Top Information Technology Startups in 2027

At HUMAN, we are all about keeping it human. We are a cybersecurity company that protects enterprises from bot attacks to keep digital experiences human. We have the most advanced Human Verification Engine that protects applications, APIs, and digital media from bot attacks, preventing losses and improving the digital experience for real humans. Today, we verify the humanity of more than 10 trillion interactions per week for some of the largest enterprises and platforms across the internet. Founded in 2012 in a Brooklyn sci-fi bookstore, our Human Verification Engine protects enterprises from the sophisticated bots that threaten them. It’s an ongoing war that we fight passionately every day. Join our mission to stop bots, disrupt the economics of cybercrime, and keep it human.

Thriver is a company that’s synonymous with workplace culture. Thousands of companies rely on Thriver’s technology to curate food and culture programs and increase employee engagement in the workplace. With offerings ranging from daily meal programs to virtual experiences for remote teams, Thriver has a reputation amongst employers and employees for fostering the togetherness that organizations need to thrive. thriver.com

We believe everyone should be able to participate and thrive in the economy. So we’re building tools that make commerce easier and more accessible to all. We started with a little white credit card reader but haven’t stopped there. Our new reader helps our sellers accept chip cards and NFC payments, and our Cash app lets people pay each other back instantly. We’re empowering the independent electrician to send invoices, setting up the favorite food truck with a delivery option, helping the ice cream shop pay its employees, and giving the burgeoning coffee chain capital for a second, third, and fourth location. Let’s shorten the distance between having an idea and making a living from it. And make it easier for customers to shop and pay at their favorite businesses. We’re here to help sellers of all sizes start, run, and grow their business—and helping them grow their business is good business for everyone.

Institute of Free Technology provides the Technical, Financial, Legal, People Operations, Branding & awareness services to a wide portfolio of open source projects. Currently our growing portfolio includes Status, Logos, Codex, Waku, Nimbus, Nomos, Keycard. More about each project, here: free.technology As a team, IFT is completely distributed since inception. Our team is currently 200+ core contributors strong, and welcomes a growing number of community members from all walks of life, scattered all around the globe. We care deeply about open source, and our organizational structure has minimal hierarchy and no fixed work hours. We believe in working with a high degree of autonomy while supporting the organization's priorities.

Great leaders are hard to come by. We believe the best ones are military-trained or trial-by-fire entrepreneurs who have the ability to motivate others to action, inspire trust, and plan heuristically. We invest with conviction when those attributes are present. Moonshots Capital, with offices in Los Angeles and Austin, was founded by a team of veterans in 2017. We have collectively founded and operated 14 companies, and have personally invested in over 70 ventures. Beyond capital, we deploy our military and entrepreneurial experience and network to help world-changing companies grow.   Both Kelly and Craig have operated start-up companies as founders and members of the senior management team. They’ve raised in excess of $100M in angel capital, venture capital, and debt and participated in eight exits between them. Their full operational backgrounds can be seen on LinkedIn.

Milo is a financial technology company that is reimagining the way global consumers access credit and financial solutions in a borderless world. We are passionate about driving transformation of financial services, solving real problems, and making a meaningful impact in people’s lives. At Milo, we are building amazing digital solutions and rethinking what’s possible. Milo has built the leading home credit solution for global consumers. By building our technology stack from the ground up and bringing on a world class team, we have already lent out millions of dollars to amazing consumers. Milo is able to close loans in days and not in months. We are looking for new team members that get excited about creating, designing and implementing new solutions for global consumers. Our team is looking for passionate individuals to join our product, design, operations and marketing teams. For more information, visit milocredit.com

Dossier by Onboardify is an app for organizing all customer conversations, no matter where it happens. Dossier creates intelligent workspaces for each customer where you can see all communications that have happened, invite others to collaborate, assign actions, organize documents and much more. Dossier is helping business professionals and teams get ahead of the communications deluge from email, chat, and messaging. No more wasted time searching through your inbox or missing opportunities from being out of the loop on important customer messages. Dossier syncs everything intelligently. We were founded to create a new way to organize information about customers. Based in San Francisco with team members around the globe, the growing Onboardify team hails from many backgrounds and companies including Oracle, Salesforce, and Keynote. Sign-up for a free Dossier account and start building better customer relationships today onboardify.com.

The only conversational AI platform for Self Storage. When others close their doors at 6PM, you’re still open. 24/7 in fact. You’d be surprised at how many people are looking to rent storage units at 2AM. The goal of automation should be to make the lives of people easier—whether those people are your customers or your facility manager. Automation eliminates repetitive and tedious tasks—freeing up people to spend their time on more worthwhile activities.

FOSSA provides the technology to help organizations understand what’s in their code and automate license tracking/compliance without slowing development. Replacing manual systems, FOSSA automatically scans code to analyze license data, generates disclosures/attribution and surfaces issues all on a continuous basis. This allows companies to automate compliance in the background, letting developers write software safely, quickly and in real-time without introducing layers of people and process.

SquadStack.ai is redefining consumer buying by combining AI sales advisors with expert humans to help leading brands drive higher revenue with 2-3x lower CAC and a 10x better customer experience. Driven by 200+ builders and backed by Blume Ventures, Chiratae Ventures, and Bertelsmann India Investments, we believe how we build matters as much as what we build. Our culture is not performative. It shows up in real ownership, high trust, and the space to do deep, thoughtful work. We design work with people at the center. Careers here are not one-size-fits-all. Growth can be linear or non-linear. Leadership can be quiet or bold. Women at SquadStack build, lead, challenge, and influence without being pushed into a single mould. We value outcomes over optics, trust over micromanagement, and progress that compounds over time. If you're excited by AI, driven by purpose, and want your work to truly matter, there is space for you here.