Top Information Technology Startups in 2026

Upptic provides UA automation software and full-stack growth marketing services (UA, creative, analytics and strategy) for games companies like EA, Blizzard and Ludia. They have launched multiple #1 games and manage over $65M of profitable UA spend annually for their partners.

6ix Inc. is a financial technology company on a mission to unlock social mobility on a global scale by empowering anyone, from anywhere, to invest in anything. Our flagship product - 6ix.com - combines the power of community and technology by making it easy for anyone to attend, host, and market virtual investment summits. Virtual investment summits are live, interactive events delivered over the internet by video, and are specifically designed around the unique capital markets needs of investors, analysts and companies. From Jul 01, 2020, to Dec 31, 2020, 6ix.com powered 108 virtual investment summits, attracting more than 29,059 registrations and 11,098 attendances from a community of more than 38,697 members.

Our product is a software stack that automates the low-level, detail-oriented parts of circuit board design. We free engineers up to be more creative and more productive. Our software captures electrical engineering knowledge and makes it reusable, so all of the hard-won design knowledge out in the world can be applied to every new design.

We're building a new video based experience for marketing and product teams. We make personalized video outreach scalable with AI. Record a video once, and send it to thousands instantly completely customized to them.

Securing the software development process, with a focus on improving developer velocity.

At every company, there's someone who's most painful job is wrangling CSV files in Excel. OneSchema (oneschema.co) makes cleanup of messy CSVs 10x faster (demo). Our product is smart spreadsheet that makes data cleansing as simple as a few clicks. Our vision is to automate the “long tail of ETL” processes that today are painstaking, manual, and repetitive. We get our customers out of spreadsheets and back to the meaningful, creative work they love.

Prodigal is a cloud-based Consumer Finance Intelligence solution that analyzes agent and customer conversations to enhance profits, experience, and compliance. Collection agencies, healthcare providers, and lenders depend on Prodigal to unlock insights that drive win-win financial outcomes. With decades of industry and data science expertise, Prodigal is ready to work with clients to optimize operations and quality assurance. Nearly one in five U.S. borrowers have already engaged with Prodigal during more than 200 million interactions. Headquartered in Mountain View, California, Prodigal’s global team is on a mission to build the intelligence layer that powers Consumer Finance. With the backing of domain experts, technology leaders, and top investors, including Accel, Menlo Ventures, and Y-Combinator, Prodigal is poised to become the next iconic vertical SaaS company. An intent engine that combines the strengths of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and natural language processing (NLP) powers Prodigal’s core apps: ProAssist, ProNotes, and ProVoice. ProAssist guides agents to say and do the right thing every time. ProNotes auto-writes call notes, creating hours of new capacity and freeing agents to focus on experience. ProVoice analyzes and scores 100% of calls to minimize risk and increase QA effectiveness.

SmartLogic is a custom web and mobile software development shop. Originally based in Baltimore, our team is now fully distributed across the US. We’ve been bringing new projects to life since 2005 with progressive, best-of-breed technologies and methods including Elixir/Phoenix, Ruby on Rails, ReactJS, React Native, and Flutter. We work with funded startups to accelerate time to market; we work with established organizations to build software that improves or automates existing business processes. We create sophisticated systems by building and connecting simpler systems, so that whether it’s our team or yours maintaining and iterating on our code in the future, the software we’ve built is scalable, sustainable, and easy to reason about.

Compass is a new way to find a great place to live in every major U.S. city, including New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, San Diego, Dallas, Austin, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington, D.C., Nashville, Boston, Atlanta, Miami, Santa Barbara and Montecito, The Hamptons, and Aspen. We’re making every step of the process easier, from searching through quality, up-to-date listings online, to working with a great agent to find the perfect apartment. We’ve built a unified technology platform that provides both clients and our agents with everything they need in one place. Clients can search thousands of up-to-date and unique listings, connect with an agent, and stay on top of their search on the go with the Compass mobile app. Compass Agents have technology that gives them access to data and listings in real-time, as well as tools that make the customer experience faster and easier. compass.com compass.com/about

We are a passionate team crazy about autonomous vehicles. We are building an edge cloud for the autonomous driving that empowers businesses and individuals to store, share, and distribute their data assets. We are backed by the prestigious Berkeley Blockchain Xcelerator and looking for self-motivated, enthusiastic people who are passionate about autonomous vehicles, proud of their work, and desire to help create a world with less accidents and better driving experience using world-class edge computing and decentralized ledger technologies. You will have the opportunities to work with world class PhDs, engineers, professors, and industry gurus to change the future of transportation.