Top Software Startups in 2027

Every single firm that sends an invoice becomes a vendor to the enterprise. As a result, most enterprises now have more vendors than employees. Each vendor needs to be vetted via background checks, validating tax id, banking data, internal sign-offs, etc. This is currently done manually at significant cost, expense and risk to the enterprise. Certa is an automated vendor management platform that instantly vets vendors via direct integrations with IRS, D&B, social media, etc. and streamlines sign-offs via a highly configurable workflow.

RetailNext is a retail analytics company focused on developing technology that enables store owners to measure store performance, identify opportunities for growth, implement strategies that drive results, increase savings, and boost bottom-line sales. With a comprehensive list of retail marketing solutions and in-store analytical services, RetailNext is helping stores maximize the efficiency and efficacy of marketing and sales tactics.

MyTime is a fully integrated appointment scheduling, point-of-sale and customer engagement platform for multi-location chains and franchises. It’s built to be modular, but it really shines when the various components work together to maximize revenue by reaching customers wherever they are at the moment they are ready to transact. Our award-winning online booking experience can be integrated into your website and mobile apps, as well as Google Search and Google Maps, Bing, Facebook, and Instagram, thereby enabling your customers to find, book, and transact with you from anyplace they engage with your brand. Our automated marketing system increases client retention and visit frequency. And we automate the many tedious, manual operational tasks so you can focus on your service and your customers. Find out what it means to integrate scheduling, marketing and payments into a single, easy-to-use platform and why MyTime won Best Local Commerce Service of 2017 from the Local Search Association and has been featured by both Apple and Google as “Best New App” in their respective App Stores. Our cloud-based platform is scalable, secure, and ready for any size deployment. For millions of consumers, MyTime is the online destination to book appointments online, 24/7. Currently available nationwide with over 2 million businesses listed on the platform, MyTime is the preferred destination to book and transact with local businesses throughout the United States.

Origin is building the AI-native wealth management platform that democratizes sophisticated financial services — combining money management, personalized AI-grounded advice, and financial products in a single intelligent system. We're a Series B company founded by repeat entrepreneurs, backed by Founders Fund, Felicis, and General Catalyst. We've reached profitability and are expanding from our core personal-finance product into banking, high-yield savings, and mortgage & insurance referrals — while growing 100%+ year over year.

We help non-technical teams turn critical processes into automated, audit-ready workflows with built-in compliance, accountability, and AI oversight. It’s the easiest way to standardize work, enforce policies, and prove it all happened.

We provide a time machine for cloud infrastructure, fusing data management with web-scale IT and eliminating backup software. Deliver live data access to recover from failures and accelerate application development on our Converged Data Management platform. Data management never looked so beautiful.

LambdaTest is cloud-based cross browser testing platform that helps in both manual and automated browser compatibility testing. Users can perform live interactive testing of their website or web app on a combination of 2000+ different browser and operating system right from their own browser. In addition, the platform allows the users to run Selenium automation tests on a scalable, secure, and reliable cloud-based Selenium grid and perform live interactive cross-browser testing of their public or locally hosted websites and web app on the cloud. LambdaTest also offers the feature of taking automated full page screenshots across all 2000+ environments to quickly test the layout, check in a single click how your website will look across 36 different devices, and compare design and HTML images. In addition, the LambdaTest platform also has single-click integration with popular project management and enterprise tools like Jira, Asana, Trello, Github, Gitlab, BitBucket, Slack, and Visual Studio Team Services. “Built with LOVE for Testers!”

Teachable is an instructor-focused online course platform that empowers course creators to build and sell courses on any topic—from iOS development to watercolor painting to card tricks. Instructors using our platform have collectively earned more than $555 million to date. Since our founding, we've raised more than $12.5 million from top venture investors and were acquired in March of 2020. Teachable is now a part of the Hotmart group, an international startup, based in Brazil, with over 800 employees worldwide. Hotmart's mission is to help creators earn a living from their passion. We're growing rapidly, with triple-digit year-over-year growth, and are continuing to build a diverse team of top-notch talent. We won’t hold you back from reaching your full potential at Teachable; you’ll have the freedom to be an integral member of our tight-knit team, with great benefits and perks. Your work here will directly impact hundreds of thousands of online educators, entrepreneurs, and creatives.

Blue Orange Digital is a data science consulting and machine learning development firm. We help companies make sense of their data. From Fortune 500's and startups, we apply modern data analytics techniques to help them find business solutions. Founded by engineers, we love passionate technologists and data analysts. We have startup DNA meaning everyone on our team makes a direct contribution to the growth of the company.

Any Sensor, Anytime, Anywhere. Saildrone is the world leader in providing ocean data solutions with autonomous surface vehicles, offering unrivaled payload, range, and reliability. Saildrone vehicles have sailed 800,000+ nautical miles and spent 18,000+ days at sea collecting data that provides unprecedented intelligence for climate, mapping, and maritime security applications. At Saildrone, we sustainably explore, map and monitor the oceans to understand, preserve, and protect our world. Saildrone designs and manufactures wind and solar powered autonomous surface vehicles called Saildrones, which make cost-effective ocean data collection possible at scale. We work with governments, civic agencies, foundations, universities, and private companies around the globe to drive better information about our oceans and seas - be it in sailing drones into the eye of a Category 4 hurricane to obtain new scientific storm data, mapping out the ocean floor, collecting new CO2 data in hard-to-reach areas, counting biomass to establish fishing quotas, or detecting and stopping illegal fishing and drug trafficking. As a result of our work, we have been selected as one of the "Forbes Top 10 Wonders of 2021", as well as the Smithsonian Institute's "Top 10 Ocean Stories of 2021", New York Times' "Top 21 Things that happened (for the first time) in 2021", and Popular Science's "100 Greatest Innovations of 2021". We are based in Alameda, CA, with offices in Washington DC and St. Petersburg, FL and operate our missions worldwide. We are backed by top-tier investors in the frontier-tech and sustainability sectors, including Social Capital, Capricorn, Lux Capital, BOND Capital, and Emerson Collective.