Top CRM Startups in 2026

Close is building the modern CRM for small, scaling businesses - just like us. Today, we’re 100+ people across 22 countries. We’re united in our goal to help small businesses sell better by eliminating manual work and empowering them to focus on what matters most: relationships. Close sets our compass by our customers and our people. Sustainability is core to serving both; we care deeply about the health of our business and the wellbeing of our team. We’re bootstrapped - meaning we’ve accepted no outside funding - and fully remote since 2016. The way we’ve chosen to build our business allows us to chart our own course. Our team prioritizes impact, ownership, and quality. As a growing, remote-first company, we favor asynchronicity over meetings and we relentlessly prioritize work that moves the needle. We practice a mature approach to the workplace -- we expect our team to manage time effectively, communicate thoughtfully with teammates and customers, and produce great work.

Veeva builds enterprise cloud technology that powers the biggest names in the pharmaceutical, biotech, consumer goods, chemical & cosmetics industries. Our customers make vaccines, life-saving medicines, and life-enhancing products that make a difference in everyday lives. Our technology has transformed these industries; enabling them to get critical products and services to market faster. Our core values, Do the Right Thing, Customer Success, Employee Success, and Speed, guide us as we make our customers more efficient and effective in everything they do.

PolyAI is a London-based technology company with a state-of-the-art machine learning platform for creating conversational agents. The PolyAI platform empowers contact centres, allowing them to deliver the next-generation of customer experience at a fraction of the cost paid by their competitors. PolyAI’s conversational AI agents understand users and can hold conversations without getting confused. They are available 24/7 and can easily scale to support new use cases or to speak almost any world language.

HiOperator is a virtual assistant that answers phone calls, chats with customers, provides in-app help, takes orders, and provides support. The company’s solution portfolio includes brand messaging, e-commerce ordering, product support, call screening, and customer analytics. HiOperator’s system can be integrated with a businesses’ current systems and is staffed by American opertors. HiOperator was launched by Phil Salesses and Elizabeth Tsai in May 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Accelerating deals from propose to close Empowering sales teams to simplify the process to generate, negotiate, and eSign proposals, quotes, and contracts

Dossier by Onboardify is an app for organizing all customer conversations, no matter where it happens. Dossier creates intelligent workspaces for each customer where you can see all communications that have happened, invite others to collaborate, assign actions, organize documents and much more. Dossier is helping business professionals and teams get ahead of the communications deluge from email, chat, and messaging. No more wasted time searching through your inbox or missing opportunities from being out of the loop on important customer messages. Dossier syncs everything intelligently. We were founded to create a new way to organize information about customers. Based in San Francisco with team members around the globe, the growing Onboardify team hails from many backgrounds and companies including Oracle, Salesforce, and Keynote. Sign-up for a free Dossier account and start building better customer relationships today onboardify.com.

Signpost helps local service businesses attract, communicate with, and grow their client base. Founded in 2010, Signpost exists to help local businesses succeed. With investments from HighBar Partners, OpenView Venture Partners, Scout Ventures and Google Ventures, Signpost is growing and looking to add talent across all departments.

Triplemint combines proprietary data and unparalleled end-to-end service to provide a smarter, more successful consumer real estate experience. Founded in 2013 by Yale classmates David Walker and Philip Lang and formerly called Suitey, Triplemint is based in New York City. Triplemint plans to expand into other metropolitan markets and has raised over $20 million in capital to date. For more information, visit triplemint.com.

disguise is THE platform to imagine, create and deliver world class immersive and visual experiences Everyone around the world has SEEN and FELT disguise in action, in : - Film & TV Production Sets (Netflix, Amazon & Apple TV) - Theatre Sets (inc. frozen, Back to the Future) - Live Broadcast (inc. Eurosport, MTV News) - Music Concerts (inc. Guns & Roses, Beyonce) - Landmark Projections (inc. Burj Khalifa & Sydney Opera House) - Corporate Visuals (inc. TikTok & Siemens) disguise provide their customers with everything they need make experiences come to life (from their mind-blowing software, as well as hardware inc. the physical elements such as staging and lights) see showreel below.

SPOTIO is a map-driven, mobile-centric CRM for field sales teams and reps that they actually LOVE USING - which is evident by the hundreds of positive reviews. If you've been in any aspect of field sales then you know the frustration around not having an easy to use yet robust solution to keep track of your leads, contacts, and territories. Common mysteries such as why am I losing leads, where is my team working, and when is the last time we have been to this territory are now a thing of the past. We serve up real-time analytics which gives you the ability to make accurate decisions to create an agile sales environment that takes advantage of every opportunity and leaves no stone unturned. SPOTIO is ideal for sales teams that are responsible for driving net new business out in the field. Highlights & Feautres: * Mobile-centric * Map-driven * Territory management * Smart prospecting * Sales analytics * Integrations focused