Top Enterprises Startups in 2026

Straddle is an early stage startup building the payments infrastructure required to power the next generation of companies and software – all built on modern banking rails. Our unified API abstracts away fragmented systems – from identity to open banking – to enable seamless account-to-account payment experiences at scale. We’re building a future where money moves at the speed of data.

New Reach Education changes the current online education space and optimizes it for student success. The company wants people who invest in education should return on that investment as winners, not losers. The company's mode of contact is by phone, mail, and physical address.

We help companies with complex pricing models and multiple sales channels (direct, PLG, website, etc) streamline their revenue lifecycle (land, expand, mid-term changes, renew, & bill). We do this in one platform that is powerful, easy to implement, & Salesforce Native. Empowering our customers to do more, with less. Companies typically see a 200% increase in Sales efficiency and 266% increase in Finance efficiency after adopting Nue. We sell to other B2B SaaS companies of all sizes.

UNITY is used by the education and healthcare markets in the facilities management department.

Strada is a conversational AI platform for insurance distributors—brokers, agencies, and MGAs. Our AI agents are revolutionizing communication across the industry, handling renewals, lead qualification, and sales outreach over the phone. Based in San Francisco, Strada is backed by Y Combinator, top VCs and operators from Deel, PagerDuty, Sardine and many more.

Lenders spend over $24B every year hiring agents to perform manual, repetitive servicing work. Existing AI solutions try to automate this, but they treat regulatory guardrails as an afterthought. Kato takes a different approach. Regulations aren’t an afterthought - they’re the foundation. We start with a regulatory rules system and layer an AI decision engine on top of it. With this architecture, we’re building an AI-powered servicing platform that automates critical workflows across every channel with full compliance and best-in-class recoveries. We are starting today with a compliance first Voice AI agent that handles outbound and inbound loan servicing calls, and are already in production with major names in the fintech lending space like Bilt Rewards, Bluevine and Parafin. Here's what makes us different from most venture-backed startups: we're profitable with strong unit economics, so we own our destiny. We're not forced to raise capital to survive; we'll raise strategically, on our terms, to accelerate the business when it makes sense. That changes how we work: - We make long-term decisions. We optimize for durable, long-term value, not short-term vanity metrics. - We run like a real business. We focus on what matters and have no patience for false busyness. - You share in what we build. Through profit sharing, when the company does well, you do well. We're looking for people who want to build deliberately, operate with discipline, and share in what we create. Kato is founded by a team with deep operating expertise in financial services and software engineering: - Pratik Risbud (CEO/Co-Founder): Former Investment Banker at Goldman Sachs and led Credit/Operations at Brex - David Zhu (CTO/Co-Founder): Former Software Engineer at Google and Engineering Manager at Brex Kato is backed by institutional capital from Pear VC and angel investors from top tech companies such as Brex, Bridge, and Square.

Scholarly is a seed-stage startup building a next-generation, AI-powered faculty software platform for higher ed. Higher ed is facing significant challenges related to cost of attendance and is undergoing a generational shift in technology adoption. The Scholarly platform enables customers to make data-driven decisions about their faculty and to automate essential processes like performance reviews and recurring reporting. Scholarly is already working with leading institutions, and the company has a major opportunity to become the leading faculty software provider.

Tenor is the AI for leadership development. We're on a mission to make every manager more effective at the world's best companies using the power of AI-powered role-play and coaching.

Lingovo is designed to immerse you in language learning through context-rich, culturally relevant mini-stories. Each story is carefully crafted for specific languages, highlighting authentic vocabulary and expressions used in everyday life, helping you master both the language and its culture. Our app empowers learners worldwide with intuitivetools like synced audio, instant on-tap dictionary access, and real-time sentence translations. Plus, our scientifically-backed spaced repetition system (SRS) ensures long-term retention of every word you study. Lingovo makes language learning not just effective but engaging. Learn more at lingovo.app

PE backed start-up, DoseSpot is a dynamic and innovative leader in the electronic prescribing software market. We are on a hyper-growth curve at the intersection of the software and healthcare industries. DoseSpot provides ePrescription software enabling clinicians to write and transmit prescriptions to pharmacies electronically. Founded in 2009 and based in Dedham, MA, DoseSpot serves more than 300 healthcare clients, from digital/telehealth providers and hospice pharmacies to dental services organizations and EMR/EHR and practice management software companies. pVerify, a division of DoseSpot, is the leader in Real-time Healthcare APIs for Eligibility, Insurance Discovery, Instant Prior Authorization, Estimation, Claim Status, and DME Solutions. pVerify is a unique service-oriented healthcare company that focuses on value-added solutions for ambitious health and wellness providers. We shine in the industry for unparalleled hands-on support, excellent development tools, and a pre-and post-development foundation unrivaled as a service-oriented partner. pVerify was recently acquired by DoseSpot and will operate independently while working together to identify natural points of cross-collaboration and integration. This position will be on the pVerify Team.