Top Data Startups in 2027

YipitData is the leading market research firm for the disruptive economy and recently raised $475M from The Carlyle Group at a valuation of over $1B. We analyze billions of data points every day to provide accurate, detailed insights on ridesharing, e-commerce marketplaces, payments and more. Our on-demand insights team uses proprietary technology to identify, license, clean and analyze the data many of the world’s largest investment funds and corporations depend on. We are one of Inc’s Best Workplaces - a fast-growing technology company with offices located in NYC (where we are based in), Hong Kong, and Shanghai, backed by The Carlyle Group and Norwest Venture Partners with a strong culture focused on mastery, ownership, and transparency.

Wellist makes it easy for employees to find and use the right resources—just like online shopping. Our platform brings together all employee benefits, career development tools, and vetted community services into a single consolidated marketplace. Employees access 5X more support, while employers gain powerful workforce insights to drive engagement and reduce costs.

We're hiring: flexport.com/careers. At Flexport, we believe trade can move the human race forward. That’s why it’s our mission to make global trade easy for everyone. Flexport is building the platform for global logistics, empowering buyers, sellers and their logistics partners with the technology and services to grow and innovate. Today, companies of all sizes—from emerging brands to Fortune 500s—use Flexport technology to move more than $19B of merchandise across 112 countries every year. With offices on three continents, our team is as global as our client base. Wherever you are, whichever role you play, you’re guaranteed to share your day with passionate and resourceful team members who are in it together. Read more on our blog: flexport.com/blog.

Enigma builds world-class data infrastructure, developer-friendly APIs, and intelligent tools that radically transform how businesses interact with each other. By engineering better attributes from the ground up and telling a more complete story, we empower our customers with the confidence they need to automate key business decisions. We’re a team of curious, driven individuals with diverse backgrounds and skills, but we’re all passionate about engineering deeper understanding through data—together.

Aryng is a Data Science consulting, training, and advising company. Our SWAT Data Science team helps solve complex business problems, develop the company’s Data DNA through Data Literacy programs, and deliver rapid ROI using machine learning, deep learning, and AI. Our client list includes companies like Google, Box, Here, Applied Materials, Abbott Labs, and GE.

Partly is UK-based, with an early team in the US, and our core engineering team in Christchurch, New Zealand. Partly's mission is to connect the world's parts and we're doing that by building the first global platform for replacement parts, starting with auto parts. Our big vision is to accelerate the world towards a sustainable future where waste is eliminated and all replacement parts are universally searchable, accessible and available to all. We've more than tripled our team over the last 12 months and expect to double in size again over the coming 12 months. We're a global team spanning both Europe and Australasia. Founded by ex-Rocket Lab engineers, we utilise bleeding-edge technology to solve challenging but exciting problems that make a huge impact in a $1.9 trillion industry. We provide a scalable digital infrastructure solution to some of the world's largest businesses and the most exciting startups. Partly's solutions are integrated across hundreds of companies globally, providing the backbone for cataloguing and managing parts online. Blackbird Ventures (Canva, CultureAmp etc.) led both our Pre-Seed and Seed rounds, alongside I2BF (NYC), Hillfarrance, Icehouse, Peter Beck (Rocket Lab), Akshay Kothari (Notion Co-Founder) and Dylan Field (Figma Co-Founder). We're continuing to build a world-class team and ensuring Partly is a place where people can do the best work of their lives. We're proud of the culture we've built at Partly, and our values are lived throughout every experience.

Our mission is to accelerate progress toward a smaller, fairer, safer criminal justice system—and to do so at-scale. Recidiviz is a tech startup through and through: we take the speed and problem solving of the tech world and apply it to big public policy challenges where there is huge opportunity for impact. Using modern data infrastructure and thoughtful product design, we’ve been able to safely and permanently reduce incarceration and improve outcomes. We work side-by-side with justice-impacted communities, ecosystem partners, and leaders of the criminal justice system to build a better path forward. In addition to the revenue we earn from states, some of the most respected philanthropists and foundations—including Arnold Ventures, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and the Mozilla Foundation—support our work.

Kargo.ai is transforming the future of logistics through Physical AI. We're building the AI-powered infrastructure for an autonomous supply chain, combining computer vision, artificial intelligence, and purpose-built hardware to bring real-time visibility and intelligence to the movement of freight. Our technology transforms traditional loading docks into intelligent operations, automatically capturing and analyzing freight movement to help enterprises improve efficiency, reduce manual processes, and make smarter decisions across their supply chains. Trusted by global brands including McDonald's, Mercedes-Benz, Ford, Rivian, and DHL, Kargo's technology is deployed across logistics facilities in the U.S. and internationally, delivering measurable impact in real-world environments. Backed by leading investors, including Avenir, Kargo raised a $42M Series B in 2025 to accelerate our growth and expand our Physical AI platform. We're a team of engineers, innovators, and problem-solvers tackling complex challenges at the intersection of AI, hardware, and enterprise software. As a growing startup, we offer the opportunity to take ownership, move quickly, and make a meaningful impact while building technology that's shaping the future of global supply chains.

Parabola is the spreadsheet alternative where you combine the data running throughout your company and create automated processes. Pull in data from any source you can imagine—from scattered spreadsheets and tools, to emails and PDFs—and build logic that replicates the manual work you do every day. Create solutions for the problems you’ve always wanted to solve, and make your work more shareable and impactful along the way.

We eliminate tens of thousands in upfront data expenses, while giving you the instant flexibility to pick up real-time full exchange feeds or terabytes of historical data when you need it. Whether you're a Fortune 500 bank or a single-person startup, we scale with your budget and needs to deliver the same cutting edge performance and data integrity. For more info, visit databento.com