Top Information Technology Startups in 2027

Ellevation is the only software platform focused exclusively on ELL educators and the English Learners they serve. At a time when English Learners are the fastest growing population of students in the nation, educators have few tools or innovations to meet their needs. Ellevation partners with school districts to provide an instructional and data management platform focused on instruction, productivity, and collaboration. The platform enables educators to set goals aligned to standards, group students for differentiation, automatically generate an individualized language plans for English Learners, and move many reporting functions online. Over the last year, we increased revenue by 300% and the number of partner school districts by over 100%, and more than doubled the size of our team. We are well-capitalized, have an awesome and growing team, and are looking to add passionate, smart, fun and entrepreneurial folks to who are interested in building a high-impact company.

Doximity was founded in 2011 by the pioneers of mobile health apps to connect healthcare professionals and make them more productive. Joining Doximity means being part of an incredibly talented and humble team. We work on amazing products that over one million medical professionals, including over 70% of all U.S. doctors and 45% of all NPs and physician assistants, use to make their busy lives a little easier. Here at Doximity we absolutely love creating technology that has a real, meaningful impact on people’s lives.

Upwave plans, measures, and optimizes brand marketing. With our Brand Campaign Measurement and Instant Insights products, we provide a software data platform to the world’s largest brand marketers. Our customers are Fortune 500 companies across multiple verticals - including CPG, food, beverage, consumer technology, telecom, and financial services - as well as the world’s largest advertising agencies and media platforms. We are unapologetically supportive of brand advertising, and work hard every day to prove its value; we know if companies can measure the value of those dollars, they’ll spend more. Brand advertising pays for not only the movies we watch and music we hear, but the journalism we read and the information we access. In short, brand advertising supports the free flow of information through society. So, we’re proud to be the first company dedicated to using data science to show enterprises the true effectiveness of their brand spend. We are backed by leading venture investors (Y Combinator, Uncork Capital, Bloomberg Beta, Initialized Capital, PivotNorth, Ridge Ventures, Industry Ventures, Conductive Ventures,) and leading MarTech founders & CEOs. We’re a humble but ambitious team that takes its work seriously but never ourselves. Come join us.

Liftoff is a mobile app marketing and retargeting platform which uses post-install data to run true CPA-optimized campaigns. Run mobile app marketing campaigns optimized to drive post-install events like registering or making a purchase. We are building a sustainable engine of growth for mobile app companies, by solving the problem of connecting users with the mobile apps that they will actually value.  We're tackling this by leveraging programmatic advertising and state-of-the-art machine learning.

We build best-in-class WordPress and Drupal sites with agile workflows, scalable infrastructure, and a lightning-fast content delivery network. We run your sites on the fastest WebOps Platform on the planet. This includes our unrivaled speed, uptime, and scalability make our high-performance WebOps platform the best place to host WordPress and Drupal sites. We are the only hosting platform to include fully managed and free HTTPS certificates, automated backups, and one-click updates for all WebOps platform plans.

We are experts & innovators in adaptive streaming video technologies. Bitmovin video infrastructure APIs enable media companies & brands to deliver premium video experiences to any device, without buffering or startup delays. Designed by developers for developers, our APIs provide complete control and flexibility to support common and advanced video workflows and applications, and feature: - Fastest Video Encoding on the market, in the cloud & on-premise (100x realtime) - World's most intelligent Adaptive Video Player & Mobile SDKs - Support for VR & 360 video, DRM, advertising, and more. Bitmovin actively participates in video streaming research, continuously integrating latest technology into our APIs.

At Verkada, we’re on a mission to modernize the world of physical security. Today, we build enterprise security cameras that combine cutting-edge camera technology with intelligent, web-based software—all in a secure, user-friendly solution. In the future, we’ll deepen our use of machine learning to enable entirely new ways of enhancing physical security — many of which have yet to be imagined. Unlike existing video security systems, Verkada’s technology eliminates outdated equipment such as network video recorders (NVRs) and offers the protection of full encryption with no special configuration required. Our systems are easy to install, update and expand. Verkada was founded in 2016 by computer scientists and information security experts from Stanford University and MIT. The company is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Maven connects patients with vetted, highly-qualified healthcare practitioners via video, with appointments starting at less than the price of a co-pay. No more waiting rooms and no more self-diagnosis. Maven allows consumers to book an appointment with a doctor, nurse practitioner, nutritionist, mental health provider, or pregnancy expert from wherever they are, and get a prescription if needed.

Our technology combines advanced cyber intelligence, identity analysis and behavioral data to create a multi-layered fraud detection mechanism. The technology is fully automated so that it can approve or deny transactions in real-time, rendering “yes” or “no” decisions in under 300 millseconds. Furthermore, the technology is so accurate that Forter fully backs its transactions with a 100% chargeback protection program.

Flockjay’s Sales Elevation platform captures winning strategies from internal stars and external experts, coaches reps with real-time training, and motivates teams to implement and adapt best practices. We are backed by leading investors, including Y Combinator.