Top Internet Startups in 2026

Asana was started with a mission: to help humanity thrive by enabling all teams to work together effortlessly. It’s a work-tracking tool that provides total clarity, energized focus, and frictionless collaboration, so that in every moment, each person knows what they should be doing and why they’re doing it. Asana is one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies today. Just five years since launch, we’re already making tens of millions of dollars each year with revenue growing exponentially. We’ve assembled an amazing group of people to do great things with us, and we're backed by some great investors, including: Adam D’Angelo, Aditya Agarwal and Ruchi Sanghvi, a16z, Andrew Mason, Benchmark Capital, Eric Ries, Founders Fund, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, Roger McNamee, Sam Altman, Tony Hsieh, 8VC

Very Good Security offers a modern approach to data security and compliance. With VGS, companies can quickly and easily achieve compliances including PCI, SOC2, HIPAA and GDPR. VGS acts as a data custodian for sensitive and regulated data like payments, health info, personally identifiable information (PII), etc. Companies are able to securely collect and exchange data, without any of the liability or breach risk associated with holding the data themselves. With VGS "Zero Data" platform, you get all the utility of using sensitive data with none of the liability of needing to secure it yourself.

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SPATE is an interactive trends prediction platform. We use consumer behavior signals from across the web to identify new trends and understand why they're trending. We provide the data-backed insights needed for consumer brands to confidently activate on new trends in product and marketing. Spate was founded in 2018 by Yarden Horwitz & Olivier Zimmer, two ex-Googlers who led the trendspotting division at Google and uncovered trends such as turmeric, cold brew, and face masks. Spate has been funded by the prestigious Y Combinator incubator and Initialized Capital. We currently have ~200 clients in the U.S., mainly in the beauty & food space from direct-to-consumer brands to big names such as L’Oréal, Estée Lauder, Unilever.

Since launching in October 2016, Ritual has grown to be a cultural revolution in the health industry. We are dedicated to creating a brand that speaks to a healthy, clean, and no B.S. lifestyle. We’re not about pseudoscience, half-truths or health fads. We are simple, effective and backed by real science. Welcome to your new daily Ritual.

We provide self-service advertising software for brands of all sizes. The SteelHouse Advertising Suite provides marketers with everything they need to build their own ads then launch re-targeting and prospecting campaigns through display, mobile, native, and social media. Our solutions give advertisers total transparency and complete control over their campaigns – all with the fastest go-live in the industry. Thousands of top brands have partnered with us, including Virgin America, TUMI, Staples, Beachbody, and others. Nothing has a bigger advertising impact than television, which is why we have transformed it into the next great performance channel. Unlock Connected TV’s performance potential with SteelHouse Performance TV.

Couchbase develops and provides commercial packages and support for Couchbase server, an open-source, NoSQL, document-oriented, database mainly designed for interactive applications. The Couchbase server is designed to provide easy-to-scale key-value or document access with low latency and high sustained throughput to handle large scale creation, storage, retrieval, aggregation, manipulation, and presentation of data.

1stdibs is the premier luxury marketplace for rare and beautiful objects in furniture, fashion, fine art, and jewelry. We connect the world’s most respected dealers with buyers who share in the pursuit of beautiful design. In doing so we strive to define and shape the future of antique, vintage, and contemporary buying-and-selling. We consider ourselves unique among start-ups. We’ve been around since 2001, yet still exhibit strong entrepreneurial DNA that informs how we operate and function as a company. It helps that we are led by a seasoned executive team that has seen it all: CEO David Rosenblatt formerly ran DoubleClick and negotiated its sale to Google for $3.2 billion. Other executives have held senior roles at eBay, Gilt Groupe, FreshDirect, BarnesandNoble.com, MLB.com, Group Commerce, and Venmo. We are backed by prominent venture capital firms like Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures, Insight Ventures, and Spark Capital. Alibaba Group has also made a significant investment.

Reputation.com delivers the category-leading Online Reputation Management (ORM) platform for large enterprises with thousands of locations. With our platform, Fortune 500 companies can monitor and manage their online ratings and reviews, and respond to customer feedback in real time. Businesses can also gain valuable insights at the local level that will give them the information they need to make operational changes that will ultimately maximize customer retention and revenue.

GoFundMe is changing the way the world gives. Every day, members of our giving community come together to support one another and the causes they care about most. Our campaign organizers have raised over $2 billion for medical expenses, education, community projects, sports, emergencies, pets, and more, making us the world’s largest online fundraising platform. GoFundMe has assembled one of the best management teams in the business to build the next leading consumer Internet company, including leaders from LinkedIn, Groupon and Google. We are also funded by some of Silicon Valley’s best venture capital firms, including Accel, Greylock, and TCV.