Top Global Startups in 2026

The $180 Billion jewelry market is antiquated and ripe for disruption: 1. Highly fragmented - over 80% distributed through mom and pop 2. Structurally in-efficient - archaic supply chains require significant working capital for inventory and long lead times to launch new product 3. Un-segmented - Product offerings are split mainly into expensive fine jewellery or cheap fake jewellery, with nothing in-between Mejuri has addressed these issues and created a direct-to-consumer jewelry brand that offers affordable, on-trend, fine jewellery for the millennial woman. We have created a real-time supply chain with expert manufacturers that allows us to operate with minimal to no inventory, launch new SKUs within 45 days, and sell internationally. We co-design and market new products in collaboration with top You-tube, Instagram, and Blogging fashion influencers. Founding team are third generation jewelers, technologists, brand experts (Chanel, Lacoste, Galeries Lafayette)

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.

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.

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.

Comprinno is a modern Cloud & AI advisory firm that enables modern enterprises make their infrastructure future-ready, helping them leverage the cloud & emerging AI tech. With over 500+ customers and 750+ cloud & AI projects completed, Comprinno is trusted by modern enterprises - for everything Cloud & AI.

With access to a diverse pool of skilled, qualified IT consultants, InfoStride can provide staff on an on-demand and permanent basis throughout the USA and India. We provide Management solutions, Digital transformation, Cloud migration and enablement, Data analytics and visualization, quality engineering and Esurance, Develops and automation services.

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

Capio Pro is an AI transformation consultancy and technology firm that helps leadership teams turn AI activity into measurable business value. Its core methodology builds an AI Twin, a live model of a client organisation that serves as a single source of truth for AI readiness, then guides the client through governance, capability building and working pilots that the internal team owns rather than depends on the provider to run. The firm delivers across three connected stages: a diagnostic AI Twin engagement, a six to twelve month embedded operating system programme covering fluency governance and a managed AI portfolio, and a delivery stage that takes prioritised use cases from proof of concept through minimum viable product to enterprise solution.

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.