Top Infrastructure Startups in 2027

LobbyingData.com is the leading provider of alternative data on U.S. lobbying. The firm’s database offers comprehensive real-time and historical information on all federal lobbying activity from 1999-present. Lobbyingdata.com tracks the $4.1B lobbying industry comprised of 1.6M+ lobbying contracts for 200k+ entities including 2k+ ticker symbols,13k+ lobbying firms, all federal agencies, and every registered lobbyist. The firm delivers its data feed via AWS S3 and/or REST API.

Ably provides an infrastructure layer to handle complex, behind-the-scenes realtime communication that powers things like chat, live updates in maps or apps, IoT device control, and more. There's no infrastructure to provision or manage - just simple yet powerful and versatile SDKs and APIs that let you quickly add innovative realtime capabilities to your application with a few lines of code.

At PayPal, we believe that now is the time to democratize financial services so that moving and managing money is a right for all citizens, not just the affluent. We are driven by this purpose, and we uphold our cultural values of collaboration, innovation, wellness and inclusion as our guide for making decisions and conducting business every day. It is our duty and privilege to be customer champions and put those we serve at the center of everything we do. We are one team that respects and values diversity of thought for everyone, everywhere, and we actively seek to create an energizing workplace that brings out the best in all of us. If you’re ready to shape the future of money, join the team at PayPal. We're proud to work here. You will be too. PayPal is headquartered in San Jose, California and its international headquarters is located in Singapore. More information about the company can be found at paypal-media.com.

Electrification is inevitable; Inspiration works with commercial fleets to make their electrification journey easy. Inspiration offers unique and innovative financing solutions and step-by-step holistic guidance to our customers to ensure their fleet electrification, sustainability, and financial goals are met. Not only does Inspiration offer vehicles to our customers, but also custom charging solutions, from home charging to large-scale charging depot development. Beyond this, we are building custom products for fleet managers, drivers, sustainability professionals, and all others in between to harness the immense power of EV and related data to maximize their impact.

Dow Jones is a global news and business information provider that delivers content to consumers and organizations via newspapers, websites, apps, video, newsletters, magazines, proprietary databases, conferences, and radio. It conducts large news-gathering operations with the help of its 2,000 journalists in more than 50 countries, including The Wall Street Journal, America’s largest newspaper by total average circulation. Dow Jones & Co.’s premier brands include Barron’s, MarketWatch, Factiva, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Dow Jones VentureSource, and DJX. In 1987, The Ticker, a real-time newswire and the fundamental source for news in the investment community, was announced and Barron’s, America’s premier financial weekly was founded in 1921. The company’s information services publish in 13 languages and distribute content in 28 languages, combining technology with news and data to support business decision making. It is now serving its users through its paid online news site no matter where there, via web, mobile devices, Internet-connected televisions, and tablets. Dow Jones & Co. was founded in 1882.

VETRO FiberMap™ is an innovative new Fiber Optic network mapping and network management platform. VETRO enables communication service providers to design, deploy, and manage modern fiber networks - the internet infrastructure needed worldwide to support comprehensive connectivity demand. The only software-as-a-service network mapping solution built from the ground up for small and mid-sized fiber Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and community fiber networks, it’s easy to use, engineered for rapid integration, driven by open APIs, managed in the cloud and delivered through your web browser. With VETRO FiberMap™ broadband providers can now combine market intelligence with planning, engineering, and community-based infrastructure data to precisely plan their networks. Support for marketing, lead generation, and demand aggregation bridges sales with engineering. User-friendly tools to manage strand, circuit, and splice data empower the network engineering and design-build teams and deliver a snap-shot view of network capacity and usage. Network owners can leverage our comprehensive application or integrate VETRO services into their own systems using our APIs. We help you manage your network from strategy to splice.

OnGrid is India's fastest growing digital trust platform offering verifications, background checks, and references checks for onboarding employees, contractors users, merchants, customers, etc. Founded by IIT-B alumni, OnGrid has completed more than 12 million checks across 800+ happy clients. At OnGrid, we are focused on redefining and reimagining trust and accountability. Our platform and digital locker infrastructure (eLockr) would enable organizations to verify credentials instantly, and as much as possible, directly via issuing source. Having built the basic pillars of trust (and creating a profitable venture with 100+ full-time people in the process), we now want our imagination to be let loose and think of avenues never explored, and execute in ways never implemented before.