Top Tech Startups in United States in 2026

an anti-performative social sandbox experiment that has already crossed 400 users in Taiwan with 7.85 CSAT. The mechanism—improving mental health on the simple, singular basis of shared humanity—works. Our next step is to go stateside.

Mason is building the AI workforce management platform for construction. We help contractors run their entire back office — time tracking, HR, payroll, compliance, and communication — without the manual work that slows teams down. Today, managing labor in construction is fragmented across paper field notes, spreadsheets, text messages, emails, HR platforms, payroll systems, benefits websites, and accounting tools. These workflows are ripe for unification and automation through AI and modern, cloud-based systems that connect the field and back office. Mason replaces firms' siloed tools with a single platform that connects the field to the office in real time — capturing hours, simplifying HR, running payroll, and ensuring compliance automatically. Our platform saves teams 20+ hours per week by eliminating repetitive data entry and reducing errors across HR, payroll and accounting. Workers get a modern, intuitive way to track time and manage their pay, while office teams receive clean, structured data that flows directly into payroll and job costing systems. Construction is the least-digitized major industry in the U.S. — and we’re changing that. Mason is a NYC-based, venture-backed company on a mission to bring AI-first workflows to the field. Come build the future with us! About our team: Our team is led by Matt Kozlowski (former Chief of Staff at Plaid) and Jef Chedeville (3x acquired/exited founder - previously co-founded YC-backed HR SaaS HigherMe).

OUR MISSION Embedded Executive Leadership for Companies That Need to Accelerate Growth We provides flexible C-suite leadership for companies facing growth, execution, capital, or transition challenges. We step in as operators, align teams, make decisions, and drive measurable outcomes without the cost or delay of a full-time executive hire. 1) We Identify Your Constraint 2) We Embed Executive Leadership 3) We Align Revenue, Marketing, Operations, Technology & Your Teams 4) We Execute Against Measurable Results

Elite hedge funds don't pick stocks—they trade entire portfolios. That's the $2 trillion secret behind consistent outperformance. This isn't new and it works. Plutus brings this capability to you. Access institutional-grade strategies previously reserved for billion-dollar funds. Set up your portfolio and start investing in under 10 minutes.

Proven is building the infrastructure for how organizations find, trust, and work with the right partners — whether that’s a startup choosing a vendor, a VC connecting portfolio companies, or a government promoting its exporters to the world. Today, vendor discovery, export promotion, and FDI attraction are mostly done with spreadsheets, static directories, and manual intros. It’s slow, relationship-dependent, and almost impossible to keep up to date. Governments struggle to showcase the full strength of their ecosystems, agencies can’t see which companies are actually winning deals, and foreign investors don’t know who they can trust. We’re fixing that. Proven is a networked platform where organizations can create living “trust networks” of companies: verified vendors, exporters, and local partners connected through real relationships, data integrations, and AI-driven matching. Governments and economic development agencies use Proven to: • Build modern, searchable directories of trusted local companies and exporters • Showcase those companies to foreign buyers and investors • Match international demand with vetted local supply in real time • See what’s working through data, not guesswork The hard problems we’re solving: making trust and track record machine-readable, turning scattered relationships into usable network data, and giving institutions a way to build and operate trade and investment networks that are dynamic, global, and actually used. In short, we’re rebuilding how economic ecosystems connect and grow.

GroundTruth AI is the creator of ClarifyAI, an AI-powered platform that ingests, analyzes, and interprets YouTube videos at scale, revealing how narratives spread and evolve across the platform and the internet. The result: actionable insights for smarter strategy, sharper messaging, and precision targeting.

Creators don't have a content problem. They have a workflow problem. The average creator juggles 5-7 disconnected tools to go from idea to published post — one app for captions, another for editing, another for scheduling, another for analytics. Nothing talks to each other. Every handoff is a place where momentum, quality, or time gets lost. Infleuince is the infrastructure that closes those gaps. It's a unified system that coordinates the full content lifecycle — ideation, generation, transformation, publishing, and analytics — in one continuous flow instead of five disconnected ones. Think of it less as another creator app, and more as the operating layer underneath creator workflows entirely. We didn't build this from a hunch. Through NSF I-Corps (University of Virginia) and two rounds of customer discovery with 25+ creators, we found that editing was the #1 unprompted pain point, speed and time savings were the most valued outcome, and 73% of creators said they'd pay to solve it. Infleuince is built directly against that data. We're pre-revenue with an active, converting waitlist, backed by completion of NSF I-Corps and the two19 fellowship, and building in the open with the same tool we ask creators to trust — Infleuince runs on Infleuince. If you believe creator tooling should be infrastructure, not a feature graveyard, we're building the category.