Top Data Startups in 2026

SPREAD is the decision intelligence layer for the world’s most complex engineering organizations. By unifying fragmented mechanical, electrical, and software data into a functional Product Twin across systems of record and unstructured sources, SPREAD allows engineering teams to know their product inside out. By making product logic explicit, SPREAD empowers engineers to leverage specialized AI agents and solutions that enable them to act with precision and speed when the stakes are high. Built on an multiple award-winning technology, world-first Engineering Information Model (EIN), SPREAD is the backbone for engineering AI for software-defined products. Proven across more than 100 enterprise deployments and trusted by Volkswagen, BMW, and Rheinmetall, SPREAD enables engineering at high speed, reduces costs, and fuels a new era of industrial innovation.

When’s the last time you completed an online form that was fun? Audiences love Typeform because it’s intuitive, incredibly engaging, and dare we say, enjoyable to interact with. Because of this, Typeform gets completion rates up to 4x higher than regular old forms. This makes data collection a breeze for entrepreneurs, researchers, educators, event planners, and anyone interested in getting closer to their audience. What’s the future of online data collection? Will it be voice? How will machine learning play a role? Is there a place for augmented reality? What about holographic technology? At Typeform, these are some of the questions we’re grappling with. Why? Because we want to be the best at conversational data collection. That means lots of experimentation. And it means working on problems that don’t exist—yet. Typeform is leading the future of conversational data collection. Shape the industry with us—and help make the web a little more human.

Xpansiv is the global market for ESG-inclusive commodities. These Intelligent Commodities™ bring transparency to markets, empowering participants to value energy, carbon, and water to meet the challenges of an information-rich, resource-constrained world. We’re the marketplace for an ever-expanding ecosystem of proven environmental commodities, like RECs, offsets, and differentiated fuels.

At every company, there's someone who's most painful job is wrangling CSV files in Excel. OneSchema (oneschema.co) makes cleanup of messy CSVs 10x faster (demo). Our product is smart spreadsheet that makes data cleansing as simple as a few clicks. Our vision is to automate the “long tail of ETL” processes that today are painstaking, manual, and repetitive. We get our customers out of spreadsheets and back to the meaningful, creative work they love.

FOSSA provides the technology to help organizations understand what’s in their code and automate license tracking/compliance without slowing development. Replacing manual systems, FOSSA automatically scans code to analyze license data, generates disclosures/attribution and surfaces issues all on a continuous basis. This allows companies to automate compliance in the background, letting developers write software safely, quickly and in real-time without introducing layers of people and process.

About Clear Demand: Clear Demand is the leader in AI-driven price and promotion optimization for retailers. Our platform transforms pricing from a challenge to a competitive advantage, helping retailers make smarter, data-backed decisions across the entire pricing lifecycle. By integrating competitive intelligence, pricing rules, and demand modelling, we enable retailers to maximize profit, drive growth, and enhance customer loyalty — all while maintaining pricing compliance and brand integrity. With Clear Demand, retailers stay ahead of the market, automate complex pricing decisions, and unlock new opportunities for growth.

Reap is a technology company dedicated to fuelling the ambitions of small businesses. We deliver corporate payment solutions to improve the way small businesses operate today and prepare them for the challenges of tomorrow. Currently, Reap's online payments platform enables small businesses to pay expenses and collect revenue – to and from anyone, anywhere – entirely via credit card. The company has revolutionised the way businesses manage cash flow, leveraging credit cards to smooth cash flow and increase capital efficiency by digitising day-to-day finances and transactions. As strong advocates of small to medium-sized businesses, Reap believes businesses should operate at their potential, not at their size. Reap continues to innovate, advancing technology and building better tools for small businesses to level the playing field – by giving every small business the access of a large enterprise. Reap is supported by an empowering group of investors; including Global Founders Capital, Bertelsmann Asia Investments, Index Ventures, Fresco Capital and Hustle Fund. Our current operation spans Hong Kong and Singapore and continues to expand.

FunnelStory is the infrastructure layer for go-to-market intelligence. We fuse structured and unstructured customer data from CRM, support, product, and conversations into a single queryable model of account truth — so revenue teams and AI agents know what matters now, not what a search index happened to surface. We pre-compute health, risk, and expansion signals with evidence behind them, and power permissioned workflows and agents on top. Sales and CS teams get early warning on renewals and PoCs, more predictable forecasting, and less manual stitching across tools — with automation that fits how they already work.

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.

LeoLabs™ is dedicated to protecting satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO) from collisions. The number of satellites in LEO is growing rapidly, and there is no reliable or responsive commercial service for tracking these satellites and the debris that threatens them. LEO is a shared, critical resource and responsible stewardship is important if we are to maintain its use. LeoLabs™ Tracking as a Service (TaaS) will address this need with a worldwide network of phased-array radars and a data analytics service that will address the shortcomings of current data sources by (a) tracking 10x more debris than is currently tracked and (b) rapidly responding to urgent customer requests. LeoLabs™ TaaS also includes other services - quickly tracking newly launched satellites, verifying deployments, verifying maneuvers, and troubleshooting satellite malfunctions.