Top Software Startups in 2026

Clover is building the open, cloud-based point-of-sale platform. We partner with the world's largest payment processors, developers, and hardware manufacturers to bring point-of-sale products to market. We use Android as the client platform, which enables the use of inexpensive devices, both off-the-shelf and purpose-built.

Compa is a venture-backed SaaS startup revolutionizing the future of compensation. In a dynamic job market with hiring challenges, accountability, and the rise of AI, companies need the best data to stay ahead of industry changes, competition, and costs. Compa has developed the premier real-time compensation data platform, delivering top-tier compensation intelligence to leading enterprise teams. Compa is a compensation intelligence company built to augment enterprise compensation teams in the era of AI. Our customers include the world’s biggest companies: Apple, NVIDIA, Tesla, Mastercard, T-Mobile, Sanofi, Moderna, Gilead Sciences, and more.

Our attention is our most precious resource and we’re wasting it. We could be using it to be better spouses, parents, employees, and friends but instead we’re using it to figure out what needs to get done and too often being diverted to things that don’t matter. The result is feeling perpetually busy but still behind, going through days feeling overwhelmed, and knowing at the end we could have spent the time more wisely. It’s no way to live. Handle is the antidote. Built upon decades of research, Handle is a personal productivity system that helps you stay focused on what matters. It brings together your email, to-do list, and calendar into a single app that lets you make better decisions with your time and relax more with less fear of things falling through the cracks. It's your life. We help you Handle it. Learn more at handle.com or download the app for iPhone and iPad handle.com/dl.

PingCAP is the fastest-growing enterprise subscription company our investors have ever seen. And how are we growing so fast? By building TiDB, a globally scalable hybrid transactional and analytical database and one of the most popular open source database in the world (don’t take our word for it, check it out: github.com/pingcap/tidb), which enables companies to painlessly scale their business while keeping the underlying infrastructure simple. Our product has been trusted and verified by web-scale application leaders and adopted by over 1500 users across industries. We’re being led by the best in the space—our founders were the original creators of TiDB. We’re looking for talented and amazing team players who want to accelerate our growth, while doing some of the best work of their careers. Join us as we build the database for the future! PingCAP is founded by the team that built TiDB, a world leading open-source, cloud-native, distributed SQL/NewSQL database for elastic scale and real-time analytics, which is compatible with MySQL, and enables companies to painlessly scale their business while keeping the underlying infrastructure simple and serve as a one-stop solution for all online transactions and analysis. We have raised US$342M in total for the past 6 years, and are the most valued NewSQL company on the planet! Our products have been trusted by large scale industry leaders and adopted by over 1500 companies across different industries, including Square, PayPay, Webank, Hulu, Booking.com, Dailymotion, Shopee, Zomato, VNG, Tencent, Xiaomi, Oppo, etc.We’re looking for talented and amazing team players who want to accelerate our growth, while doing some of the best work of their careers. Join us as we build the database for the future! Community: · Twitter: twitter.com/PingCAP · GitHub: github.com/pingcap/tidb · Stack Overflow: stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/tidb · LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/pingcap · Community Slack: pingcap.com/tidbslack

Platform9 Managed OpenStack transforms an organization's existing servers into an AWS-like agile, self-service private cloud within minutes, enabling organizations small or large to run their private clouds efficiently, at scale, and while leveraging latest open source innovations. The service is the 1st 100% cloud managed platform for KVM, VMware vSphere and Docker.

We want to encourage employees to adopt better cybersecurity practices in a way that's actually effective, and entertaining enough that the training doesn't feel like work. Think Duolingo, but for cybersecurity. We created a platform to roll out a cybersecurity awareness program quickly and easily by sending short conversations of just 3-4 minutes. The platform also simulates phishing attacks to prepare employees to face hackers in a safe environment. Created in 2020, Riot has raised $45m with leading investors (Y Combinator, Left Lane, Base10, Funders Club and Frst Capital) and is now protecting more than 2 millions employees in over 2,000 companies (including Intercom, Deel, and Deezer) all over the world. Cybersecurity impacts everyone, every day, and is now the number one risk to any organization, from small businesses to big firms. And yet, in most companies the cybersecurity culture is non-existent. Hackers know this, and they're taking advantage by targeting the weakest link: employees. We're on a mission to fix that for good.

We primarily run advertising campaigns for eCommerce brands via Facebook, Google, Snapchat, and TikTok. We make the creative, strategize the campaigns, and specialist in scaling the brands.

We help companies use interactive video to tell better stories with advertising. In 2007, our founders Zvika, Tal, and Zack came together with a big dream: make digital video do more. Digital was on the rise, and it was time for video to step up. Two years later, we filed the world’s very first patent to insert interactive objects into video. That’s right. We invented interactive video. Since then, we've helped over 1,000 of the world’s largest brands tell better stories with video.

Teal has raised over $20M in venture financing and is based in Salt Lake City, Utah. We build our own hardware and software drone platforms for Consumer and Enterprise applications. Teal One, our flagship product, is one of the highest performing drones in the market, offering an incredible flight experience to users, premium hardware and design, and a software platform that fuels innovation.

Jumio is the future for online and mobile ID verification, transaction monitoring and fraud detection. We are the largest and fastest-growing company in the ID verification space. With a global footprint, we’re expanding the team to meet strong client demand across a range of industries including Financial Services/Fintech, Travel, Sharing Economy, Gaming, Healthcare and others. Our team of over 500 are building solutions that help customers fight fraud at scale and we are looking for people who have a passion for solving challenges that make a significant impact on customers. Having acquired Beam Solutions in September, 2020, we have now brought our AI and ML expertise into AML for financial, retail and gaming and with significant demand need to grow our engineering team.