Top Sales and Marketing Startups in 2026

Attentive® is the leader in conversational commerce, reinventing business to consumer communication. Our SMS-first software platform helps everyone from entrepreneurs to enterprises strengthen relationships with their consumers in a new way. Through two-way, real-time, personalized communications, we drive billions in e-commerce revenue and over 8,000 leading brands like CB2, Urban Outfitters, Crocs, Jack in the Box, and Coach rely on Attentive to deliver powerful commerce experiences. Attentive’s growth has been recognized by Deloitte’s Fast 500, Linkedin’s Top Startups and Forbes Cloud 100 all thanks to the hard work from our global employees!

Yext (NYSE: YEXT) is the leading brand visibility platform, built for a world where discovery and engagement happen everywhere — across AI search, traditional search, social media, websites, and direct communications. Powered by over 2 billion trusted data points and a suite of integrated products, Yext provides brands the clarity, control, and confidence to perform across digital channels. From real-time insights to AI-driven recommendations and execution at scale, Yext turns a brand's digital presence into a competitive advantage, which is only possible through our team of innovators and enthusiastic collaborators. Join us and experience firsthand why we are consistently recognized as a ‘Best Place to Work’ globally by industry leaders such as Built In, Fortune, and Great Place To Work®!

Sprout Social offers deep social media listening and analytics, social management, customer care, and advocacy solutions to more than 30,000 customers worldwide including DoorDash, General Mills, Trello, Make-a-wish Foundation, Edelman, and Blue Cross Blue Shield. Sprout’s suite of solutions supports every aspect of a cohesive social program and enables organizations of all sizes to extend their reach, amplify their brand and create the kind of real connection with their consumers that drives their businesses forward. Want to join Team Sprout? We're hiring: sproutsocial.com/careers

LiveRamp is the leading data connectivity platform for the safe and effective use of data. Powered by core identity resolution capabilities and an unparalleled network, LiveRamp enables companies and their partners to better connect, control, and activate data to transform customer experiences and generate more valuable business outcomes. LiveRamp’s fully interoperable and neutral infrastructure delivers end-to-end addressability for the world’s top brands, agencies, and publishers. For more information, visit LiveRamp.com.

Movable Ink scales content personalization for marketers through data-activated content generation and AI decisioning. The world’s most innovative brands rely on Movable Ink to maximize revenue, simplify workflow and boost marketing agility. Headquartered in New York City with close to 600 employees, Movable Ink serves its global client base with operations throughout North America, Central America, Europe, Australia, and Japan.

We're developing the privacy platform modern brands rely on to build customer trust and transparency. We untangle the complexity of data privacy and help brands build privacy programs that work, giving them an easy-to-use platform to automate and scale privacy, and stay compliant with regulations like GDPR, CCPA, and CPRA. With 900+ pre-built connections with popular apps and infrastructure, the DataGrail Integrations Network is the first of its kind to detect shadow IT that may contain personal data, ensuring the most accurate data discovery. DataGrail services millions of consumers, through companies like Overstock, Restoration Hardware, NETGEAR, and Outreach, and has 4.8/5 stars on G2. DataGrail is backed by leading VCs and strategic investors, including Felicis Ventures, Operator Collective, Okta Ventures, HubSpot Ventures, and DocuSign Ventures. Visit datagrail.io to learn more.

Manychat is a Meta Official Business Partner, backed by top investors, including Bessemer Venture Partners, and one of America's Best Startup Employers. With 110+ teammates across three global offices — New York, Barcelona, and Yerevan — Manychat helps more than one million businesses worldwide interact with billions of customers in real-time at scale. No matter the use case — generating leads, increasing engagement, providing 24/7 customer support, accepting payments, and beyond — Manychat helps businesses improve their ROI and grow faster.

Reputation.com delivers the category-leading Online Reputation Management (ORM) platform for large enterprises with thousands of locations. With our platform, Fortune 500 companies can monitor and manage their online ratings and reviews, and respond to customer feedback in real time. Businesses can also gain valuable insights at the local level that will give them the information they need to make operational changes that will ultimately maximize customer retention and revenue.

Topsort is the leading AI and Auction-based retail media global company, transforming retailers and marketplaces into top ad networks on par with industry giants. Through seamless integration, Topsort provides a comprehensive Bidless™ retail media tech stack featuring highly flexible API tools, an industry-leading privacy-safe clean room with robust online and in-store attribution, and a transparent ad network for streamlined media buying across multiple ad networks. In just three years since launch, Topsort has raised $38 million in funding from investors like Pear Ventures, Quiet Capital, FJ Labs, and Upload Ventures.

CaptivateIQ is modernizing how businesses compensate their hardworking teams with an automated and flexible, no-code commissions solution. Pay people accurately and on time so they can be more productive. Share insights with sales leadership on which plans are growing the business. Minimize human-error and hours spent calculating commissions each month. We believe that hard work should be rewarded and that there's a smarter way to do that than with complicated spreadsheets. We partner with leading companies including Gong, Intercom, and Udemy to automate their commissions process and add transparency back. CaptivateIQ has raised over $63M from Accel, Sequoia Capital, Amity, S28, and YCombinator. We have over a hundred awesome team members and we're still growing. Join us on our journey to modernize the world of incentive compensation! - Series B with Accel and Sequoia: techcrunch.com/2021/04/07/captivateiq-raises-46m-for-its-no-code-sales-commis… - Video Demo: vimeo.com/454530462 - Career Page: captivateiq.com/careers - #1 Sales Commission Solution: captivateiq.com/blog/we-are-number-one-on-g2 - Our Story: captivateiq.com/blog/our-journey-to-modernize-commissions - LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/captivateiq - Remote Life at CaptivateIQ: vimeo.com/517341199