StartupTrusted
startuptrusted.comA verified-startup database sorted by category. The free tier requires their badge on your site, checked automatically before a manual review. Pay $11 once for instant listing and a permanent dofollow link with no badge, or $19 to sit on the homepage above all listings.
Before you submit
2 things to have ready- Sign in with Google or email
- Free plan: add the StartupTrusted badge to your website before submitting verified automatically
- Approval time
- Free: automatic badge verification then manual review, no timeframe stated; Pro and Featured: instant
- Acceptance
- Medium (free submissions must pass automatic badge verification and a manual review; paid plans are approved instantly)
- Launch cadence
- Rolling
Who it's for
The link starts nofollow. Pro plan, $11 one-time (dofollow, instant approval); the free tier instead requires their badge on your site and it becomes dofollow, so do that step; it is the whole value of the listing.
If you're submitting here, also look at
All directories →Founder software review site with a free startup directory; add their badge to make the homepage link dofollow.
Free startup listing with upvotes, but the free queue takes about four weeks and visit links are nofollow.
Free startup list with dofollow links; log in to add yours, pay $0.99 a day to sit at the top.