Top Information Technology Startups in 2026

Placer.ai is a fast-growing big data startup led by seasoned executives and repeat entrepreneurs who are building the world's first "Google Analytics for the physical world" platform. Placer.ai’s platform provides instant visibility into any property in the U.S., presenting accurate details about visitation patterns and demographic breakdowns of visitors. Placer.ai’s customers can see where visitors have been before, where they go afterwards, where they typically go for sports, entertainment, groceries, etcetera, and what their interests are. Placer.ai's A.I.-based SaaS platform replaces archaic solutions such as manual surveys, installed cameras and other people counting systems, thus creating a blue ocean market of more than $100B. Placer.ai has grown 3x year-over-year for the past 3 years, counting more than 500 paying customers across a range of industries, including 2 of the world’s top 10 retailers, 2 of the top 10 CPG firms worldwide, a world’s top hospitality firm, 2 of the world’s top 10 commercial real estate (CRE) firms and 2 of the world’s top multinational asset managers and hedge funds. Placer has just raised its $50M Series B funding.

Scaleable Compute Services: Droplets are a scalable compute platform with add-on storage, security, and monitoring capabilities to easily run production applications. Spaces Object Storage: Store and deliver vast amounts of content. S3-compatible object storage with a built-in CDN that makes scaling easy, reliable, and affordable. Kubernetes: Designed for developers and businesses that want a simple way to deploy and manage container workloads in the cloud. Load Balancers: Scale your applications and improve availability, security and performance across your infrastructure in a few clicks. Block Storage: Attach highly available and scalable SSD-based Block Storage to your Droplet. One Click Apps: Deploy pre-built applications. Skip the installation and configuration, get straight to deploying your code using one of our pre-built images supporting Node.js, Ruby on Rails, MongoDB, Docker, and many more.

When’s the last time you completed an online form that was fun? Audiences love Typeform because it’s intuitive, incredibly engaging, and dare we say, enjoyable to interact with. Because of this, Typeform gets completion rates up to 4x higher than regular old forms. This makes data collection a breeze for entrepreneurs, researchers, educators, event planners, and anyone interested in getting closer to their audience. What’s the future of online data collection? Will it be voice? How will machine learning play a role? Is there a place for augmented reality? What about holographic technology? At Typeform, these are some of the questions we’re grappling with. Why? Because we want to be the best at conversational data collection. That means lots of experimentation. And it means working on problems that don’t exist—yet. Typeform is leading the future of conversational data collection. Shape the industry with us—and help make the web a little more human.

Having a baby is one of the biggest life changes people face. Babylist makes this journey to parenthood less overwhelming. We empower new parents and connect them to their village. Our baby registry is used by 20% of expecting families in the United States (and growing). In 2016 there were $100,000,000 of gifts given of of our registries. Our users love Babylist. We are continuing to create useful content and tools that help our users through pregnancy to parenthood.

ACV’s mission is to build and enable the most trusted and efficient digital marketplaces for buying and selling used vehicles with transparency and comprehensive data that was previously unimaginable. We are powered by a combination of the world’s best people and the industry’s best technology. At ACV, we are driven by an entrepreneurial spirit and rewarded with a work environment that enables each Teammate to impact the company’ from day one. ACV’s network of brands includes ACV Auctions, ACV Transportation and ACV Capital within its Marketplace Products as well as True360 and Data Services.

Compa is a venture-backed SaaS startup revolutionizing the future of compensation. In a dynamic job market with hiring challenges, accountability, and the rise of AI, companies need the best data to stay ahead of industry changes, competition, and costs. Compa has developed the premier real-time compensation data platform, delivering top-tier compensation intelligence to leading enterprise teams. Compa is a compensation intelligence company built to augment enterprise compensation teams in the era of AI. Our customers include the world’s biggest companies: Apple, NVIDIA, Tesla, Mastercard, T-Mobile, Sanofi, Moderna, Gilead Sciences, and more.

GreyOrange is a fast-growing, venture-backed technology startup that is creating hardware and software products for warehousing industry. These disruptive high-tech products are revolutionizing the traditionally managed logistics and distribution centers by solving operational inefficiencies and increasing productivity. The company is currently focused on products for logistics fulfillment, so as to increase order picking and parcel sortation rates and ultimately reduce the time it takes to replenish store inventory and get orders to consumers’ homes.

Clover is building the open, cloud-based point-of-sale platform. We partner with the world's largest payment processors, developers, and hardware manufacturers to bring point-of-sale products to market. We use Android as the client platform, which enables the use of inexpensive devices, both off-the-shelf and purpose-built.

Our attention is our most precious resource and we’re wasting it. We could be using it to be better spouses, parents, employees, and friends but instead we’re using it to figure out what needs to get done and too often being diverted to things that don’t matter. The result is feeling perpetually busy but still behind, going through days feeling overwhelmed, and knowing at the end we could have spent the time more wisely. It’s no way to live. Handle is the antidote. Built upon decades of research, Handle is a personal productivity system that helps you stay focused on what matters. It brings together your email, to-do list, and calendar into a single app that lets you make better decisions with your time and relax more with less fear of things falling through the cracks. It's your life. We help you Handle it. Learn more at handle.com or download the app for iPhone and iPad handle.com/dl.

We want to encourage employees to adopt better cybersecurity practices in a way that's actually effective, and entertaining enough that the training doesn't feel like work. Think Duolingo, but for cybersecurity. We created a platform to roll out a cybersecurity awareness program quickly and easily by sending short conversations of just 3-4 minutes. The platform also simulates phishing attacks to prepare employees to face hackers in a safe environment. Created in 2020, Riot has raised $45m with leading investors (Y Combinator, Left Lane, Base10, Funders Club and Frst Capital) and is now protecting more than 2 millions employees in over 2,000 companies (including Intercom, Deel, and Deezer) all over the world. Cybersecurity impacts everyone, every day, and is now the number one risk to any organization, from small businesses to big firms. And yet, in most companies the cybersecurity culture is non-existent. Hackers know this, and they're taking advantage by targeting the weakest link: employees. We're on a mission to fix that for good.