Top News Startups in 2026

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.

Newsreel is a balanced, digestible and engaging political news platform that provides users with an easy and efficient way to stay in the know whenever, wherever. We aggregate and break down high-quality news and deliver it to you on your Instagram story, in your inbox as a daily, weekly and monthly newsletter, and on a web-based platform that filters news into timelines that show the evolution of current events.

An initiative of Knight Foundation, the Knight Enterprise Fund invests in early-stage media innovation companies. We’re looking for startups with disruptive solutions at the intersection of information, community and engagement. The legacy of two brothers who created the largest US newspaper company, Knight has invested $200M+ in media innovation. Portfolio companies benefit from Knight’s large network of media, educational, non-profit partners and community relationships in 26 cities.

At a time of growing industry uncertainty and an alarming erosion of civic discourse, The Dispatch stands out as a platform for thoughtful coverage, respectful dialogue and a wildly engaged community of paying members. We bring a perspective – we’re conservatives, classical liberals, libertarians – but we’re fiercely independent, standing apart from media outlets increasingly engaged in partisan boosterism. Started by Steve Hayes, the Editor-in-Chief of The Weekly Standard, and Jonah Goldberg, editor at The National Review in 2019, The Dispatch has filled a valuable gap on the center-right in the media ecosystem as captured in recent articles in Techcrunch, The Atlantic and other publications. techcrunch.com/2020/03/17/the-dispatch-substack-1-million-revenue theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/01/dispatch-tries-sell-real-news-right/… niemanlab.org/2020/03/the-dispatch-surpassed-1-million-in-revenue-by-being-ne…

In an increasingly digital world, MemoryWell is solving a growing list of healthcare’s most challenging engagement problems with an unexpected solution: Empathetic, human interaction. Our solutions make the person the center of healthcare. MemoryWell delivers dramatic increases in satisfaction and retention. And our rich, person-centered dialogs yield the most accurate SDOH and HRA data available. MemoryWell grew out of the experience our founder, Jay Newton-Small, had caregiving for her father, who had Alzheimer's. When she moved him into a senior community, she was asked to fill out a long questionnaire about his life. This made no sense: who would remember pages of hand-written data points for 100+ residents in that community? Instead, as a longtime TIME Magazine correspondent, she wrote his story for his caregivers and pasted it on the walls throughout the community. It transformed his care. Two of his caregivers were Ethiopian and they'd had no idea Jay’s father, Graham, had lived in Ethiopia for years early on in his career with the United Nations. They became his champions, sitting for hours asking him about what it was like to work with Emperor Haile Selassie. Seeing the impact her story had on her father’s experience was enough to influence Jay to transition from her role at TIME to launch MemoryWell. In addition to the life stories product, MemoryWell has leveraged insights and journalistic engagement to reduce churn in Medicare Advantage. Medicare Advantage churn averages 10% and is as high as 40% during the first 90 days. Enrollees have grown numb to automated texts and robocalls, resulting in expensive data gaps. MemoryWell provides human-to-human engagement that resolves these problems with skillful conversation, relationship building, and education.

The New York Times creates, collects, and distributes news, information, and entertainment through a daily newspaper and a website.The New York Times has more than 50 websites and publishes 18 newspapers, including the [International Herald Tribune](crunchbase.com/organization/international-herald-tribune) and [The Boston Globe](crunchbase.com/organization/the-boston-globe). It is a leading media company with 2012 revenues of 1.99 U.S. dollar billion. The company previously owned [About.com](crunchbase.com/organization/about-com) but sold it in September 2012 to IAC/InterActiveCorp for 300 U.S. dollar million. The New York Times newspaper has won 98 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other newspaper, and it is organized into sections: News, Opinions, Business, Arts, Science, Sports, Style, and Features. The New York Times website is rated as one of the most popular websites online, receiving over 14 million unique visitors in August 2008. The New York Times is headquartered in New York.

150Bond provides high-level strategic advice to c-level executives helping them to amplify their message and grow their network. We work with high growth companies, top tier VCs and Fortune 500's

MyLocalPress.com is seeking to collaborate with independent journalists with a background in business, journalism and communications who possess entrepreneurial drive and are committed to advancing local journalism in cities and towns where newspapers have closed or where local news coverage is insufficient. As a startup technology company, MyLocalPress.com is dedicated to revitalizing local journalism in communities lacking robust news outlets. Over the past two decades, approximately 50% of local newspapers have ceased operations due to business model challenges. MyLocalPress.com addresses these issues by utilizing technology, the internet, and artificial intelligence to equip independent journalists with the resources necessary to launch and manage local newspapers, produce content, publish articles, and sell advertising—from the field using a smartphone or from a desktop computer. Independent journalists can register and access the MyLocalPress.com platform at no cost, enabling them to publish local news and generate advertising revenue, with unlimited income potential determined by individual ambition. For additional information or to get started, visit mylocalpress.com and sign up to begin building your local news enterprise today.

A global platform that empowers sustainability: news, articles, startups, and a sustainability index. OUR STORY We were founded in Rome in 2014. From there, we established our presence online via our sustainability news portal: impakter.com PARTNERS We are partners of many UN organisations, NGOs, think tanks, research centers and Universities. PROFILES: Linkedin: linkedin.com/company/impakter Twitter: twitter.com/Impakterdotcom Facebook: facebook.com/impakterdotcom Instagram: instagram.com/impakter