Top Internet Startups in 2026

At GoGuardian, we’re helping shape the future of digital learning by providing educators, students, and schools with tools to create equitable and engaging learning environments. Together, we build innovative solutions that empower students, deliver insights, encourage experimentation, and reduce inequity. We’re growing fast and looking for passionate team members to join us!

Culture Amp is Culture Analytics for your company. Surveys and insight for engaged employees. We provide world-class surveys that can be customized to suit your organization. This is combined with a powerful, intuitive dashboard and analytics engine. You can survey all your employees, parts of your organization, or "pulse" survey different employees in real-time. Metrics and instrumentation for Employee Engagement, Exit, Onboarding, Manager Effectiveness and many more.

Dave is a mission-driven banking app that helps over 4 million members thrive, and not just survive, between paychecks. We solve our customers' immediate pain points and change their financial lives with $100 cash advances, side gigs, and automated budgeting. Built for humans, not overdraft fees, Dave shares its revenue with charities to feed families and plant trees. In just 2 years, we have become LA's newest tech unicorn with over $100 million in funding, millions of paying members, and an aggressive expansion plan.

Nextiva is a Connected Communications company that helps businesses grow faster. It lets people work smarter using its business VoIP phone service, video conferencing, and text messaging software. More than 100,000 companies rely on Nextiva for customer and team communication. U.S. News ranked it the best business phone system in 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. Nextiva’s business phone software regularly tops reviewer’s lists for superior uptime and ease of use. Nextiva uniquely manages all customer communications and engagement in one place to provide a truly unified view of the customer. It enhances the customer experience with sales and service tools, analytics, AI, and automation. Nextiva has pioneered Connected Communications from the ground up to provide actionable customer insights in real time across all channels, with communications at its core. With $200M in backing from Goldman Sachs Asset Management, we’re taking that vision to every customer, everywhere. Connected Communications leverages past and present conversations to provide a seamless employee and customer experience. It addresses the dilemma created by fragmented business tools by giving a complete picture of the customer in real time with actionable information for every user.

We're developing the privacy platform modern brands rely on to build customer trust and transparency. We untangle the complexity of data privacy and help brands build privacy programs that work, giving them an easy-to-use platform to automate and scale privacy, and stay compliant with regulations like GDPR, CCPA, and CPRA. With 900+ pre-built connections with popular apps and infrastructure, the DataGrail Integrations Network is the first of its kind to detect shadow IT that may contain personal data, ensuring the most accurate data discovery. DataGrail services millions of consumers, through companies like Overstock, Restoration Hardware, NETGEAR, and Outreach, and has 4.8/5 stars on G2. DataGrail is backed by leading VCs and strategic investors, including Felicis Ventures, Operator Collective, Okta Ventures, HubSpot Ventures, and DocuSign Ventures. Visit datagrail.io to learn more.

LiveRamp is the leading data connectivity platform for the safe and effective use of data. Powered by core identity resolution capabilities and an unparalleled network, LiveRamp enables companies and their partners to better connect, control, and activate data to transform customer experiences and generate more valuable business outcomes. LiveRamp’s fully interoperable and neutral infrastructure delivers end-to-end addressability for the world’s top brands, agencies, and publishers. For more information, visit LiveRamp.com.

Movable Ink scales content personalization for marketers through data-activated content generation and AI decisioning. The world’s most innovative brands rely on Movable Ink to maximize revenue, simplify workflow and boost marketing agility. Headquartered in New York City with close to 600 employees, Movable Ink serves its global client base with operations throughout North America, Central America, Europe, Australia, and Japan.

Most things these days are instant and on-demand, except the money you're working hardest for. At EarnIn, we’re reimagining the way money moves to empower every person’s potential. We believe your hard-earned pay should flow more freely to give you more options, wherever life takes you. EarnIn is an app that lets you access your earned wages when you need them, not just on your scheduled payday. With EarnIn’s Cash Out2 feature, you can get up to $150/day, with a max of $1,000 per pay period — no mandatory fees, no interest, and no credit check. (Cash limits vary by user eligibility.) Transfers usually take 1–2 business days. Other tools like Early Pay3 let you get your paycheck up to two days early and Balance Shield4 can send alerts when your balance is low. The EarnIn app can help you make the most of your money, stay on track, and build progress day-by-day. We’re fortunate to have an incredibly experienced leadership team, combined with world-class funding partners. And we're excited to continue to bring world-class talent onboard to help shape the next chapter of our growth journey.

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.