50 Best Software Companies to Watch in 2026

The most prominent software companies ranked by global prominence, funding activity, and market position. Showing the top 50 out of 217,657 companies tracked on Fsome.

217,657
Total Companies
$1583.1B
Total Funding
$7.3M
Avg Funding
San Francisco
Top Location
# Company Location Employees Total Funding Last Round Last Funded
1
ClickHouse
ClickHouse provides an open-source database system for real-time analytical repo…
Mountain View $1.1B Series D 2026-01-16
2
Replit
Replit is the most secure agentic platform for production-ready apps.
Foster City $872.0M Series D 2026-03-11
3
NVIDIA
NVIDIA is a computing platform company operating at the intersection of graphics…
Santa Clara $4.1B Grant 2023-05-09
4
Lovable
Lovable provides an AI-driven platform enabling users to generate and deploy web…
Dover $552.5M Series B 2025-12-18
5
Parloa
Parloa is an AI agent management platform that supports contact centers in autom…
Berlin $562.0M Series D 2026-01-15
6
Baseten
Baseten is an AI infrastructure company that integrates machine learning into bu…
San Francisco 101 - 250 $585.0M Series Unknown 2026-01-20
7
Emergent
Emergent is an AI-powered software creation platform that enables users to build…
Pleasanton 101 - 250 $100.0M Series B 2026-01-20
8
Rocket Lab
Rocket Lab is an aerospace company that provides launch services, spacecraft des…
Long Beach 1K - 5K $2.0B Post Ipo Equity 2026-04-08
9
Navan
Navan provides travel, expense, and corporate card management to automate manual…
Palo Alto $2.2B Convertible Note 2025-04-07
10
MiniMax
MiniMax develops multimodal AI foundation models that support text, audio, image…
Singapore $1.1B Corporate Round 2025-12-23
11
Aikido Security
Aikido Security offers a platform for securing code, cloud, and runtime environm…
Ghent $84.6M Series B 2026-01-14
12
Manus AI
Manus is a versatile AI agent enhancing productivity and research across various…
Singapore 51 - 100 $85.0M Series B 2025-04-25
13
Phinge
Phinge® Creating Netverse®, Patented App-less, Integrated Technologies & Verifed…
Incline Village 1 - 10 $2.1M Convertible Note 2026-04-17
14
Torq
Torq is an AI-first no-code automation platform that unifies and automates workf…
Tel Aviv $330.0M Series D 2026-01-11
15
IFS
IFS develops and delivers enterprise software solutions such as ERP, EAM, Servic…
Link├╢ping $3.4B Secondary Market 2025-04-09
16
Thinking Machines Lab
Thinking Machines Lab is an AI research and product company that aims to increas…
San Francisco $2.0B Corporate Round 2026-03-10
17
Pennylane
Pennylane is an accounting and financial management platform centralising accoun…
Paris $440.8M Series E 2026-01-20
18
Meta
Meta is a social technology company that enables people to connect, find communi…
Menlo Park $54.6B Post Ipo Debt 2025-08-08
19
Sage
Sage is an operation management system that enhances senior caregiving efficienc…
New York $124.0M Series C 2026-03-05
20
OneStream Software
OneStream Software is an independent software company that develops a financial …
Rochester $665.0M Private Equity 2026-01-06
21
Cursor
Cursor (acquired by DataRobot) is a collaborative analytics platform that makes …
San Francisco $2.0M Seed 2018-05-30
22
Motive
Motive is a fleet management and driver safety platform that helps improve the s…
San Francisco $717.3M Series Unknown 2025-07-29
23
Tether
Tether builds AI that turns millions of parked EVs into the world’s largest batt…
Stockholm $1.5M Pre Seed 2025-06-19
24
Crunchbase
Crunchbase is a predictive private company intelligence solution, powered by liv…
San Francisco 101 - 250 $106.5M Series D 2022-07-20
25
Mercor
Mercor is an AI-based hiring platform that improves the recruitment process by m…
San Francisco $483.6M Series C 2025-10-27
26
Veeam Software
Veeam provides data resilience and data management solutions for cloud, virtual,…
Columbus $2.5B Corporate Round 2025-02-25
27
Seraphic Security
Seraphic Security is a cyber security startup that provides a robust protection …
Tel Aviv $29.0M Series A 2025-01-30
28
Runway
Runway offers generative AI tools for creating images, videos, and simulations, …
New York 101 - 250 $859.5M Series E 2026-02-10
29
Onebrief
Onebrief is an AI-powered platform that supports operational planning, collabora…
Honolulu $311.0M Series D 2026-01-13
30
Diligent Robotics
Diligent Robotics develops AI-powered robot assistants to collaborate with and a…
Austin $90.8M Series Unknown 2025-02-27
31
Swap
Swap Commerce provides an e-commerce operating system that helps online brands u…
London $149.0M Series C 2026-01-07
32
VAST Data
VAST Data offers a unified data platform that integrates storage, database, and …
New York 501 - 1K $1.4B Secondary Market 2026-03-09
33
Boston Dynamics
Boston Dynamics is an engineering company that specializes in building dynamic r…
Waltham 501 - 1K $37.0M Corporate Round 2025-12-31
34
Rigetti Computing
Rigetti Computing is a quantum computing company that builds and deploys full-st…
Berkeley 101 - 250 $783.5M Post Ipo Equity 2025-06-11
35
Andela
Andela is a global tech talent platform that connects companies with vetted, rem…
New York 251 - 500 $381.0M Series E 2021-09-29
36
Celestial AI
Celestial AI develops an optical interconnect technology platform for data cente…
Santa Clara 101 - 250 $593.9M Series C 2025-03-11
37
Moonshot AI
Moonshot AI seeks solutions in transforming energy into intelligence and generat…
Haidian 101 - 250 $2.8B Series Unknown 2026-02-17
38
Articul8
Articul8 AI is an enterprise-generative AI platform that helps organizations bui…
Palo Alto 51 - 100 $75.0M Series B 2026-01-07
39
Helsing
Helsing develops AI-powered defense tech, focusing on drones and software, to en…
Munich 501 - 1K $1.5B Series D 2025-06-17
40
Datarails
Datarails is an FP&A platform that automates consolidation, reporting, planning,…
New York 251 - 500 $173.5M Series C 2026-01-21
41
valU
valU is a fintech company that provides buy now, pay later, and customized finan…
Gîza 501 - 1K $210.3M Post Ipo Debt 2026-01-15
42
H2O.ai
H2O.ai is a machine learning platform that builds smart applications.
Mountain View 251 - 500 $251.1M Secondary Market 2023-05-12
43
Anything
Anything is an AI app builder that lets people make money on the internet. Ships…
San Francisco 1 - 10 $19.5M Series A 2025-09-29
44
Fireworks AI
Fireworks AI is an advanced platform that enables users to build, tune, and scal…
Redwood City 101 - 250 $327.0M Series C 2025-10-28
45
NinjaOne
NinjaOne serves as an IT platform for endpoint management that enhances producti…
Austin 1K - 5K $761.5M Series C 2025-02-24
46
Watershed
Watershed serves as an enterprise climate platform utilized by companies to asse…
San Francisco 251 - 500 $253.5M Series Unknown 2026-01-06
47
Tulip Interfaces
Tulip is a frontline operations platform designed to empower companies with AI-e…
Somerville 251 - 500 $272.5M Series D 2026-01-13
48
MercuryAi
MercuryAi connects multiple AI language models through one API, making AI integr…
New Delhi 51 - 100 $641K Pre Seed 2026-01-06
49
Cluely
Cluely provides AI-powered real-time assistance for various tasks.
New York 11 - 50 $20.3M Series A 2025-06-20
50
Character.ai
Character.ai provides open-ended conversational applications in which users crea…
Menlo Park 51 - 100 $150.1M Series A 2023-03-23