Top Tech Startups in Silicon Valley in 2026

Zumper is the largest privately owned rental platform in North America with more than 175 million visits per year. We’re proud to have been named a 2021 Best Startup Employer by Forbes and a 2021 Best Place to Work/Company with the Best Benefits by Built In SF. To date, we’ve raised over $150 million from Kleiner Perkins, Goodwater Capital, Headline, Dawn Capital, and the Blackstone Group. Changing the way the world rents requires passion, bold ideas, and bright minds. Join us in building the future of renting, today! Apply on our careers page: zumper.com/jobs

At Veo, we're bringing the next generation of mobility sharing to cities and universities globally through our dockless pedal bike, e-bike and e-scooter systems. We also offer fat-tire bikes, cargo bikes and ADA-compliant bikes – making us the only shared mobility provider with this breadth of options. We design and engineer our own vehicles, hardware and software systems to provide a greener, healthier mode of transportation to make the communities we serve more sustainable and livable. Our mission is to offer the best combination of multi-modal sharing technology and seamless customer service, so users can unlock joy in their day. We are looking for exceptionally talented individuals who are ready to take on exciting challenges and own solutions. We are headquartered in Chicago, IL, but we are hiring across the U.S. Join us!

Modern Health is a mental health benefits platform for employers. They are the only solution to cover the full spectrum of mental well-being needs through both evidence-based technology and professional support from a certified coach or therapist. Whether someone wants to proactively manage stress or treat depression, Modern Health guides people to the right care at the right time and helps companies save money in engagement and healthcare costs. Modern Health has raised over $11M from Kleiner Perkins and Y Combinator and works with top companies that want to take a proactive approach to mental well-being.

Sardine helps fintech, crypto, and web3 companies "move money confidently" by developing fraud, compliance, and payment infrastructure. With Sardine, builders can focus on growing their business instead of spending time, fighting against fraudsters. We're growing incredibly fast and powering over 100 customers around the world like Brex, MoonPay, Bakkt, Luno, Transak, Chippercash, Candy Digital, Metamask, Brave, and RelayFi.

At Mixpanel, our mission is to increase the rate of innovation. Not only as a company, but for the businesses we serve. Through our analytics platform, companies can analyze how and why their users engage, convert, and retain in real time across web, mobile, and smart devices. Then they can use that data to improve their business and products.

Hey, we’re Deepgram! We’re an AI speech platform whose mission is to make every voice heard and understood. Our end-to-end deep neural network is revolutionizing the speech-to-text market and taking on the big guys. We’re redefining what companies can do with voice by offering a platform with AI architectural advantage, not legacy tech retrofitted with AI. Deepgram delivers highly accurate, actually usable transcription, right out of the box – or you can train a model for even greater accuracy on the unique words that matter to you. ✅ Live-stream or pre-recorded ✅ On-prem or in the cloud ✅ Scalable and affordable ✅ Dozens of languages and use case models ✅ Features like diarization, summarization, language/topic detection, and more. We’ve raised over $86 million and have been recognized as an Inc. Best Workplace (2021 and 2022), a Forbes Top 50 AI Company to Watch (2021), and a CB Insights Top 100 AI Startup (2021), among others. Come join our revolution to unlock the power of voice technology for everyone. We want to hear what you’ve got to say! An NVIDIA partner and Y Combinator company

Oklo is a California-based company developing clean energy plants to provide emission-free, reliable, and affordable energy using advanced fission. Oklo is a fast-growing startup with a history of reliable funding and milestones for more than 5 years. Oklo’s first product is a microgrid scale powerhouse. The powerhouse can produce clean energy for decades without needing to refuel, and also has the capability to turn nuclear waste into clean energy. Oklo received a Site Use Permit from the U.S Department of Energy, demonstrated fabrication of its fuel, was awarded fuel from the Idaho National Laboratory, and submitted the first accepted advanced fission license application to the regulator. Oklo has been featured in Popular Mechanics, Wired, Architectural Digest, Hyperallergic, POWER Magazine, and has been the subject of a Harvard Business School case, and was featured in the documentary The New Fire, among many other features.

C3.ai is a leading enterprise AI software provider for accelerating digital transformation. The proven C3 AI Suite provides the comprehensive services to build enterprise scale AI applications 40x to 100x faster than alternative approaches. The core of the C3 AI Suite is a revolutionary, extensible, model-driven abstraction layer that dramatically enhances data scientist and application developer productivity. The C3 AI Suite supports any value chain in any industry with pre-built, configurable, high-value AI applications for predictive maintenance, fraud detection, sensor network health, supply network optimization, energy management, anti-money laundering, and customer engagement. c3.ai

When it comes to securing Industrial Operations environments, we believe humans should always be in the loop as actions in the cyber-physical world have real consequences. Threats are increasing faster than we can hire and train employees. We provide an intelligence augmentation platform that acts as your “cyber-sidekick”. Galvanick helps industrial companies secure their operations by reducing the time to detection of anomalous behavior on their most sensitive assets. The Galvanick cloud-native analysis platform aggregates telemetry from industrial environments and hosts systemic models that enable operators to quickly understand the difference between, and context around, both normal and abnormal behavior.

Doximity was founded in 2011 by the pioneers of mobile health apps to connect healthcare professionals and make them more productive. Joining Doximity means being part of an incredibly talented and humble team. We work on amazing products that over one million medical professionals, including over 70% of all U.S. doctors and 45% of all NPs and physician assistants, use to make their busy lives a little easier. Here at Doximity we absolutely love creating technology that has a real, meaningful impact on people’s lives.