Top Tech Startups in Hawaii, US in 2026

LILT is a language translation services and technology company. We're building the next generation of localization, making it possible for every organization to communicate with their customers in the language of their choice through LILT's high-quality, scalable, and affordable translation services. We recruit the world's best human translators and equip them with our software, allowing them to translate better and faster than ever. By combining human expertise and machine efficiency in a complete enterprise localization solution, we can deliver technology-enabled translation services to our customers. Lilt is backed by some of the world's leading investors including Sequoia Capital, Intel Capital, and Redpoint. Our customers include some of the largest Fortune 500 companies in the world who rely on Lilt every day to provide more personal customer experiences in 300+ languages. Our team is headquartered in the Bay Area with additional hubs in Indianapolis, Washington DC, Berlin, Dublin, and the UK.

Today Sudowrite is an AI assistant used by novelists, screenwriters, essayists, and more. It helps writers get unstuck and suggests language, character backstories, and plot points, all while following the tone and narrative arc of the manuscript. Tomorrow, Sudowrite will be the writer's most-trusted collaborator, always available to brainstorm and co-write their best possible story. In ten years, we imagine a suite of AI-powered tools to augment and accelerate human creativity. We believe all creative work will eventually be a collaboration between human and AI. That said, Sudowrite will be our focus for quite some time.

Better data leads to more performant models. Performant models lead to faster deployment. We help deliver value from AI investments faster with better data by providing an end-to-end solution to manage the entire ML lifecycle.

Chowbus is a food ordering platform which curates featured dishes from selected ethnic restaurants daily and delivers them fresh and hot to your home or office affordably with the tap of your cell phone. We provide dish-centric mobile ordering experience for consumers to easily explore and order authentic ethnic food and we empower local ethnic restaurants with the technology, tools, and marketing to grow their business.

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!

TELUS International AI Data Solutions Creating and enhancing the world's data to enable better AI via human intelligence We help companies test and improve machine learning models via our global AI Community of 1 million+ annotators and linguists. Our proprietary Ground Truth AI training platform handles all data types across 500+ languages and dialects. Our AI Data Solutions vastly enhance AI systems across a range of applications from advanced smart products, to better search results, to expanded speech recognition, to more human-like bot interactions and so much more. TELUS International values people diversity and grants equal opportunity regardless of age, civil status, disability, gender, nationality, race, religion and political beliefs, sex or sexual orientation.

Kritik is an early-stage but fast growing ed-tech startup working passionately to upgrade college classroom experience with our fun and automated peer-to-peer learning technology. We launched our product into +200 universities and are ready to scale in the upcoming year. We are serial entrepreneurs, backed by some of the top players in the Canadian startup ecosystem including ApplyBoard and GarageCapital. We are looking for smart and motivated people to join the startup and be part of the fast movement in changing the way students are tasked and assessed. Recently, we launched VisibleAI (a completely new product), for which we have developed Artificial Intelligence (AI) for educators and institutions and a platform for academic integrity to equip educators with practical, ready-to-use strategies and prompts while maintaining academic integrity and fostering learning. The goal is to ensure educators are well-equipped to leverage AI, the effectiveness of PBL, and related concepts. The product offers transparency by detecting and reporting AI-generated content, helping educators maintain rigorous academic standards while embracing AI's educational potential.

We power activities and attractions in every corner of the globe. Founded in Hawaii in 2013, FareHarbor is the leading booking platform for tours, activities, and attractions. We believe in better software—a product that makes businesses more productive and profitable, and we're unapologetically excited about this industry; all 550+ of us. We're a modern team distributed across 8 offices in the US, Sydney, and Amsterdam. We're always in touch in all the ways you'd expect, like video calls and slack rooms. We founded FareHarbor on the firm belief of doing right by our clients. So, best-in-class customer support is at the heart of everything we do. We move fast, shipping new features weekly and evolving and growing to meet our customer's unique needs. We'd love to have you on the team. You'll interact with our new and existing clients and have a direct hand in how we grow.

Briidge.one, a boutique custom software studio that builds visibility-driven systems for service businesses. We design and build custom client portals, operational dashboards and Al-assisted internal systems that help service businesses: • Make invisible work visible to clients • Increase retention through continuous value transparency • Reduce reporting friction and manual tollow-ups • Centralize fragmented tools and operational data Unlike generic SaaS or off-the-shelf CRMs, we build software around how the business actually operates, not how a tool expects it to operate. Recent work includes: • Custom client visibility portals • Multi-tool integration systems (CRM, project management, support, email) • Al reporting and query assistants • Internal operational dashboards for leadership teams We work with growing service businesses that want to scale without losing clarity, control or client confidence.