Top Software Startups in 2027

FleetPulse operates as a trailer telematics company.

Light turns power into a platform. We help leading brands—like solar providers, automakers, and home platforms—offer embedded, branded electricity plans to their customers. Our partners are reshaping how people experience energy, unlocking better customer experiences or the full potential of products like batteries, EVs, and other smart devices. We’re bringing together the best builders in tech and energy, backed by top investors and angels. Based in Austin, TX, we’re not just building a better utility—we’re redefining what a power company can be.

Axamy is like Muse for whole organizations. We're enabling whole teams and organizations to work together through a shared understanding of their people, goals, decisions, and commitments. Axamy learns through working with people, coordinates across them, and follows through on the work that needs to happen. Our ambition is to eliminate bureaucracy as a method of organizing people that treats them like meatware, discouraging our best qualities like creativity, initiative, and daring. Our technology will make workplaces more human, helping people collaborate while being free to contribute the best of what they have to offer. We’re looking for people who want to help build that company with us.

DataBrain helps product and engineering teams at SaaS companies build stunning reports and dashboards that are fully white-labelled in less than a few hours. We enable this with a single SDK that offers enterprise grade scale, security and high level of customizations that engineers love.

We’re a squad of fintech builders, powered by Stripe, on a mission to shatter old remittance and banking limits and unleash instant cross-border payments for the Caribbean and Latin America’s business and community landscape. Whether someone is sending funds from Toronto, London, or Miami, or spending it in Kingston Jamaica (our first country), our closed-loop ecosystem gets money moving fast, locally, and for real impact.

Recruiterflow is the AI-native platform powering executive search and recruiting businesses—from sourcing talent to closing deals. Trusted by 2,100+ agencies and 10,000+ recruiters across 100+ countries, we’re led by second-time founders with 13 years of experience in AI. Profitable and self-funded, we were recently named Bootstrapped Business of the Year. Our customers fund our roadmap because what we build works.

ScalingCraft Solutions is a performance-driven growth engine built exclusively for dental practices. We run Google & Meta Ads campaigns that replace the guesswork, hidden fees, and rotating account managers typical of dental marketing agencies with a structured, transparent system that delivers qualified, high-intent patient appointments - not just clicks. Founded by Roshan Bajaj after 15+ years running paid search for dental practices across the US, Canada, and Australia - behind the scenes, for other agencies - ScalingCraft Solutions was built to cut out the middle layer: practices get the same senior-level execution, direct access to the team actually doing the work, and full visibility into every dollar spent. Today we manage $670K+ in monthly ad spend for 130+ dental practices across 20 US states, combining AI-accelerated targeting, daily search-term discipline, and rigorous conversion tracking with a risk-reversed, month-to-month model - free first month, cancel anytime, no long contracts. We're a small, senior team solving one problem exceptionally well: turning ad spend into verified, qualified patients that dental practices can measure to the dollar. If you want focused, outcome-driven work with direct client impact - not busywork buried inside a bloated agency - this is that kind of team.

Smart AdServer is the only independent full-stack ad technology platform in programmatic and direct sales dedicated to the sell side. Our unique holistic approach gives control back to publishers allowing them to innovate and optimize all their monetization channels across all formats -- display, rich media, native and video -- and on all screens.

System Inc. builds software to help the world see and solve anything as a system. We are a Public Benefit Corporation driven by purpose and shaped by values. We aspire to build a more responsible and values-driven model of a tech company. To learn more about what motivates our mission, we invite you to read: brokennature.org/redesigning-the-system. System helps teams discover data, share insights, and build knowledge. Designed and built for the data-first era, System is where knowledge lives. Today, System is used by data and analytics teams and their stakeholders in sectors ranging from healthcare to financial services to technology. We believe in the power of small, autonomous, interdisciplinary, and diverse teams; in agile development; and in leading with values, first principles, and clear high-level priorities backed by data. We believe in cultivating a growth mindset for our team — always learning, improving, being challenged, and having opportunities for professional and personal development. We hire systems thinkers who are motivated by our purpose, share our values, and have the skills to advance our mission. We are proud to foster a workplace, in person and online, free from discrimination. We strongly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and background will lead to a better environment for our employees and a better product for our users. We are a distributed-first company, and gather as a team periodically in the Hudson Valley in upstate New York to collaborate in-person.

If you want to drive ongoing improvement to your customer experience management program, then you need to find a way to engage with your customers — understand what they’re saying, and then act on their feedback. That’s what Medallia does. Don’t just take our word for it. Listen to some of our customers talk about why they chose Medallia: medallia.com/why-medallia