Remote work has evolved how we build, connect, and create. Across industries, companies are proving that distributed teams continue to be as innovative, collaborative, and human as any office-bound organization.
This list celebrates the 21 remote companies leading that charge, from open-source AI pioneers and global hiring platforms to cybersecurity innovators and data storytellers. These aren’t just businesses that happen to be remote; they’re built for it.
They’ve turned flexibility into focus, autonomy into accountability, and distance into connection. Each one is proving that when you trust people and give them the tools to thrive, great work is bound to happen.
Top Remote Startups and Tech Companies
LeanTaaS
LeanTaaS is transforming hospital operations and patient flow across the system by unleashing AI-powered capacity tools that optimize everything from ORs to infusion centers to inpatient units. With the launch of iQueue for Surgical Clinics over the summer, they’ve introduced the industry’s first end-to-end surgical coordination platform to tackle the bottlenecks in scheduling, authorizations, and readiness, enabling clinics to increase surgical volume by more than 10%. Behind the technology is a team obsessed with operational impact, collaboration across health systems, and a mission to make care smoother, accessible, and more efficient.
GitLab
Long before remote work was offered as a perk, GitLab was setting the gold standard on the fully distributed team model. As one of the world’s largest all-remote public companies, GitLab has proven that transparency, documentation, and trust can scale just as fast as technology. This is clear in its recent release of GitLab 18 with native Duo AI capabilities, which saw 29% year-over-year growth in Fiscal Year 2026.
A global leader in DevSecOps, GitLab continues to redefine how distributed engineering teams build together. With a single platform for planning, coding, testing, and deploying software, they’re empowering developers to move faster while staying deeply connected. Their expanding suite of AI-powered tools helps teams write, secure, and ship code with greater efficiency while empowering the human creativity that drives collaboration and innovation.
Automattic
Best known for WordPress.com, WooCommerce, and Tumblr, the company continues to innovate where publishing, commerce, and AI meet. Today, Automattic is redefining digital freedom with AI-powered tools like Jetpack AI and the WordPress.com Assistant, helping creators write, edit, and translate with ease. They’re also breaking new ground with WordPress Playground, a full WordPress environment that runs right in the browser, making it easier than ever to learn, test, and build. And with new moves into secure, cross-platform messaging, Automattic is expanding what “open” means for the modern internet.
Zapier
Zapier proves that you don’t need massive funding to build something massive. Fully remote and proudly bootstrapped, the company has quietly become the backbone of modern automation, helping millions of users connect their favorite tools and workflows without writing a single line of code. In 2025, Zapier expanded its AI lineup with Canvas and Autopilot, tools that let anyone design and run workflows using natural language. Zapier is pushing the boundaries of what no-code can do. From AI-powered automation builders to deeper integrations across thousands of apps, the team is making work more seamless for individuals and enterprises alike.
Hugging Face
Hugging Face is building the path toward a more transparent, inclusive AI ecosystem. What started as a simple chatbot has evolved into the world’s most collaborative hub for machine learning, home to over 1 million models, 500,000 datasets, and a community of 2 million developers. Since raising $235M in 2023, the company has been scaling its open-source AI platform that empowers anyone, anywhere, to contribute to and improve machine learning models, lowering barriers that once kept innovation behind closed doors. Working at Hugging Face means joining a global team of researchers, engineers, and dreamers who believe progress should be transparent, ethical, and shared.
Deel
Deel makes global hiring and payroll effortless for companies everywhere. Today, Deel is leading the next wave of remote-work infrastructure with AI-powered compliance, faster onboarding, and localized payroll automation. Its tools don’t just simplify operations; they unlock access to global opportunity for businesses and workers alike. Distributed across time zones, empowered to work asynchronously, and united by a shared belief that great talent can come from anywhere. Deel is proof that borderless work empowers progress.
HashiCorp
From Terraform to Vault, HashiCorp builds the backbone of modern cloud infrastructure. Their open-source products power the foundations of development, security, and operations for organizations around the world. Following its acquisition by IBM in 2024, HashiCorp continues to accelerate innovation in cloud automation and AI-driven security, expanding its enterprise reach while staying true to its open-source roots. As enterprises shift toward automation and AI-driven cloud management, they are embedding intelligence into infrastructure provisioning and strengthening security at every layer. HashiCorp's work enables developers to move faster and with confidence, no matter where their code runs.
Open Router
A breakout star in the AI world, OpenRouter connects developers to a transparent, unified gateway to today’s leading language models. Fast, open, and built for experimentation, it’s already powering projects for more than one million developers and processing billions of API calls monthly. Earlier this year Open Router announced a combined Seed and Series A financing of $40 million led by Andreessen Horowitz and Menlo Ventures they plan to use to accelerate product development, bring new types of models to the platform, and expand enterprise support. Developers join for cutting-edge tech, but stay for the culture of curiosity and transparency that makes innovation feel truly collaborative.
Sourcegraph
Sourcegraph is not just helping developers understand the world’s code—it empowers them to write it faster, too. The company’s platform lets engineers search, navigate, and analyze massive codebases instantly, making complex software development feel simple and collaborative. It is redefining how teams build with Cody, its AI code assistant, which can explain, generate, and even refactor code across repositories, giving developers a true partner in creation. As a remote-first company, Sourcegraph is where world-class developers come together to build smarter from anywhere.
Supabase
Supabase is building the future of backend development with its open-source, developer-first, and endlessly scalable platform. Often called the open-source alternative to Firebase, developers are supported with an instant Postgres database, authentication, and storage that just works. With 250% year-over-year ARR growth, the team is scaling fast and pushing the boundaries of AI-assisted development. From new vector database features to embeddings, and AI-powered query tools that let anyone build smarter apps faster, make it easier than ever to build powerful, data-rich applications.
Remote.com
Remote.com is unlocking opportunities everywhere by making it simple for companies to hire, pay, and care for talent anywhere in the world. Their platform handles global payroll, benefits, compliance, and taxes so teams can focus on building — not bureaucracy. In 2025, Remote surpassed $100M in ARR and launched AI-driven onboarding and compliance tools, streamlining global employment for thousands of customers. Now, Remote is leading the next phase of borderless work with AI-driven tools that simplify global onboarding, payroll insights, and legal workflows. By partnering with governments and expanding local entities, they’re making fair, compliant employment possible in over 180 countries — no matter where great talent lives.
Aura
Aura is on a mission to help people take control of their digital lives by building smarter tools to protect identities, families, and finances. Aura’s all-in-one security platform combines identity theft protection, credit monitoring, VPN, password management, and parental controls. It's also leveraging AI for threat detection and proactive fraud prevention to stop scams before they start. In 2025, Aura raised $140M in a Series G at a $1.6B valuation to expand its consumer security suite and advance its mission to make digital safety simple, proactive, and accessible to everyone.
Linear
Linear’s platform brings issue tracking, project management, and product roadmapping together in one sleek, lightning-quick interface that developers actually love to use. In 2025, the company launched Pulse, an AI-powered feed that summarizes progress and key updates in real time, helping teams stay aligned without meetings. With AI-powered workflows that help teams prioritize, summarize, and ship faster than ever, Linear is focused on a future that balances between simplicity and sophistication, earning a reputation as one of the most design-forward tools in modern development.
Hex
Hex makes data work feel creative. Its collaborative analytics platform helps teams explore, visualize, and share insights by turning complex data into clear, actionable stories. Now, Hex is taking that innovation further with AI-assisted analytics and smart storytelling tools that help teams ask better questions and communicate results instantly. Teams enjoy remote-first work, but with flexible hubs that foster a culture of experimentation, learning, and connection.
Oyster HR
Oyster HR is on a mission to create a more equal world by making it easy for companies to hire people anywhere. Their global employment platform helps teams grow across borders by simplifying how they compliantly onboard, pay, and support talent in more than 180 countries. And the company is poised for greater growth after a 2024 $59M Series D at a $1.2B valuation to accelerate global hiring products. A Certified B Corp, Oyster practices what it preaches by championing opportunity without borders. With a fully distributed workforce spanning 70 countries and built on trust, flexibility, and belonging, Oyster is redefining what it means to be a people-first global company.
Toptal
Toptal connects world-class freelance talent with companies that need it most, whether they are startups or Fortune 500s. Its global network of engineers, designers, finance experts, and project managers helps businesses scale fast with AI-matching and workflow automation that streamlines the hiring process for clients and freelancers alike. By combining technology with a human touch, Toptal continues to set the standard for talent marketplaces in a rapidly changing world of work.
Socket
Socket helps developers secure their open-source dependencies with real-time protection from supply chain attacks. Its developer-first security platform continuously analyzes open-source dependencies, protecting teams from malware, typosquatting, and hidden risks inside packages. With its new wave of AI-powered supply-chain protection, Socket is offering real-time insights into code health and threat patterns across the entire stack, supporting engineering teams to make the decisions they need when they need them.
DuckDuckGo
DuckDuckGo proves integrity and success can coexist. Their privacy-centered search engine, browser, and email protection tools champion user rights by protecting against hackers, scammers, and companies that mine your personal data, giving people control over their digital lives. In 2025, the company expanded its lineup with DuckDuckGo Browser for Windows and new AI-powered private search features, deepening its role as the internet’s trusted alternative. In a world that often trades privacy for convenience, DuckDuckGo stands out by protecting both.
Order.co
Order.co is reinventing finance and procurement with the AI-powered Command Center it launched just this year. Remote-first with mid-market growth momentum, Order.co’s intelligent procurement platform brings purchasing, approvals, and payments together in one streamlined hub so businesses can gain clarity and control over every dollar.
Sardine
Sardine prevents fraud and keeps fintech safe by building the future of fraud prevention for the digital economy. Its all-in-one platform helps fintechs, banks, and crypto companies stop payment fraud, account takeovers, and identity theft in real time. Earlier this year Sardine landed $70M Series C (2025) to roll out agentic AI for fraud and risk teams. Remote-first and mission-driven, Sardine’s team blends deep technical expertise with a shared purpose: to make digital finance safer, smarter, and more trustworthy for everyone.
Close
Close is the remote-first CRM helping small and midsize businesses grow faster by keeping sales simple. Designed with startups and scaling teams in mind, Close offers powerful automation without the complexity by combining calling, emailing, and pipeline management into one intuitive platform. As a fully remote team, Close lives by its values. With a “Build a house you want to live in” mentality, Close fosters a culture of trust, transparency, and ownership. It’s proof that sustainable growth and people-first leadership can go hand in hand.
These companies remind us that work isn’t just about where we are located, it’s about what we’re doing and why. They’re not waiting for the world of work to evolve; they’re shaping it thoughtfully, inclusively, and with purpose. If the teams on this list are any indication, the most inspiring workplaces of the future are already thriving, one remote connection at a time.
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