Top Marketing Automation Startups in 2026

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.

Tray.io is a low-code, cloud-first approach to automation. We've built a scalable, resilient, and secure platform that transforms fragmented process into powerful business outcomes. Using the Tray platform, organizations can connect their entire cloud stack using APIs, and thanks to a visual workflow builder, customers can easily create automations that drive their business processes using clicks or code. Our focus is currently on the automation and integration of cloud software, but our bigger goal is to build a platform that is use-case agnostic and supports creating all kinds of software. Our challenge is to build a cutting edge product that is powerful and complete while also being beautiful and easy to use.

Tapcart is a SaaS platform that enables ecommerce merchants to launch and manage mobile apps for their brand. As the market leader in mobile ecommerce, we focus on providing great experiences for our customers and for mobile shoppers worldwide. Our platform powers the mobile apps of some of the largest shopping brands, including Fashion Nova, Chubbies, The Hundreds and many more. We are inspired by the future. We work to inspire the future. Recently featured at Shopify UNITE, Google I/O and in The Verge, Tapcart is trusted by over 5,000 brands to launch and manage their mobile apps.

Over the last twenty years, Red Ventures has built a platform of businesses, trusted brands, proprietary technology and strategic partnerships that work together to connect millions of people with expert advice. Through premium content and personalized digital experiences, Red Ventures builds online journeys that make it easier for people to make important decisions about their homes, health, travel, finances, education and entertainment. Founded in 2000, Red Ventures spans 5 continents and employs more than 4,500 people. Red Ventures owns and operates several large digital brands including CNET, Healthline Media, The Points Guy, Bankrate and Allconnect.com. For more information, visit redventures.com and follow @RedVentures on social platforms.

ActiveCampaign’s category-defining Customer Experience Automation Platform (CXA) helps over 180,000 businesses in 170 countries meaningfully engage with their customers. The platform gives businesses of all sizes access to 820+ pre-built automations that combine transactional email and email marketing, marketing automation, ecommerce marketing, and CRM for powerful segmentation and personalization across social, email, messaging, chat and text. Over 70% of ActiveCampaign’s customers use its 870+ integrations including Microsoft, Shopify, Square, Facebook and Salesforce. ActiveCampaign is one of only 17 products with over 10,000 positive customer reviews on G2.com, also scoring higher in customer satisfaction than any other solution in Marketing Automation, CRM and E-Commerce Personalization and is the Top Rated Email Marketing Software on TrustRadius. Pricing starts at just $9/month. Start a free trial at ActiveCampaign.com.

Intercom is the world’s first customer platform helping internet businesses accelerate growth. Thanks to the internet, the way people communicate is drastically different than it was 10, even 5 years ago. Messengers like WhatsApp have become the preferred mode of communication in every aspect of consumers’ lives, and now that switch is happening with businesses too. Intercom builds a suite of messaging-first products that all modern internet businesses can use to accelerate growth across the customer lifecycle- from acquisition, to engagement, and support. Today more than 25,000 businesses, including New Relic, Sotheby’s, and Shopify, use Intercom to connect with a billion unique people worldwide.

Braze is the leading customer engagement platform that empowers brands to Be Absolutely Engaging™. Braze helps brands deliver great customer experiences that drive value both for consumers and for their businesses. Built on a foundation of composable intelligence, BrazeAI™ allows marketers to combine and activate AI agents, models, and features at every touchpoint throughout the Braze Customer Engagement Platform for smarter, faster, and more meaningful customer engagement. From cross-channel messaging and journey orchestration to Al-powered decisioning and optimization, Braze enables companies to turn action into interaction through autonomous, 1:1 personalized experiences. The company has been consistently recognized as a Leader in marketing technology by industry analysts, and was named a G2 “Best of Marketing and Digital Advertising Software Product” in 2026. Braze was also named a 2026 Best Places to Work by Built In, a 2025 America’s Greenest Companies by Newsweek, and a 2025 Fortune Best Workplace in Technology™ by Great Place To Work®. The company is headquartered in New York with 15 offices across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC. Learn more at braze.com.

Cordial is next-generation messaging platform for the marketer that is built on real-time data. We solve the problems that legacy ESP’s create for marketers by simplifying data management and empowering brands to create rich personalized experiences across email and mobile for their customers.

Tesorio is the world’s first and only cash flow performance platform. It empowers CFOs and finance teams to boost profits and cash flow performance by using artificial intelligence to better manage, predict, and collect cash. The platform unifies and analyzes an organization’s traditionally-siloed financial data from ERPs, billing systems, banks, and email to present views of all inbound and outbound cash flows, giving finance orgs a precise understanding of how these impact cash and liquidity. The platform also provides predictions of future cash flows which inform its smart workflow automation apps, such as a collections CRM, currency exposure management, and working capital manager. The Tesorio platform can adapt to the needs of any business and significantly improve its cash flow performance. By eliminating cumbersome spreadsheet-driven processes, it not only increases the speed and accuracy of financial team activities but also frees their time for more strategic efforts.

The Ticket Fairy is a full-stack marketing and analytics solution that helps events companies to increase revenue through greater reach, more data and lowered operational costs. Running events is a huge risk. Costs can be massive (in the millions of dollars) and multiple factors affect attendance - even something as simple as rain can result in a 25% drop in on-the-door sales. We are used by large (5,000-30,000+ capacity) events to: - Increase eCommerce revenue (typically by 15-30%) - Lower marketing costs - Increase social reach, to the right people - Manage and optimise advertising campaigns across multiple channels, including automating audience targeting - Reduce/eliminate ticket resale fraud/scalping - Automate day-to-day business operations - Gain insights into customer demographics & brand engagement via social profile analytics - Improve future events via data collected from previous attendees and campaigns