Top Data Startups in 2026

For a combined 88 years, Foundation Center and GuideStar each helped change the world by giving people the information they needed to do good. But the world faces growing challenges: polarization, climate change, technological revolution, and poverty and inequality. That’s why we combined our talent, technology, data, and leadership to become a new organization, Candid. Now, it’s easier than ever to get the information you need to create change.

CleanedWeb is the real time real estate data layer. We maintain a canonical data model for property listings across global markets. Data from hundreds of public sources is collected, normalized into one versioned schema and delivered through one API. Every property market describes the same assets differently. Fields, formats, identifiers and update patterns vary across sources. CleanedWeb maintains each integration, maps every listing to a consistent contract and absorbs upstream changes before they reach your product. Built for product and engineering teams working on property search, underwriting, acquisitions, lending, valuation and portfolio software.

Coastal Carbon is a seed-funded startup on a mission to create positive impact through earth observation and AI. Founded at the University of Waterloo by a team of PhDs and engineers, we’re backed by some of the best AI and climate tech investors like HF0, Inovia Capital and Propeller Ventures, angels like James Tamplin (cofounder Firebase) and Sid Gorham (cofounder OpenTable, Granular), and partners like Amazon AWS and the United Nations. We’re building multimodal foundation models for the natural world. We believe there’s more to the world than the internet + more to intelligence than memorizing the internet. Our models are trained on satellite remote sensing and real world ground truth data, and are used by our customers in nature conservation, carbon dioxide removal, and government to protect and positively impact our increasingly changing world. Our ultimate goal is to build AGI of the natural world.

Open Earth Foundation is a California-based research and deployment non-profit developing open innovative technology to increase planetary resilience and avoid a catastrophic climate crisis. We are building open infrastructure for the Paris Agreement, energy finance, biodiversity tracking, and other critical problems. We are a diverse international team, working remotely with a network of collaborators and partners globally, from the United Nations to startups.

Shaper Capital operates as a venture capital firm.