Top Business Intelligence Startups in 2026

Our company is used by the largest, fastest-growing companies in the world. Powered by AI technology and leveraging advances in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning in particular, our company is a revolutionary search engine that delivers superior results—helping agile teams make better strategic decisions and gain a competitive edge.

ThoughtSpot is disrupting the BI industry with search-driven analytics for the enterprise. ThoughtSpot's Relational Search technology lets business people analyze company data in seconds and helps BI & Analytics teams cut their reporting backlogs by over 90%. ThoughtSpot connects with data from on-premise and cloud data sources and is designed for enterprise-scale, security, and governance - all while deploying 85% faster than legacy technologies. ThoughtSpot has built the world's most advanced, yet easy-to-use number-crunching machine with a singular mission - to deliver access to data at "human scale. The company's founding team has previously built market-defining search and analytics technologies at Google, Amazon, Oracle and Microsoft. For more information please visit thoughtspot.com.

Tray.io is a low-code, cloud-first approach to automation. We've built a scalable, resilient, and secure platform that transforms fragmented process into powerful business outcomes. Using the Tray platform, organizations can connect their entire cloud stack using APIs, and thanks to a visual workflow builder, customers can easily create automations that drive their business processes using clicks or code. Our focus is currently on the automation and integration of cloud software, but our bigger goal is to build a platform that is use-case agnostic and supports creating all kinds of software. Our challenge is to build a cutting edge product that is powerful and complete while also being beautiful and easy to use.

SimilarWeb is the pioneer of digital market intelligence, and the standard for understanding the digital world. Our platform provides customers with granular insights about every website and mobile app enabling visibility into digital behavior and letting businesses see what is actually happening with their competitors, their industry and throughout the digital world. We have thousands of paying customers worldwide and millions of users using our free platform every month. Our customers are some of the largest global brands in the world and including Walmart, AirBnb, adidas, DHL and eBay. SimilarWeb raised over $112 million and has over 400 employees in 8 offices around the world in NY, SF, London, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Kiev, Paris, San Paulo. With the insights and the data we provide businesses, agencies, marketers and analysts can benchmark performance against competitors, reveal competitors online strategy, discover new opportunities, identify emerging trends and understand consumer

We provide tracking and analytics for both phone calls and web forms. We help you discover which ads, keywords and campaigns bring valuable leads over the phone and on the web. We offer call tracking software which can reveal which campaigns, websites, and search keywords are driving phone call conversations. With visitor timelines you can see your customer’s journey through your website. Call conversion data feeds directly into Google Ads and even optimizes your PPC call tracking campaigns so you can track phone calls as conversions. Our product is designed to be straightforward and accessible to businesses of all sizes. We help optimize your workflow so you can measure the quality of your conversations and turn more leads into customers.

Emburse humanizes work by empowering business travelers, approvers, finance professionals and CFOs to eliminate manual, time-consuming tasks so they can focus on what matters most. Emburse brings together some of the world’s most powerful and trusted expense management and accounts payable automation solutions, including Abacus, Captio, Certify, Chrome River, Nexonia and Tallie. The company’s solutions are trusted by more than 4.5 million business travelers and finance leaders in more than 120 countries. Over 14,000 organizations rely on Emburse’s solutions to eliminate manual processes, reduce risk, ensure compliance, and deliver deep spend insights to enable smarter, more informed decisions.

Sigma is the only cloud analytics and business intelligence tool empowering business teams to break free from the confines of the dashboard, explore data for themselves, and make better, faster decisions. The award-winning software was built to capitalize on the performance power of cloud data warehouses to combine data sources and analyze billions of rows of data instantly via an intuitive, spreadsheet-like interface – no coding required. Since launching with its unique interface, Sigma Computing has added features such as collaboration tools and embedded analytics capabilities. The most recent product launch included a set of AI tools such as forecasting capabilities, an AI copilot and a notebook interface for users who prefer a code-first environment. Sigma announced its $200M in Series D financing in May 2024, to continue transforming BI through its innovations in AI infrastructure, data application development, enterprise-wide collaboration, and business user adoption. Spark Capital and Avenir Growth Capital co-led the Series D funding round, with additional participation from a group of past investors including Snowflake Ventures and Sutter Hill Ventures.The Series D funding, raised at a valuation 60% higher than the company’s Series C round three years ago, promises to further accelerate Sigma’s growth. Come join us!

Resonate Pulse is a SAAS platform that enables our enterprise clients to monitor and action customer feedback real-time, where it happens, when it happens. Both in the front-line and the strategy teams we help re-shape the business. We make sure to put the end-customer front and centre, and help create that differentiatior every business needs.

Trends like mobility, cloud, big data, and the Internet of Things are driving a profound change for businesses, creating both massive opportunities for innovation as well as escalating customer expectations. Companies must respond by transforming themselves and moving faster than ever. In this Connected Era, how well companies connect the explosion of apps, data, and devices defines their success. It will be impossible to keep pace with innovation using custom code. The world needs a new way to connect. MuleSoft’s mission is to connect the world’s applications, data, and devices. MuleSoft makes connecting anything easy with Anypoint Platform™, the only complete integration platform for SaaS, SOA, and APIs. Thousands of organizations in 60 countries, from emerging brands to Global 500 enterprises, use MuleSoft to innovate faster and gain competitive advantage.

DataRobot is a predictive analytics platform for data scientists to build and deploy accurate predictive models in a fraction of the time it takes today. By harnessing the power of massively parallel computing, DataRobot builds and refines 1000s of possible models using R and Python to find the best ones in just hours. We've incorporated the knowledge and expertise of our world-class data science team into a solution that unleashes the productivity of practitioners, regardless of their level of expertise. From small companies with part-time data scientists to large enterprises with dedicated data science teams - DataRobot helps organizations make better predictions, faster.