The 27 best up and coming startup CEOs in America right now

There's no shortage of hot startups.

To stand out, startup CEOs are getting creative by launching innovative products and raising tons of money - and they've got the world talking.

We've found the CEOs of some of the hottest startups in the US. We picked the CEOs by buzz, accounting for things like how much money their company raised and how much they've been in the news.

For the purpose of this list, we defined a startup as a private tech company. We included only US-based startups that have taken venture-capital funding and have not yet IPO'd or been acquired.

Did we miss a buzzy startup CEO? Let us know in the comments.

Lauren Browning contributed to an earlier version of this story.