Top Tech Startups to Work For in 2027

Lively is the modern HSA experience built for those seeking stability in the ever-shifting and uncertain healthcare landscape. Lively is committed to helping every HSA maximize its potential through intuitive design, accessible support, and ongoing education.

Our groundbreaking spin on service and technology has fueled our mission to be America’s Small Business Bank. Our products help customers buy, build, and expand their business, and our high-yield savings and CD products help them grow their hard-earned money. At Live Oak, we never lose sight of the well-being of our people. We believe our employees are the heart of our company. Our commitment to our customers and culture is intertwined, and we seek those who embody and embrace what it takes to empower the American dream.

We connect patients, doctors, and developers to accelerate healthcare innovation. Our customers range from independent doctors' offices like Grand Street Dental to public tech companies like SmileDirectClub. We help doctors modernize their businesses, help developers innovate faster, and help patients receive a modern healthcare experience. We’re pursuing a society-changing goal and the market opportunity is open for the taking. We’ve 5X’d in the last year, and as an early-stage employee you will have the chance to make a foundational impact on our company’s continued growth.

Blend makes the process of getting a loan simpler, faster, and safer! With its digital lending platform, Blend helps financial institutions including Wells Fargo and U.S. Bank increase productivity and deliver exceptional customer experiences. The company processes nearly $2 billion in loans daily, helping millions of consumers gain access to the capital they need to lead better lives. Founded in 2012 by a group of former Palantir engineers, Blend has raised $685 million from leading venture investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Canapi Ventures, Capital One Ventures, Coatue, 8VC, Emergence Capital, Founders Fund, General Atlantic, Greylock Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Temasek, and Tiger Global Management.

Our Story: Octane was founded in 2014 to make financing powersports fast and easy. Octane offers instant financing to fuel your lifestyle. We’re passionate about fast and fair lending, so we built the Octane Platform to enable instant financing for as many people as possible. And because we’re quicker and simpler than other lending platforms, we’re growing fast. Octane reaches millions of enthusiasts through editorial brands like Cycle World and UTV Driver and helps consumers buy their favorite products by prequalifying them on dealer and OEM websites. Join us in our mission to connect people with their passion. Instant Finance Offers: Octane Prequal expands markets by providing personalized, real rates and payments. We give dealers and consumers tools to compare and understand what they can afford, even without perfect credit. Soft-Pull, Impact-Free Credit Technology: We feel strongly about not impacting potential customers’ credit scores, so we built a technology that lets shoppers browse vehicles and rates without the damaging impact of hard credit pulls. Robust Digital Tooling for Dealers: Our Dealer Platform provides flexibility and financing options for dealers. Octane enables serving more customers faster with an instant, fully digital experience, shaving hours off deal times. Octane increases sales and customer satisfaction.

Tigera secures and governs AI workloads and agents across the enterprise, wherever they run, by providing deep visibility and enforcement control. The company’s offerings secure AI workloads and agents across 1M+ clusters in multicloud and hybrid environments. Leading enterprises including NVIDIA, Royal Bank of Canada, Bloomberg, Chipotle, GoDaddy, and Upwork trust Tigera for their AI security needs.

Vida Health is a virtual care platform that treats the whole person – and a whole population – by addressing a full range of chronic conditions and the mental health conditions that accompany them. Vida is the only virtual care platform that was designed from the ground up to treat multiple chronic conditions at the same time, through a balance of machine learning that customizes each person’s treatment and the human connection of real life health coaches and therapists who bring the empathy and accountability people need to reach their goals.

Braze is the leading customer engagement platform that empowers brands to Be Absolutely Engaging™. Braze helps brands deliver great customer experiences that drive value both for consumers and for their businesses. Built on a foundation of composable intelligence, BrazeAI™ allows marketers to combine and activate AI agents, models, and features at every touchpoint throughout the Braze Customer Engagement Platform for smarter, faster, and more meaningful customer engagement. From cross-channel messaging and journey orchestration to Al-powered decisioning and optimization, Braze enables companies to turn action into interaction through autonomous, 1:1 personalized experiences. The company has been consistently recognized as a Leader in marketing technology by industry analysts, and was named a G2 “Best of Marketing and Digital Advertising Software Product” in 2026. Braze was also named a 2026 Best Places to Work by Built In, a 2025 America’s Greenest Companies by Newsweek, and a 2025 Fortune Best Workplace in Technology™ by Great Place To Work®. The company is headquartered in New York with 15 offices across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC. Learn more at braze.com.

LeafLink is the regulated cannabis industry’s wholesale marketplace, providing licensed dispensaries with the ability to order from their favorite brands, as well as a suite of software tools for those brands to manage and scale their operations. With over 3,800 retailers and more than 1,200 brands across 24 territories in the US and Canada, we are setting the industry standard for how cannabis businesses grow together. LeafLink annually processes and manages more than $1 billion in wholesale cannabis orders - you can learn more about our history and path to $1B here: firstbillion.leaflink.com. Our team, backed by funding from leading VC’s, is poised to define the cannabis supply chain through technology. LeafLink was named one of Fast Company’s ’Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Enterprise for 2018’, joining the ranks of Amazon, Slack, and VMWare - and we’re just getting started!

Cityblock Health is the first tech-driven provider for communities with complex needs, bringing better care to where it’s needed most, block by block. Founded in 2017 on the premise that “health is local” and based in Brooklyn, we are backed by Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs and some of the top healthcare investors in the country. Our mission is to improve the health of underserved communities, one block at a time. Importantly, our solutions are designed specifically for Medicaid and lower-income Medicare beneficiaries, and we meet our members where they are—bringing care into the home and neighborhoods through our community-based care teams. In close collaboration with community-based organizations, local providers, and leading health plans, we are reorganizing the health system to focus on what matters to our members. Equipped with world-class, custom care delivery technology, we deliver personalized primary care, behavioral health, and social services to deliver a radically better experience of care for every member and community we serve. Over the next year, we’ll grow quickly to bring better care to many more members and their communities. We will get started in new markets, each with their own operating structure and care teams, and continue to grow in the communities where we are working already. To do this, we need people who, like us, believe that everyone should have good care for what matters to them, in their community. Our work is grounded in a belief in the power of a diverse community. To deliver a radically better experience of care to our members and advance equity in the communities we serve, we strive to make our own team diverse and inclusive. Our ways of working are characterized by creativity, collaboration, and mutual learning that comes from bridging together a community from diverse backgrounds and perspectives.