Top Information Technology Startups in 2026

Hive is an email & SMS marketing CRM that helps brands sell more while keeping their customers happy and engaged. We make it easy for companies to segment and target their customers based on relevant attributes, automate email marketing campaigns, and send timely, high-converting emails. We started our company inside a University of Waterloo computer lab in early 2014, graduated from Y Combinator that summer (S14 batch) and have been growing ever since. Originally based out of Kitchener, our remote team of 14 is now distributed all across Canada!

Recorded Future arms security teams with threat intelligence powered by patented machine learning to lower risk. Our technology automatically collects and analyzes information from an unrivaled breadth of sources and provides invaluable context that’s delivered in real time and packaged for human analysis or instant integration with existing security technology.

Amperity is a stealth-mode enterprise software company founded by repeat entrepreneurs Kabir Shahani and Derek Slager. After a successful exit of their prior venture in 2013, the two are back at it again to address one of the largest unmet needs in the marketing technology space, and are building a powerhouse team to do so. Through the use of functional programming, modern big data tools, and a machine learning- powered data stitching platform, our team of talented engineers and trusted advisors are building a one-of-a-kind data-first application for marketing. Amperity is backed by some of the most notable names in tech -- including Madrona Venture Group, Liquid 2 Ventures, Hyde Park Ventures, and top executives and founders from multi-billion dollar companies like Concur, ExactTarget, Microsoft, and Isilon Systems.

Founded in 2013, DoorDash is a San Francisco-based technology company passionate about transforming local businesses and dedicated to empowering new ways of working, earning, and living. Today, DoorDash connects customers with their favorite local and national businesses in more than 1,000 cities across the United States and Canada. By building intelligent, last-mile delivery technology for local cities, DoorDash aims to connect people with the things they care about — one dash at a time.

Founded by ex-Googlers, we are the first artificial intelligence lending platform designed to improve access to affordable credit while reducing the risk and costs of lending for our bank partners. By leveraging our AI platform, the company's powered banks can have higher approval rates and lower loss rates, while simultaneously delivering the exceptional digital-first lending experience their customers demand. Our company goes beyond FICO, using non-conventional variables at scale to provide superior loan performance and improve consumers' access to credit.

Gridware exists to enhance and protect the mother of all networks: the electrical grid. The grid touches everything grinds to a halt, and the consequences can be dire: wildfires burn, land is destroyed, property is damaged, progress stops, and lives are lost. Our team engineers an advanced sensing system to continuously analyze both the electrical and mechanical behavior of grid assets. Utilizing high precision sensor arrays, the system identifies and allows preemptive mitigation of faults. Our technology has been proven with utilities to bolster safety, reliability, and reduce customer outage durations. The demand for power will only increase. We protect the grid of today while we build the grid of tomorrow. Gridware is privately held and backed by the best climate-tech and Silicon Valley investors. We are headquartered in the Bay Area in northern California.

- The first commission-free, high-frequency sports betting exchange, building the "Nasdaq of sports betting" - Recently closed a $6m seed round from YC, Lux, Soma, Paul Graham, Joe Montana, Innospark, the founders of Dropbox and Instacart, among many others - Looking for quant traders and researchers, SWEs, marketing, BD, operations, and product roles to work out of our NY office - Salaries at the top of benchmarks, with significant equity ownership and generous benefits - Founders are recent Harvard grads with quant experience at Jane Street and BoA and years of experience as sharp sports bettors - $300B annually bet on sports in the US and the size of the market is rapidly growing given the number of states legalizing sports betting - Currently the only way to bet is with retail sportsbooks which have egregious margins, discriminatory and inefficient practices, and a stale betting experience - Novig is a sports betting exchange that guarantees users the best lines by allowing them to bet directly against friends or the market, rather than against the house, making the betting experience more efficient, fair, and, most importantly, profitable

Zoox was founded to make personal transportation safer, cleaner, and more enjoyable—for everyone. To achieve that goal, the team created a whole new form of transportation. Zoox will provide mobility-as-a-service in dense urban environments. We will handle the driving, charging, maintenance, and upgrades for our fleet of vehicles. The rider will simply pay for the service. In 2020, Zoox joined forces with Amazon. And in the process, solidified our future in the autonomous vehicle industry. We are focused on testing on private and public roads as we move towards launching the first Zoox ride-hailing service.

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Airbnb is a community marketplace for people to list, discover and book unique spaces around the world through mobile phones or the internet. Whether an apartment for a night, a castle for a week, or a villa for a month, Airbnb connects people to unique travel experiences at any price point, with over 2M listings in 34K cities and 192 countries. With a growing community of users, Airbnb also provides an easy way for people to monetize their extra space and showcase it to an audience of millions.