Top News Startups in 2026

We're your digital library and bookstore, all in one. for one low subscription fee every month, you can read unlimited amounts of books and magazines from your phone, tablet, or computer. we also provide document hosting services. we're bringing print entertainment to the digital stage.

Newsela provides school districts with authentic instructional content that supports their curriculum, empowers teachers across subjects to promote standards-based instruction, and drives student engagement and learning. Content is published daily at 5 reading levels and aligned to standards with student activities and teaching scaffolds designed to bring lessons to life. With over 20 million users, Newsela is already helping kids improve their reading skills in all 50 states and more than 150 countries. We're looking for passionate, creative people with quick minds and warm hearts to join us. If you believe that all students deserve a more rigorous, more personalized learning experience, please apply to join our team.

Reddit is home to thousands of communities, endless conversation, and authentic human connection. Whether you're into breaking news, sports, TV fan theories, or a never-ending stream of the internet's cutest animals, there's a community on Reddit for you. Reddit was founded by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian in 2005 and was acquired by Condé Nast in 2006.

We produce original content across YouTube, Snapchat and IGTV, as well as highly engaging shortform content on Instagram and TikTok. In just four years, we’ve amassed over 50 million fans and followers and drive an average of over 1.5 billion video views each month. Based in NYC, Overtime is funded by top VC firms, industry leaders, and athletes, including Andreessen Horowitz, Spark Capital, Sapphire Sport, Bezos Expeditions (the personal investment company of Jeff Bezos), Micromanagement Ventures (the family of the late David Stern), Black Capital, Morgan Stanley Counterpoint Global, Blackstone Strategic Partners, PROOF, Gaingels, Alexis Ohanian, Drake, and 30+ NBA stars including Carmelo Anthony and Kevin Durant.

Haystack News is the leading local & world news service on Connected TVs reaching millions of users and empowering them with a personalized newscast. We are one of the fastest-growing TV News companies in the world, and are already preloaded on 37% of all TVs shipped in the US! Haystack News already has direct relationships with all major TV companies (Samsung, Sony, Vizio, LG, etc) as well as hundreds of premium TV news channels including ABC News, CBSi, Bloomberg, and local TV stations for 90% of the country. Haystack News is redefining the future of TV news and we pride ourselves on our ability to move faster and execute better than anyone else in our industry. We accomplish this by working with the smartest people and staying on the cutting-edge. We measure ourselves by the impact we are having on individuals’ daily lives and on the television industry as a whole.

Noa's audio-journalism offering is revolutionising the way people consume news and information. * Premium content from the likes of The New York Times, The Economist and The Financial Times, is produced over audio by professional voice narrators, ensuring engaging and high quality storytelling. * Expertly curated playlists - called "Series" - provide multiple perspectives from multiple publishers, on the same topic and allow our listeners to walk away truly informed, having heard all sides of the story. No more filter bubbles, no more broken mirrors, and a far better way to tackle fake news. * Accessible across all audio-supported devices including mobile, smart speakers, web and connected cars providing listeners with maximum convenience. * A re-imagined user experience allows users to discover and track, with ease, the news that is most important to them. Noa's current publisher line-up: • The New York Times • The Financial Times • The Economist • The Washington Post • MIT Technology Review • Foreign Affairs • The Irish Times • Evening Standard • The Independent • Business Insider • Bloomberg Noa is available across all audio-supported platforms, including: • iOS: appsto.re/ie/cS0Pdb.i • Android: goo.gl/oqWj8p • Alexa: amzn.to/2Gb6ACe • Web: newsoveraudio.com

Ground News Pro is the world’s first news source comparison platform. Drawing from more than 40,000 media outlets worldwide and featuring an average of 30,000 news stories per day, we empower readers to arrive at the truth themselves. For each news story, we find dozens of publications across the political spectrum and from around the world covering the same event. Readers can quickly get a comprehensive view of what’s being said, who is saying it, how it’s being presented, and where and when in the world it was published or aired.

Duetto is hospitality’s only Revenue Strategy Platform. A powerful suite of cloud applications addresses the industry’s complexity in distribution and technology, providing solutions that increase booking conversion, efficiency, guest loyalty and revenue. The unique combination of hospitality experience and technology leadership drives Duetto to look for new and innovative solutions to the industry’s greatest challenges. Duetto delivers software-as-a-service to hotels and casinos that leverage dynamic data sources and actionable insights into pricing and demand across the enterprise, enabling a holistic and more profitable Revenue Strategy.

Understory generates real-time, localized, weather data, powered by a dense grids of patent-pending, next generation weather stations. The hardware designed by Understory detects rain, hail, winds and other weather events directly at the Earth’s surface where the risk to life and property is greatest. The information collected by Understory is analyzed and processed to create real-time datasets and views of the movement and intensity of weather events to provide better insight and early detection of risks. Understory's weather station generates three-dimensional wind, rain, and hail observations as well as temperature, pressure, humidity, lightning strikes, and ambient light. We upload the data over cellular to paint a picture of real time observations at a 1-2 mile resolution that sheds ground truth on how the weather affects people and businesses.

ATTN: is an issues-driven media company. Our mission is to deliver engaging content to a mobile-first audience. Every day we produce videos, articles and commentary telling stories worth your attention. At our core, we believe in informing people to make a social impact. Through compelling, issue-driven content, we strive to engender greater participation in communities, the political process and the world around us.