Top Information Technology Startups in 2026

We save building owners money on their energy bills by managing their onsite energy assets (such as battery storage, HVAC controls, solar, cogeneration, and electric vehicles) intelligently and efficiently with our machine learning platform. Our position as a retail electricity provider allows us to unlock value streams to customers currently unavailable to them.

Laasie powers a new kind of loyalty for 1,000+ hotels & resorts through AI and a network of 1,000+ instant gratification partners. No points, no tiers, no waiting for qualification. Awarded the #1 Direct Booking Platform by HotelTechAwards, Laasie incentivizes conversion and retention, driving over $500 million in direct bookings. Today’s savvy customers are uninspired by yesterday’s rigid loyalty programs, often leaving with unused points and limited brand affinity. Laasie uses artificial intelligence and big data to dynamically create loyalty with personalized, instant rewards that motivate customer actions like booking directly, making a return visit, joining a marketing program for offers, and more. The result? Customers enjoy enriched experiences with each brand interaction and partners benefit with increased net revenue, actionable data insights, strengthened customer relationships, and a scalable loyalty program that increases the lifetime value of every customer. Laasie has 2 core products with the foundation of AI x Instant Gratification: - Laasie Convert: incentivizing direct bookings with personalized instant gratification, driving revenue and conversions. We always see more users booking when we surface incentives in their booking path, driving substantial ROI for our hotel partners. - Laasie Retain: next generation loyalty platform - no points, no tiers, no waiting for qualification. A simple, turnkey, instant reward-based loyalty program making it very achievable for consumers to stay loyal with a brand. Laasie powers Margaritaville's instant reward-based loyalty program: margaritavilleperks.com It’s an exciting time for our growing team: we’ve raised a strong fundraising round from strategic investors, have a solid technology team, have achieved transformative results for our hotel clients and are looking to grow exponentially.

The Verse: Building Games That Heal **THE VERSE OVERVIEW**: The Verse creates games, experiences, and rituals that uplift humanity. **WHO WE ARE:** The Verse is a global community of inspired gamers, developers, designers, scientists, artists, visionaries, teachers, and students who join together to passionately contribute their wide-ranging expertise to invent experiences that enhance human flourishing. **MISSION:** Our mission is to collaboratively create digital therapeutics and experiences that are playful, embodied, and ritual-enriched, that invite co-creation and foster participation and that enhance health, improve well-being and raise consciousness.

Fellow wants to help people easily brew ridiculously good coffee and tea at home. Our first product, the Duo Coffee Steeper, is a dual chamber french press with a two-stage filter. The value prop seems to be appealing as Duo is now over $200,000 in pre-sales. Right now we're working on a portfolio of complementary products that will fast follow behind the launch of Duo in February.

Poshmark is the largest community marketplace for fashion where any woman can buy, sell and share her personal style. With millions of shoppers and over 700,000 sellers, Poshmark brings together a vibrant community of women everyday to express themselves and share their love of fashion. The company has made it so simple to sell your style that the Poshmark community uploads over two million dollars worth of inventory into the marketplace every day - right from their phones.

We provide modern big data back up recovery solutions that work using cloud integration, development and testing, and ransomware protection all from a single unified online platform.

OpenSesame is the world’s marketplace for buying and selling elearning courses. We make buying and selling corporate eLearning as easy as downloading a song from iTunes. The OpenSesame marketplace and technology disrupts the leaders in the highly fragmented $4.5B elearning content market. With more than 21,000 courses from 260 sellers, buyers purchase courses with no expensive subscriptions or long-term commitments and use them instantly online, by email or in any learning management system.

CIVIC ENGAGEMENT IS TOO HARD. WE ARE GOING TO FIX THAT! Pinion is building a new platform (web & mobile) and community where you can easily find and vote on legislation and topics you care about, share to social media if you like, view results, and track your elected representatives (and the candidates vying to replace them at the next election) to see who best aligns with your interests so you can vote for them in the next election. Pinion connects people like you with your friends, community and elected officials to vote and comment about the singular thing that matters to democracy - legislation. Support something? Have a concern? Let them know...easily, in seconds! Share your Pinion with your friends to get the word out and build support or opposition for causes and pending legislation that will impact you. Using Pinion, participants see and share their Pinions about the most pressing legislative issues of today that impact them. Pinion’s proprietary technologies make engaging with politics easy and actually fun.

Luminary's technology platform enables wealth advisors to deliver generational gift and philanthropic giving solutions at scale. More than $100 billion in family and philanthropic giving capacity is created each year. But flaws in the current process impose over a billion in annual costs in order to access it. We are building the first product for wealth managers to automate the complex, and inefficient estate planning process.

Our goal is to revolutionize the business economy by evolving how funding flows. Today, we combine cutting-edge machine learning and data science technologies with outstanding design and top-notch user support that earns rave reviews from our thousands of happy customers.