Top Enterprise Software Startups in 2026

Starbridge.ai connects providers of software and services with public sector buyers. Founded by entrepreneurs who previously built and sold a public sector software company for nine figures. We believe that founders avoid sectors like government, education, and healthcare due to perceived barriers and red tape. Our mission is to simplify entry into these sectors, empowering a new generation of mission-driven unicorns. Like OpenAI and Stripe, we aim to enable startups, but on a larger scale: some of our early customers are solving student debt & homelessness. This role is an NYC based position for someone who will lead one of our products from 0 to 1 and work directly with the founders. We are looking for someone who is an incredibly fast learner, entrepeneurial and adaptable, that also has experience building full-stack web applications and demonstrated ability to build a great product. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to work hands on with LLM's, some of the problems we are solving include: Scraping data at scale using GPT powered web scraper and creating insights (you should sell to New York City this product) on top of the data. AI powered proposal automation: rather than write an RFP from scratch use our GPT powered writer that references your product documentation FOIA automation: extracting purchasing data from government entities at scale using a GPT agent that interacts with government entities to get data.

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Percepta (Techstars '20) is a rapidly growing ‘ethical AI’ startup. We develop real-time computer vision solutions to combat both the financial impact of shoplifting and the bias of today's loss prevention practices. Our AI focuses exclusively on shoppers' behavior to detect shoplifting, stripping away all demographic information such as age, race, or gender to take bias out of the equation. With our novel privacy-preserving and bias-mitigating AI, we are redefining loss prevention and ethical AI for the 21st century. percepta.ai

Ethos is on a mission to transform how banks govern their AI and machine learning models. We're an early-stage startup in NYC backed by leading investors, including Better Tomorrow Ventures and Capital One Ventures. AI and machine learning models are already used today for many of the most critical decisions in society. Especially in financial services, this technology comes with deep questions around testing and governing these models to make sure their behaviors are trustworthy. We started Ethos because we saw firsthand the critical need for a modern platform for Model Risk Management in financial services. Changing technologies and regulatory requirements pose huge challenges for the industry, as well as enormous opportunities for positive change. At Ethos, you will be a fundamental part of this change.

Aerostrat is a fast growing B2B SaaS company building a complete maintenance planning solution for the aviation industry. Our launch product, Aerros, enables our customers to plan all the maintenance on hundreds of aircraft in a matter of minutes. Our solution helps customers understand the cost and efficiency of their maintenance operations while giving them the confidence to make data-backed business decisions. With over 100% year-over-year growth, we've already made an impact in the industry and our product is being used every day at some of the biggest passenger airlines, cargo airlines, and maintenance operators in the world.

ChargeAfter is the leading multi-lender buy now pay later consumer financing platform connecting retailers and lenders to offer shoppers personalized financing options. With its data-driven decisioning engine and network of global lenders, ChargeAfter delivers the most relevant financing offers to consumers from multiple lenders resulting in credit approvals for up to 85% of customer applications. ChargeAfter streamlines the distribution of credit into a single platform that retailers can implement swiftly both online and in-store. The company’s growing lender network offers seamless integration to lenders seeking to grow their customer base while expanding into new retail markets. ChargeAfter is venture-backed by VISA, Mitsubishi Bank (MUFG), BBVA, Synchrony Financial, PICO Venture Partners, Propel Venture Partners, and Plug and Play VC. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, ChargeAfter has offices in Dallas, New York, and Tel Aviv.

Climate-Native Product Management - We make it a business value to produce and provide sustainable materials. The Emidat Platform enables automated generation and distribution of lifecycle assessments (LCAs), environmental product declarations (EPDs) and digital product passports (DPPs). This helps material manufacturers to fulfil customer demands, differentiate their product and be ready for upcoming regulation (e.g. EU CPR). With Emidat, material manufacturers: - Reduce cost and time for generating EPDs / LCAs by over 70% - One license - unlimited product profiles through our third party verified platform - Save time on data collection and text writing based on AI The Emidat database consists of environmental data on over 150k construction products and can be accessed via API and UI.

We’re a hypergrowth AI startup backed by top-tier VC firms. We’ve created a new paradigm for enterprise artificial intelligence with a breakthrough technology called Organizational Memory (OM1). It’s fundamentally reshaping how people do work. Unlike any other AI product, OM1 builds “a brain” for companies–knows what’s happening in real time across the whole business, and has all the output capabilities of a human employee. Roles like Product, Engineering, G2M, and Management will never be the same. And while we’re starting by selling our technology to other software businesses, we have the ability to serve hundreds of different industries. We're not just building another productivity tool. We're ushering in a fundamental revolution in how humans do work. With proven product-market fit, rapid YoY ARR growth, and household-name customers, we’re expanding our team to dominate what will be a $10T+ industry. And we’re only just getting started.