Top Location Based Services Startups in 2026

Using comScore verified, real-time data from 50 million first-party integrations with the world's most popular apps, inMarket identifies and engages consumers at every stage of the shopping cycle and creates exciting experiences that drive huge campaign ROI for the world’s top brands.

Radar is location infrastructure for every product and service, powering use cases like curbside pickup, delivery, and location-aware app experiences for brands like Panera Bread, T-Mobile, and Zillow. We recently raised a $55M Series C led by Insight Partners and Accel to build location infrastructure for every product and service. Our team is growing quickly and has backgrounds from companies like Google Maps, GitHub, Foursquare, and Facebook. We are remote-friendly and based in NYC.

Placer.ai is a fast-growing big data startup led by seasoned executives and repeat entrepreneurs who are building the world's first "Google Analytics for the physical world" platform. Placer.ai’s platform provides instant visibility into any property in the U.S., presenting accurate details about visitation patterns and demographic breakdowns of visitors. Placer.ai’s customers can see where visitors have been before, where they go afterwards, where they typically go for sports, entertainment, groceries, etcetera, and what their interests are. Placer.ai's A.I.-based SaaS platform replaces archaic solutions such as manual surveys, installed cameras and other people counting systems, thus creating a blue ocean market of more than $100B. Placer.ai has grown 3x year-over-year for the past 3 years, counting more than 500 paying customers across a range of industries, including 2 of the world’s top 10 retailers, 2 of the top 10 CPG firms worldwide, a world’s top hospitality firm, 2 of the world’s top 10 commercial real estate (CRE) firms and 2 of the world’s top multinational asset managers and hedge funds. Placer has just raised its $50M Series B funding.

BuzzyBooth social media kiosk turns your customers into brand advocates by allowing them to easily take and share business branded photos. It also automatically captures their contact information for further marketing. With the targeted text message marketing and email campaigns using the data collected, BuzzyBooth has proven to increase customer bring-back into the store by 38%. With all these marketing tools in one platform, ranging from turning customers into brand advocates, to digital loyalty programs, to marketing automations, we have helped hundreds of businesses effectively bringing customers back.

Signpost helps local service businesses attract, communicate with, and grow their client base. Founded in 2010, Signpost exists to help local businesses succeed. With investments from HighBar Partners, OpenView Venture Partners, Scout Ventures and Google Ventures, Signpost is growing and looking to add talent across all departments.

A platform that automates the collection, assignment and execution against that physical world data that transforms businesses

Feeld is a dating app for the curious; for those open to experiencing people and relationships in a new way. Our mission is to elevate the human experience of sexuality and relationships and create a world where everyone is more intimately connected to each other and themselves.

Space Capital is an early stage venture capital firm investing in the Space economy, specifically focused on unlocking the value in Space technology stacks such as GPS, Geospatial Intelligence, and Communications. We are actively investing out of our second fund and manage over $35 million in assets. Our sector focus enables us to be a true partner to our portfolio companies and unlock significant value far in excess of our investment capital. Space Capital is the parent brand of Space Angels, an online angel investment platform recognized as the most active investor in the space economy, and Space Talent, a career platform and central node for space industry jobs.

Favor is the easiest way to get anything delivered in under an hour. whether it’s lunch at the office, a household shopping list or those errands you just don’t have time for — your personal assistant (we call them runners) can deliver it in just a few taps. founded in 2013, in austin, texas, favor has grown to service more than 130 cities across texas with over 75,000 runners and has delivered more than 18 million favors to-date. use favor to get anything delivered in under an hour.

Our Deep Location platform lets any large venue or operator to have a scalable location infrastructure for location based services, analytics and marketing.