Top Mobile Startups in 2027

Lime is the world's largest shared electric vehicle company. Named a Time 100 Most Influential Company in 2021, Lime has powered more than 300 million electric bike and scooter rides in nearly 250 cities, replacing an estimated 75 million car trips and preventing 26,000 tons of CO2. Learn more at li.me! We're on a mission to build a future where transportation is shared, affordable and carbon-free. Guided by our core pillars of safety, sustainability, community, and innovation, we're helping to decarbonize transportation and change the way people move in cities for good.

Varsity Tutors is a live learning platform that connects students and professionals with personalized instruction to achieve any goal. To date, students have accessed more than three million hours of live instruction on the platform. Experts are available to meet in person or through the company’s award-winning online and mobile platforms, which account for the majority of all sessions.

Founded in June of 2012, Coinbase is a digital currency wallet and platform where merchants and consumers can transact with new digital currencies like bitcoin, ethereum, and litecoin. Our vision is to bring more innovation, efficiency, and equality of opportunity to the world by building an open financial system. Our first step on that journey is making digital currency accessible and approachable for everyone. Two principles guide our efforts. First, be the most trusted company in our domain. Second, create user-focused products that are easier and more intuitive to use.

PayJoy's mission is to deliver access to credit to the next billion people in emerging markets worldwide. Our unique mobile security technology creates collateral that enables customers to afford their first smartphone on credit and then allows them further access to credit to help weather life's unexpected financial surprises and climb the ladder of economic well-being. Founded in 2015, today PayJoy has reached hundreds of thousands of customers in a dozen countries around the globe, from Mexico to Indonesia, India, Kenya, and Nigeria, and is on a strong growth path with support from major industry partners to bring credit to millions in 2019.

Shopify is the leading omni-channel commerce platform. Merchants use Shopify to design, set up, and manage their stores across multiple sales channels, including mobile, web, social media, marketplaces, brick-and-mortar locations, and pop-up shops. The platform also provides merchants with a powerful back-office and a single view of their business, from payments to shipping. The Shopify platform was engineered for reliability and scale, making enterprise-level technology available to businesses of all sizes. Headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, Shopify currently powers over 1.7 million businesses in approximately 175 countries and is trusted by brands such as Allbirds, Gymshark, PepsiCo, Staples, and many more.

#1 Gamified Sports & Entertainment Platform for Next-Gen Fans Think modern-day Barstool Sports x Duolingo for sports. Our Flagship Product: Stadium Live Our Lifestyle Brand: Stadiumlife We are backed by Union Square Ventures, KB Partners, 35 Ventures (Kevin Durant), Origins VC (Blaise Matuidi), Dapper Labs, 6th Man VC, Valhalla Ventures, 305 Ventures, Golden Ventures,, Maple VC, Intonation, Secocha Ventures, and other amazing angels. Find out more here: stadiumliveapp.com

Spruce is a communication software platform built for independent healthcare practices. Our HIPAA-grade, cloud-based solution integrates a business phone system with texting, faxing, and telemedicine—optimizing care collaboration, streamlining patient interactions, and ensuring accountability. Trusted by tens of thousands of healthcare organizations across the U.S. and backed by over 60,000 5-star reviews, Spruce is transforming healthcare communication.

Tencent's diverse services include social networks, web portals, e-commerce, and multiplayer online games. We want to support companies that help connect people in broad and meaningful ways. The Tencent Exploration (TenX) Team is a small group based in Palo Alto that works with and funds innovative companies in the technology and internet sectors. With the future in mind, the team seeks out leading entrepreneurs building products in emerging areas such as AI, Space, VR, healthIT, Fin Tech, and others. Visit our Portfolio page at TenX.tc

Headspace is your lifelong guide to better mental health. We make mental health support accessible to everyone, no matter their background or experience. Through our flagship Headspace app, we provide mindfulness tools for everyday life, including meditations, sleepcasts, mindful movement and focus exercises. Our enterprise offerings combine this experience with a human-centered model of care, with coaching, therapy, psychiatry and EAP services under one roof. Our team of experts ranges from mental health clinicians, to Emmy award-winning producers and data scientists, working together as one to help millions of people around the world be healthier and more productive. To learn more, please visit headspace.com.

Hive is an email & SMS marketing CRM that helps brands sell more while keeping their customers happy and engaged. We make it easy for companies to segment and target their customers based on relevant attributes, automate email marketing campaigns, and send timely, high-converting emails. We started our company inside a University of Waterloo computer lab in early 2014, graduated from Y Combinator that summer (S14 batch) and have been growing ever since. Originally based out of Kitchener, our remote team of 14 is now distributed all across Canada!