Top Tech Startups in Houston, TX 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.

Zipline was founded to create the first logistics system that serves all humans equally. We design, manufacture and operate the world’s largest instant logistics and delivery system that is used by businesses, governments and consumers. Zipline is transforming the way goods move, from powering Rwanda’s national blood delivery network and Ghana’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution, to providing on-demand home delivery for e-commerce, to enabling healthcare providers to bring care directly to U.S. homes. The technology is complex, and includes autonomous, electric drones, but the idea is simple: a teleportation service that delivers what you need, when you need it. By transitioning to clean, electric, instant logistics, we can decarbonize delivery, decrease road congestion, and reduce fossil fuel consumption and air pollution, while providing equitable access for billions of people. Zipline operates on three continents (North America, Africa and Asia) and in seven countries - Rwanda, Ghana, the U.S., Nigeria, Japan, Kenya and Côte D’Ivoire. Zipline has made more than 540,000 deliveries to real customers, and currently completes one every 90 seconds. Zipline has flown 40 million autonomous commercial miles, delivered almost 5 million products (including more than 8 million vaccine doses). Zipline has two delivery platforms - a long-range system, Platform 1, and its next-generation home delivery system, Platform 2. Our drones are what people see, but they are only a small percentage of what we do. Behind each delivery is a complex network of airspace deconfliction tools, inventory management, fulfillment software, warehousing, performance management, cold chain storage, and more. Zipline’s instant logistics system is a trusted partner for businesses, governments and consumers, and currently supports the medical, health and retail sectors, delivering blood, vaccines, COVID supplies, prescriptions, e-commerce items, products that support human and animal health, and food.

Metropolis develops advanced computer vision and machine learning technology that make mobile commerce remarkable. Our platform is already deployed in hundreds of mobility facilities and industries with billions in opportunity. We’re building the digital pipes through which the future of mobile commerce will move.

SourceIQ is a cutting-edge tech startup dedicated to revolutionizing supplier sourcing through automation. Our flagship product is a cloud-based enterprise solution that streamlines procurement and supplier management.

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.

Homebase is the everything app for hourly teams, with employee scheduling, time clocks, payroll, team communication, and HR. More than 150,000 small (but mighty) businesses, and 2M+ hourly workers rely on Homebase to make work radically easy and superpower their teams. Our mission is to make small business teams unstoppable.

Koda Health is a fast-growing digital health startup that leverages AI to help guide difficult conversations in healthcare, starting with end-of-life care planning. Our platform helps patients express and document their medical care preferences - ensuring patients receive the care they want and curbing the financial burden in the last years of life. Koda Health is a graduate of multiple prestigious startup development programs including TMC Biodesign, Techstars UnitedHealthcare Accelerator, and Lighthouse Labs. As a venture-backed company, Koda Health is committed to enhancing quality, cost, and access to care and to improving the experience for all our stakeholders to make health care work better for everyone.

We unlock access to all on and off market properties from every source: MLS, iBuyers, off-market, auctions, pocket-listings, portfolios and more. Our comprehensive database of 225,000+ homes is updated in real time. We start by understanding your unique personal and investment needs. Our Entera empowers you to make confident decisions with institutional-grade tools at your fingertips. Run financials, understand the neighborhood and similar properties, estimate construction and rehab expenses and more - in one place. You also have access to our on-demand local service team who can help you visit or evaluate the home on your schedule.

Madison Reed (madison-reed.com) is an e-commerce start-up with a team of 180+ rock stars in San Francisco. We’re revolutionizing the $50B hair care market using technology (web, mobile, tablet, social) to radically innovate the user experience and business model. Madison Reed is headquartered in SF and backed by top-tier venture capital firms Norwest VP, True Ventures, Maveron and Shea Ventures.

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