Top Monetization Startups in 2026

Skillz is the leading marketplace platform that helps players discover mobile games and compete against other players around the world. At the same time, the company helps developers build multi-million dollar franchises by enabling social competition in their games. Leveraging its patented technology, Skillz has hosted over 2 billion tournaments entries for 30 million mobile players worldwide and distributes over $60 million in prizes each month. Headquartered in San Francisco and Portland, the company is backed by leading venture capitalists, media companies, and professional sports leagues and franchises including the investment arm of the NFL and owners of the New England Patriots, Milwaukee Bucks, New York Mets and Sacramento Kings. Skillz has also earned recognition as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, CNBC’s Disruptor 50, Forbes’ Next Billion-Dollar Startups, and the #1 fastest-growing company in America on the Inc. 5000.

OpenAudience is the people-based marketing platform for the open web. OpenAudience allows publishers to gain insights about their audience and rethink how to value consumer attention. OpenAudience allows marketers to plan and buy with ease and performance across the open web, across all screens. The first of its kind capability to unlock walled garden advertising efficiency and ease across the entirety of the open web has been engineered around three core pillars: privacy, knowledge and performance. People first, reaching every digitally addressable adult across every device, screen and household on the open web. Clients work with OpenX because of our commitment to quality, our ability to deliver highly efficient and scalable marketplaces and our superior partner service. We are ranked as one of the cleanest supply sources for high-quality inventory in the world across both desktop and mobile app. Investment in high-quality teams and technology enables us to transact ever increasing value for clients as the industry expands to new platforms and screens.

Insticator is the global leader in increasing engagement for publishers through interactive content and community building. Our suite of engagement products empowers publishers and consumers alike to amplify their voices and express their opinions in safe, interactive environments. From our human-moderated Commenting Unit that facilitates healthy, respectful discourse, to our Content Engagement Unit that enables audiences to share their opinions and interact with content that speaks directly to them, Insticator reaches over 350 million consumers monthly across our vast network of premium publishing partners including Ancestry, WebMD, Fox Sports, RealClear Media Group and more. Headquartered in New York and Miami, Insticator’s global footprint spans the US, Canada, India, the Philippines, Ukraine and the UK. Visit insticator.com to learn more.

Massive powers live web access for the AI era. We run a network of real consumer devices across 195+ countries, each one opted in through our SDK, so data and AI teams can fetch live public-web content at scale from any location, exactly as a real local user would. On top of that network sit our residential proxies and the Web Render API: clean HTML or markdown from any public source, a Search endpoint for SERP and local results, and AI completions from any geo with sources.