Top Leisure Startups in 2026

Calm is the leading mental wellness brand with the #1 App for Sleep, Meditation and Relaxation™, designed to help you manage stress, sleep better and live a happier, healthier life. With hundreds of hours of original audio content available in seven languages, Calm supports users in more than 190 countries. Apple’s 2017 iPhone App of the Year and one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies of 2020, Calm boasts over 100 million downloads to date, with more than 4 million paying members.

James Monsees and Adam Bowen co-founded JUUL when they applied their background in product design to the challenge of finding a better alternative to smoking. They’d been smokers for many years, but they were increasingly dissatisfied with the health and social impacts of cigarettes. When they could find no attractive alternative to cigarettes, James and Adam recognized a groundbreaking opportunity to apply industrial design to the smoking industry, which had not materially evolved in over one hundred years. As smokers, they knew a viable alternative to cigarettes would have to offer a nicotine level found in no other alternative on the market. It would also have to invite its own ritual. The result was JUUL.

We are travel agency and travel search aggregation company. We process over 6 billion queries across our platforms each year for travel information, helping millions of travelers around the globe make confident decisions. With every query, we search hundreds of travel sites to show travelers the information they need to find the right flights, hotels, rental cars and vacation packages.

We're a team of entrepreneurs and technologists building something new—with travel advisors, creators and enthusiasts at the center. We see an opportunity to rebuild the travel agency with fresh eyes: cool, community-driven, gig-economy enabled, Airbnb design, modern tools. Our mission is to empower 100,000+ travel-lovers, solo entrepreneurs, flexibility-seekers, freelancers & creators to be travel entrepreneurs: designing experiential trips, creating & leading trips, & selling hotels, houses & experiences. Founded by three serial entrepreneurs with deep industry experience with an ambition to build the next generational brand in travel together with a great team. We are fortunate to be backed by an incredible group of investors and now looking for more people to join our early team.

Derived from the Latin word for bumblebee. Bees live in a hive and work together to make their world a better place. They're small, but their combined actions have a big impact on the world. We like that. That's why our mantra is bee better. We put this reminder inside each Bombas clothing item as a reminder that little improvements can add up to make a big difference, and that your purchase went towards directly helping someone in need. We set out to rethink a product that was an afterthought in the marketplace. Two years of research & development led to seven material improvements to the design, performance and comfort of the everyday sock. And we continue to innovate with each successive production run. Our #1 priority is your happiness. If your order somehow falls short of your expectations, reach out to our in-house Customer Happiness Team and we'll smooth things out. We're here for you.

ROLLER offers an end-to-end cloud-based software platform for businesses in the entertainment & leisure industry. We cover everything from ticketing, point-of-sale, CRM, marketing and much more.

We offer travel, dining, entertainment & events, benefits and offers to members of our clients.