Top Software Startups in 2026

GrowthBook is an open-core experimentation platform to design, run, analyze, and learn from A/B tests using companies existing data warehouse. Our platform gives any company the power of a customized testing solution like those used by Netflix, Uber, AirBnB, Pinterest, etc. The top 1% of companies spend thousands of hours building their own A/B testing platforms in-house. The other 99% are left paying for expensive 3rd party SaaS tools or hacking together unmaintained open source libraries. GrowthBook gives companies the flexibility and power of a fully-featured in-house A/B testing platform without needing to build it in-house. We easily integrate with processes and code to unlock the potential of effective, high velocity, experimentation programs. We are backed by top VCs including Y Combinator.

PocketSuite is a YC-backed mobile platform for service businesses, ranging from fitness trainers, photographers, and home cleaners to dog trainers, hairstylists, therapists, and life coaches. Businesses use PocketSuite to get booked, paid, and message their clients. We make the work of running your own business simple for solo operators and small teams. PocketSuite empowers the U.S. market of 20 million service professionals generating $800 billion in sales with a mobile cloud solution for running their business. Thousands of businesses run on PocketSuite. Over 500,000 clients book and pay their Pros on PocketSuite today and we're growing fast.

At Permutive, we believe companies should be able to make big data actionable by anyone. We make this easy with a single, edge computing platform that’s used by the largest publishers in the world. Our API lets our customers programmatically collect, store, filter and react to any user event in real time; by providing a powerful query layer that means they can personalise every user experience on the fly. Our technology is fundamentally different. Every day we process billions of events across hundreds of millions of users - and we give results in milliseconds. We’ve built the world’s fastest Data Management Platform and the implications are huge.

LivestockCity is a farmer's tool, as a well as a social networking platform. We can summarize what LivestockCity is by the slogan, "Connect. Manage. Sell." Farmers can connect with other farmers locally and worldwide and build their farming network. The potential outcome to these types of collaborations are unlimited and exciting to us. Secondly, farmers can easily manage their animal records and expenses/income through our SaaS-based management software. This software will be a continual improvement process and will develop according to farmers' needs. Thirdly, we provide a variety of ways to buy/sell animals, food products, and farm related products such as hay, farm equipment, farm vehicles, real estate, etc. In addition to these services, we also allow animal transporters to use the site and offer transportation services. All of this integrated on one site - an online "city" of farmers from around the world. Welcome to LivestockCity!

Whippy is the AI platform built by a professional poker player turned two time founder, bootstrapped past 1,000 customers with zero VC money, profitable, and growing fast. We build AI agents that answer calls, screen job candidates, and run entire workflows for businesses across the country. Our customers save millions per year and our named case studies prove it. Our engineering team is bigger than the rest of the company combined, and our sales motion is founder led, which means early hires work directly with the CEO, not three layers below him. We use AI to run our own company the way we sell it: every hire here automates their own job first. We hire for slope, not pedigree. The people who join early get handed real ownership fast: our last off script hire now runs an entire function. If you outwork everyone around you and want to learn how a real business runs from inside every decision, this is the place.

Calix is a global provider of the cloud and software platforms, systems and services to deliver unified access networks and smart premises systems

GITAI is developing robots to work in range of space environments to free humans from performing dangerous tasks and reduce operational costs in space by up to 100 times. GITAI aims to provide highly capable, safe, and reliable robots to help build and maintain satellites, lunar colonies and even cities on Mars. GITAI is bringing together the best talents in the world to make this dream a reality. GITAI is a relatively small but rapidly growing company. Over half of our full-time employees have PhDs in engineering and science and three are former research associates from the University of Tokyo. GITAI has many exciting projects at various levels of development and testing, from early concepts to laboratory prototypes to our technical demonstration robot currently deployed in a commercial module of the International Space Station. GITAI is actively seeking highly motivated engineers and business development professionals to support these many endeavors. If you think you have what it takes, come join us to send robots to the final frontier.

Datalogz is the BI Ops platform that provides visibility into BI environments. With it, we enable organizations to instantly cut costs, reduce risks, and increase BI efficiency.

Uncountable has built an enterprise software platform for R&D organizations to minimize the number of experiments required to reach a higher level of performance. By using the platform, scientists have instant access and search-ability to all of their previous formulations, instead of digging through disparate spreadsheets. And with previous experimental records properly structured and stored, Uncountable's artificial intelligence engine can be manipulated to provide the best formulation suggestions in order to achieve new product goals.

Our mission is to increase the success rate of small businesses. Traditional banking has been a growth limiter rather than a growth enabler for business owners, and we’re changing that. Relay is the all-in-one, collaborative money management platform. We’re building for employer SMBs and their finance function, internal and external, and are focused on delivering a human-centric customer experience. Ultimately, we help SMBs be ‘on the money'.