Top Tech Startups to Work For in 2027

1stdibs is the premier luxury marketplace for rare and beautiful objects in furniture, fashion, fine art, and jewelry. We connect the world’s most respected dealers with buyers who share in the pursuit of beautiful design. In doing so we strive to define and shape the future of antique, vintage, and contemporary buying-and-selling. We consider ourselves unique among start-ups. We’ve been around since 2001, yet still exhibit strong entrepreneurial DNA that informs how we operate and function as a company. It helps that we are led by a seasoned executive team that has seen it all: CEO David Rosenblatt formerly ran DoubleClick and negotiated its sale to Google for $3.2 billion. Other executives have held senior roles at eBay, Gilt Groupe, FreshDirect, BarnesandNoble.com, MLB.com, Group Commerce, and Venmo. We are backed by prominent venture capital firms like Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures, Insight Ventures, and Spark Capital. Alibaba Group has also made a significant investment.

GOAT is the global platform for the greatest products from the past, present and future. Since its founding in 2015, GOAT has become the leading and most trusted sneaker marketplace in the world, and has expanded to offer apparel and accessories from select emerging, contemporary and iconic brands. Through its unique positioning between the primary and resale markets, the company offers styles across various time periods on its digital platforms and in its retail locations, while delivering products to over 30 million members across 170 countries.

Veriff delivers market leading identify verification (IDV). With the combined forces of machine learning and expert in-house specialists, Veriff protects businesses and enables good customers to effortlessly verify themselves. AI speeds up sessions with immediate feedback, while manual checks by our verification gurus mitigates the risk of financial crime.

Powered by innovative technology that scales quality, we answer the always-changing needs of modern audiences, creators and marketers. Our wit, passion, and sharp commentary make Vox Media a keystone of modern media.

Carta is a platform that helps people manage equity, build businesses, and invest in the companies of tomorrow. Our mission is to unlock the power of equity ownership for more people in more places. Carta is trusted by more than 30,000 companies and over half a million employees in nearly 150 countries to manage cap tables, compensation, and valuations. Carta also supports over 5,000 funds representing over $100B in assets under administration with their venture capital solutions. Carta’s liquidity solutions have returned $13B to shareholders in secondary transactions. Today Carta’s platform manages over two trillion dollars in equity for nearly two million people globally. Companies and funds like Canva, Tribe, and Pipe build their businesses on Carta. The company has been included on the Forbes World’s Best Cloud Companies, Fast Company's Most Innovative list, and Inc.’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies. For more information, visit carta.com.

We provide innovative artificial intelligence systems which utilize end-to-end deep-learning that enables driving across diverse urban environments. This unique approach to software development and implementation allows our systems to learn and adapt to never-before-seen urban environments seamlessly and safely without making compromises in safety or ease of utilization to allow the efficient movement of people, goods and more. This isn't just a single-city trial, our aggressive implementation will place us as the first company to launch our software in over 100 different urban environments.

We provide tracking and analytics for both phone calls and web forms. We help you discover which ads, keywords and campaigns bring valuable leads over the phone and on the web. We offer call tracking software which can reveal which campaigns, websites, and search keywords are driving phone call conversations. With visitor timelines you can see your customer’s journey through your website. Call conversion data feeds directly into Google Ads and even optimizes your PPC call tracking campaigns so you can track phone calls as conversions. Our product is designed to be straightforward and accessible to businesses of all sizes. We help optimize your workflow so you can measure the quality of your conversations and turn more leads into customers.

Wealthfront is a nextgen banking service. We help you manage your money for both your short-term and long-term goals by providing a cash account with a top-of-market APY, best-in-class automated investment management, and free financial advice, anytime you want it. We entered into the banking space in a big way this year with the launch of our cash account that offers an interest rate 23x greater than the national average. We’ve been overwhelmed by the response and have grown nearly 100% this year already to manage nearly $20 billion in total client assets. Our ultimate vision is to optimize and automate all of our clients’ finances and build what we call Self-Driving Money™️. We want clients to be able to automatically deposit their paycheck into their Wealthfront account, and let us take care of the rest — paying their bills, topping off their emergency fund or 401(k), and investing the rest based on their specific goals and lifestyle.

GrubMarket's mission is to provide organic food for the 99%. In other words, we conveniently make fresh and healthy food accessible to everyone. We firmly believe that you, your family, and your friends should always have the opportunity to eat well, and that price should never be a barrier between you and healthy, delicious, and freshly-harvested food. GrubMarket is committed to providing you with the best grocery experience possible, by regularly offering you a spectacular array of wholesome foods at prices that are up to 50% OFF what you'd typically find at other grocers. Our promise to you is to always deliver unbelievable quality at unbeatable prices.

Vena connects people, existing systems and data to power finance-led business planning and real time reporting using the world’s leading spreadsheet platform. For job postings, head to lifeatvena.com