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.

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)

Teleport enables engineers to quickly access any computing resource anywhere on the planet. Our open source products provide a Unified Access Plane (UAP) for developers and security professionals seeking to simplify secure access to servers, applications, and data across all environments. Teleport is the UAP of choice among leading companies, including Elastic, Samsung, NASDAQ, and IBM. We are backed by Kleiner Perkins, Y Combinator and S28 Capital. Teleport embraces a remote-first work culture and has employees all over the world. For more information, visit us at goteleport.com on GitHub github.com/gravitational/teleport or on Twitter @goteleport or

We are a leading global innovation specialist which has created over 100 programmes with its partners in Europe, Asia and North America. Founded in 2014 with a presence in the UK and the US, we have developed and delivered results-driven corporate innovation solutions, trusted by world-leading brands including BMW, Lloyd’s of London and Sodexo. Through our award-winning Innovation Labs, our partners have worked with over 400 startups with a successful deployment rate of over 76%. The New Ventures unit supports its clients to create and develop new revenue-generating businesses through its Venture Studio, and transform their corporate culture within their Intra-Lab. Building on our experience in innovation delivery, we are expanding our advisory and capability development support through the acquisition of The Inovo Group in September 2022, a US-based innovation consultancy with over 20 years of expertise in implementing scientific research and advanced analytics to guide organisations to succeed at strategic innovation.

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

Totlesoft is a global remote work and digital marketplace platform connecting African talent and businesses to worldwide opportunities. We are building an all-in-one ecosystem where individuals can access remote jobs, offer freelance services, and sell digital products without geographical limitations. Our platform is designed to simplify how people work and earn in today's digital economy, while helping businesses discover and hire skilled talent from emerging markets. Across Africa, millions of talented individuals face limited access to global opportunities despite having the skills to compete at an international level. At the same time, companies around the world are increasingly seeking diverse, remote talent to power their growth. Totlesoft exists to bridge this gap — creating a seamless connection between global demand and Africa's growing workforce. Our approach combines technology, accessibility, and scalability. We are focused on building a reliable infrastructure that supports remote hiring, freelancing, and digital commerce in one unified experience. By lowering barriers to entry and enabling borderless transactions, we empower users to earn, grow, and scale from anywhere. A key part of our evolution is the development of a dedicated AI workstation designed to help companies improve their artificial intelligence models through quality human feedback. We are building a strong network of African talent trained in data labeling, AI response evaluation, and model training services. This initiative positions African workers at the forefront of the global AI revolution, enabling them to contribute directly to building safer, smarter, and more accurate AI systems while earning sustainable income. As the future of work continues to evolve toward remote and decentralized models, Totlesoft is positioned to become a key player.