There are many companies that use various lisp dialects. Not many would be described as startups, but a bunch of them exist. A quick scan of http://lispjobs.wor

There are many companies that use various lisp dialects. Not many would be described as startups, but a bunch of them exist. A quick scan of http://lispjobs.wordpress.com http://lispjobs.wordpress.com will give you a few names: * http://grammarly.com http://grammarly.com a NLP startup from the Ukraine, they provide a grammar checking tool. * http://dwavesys.com http://dwavesys.com a Canadian quantum computing company. * http://agri-esprit.com http://agri-esprit.com is a French agriculture startup offering software for farms * http://onshored.com http://onshored.com equipment scheduling and resource management software. From Chicago * http://zenrobotics.com http://zenrobotics.com a Finish company making, you guessed it: robots. * http://www.novasparks.com/ http://www.novasparks.com/ FPGA * http://siscog.pt/ http://siscog.pt/ Portuguese company, offers solutions for transportation companies * And just today on reddit I read about http://bikefriday.com http://bikefriday.com whose powered by CL(read more: http://www.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/1q1a1w/check_out_my_cl_project_custom_bike_configurator/ http://www.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/1q1a1w/check_out_my_cl... ) As you can see, not a lot of traditional "cat pictures as a service" companies, but javascript is good enough for those, they don't really need lisp, unlike a quantum CPU manufacturer :)