The 10 Coolest IoT Software Companies: The 2026 Internet Of Things 50

AWS, Microsoft, Motus and Blynk are among the 10 coolest IoT software companies of the 2026 CRN Internet Of Things 50.

The agentic artificial intelligence era and its potential to remake the Internet of Things space bodes well for solution providers looking to not only introduce new connected devices and modernize customers’ existing hardware environment but deliver wrap- around services with recurring revenue potential like device management, data management, new security services and agent management.

As solution providers pick the partners they are betting on to future-proof their IoT practices, CRN presents 10 standout technology vendors large and small worth a look at for their innovations in IoT software.

Some of the list-makers are familiar—giants Amazon Web Services and Microsoft—and some are finding unique markets where they and their ecosystems can plant their flags, like Motus conquering the vehicle analysis space and Blynk bringing AI-powered data converters to life, for example.

IoT 50 Software Companies

The global enterprise IoT market grew 13 percent year over year in 2025 to $324 billion, according to a report published in January by research firm IoT Analytics. The total number of connected IoT devices grew 13 percent year over year to 21.1 billion, with 45 percent of those enterprise connections.

The firm forecasts 14 percent growth in 2026 and the number of connected IoT devices reaching 39 billion by 2030 and 50 billion-plus by 2035.

Read on for CRN’s 10 coolest IoT Software companies, part of the 2026 Internet Of Things 50.

Amazon Web Services

Matt Garman

CEO

AWS IoT enters its 11th year with hundreds of millions of devices—spanning connected vehicles, precision agriculture and health care—connecting daily for real-time insight and automation. Backed by a 130,000-plus partner ecosystem, Seattle-based AWS recently added bulk management for AWS IoT Core for Amazon Sidewalk and released the open-source Strands Agents SDK among other innovations in the space.

Balena

Konstantinos Mouzakis, Phil Wilson, Chris Crocker-White

Co-CEOs

Balena’s container-based platform aims to help partners build, deploy and scale Linux IoT fleets. Its tools support secure provisioning, hardware hardening and life-cycle management. London, U.K.-based Balena works across 100-plus device types, from Raspberry Pi to x86, and meets a variety of regulations with tracking and risk detection capabilities.

Blynk

Pavlo Bayborodin

Founder, CEO

AI-powered data converters that automatically generate scripts from actual device data; an AI platform assistant that turns natural language into working templates, data streams and widgets; and more server optimizations are just some of the recent advancements by New York-based Blynk, which provides a low-code IoT platform for full-service infrastructure to connect devices, design apps and manage global fleets.

EMQ

Feng Lee

Co-Founder, CEO

EMQ’s EMQX platform enables connectivity among industrial devices, edge brokers, enterprise systems and cloud services through one integrated message queuing telemetry transport ecosystem. The Menlo Park. Calif.-based vendor has made major moves to expand how EMQX consumes MQTT data and analyzes modern lakehouse architectures, and it has a partner program for systems integrators and other business models.

InfluxData

Evan Kaplan

CEO

InfluxData’s time series database targets real-time physical AI and industrial monitoring. The San Francisco-based vendor says users can ingest millions of points per second without limits and scale across cloud, on-premises and edge environments. Deep integrations with AWS and other platforms, plus a global ecosystem of partners and consultants, help support IoT deployments into production.

Kontakt.io

Philipp von Gilsa

CEO

Kontakt.io delivers AI-powered operational efficiency tools—such as supply chain and patient flow agents—for hospitals and outpatient clinics and more. Its Curiosity Engine unifies fragmented clinical, scheduling and operational data into one intelligence layer, compressing decisions from months to minutes. The New York-based vendor boasts of 1,200-plus partners, 32,000-plus end users and 4 million-plus deployed IoT devices.

Microsoft

Satya Nadella

Chairman, CEO

Microsoft, one of the leading AI vendors and a channel juggernaut with more than 500,000 partners, continues investing across its IoT stack. The Redmond, Wash.-based company’s recent updates include stronger security and operability in the Azure IoT Operations edge-to-cloud data plane and improved certificate management in Azure IoT Hub. Azure IoT users can also use Microsoft Fabric for real-time operational data analysis.

Motus

Phong Nguyen

CEO

Motus focuses on vehicle reimbursement, mileage tracking and risk mitigation for mobile workforces. The Boston-based company entered 2026 with $2.1 billion-plus in approved repayments and added deeper mileage and expense tracking through its Everlance acquisition. Motus also launched the Road Smart safety training app and has a partner ecosystem that includes master agents and authorized resellers.

TagoIO

Fabio Rosa

Founder, CEO

TagoIO promises users a full-stack IoT platform that turns sensor data into actionable insight. Recent innovations include a lightweight application protocol designed to simplify device-to-platform communication and built-in AI tools that help automate workflows and interpret device data. The Raleigh, N.C.-based company’s partner program supports systems integrators and IT consultants among other business models.

Volt Active Data

David Flower

President, CEO

Volt Active Data promises a real-time decision layer for making mission-critical systems and applications behave correctly, instantly and at scale. Users can leverage the Bedford, Mass.-based vendor’s technology to evaluate high-volume event streams and ensure that AI-driven actions happen safely, consistently and predictably in production. Recent updates include YAML syntax availability for configuring databases on bare metal.