Top Sharing Economy Startups in 2026

Turo is a car sharing marketplace where guests can book any car they want, wherever they want it, from a vibrant community of local hosts across the US, Canada, the UK, France & Australia. Guests choose from a totally unique selection of nearby cars, while hosts earn extra money to offset the costs of car ownership. A pioneer of the sharing economy and the travel industry, Turo is a safe, supportive community where the car you book is part of a story, not a fleet.

Tipalti provides a holistic, multi-entity accounts payable solution. Organizations that employ Tipalti typically reduce 80% of their supplier payments workflow and are able to move towards a cost-neutral payables operation. Tipalti runs on a secure, cloud-based platform that includes a brandable supplier portal to enhances self-service, a true OCR-driven touchless invoice processing automation workflow with two-way and three-way PO matching, a KPMG-certified tax compliance module, global payment remittance to over 190 countries and 120 currencies across six payment methods, a friction-less early payments capability that streamlines negotiation and adoption, and bi-directional, real-time payment reconciliation. Tipalti is trusted by Amazon, GoDaddy, Roku, Twitter, and hundreds of other innovative companies looking to transform payables so their finance teams can focus on more strategic efforts and company growth.

Founded in 2017, Neighbor is a peer-to-peer self-storage company based in the Silicon Slopes of Lehi, Utah. The company connects people who have unused space in their homes, garages or apartments to renters who are looking for affordable storage. Neighbor benefits renters by providing safer, more accessible storage for half the price of a traditional self-storage unit, while giving hosts the opportunity to earn thousands of dollars per year from their empty space. Neighbor's team helps keep the connection safe, easy and friendly and provides an unprecedented $25,000 renter guarantee for items stored and a $1 million host liability guarantee so that good neighbors everywhere can help each other out. Learn more about Neighbor at neighbor.com.

Wonderschool was started in 2016. The company’s mission is to ensure that every child has access to a home away from home that helps them realize their full potential. Wonderschool supports experienced educators and childcare providers to start their own childcares or preschools out of their homes, whether they live in apartments, condos, or homes that they rent or own. Wonderschool provides assistance with licensing, program setup, marketing and everything in between. The company’s software platform allows teachers to manage their students, parents, and their program from one dashboard. Along with this, Wonderschool has built a marketplace for parents to search Wonderschool programs, schedule visits, enroll their children, and make payments.

Bounce operates a platform that enables luggage storage and package pickup worldwide. We are building the future Operating System for brick-and-mortar businesses, helping them earn more money with their space while simultaneously building consumer products that users love. Over 1,000,000 people have used Bounce to store their luggage while traveling. We launched on Product Hunt in 2019 as the #1 product of the day and have grown to more than 2000 cities worldwide since. We're backed by top-tier investors in Silicon Valley and pride ourselves on being a scrappy team that moves really fast. *Inspiration* The founder, Cody, has lived in 15 cities and traveled to 60+ countries. We know how annoying it is when your things drag you down. *Lightbulb Moment* A few years ago, I was getting drinks with co-workers after work on a Friday. A friend said he’d join but had to go all the way out of the way to drop his work bag at home. I thought―"what a waste of time; there's got to be a better way.” *Problem* People spend so much time planning their days (and their lives) around the things that they own. The status quo when you land in a new city is to go straight to the airport just to drop your stuff off, even if it doesn’t make sense otherwise. *Solution* Tapping into local hotels and shops, we can open up storage space nearly everywhere in a city. Open the Bounce app and find a safe and secure place to leave your things (delivery back to where you’ll be later coming soon!). *Key Features*: 24/7 storage locations Secured and insured Easy pricing: $6 / day 24/7 customer support Get to know your local shops!

Sonder is revolutionizing hospitality through innovative, tech-powered service and inspiring, thoughtfully designed accommodations combined into one seamlessly managed experience. Officially launched in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, Sonder is making a world of better stays open to all with a variety of accommodation options — from rooms to suites and apartments — found in 35 cities spanning eight countries and three continents. Sonder’s innovative app empowers guests by making self-service features and 24/7 on-the-ground support just a tap away. From simple self check-in to boutique bathroom amenities, we bring the best of a hotel without any of the formality.

Outdoorsy's mission is to mobilize the 16M underutilized, idle RVs in the world, via a community driven Marketplace. We empower owners who own these assets but don't have access to capital, marketing resources, insurance or even customers, helping them convert idle assets into profitable businesses. We provide users with tools, payment mechanisms, a user curated community, a $1M insurance program and a greater selection of recreational vehicles than ever before, through the first fully insured, global RV Marketplace.

Vacatia Inc is an innovative hospitality company reinventing the timeshare experience across discovery, booking, and stay. Its online rental, subscription and brokerage platform makes it easy for families to vacation in a resort residence, with the space of a home and services of a hotel. The customer can choose to stay as a renter, subscriber, or owner. While the online platform is used by a wide number of partner resorts, the company also directly manages independent timeshare properties. By providing tech-enabled hospitality and renovation services, Vacatia revives older timeshare resorts to appeal to a modern audience.

We are taking a systematic approach to testing every single home on the planet, accepting only the top 1%. We do so by putting each home through The Plum Test: a gruelling hospitality exam, which uses a mix of algorithms and physical visits by hospitality experts. We launched three years ago in London. We are now in 12 cities across 9 countries, we have vetted over 100,000 homes and are on track to reach over £25M in annualised sales. We are backed by an all-star cast investor group including Local Globe (TransferWise, Citymapper), Alex Chesterman (Founder of Zoopla), William Reeve (Founder of Love Film), Alex Saint and Troy Collins (Founders of Secret Escapes), Jason Goodman (Founder of Albion) and many more. We are launching our global rollout strategy and growing our exceptional team.

Tons of valuable objects in good or perfect condition like toys, furniture's, decoration, electronics… end up in landfills or recycling plants daily. By innovating it is possible to generate an incentive to give them a second life. Greenriot is an App to generate incentives and facilitate local circular economy tasks collaboratively User experience of "Stooping" activity (sharing photos and locations of discarded stuff on streets) on social media is horrible, information is disorganized and require many manual tasks that dont allow scaling, our solution save times and work to users and give an extra incentive, giving the option of monetizing and gamifying the activity. The model of Circular economy flea market organizations of selling things that people want to get rid of offering the service of emptying houses or receiving donations its a very profitable model that should be scaled, decentralized and digitized. These organizations receive too many donations at their Stores so they have to select the most valuable items and discard the rest, generating waste with valuable objects. By scaling the model, the problem can be minimized. Circular economy flea market organizations like Goodwill ,Salvation army, traperos emaus and most of 2nd hand thrift stores or garage sales dont have most of their local catalogs digitized. App or web systems on the market aren't good solutions for local thrifting, buying live and being able to touch and feel something before buying it has a differential value, online shopping often its not satisfactory, Apps or webs system on the market are good for online shopping but not for local thrifting. Consumers often throw away valuable items because there are no facilities to sell of donate fast and easy, repair, or transport them. By better organizing information and communication to facilitate these local tasks with offer and demand ads for easy matching its possible to generate ecological and economical incentives for making t