Top Market Research Startups in 2027

Our company is used by the largest, fastest-growing companies in the world. Powered by AI technology and leveraging advances in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning in particular, our company is a revolutionary search engine that delivers superior results—helping agile teams make better strategic decisions and gain a competitive edge.

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.

Quantifind is a machine learning platform and software provider used by consumer brands and financial institutions to discover signals of revenue drivers and risk, including fraud and money laundering. The company’s algorithms extract signals from external, unstructured data by correlating it to private company data, such as sales data and customer records. Quantifind was founded in 2009 by Ari Tuchman and John Stockton, two quantum physicists from Stanford University and Caltech. The company extended its data-driven strategy business into multiple verticals including retail, financial services, entertainment, consumer packaged goods, telecom, and QSR. In 2018, Quantifind began applying its signal extraction methodology to help banks fight money laundering. Quantifind’s headquarters are located in Menlo Park, California, with additional offices in New York City and Washington, D.C.

Change Research goes deep to uncover breakthrough insights that make our clients successful. As a Public Benefit Corporation with two brands — Change Research and Embold Research — we seek to make the world more humane, scientific, and just; as a technology company, we seek to innovate and re-define what it means to measure public opinion. Change Research was founded to bring high-quality, accurate polling to political campaigns and causes. Embold Research is an audience research partner for governments, 501(c)(3)s, public affairs teams, and companies that seek reliable research on the communities they serve.

SimilarWeb is the pioneer of digital market intelligence, and the standard for understanding the digital world. Our platform provides customers with granular insights about every website and mobile app enabling visibility into digital behavior and letting businesses see what is actually happening with their competitors, their industry and throughout the digital world. We have thousands of paying customers worldwide and millions of users using our free platform every month. Our customers are some of the largest global brands in the world and including Walmart, AirBnb, adidas, DHL and eBay. SimilarWeb raised over $112 million and has over 400 employees in 8 offices around the world in NY, SF, London, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Kiev, Paris, San Paulo. With the insights and the data we provide businesses, agencies, marketers and analysts can benchmark performance against competitors, reveal competitors online strategy, discover new opportunities, identify emerging trends and understand consumer

Stop testing ideas and products on your mom or roommate. Use Prolific to launch your survey to 70k+ participants in North America and Europe. We verify and monitor participants so you can get access to high quality psychological and behavioral data in minutes

Hanover Research provides high quality, custom research and analytics through a cost-effective model that helps clients in the corporate, education, and healthcare sectors make informed decisions, identify and seize opportunities, and heighten their effectiveness.

Pulse Labs provides rich and contextual insights on how humans engage with technology to drive your business forward. Those insights are rapid, powerful, contextual and easy to access across your organization.

Persado’s cognitive content platform is a smart system that combines natural language processing and machine learning technologies to machine generate the precise words, phrases and images that can inspire any given audience to act, every time. Persado’s cognitive content outperforms man-made messages 100%* of the time.

GlobalWebIndex is a data company headquartered in London that provides audience profiling data across 42 countries to the world's largest brands, marketing agencies and media organizations. We maintain a global panel of more than 18 million connected consumers which we leverage to create 20000 data points to profile internet users around the world. Our industry-leading clients including Twitter, Google, Spotify, WPP, IPG and Omnicom Group can gather in-depth insights into audience behaviours, perceptions and interests through a combination of survey and analytics data using the GlobalWebIndex platform. Since launching in 2009, GlobalWebIndex has become one of the UK’s fastest-growing data technology companies, renewing 97%+ of our client base and doubling in size and revenue year on year. As we continue to innovate and expand, we are always on the lookout for the best talent to help us re-engineer data-driven marketing for the digital age.