Top Design Startups in 2026

Powered by passion and people, we are a strategic design company that helps people live better and work smarter as technology and business continue to become more complex. In 1980, we set out to pioneer the business of design that puts people first. Almost 40 years later, we've brought more than 1,000 products and services to market. We humanize products, services and experiences through deep research, insights and design strategies.

Our full-stack venture team and proven playbook deliver products and startups that actually succeed. Gitwit's venture studio actively finds problems worth solving and invests the first $500k - $2M to build new companies. Alongside in-house ventures, we create joint ventures and co-found new companies with corporate partners, combining our proven venture creation processes with deep domain knowledge. On the services side, entrepreneurs and companies looking to innovate hire us to find opportunities, rapidly build, and launch products that reinvent internal workflows or create new experiences for customers.

Chamberlain Group is a online sales repository providing smart access to products and services across residential and commercial properties. The company offers hardware systems, along with management software that enables users to remotely control garage doors. It also distributes perimeter access control equipment and manufactures loading dock levelers and equipment.

Purple, Rock, Scissors (PRPL) applies omnichannel strategy and business intelligence to design, development, enterprise integration, and marketing to engage tomorrow’s digital consumers. Our unrivaled company culture and benefits, as well as a high standard for quality work, keep our team tight knit and tenacious. Employing a full-time staff of 55, PRPL is headquartered on the 20th floor of the Chase Plaza building in Downtown Orlando, widely considered to be the epicenter of Central Florida’s tech scene. Our portfolio of global clients includes tech media, healthcare, education, e-commerce, and consumer products industries.

We have a dream that one day every startup, every organization will be able to represent their 'why they do what they do', ideas and products in the best ways online. And so, we help in ideating and building creative, future-safe and user-friendly solutions for the web.

Acro Media Inc. is an innovative website design company in Kelowna, BC. We love providing fresh solutions for our clients. Custom website design, e-commerce sites, software development and internet marketing are the areas where we show our creative best.

We know that in order for any project to be successful, it must first seek to understand the needs of the customer across “The Triad”: technical, schedule and cost. At Catania Enterprises, we take that one step further. We provide engineering services personalized for your needs by: Reducing your cost by identifying risks in technical and schedule constraints. Ensuring technical requirements are met by optimizing the complexity constraints which drive cost and schedule. Meet your schedule needs by working to assess adaptability across technical requirements and cost constraints.

We are an execution-led marketing consultancy that exists to make brands heard in the ever-changing, always-on content environment. Strategic and creative, we solve brand challenges with purpose-built solutions that change perceptions. Our approach is grounded in a philosophy that speed at scale requires finding comfort in being uncomfortable.

The Working Assembly is a NYC based branding agency that transforms companies at their inflection point, crafting ideas for significant moments of truth from growing startups like Zola and LOLA; to evolving heritage brands like MassMutual and Guardian. The woman-owned, minority-owned, and majority female staffed branding agency was founded in 2014 and is currently led by award-winning creative director Jolene Delisle and design director Lawrence O’Toole.