Top Brand Development Startups in 2026

Brand Catapult is a 360 Branding & Marketing agency based out of Delhi. Run by professionals with a combined experience of over two decades, we have had the chance to work with businesses from over 45 industries spreading between technology to hospitality.

Levi Strauss & Co. is a brand-name apparel company designs, markets, and sells jeans, casual and dress pants, jackets, skirts, and more. It is a worldwide corporation organized into three geographic divisions: Levi Strauss Americas (LSA), based in the San Francisco headquarters; Levi Strauss Europe, Middle East and Africa (LSEMA), based inBrussels; and Asia Pacific Division (APD), based in Singapore. The company employs a staff of approximately 10,500 people worldwide. Since the invention and patent of riveted clothing by Jacob Davis and company founder Levi Strauss in 1873, Levi’s® jeans have become the most recognizable and imitated clothing in the world, capturing the imagination and loyalty of people for generations. And while the patent has long since expired, the Levi’s® brand portfolio continues to evolve through a relentless pioneering and innovative spirit that is unparalleled in the apparel industry.

Remote-first. Founder-built. Relentlessly creative. Nelkard is a modern venture studio building bold, category-defining brands across web, AI, luxury, and culture. Since 2013, we’ve launched ventures like TenGap.com — the World’s #1 Web Development Company (DesignRush, May 2025) — as well as Garnadi, FanLinko, and PopHoe.com. We originate and invest in high-conviction ideas, then bring them to life through visionary founders, creative infrastructure, and strategic partnerships. Every venture we back is built in-house or in collaboration with exceptional talent — and we remain deeply involved in brand, product, and go-to-market execution. Bootstrapped from the start, we’re open to capital partners who align with our philosophy: timeless brands, built with soul, scaled with strategy.

THIS JANUARY® is an independent creative agency built for next year. We create culturally relevant stories that resonate with real people across modern mediums — from OOH to TikTok. +++ We grew up in the world of big, holding-company-owned advertising agencies. Places with offices in most time zones. Shops where a twenty-five-person meeting was most meetings. From the outside, there was a lot to admire about those agencies. The offices looked like you would imagine. There were grand, imposing conference rooms. There were encouraging murals on every floor. On the inside, though, the toll of the last three decades was unmistakable. By the time we arrived, every big three or four letter agency was owned by something still bigger — something far, far away. CPAs wandered the halls with grim expressions. Those holding-company-owned agencies were a fascinating paradox: they were enormous and always under resourced. They were obscenely expensive and forever broke. They were supposed to be shapers of culture and yet they felt fixed in amber in 1990-something. We saw what we did not want to be. This January is a modern advertising agency. We were founded on a simple conviction, firmly held: an independent, senior team makes better work. At our agency, the creative partners that founded the company work on projects — not pitches. We are obsessed with craft. It animates us, inspires us and keeps us up at night. We’re equally fixated on delivering the highest level of execution without outsourcing every frame to a London-based VFX shop or a Hollywood director between movies. We can do more with modest budgets. The world is full of the bland, boring and shoddily produced. We’re certain that interesting has better ROI. And we want to make it together.