Top Design Startups in 2026

Fellow wants to help people easily brew ridiculously good coffee and tea at home. Our first product, the Duo Coffee Steeper, is a dual chamber french press with a two-stage filter. The value prop seems to be appealing as Duo is now over $200,000 in pre-sales. Right now we're working on a portfolio of complementary products that will fast follow behind the launch of Duo in February.

Squarespace makes beautiful products to help people with creative ideas succeed. Our platform empowers millions of people — from individuals and local artists to entrepreneurs shaping the world’s most iconic businesses — to share their stories and create an impactful, stylish, and easy-to-manage online presence.

Since 2002, we’ve had over 1.2 million enrollments and helped people fast-track their careers and make a meaningful difference, while supporting millions more through open-source content. We collaborate with over 250 leading designers from Google, NASA, Harvard, and Adobe to make world-class learning accessible. We are a fully remote company, bringing together exceptional talent from across the globe. Read more about our values, company culture and open positions: ixdf.org/about

CoLab Software is the world’s simplest cloud-based design review platform with the only dedicated issue tracking system for mechanical and product design teams. Our mission is to enable diverse teams to unlock global design collaboration on projects that accelerate innovative technology development. The platform is called Gradient and is built upon an industry leading 2D/3D web-based file viewing system with our custom developed issue tracking and project management directly integrated. Gradient allows all stakeholders (internal and external) the ability to collaborate on reviews they are invited to with no other software needed, downloads or plugins. CoLab Software is a venture-backed company with 14 employees based out of Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada.

Innovify is a fast growing digital innovation & transformation company with headquarters in London. Offering a wide range of expertise, Innovify helps clients to develop innovative products that enable them to focus on key business drivers using a collaborative work model that functions on an Agile & Lean philosophy. Innovify has become a trusted partner to its clients by going beyond the typical scope of application development through a range of digital products such as websites, apps, and software. Innovify is the next stage in transforming your ideas into highly scalable businesses based on our innovative ideology: Ideate: Put life into your idea. Incubate: Execute your idea the right way. Accelerate: Soar to the highest peak of success. Innovify is the right partner for your digital ambitions.

Two Point One is a global agency that accelerates businesses by creating unified, device-agnostic brand experiences. With a focus on delivering world class mobile and web solutions, Two Point One is an innovation partner that prepares businesses for their most critical stages of product-driven growth.

Did you know… only a third of product teams actually do *continuous* product research? A lack of time, tools, and resources often mean that valuable user insights are left in the dark. With Maze, you can shine a light on what your users really want and make more strategic product decisions. Maze is a product research platform dedicated to making life easier for modern product teams. With versatile features—from prototype testing, to video and screen recordings of usability sessions—Maze empowers over 60,000 brands, from Samsung to Braze, to learn about their audiences and act fast. With easy one-click integrations to some of the world’s leading design platforms, Maze makes it easier than ever to test designs, ideas, and prototypes. Import prototypes seamlessly to Figma, Adobe XD, InVision, Marvel, and Sketch to help round up feedback and move ideas in the right direction. As well as being accessible across multiple devices, mazes can be shared with users across the globe in just a matter of clicks. A simple URL is all that’s needed to gather user insights in a matter of hours. Once the results roll in, Maze does the work for you with automated analytics that display responses in visually digestible reports. As well as looking beautiful, a Maze Report can be shared easily with major stakeholders for further discussion and ideations. With the Comments feature, customizing your reports with summaries and follow-up actions has never been simpler. With flexible plans built to accompany your product research goals, Maze is designed to empower you—whether you’re a team of one or 100. And if you’re still not sure where to begin with your product research, Maze’s curated gallery of [Templates](maze.co/templates/product) will steer you in the right direction.

Every child in the world will grow up with Mickey Mouse and Padlet. That's our vision. We are making the default way of collecting and sharing thoughts on the Internet. Our members love the software. We have over 50 million active users making Padlet one of the most used apps on the planet. Our goal is to be THE the most used app on the planet. We are venture backed AND profitable. We are 35 people (plus a baby crane that we've adopted but it doesn't really do much). That's 2 million active users per employee. Some really badass people work here.

Vori is the only modern B2B operating system for the grocery industry (think Instacart or DoorDash but for grocery retailers and their wholesale suppliers). Our technology seamlessly connects data across the food supply chain, streamlining operations for grocers and suppliers while democratizing food supply access. Our customers include everyone from Safeway and CVS properties on down to local corner stores.