Top Tech Startups in Earth in 2026

We’re the essential technology platform used by hundreds of thousands of homebuyers and sellers to partner with top real estate agents and win at any step of the real estate journey — whether that’s finding a top agent, securing a competitive mortgage, or ensuring on-time, easy close. Every year, we facilitate billions of dollars of real estate on our platform. HomeLight empowers people to achieve better outcomes during one of life’s most important events: buying or selling their home. Our vision is a world where every real estate transaction is simple, certain, and satisfying.

We're building the data platform to power safe and fair decisions. Checkr provides fast, accurate information to power informed decisions. Our innovative technology and robust data platform help customers assess risk and ensure safety and compliance to build trusted workplaces and communities. We’re a team that thrives on solving complex problems with innovative solutions that advance our mission. Come join us!

Four billion people do not have access to the internet. Astranis is going to change that. We are building the next generation of smaller, lower-cost telecommunications satellites to bring the world online.

SingleStore is one platform for all data, built so you can engage with insight in every moment. Trusted by industry leaders, SingleStore enables enterprises to adapt to change as it happens, embrace diverse data with ease, and accelerate the pace of innovation. SingleStore is venture-backed and headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Portland, Seattle, Boston, London, Lisbon, and Kyiv. Defining the future starts with The Database of Now™.

Manychat is a Meta Official Business Partner, backed by top investors, including Bessemer Venture Partners, and one of America's Best Startup Employers. With 110+ teammates across three global offices — New York, Barcelona, and Yerevan — Manychat helps more than one million businesses worldwide interact with billions of customers in real-time at scale. No matter the use case — generating leads, increasing engagement, providing 24/7 customer support, accepting payments, and beyond — Manychat helps businesses improve their ROI and grow faster.

Gusto is a modern, online people platform that helps small businesses take care of their teams. On top of full-service payroll, Gusto offers health insurance, 401(k)s, expert HR, and team management tools. Today, Gusto offices in Denver, San Francisco, and New York serve more than 100,000 businesses nationwide. Our customers come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for small businesses, you will find a home at Gusto.

Founded by educators and technologists passionate about improving education, Clever is on a mission to unlock new ways to learn for all students. Already used by more than 60% of U.S. K-12 schools, Clever brings all applications into one secure portal and provides single sign-on for everyone. With the leading network of digital learning providers, Clever makes school more engaging, personalized, and fun.

6sense is a B2B predictive intelligence engine for marketing and sales. Using its private network of billions of time-sensitive intent interactions, 6sense uncovers net-new prospects at every stage of the funnel and determines which existing prospects are in market to buy. 6sense predicts what products prospects will buy, how much they will buy, and when. 6sense is backed by Bain Capital Ventures, Battery Ventures, Venrock, and Salesforce and is based in San Francisco. 6sense.com

We build best-in-class WordPress and Drupal sites with agile workflows, scalable infrastructure, and a lightning-fast content delivery network. We run your sites on the fastest WebOps Platform on the planet. This includes our unrivaled speed, uptime, and scalability make our high-performance WebOps platform the best place to host WordPress and Drupal sites. We are the only hosting platform to include fully managed and free HTTPS certificates, automated backups, and one-click updates for all WebOps platform plans.

Postgres for time-series data High-performance PostgreSQL in the cloud. We've extended PostgreSQL for time-series data and analytics, so you can build faster, scale further, and stay under budget. Our team includes top researchers and industry veterans with experience building scalable systems at a variety of large and small companies. We are backed by top-tier investors with a track record of success in the industry. The only official Careers page for Timescale is timescale.com/careers and the only emails from us originate from our timescale.com domain. Our jobs are hosted on the Greenhouse platform, and our job listings are located under the “timescale” folder. Like this one, for example, lnkd.in/dxYmA6Sc