Top Software Startups in 2026

As the pioneer in Continuous Product Design, Quantum Metric helps organizations put customers at the heart of everything they do. The Quantum Metric platform empowers a customer-centric culture, helping business and technology teams align faster on customer needs and prioritize the opportunities that will drive the most value. Today, Quantum Metric captures insights from 29 percent of the world’s internet users, supporting globally recognized brands in retail, travel, financial services, and telecommunications. In January of 2021, Quantum Metric secured its place as a tech unicorn with an above $1 billion valuation and a $200 million Series B funding round. For more information about Quantum Metric, visit quantummetric.com

Culdesac Tempe — the first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the U.S. — will be home to over 1,000 people. We’ve pulled out the parking lots to make room for acres of greenspace, friendly courtyards, and shops right at your doorstep. We’re bringing together services like ridesharing, bikes, scooters, and same-day grocery delivery, so zero private cars means zero hassle. Plus, an on-site light rail stop makes it a breeze to get downtown for work.

Zerocater builds revolutionary corporate catering and cafeteria solutions employees love while saving companies millions of dollars as they transition to the hybrid workplace. With its Cloud Cafe, Hybrid Cafe, Managed Cafe, and Event Cafe products; Zerocater has built corporate cafeteria and office catering programs for companies of all sizes from growing startups to the Fortune 500. Thousands of companies like TikTok, Datadog, Airtable, and McKinsey choose Zerocater for the customized, consistent, and diverse meal experiences its products offer, while also reducing costs by giving companies the flexibility to only pay for the employees who come into the office. Zerocater currently offers its corporate cafeteria and office catering products in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston, Austin, Denver, Seattle, and Washington D.C. with additional markets in the U.S. and Canada coming online every month. Since completing YCombinator in Winter 2011, Zerocater has raised $38.5M from leading investors including Cleveland Avenue, Remus Capital, Romulus Capital, Struck Capital, SV Angel, Keith Rabois, Yuri Milner, Paul Buchheit, and Justin Kan. For more information visit zerocater.com and follow @Zerocater on Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin, and Twitter. Check out our company profile on Workatastartup: workatastartup.com/directory/171

WHO WE ARE: Yotpo is the leading eCommerce marketing platform that helps thousands of forward-thinking brands like Rebecca Minkoff, Patagonia, and Steve Madden accelerate direct-to-consumer growth. Our single-platform approach integrates data-driven solutions for Loyalty & Referrals, SMS Marketing, Reviews and Visual UGC, empowering brands to save time and create smarter, higher-converting customer experiences. Yotpo is a Forbes Cloud 100 company with offices worldwide including New York, London, Tel Aviv, Yoqneam, Sofia and Australia. More information can be found at yotpo.com. OUR MISSION: To make eCommerce marketing smarter for brands, captivating for shoppers. BRAND PROMISE: Innovation at the speed of eCommerce, giving brands the competitive edge to win over customers, every time.

Podium exists to help local businesses win. Using Podium’s technology, local businesses are able to simplify the way they build their business and modernize the way they communicate with their customers – from collecting payments, facilitating online reviews, launching marketing campaigns, and much more. Our work and focus on local business and helping them to build thriving businesses has been recognized across the industry, including Forbes’ Next Billion Dollar Startups, Forbes’ Cloud 100, the Inc. 5000 (#13), and Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies. For more about our product, watch this video. Podium has a positive, inclusive, and supportive culture and was recently named one of Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces for 2021 (4 years in a row). We look for people who are curious, creative and are willing to do the work to be a little better every day. We also embody our company values in all that we do, which always starts with being Customer Obsessed, followed by Be a Founder, Zero Drama, and Enjoy the Ride.

Hey, we’re Deepgram! We’re an AI speech platform whose mission is to make every voice heard and understood. Our end-to-end deep neural network is revolutionizing the speech-to-text market and taking on the big guys. We’re redefining what companies can do with voice by offering a platform with AI architectural advantage, not legacy tech retrofitted with AI. Deepgram delivers highly accurate, actually usable transcription, right out of the box – or you can train a model for even greater accuracy on the unique words that matter to you. ✅ Live-stream or pre-recorded ✅ On-prem or in the cloud ✅ Scalable and affordable ✅ Dozens of languages and use case models ✅ Features like diarization, summarization, language/topic detection, and more. We’ve raised over $86 million and have been recognized as an Inc. Best Workplace (2021 and 2022), a Forbes Top 50 AI Company to Watch (2021), and a CB Insights Top 100 AI Startup (2021), among others. Come join our revolution to unlock the power of voice technology for everyone. We want to hear what you’ve got to say! An NVIDIA partner and Y Combinator company

Domino powers model-driven business for the world’s most advanced enterprises, including over 20% of the Fortune 100. Our Enterprise MLOps platform speeds up the development and deployment of data science work while increasing collaboration and governance, to scale data science into a competitive advantage. Our platform enables thousands of data scientists to develop better medicines, grow more productive crops, adapt risk models to major economic shifts, build better cars, improve customer support, or simply recommend the best purchase to make at the right time. Domino is backed by leading venture capital firms: Sequoia Capital, Bloomberg Beta, Coatue Management, Dell Technologies Capital, Highland Capital Partners, In-Q-Tel, and Zetta Venture Partners.

Humanly is revolutionizing talent acquisition with our AI-powered recruiting platform, designed to automate screening, scheduling, and candidate engagement. As a fast-growing Series A company, we help mid-market and enterprise organizations transform their hiring processes, reducing time-to-hire and elevating candidate experience through intelligent automation. Behind our tech is a team of curious, driven, and deeply human people. We take ownership, move fast, and care about doing the right thing - for our customers, candidates, and each other. Our culture is built on collaboration, authenticity, and a shared belief that hiring can and should be better. We’ve been honored as a GeekWire Workplace of the Year nominee multiple years in a row, and named one of Will Reed’s Top 100 early-stage companies to work for. These recognitions reflect what we already know: Humanly is a place where people come to grow, build, do meaningful work- and have a little fun while we’re at it.

Most backends were designed for a world where humans read every line of code before it shipped. Today, though, software is being written by developers and their agents together. Codebases are growing faster than any team can review them and the assumptions that used to hold everything together are quietly eroding. Convex was built to solve that. Convex is a reactive backend platform where correctness is the default, for humans and agents alike. Transactions are ACID so concurrent writes never corrupt data, everything is TypeScript end to end so a hallucinated field name is a build error not a production incident, and sync and caching are automatic so there's no glue code to subtly rot. The guarantees engineers used to enforce by reading every line, the platform enforces instead. We're a small, in-person team in San Francisco who care deeply about what we're building and who we're building it with. Application demands are changing faster than the infrastructure underneath them, and defining what the right platform looks like for this new world is still the domain of very talented humans. We want you to be one of them.

Ripple is the leading provider of crypto solutions for businesses. Founded in 2012, our vision is to enable a world where value moves as seamlessly as information flows today—an Internet of Value. As a leading enterprise blockchain company with products in commercial use by hundreds of customers across 50+ countries, our unique crypto solutions are faster, more transparent, and more cost effective than traditional financial services – solving inefficiencies that have long defined the status quo.