Top Tech Startups to Work For in 2026

Ellevation is the only software platform focused exclusively on ELL educators and the English Learners they serve. At a time when English Learners are the fastest growing population of students in the nation, educators have few tools or innovations to meet their needs. Ellevation partners with school districts to provide an instructional and data management platform focused on instruction, productivity, and collaboration. The platform enables educators to set goals aligned to standards, group students for differentiation, automatically generate an individualized language plans for English Learners, and move many reporting functions online. Over the last year, we increased revenue by 300% and the number of partner school districts by over 100%, and more than doubled the size of our team. We are well-capitalized, have an awesome and growing team, and are looking to add passionate, smart, fun and entrepreneurial folks to who are interested in building a high-impact company.

The Onapsis Security Platform is the first SAP cyber-security solution that combines vulnerability, compliance, detection and response capabilities that traditional security solutions do not provide. The larger companies worldwide rely on Onapsis solutions because over 75% of all their transactions occur on business-critical applications, thus making data from these systems endlessly valuable to attackers. Through continuous monitoring, the Onapsis Security Platform delivers a real-time preventative, detective and corrective approach for securing SAP systems and applications.

- The first commission-free, high-frequency sports betting exchange, building the "Nasdaq of sports betting" - Recently closed a $6m seed round from YC, Lux, Soma, Paul Graham, Joe Montana, Innospark, the founders of Dropbox and Instacart, among many others - Looking for quant traders and researchers, SWEs, marketing, BD, operations, and product roles to work out of our NY office - Salaries at the top of benchmarks, with significant equity ownership and generous benefits - Founders are recent Harvard grads with quant experience at Jane Street and BoA and years of experience as sharp sports bettors - $300B annually bet on sports in the US and the size of the market is rapidly growing given the number of states legalizing sports betting - Currently the only way to bet is with retail sportsbooks which have egregious margins, discriminatory and inefficient practices, and a stale betting experience - Novig is a sports betting exchange that guarantees users the best lines by allowing them to bet directly against friends or the market, rather than against the house, making the betting experience more efficient, fair, and, most importantly, profitable

IEX is the fair, simple, and transparent stock exchange that believes every investor is entitled to the same right to trade on equal terms, on every single trade. The SEC recently approved IEX (the Investors Exchange) as a registered national securities exchange. As the first new U.S. exchange in more than six years, IEX is on a mission to level the playing field by eliminating unfair advantages from the markets. We are an exchange that believes markets should reward smarter, not faster.

Brex is building a first-of-its-kind solution to integrate the financial services and software that businesses need to be successful. While they build the future, we’ll be building everything they need to launch confidently and scale smarter. We are a hybrid company, optimizing for flexibility and connection. Our employees work remotely while coming to the office for a few coordinated days per week. We have offices in San Francisco, New York, Seattle, Salt Lake, Vancouver BC and Sao Paulo.

Though the vast majority of renters live outside of New York, San Francisco, and LA, those top markets continue to be the focus of nearly all innovation in the outdated world of apartment search. ABODO changes that. ABODO creates first-of-their-kind, localized rental marketplaces for underserved, tier 2 U.S. cities. Our platform combines the largest, most accurate and up-to-date inventory of local apartments available for a given city with a mobile-first, seamless search experience. This combination of unmatched local marketplace liquidity, and a delightful search experience, has helped ABODO grow from Madison, WI to 15 additional cities in the last 18 months, and from thousands of users to millions. With millions of renters now using ABODO across the web, iOS and Android, we're obsessed with continuing to make the process of finding your next apartment effortless, especially in cities outside of New York, San Francisco and LA.

About Eight Sleep Eight Sleep is building an end-to-end predictive health platform, starting with the one place humans spend a third of their lives - the bed. Founded in 2014, we began by reimagining sleep as a trainable input to health and performance. Our flagship product, the Pod, turns the bed into an always-on lab, combining advanced temperature regulation, biometric sensing, and AI to optimize recovery, improve performance, and surface early signals for preventative action. Today, Eight Sleep has analyzed 1B+ hours of sleep data, serves customers across 30+ countries, and has recently raised an additional $100M to expand beyond sleep optimization into broader health prediction and intervention. Backed by leading investors including Founders Fund, Y Combinator, Valor Equity Partners, and HSG, we’re building the foundation for how people understand and improve their health every day - passively, continuously, and proactively. Learn more at eightsleep.com

We are the place where millions of people come together live every day to chat, interact, and make their own entertainment together. On our platform you can watch what you love, connect with streamers, and chat with tons of communities. You can share your dream and we’ll help you build the community around them. You can build new stuff as countless communities need custom tools built just for them. Come be the hero.

15Five is a continuous performance management solution that helps employees grow and develop, in just 15 minutes each week. Through a lightweight weekly check-in, 15Five delivers everything a manager needs to impact employee performance, including continuous feedback, objectives (OKR) tracking, recognition, 1-on-1s, and 360° reviews. 15Five is the most popular performance management software out of 246 vendors, and a Top 50 Fastest Growing Product on G2Crowd, with over 1,900 forward-thinking companies using the solution to bring out the best in their people. Recent press: 15five.com/press What we're about: 15five.com/philosophy/core-values

Squire is the world’s leading and fastest-growing software technology platform for barbershops, a hundred-billion-dollar global industry. We provide a one-stop solution that helps small business entrepreneurs run and grow their businesses. Squire is also the premiere booking engine that connects people with great barbers nationwide. We make it easy to discover and book the best barbers wherever you are, in just a few taps. With headquarters in New York and a presence in major cities in the United States, U.K. and Canada, Squire has quickly become a market leader in technology solutions for the barbershop industry. Squire is currently a Series D company and has raised over $165M to date. For more information, please visit getSquire.com or download the Squire app from the App or Play Store.