Top Tech Startups to Work For in 2027

Applecart is a high growth marketing technology company based in New York City, founded in 2013. Applecart has developed a proprietary social graph platform that uses publicly available data to map over 25 billion social relationships between more than 250 million adult Americans. Applecart’s platform helps major corporations, national nonprofit organizations, and high-profile political campaigns with their highest stakes marketing challenge: reaching hard-to-reach audiences of decision makers, spanning corporate executives, legislators, regulators, investors, members of the media, and more. For years, marketing technology businesses have focused on solving b2c (consumer) marketing challenges (e.g. look-a-like modeling to find new customers), but the traditional pay-per-impression advertising model has left a massive opportunity unsolved for: how to market when a company’s target isn’t the average consumer, but is instead a single, senior decision maker. Applecart is the solution to this problem for some of the world’s most prominent organizations. Quick facts about us: Applecart has generated over $30M in revenue, with annual revenues in excess of $10M. Our senior leadership team includes two members of the 2021 Forbes 30 under 30 list for Marketing and Advertising, a former senior White House advisor, one of the earliest sales leaders at Google and Twitter, and two of the Democratic Party’s most successful pollsters and strategists Our investors include global sports, entertainment and marketing giant Endeavor, KKR Co-Chairman and Co-CEO Henry Kravis, entrepreneur Chris Burch, a founder of Palantir, senior engineering leaders at Twitter and Yelp, past CEOs of Fortune 50 companies and a number of well-known venture capitalists. Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel is a board member of the company. Current and past clients include Blackstone, Boeing, KKR, the Environmental Defense Fund, the Business Roundtable, Governor John Kasich, Congressman Conor Lamb and Republican Vote

Yap is a video messenger that keeps your friends closer. Texting is easy but flat. Calls mean finding a time you’re both free. Yap is the in-between: send a video whenever someone crosses your mind, and they watch it whenever they’ve got a moment. No feed, no followers, no algorithm. Just the handful of people you actually want in your day, one-on-one or in small groups. AI does the heavy lifting in the background. Smart previews summarize every Yap so you can catch up at a glance, and talking points help you reply when you don’t know where to start. You can even send a Yap to a friend before they’ve downloaded the app, and it’s waiting for them the moment they join. We’re building for anyone trying to stay close to people they wish they saw more, starting with students and recent grads whose friends are now spread across different cities. Where we are: Yap is live on the App Store, built end to end by a solo founder in Washington, DC, and funded by friends and family. The product is in place; the next chapter is distribution. We’re seeding friend groups on DC campuses, growing through communities and short-form video, and planning to raise a seed round in early 2027. Joining now means real ownership and direct work with the founder on the most important problem in consumer social: getting people to show up for each other.