Top Global Startups in 2026

Payhawk is the leading global spend management solution for scaling businesses, present in more than 32 countries across two continents. Our customer-centric organisation and the product-oriented team have helped disrupt the expense management market, by combining company cards, expenses and invoice payments - enabling finance teams to control and automate company spending at scale. The Payhawk customer base includes fast-growing and mature multinational companies including LuxAir, Gtmhub, and Wagestream. With offices in New York, London, Berlin, Barcelona, Paris, Amsterdam and Sofia; Payhawk is backed by renowned investors such as Lightspeed Venture Partners, Greenoaks, QED Investors, Earlybird Digital East, and Eleven Ventures. Our values include supporting flat hierarchies, taking ownership and responsibility, seeking and providing feedback, managing constructive critique, and speaking our minds. We understand that the best ideas don’t all come from the same place, so we encourage diversity and inclusion in all areas of our work.

Flywire Corporation (Nasdaq: FLYW) is a global payments-enablement and software company trusted by organizations around the world to deliver on their customers’ most important moments. Unlike other companies, Flywire is proven to solve high-stakes vertical-specific payment and receivables problems for organizations that deliver high-value services. Whether in education, healthcare, travel or technology, Flywire has vertical-specific insight and technology that allows organizations to optimize the payment experience for their customers while eliminating operational challenges—from invoicing to payment reconciliation. Around the clock multilingual support via phone, email, and chat, and online tracking, ensures that both the client and customer have complete control over their payments. Flywire supports over 2,450 clients around the world with diverse payment methods in more than 140 currencies across 240 countries and territories. The company is headquartered in Boston and has offices in Chicago, Palo Alto, London and Manchester (UK), Valencia (Spain), Shanghai, Singapore, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Cluj (Romania), and Sydney. Flywire counts Goldman Sachs, Temasek, Bain Capital Ventures, Spark Capital, F-Prime, Whale Rock Capital Management, Marshall Wace LLP, and Sunley House Capital, Advent International among its investors.

WeWork is the platform for creators, providing hundreds of thousands of members around the world with space, community, and services that enable them to do what they love and create their life's work. Our mission is to create a world where people work to make a life, not just a living, and our own team members are central to that goal.

Worldcoin is building the world’s largest identity and financial network as a public utility, giving ownership to everyone. We aim to create universal access to the global economy regardless of country or background, accelerating the transition to an economic future that welcomes and benefits every person on the planet.

We are incubators of high-quality, dedicated software engineering teams for our clients. We work with product organizations to help them scale or modernize their legacy technology solutions. We work with startups to help them operationalize their idea efficiently. Incubyte strives to find people who are passionate about coding, learning and growing along with us. We work with a limited number of clients at a time on dedicated, long term commitments with an aim to bringing a product mindset into services.

Zupamart is a social marketplace, where users (individuals and businesses) negotiate to sell and buy anything. There are no price tags on Zupamart. The price is formed through the process of closed, real-time bargaining process. This allows the sellers to price discriminate and achieve the so-called price equilibrium. As a result, this leads to higher profits, while also providing buyers with the opportunity to bargain for any listed item and purchase only for the price they are ready to pay. Zupamart challenges the concept of fixed and dynamic pricing, which dominates contemporary e-commerce landscape. Bargaining is a part of culture in many countries in South and South East Asia, North Africa, Middle East, Eastern Europe and Latin America. In Europe and the US people also bargain to buy luxury goods, antiques, rare items, cars and real estate. Everyone across the world is already bargaining and Zupamart simply attempts to transform a real-life practice into an online marketplace

Whether it’s for business or social occasions, exchanging contact details is not terribly seamless. Storing them in one place requires effort and when these details change, getting the latest updates is not guaranteed. Until now. Shake is a contact exchange and management app which makes the exchange of contact details easy. Create your own digital contact cards on Shake and share these with people you want to hear from again. Whether you’re doing that in person in a meet up or at a distance, share your Shake card in an instant. And once you’ve exchanged cards, you’ll have them with you on your phone anywhere you are. And should your friend or business associate change their number, email, etc, you’ll automatically have their new details. Want to share different amounts of your contact details with different people? Shake lets you have full control on what you’d like to share. Built for real needs. For business people, Shake understands how you need to be able to follow up with one another and solves the outdated use of printed business cards. You’ll never need to laboriously upload or file the contact details of your associates, business partners or clients again. For social situations, no more awkwardness in asking to share details with one another. And no, you won’t be sharing your social media history (unless you want to) with your Shake card. Just as much as you want to and how to get in touch with you again. Struggle to remember who someone is? Shake helps by making it easy for you to record notes about anyone you’ve met, and you can even remind yourself when you’d like to get in touch with them again. Finally, everything you need to exchange and manage your contacts.

Avanade is the leading provider of innovative digital and cloud services, business solutions and design-led experiences on the Microsoft ecosystem. Our professionals bring bold, fresh thinking combined with technology, business and industry expertise to help make a genuine human impact for our clients, their customers and their employees. We are the power behind the Accenture Microsoft Business Group, helping companies to engage customers, empower employees, optimize operations and transform products, leveraging the Microsoft platform. Avanade has 50,000 professionals in 26 countries, bringing clients our best thinking through a collaborative culture that honors diversity and reflects the communities in which we operate. Majority owned by Accenture, Avanade was founded in 2000 by Accenture LLP and Microsoft Corporation. Learn more at avanade.com.

Act First is a privately held business consulting and growth services agency headquartered in New York City, New York, USA. The firm specializes in helping companies accelerate revenue growth, optimize operations, and improve sales and marketing effectiveness. Founded in 2013, Act First Consulting partners with organizations of various sizes—from early-stage startups to larger businesses—to install proven frameworks, technology and processes that drive predictable growth. Their core approach centers on strategy, planning, and execution with a focus on rapid business development and measurable outcomes. Act First offers a suite of services that includes: Sales acceleration – developing effective sales engines, appointment setting, and closing strategies. Marketing and lead generation – multi-channel campaigns, funnel optimization, and customer acquisition strategies. AI Technology and CRM support – helping businesses implement and manage tools that improve sales and operations performance. Business growth consulting – advising organizations on systems, processes, and structure to improve efficiency and scalability. The company promotes a results-oriented approach tailored to each client’s unique needs, aiming to help businesses win more customers and grow revenue more efficiently than they could internally. Act First’s methodologies are designed to support founders and business leaders who want effective sales and marketing without building large internal teams. Act First Consulting also operates a remote-friendly team of professionals across sales, marketing, customer success, and operations, and is actively hiring talent in areas such as sales and business development.