Top 11 Web Browser startups

Updated: Jun 29, 2026
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These startups develop alternative web-browsers for business and professionals - more private, fast and secure.
1
Island
Country: USA | Funding: $810M
Island builds online browsers that are designed for enterprises and are meant to be more secure than traditional commercial search engines.
2
The Browser Company
Country: USA | Funding: $68M
The Browser Company is a software platform that enables users to get a better way of using the internet.
3
Brave
Country: USA | Funding: $42.3M
Brave Software focuses on increasing browsing speed and safety for users, while growing ad revenue share for content creators.
4
Beam
Country: France | Funding: $9.5M
Beam is building a web browser that gathers knowledge from your web activity
5
Maxthon
Country: China
Maxthon is a global software company developing web browsers that give users a seamless browsing experience across multiple platforms.
6
Vivaldi
Country: Norway
Vivaldi is an ultra flexible browser for power users
7
Sidekick
Country: USA | Funding: $2M
Sidekick is a revolutionary new work OS based on the Chromium browser. Designed to be the ultimate online work experience, it brings together your team and every web tool you use – all in one interface
8
Waterfox
Country: UK
Waterfox is a high performance browser based on the Mozilla Gecko platform. Acquired by System1
9
Pale Moon
Country: Sweden
Pale Moon is an open source, Goanna-based web browser available for Microsoft Windows and Linux.
10
Mighty
Country: USA
Mighty is a new browser that lets you have more tabs while taking 10x less memory. Built for speed, Mighty streams your browser from a powerful computer in the cloud.
11
Blisk
Country: Estonia
Blisk develops a browser for web developers. It's used globally from the freelance segment to the enterprise level and helps IT professionals develop and test modern web applications in half the time and never miss any issue
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Fernando Lopez
Editor: Fernando Lopez
Fernando Lopez is a senior editor for SaaStartups. He joined the company after having previously spent over three years at ReadWriteWeb. Prior to his work as a reporter, Fernando worked in I.T. across a number of industries, including banking, retail and software. Fernando graduated from the University of Buenos Aires (Computer Science). He is more-than-averagely interested in photography and can often be found with a camera slung over his shoulder. He wrote a book about pitching startups to investors. You can contact Fernando at fernandolopez(at)saastartups(dot)com