Every month, Ramp processes billions of dollars in business expenses on its cards. And every month, we rank the new vendors that customers are purchasing from for the first time to give you a glimpse into emerging market trends, companies on the rise, and much more.
Our May list shows the evolution of the AI software landscape, with several newcomers appearing on the list for the first time, including specialized AI tools growing faster than some model companies themselves. OpenAI maintains top spots on our lists, but we are seeing dramatic growth in companies that enable businesses to build and deploy their own AI applications.
Here’s a breakdown of the top SaaS vendors last month:
By new customer count | By new card spend |
|---|---|
1. OpenAI | 1. turbopuffer |
2. Cursor | 2. HubSpot |
3. Canva | 3. Carta |
4. LinkedIn | 4. Snowflake |
5. GoDaddy | 5. Vanta |
And the fastest-growing vendors:
By largest percentage change in new customer count | By largest percentage change in new card spend |
|---|---|
1. OpenAI | 1. turbopuffer |
2. Manus AI | 2. Snowflake |
3. Maxon Computer | 3. Vanta |
4. Jasper AI | 4. Deepgram |
5. Tango.ai | 5. Silicon Mechanics |
Top takeaways
- OpenAI continues to add customers faster than any other business on Ramp’s platform. Our recently launched Ramp AI Index shows business adoption of OpenAI growing faster than competitor model companies.
- Rocketing to the top of our list on new card spend is turbopuffer, a search engine that helps companies efficiently find and retrieve information from their data to feed into AI systems.
- Vector search product capabilities make turbopuffer stand out. The system delivers exceptional retrieval latency in both hybrid and vector searches, scales well to billions of vector entries, and offers strong org-level separation. It’s a solid offering that technical teams should keep a close eye on.
- Jasper's AI writing tool, purpose-built for marketers, and Deepgram’s voice transcription software also posted big growth, showing demand for dedicated AI software solutions even as the foundational model companies continue to expand their reach and capabilities.
- We’re not surprised to see Snowflake among the top growing vendors. Snowflake’s Cortex suite of products allows LLMs and semantic functions to embed intelligence directly into existing SQL workflows and tools. This approach is expanding what data teams can build without reinventing their stack, making advanced AI capabilities more accessible and operationally seamless.
See you next month.
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