Top Consumer Internet Startups in 2026

We’re the essential technology platform used by hundreds of thousands of homebuyers and sellers to partner with top real estate agents and win at any step of the real estate journey — whether that’s finding a top agent, securing a competitive mortgage, or ensuring on-time, easy close. Every year, we facilitate billions of dollars of real estate on our platform. HomeLight empowers people to achieve better outcomes during one of life’s most important events: buying or selling their home. Our vision is a world where every real estate transaction is simple, certain, and satisfying.

Knock is a caring group of people who came together from across the industry with the belief there had to be a better way to serve people in the journey between homes. We offer a first-of-its-kind Knock Bridge Loan™ that gives everyone in the process more convenience, certainty, and competitiveness. Founded in 2015, we have earned the industry’s trust: an A+ Better Business Bureau rating and relationships with more than 120,000 real estate agents in our 75 markets across the US. Launched by founding team members of Trulia, we are funded by industry leading investors, including Foundry Group, Greycroft, RRI, Parker89, and The National Association of Realtors who serves 1.6 million members. We’re most proud of the stories from people we’ve helped get their new home, and the five star Zillow rating from over 750 reviews. To learn more, Knock.com

Modern Treasury builds payment operations software for high-growth companies. Our API and app modernize payment operations for disruptive companies building products that move and track money—think: rideshare marketplaces, digital wallet, fiat-crypto onramps—providing tools that help them grow faster. Enabling real-time payments, automatic reconciliation, continuous accounting, and compliance solutions, Modern Treasury’s platform is used to reconcile over three billion dollars per month. Founded in 2018, San Francisco-based Modern Treasury is backed by Benchmark, Altimeter, SVB Capital, Salesforce Ventures, NewView Capital, and Y Combinator.

Away is a modern lifestyle brand creating thoughtful products designed to transform travel. Since our launch in February 2016, we have become one of the fastest growing consumer brands in the world. We have sold millions of travel products, grown from a team of four to over 250, expanded shipping to nearly 40 countries, opened seven stores across two countries, and launched several new products and experiences that are inspiring more people to travel the world. And we know that’s just the beginning! In just over three years, we have already been twice named one of Fast Company’s “World’s Most Innovative Companies,” one of TIME’s “50 Most Genius Companies,” one of LinkedIn's "Top Startups,"​ and a Forbes “Next Billion Dollar Startup.” We have also raised more than $156M in total equity funding to fuel our next phase of growth.

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Grammarly is the trusted AI assistant for communication and productivity, helping over 40 million people and 50,000 organizations do their best work. Companies like Atlassian, Databricks, and Zoom rely on Grammarly to brainstorm, compose, and enhance communication that moves work forward. Grammarly works where you work, integrating seamlessly with over 500,000 applications and websites. --- Grammarly stands with Ukraine. We invite you to do the same. Here are some ways you can help: gram.ly/WeStandWithUkraine

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.

Roofstock is a company that allows people to invest in real estate in an easy and simple way. we offer our users the opportunity to invest in single family rental properties at a low price point. we guarantee above average returns for all of our users. add another revenue stream and allow your money to work for you.

SIGNIFYD’s full-service cloud platform simplifies fraud detection through a financial guarantee, allowing businesses to increase sales while reducing fraud losses. SIGNIFYD is in use by multiple companies on the Fortune 1000 and Internet Retailer Top 500 list.

Tipalti provides a holistic, multi-entity accounts payable solution. Organizations that employ Tipalti typically reduce 80% of their supplier payments workflow and are able to move towards a cost-neutral payables operation. Tipalti runs on a secure, cloud-based platform that includes a brandable supplier portal to enhances self-service, a true OCR-driven touchless invoice processing automation workflow with two-way and three-way PO matching, a KPMG-certified tax compliance module, global payment remittance to over 190 countries and 120 currencies across six payment methods, a friction-less early payments capability that streamlines negotiation and adoption, and bi-directional, real-time payment reconciliation. Tipalti is trusted by Amazon, GoDaddy, Roku, Twitter, and hundreds of other innovative companies looking to transform payables so their finance teams can focus on more strategic efforts and company growth.