Top Tech Startups to Work For in 2027

Our integrated open source governance platform (nexus) helps more than 1,000 organizations and 10 million software developers simultaneously accelerate innovation and improve application security. our machine learning engine (nexus intelligence) has analyzed more than 65 million open source components. devops teams eliminate friction associated with manual governance and ship secure software faster than ever.

Founded in 2012 by Mike Henry and Dave Fick, and based in Austin, TX and Redwood City, CA, Mythic is creating a unified hardware and software platform that relies on unique analog compute-in-memory technology to deliver revolutionary power, cost, and performance that will shatter the limits restricting AI innovation. Mythic is making it much easier and more affordable to deploy powerful AI solutions, from the data center to the edge device.

Financial institutions process billions of transactions every day across cards, ACH, wires, and third party aggregators. But most of that data is difficult to use. Descriptions are inconsistent, merchant names don’t match, and categories vary by payment type. Spade is a data and AI platform that turns messy transaction strings into structured, verified records — and gives teams the tools to act on it across authorization, attribution, analytics, and AI initiatives. Spade leads the market in terms of merchant coverage, matching accuracy, geolocation data, and speed of transaction enrichment. Customers such as, FIS, Bilt, Mercury, Stripe, alongside many other leaders in fintech and financial services, trust Spade's data to enable personalized rewards programs, accurate applied spending rules, precise analytics requests, and innovative AI-powered features. Spade is a fast growing, Series B company backed by industry experts and top tier investors (including Oak HC/FT, a16z, Flourish Ventures, Y-Combinator, and Gradient Ventures). We’re a lean and execution-oriented hybrid team, passionate about building exceptional products for our growing customer base. We care deeply about diversity of background, experience, and opinion. We value empathy, curiosity, and passion, and strive to create an environment where individuals have autonomy and the ability to take ownership over their work.

We are solving a huge problem in financial services that has been lying unsolved for decades. All major payment systems (including wallets ) require two sided onboarding i.e. Payor and Payee need to onboard before they can transact. We have built a way to generate and transmit Digital Payments without onboarding the Payee/Recipient. This is huge in terms of bringing traditional paper and cash payments online. Add to that, we've figured out a clever way to monetize from both sides thereby changing the financial equation from Customers paying us to us paying our customers cash back from card fees! Our investors, whom we call our "believers," include Tim Draper, Adam Draper (Tim Draper's family), Naval Ravikabt through his AngelList Maiden Fund, co-founder of Intuit and more! Institutional investors include a top 4 bank and top 5 insurance company. Checkbook lets businesses move away from paper to deliver Digital Checks directly to a recipients email. This allows businesses to keep all their existing Accounts Payable (or Accounts Receivable processes) in place while moving to a completely online solution. All you need to send a check is the name and email of the recipient along with the amount you are sending. Recipients do not need to sign up for any service, download any app or pay any fees to receive payments. Digital Checks can be deposited and cashed online after instantly verifying banking credentials. No more paying high % based transaction fees on credit and debit cards or sharing sensitive bank account and routing numbers to payor.

NotedSource is an AI-enhanced R&D platform that connects companies to the right expertise and provides tools to support every stage of research project lifecycles. Our mission is to be the everyday R&D partner. Through the power of AI and human insight, we bridge gaps and unlock the collaboration R&D teams need to tackle everything from small questions to the most complex research problems.

Over 83,000 brands and millions of information workers trust Smartsheet to help them accelerate business execution and address the volume and velocity of today’s collaborative work. Sound hard? It’s not. In fact, according to Forrester, over 92% of our customers say that Smartsheet is easy to deploy and use, and 96% of them would recommend Smartsheet to a colleague.

Wonderschool was started in 2016. The company’s mission is to ensure that every child has access to a home away from home that helps them realize their full potential. Wonderschool supports experienced educators and childcare providers to start their own childcares or preschools out of their homes, whether they live in apartments, condos, or homes that they rent or own. Wonderschool provides assistance with licensing, program setup, marketing and everything in between. The company’s software platform allows teachers to manage their students, parents, and their program from one dashboard. Along with this, Wonderschool has built a marketplace for parents to search Wonderschool programs, schedule visits, enroll their children, and make payments.

DraftKings is a sports oriented skill gaming company based in Boston, MA. Our core products are currently in the short-format Fantasy Sports space: DraftKings.com, the leading Daily Fantasy Sports for Cash site, and Fantasy Sports for Coins, a top rated fantasy sports app with versions for the iPhone, Android and Facebook Canvas.

Flock Safety is the first public safety operating system empowering over 1000 cities to eliminate crime with a focus on privacy. Find out more at flocksafety.com

Kipsi is a venture-backed, accounting software company. We are passionate about using technology to improve the accounting profession and make the lives of accountants easier. Kipsi is based in the Bay Area but we are a remote-first company.