Top Marketing Automation Startups in 2026

College is a massive investment, and over 80% of students cite career advancement as their primary motivation for pursuing a degree. We believe that in order for institutions to better deliver on the career advancement expectations of their students, there must be greater accessibility and transparency into career services and outcomes. uConnect builds intelligent platforms on which colleges and universities aggregate, curate, and promote the resources, technologies, and data students need to make better informed enrollment decisions, more purposefully explore career pathways, and graduate with positive outcomes. We have partnered with over 50 higher ed institutions and currently serve nearly 1 million students on our partner platforms. uConnect is a graduate of the LearnLaunchX accelerator and has received numerous awards for technology and innovation.

We’re building the next generation of marketing software and we’re empowering the leading restaurants in the world to do things better, smarter, faster. SpotHopper is the only platform that allows restaurants to manage all of their marketing in minutes instead of days, using AI to drive better results and save thousands of dollars. Having launched in New York in 2015, SpotHopper has quickly become the leading all-in-one marketing platform for restaurants. We have hundreds of happy customers in each of the largest cities across the country, from NYC to CHI to LA and we’re currently expanding nationwide: hiring in a dozen new markets across the country.

Browse AI is the easiest way to extract data from *any* website to: - Download data as a spreadsheet - Monitor any webpage for changes - Turn any website into an API You can also browse 50+ (soon to be hundreds) 1-click automations for popular use cases and start using them with a single click.

HighLevel is an all-in-one Sales & Marketing CRM currently powering hundreds of thousands of businesses worldwide. Functionality includes CRM, Email, 2-way SMS, Consolidated SMS/Messenger/Instagram DM/Whatsapp/GMB Chat, Outbound Calling, Call Tracking, Call Recording, Power Dialer, Form Builder, Survey Builder, Funnel Builder, Website Builder, Online Scheduling, Workflow Automation, Social Media Scheduling, Proposals, Estimates, Invoicing, Reporting, Webhooks, and more! Flat pricing, unlimited sub-accounts for agencies managing clients that can be cloned to speed up setups, and even white-label!

In an age where decisions are being made visually, marketers need to be able to integrate visual content easily and at scale. CrowdRiff's Visual Marketing platform enables marketers to do just that, become more effective with visual content. The platform provides a control center to capture, organize and acquire rights to photos & videos, all while building relationships with contributors. Brands use the visuals to tell better stories on their website, advertising, blog posts and more. Loved by destinations & attractions like @Colorado, @TravelPortland, @VisitFranklin & @TheROM. We're also the creators of Riffle crowdriff.com/riffle and My Top Tweet mytoptweet.com. See #ilfeatcrowdriff on Instagram: instagram.com/crowdriff.

You know those annoying messages you get every day. Well they're only going to get worse unless someone does something about it. Ometria's purpose is to help retailers create marketing experiences their customers will love. We use AI and lots of data to truly understand each customer, and make sure that their experiences are ones they truly find valuable. And we do this right now for 200 of the fastest growing retail brands, from Made.com to Hotel Chocolat, and for 150 million individual people across the world. We're a team of 100 Ometrians based in London, New York and Southampton, and have raised over £25m from leading VCs like Octopus and Summit. In 2018, we were the 9th fastest growing company in the UK, according to Deloitte, and everything about us continues to double each year - our revenues, our customers, and our team.

For brands who depend on their partners to grow. Relevize is the partner co-marketing platform that helps you sell more together because it’s purpose-built for digital media.

Botco.ai is a conversational AI platform built for healthcare and life sciences. We help enterprise teams deploy intelligent chat experiences that drive patient engagement, generate leads, and surface insights — all within a HIPAA-compliant infrastructure. We're a lean, remote-first team moving fast on hard problems. Botco.ai empowers businesses from a range of industries to deliver exceptional, trustworthy customer experiences that generate high quality pipeline, increase sales conversions, and accelerate revenue. Recipient of the Arizona Innovation Challenge "Most Outstanding Startup" award, best SaaS platform from the Arizona Commerce Authority (ACA), the TiE50 Award, and others, Botco.ai is transforming the way businesses communicate with their prospects and customers. For more information, visit botco.ai.

Majiku is an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based video and film creation platform that turns ideas and narrative text into ready-to-publish MP4 video files in minutes. We automate the entire production orchestration—from scriptwriting, character creation, and scene setup, audio visual generation, mixing and final rendering—directly from mobile devices and the web. The Problem Currently, over 5 billion people consume social media content. A large portion of them are business owners, as well as professional and beginner creators who want to produce and share video content. However, they face key challenges: • Limited time • Lack of editing skills • High hardware costs • Camera shyness (lack of confidence to appear on camera) Business owners need promotional videos to support product marketing. Meanwhile, creators—both professional and beginners—require a consistent supply of video content for their routine social media upload schedules. On average, they still require a laptop, specialized skills, and hours or even days just to create and edit a single video. The Solution Majiku democratizes video production. We empower anyone—regardless of their technical background—to produce professional videos and films. • Full Automation (End-to-End): Simply input a prompt or basic idea, and Majiku handles the scripting, visual asset generation, voiceover, and rendering. • High Accessibility: Designed with a mobile-first and web approach, enabling content production anytime and anywhere. • Breaking Creative Boundaries: Enables beginner creators to produce stunning visual works without the need for cameras or manual editing skills.