Top Data Startups in 2026

Wheelhouse is a FinTech platform for flex rentals. More specifically, Wheelhouse is a revenue & financial intelligence platform that empowers the next generation of hospitality & “flex living” operators. (Think “Shopify meets Hospitality”) Today, thousands of businesses manage their revenue, sales & analytics on top of Wheelhouse’s growing pricing & financial intelligence platform. At our foundation is our best-in-class machine learning price recommendation engine, which focuses on determining the correct nightly price for the unique properties that sell in the short-term & flex rental space. Our pricing engine provably drives revenue performance 20%+, and is combined with data tools (market & competitive intelligence tools) that help professional teams manage inventory anywhere in the world. In 2021, our platform was named “Innovation of the Year” at the Data & Revenue Management conference - as voted on by one of our key customer targets. We’re a well-funded, collaborative & productive team that enjoys shipping beloved products, on time, while having fun, and partnering deeply with our customers to help drive their business success. Our team is best described as transparent & collaborative, and we strive to set our teammates up for success - both professionally & personally. Certainly, there is a lot more to share, and we’d be eager to say hello & learn more about you! To learn more about our platform: usewheelhouse.com To learn more about our data science: usewheelhouse.com/blog/wheelhouse-pricing-engine

More than 14 million students have used us to choose where to study and live, and we power the investors, developers, operators, universities and property advisers shaping the sector, with 4.3 billion+ real-time data points spanning pricing, availability, incentives, planning activity and verified student sentiment across the UK, Ireland and seven European markets, with the rest of Europe and the US next. Behind all of that is a small team of people who genuinely care: about students making one of the biggest decisions of their lives, about the sector we serve, and about each other. We are over 50 people located remotely, and we've built a place we actually like coming to work.

Firecrawl is the easiest way to turn the web into data AI agents can use. One API call converts any URL into clean, LLM-ready markdown or structured data - the boring-hard problem everyone building with LLMs eventually hits, solved. We hit 8 figures in ARR in year one and more than doubled it in year two. We have 150k+ GitHub stars, and developers, agents, and category-defining AI companies build on us every day. Growth like this is rare, and we're just getting started. We're a small team punching far above our weight. Everyone here owns a real piece of the product and company, end to end, and runs it themselves - no hiding behind process or headcount. This is a place for people who want to work at the frontier: an AI company building the infrastructure other AI companies run on, not one bolting AI onto an existing product. We move fast, go deep, and are building the tools superintelligence will rely on to gather data from the web.

PST.AG is a growing medium-sized business with headquarters in the historical city of Weimar, Germany. With continuous coordination with legal authorities from around the world (e.g. customs authorities, export control authorities). PST.AG is the leading provider of customs/global trade data, helping companies from a diverse range of industries. You are exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. Razor-sharp eyes for detail push them through their workdays and keep them determined to meet high standards. Does this sound like you? Then you might want to consider a career as our next team member.

The only conversational AI platform for Self Storage. When others close their doors at 6PM, you’re still open. 24/7 in fact. You’d be surprised at how many people are looking to rent storage units at 2AM. The goal of automation should be to make the lives of people easier—whether those people are your customers or your facility manager. Automation eliminates repetitive and tedious tasks—freeing up people to spend their time on more worthwhile activities.

CharacterStrong provides social & emotional learning curricula and professional learning to PreK-12 schools in all 50 States, as well as schools across 11 countries. Our curricula include Middle School Social & Emotional Learning Lessons, High School Social & Emotional Learning Lessons, a Foundations of Leadership Course, a Service Leadership Course, and a PurposeFull People PreK-5 Toolkit. We host leadership conferences, offer live in-person and virtual professional development, in addition to online/asynchronous training and equity-specific training.

Shift5 is a cybersecurity company that provides hardware and software solutions to defend operational technology (OT) platforms, such as planes, satellites, ground combat vehicles, and large-scale mining and construction vehicles.

Revelate’s data fulfillment platform provides a suite of capabilities for data sharing and data commercialization for our customers to fully realize the value of their data. We reduce the burden for IT and Data & Analytics teams to distribute data, the way the consumer needs it, in and outside of their organization. Revelate integrates into the fabric of any data ecosystem to prepare, package, and distribute data from anywhere to anyone. Revelate is a platform designed to maximize flexibility for providers and consumers without sacrificing ownership or security concerns. Every time data is accessed, we make sure the consumer or system has permission to do so. We take every opportunity to keep data secure at every step of the distribution process meaning that you can make data self service because of the automation to check entitlements, licensing and access but also create a curated experience for consumers and administrators. Data productization is the best way to increase the quality, traceability, and usability of data. Revelate provides an interface for non-technical users to create and distribute data products. We also have a purpose built ETL and suite of technical services to construct and deliver the most complex of data products.

Built for the most demanding enterprise workloads, from AI and HPC simulations to Splunk Observability, genomics and PACS medical imaging, geospatial datasets, media editing and rendering, and video surveillance, the Qumulo Data Platform unlocks the full power of an organization’s information. It is a unified global file system solution that spans data centers, edge, and public clouds, enabling efficient, accelerated computing and extending the reach of data unbound by protocol or transport limitations.

Santander Global Technology (SGT) is the team of technology and operations at Santander. We are convinced of the importance of technology that is aligned with the requirements of the business and that out work not only brings value to users, people and communities but also fosters individual creativity. Our team of over 2,000 people in 7 countries (Spain, Portugal, UK, USA, Mexico, Chile and Brazil) develops and/or implements financial solutions across a broad spectrum of technologies (including Blockchain, Big Data and Angular among others) on all kinds of on-premise and cloud-based platforms.