We’ve analyzed 2,500 startups to identify the fastest-growing companies in search over the last year.
2024 was an especially challenging year for startups. Investors exerted extra caution in the face of inflation and rising interest rates, leading to a 26% decline in funding compared to 2023.
But it wasn’t all doom and gloom. Sectors like AI and technology attracted big investments, accounting for more than a quarter of total venture capital.
We’ve already covered the top players in AI and tech in our other analyses—bookmark them here for future reading:
- The 50 Fastest-Growing AI Companies
- The 50 Top Trending Tech Startups (Q4 2024)
- 50 Bootstrapped SaaS Companies Dominating SEO in 2024
In this article, we zero-in on the fastest-growing companies and startups overall.
Top 50 fastest-growing startups
| Rank | Company | Traffic growth👇 | Total Funding | Estimated Revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BoldDesk | 2,786% | $0 | $39,400,000 |
| 2 | LeadIQ | 2,588% | $36,363,636 | $7,700,000 |
| 3 | Peakflo | 1,565% | $4,600,000 | $1,000,000 |
| 4 | Dealls | 1,565% | $500,000 | $375,000,000 |
| 5 | Storylane | 1,356% | $2,000,000 | $1,900,000 |
| 6 | Favikon | 1,040% | $500,000 | $1,800,000 |
| 7 | SalaryBox | 1,009% | $4,120,000 | $8,500,000 |
| 8 | Adalo | 1,007% | $9,750,000 | $3,600,000 |
| 9 | Glitch | 919% | $54,545,454 | $3,500,000 |
| 10 | Kaagaz | 718% | $722,000 | $1,700,000 |
| 11 | DocuClipper | 713% | $0 | $500,000 |
| 12 | KnowBe4 | 560% | $364,581,818 | $226,300,000 |
| 13 | Lyssna | 556% | $0 | $6,000,000 |
| 14 | Aspire | 556% | $158,000,000 | $40,000,000 |
| 15 | Fathom | 510% | $17,000,000 | $70,500,000 |
| 16 | Middesk | 488% | $77,000,000 | $15,000,000 |
| 17 | NinjaOne | 461% | $237,727,272 | $282,700,000 |
| 18 | Vellum | 460% | $5,120,000 | $3,500,000 |
| 19 | EducateMe | 434% | – | $111,000 |
| 20 | Basedash | 403% | $4,650,000 | $201,646 |
| 21 | AgendaPro | 392% | $6,000,000 | $8,100,000 |
| 22 | Vendr | 385% | $216,000,000 | $74,300,000 |
| 23 | Guru | 383% | $64,272,726 | $158,000,000 |
| 24 | Pushwoosh | 377% | $0 | $12,500,000 |
| 25 | ContactOut | 365% | $29,412 | $14,900,000 |
| 26 | Humaans | 355% | $18,181,819 | $4,000,000 |
| 27 | Referral Factory | 326% | $0 | $5,500,000 |
| 28 | Lapzo | 307% | $300,000 | $5,500,000 |
| 29 | OpenReplay | 305% | $4,850,000 | $17,100,000 |
| 30 | Planoly | 296% | $0 | $3,700,000 |
| 31 | Yay.com | 285% | $1,950,000 | $2,700,000 |
| 32 | Onirix | 284% | $700,000 | $500,000 |
| 33 | Surfer | 280% | $0 | $37,500,000 |
| 34 | ZeoAuto | 279% | $1,400,000 | $1,600,000 |
| 35 | Secoda | 278% | $14,000,000 | $4,100,000 |
| 36 | Planable | 278% | $90,909 | $5,500,000 |
| 37 | Perplexity AI | 267% | $62,000,000 | $35,000,000 |
| 38 | Geo Targetly | 267% | $0 | $5,500,000 |
| 39 | Airmeet | 265% | $35,000,000 | $47,000,000 |
| 40 | WorkOS | 265% | $72,727,273 | $7,400,000 |
| 41 | BuzzStream | 264% | $68,182 | $1,300,000 |
| 42 | Wappalyzer | 263% | $0 | $500,000 |
| 43 | Humand | 254% | $125,000 | $24,600,000 |
| 44 | Crowdin | 253% | $0 | $17,500,000 |
| 45 | Anthropic | 252% | $13,700,000,000 | $850,000,000 |
| 46 | SavvyCal | 250% | $0 | $5,500,000 |
| 47 | Codeium | 246% | $150,000,000 | $15,000,000 |
| 48 | Hatch | 244% | $13,700,000 | $5,900,000 |
| 49 | Hotplate | 243% | $3,200,000 | $5,500,000 |
| 50 | UBITS | 243% | $32,700,000 | $52,700,000 |
The top 50 fastest-growing companies came from a few key industries:
- Developer tools and infrastructure
- AI and machine learning
- Finance and business operations
- Marketing and content management
1. BoldDesk (2,786% growth)
BoldDesk is a customer service experience platform that provides a way for businesses to chat with their customers. They have an estimated annual revenue of $39,400,000.
BoldDesk’s traffic growth over the last year can be attributed to the strength of the content marketing on their blog, going by Ahrefs’ Site Structure report.
Driving them a significant amount of traffic are their top-of-the-funnel blogs, which tend to cover typical and alternative phrases to use in customer communications.
2. LeadIQ (2,588% growth)
LeadIQ is a B2B sales tool that helps companies find prospects, track buying signals, and personalize cold outreach. Its estimated annual revenue is north of $7,000,000.
Going by our Site Structure report, LeadIQ has managed to boost its traffic with the programmatic addition of 205K landing pages, which drive an additional 129K monthly organic visits.
These templated landing pages help LeadIQ’s audience enrich their CRM data with accurate company and prospect information.
They feature company overviews, funding and financials, tech stack, and insights.
This strategy enables LeadIQ to piggyback on the branded traffic of thousands of companies, like digital gifting platform CashStar, game-based learning platform GimKit, and global communications consultancy, Ketchum. Smart.
3. Peakflo (1,565% growth)
Peakflo is an AI-powered automation tool that helps businesses streamline their finance operations. They are one of the smaller players on our list, with a modest revenue in the region of $1,000,000.
Peakflo upped their organic traffic significantly this year after localizing their blog content to English and Indonesian. Our Site Structure report reveals the addition of ~360 pages across their ID and EN subfolders.
In the localized Indonesian version of their site, Peakflo added 81 pages to their learning centre, which brought in an additional 7.6K organic visitors.
And to their English subfolder, they added a broad scope of new blog pages on topics ranging from “accounts payable” to “finance news”.
4. Dealls (1,565% growth)
Though it’s relatively new to the market, Dealls—an Indonesian based job listings platform—is already seeing impressive organic traffic growth.
This uplift is thanks in large part to the additional 490 pages of career development content added to their site, which tot up to 335K in additional traffic.
The Dealls brand name also seems to be driving search interest, going by Ahrefs’ organic search data in Keywords Explorer. Over the last year, searches for the keyword “Dealls” have grown 34%, and according to our search volume forecasts, will continue to grow by a further 58%.
I imagine this brand growth has more than a little to do with their TikTok strategy. With 2.2M likes, 52K followers, and millions of views per video, Dealls has carved out a strong brand for themselves on social.
5. Storylane (1,356% growth)
Storylane helps companies build no-code, interactive product demos for website landing pages, blog posts, social media, and email campaigns.
They’re a self-described product-led company, and nowhere is that more apparent than their organic search growth, which has skyrocketed since the creation of 2.7K new product tutorials.
Storylane has ingeniously used their own product to create straightforward, visual support for some of the biggest SaaS tools out there, including Canva, Salesforce, and Google Search Console.
Going by the keywords they’ve picked up over the last year, they’re cleaning up in search by exploiting the high-value, long-tail branded search traffic of other tech goliaths.
Borrowing the owned keywords of more established, complementary brands is a shrewd move from Storylane. Not only do they match user intent by providing fast, visual answers to high volume questions, they simultaneously show off their product, and turn top of the funnel questions into middle of the funnel interest with strategically placed product CTAs.
Like Dealls, Storylane has also seen strong organic brand growth. Search volume for its brand name has risen 20% in 12 months, to 2K monthly searches—a figure which we forecast will grow by a further 37% over the next two years.
As their target audience, I’ve admired Storylane’s marketing for a while–they pursue calculated growth strategies (like those above), but also have the courage to invest in fun, neoteric brand marketing. For instance, here’s them spoofing The Office “Dundies” with their very own award: the “Demo Dundies”
And here’s the moment they dabbled in a bit of Out-Of-Home (OOH) marketing, by renting a truck to advertise at the B2B marketing event Drive by Exit Five.
Final thoughts
Search traffic isn’t just data for SEOs and devs. Assessing the strategies of the fastest growing companies in search can give you ideas for how to grow your own business, and even help you work out which horse to back when it comes to investment.
These are the fastest growing startups in 2025—but that can all change. We track the top 1000 most visited websites in the world every month, showing you birdseye-level trends into company performance. Check out our top ranking websites, and get in touch if you’d like to learn more from our enterprise data.
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I’m Manas Ranjan Sahoo: Founder of “Webtirety Software”. I’m a Full-time Software Professional and an aspiring entrepreneur, dedicated to growing this platform as large as possible. I love to Write Blogs on Software, Mobile applications, Web Technology, eCommerce, SEO, and about My experience with Life.
