Top Software Startups in 2026

GumGum is an artificial intelligence company, with particular expertise in computer vision. Its mission is to unlock the value of images and videos produced everyday across the web, social media and broadcast television. Since 2008, the company has applied its patented capabilities to serve a variety of industries from advertising to professional sports.

PagerDuty is the leading digital operations management platform for businesses. We empower DevOps, IT operations, support, security, and business leaders to turn any signal into insight and real-time action across any operational use case. When revenue and brand reputation depend on customer satisfaction, PagerDuty helps teams prevent and resolve business-impacting incidents and deliver exceptional digital experiences.

We believe velocity comes from the ability to adapt quickly to the next touchpoints, channels, and expectations so we’ve designed our AI-driven search and merchandising tools (brSM), next-gen content management system (brXM), and digital experience platform (brX) to be the most flexible on the market. We solve everyday frustrations for marketers, developers, and eCommerce professionals, as well as the deeper technology issues sitting at a company's digital core, so that businesses can deliver a fantastic digital experience to every visitor.

Freshworks provides organizations of all sizes with SaaS customer engagement solutions that make it easy for support, sales and marketing professionals to communicate effectively with customers for better service and collaborate with team members to resolve customer issues. The company's products include Freshdesk, Freshservice, Freshsales, Freshcaller, Freshteam, Freshchat and Freshmarketer. Founded in October 2010, Freshworks Inc., is backed by Accel, Tiger Global Management, CapitalG and Sequoia Capital India. Freshworks' headquarters are located in San Bruno, Calif., with global offices in India, UK, Australia and Germany. The company's cloud-based suite is widely used by over 150,000 businesses around the world including the NHS, Honda, Rightmove, Hugo Boss, Citizens Advice, Toshiba and Cisco.

SecurityScorecard is the global leader in cybersecurity ratings and the only service with over a million companies continuously rated. Founded in 2013 by security and risk experts Dr. Alex Yampolskiy and Sam Kassoumeh, SecurityScorecard’s patented rating technology is used by over 1,000 organizations for self-monitoring, third-party risk management, board reporting and cyber insurance underwriting; making all organizations more resilient by allowing them to easily find and fix cybersecurity risks across their externally facing digital footprint. SecurityScorecard is the only provider of instant risk ratings that automatically map to vendor cybersecurity questionnaire responses - providing a true 360 degree view of risk. SecurityScorecard continues to make the world a safer place by transforming the way companies understand, improve and communicate cybersecurity risk to their boards, employees and vendors. To receive an email with your company’s current score, please visit instant.securityscorecard.com.

Collective Health is a technology company working to create the healthcare experience we all deserve. Today, we help the best companies in the U.S. take better care of their people with our complete health insurance solution. Backed by Founders Fund, NEA and Redpoint Ventures, our team applies their diverse backgrounds from NASA, Facebook, Google, Blue Shield and Mercer to build products that bring intelligence, empathy and common sense to the health insurance experience. Find out more at collectivehealth.com

Cobalt is the new way of doing application security. Cobalt leverages a global intelligent community of security researchers to help modern SaaS organizations uncover security vulnerabilities. We run agile pen tests.

We provide tracking and analytics for both phone calls and web forms. We help you discover which ads, keywords and campaigns bring valuable leads over the phone and on the web. We offer call tracking software which can reveal which campaigns, websites, and search keywords are driving phone call conversations. With visitor timelines you can see your customer’s journey through your website. Call conversion data feeds directly into Google Ads and even optimizes your PPC call tracking campaigns so you can track phone calls as conversions. Our product is designed to be straightforward and accessible to businesses of all sizes. We help optimize your workflow so you can measure the quality of your conversations and turn more leads into customers.

Our mission is to accelerate progress toward a smaller, fairer, safer criminal justice system—and to do so at-scale. Recidiviz is a tech startup through and through: we take the speed and problem solving of the tech world and apply it to big public policy challenges where there is huge opportunity for impact. Using modern data infrastructure and thoughtful product design, we’ve been able to safely and permanently reduce incarceration and improve outcomes. We work side-by-side with justice-impacted communities, ecosystem partners, and leaders of the criminal justice system to build a better path forward. In addition to the revenue we earn from states, some of the most respected philanthropists and foundations—including Arnold Ventures, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and the Mozilla Foundation—support our work.

Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.