Top Information Technology Startups in 2026

We combine expert curation and unmatched value to connect readers with books they’ll love. We believe that discovering, buying, marketing, and selling books online should always be an easy, joyful experience. We lean into two key concepts – expert curation and unmatched value – to build innovative products and tools that get the right books into the right hands. Our teams at BookBub and Chirp have helped the publishing industry drive hundreds of millions of dollars in ebook and audiobook sales worldwide – and every day, millions of readers turn to us for help finding books they’ll love.

Cloud-based modeling and planning for sales, operations, and finance. Anaplan is disrupting the world of business modeling and planning. We built our platform from the ground up to empower companies to plan, collaborate, and act—in real time. Anaplan enables business users across your organization to turn the complexity of your business operations into powerful, easy-to-use models. Stay ahead of critical business events, rapidly model potential impacts and course correct on the fly.

Kard believes that today's consumer needs a comprehensive rewards solution that doesn't require them to learn a new platform. By partnering with both merchants and financial institutions, we’re redefining the loyalty industry to provide cardholders with even better rewards.

Legion has built an AI-powered Workforce Management platform that enables tight labor spend management and rapid time to value while ensuring great experiences for employees and customers alike. Using the latest in ML and AI, the platform automatically forecasts demand, computes precise labor needs, and staffs the right employees at the right times based on employee preferences and skills. Legion’s cloud and mobile-native solution brings cutting edge machine learning, artificial intelligence, and beautiful interfaces together to deliver over 10x return on investment. Legion was founded by Sanish Mondkar, the former Chief Product Officer of SAP, and serves many innovative customers including Racetrac Petroleum, Panda Express, Cinemark, Barry's Bootcamp, Soulcycle and Philz Coffee. Legion has been recognized as a Gartner Cool Vendor, and was recently included on JMP Securities’ Hot 100 List of the Best Privately Held Software Companies. Legion is backed by investors including Norwest, Stripes, First Round Capital, XYZ Ventures, the Webb Investment Network, Workday Ventures, and NTT DOCOMO Ventures. The company is based in Redwood City, California.

The Ticket Fairy is a full-stack marketing and analytics solution that helps events companies to increase revenue through greater reach, more data and lowered operational costs. Running events is a huge risk. Costs can be massive (in the millions of dollars) and multiple factors affect attendance - even something as simple as rain can result in a 25% drop in on-the-door sales. We are used by large (5,000-30,000+ capacity) events to: - Increase eCommerce revenue (typically by 15-30%) - Lower marketing costs - Increase social reach, to the right people - Manage and optimise advertising campaigns across multiple channels, including automating audience targeting - Reduce/eliminate ticket resale fraud/scalping - Automate day-to-day business operations - Gain insights into customer demographics & brand engagement via social profile analytics - Improve future events via data collected from previous attendees and campaigns

Republic is a global financial firm that allows everyone to participate in private market activity. We are powered by the only digital financial infrastructure in the market capable of facilitating compliant, scalable, and cross-border micro transactions across a wide range of traditional and digital assets. Republic operates a synergistic network of regulated investment advisers, broker-dealers, funding portals, and technical advisory services globally. The Republic ecosystem has deployed over $3B in investments, has supported over 2,000 companies, and comprises a community of over 3M members across 150+ countries. Founded in 2016, Republic is headquartered in New York City with offices worldwide.

Welcome to Vroom. The hassle-free haggle-free way to buy and sell cars online. We help consumers save time, money (and their sanity!) by bringing all three aspects of the car buying process – buying, financing and selling – online in an easy, transparent and affordable way. Vroom offers thousands of high quality, refurbished, pre-owned vehicles with free delivery to customers’ doors nationwide. Vroom was created by entrepreneurs with tech expertise and car acumen and is based in NY and Dallas.

Triomics is revolutionizing the process of data management for clinical research by leveraging EHR interoperability and machine learning.

Transit solves the commute in 200 cities around the world. Right on launch, it displays all nearby transport options and departure times in big text and bright colors. Users can easily navigate their city with accurate real-time predictions, simple trip planning, step-by-step navigation, and disruption notifications. Plus, Transit integrates other transport modes — bikesharing, carsharing and ridehailing — so users can determine the best way to get from A to B. Counting millions of active users in the US and Canada, Transit has emerged as the leading urban transport app in North America. Read more about the app's features: transitapp.com Transit works in 200 cities including NYC, Toronto, Montreal, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Vancouver, Washington DC, and Philadelphia. See the full list on transitapp.com/regions

Our mission is to make AI trustworthy for all enterprises. We’re building a new kind of ML platform to help enterprises accelerate their adoption of AI by building responsible systems with trust, visibility, and insights built-in.