Top Tech Startups in United States in 2027

Ohana Helps is building the technology layer for the home-services industry. We’re starting with handyman services, but this is much more than a handyman marketplace. We’re building a platform for both customers and independent service professionals: guided quoting, real appointment booking, payments, service history, scheduling, customer management, marketing tools, reviews, promotions, vendor business tools, AI, voice technology, automation, and more. There is significantly more technology behind Ohana than most people would expect. We already have a substantial product and codebase in place. Now I’m looking for the right CTO / Technical Cofounder to help turn it into a category-defining company. I’m not looking for someone who simply wants a developer job. I want a partner who wants to build, ship, lead, solve hard problems, recruit a strong engineering team, and take real ownership of the technology. Over the next 12–18 months, we need to strengthen the existing platform, dramatically improve the customer and vendor UI/UX, launch major new features, expand our AI and automation capabilities, improve infrastructure and reliability, and prepare the product for expansion throughout the U.S. Our goal is to build quickly enough and prove enough growth to put Ohana on a Series A trajectory next year. This is a genuine founding-level opportunity with up to 25% equity, depending on experience, commitment, role, and final structure. We are currently pre-funding, so this is not a salaried CTO opportunity today. It is for someone who wants meaningful ownership and wants to help build the company, not simply work for one. I bring the industry experience, operating knowledge, business model, customer understanding, and vision. I’m looking for the technical partner who can help me build the technology and team capable of taking Ohana nationwide. If your reaction is, “I want to help build that,” we should talk.

We're assembling a coalition to change how politics works. Forever. 3 middlemen decide which candidates you ever hear about: big money, party gatekeepers, and media manipulation. They control the money, the access, and the visibility every candidate needs to win. So they decide who wins before anyone votes. The system isn't broken. It's rigged, and it works exactly as it was built to. FiNC (Future is Now Coalition) is the way around it. Citizens say what they care about, candidates say who they are, and the 2 sides connect with nobody in between. Every movement and reform group is pushing against the same status quo alone. We're assembling the thing they all stand under. Our work is the human side: outreach, PR, social, and citizen buy-in. The tech mostly exists already, spread across other civic groups. What's missing is the coalition. We're not marketing a website. We're campaigning for a better way to choose leaders. We're the referee, not a player: we host every position and take none. Working here: - Neurodiversity and diversity of thought are strengths, not obstacles - Servant leadership, dynamic teams, shared ownership - Purpose over profits, value over hours - You'd be a partner and co-architect, not an employee Read this before you apply. We are Crowd-Starting FiNC, with no investors and no strings attached. Contributor roles are not paid yet. We ask for 15 to 20 hours a week during this phase, with compensation deferred until we're operational. That includes the Founder, who has not drawn a salary and will not until the team does. Contributors earn an ownership stake. We're building toward something structured akin to a nonprofit cooperative, where the people who build it own it, and we operate not for profit in the meantime. hub.futureis.org

HEAL (Healmenow Inc.) is building the first screenless, voice-first companion for medication adherence and mental wellness. Instead of another app competing for screen time, HEAL lives as a physical device in your space — you talk to it, it responds, it helps you stay on track with your care. We sit at the intersection of hardware, AI, and emotional design, because behavior change doesn't come from reminders and gamification — it comes from feeling understood. What We're Building A screenless medication adherence device paired with an AI voice companion. Say "Hey HEAL" and it dispenses your medication, logs adherence, and has a real conversation with you about how you're doing — building the kind of clinical documentation that qualifies for Medicare Remote Therapeutic Monitoring (RTM) reimbursement. V1 is built and working; we're now developing V2 using real user data, targeting a significant jump in treatment effectiveness. Our voice companion also carries a crisis-escalation layer, built with clinical oversight from a psychiatry advisor with 15+ years of experience. Hard Problems We're Solving Medication non-adherence, especially for mental health conditions, is a massive and under-addressed problem — people don't stop taking their medication because they forget, they stop because no one is checking in on how they actually feel. Existing solutions (pillboxes, reminder apps) treat this as a logistics problem, not an emotional one. We're solving three hard problems at once: designing a voice AI that can hold a caring, clinically-sound conversation without a screen; building the crisis-detection logic responsible enough to flag real risk without false alarms (the single highest-risk, highest-scrutiny part of the FDA classification question); and proving this new adherence data can actually satisfy Medicare RTM reimbursement requirements, which is what will make this sustainable at scale rather than another wellness gadget.

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Compute is a commodity. We think people should buy it like one. Startups shouldn’t be forced to buy a year’s worth of compute time in order to get market rate and compute providers shouldn’t go bankrupt because they can’t fully book their clusters. At SF Compute , our goal is to solve this issue the same way this was solved for every other commodity — by building a venue where compute contracts are traded in real-time and by bringing a new kind of participant into the supply chain, traders. If we succeed, buyers will be able to get a good price for any order, whether it’s 32 H100s for a month or 8,000 H100s for an hour, and sellers will instantly book out their clusters because traders will speculatively buy them, for a spread. Every FLOP will flow through us somewhere in the supply chain. What Brent is for oil, we will be for compute.

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Our mission is to empower individuals and families to plan for a financially stable future through personalized retirement planning and life insurance solutions. We are committed to providing guidance and clarity in navigating life’s financial milestones, protecting loved ones, and achieving long-term peace of mind. By prioritizing transparency, trust, and tailored strategies, we help our clients build confidence in their financial well-being and security.

Gridline is here to redefine how private markets operate, making them faster, smarter, and more accessible. We are setting a new standard by building the Turnkey Alternatives Management Platform (TAMP) to help wealth managers run private market programs at scale. As a ledger-native system of record, Gridline provides a single source of truth that tracks the entire investment lifecycle down to the transaction layer, enabling RIAs, family offices, and private banks to manage their private markets business in one place. Our team brings deep experience across both enterprise technology and alternative investments to build the infrastructure layer the industry has always lacked. Backed by an $18.5M Series A led by FINTOP, we are creating the systems and structuring the data required to define the next generation of private market investing. Are you up to the challenge?

Mercata is a secure AI sidekick for fundamental investors. We turn unstructured internal and external data into a real-time, queryable research environment so analysts and portfolio managers can move faster, ask better questions, and make more confident decisions. With Mercata, research teams ask layered, high-context questions that traverse companies, people, and time, and get traceable, source-linked answers. The system scans filings, press releases, and news in real time and surfaces what is new and factual, highlighting potential impacts on existing investment theses. It frees analysts from data mining so they can produce unique insights and apply their judgment. Teams can integrate proprietary research into Mercata’s dynamic intelligence layer, creating a unified system of record for faster recall, deeper analysis, and clear decision trails.