Top Enterprise Software Startups in 2026

The Lucid team has expanded from one ambitious college student to a team of 50+ employees. With teams dedicated to front- and back-end engineering, customer service, sales & marketing, and quality assurance, Lucid Software is a fast-growing and profitable business. We have two flagship products: Lucidchart and Lucidpress. Lucidchart has become one of the most popular diagramming apps on the web and the foremost alternative to Microsoft Visio. Lucidpress utilizes the drag-and-drop functionality of Lucidchart to create stunning print and digital content. Our goal at Lucid Software is to create cutting-edge web applications that transcend the experience of working on a desktop program. We’re constantly proving that a web app doesn’t have to be a substandard solution. With a combination of fantastic products and stellar people, we’re moving forward at the speed of Lucid

The software used to manage networks hasn’t kept up with the dramatic expansion of networks themselves. The Forward Networks solution is designed to help network teams eliminate network outages and reduce time to remediate errors. Its platform enables engineers and operators to visualize and search complex networks, debug configuration problems, verify network-wide policy implementations, and predict network behavior prior to deploying changes. Forward Networks builds a software replica of an entire network to analyze its behavior. Using the network copy, the software traces, indexes, and stores the collected data, monitoring things like end-to-end behavior, verification of the network’s forwarding behavior and security posture, and close monitoring of configuration changes.

Lyra is transforming mental health care through technology with a human touch to help people feel emotionally healthy at work and at home. We work with industry leaders, such as Morgan Stanley, Uber, Amgen, and other Fortune 500 companies, to improve access to effective, high-quality mental health care for their employees and their families. With our innovative digital care platform and global provider network, 10 million people can receive the best care and feel better, faster. Founded by David Ebersman, former CFO of Facebook and Genentech, Lyra has raised more than $900 million. Our roles can be full-time in our Burlingame, CA headquarters, OR virtual (remote candidates must be based in the United States).

H1 was built by scientists for scientists. We empower stakeholders at healthcare and life science companies to make smarter scientific decisions by providing access to critical data through an intuitive interface. Working with some of the largest and most influential global life science organizations, H1 provides insight into thought leaders, scholarly content, academics, and healthcare professionals with much more on the way.

Observe.AI, a leader in Contact Center AI, transforms customer experiences and improves agent performance by helping top brands analyze 100% of interactions, extract actionable sentiment and interaction insights, and streamline workflows. With Observe.AI, businesses transcribe every interaction with high accuracy and coach agents while gaining full visibility into their customer service operations. Observe.AI brings the power of agent assistance, automatic speech recognition, and Natural Language Processing (NLP) to modern contact centers and their frontline teams. Observe.AI is trusted by more than 160 customers and partners, including National Debt Relief, Root Insurance, Alcon Laboratories, and Pearson. Backed by Menlo Ventures, Next47, NGP Capital, Emergent Ventures, Scale Ventures, Nexus Ventures, and Y-Combinator, Observe.AI’s headquarters is in San Francisco with an office in Bangalore, India. For more information, visit observe.ai.

Security is hard. Breaches are happening daily. We watch over the networks of small and medium size businesses. We don't bother them with noise, we give them clear actions to take to make their network safe and clean.  A small appliance is dropped into the customer network. It gathers network information that we analyze with a combination of automated tools and a team of security experts. The customer gets human created instructions on addressing the issues or changing the network. 

Tipalti provides a holistic, multi-entity accounts payable solution. Organizations that employ Tipalti typically reduce 80% of their supplier payments workflow and are able to move towards a cost-neutral payables operation. Tipalti runs on a secure, cloud-based platform that includes a brandable supplier portal to enhances self-service, a true OCR-driven touchless invoice processing automation workflow with two-way and three-way PO matching, a KPMG-certified tax compliance module, global payment remittance to over 190 countries and 120 currencies across six payment methods, a friction-less early payments capability that streamlines negotiation and adoption, and bi-directional, real-time payment reconciliation. Tipalti is trusted by Amazon, GoDaddy, Roku, Twitter, and hundreds of other innovative companies looking to transform payables so their finance teams can focus on more strategic efforts and company growth.

Since our very first day in 2015, mattermost has never wavered on its goal to transform the enterprise collaboration market by delivering the most compelling open source, high-trust messaging tools for security-conscious enterprises and developers. we’ve grown from our very first customer to thousands of companies downloading our messaging platform every month.

Immuta is the unified data platform for the world’s most secure organizations. Our technology frees data science teams to securely access and work with high-value data. The Immuta platform streamlines data management workflows to solve for the organizational challenges facing modern data science operations. Our customers trust our platform for its precise controls. They depend on it to create secure virtual data collaboration environments on-demand. Immuta was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in College Park, Maryland. Platform customers include global financial institutions, telecommunications companies and national security organizations.

Pilot specializes in bookkeeping and tax prep for high-growth technology startups, ranging from pre-seed to Series C. (We're built by startup founders for startup founders. This is the third startup for this founding team and we've felt this pain before, so we know what it's like.) When you work with Pilot, you’re paired with a dedicated finance expert who takes the work off your plate (and is available to answer your questions)—so you can focus on your business.