3,827 Vertical SaaS Companies in 2026
Vertical SaaS is software built for one industry rather than for every business: Veeva for life sciences, Procore for construction, Toast for restaurants, ServiceTitan for home services. It goes deeper than horizontal tools like CRM or accounting, covering the industry's own workflows, rules and often its payments. This list covers the vertical SaaS companies across LeadWave's industry lists.
- Companies
- 3,827
- In LeadWave's database, November 2026
- Total funding raised
- $45.8B
- Across 1,642 funded companies
- Median headcount
- 28
- Of 2,459 with a known headcount
- Median year founded
- 2015
- Of 3,472 with a known year
Top vertical SaaS companies by headcount
The 30 with the most employees, of 3,827. Headcount is the latest known figure.
| Company | Website | Employees | Headcount | Funding | CEO | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 Glodon | glodon.com | 5,001–10,000 | 8,500 | — | Yuan Zhenggang | |
2 RealPage | realpage.com | 5,001–10,000 | 6,624 | $86.4M | Dirk Wakeham | |
3 Veeva | veeva.com | 5,001–10,000 | 5,405 | $7M | Peter Gassner | |
4 Blue Yonder | blueyonder.com | 1,001–5,000 | 4,062 | $1.7B | Duncan Angove | |
5 Cegid | cegid.com | 1,001–5,000 | 3,934 | — | Bruno Vaffier | |
6 PowerSchool | powerschool.com | 1,001–5,000 | 3,600 | $31.5M | Antonio Pietri | |
7 Coursera | coursera.org | 1,001–5,000 | 3,001 | $444.9M | Greg Hart | |
8 Procore | procore.com | 1,001–5,000 | — | $650M | Ajei Gopal | |
9 eBaoTech | ebaotech.com | 1,001–5,000 | — | — | Woody Mo | |
10 goTRG | gotrg.com | 1,001–5,000 | — | — | Sender Shamiss | |
11 Inhabit IQ | inhabitiq.com | 1,001–5,000 | — | — | John Kristel | |
12 Relativity | relativity.com | 1,001–5,000 | — | — | Phil Saunders | |
13 SpotOn | spoton.com | 1,001–5,000 | — | — | Matt Hyman and Zach Hyman | |
14 Toast | pos.toasttab.com | 1,001–5,000 | 2,966 | $902M | Aman Narang | |
15 Medidata | medidata.com | 1,001–5,000 | 2,900 | $20M | Anthony Costello | |
16 Motive | gomotive.com | 1,001–5,000 | 2,604 | $417.3M | Shoaib Makani | |
17 LightSpeed | lightspeedhq.com | 1,001–5,000 | 2,151 | $25.8M | Dax Dasilva | |
18 SPS Commerce | spscommerce.com | 1,001–5,000 | 1,999 | $50.5M | Chad Collins | |
19 Carta | carta.com | 1,001–5,000 | 1,940 | $1.1B | Henry Ward | |
20 Aptean | aptean.com | 1,001–5,000 | 1,906 | $50M | TVN Reddy | |
21 CCC Information Services | cccis.com | 1,001–5,000 | 1,901 | $150M | Githesh Ramamurthy | |
22 ArisGlobal | arisglobal.com | 1,001–5,000 | 1,791 | — | Aman Wasan | |
23 Samsara | samsara.com | 1,001–5,000 | 1,699 | $930M | Sanjit Biswas | |
24 ServiceTitan | servicetitan.com | 1,001–5,000 | 1,681 | $1.1B | Ara Mahdessian | |
25 PointClickCare | pointclickcare.com | 1,001–5,000 | 1,608 | $230M | Dave Wessinger | |
26 o9 Solutions | o9solutions.com | 1,001–5,000 | 1,579 | $122M | Chakri Gottemukkala | |
27 AppFolio | appfolio.com | 1,001–5,000 | 1,433 | $30M | Shane Trigg | |
28 Field Nation | fieldnation.com | 1,001–5,000 | 1,432 | $30.2M | Mynul Khan | |
29 Instructure | instructure.com | 1,001–5,000 | 1,267 | $89.1M | Steve Daly | |
30 Fivetran | fivetran.com | 1,001–5,000 | 1,173 | $500M–1B | George Fraser |
Vertical SaaS companies at a glance
- 53% are headquartered in United States, followed by United Kingdom.
- The largest is Glodon, with 8,500 employees.
- 1,642 have disclosed funding, $45.8B in total; 103 raised $100M or more.
- Half were founded before 2015, and 10% in 2020 or later.
- United States1,968 · 53%
- United Kingdom293 · 8%
- Canada179 · 5%
- India162 · 4%
- Germany143 · 4%
- France96 · 3%
- Logistics644 · 17%
- Healthcare641 · 17%
- ERP583 · 15%
- Retail579 · 15%
- Ecommerce544 · 14%
- Manufacturing401 · 10%
- Real Estate393 · 10%
- Hospitality377 · 10%
- 1–101,073 · 29%
- 11–501,603 · 43%
- 51–200793 · 21%
- 201–500190 · 5%
- 501–1,00053 · 1%
- 1,001–5,00033 · 1%
- 5,001–10,0003 · 0%
- Before 2000166 · 5%
- 2000–2009484 · 14%
- 2010–2014887 · 26%
- 2015–20191,594 · 46%
- 2020–2022308 · 9%
- 2023 or later33 · 1%
- Under $1M416 · 25%
- $1M–5M480 · 29%
- $5M–10M209 · 13%
- $10M–50M358 · 22%
- $50M–100M89 · 5%
- $100M–500M94 · 6%
- $500M–1B7 · 0%
- $1B+4 · 0%
How this list was built
A company is on this list if it is a strong match on one of LeadWave's vertical industry lists: healthcare, real estate, construction, legal, insurance, hospitality, restaurants, retail, field service, agriculture, logistics, manufacturing, education and venture capital. Horizontal tools that sell to every industry, such as CRM, marketing or HR software, are on their own lists.
The data comes from LeadWave's database of SaaS and AI companies, last updated in November 2026. Companies that share a website are counted once. Headcount, funding and CEO come from public sources, so some fields are blank for smaller companies.
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Frequently asked questions
LeadWave's database lists 3,827 vertical SaaS companies as of November 2026. This page shows the 30 largest; the full list, with CEO contacts, is part of our 15,000+ SaaS companies list.
By headcount, Glodon, with 8,500 employees, followed by RealPage and Veeva.
United States: 53% of those with a known headquarters, followed by United Kingdom at 8%.
Blue Yonder ($1.7B), Carta ($1.1B) and ServiceTitan ($1.1B), by total disclosed funding.
LeadWave's SaaS companies list covers 15,000+ companies and 16,000+ CEOs, with verified CEO emails, LinkedIn profiles, headcount and funding in one CSV. It's on the List of SaaS Companies page.
Software as a service built for a single industry, as opposed to horizontal SaaS that any business can use. A vertical SaaS product handles that industry's own work: patient scheduling and medical billing, construction bids and site management, restaurant orders and kitchen tickets.
Horizontal SaaS solves one job for every industry: Salesforce for sales, HubSpot for marketing, Workday for HR. Vertical SaaS solves many jobs for one industry. Vertical companies have fewer potential customers but often win more of them, and many add payments or financing on top of the software.
By headcount, the latest known figure. Each company is also on the list for its industry, linked below.