Top Software Startups in 2026

Xpansiv is the global market for ESG-inclusive commodities. These Intelligent Commodities™ bring transparency to markets, empowering participants to value energy, carbon, and water to meet the challenges of an information-rich, resource-constrained world. We’re the marketplace for an ever-expanding ecosystem of proven environmental commodities, like RECs, offsets, and differentiated fuels.

We create software that helps coaches win, athletes look like pros, and sports recruiters find more talent. Teams upload their game film to our site, study it, and "break it down" by adding text notes, ink telestrations, and tagged metadata. Athletes can study the video on their mobile devices throughout the week to prepare for their next game. If an athlete notices a great play, he or she can highlight it to appear on a public profile for fans, parents, and recruiters to see. Recruiters have access to thousands of games, highlights, player profiles, and academic information.

Markforged transforms manufacturing with the most affordable 3D metal and carbon fiber printers capable of producing parts tough enough for the factory floor. Engineers, designers, and manufacturing professionals all over the world rely on Markforged metal and composite printers for tooling, fixtures, functional prototyping, and high-value end-use production. Founded in 2013 and based in Watertown, MA, Markforged has about 300 employees globally, with $137 million in both strategic and venture capital. Markforged was recently recognized by Forbes in the Next Billion-Dollar Startups list and listed as the tenth fastest-growing tech company in the US in the 2018 Deloitte Fast 500. To learn more about Markforged, please visit markforged.com.

We help Shopify merchants sell subscriptions without ripping their hair out.

Ninja RMM is a silicon valley based, well-funded company that has a wealth of experience building products for MSPs over the last 10 years. Our team has backgrounds at Dell, Quest Software, Sonic Wall, PacketTrap, Lasso and most recently Anchor. Our vision is to deliver an amazing next generation RMM experience, with best-in-breed integration of the products you love to use (remote access, BDR, anti-virus, etc.) Our goal is to: - Reduce RMM training time for your MSP technicians to zero. - One-click deployment, provisioning, licensing of all products you use. - Find and remediate problems in seconds, not hours. - Provide the next generation features you need and have never seen in a RMM. All this, with outstanding support, fair pricing and a truly customer driven roadmap.

Phrasee uses artificial intelligence to write better email subject lines, body copy and calls-to-action than humans. Since launch in Feb 2015, Phrasee-generated language beats humans >95% of the time. Awesome.

Alkira is the leader in cloud networking as a service. We unify multiple clouds, sites, and users via an enterprise network built entirely in the cloud. Our Cloud Exchange Points auto-create this network plumbing and when deployed to multiple locations auto-connect to form a global fabric – all done with point and click integration of best-of-breed security and networking services. The network is managed using the same controls, policies, and security network admins know, can instantly scale as needed, and is available as a service. There is no new hardware to deploy, no software to download and no cloud architecture to learn. Alkira’s solution is trusted by Fortune 100 enterprises, leading system integrators and global managed service providers. Learn more at alkira.com or follow us @AlkiraNet.

Vannevar Labs builds software for the country's most critical national security problems. We are uniquely qualified to succeed in this $740B market; our founders have 30 years of combined experience across national security, government sales and CIA, In-Q-Tel, DoD/JSOC, Harvard, and Stanford. We're supported by a number of VCs, including Felicis, DFJ Growth, Point72, Costanoa, and General Catalyst, amongst others. We believe our military service members and intelligence officers deserve access to the best technology American innovation can offer, and we are building great products for this mission. If you're someone who wants to work with conscientious people on things that matter, we'd love to hear from you!

We launched Backblaze 14 years ago because we understood the value of data, and recognized that protecting and using it was too complex and too expensive. Today, the Backblaze Storage Cloud provides a foundational platform around the world for a broad community of developers, IT generalists, entrepreneurs, and individuals who seek the easy, affordable, trusted solutions we provide. Our approach is guided by honesty, transparency, and a commitment to doing the right thing for our customers and co-workers. Our customers are happy, and so are our co-workers: In a recent survey, 97% of our team rated Backblaze as “a great place to work.” While there is a lot to celebrate in our past, there is almost as much opportunity ahead of us.

Threekit makes product visualization easy. Once your products are loaded into the system, we do the heavy lifting—rendering images on 3D Configurator, Virtual Photographer or Augmented Reality, deploying them to the right channels and keeping them accessible and organized on our content management system. Our unified platform approach enables businesses of any size to scale and automate beautiful product visuals across channels, both online and offline. Build it once, use it anywhere, and future-proof your investment for the next big thing.