Top Apps Startups in 2026

Braze is the leading customer engagement platform that empowers brands to Be Absolutely Engaging™. Braze helps brands deliver great customer experiences that drive value both for consumers and for their businesses. Built on a foundation of composable intelligence, BrazeAI™ allows marketers to combine and activate AI agents, models, and features at every touchpoint throughout the Braze Customer Engagement Platform for smarter, faster, and more meaningful customer engagement. From cross-channel messaging and journey orchestration to Al-powered decisioning and optimization, Braze enables companies to turn action into interaction through autonomous, 1:1 personalized experiences. The company has been consistently recognized as a Leader in marketing technology by industry analysts, and was named a G2 “Best of Marketing and Digital Advertising Software Product” in 2026. Braze was also named a 2026 Best Places to Work by Built In, a 2025 America’s Greenest Companies by Newsweek, and a 2025 Fortune Best Workplace in Technology™ by Great Place To Work®. The company is headquartered in New York with 15 offices across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC. Learn more at braze.com.

Cooklist is the AI grocery‑intelligence platform powering meal planning and shopping for millions of consumers across our consumer app and white‑label enterprise suite. Our mission is to combine the intelligence of a personal shopper, chef, and nutritionist to help people save time, eat better, and enjoy happier lives. We’re profitable, process billions of dollars in transactions at the nation’s largest retailers, and our mobile experiences reach millions of people. We’re backed by Techstars, Mercury Fund, and industry leaders including the former CTO of Kroger and the Chief Product Officer of Amazon Fresh.

We're changing the way millions of small businesses make money, spend money and track money. Wave delivers innovative financial services and award-winning free software to small- and micro-businesses around the world. By improving cash flow (Payments), delivering money to employees (Payroll), helping businesses get paid (Invoicing), preparing for tax time and providing business insights (Accounting, Receipts), Wave covers the spectrum of a small business owner's financial life, and helps businesses grow and thrive.

Did you know that every 7 seconds someone is injured on a work site? Just like most, we are not happy with that statistic. So we've decided to tackle a huge problem by creating our flagship product, iAuditor - a worker driven safety management system. Unlike any other product, iAuditor has changed the way we tackle quality and safety in the workplace. Designed to assess all different worksites, led by mobile apps and a scalable backend to provide a global solution. Combined with the web platform, iAuditor provides visibility and insights to help raise safety and quality standards across an organisation. Your team can collect consistent data, standardise operations, send reports, identify failed areas and get problems resolved. Convert all your current paper checklists or Excel™ spreadsheets into smart inspection forms in minutes. Our drag and drop template builder makes it easy to create customised forms.

Sanctuary Computer is not a traditional studio.  We work asynchronously with lots of focus time and without Slack. We use tools optimized for calm, thoughtful communication, and opt for async whenever possible. We fight hard to maintain our focus time.    We think of our garden3d as collective for creative people, prioritizing a happy, talented, and diverse studio culture. We work on projects that bring value to our world, and we balance deep care for the work we do with a genuine curiosity about life outside of our jobs.    At the end of the week, we turn our computers off at 40 hours (or 32 hours via our optional 4-day workweek). At the end of the month, we take Friday off, and some go surfing.

Solution Innovators was founded in 1999 by Jay van Achterberg. At that time Jay had been in the computer industry for 14 years doing software development, systems administration, website development and IT team management for companies that included Pratt & Whitney, IBM, and Apple. In all of these organizations, Jay witnessed how large organizations were managing their computers. Having grown up in a family that ran a small business, Jay was intrigued by the challenge of applying these enterprise-class methods to small businesses to make their computing experience more reliable at a price point that they could afford. He found that most small businesses rely on technologies and practices that stem from how people manage computers at home. But home-user priorities like “cheap” and “fun” largely contradict the best interest of businesses where utility, reliability, and security are what solid value is based on. Jay began to bring these enterprise principles to small businesses and found they became more productive, gained happier employees, and even saved money. Today Solution Innovators has 10 people based in its South Windsor, Connecticut office. We serve dozens of clients and many hundreds of users throughout the greater Hartford area. The company provides network and helpdesk services, IT auditing, website design and custom programming.

Spin is a micromobilty company that operates fleets of rental electric bikes and electric scooters in cities and campuses across the United States and Canada. Spin launched the first-ever stationless bike share program in the United States and was instrumental in crafting the world’s first mobility permitting system that is now used around the world. Spin is known for its city- and campus-friendly approach to micromobility, and was the first operator to deploy a number of technology innovations to improve rider compliance, such as sidewalk riding detection technology. Spin consists of a diverse team of experienced professionals from the public sector, private sectors, and the transportation advocacy world, all of whom are committed to fulfilling the company’s mission - to help create a world full of 15 minute cities. For more information visit spin.app As featured on New York Times, Fast Company, Financial Times, TechCrunch, and more. spin.pm

Open, scalable and hardware agnostic, Mojio is the cloud platform of choice for the deployment of secure connected car apps and services. Mojio’s platform delivers a smarter, safer and more convenient driving and vehicle ownership experience to subscribers of major network operators, including Bell Canada, Deutsche Telekom, Rogers Communications, T-Mobile and TELUS. With real-world data gathered from more than 6 billion miles of driving, Mojio provides a big data analytics framework that uses machine learning to generate actionable insights and unlock new revenue streams for companies throughout the automotive value chain.

Canva is a global online visual communications platform on a mission to empower the world to design. It’s a simple way to create beautiful designs from presentations to infographics, videos, t-shirts, websites and social media graphics. Canva was founded by Melanie Perkins, Cliff Obrecht and Cameron Adams in 2012, before launching to the public in August 2013. From the very beginning we’ve had the crazy big goal of making design accessible to everyone. We’re leveling the playing field and democratizing access to design and visual communication by empowering 100% of the world to communicate in a way that was once limited to the 1%. Our community of users includes 230+ million monthly active users and 90% of the Fortune 500 embrace Canva to bolster productivity and achieve their goals. Our users are already creating over 280 designs per second, but we’re just 1% of the way to our mission of empowering the world to design. If you’re looking to design your dream career, have endless opportunities to grow, and work with a bunch of legends - come and join us.

Global migration is a 21st-century reality: Whether people are fleeing from something or racing towards better opportunity, finding love or experience new cultures, people are now living side by side in a new way. At Rebtel, we believe in tearing down borders – from the geographical borders that complicate international communication and borderless banking to the cultural borders that keep people divided. We’re on a mission to build products serving the 2 billion modern internationals of the world. We offer work, communication and banking services for anyone crossed a border: Our team mirrors our global audience: we are a diverse team of people from over 40 different countries that get together everyday – and we’d love for you to join us. Do you have what it takes?