
Slapdash
Country: USA | Funding: $3.7M
Slapdash is a unified interface for cloud applications
16
Magical
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
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.
18
Remember The Milk
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.
19
OpenGenius
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.
20
Daybridge
Country: UK | Funding: £750K
Daybridge is a productivity and time management app.
21
RescueTime
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
22
LeadDelta
Country: Canada | 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.
23
Fruux
Country: Germany | Funding: €600K
Fruux offers a cross-platform synchronization service that enables users to synchronize contacts and calendars across different devices.
24
Noty.ai
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.
25
Teamly
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.
26
Doist
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.
27
Supercal
Country: USA
Supercal is the intelligent scheduling platform that replaces calendar chaos with AI coordination.
28
Appest Limited
Country: China
Appest Limited is the team behind TickTick - Todo list, checklist and task manager app for Android, iPhone and Web.
29
Toodledo
Country: USA
Toodledo is a task list application that shows current to-do items from an online collaboration and project management tool.
30
Nozbe
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.
31
HiTask
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.
32
Cultured Code
Country: Germany
Cultured Code is a software company that makes Things, an award-winning task manager for Mac, iPad, iPhone, and Apple Watch.
33
MemoToo
Country: France
Memotoo helps consumers sync and store data in their iCloud.
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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