Top Tech Startups to Work For in 2026

Boost Intercept is a proprietary electronic B2B payment platform developed by Boost Payment Solutions that transforms supplier-initiated virtual card payments into a “buyer-initiated payment experience” for suppliers. Boost Intercept was designed and developed in response to the chorus of pain points voiced by large suppliers willing to take cards but frustrated by the need to support multiple virtual card (V-card) platforms.

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Quilter is a physics-driven AI platform that automates printed circuit board (PCB) layout. Electrical engineers and PCB designers use it to turn circuit schematics into finished boards in hours instead of weeks.

Tetra is leading the clean energy transformation by adding transparency and efficiency into a forgotten industry. Home improvement contractors are left in the past, lacking automation and technology to run and scale their small business. This leaves homeowners without the necessary information to make easy, fast decisions and creates a painful buying process. Homeowners are unaware they can reduce carbon emissions and lower their utility bills. We provide the most efficient and affordable options to homeowners, improve their experience, and coordinate the installation of home improvement projects. In doing so, we're “super powering” contractors by automating admin tasks and allowing them to focus on installation excellence and customer happiness. We’re starting by transforming heating and cooling replacements, a $120 billion industry which makes up 12% of total energy usage in the US. Federal and state government agencies allocate billions of dollars in incentives to help homeowners choose high-efficiency systems—now at unprecedented levels thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022—but the dollars are historically underutilized due to lack of customer awareness. We’re democratizing and unlocking those incentive dollars. We started in Massachusetts, where we’re now 4%+ of the heat pump replacement market, and launched in New York in mid-2024, where we’re already seeing great traction, validating that our model has the potential to scale nationwide. With backing from the likes of Lerer Hippeau, Gutter Capital, Greycroft, and others, we’re now preparing to do exactly that.

2020 Capital is all about creating financially self-sufficient communities. They are about to revolutionize the way America’s Middle Class behaves financially. 2020 Capital is the creator of the first-ever financial habitat, Spike, where financial advisors and their local clients weave a never-before-seen empowering and solution-driven community. At their various locations spread across the nation, they will provide the underserved middle class with financial advisory services, financial education and an inspiring workspace wired by Spike 2.0, a state of the art AI-driven data and service platform. This novel ecosystem will not only transform the financial advisory sector but will highlight the path for the resurrection of America’s Middle Class!

Founded in 2006, 8th Light is a global team of software, design, and technology professionals. We partner with forward-thinking people and organizations to help them imagine and create elegant, robust, and groundbreaking software solutions to complex problems. With deep expertise and experience in software design, development, data, and DevOps, we work with a wide range of clients who are looking to achieve equally diverse outcomes. Rooted in a culture of continuous learning and collaboration, we’re employee-owned, and headquartered in Chicago, but our more than 140 team members live and work in locations including London, New York, Los Angeles, and Austin. Whether we’re crafting digital experiences that inform and inspire, energizing and empowering enterprises through technology-driven transformation, or nurturing and guiding internal teams looking to expand their own technological expertise and software-building capabilities, our objective is always the same: to help unlock human potential and spark change.