Top Marketing Automation Startups in 2026

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.

Showpad delivers the world’s most intuitive sales enablement platform, one that increases the effectiveness of your content by making it incredibly easy to find, present, share, and measure. Our platform enables organizations to equip their customers, partners, and sales reps with the right content at the right time, anywhere and from any device. Unlike traditional file sharing or content management systems, Showpad is the only platform that allows you to effortlessly present and distribute your content in a branded environment to all channels, over the cloud, and easily measure its impact on the business. With Showpad, sales and marketing teams work better together to advance conversations, inspire loyalty, and accelerate your business. Deploy Showpad quickly, and scale as your company and content grow.

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

Invoca is the industry innovator in AI and machine learning-powered Conversation Intelligence technology. Forrester Research identified Invoca as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Conversation Intelligence: Sales And Marketing, Q4 2021 report, stating that "Invoca is one of the few established conversation intelligence vendors that can legitimately claim AI capabilities." With over 300 employees, more than 2,000 customers, and nearing $100M in revenue, there are tremendous opportunities to continue growing the business. We are building a world-class SaaS company, having raised over $100 million from Accel, Upfront Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Morgan Stanley, and H.I.G. Growth Partners.

Act-On is a marketing automation platform that delivers innovation that empowers marketers to do the best work of their careers. Act-On is the only integrated workspace to address the needs of the CMO and the entire marketing department, from awareness and acquisition, through retention and loyalty. With Act-On, marketers can deliver more personalized customer experiences, drive better business outcomes, and maximize customer lifetime value.

MoEngage is an insights-led customer engagement platform for the customer-obsessed marketers and product owners. We help you delight your customers and retain them for longer. With MoEngage you can analyze customer behavior and engage them with personalized communication across the web, mobile, and email. MoEngage is a full-stack solution consisting of powerful customer analytics, AI-powered customer journey orchestration, and personalization - in one dashboard From Fortune 500 enterprises such as Deutsche Telekom, Samsung, and Ally to mobile-first brands such as Flipkart, OLA, and bigbasket - MoEngage has helped amplify customer engagement for all. Product managers and growth marketers can use MoEngage to provide a personalized experience throughout the customer lifecycle stages – from onboarding to retention to growth. What makes MoEngage different, is a full-stack solution consisting of powerful customer analytics, AI-powered customer journey orchestration and personalization capabilities - in one dashboard.

Content Curation -- Generating content is costly and time-consuming. Cloud Campaign's content discovery assists in finding trending articles and even extracting key quotes using NLP to be used as captions. Content Library -- All content is stored in a cloud library for easy collaboration for all stakeholders. Content Publishing -- Robust scheduling through either a drip schedule, weekly schedule, or one-time post allows marketers to put content publishing on auto-pilot so they can focus on the creative and growing their business. Dynamic content posted via our weather or trend triggers have proven an 89% increase in engagement on social media. Reporting -- One-click client-ready reports provide an extra level of transparency and allow marketing agencies to charge more for their services.

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.

Kepler’s role is to be the activation engine for smarter marketing. We’re at our best when we have a better understanding of what motivates people. We use data science to build higher quality models and algorithms, and we deliver maximum results when able to collaborate with forward thinking creative partners. We are proud to be a member of the kyu collective, whose portfolio companies are leaders in each of these areas. Together we offer clients everything brands need to achieve success in today’s more personalized, tech-driven marketing environment. We use data science to build higher quality models and algorithms, and we deliver maximum results when able to collaborate with forward thinking creative partners.