Top Data Startups in 2026

DataHub, built by Acryl Data, is an AI & Data Context Platform adopted by over 3,000 enterprises including Apple, CVS Health, Netflix, and Visa. Innovated jointly with a thriving open-source community of 13,000+ members, DataHub's metadata graph provides in-depth context of AI and data assets with best-in-class scalability and extensibility. The company's enterprise SaaS offering, DataHub Cloud, delivers a fully-managed solution with AI-powered discovery, observability, and governance capabilities. Organizations rely on DataHub solutions to accelerate time-to-value from their data investments, ensure AI system reliability, and implement unified governance—enabling AI & data to work together and bring order to data chaos.

Headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and founded in 2016 by University of Michigan professor Dr. Jason Corso and Dr. Brian Moore, Voxel51 is an AI software company that enables computer vision data scientists to rapidly curate and experiment with their datasets in order to build higher performing machine learning systems. For more information visit voxel51.com.

System1 is the world's largest independent marketplace for keyword pay-per-click advertising. Our platform analyzes billions of consumer attributes and uses “pre-targeting” algorithms to unlock and fulfill consumer intent across channels including social, native, email, search, market research, and lead generation. The technology we developed anchors on six major optimization systems, using statistical and machine-learning models to identify how consumers will respond to a variety of inputs, digitally echoing how people naturally behave. This allows us to tap into and serve consumer intent on a massive scale.

Publicis Sapient is a digital business transformation partner. We combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting and customer obsession to accelerate our clients’ businesses through designing the products and services their customers they truly value.

We’re a multidisciplinary team of growth experts, data strategists, and creatives—all under one roof. Our clients’ work spans across industries, from eco-friendly consumer products to modern healthcare solutions. We collaborate closely with our clients as a full-service, transparent extension of their in-house teams—to drive awareness, growth, and customer retention. We deliver for our clients by fostering team members who love working together, who are empowered to contribute fresh ideas that push us forward. If this sounds interesting to you, we’re growing fast—and we’d love to meet you.

Artie is a real-time database replication solution for databases and data warehouses. To do this, we leverage Kafka and CDC. We're growing fast - we launched our product a year ago and are now processing 10b+ rows per month. We're backed by Pathlight (fka Exponent Founders Capital), General Catalyst and other world class angels like Benn Stancil (Mode), Lenny Rachitsky (Lenny’s Newsletter), and Arash Ferdowsi (Dropbox).

We pull, aggregate, and reconcile supplies data from dozens of sources so that data customers want is at their fingertips. To help them get to the data, we have what we consider a best-in-class search and data management experience, primarily driven by a cloud-based web app. When it comes to developing features for Symmetric, our philosophy is simple - everything is built around identifying opportunities for improvement. We believe that healthcare's supply chain is made better when data quality, software, and people are continuously improving. Our current offerings include: - A search tool for browsing our master database and finding the info they need - A virtual item master and master data management framework for users to upload, enrich, and research their supply data - A variety of reports that directly point users to their biggest savings opportunities More at symmetrichealthsolutions.com

Companies cannot scale tech hiring without additional recruiters. Recruiting tools uses AI to make recruiters more efficient but focus on legacy issues. developerDB makes recruiting more effective with a lead generation for recruiting solution that focuses on the recruiting and not the recruiter.

Irys (irys.us) is a data company that specializes in turning large-scale geospatial data (e.g: mobile GPS data) into cutting-edge intelligence for real estate. The team at Irys have spent the last two years building a profitable business creating and selling data-feeds to companies in a wide variety of verticals including marketing, retail analytics, and finance.

ProdPro offers unique, actionable data intelligence in a modern, purpose-built software platform. Unlike other services that focus solely on data, ProdPro is building a suite of tools to help crew, vendors and producers to maximize the value they get from the solution. For crew, this means accelerated careers and staying connected with their community. For vendors, this means increased revenue, predictable sales, and better growth strategies. For production companies, this means hiring the best talent and services for the project.