Top Big Data Startups in 2026

Driven Brands is the leading automotive aftermarket franchise company based in Charlotte, NC. The Data Team, based in San Francisco, is focused on building a sustainable and scalable data architecture for the growing business. Our goal is to drive the future of the transportation industry through data and insights.

Swiftly develops enterprise software to help transit agencies and cities improve urban mobility. Built by transportation experts for transportation professionals, the Swiftly platform harnesses billions of data points and sophisticated algorithms to improve transit system performance, service reliability, and real-time passenger information. Over 50 cities from coast to coast use Swiftly’s technology platform, improving transportation services for millions of riders each day. Swiftly is backed by leading mobility investors, including Ford Smart Mobility, Samsung NEXT, Via ID, and RATP Dev.

Natively store data for graph, document and search needs. Utilize feature-rich access with one query language. Cloud – On-Prem – Anywhere ArangoDB is an open-source, highly scalable Graph Database with Multi-Model capabilities. In addition to graph it is natively supporting a number of data-models including Document, and Key-Value as well as Full-Text Search and Retrieval. It serves as the scalable backbone for Graph-Analytics and complex data architectures across many different industries. Developers can build high-performance applications using a convenient SQL-like query language or JavaScript extensions. Oh, and did we mention it is open source?

Doctolib is the largest e-health service in Europe Our mission is to contribute to improving our healthcare systems in partnership with healthcare professionals. We aim at creating the largest community of healthcare providers in the world and build with them the practices and hospitals of the future. We believe that it's the best way to improve patient experience and people health. 115,000 Practitioners use Doctolib every day 50 million Patient visits every month on Doctolib 1,250 Doctolibers work hard every day We offer two solutions For healthcare providers - A new generation of software to transform patient and consultation management. For patients - A comprehensive online service to improve their patient experience in healthcare. We have strong commitments towards our users - Doctolib is committed to protecting user data and respects healthcare ethics and regulations. We believe in a new approach of working, with values and in a positive environment - We are a team of entrepreneurs who work hard every day to make Doctolib possible. We have built a philosophy of action based on humility and passion. Want to transform healthcare with us? Check out our open jobs today!

Microblink is an AI company with expertise in machine learning. We create unique products and tools in digital identity and commerce, aspiring to bring the benefits of AI to every person on earth. Our teams in Zagreb, New York & Manila touch hundreds of millions of people every year - over 700M identity documents processed and 3B in individual consumer purchases, in more than 70 countries around the world. We believe in the power of AI to dramatically reshape our lives for the better, and we invite you to join us on this exciting journey!

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Zscaler is revolutionizing internet security with the industry’s first Security as a Service platform. As the innovative firm in the $35 billion security market, Zscaler is used by more than 5,000 organizations, including 50 of the Fortune 500. Zscaler ensures that more than 13 million users worldwide are protected against cyber-attacks and data breaches while staying fully compliant with corporate and regulatory policies. Zscaler is a Gartner magic quadrant leader for secure web gateways and delivers a safe and productive internet experience for every user, from any device and from any location—100% in the cloud. With its multi-tenant, distributed cloud security platform, Zscaler effectively moves security into the internet backbone, operating in more than 100 data centers around the world and enabling organizations to fully leverage the promise of cloud and mobile computing with unparalleled and uncompromising protection and performance. Zscaler delivers unified, carrier-grade internet security, a next-generation firewall, web security, sandboxing, advanced persistent threat (APT) protection, data loss prevention, SSL decryption, traffic shaping, policy management, and threat intelligence—all without the need for on-premise hardware, appliances, or software.

At Sisu, we’re developing and applying cutting-edge data analytics research to help people use data to make better decisions. We’re building a new kind of analytics: a Decision Intelligence Engine for everyone to understand what's happening, why it's happening, and how to take action.

DataHub, built by Acryl Data, is an AI & Data Context Platform adopted by over 3,000 enterprises including Apple, CVS Health, Netflix, and Visa. Innovated jointly with a thriving open-source community of 13,000+ members, DataHub's metadata graph provides in-depth context of AI and data assets with best-in-class scalability and extensibility. The company's enterprise SaaS offering, DataHub Cloud, delivers a fully-managed solution with AI-powered discovery, observability, and governance capabilities. Organizations rely on DataHub solutions to accelerate time-to-value from their data investments, ensure AI system reliability, and implement unified governance—enabling AI & data to work together and bring order to data chaos.

Riskalyze is an all-in-one proposal system, business development system and risk management system for investment advisors. Our unique and patented core technology is built on the academic framework that won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2002. By empowering people to align their investments with their risk tolerance, we can end the disastrous "buy high and sell low" cycle that has caused average investors to miss out on three quarters of market returns over the last 20 years. Riskalyze advisors... — Win more clients by turning a prospect's statement into an amazing sales tool — Fulfill the "client-specific suitability" compliance obligation nobody else is following — Keep clients happy, engaged and retained by winning the expectations game There's a reason that Fast Company Magazine named Riskalyze as one of the World's Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Finance. This company has the team, technology and traction to reinvent how the world invests its money.