Startups Making $50k+/mo

Forecaster is a financial forecasting and runway prediction platform for founders, launched in 2018 by Logan Burchett and Stephen. The company has grown to $120k MRR across 550 customers, having raised $5M and currently in Series A targeting $8M more. They differentiate with white-glove onboarding pairing each customer with a financial analyst, and recently launched variable pricing based on customer monthly expenses.

Hbox is a virtual-first care platform that provides hardware, software, and clinical services to specialty clinics for chronic disease management. Founded by serial entrepreneur Brownie Prasad, the company grew from $10K MRR a year ago to $120K MRR today ($1.4M ARR), serving 100 physicians with 1,800 devices in the field, entirely through word-of-mouth referrals without a dedicated sales team. The platform charges clinics $60-80/patient/month and helps physicians navigate Medicare reimbursement ($140-200 per patient per month), creating a net-positive ROI for providers.

B2Chat is a SaaS platform that helps businesses in Latin America manage customer communication across WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram DMs, and Facebook Messenger. Founded in 2017, the company grew from $60k MRR a year ago to $120k MRR today (100% YoY growth), now serving 500 customers. They raised $750k in a pre-seed round at a $7.3M valuation and are converting 30-40 new customers monthly from ~700 inbound leads.

package.ai is a delivery management and conversational AI platform that helps furniture and appliance retailers transform their last-mile delivery experience. Founded by Ziv Fossey in 2017 after a frustrating personal delivery experience, the company has grown to serve 24+ customers with $1.44M ARR (up from $600K a year prior), achieving 2X year-over-year growth. The company has raised $3M in friends-and-family funding to date and is preparing a Series A round targeting $5-10M at a $40-50M valuation.

PubVantage is a SaaS ad tech platform founded in 2015 by Declan Carney and Greg Freeman that solves the inefficiency of monetizing remnant ad inventory using universal passback tags. The company has grown to $120K MRR with 30 paid customers across three remote locations (Hope, Canada, and Vietnam), maintaining a 6-month payback period on customer acquisition with a 10% annual revenue churn. They're now splitting the business to launch a new unified reporting platform called All One, which already has 5 beta customers paying ~$2K/month.

Turtle is a SaaS platform launched in 2014 that helps large enterprises create beautiful, interactive content with measurable analytics and performance improvements. Founded by Nick Mason, the company grew from 2 customers with $10k in early revenue to 50 enterprise customers (including Bloomberg, Cisco, Oracle) generating ~$120k MRR, with growth driven primarily through customer-generated branded content partnerships and targeted paid advertising.

Dev Hub is an enterprise SaaS platform that enables brands and agencies to build and manage websites at massive scale—from 50,000 landing pages to hundreds of thousands of digital products. Founded in 2007 by Mark Michael and Daniel Rest (childhood friends), the company raised $2M in 2009 but burned through it quickly on expansion and office rent. Today, with just 7 core team members, Dev Hub generates ~$120k MRR ($1.44M ARR) across 61 enterprise customers, growing nearly 100% year-over-year between December 2016 and 2017, with 90%+ annual retention.

Ankur Nagpal founded Teachable in late 2013 as an online course platform giving teachers ownership, unlike competitors like Udemy. Built on his prior success monetizing Facebook apps for $2M (2007-2011), he raised $2M in seed funding from notable founders and investors. Teachable grew to 1,500 paying customers with ~$120k MRR by November 2015, converting free-tier users through webinars at 25-30% rates, with plans to raise a Series A at a $30M valuation.

Living Security is a cybersecurity awareness training SaaS company that achieved 10X year-over-year growth, scaling from $10K MRR to $115K MRR in one year. Their unique hybrid model combines in-person escape room experiences (1/4 of revenue) with a SaaS platform for online training, driving exceptional economics: 1% gross revenue churn and 300-400% net revenue retention with 6-month CAC payback. The company is raising a Series A at a 10X+ revenue multiple to scale their direct sales model.

Connor Lee built Hip Lead as a B2B outbound sales service and lead generation platform, growing it to $115k MRR with 50+ customers by July 2018. Recognizing a deeper market need from working with 250-300 SaaS companies, he launched Sona (GhostSona), a data management platform for sales teams, which achieved $28k MRR in just two months post-launch. The company remains bootstrapped at 17 people globally, with Hip Lead's steady revenue funding development of the newer Sona product.

Geek Powered Studios is a full-service digital marketing agency founded by Guillermo Ortiz in May 2012, operating on a unique model of taking only one client per industry to position themselves as strategic partners. By February 2016, the agency had grown to 55 clients generating approximately $115,000 in monthly revenue ($1.38M ARR), with exceptional client retention rates. The agency offers comprehensive services including SEO, PPC, Facebook ads, landing page design, and web development, with a focus on honest communication and long-term client relationships.

really.ai is an automated short-form content creation platform that uses machine vision and machine learning to generate sports highlight clips in real-time. Founded in 2017, the company nearly collapsed during COVID-19 but pivoted under new CEO Daniel Evans, growing from near-zero revenue to over $110k MRR in 12 months through expansion into collegiate sports, esports, and high school NIL opportunities. They're currently raising $3.5M at a $12-13M valuation.

BOT platform is a no-code enterprise SaaS solution that enables HR and employee experience teams to build custom bots, digital assistants, and automated workflows within internal communication platforms like Microsoft Teams and Workplace from Facebook. Bootstrapped with only a small $300k friends and family round in 2018, the company has scaled to $110k MRR ($1.32M ARR SaaS + $800k in professional services) with 35 customers and strong 118% net revenue retention, maintaining founder control with 75% founder ownership.

Channel Grabber is a multi-channel e-commerce SaaS platform founded in 2012 that helps online retailers manage sales across eBay, Amazon, Etsy, and Walmart from a single dashboard. After reaching a plateau, Mike Morgan took over as CEO in April 2017 and drove a 33% year-on-year growth by investing heavily in product development and content marketing, scaling from 85k to 110k MRR and acquiring 800 customers. The company is bootstrapped with $400k in venture debt and is targeting cash flow positivity while preparing a funding round of up to $3M at a $6-9M pre-money valuation.

NurseVersity is a SaaS platform that helps nursing and physical therapy students pass their board exams on the first attempt using a proprietary adaptive algorithm called 'The Advisor.' Founded in 2015 by Tony Leonard, the company grew from $250k in 2015 revenue to $110k MRR by May 2016 with over 10,000 paying subscribers across a freemium and one-time payment model. The team of five operates out of Louisville, Kentucky with less than 5% monthly churn and $12 customer acquisition costs, primarily driven by student ambassador programs on college campuses.

QZM is a SaaS platform helping museums and cultural organizations engage visitors through digital tour guides and membership solutions. Founded by Brendan Sieko in August 2014, the company has grown from 3-4 pilot customers in 2015 to 175 paying customers generating $105k MRR, tripling revenue year-over-year. With $1.5M raised and cashflow positive for the past year, QZM demonstrates strong unit economics with <5% annual churn and net revenue retention above 100%.

PureChat is a freemium live chat and real-time analytics SaaS founded by Josh in 2012 and spun out as its own company in 2014. The company serves over 4,000 paying customers with $1.3M ARR (~$105k MRR) by offering free live chat capabilities and monetizing through premium analytics features. After transitioning to an all-free live chat model three months prior, they doubled user acquisition rates while maintaining a healthy 3.8% monthly churn and 26-month customer lifetime value.

Kim Ades founded Frame of Mind Coaching 10 years ago as a coaching practice and grew it into a multi-revenue business with 18 coaches (10 certified) generating approximately $600,000 in annual coaching revenue. To systematize her journaling-based coaching methodology, she built Journal Engine Software, an in-house tool that she now licenses to 400+ coaches, speakers, and trainers at $69/month, creating an additional $28,000/month in recurring revenue.

Hull is a customer data platform founded by Roman Dardur that unifies fragmented customer data from multiple sources and synchronizes it across business tools in real-time. After 4 years of struggling to find product-market fit with an overly complex initial vision, Roman pivoted in late 2016 based on lunch conversation feedback, built a prototype in 5 days, and landed Mention as their first customer. Today with ~100 customers paying at least $1,000/month and $5M in funding, Hull has achieved strong PMF through word-of-mouth growth and a sophisticated IP-to-company targeting system for outreach.

App Attentive, founded in 2011 by Robi Ganguli and three co-founders, provides a SaaS platform enabling mobile app developers to communicate with users, gather feedback, and conduct customer research. After a two-year gestation period of part-time work following an inspiring conversation in 2008, the team built an MVP in 30 days and spent a grueling year acquiring their first two paying customers through manual outreach and content marketing before pivoting upmarket to enterprise clients like Yahoo, Overstock, and Urban Spoon, eventually reaching over $100k MRR.