Top Software Startups in 2027

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.

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.

Tempus is a technology company that has built an operating system to battle cancer. Tempus enables physicians to deliver personalized cancer care through its interactive analytical and machine learning platform. The company provides genomic sequencing services and analyzes molecular and therapeutic data to empower physicians to make real-time, data-driven decisions. Our goal is for each patient to benefit from the treatment of others who came before by providing physicians with tools that learn as we gather more data.

Founded in 2013, Ignition is the recurring revenue and billing automation platform for firms and agencies to transform their sales, billing and payment processes. Ignition automates proposals, invoicing, payments and workflows in a single platform, empowering 8,500+ businesses to sell, bill and get paid for their services with ease. To date, Ignition customers have managed relationships with over 2.4 million clients and earned $13b in revenue via the platform. Ignition’s global workforce spans Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the Philippines, US and the UK.

Shortcut is building the best project management tool for product and engineering teams. We have the right combination of features that engineering teams need to plan and manage their work, without the friction and bloat that slows them down.

Axiom is the fastest growing provider of tech-enabled legal services. We combine deep legal and business expertise with operational prowess to help clients minimize risks, reduce operating costs and accelerate revenue

Staffbase is a global market leader in mobile-first end-to-end employee communication platforms that engage diverse, disconnected and distributed workforces. Staffbase provides branded apps and intranets that improve employee experience for more than 1000 customers worldwide, including Adidas, Audi, DHL, Iron Ore Company of Canada, Paulaner, UC Health and US LB.

Proxima is a first-of-its-kind data intelligence solution that leverages machine-learning and a proprietary database of 50 million unique personas to produce customized audiences that generate superior ad performance on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Pinterest and TikTok. Proxima’s mission is to significantly reduce the cost of prospecting and thereby bring down the total cost of acquiring new customers allowing brands to either save money on advertising or drive more conversions with the same budget. The foundation of Proxima was established by our sister product, DojoMojo, a partnership network with over 15,000 brands including Daily Harvest, TheSkimm, Conde Nast, Hearst, Casper, Rothy’s, Allbirds and Warby Parker. The platform empowers brands to find the right partners for co-marketing campaigns, acquire new email + SMS leads at a fraction of the cost of traditional paid channels, and engage with their mobile subscribers through personalized SMS communication.