Top Internet Startups in 2027

CIVIC ENGAGEMENT IS TOO HARD. WE ARE GOING TO FIX THAT! Pinion is building a new platform (web & mobile) and community where you can easily find and vote on legislation and topics you care about, share to social media if you like, view results, and track your elected representatives (and the candidates vying to replace them at the next election) to see who best aligns with your interests so you can vote for them in the next election. Pinion connects people like you with your friends, community and elected officials to vote and comment about the singular thing that matters to democracy - legislation. Support something? Have a concern? Let them know...easily, in seconds! Share your Pinion with your friends to get the word out and build support or opposition for causes and pending legislation that will impact you. Using Pinion, participants see and share their Pinions about the most pressing legislative issues of today that impact them. Pinion’s proprietary technologies make engaging with politics easy and actually fun.

Our goal is to revolutionize the business economy by evolving how funding flows. Today, we combine cutting-edge machine learning and data science technologies with outstanding design and top-notch user support that earns rave reviews from our thousands of happy customers.

The vast majority of human knowledge is still not on the internet. Most of it is trapped in the form of experience in people's heads, or buried in books and papers that only experts can access. More than a billion people use the internet, yet only a tiny fraction contribute their knowledge to it.  Quora’s mission is to share and grow the world's knowledge, and we're building a world-class team to help us achieve this mission.

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.

Outreach, the sales engagement platform, delivers performance and insights that result in higher velocity and more efficient selling. By automating and prioritizing all customer touch points throughout the sales process, Outreach triples the productivity of sales teams, and empowers them to drive more pipeline, book more meetings and exceed revenue goals. Outreach places actionable data intelligence at the fingertips of sales reps through a single, integrated view of all prospect-related information. Thousands of customers, including Cloudera, Glassdoor, Pandora, and Zillow, rely on Outreach to transform the sales process, drive collaboration between sales and marketing, and deliver higher revenue per sales rep. Outreach is a privately held company based in Seattle, Washington. To learn more, please visit outreach.io/demo.

The Zebra is the nation’s most comprehensive comparison website for car insurance quotes. Nearly all of the 250 million American drivers require car insurance, but the industry’s complexity and size create a massive grey area of coverage and pricing — drivers often don’t know where to start. Adam Lyons and Joshua Dziabiak founded The Zebra in 2012 to help drivers understand their insurance options and easily secure coverage. It’s insurance in black and white. Today, The Zebra provides simple, real-time comparison of more than 1,800 car insurance products from over 200 companies nationwide, giving drivers instant access to the massive car insurance market, and saving drivers an average of $368 per year.

Through the development of a first of its kind open platform, Platform Science provides the hardware and software that allows clients to fully capture, analyze and apply a wealth of data, dramatically increasing performance, compliance, time management and savings.

Welkin is patient management software that guides teams through their care, keeping them on track. It tells health workers when to do what, focusing attention on the people who need it, when they need it. Our software makes care delivery seamless and patient-centered, empowering teams to build meaningful relationships with their patients.

The NewStore Mobile Retail Platform empowers brands to deliver an extraordinary end-to-end shopping experience for consumers. Built entirely from a mobile perspective, it integrates with existing ecommerce platforms such as Salesforce Commerce Cloud, SAP Hybris, Oracle ATG, and Magento. NewStore raises the omnichannel bar with one-touch purchase, scalable clienteling, and on-demand delivery — all optimized for the small screen. Founded by Stephan Schambach, creator of Demandware (now Salesforce Commerce Cloud), NewStore boosts conversion, promotes engagement, unifies online and offline, and modernizes fulfillment. NewStore is headquartered in Boston. For more information, visit newstore.com.

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.