Generative AI Startup Jobs

AI research company creating safe AGI that benefits all of humanity, known for ChatGPT and GPT models.

AI safety company building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems, creator of Claude.

Cyera is an AI-native data security platform that helps enterprises discover, classify, govern, and protect sensitive data across cloud, SaaS, on-premises, and AI environments. The platform uses machine learning and LLMs for high-precision data classification at scale.

Helsing is a European defense AI company building autonomy software and hardware for democratic nations. It develops real-time battlefield decision software, AI-enabled drones, and sensor fusion systems for military applications across NATO allies. Founded in 2021, it has grown to become one of Europe's most valuable defense tech startups with an $18B valuation.

ElevenLabs is the leading AI voice technology platform, offering ultra-realistic text-to-speech, voice cloning, and audio AI tools used by content creators, enterprises, and developers worldwide. The company has grown to over $330M in annual recurring revenue and serves customers across 45+ countries including Deutsche Telekom and Revolut.

Decagon builds conversational AI agents for enterprise customer experience teams, helping brands automate support across chat, voice, email, SMS, and other customer channels while keeping deployments controlled and measurable.

Notion is an AI-enhanced all-in-one workspace combining notes, documents, wikis, and project management. With over 100 million users and $600M ARR, it has become one of the most widely adopted productivity platforms for teams and individuals.

Perplexity builds an AI-native answer engine and assistant that combines web retrieval with LLMs for consumer and enterprise search workflows.

Wonderful is an enterprise AI platform that lets companies build, test, deploy, and monitor AI agents handling customer and employee interactions across voice, chat, email, and back-office systems in any language. It pairs the agent platform with locally embedded, forward-deployed teams to drive pilots into production. Founded in 2025 by Bar Winkler (ex-Approve.com) and Roey Lalazar, it scaled to a $2B valuation within roughly a year.

Sonar (formerly SonarSource) builds SonarQube, a code quality and security analysis platform used by over 400,000 organizations to catch bugs, vulnerabilities, and technical debt across 30+ programming languages. The company offers cloud, server, and IDE products along with AI-era capabilities like AI Code Assurance and a remediation agent.

Cohere builds foundational AI models and enterprise solutions for search, generation, and agentic workflows. Their platform includes Command, Embed, Rerank, and the North agentic AI suite, enabling businesses to deploy secure, production-grade AI on private or sovereign infrastructure.

Etched is an American semiconductor startup building Sohu, an ASIC purpose-built for transformer inference rather than general-purpose GPU compute. The company co-designs chips, racks, system software and manufacturing into full frontier inference clusters optimized for both prefill and decode workloads. Founded by Harvard dropouts in 2022, it raised a $300M Series C in July 2026 at a $10.3B valuation to scale production against Nvidia.

EliseAI is an AI automation platform for the housing and healthcare industries, building AI workflows that automate the entire consumer journey from leasing to resident management. Valued at $2.2B after a $250M Series E led by a16z, EliseAI serves 28 of the top 30 property owners in the US.

Cognition is an applied AI lab building end-to-end software agents, best known for Devin, an autonomous AI software engineer that plans, writes, debugs and ships code. It acquired the agentic IDE Windsurf in July 2025 and now sells both Devin and Windsurf to enterprises including Goldman Sachs, Mercedes-Benz and Nasdaq-listed customers. Run-rate revenue reached roughly $492M as of May 2026.

LangChain provides open-source frameworks and a managed platform (LangSmith, LangGraph) for building, observing, and deploying LLM-powered applications and agents. Its composable, modular components let developers integrate large language models into production workflows. Backed by Sequoia and IVP, LangChain is the leading developer framework for agentic AI.

Higgsfield is a San Francisco-based AI platform for generating and editing images and videos, offering cinematic scene creation, camera controls, visual effects, upscaling, and character creation tools. Founded in 2023 by former Snap Head of Generative AI Alex Mashrabov, it powers visual production for hundreds of Fortune 500 companies.

Enterprise voice AI platform offering Speech-to-Text, Text-to-Speech, and Voice Agent APIs for real-time and batch use, deployable in cloud or self-hosted.

Secure generative AI platform purpose-built for elite financial institutions, automating investment banking research and analysis. Founded by former investment banking analysts, Rogo serves major banks with AI-powered financial agents across offices in New York and London.

Commure is an AI-native platform for healthcare operations that automates revenue-cycle management, ambient clinical documentation, and autonomous medical coding, with AI agents completing 85%+ of RCM work without human intervention. It is deployed across 500+ healthcare organizations and 3,000+ sites of care (including HCA Healthcare and Tenet) and processes over $25B in annual claims. The company was formed through the 2023 Commure–Athelas merger.

AI care partner platform for clinicians that automates clinical documentation, streamlines workflows, and improves patient care. Used across Australia, the US, UK, and Canada with partnerships including the NHS.

Perle is an AI training data platform that combines human expertise with adaptive workflows to help companies collect, annotate, and evaluate specialized training data for generative AI, LLMs, and RLHF. Their vetted global network of domain experts provides modular solutions for data annotation, enrichment, and adversarial robustness assessment.

Fireworks AI runs an inference and fine-tuning platform for open-source generative AI models. Developers and enterprises use its API to serve models at low latency and high throughput. It was founded in 2022 by former Meta PyTorch and Google engineers.

Full-stack AI engineer that lets anyone build complete web applications with plain English, transforming raw ideas into production-ready software with front-end and back-end functionality.

Sigma is a cloud-native business intelligence and analytics platform that lets business users explore and write back to cloud data warehouses (Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift) through a familiar spreadsheet interface. Founded in 2014 in San Francisco as Bitmoon Computing, it now serves enterprise data teams and is pivoting toward "agentic analytics." It surpassed $200M ARR in April 2026 and raised an $80M Series E at a $3B valuation in May 2026.

Together AI provides an AI-native cloud platform for inference, fine-tuning, GPU clusters, and large-scale model training, helping AI engineers and researchers build and scale open-source and enterprise AI systems.

Grammarly is an AI-powered communication assistant that provides writing, grammar checking, tone detection, and style suggestions across platforms. It serves over 30 million daily active users and 70,000 enterprise teams worldwide.

HappyRobot is an AI-native operating system for supply chain enterprises that deploys voice AI workers to handle calls, emails, and routine communications at scale. The platform combines real-time operational data, specialized AI agents, and orchestrating intelligence to automate mission-critical workflows. Founded in 2022 and backed by a16z and Base10 Partners, it serves over 70 enterprise logistics customers.

Profound is the leading AI search visibility and optimization platform that helps enterprise brands understand and optimize how they appear across AI-powered search engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and other generative AI platforms. Serving over 10% of the Fortune 500 including Target, Walmart, and Figma, the company has pioneered the category of Answer Engine Optimization (AEO).

Suno is an AI music generation platform that enables anyone to create original songs from text prompts. Based in Cambridge, MA, it has reached $200M in annual revenue and is one of the fastest-growing generative AI startups.

Tandem Health builds AI medical scribe software that automates clinical documentation for healthcare providers.

AI-powered advertising company creating and optimizing digital ad campaigns for brands with creator growth focus.

Range is an all-in-one AI-powered wealth management platform that democratizes financial planning for high earners and the mass affluent market. The platform features Rai, an AI wealth manager offering predictive planning and proactive tax optimization, backed by certified financial planners and fiduciary advisors.

SambaNova Systems designs AI inference chips, systems, and cloud services for enterprise and government customers. The company builds full-stack AI infrastructure including its Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit (RDU) chips and SambaNova Cloud inference platform.

Parloa builds an enterprise AI agent platform for customer service teams to design, test, and scale voice and chat agents across millions of customer conversations.

Embeddings-based search infrastructure providing a meaning-aware search API for AI applications. Exa trains embedding models to convert web pages into vector representations, enabling semantic search that understands intent rather than just matching keywords.

Hippocratic AI builds safety-focused healthcare LLMs and voice agents for non-diagnostic patient engagement, navigation, education, and administrative workflows.

WRITER provides a full-stack enterprise generative AI platform for building, activating, and supervising AI agents and workflows grounded in company data, with enterprise-grade LLMs, governance, and deployment tools.

Skild AI, based in Pittsburgh, builds a general-purpose, omni-bodied robotics foundation model (the "Skild Brain") that can control different robots across many tasks. It is deployed in security and facility inspection, delivery, warehouses, manufacturing and construction, and it reports about $30M in revenue in 2025. Investors include SoftBank, Nvidia, Sequoia, Lightspeed, Coatue and Bezos Expeditions.

voize builds a voice AI assistant for nursing documentation, helping care teams capture notes hands-free and in real time.

AI video generation platform that transforms text into professional videos using customizable avatars and voiceovers in over 140 languages, serving enterprise communications and training.

Emergent is an AI app-building platform focused on no-code and agent-assisted product creation, helping users rapidly build real applications with AI.

Cogent Security is the first company to deliver an AI taskforce dedicated to vulnerability management, using autonomous AI agents to handle the full lifecycle from threat identification to remediation. The platform autonomously prioritizes critical risks and executes fixes with minimal human oversight, serving dozens of Fortune 1000 companies. Founded in 2024 and incubated by Greylock Partners, Cogent has raised $53 million to date.

Reflection AI is building frontier open intelligence accessible to all, developing open-weight AI models. Founded by former Google DeepMind researchers who co-created AlphaGo, raised $2B at an $8B valuation.

Forus (formerly Tandem) builds AI agents that automate the administrative steps between a doctor's prescription and a patient starting treatment, including insurance prior authorization, benefit verification, financial assistance enrollment, and pharmacy coordination. The platform is embedded in provider workflows across all 50 U.S. states and is free for providers and patients.

CodeRabbit provides AI-powered code review tooling that reviews pull requests, understands code context, suggests fixes, and helps engineering teams improve code quality and developer productivity. Its platform integrates with developer workflows and focuses on automated, context-aware reviews for teams adopting AI-assisted software development.

Snorkel AI provides a data-centric AI platform for building specialized AI systems, helping enterprises and frontier teams create, curate, evaluate, and govern expert data for production models and agents.

Factory builds autonomous software engineering agents, called Droids, that automate coding tasks such as testing, debugging, refactoring, and migrations for enterprise engineering teams. Customers include Nvidia, Adobe, Adyen, Klarna, and EY.

Fastest generative media platform for developers providing access to 1,000+ production-ready AI models for image, video, audio, and 3D generation through a unified API and serverless GPU infrastructure.

Runway is an applied AI research company and pioneer of generative media tools, building AI-powered software for video, image, and multimedia content generation. Best known for text-to-video and image-to-video models used by filmmakers and content creators.

Medical AI platform that converts patient-clinician conversations into structured clinical notes.

Reducto provides a high-quality AI document ingestion and parsing API for large language models. The Y Combinator-backed company processes nearly a billion pages monthly for leading AI teams like Harvey and Scale AI.

Rillet is an AI-native ERP platform built for modern finance teams, offering automated accounting with a unified smart general ledger, hundreds of native integrations (Stripe, Ramp, Salesforce), automated workflows, multi-entity consolidation, and specialized AI agents. Serving over 400 finance teams, it targets the $500B+ global accounting software market as a replacement for legacy ERPs like NetSuite and SAP.

AfterQuery is a San Francisco-based applied research lab that builds expert-curated AI training datasets and model evaluation suites for frontier AI labs. It leverages a network of nearly 100,000 domain experts (developers, attorneys, and other professionals) to generate high-quality data, evals, and dev environments. The company reached over $100M ARR within roughly 14 months of founding.

TENEX.AI is an AI-native Managed Detection and Response (MDR) company that combines proprietary security AI models with elite human analysts to triage, investigate, hunt, and contain cyber threats in real time. Founded in 2024 and headquartered in Sarasota, Florida, the company reached unicorn status within roughly a year of launch, raising $277M+ across three rounds. Its platform autonomously handles security operations while keeping human accountability at the center.

Everlaw is a cloud-native legal technology company providing an ediscovery and litigation platform for law firms, corporations, and government agencies. Its software uses AI and machine learning to accelerate document review, evidence analysis, and case-building workflows. Founded in 2010 and based in Oakland, California.

Metaview builds an AI recruiting platform that records, analyzes, and summarizes interviews while adding sourcing and recruiting workflow agents for talent teams. The product helps recruiting organizations reduce manual note-taking, improve hiring signal quality, and run AI-assisted candidate workflows across existing ATS, CRM, scheduling, and communication tools.

Serverless cloud platform for developing, deploying, and scaling AI applications. Developers can run any code in the cloud without managing infrastructure, with built-in support for GPU workloads and batch jobs.

Robotics AI company building foundation models for general-purpose robots to handle physical world interactions with advanced manipulation capabilities

Attio is an AI-native CRM platform built for go-to-market teams. It combines flexible data modeling, real-time collaboration, and AI-powered workflows to help companies manage customer relationships and pipelines. Backed by GV, Redpoint, and Balderton, it serves over 5,000 customers including leading AI companies.

Builds digital in-memory compute hardware and software stack for low-latency, energy-efficient LLM inference.

Periodic Labs is an AI research company focused on building autonomous AI scientists and software systems that accelerate scientific discovery.

Sanity builds a content operating system and structured content platform for developers and enterprise teams, with APIs, workflows, and AI-native content operations.

H Company is a frontier AI company building autonomous agents and foundation-model systems for enterprise work. The company develops research, model, inference, and infrastructure capabilities behind products like Runner H.

Iambic Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biotech in San Diego using a physics-informed generative AI platform (NeuralPLexer, Enchant) to design and advance small-molecule cancer therapeutics. It has a lead HER2 inhibitor (IAM1363) in Phase 1/1b trials and major partnerships with Takeda, Jazz, and others, and filed an S-1 for a US IPO in September 2026.

Prime Intellect is an AI infrastructure company that enables training and deploying frontier AI models across decentralized, globally distributed compute resources, commoditizing both compute and intelligence for researchers and organizations.

Assort Health builds agentic AI voice agents for healthcare call centers, automating appointment management and patient phone calls with specialty-specific generative AI. The platform handles patient access workflows that previously consumed thousands of human hours, improving patient experience while reducing operational costs. With $102 million in total funding, Assort Health serves major healthcare organizations across the United States.

Brain Co. is a San Francisco company building agent-native operating systems for large institutions in the public and private sectors. It delivers custom AI platforms and applications — combining LLMs, machine learning, rule engines, and workflow automation — for enterprises and government organizations across permitting, supply chain, healthcare, and energy. Co-founded in 2024 by Jared Kushner, Elad Gil, Luis Videgaray, and Eric Wu, it works with 10+ Global 2000 customers and has a strategic partnership with OpenAI.

Viktor is an AI virtual coworker embedded inside Slack and Microsoft Teams that connects to thousands of workplace tools to answer questions and execute multi-step workflows. It reached a $15M ARR run rate within three months of its February 2026 public launch, serving more than 2,000 organizations. In May 2026 it raised a $75M Series A led by Accel.

GC AI builds AI software for in-house legal teams, combining contract review, playbooks, research, and workflow automation in a secure legal workspace.

Edison Scientific is a San Francisco-based AI company building autonomous "AI Scientists" for biology and chemistry research. Its core product, Kosmos, runs hundreds of research tasks in parallel — automating literature synthesis, data analysis, and molecular design — with the company claiming it compresses roughly six months of human research into a single day. Edison spun out of the nonprofit AI research lab FutureHouse in November 2025 and is led by CEO Sam Rodriques and CTO Andrew White.

Ema builds a Universal AI Employee platform for enterprises, using multi-agent AI architecture to automate complex workflows across HR, customer support, and data management.

Goodfire is an AI interpretability research company focused on understanding and designing AI systems through its flagship platform Ember, which decodes the neurons inside AI models to give direct, programmable access to their internal thoughts and decision-making processes.

Prolific runs a research and human data platform that connects AI labs, enterprises, and academic researchers with a vetted global pool of participants for surveys, behavioral studies, and model training/evaluation data. Its proprietary tooling handles recruitment, screening, payment, and quality control, and it has paid out over $100M to participants. Customers include Stanford, Google, and generative-AI developers sourcing human feedback data.

Avoca provides AI customer service agents for home service businesses, helping HVAC, plumbing, and electrical contractors answer calls, support customers, and convert leads 24/7.

OpenArt is a San Francisco-based AI image and video creation platform founded by ex-Googlers, serving roughly 8M monthly active users. Its flagship product, Director, generates complete videos up to about five minutes long from natural-language descriptions of story, characters, style, and pacing — an approach the company calls Vibe Directing. Users produce short films, trailers, micro-dramas, music videos, and UGC ads without editing software or technical expertise.

AI-powered voice dictation software for seamless text creation enabling natural speech-to-text conversion with high accuracy

Latent is a San Francisco-based clinical AI startup automating medication access for health systems. Its medical language models read EHR patient data, interpret drug approval criteria, and orchestrate prior authorization, 340B compliance, and appeals workflows to close the gap between diagnosis and treatment. It partners with major US health systems including Yale New Haven, Mount Sinai, Vanderbilt, UCSF, and UCLA.

AI voice platform enabling businesses to build and deploy AI-powered voice agents for phone operations, contact centers, and customer service. API-driven solution with natural, low-latency conversations and multilingual support.

Distyl AI embeds forward-deployed engineering teams inside Fortune 500 enterprises to turn business workflows into AI systems running on its proprietary Distillery platform. Founded in 2022 by Palantir alumni, it serves healthcare, telecom, insurance, manufacturing, and financial services clients and maintains a services alliance with OpenAI.

Neo (Neo Security, Inc.) is a Boston-based, 2025-founded startup with an R&D center in Tel Aviv that is defining the 'Agentic Software Control' category: a real-time security control layer for enterprise AI agents and intelligent software. It discovers the AI agents, models, extensions, scripts, and MCP servers running on enterprise devices, inspects their permissions and data access, attributes each action to a person/agent/app, and can allow, block, or pause operations in real time, backed by its Neoverse knowledge base. Founded by former SentinelOne, Wiz, and Palo Alto Networks veterans (CEO Nick Warner, ex-SentinelOne president/COO), it emerged from stealth in July 2026 with $100M from Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer.

Braintrust builds evaluation and observability infrastructure for AI applications, enabling teams to test prompts, monitor quality, and ship LLM features with higher reliability.

Cartesia builds real-time voice and multimodal AI models with low-latency inference for production applications. Its platform combines foundational model research with developer APIs for voice agents, audio generation, and on-device intelligence.

AI-powered language-learning app that helps users build spoken fluency through conversational practice with an AI tutor, offering real-time feedback and structured lessons.

Spellbook builds an AI copilot for transactional lawyers, helping legal teams review, draft, and negotiate contracts directly inside their document workflows.

Voltai builds foundation models and AI agents for the semiconductor and electronics industry, aiming to let AI reason about and design physical hardware. Its systems run large-scale simulation to assist with chip design, verification, and EDA workflows for semiconductor, consumer electronics, and automotive customers. Founded by former Stanford professors and SAIL researchers alongside ex-CTOs from Synopsys and GlobalFoundries, the company is based in Palo Alto, CA.

AI-powered legal search and due diligence platform that enables law firms and legal teams to instantly search, analyze, and surface insights across large document repositories.

Parallel builds web infrastructure for AI agents, providing APIs and tooling that let models search, browse, and interact with the live web more reliably.

Vapi is building the leading developer platform for conversational voice AI agents, abstracting away the complexity of building these agents and managing real-time infrastructure to enable enterprise-ready voice AI solutions across finance, healthcare, travel, and other industries.

Artemis is an AI-native cybersecurity platform that builds a living model of an organization's identities, devices, cloud, and SaaS environment to detect, investigate, and autonomously respond to AI-powered attacks. The company emerged from stealth in April 2026 with $70M in combined seed and Series A funding led by Felicis, and counts Mercury, Wix, Lemonade, and Abnormal AI among its customers.

Bluefish (Bluefish Labs) is an AI marketing platform for enterprise brands that helps Fortune 500 companies gain visibility and influence over how their products surface in AI-generated answers and product discovery. The platform analyzes millions of prompt responses across major AI systems to deliver insights and optimizations that improve brand presence, consistency, and favorability. Customers include Adidas and Tishman Speyer.

Domino Data Lab provides an enterprise AI and MLOps platform for model development, deployment, governance, and compliance. Trusted by over 20% of the Fortune 100, the platform helps data science and machine learning teams manage regulated model workflows at scale. The company has rebranded to Domino and is backed by Sequoia Capital, Coatue, Great Hill Partners, and Highland Capital Partners.

Juicebox is an AI-powered recruiting platform that uses LLM-powered search to automate talent sourcing and recruiting workflows, trusted by over 3,000 customers including Ramp, Perplexity, and leading AI labs, with access to 800 million candidate profiles globally.

Meshy AI is a Sunnyvale, California-based generative AI company that lets users create production-ready 3D models, textures, and animations from text or image prompts via web app and API. Its tools serve game development, XR, product design, and 3D printing workflows, and it raised a $400M Series B in July 2026 at a $1.5B valuation.

Tenex is a New York City-based AI-first software consultancy and engineering firm that helps enterprises move from "AI-absent to AI-native." It sells three offerings — AI strategy, transformation/change management, and subscription-based forward-deployed engineering squads — targeting companies above roughly $25M in revenue. Co-founded by Alex Lieberman (Morning Brew) and Arman Hezarkhani, it is known for paying "10x engineer" compensation packages up to $500K.

An AI-powered sales and GTM 'superintelligence' platform designed to enhance sales processes and go-to-market strategies.

AirOps builds content engineering software that helps brands research, generate, and optimize content to win AI search and organic growth.

Edra is a New York- and London-based AI automation platform founded by two ex-Palantir leaders. It connects to existing enterprise systems (ServiceNow, Jira, Zendesk, Salesforce, Outlook) and ingests tickets, logs, SOPs and communications to build a self-updating "Living Playbook" of how a company actually operates. That knowledge base powers AI agents for IT service management and customer support at customers including HubSpot, ASOS and Cushman & Wakefield.

Formation Bio (formerly TrialSpark) is an AI-native pharmaceutical company that acquires and develops clinical-stage drugs using a technology platform to accelerate every stage of drug development. Its AI and LLM-driven systems streamline clinical trial design, execution, and regulatory processes to bring treatments to patients faster and more efficiently.

AI-powered presentation platform that helps teams create presentations, documents, and interactive websites in minutes, replacing traditional tools like PowerPoint with intelligent automation and serving over 70 million users globally.

Generalist AI is building embodied foundation models for general-purpose robots, starting with a focus on dexterous manipulation, leveraging research from OpenAI, Boston Dynamics, and Google DeepMind to create end-to-end deep neural networks that map sensor data to real-time robotic actions.

InstaLILY AI builds domain-trained AI agents ("InstaWorkers") that operate inside existing enterprise systems like ERPs, CRMs, and email to autonomously execute sales, service, and operations workflows. It targets distribution-heavy and regulated industries such as construction supply, OEM equipment, insurance, and healthcare, with optional human-in-the-loop oversight. The company raised a $60M Series B in July 2026 led by Energize Capital.

Lightfield is an AI-native CRM that automatically captures and understands customer interactions, eliminating manual data entry and note-taking for sales teams. Built by the founders of Tome (the presentation tool with 25 million users), Lightfield provides complete customer memory that updates after every meeting and conversation. The platform enables founders and salespeople to focus on closing deals rather than secretarial work.

Norm AI is a legal and compliance AI platform that transforms regulations into autonomous AI agents capable of monitoring policies and evaluating content against regulatory requirements. The company serves compliance officers at Fortune 100 companies and institutions managing over $30 trillion in assets, offering solutions for contract review, regulated content review, and compliance automation. It operates a proprietary Legal Engineering Automation Platform (LEAP) built by attorneys and former regulators.

Arena (formerly LMArena) operates a crowdsourced AI model evaluation platform where users compare and vote on outputs from different large language models, producing public Elo-based leaderboards. Founded by UC Berkeley researchers, it now serves enterprises evaluating AI model performance in production.

Conduct is building an AI operating system for enterprise IT, letting large organizations understand, operate, and change the heavily customized software systems they run on, with an initial focus on SAP environments. Its agents combine technical metadata with business context to find redundant customizations, assess change impact, and keep documentation current across the SAP change lifecycle. Founded in 2024 by three ex-Palantir engineers, it is headquartered in London with a New York office and is an SAP-endorsed strategic AI partner.

AI-powered legal platform purpose-built for plaintiff law firms, automating case evaluation, medical chronologies, demand letters, discovery, and deposition summaries across the full case lifecycle.

Langdock builds a secure enterprise AI workspace for deploying LLM assistants, enterprise search, and internal workflows across company knowledge and tools.

Menlo Research is a Physical AI research lab that began with Jan, an open-source, privacy-first AI assistant that has surpassed 6 million downloads, and is now building robots and models to solve real-world physical tasks. The ~25-person team is distributed across Singapore, Vietnam, and the US. It is community-built with no disclosed institutional funding rounds.

Sesame AI builds lifelike voice companions and AI interfaces with advanced conversational speech models. Their flagship AI model Maya powers a personal assistant, and they develop lightweight eyewear hardware with integrated audio.

StudyFetch is an AI-powered education platform that converts notes, PDFs, lectures, and videos into interactive flashcards, quizzes, and personalized study guides for students. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in Los Angeles, CA, its AI tutor and study tools help millions of students turn course materials into adaptive, self-paced learning sets. It is backed by Owl Ventures and College Board.

Coframe builds an AI platform that continuously tests and optimizes website interfaces and marketing campaigns using generative and multimodal models. The platform autonomously improves text, visuals, and code, delivering up to 352% lift in click-through rates.

Granola builds an AI notepad for meetings that records device audio without a bot, turns rough notes and transcripts into structured meeting notes, and helps teams reuse meeting context in follow-up work.

Foundation model company building efficient general-purpose AI systems and Liquid Foundation Models for edge and resource-constrained environments.

River AI is a Palo Alto–based AI startup founded by former xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, building a full-stack platform for custom, open-weight model development. Its API lets developers fine-tune open models with reinforcement learning and LoRA, completing complex RL training runs in 15–20 minutes without dedicated infrastructure. The company positions itself as an alternative to prompt engineering against closed-source incumbents.

Neuromorphic computing startup building brain-inspired analog hardware to achieve biology-scale energy efficiency for AI workloads, founded by former Databricks AI head Naveen Rao.

Ambience Healthcare builds AI clinical documentation infrastructure that automates note generation, coding support, and clinician workflows for health systems.

An AI video generation platform specializing in video creation and AI avatars, enabling businesses to create professional videos at scale with generative AI.

Pylon is the modern B2B customer support platform that helps companies manage support across Slack Connect, Microsoft Teams, email, in-app chat, and more. Used by over 750 fast-growing companies including Together AI, Cognition, and Temporal, Pylon unifies ticketing, AI support bots, and knowledge base into one platform.

Tavus is the human computing company building emotionally intelligent AI humans (PALs - Personal Affective Links) that communicate through text, voice, and face-to-face video with agentic capabilities and real-time perception. Powered by proprietary models including Phoenix-4, Sparrow-1, and Raven-1, Tavus enables AI agents that can see, hear, understand emotions, and act autonomously. Over 100,000 developers and enterprises use Tavus technology for recruiting, sales, education, and customer service.

Clark (formerly uiAgent) is a New York–based AI platform for auditors and accounting professionals, building what it calls the trust infrastructure for the AI economy. Its platform automates complex audit and client accounting workflows for CPA firms while preserving each firm's methodology and professional judgment, with products including Agent Studio and Methodology Studio. It serves 35+ CPA firm clients, including many of the US top-100 accounting firms, and supports both cloud and on-premise deployment.

Frontier AI company on a mission to solve breakthrough materials discovery using generative AI and advanced molecular simulations, compressing decades of R&D into months.

Gray Swan is a Pittsburgh-based AI security company spun out of Carnegie Mellon University, offering adversarial red-teaming (Arena, Shade) and real-time runtime protection (Cygnal) for AI models and agents. Its customers include frontier AI labs like Anthropic, OpenAI, and Meta, plus enterprises such as Snowflake.

AI-powered translation platform combining machine translation with human expertise for enterprise localization.

Nace AI builds MetaModel, an AI system that dynamically generates small, task-specific language models for enterprises using a Hypernet architecture to inject task-specific weights in real-time without retraining. Their first product NAVI applies this technology to audit, compliance, and finance workflows.

Odyssey is an AI lab building interactive video and world models that generate real-time, explorable scenes for new media.

AI patent drafting platform that helps legal teams and inventors write, analyze, and prosecute patents more efficiently.

Wordsmith builds legal AI software that helps in-house legal teams review contracts, draft documents, and automate legal workflows with LLM-powered tools.

Andela operates a global talent marketplace that connects enterprises with vetted remote technologists—engineers, AI specialists, product managers, and designers—across 135+ countries. Originally founded in Lagos, Nigeria to train African software engineers, it has evolved into a fully remote, AI-era staffing and upskilling platform serving clients like GitHub, Goldman Sachs, and Cloudflare.

Bland builds an enterprise voice AI platform for creating low-latency phone agents that automate customer conversations, call center workflows, support, sales, and operations at scale.

Cylake is building an AI-native cybersecurity platform for enterprises requiring total data sovereignty, running entirely on-premises or in private clouds with no public cloud dependency. Founded by Palo Alto Networks founder Nir Zuk alongside Wilson Xu and Ehud Shamir (a SentinelOne co-founder), it consolidates multiple security functions into a unified, agentic system for monitoring, analysis, and incident response.

Toloka provides AI training data and human annotation services for building and evaluating machine learning and generative AI models. Previously a subsidiary of Nebius, it became independent after Nebius relinquished majority voting control in May 2025, with a subsequent funding round led by Bezos Expeditions.

Hebbia is an AI platform purpose-built for institutional financial services, enabling asset managers, investment bankers, and Fortune 500 companies to analyze vast quantities of financial documents and data with precision AI agents designed for billion-dollar decisions.

HiddenLayer provides a security platform for AI models, applications, and agents, covering asset discovery, supply-chain scanning, adversarial testing, and runtime protection. The Austin-based company serves enterprise and U.S. federal customers securing generative, predictive, and agentic AI systems.

Pangram Labs builds AI-generated content detection systems for text and images, claiming over 99% accuracy on AI-assisted and mixed human-AI writing. Its products serve higher-education institutions, publishers, media integrity organizations and businesses, and it publishes research on state-of-the-art detection techniques. Founded by Stanford AI graduates Max Spero and Bradley Emi, the team works in person in Brooklyn, New York.

Pika develops consumer-first generative video tools that let users create and edit short-form videos from prompts, images, and clips through an intuitive AI-native workflow.

AI-first protein design company using deep generative models to create novel, functional proteins for applications in biomedicine, agriculture, and gene editing.

Typeface offers an enterprise generative AI platform for brand-safe content creation and marketing orchestration across strategy, creation, and activation workflows.

TypeSafe AI is a San Francisco AI lab building "System One Models" — machine-native models that return typed, calibrated decisions for software to consume directly, rather than generating text for humans. Its first product, Jev, serves real-time automation use cases like games, robotics, and underwriting with sub-second latency. Founded in 2024 by ex-OpenAI researcher Diogo Almeida with Erik Gafni and Sasha Sheng, it emerged from stealth in September 2026 with a $40M seed round.

Aegis AI builds an agentic email security platform focused on phishing and business-email-compromise detection for enterprise inboxes.

Nous Research is an open-source AI lab developing large language models and decentralized training infrastructure, including Hermes models and the Psyche network.

Patlytics is an AI-native platform built for the entire patent lifecycle — from application drafting and prosecution to infringement analysis, invalidity research, and portfolio management. Trusted by over 40% of the Am Law 100 and corporate IP teams, it helps patent professionals do higher-quality work faster. Headquartered in New York City with offices in London and Toronto.

Frontier AI research lab building next-generation AI models for semiconductor design. Develops recursive self-improvement cycle where AI designs silicon that powers the next generation of AI. Founded by AlphaChip creators from Google DeepMind.

Sela builds voice AI agents that handle mortgage sales conversations, guiding borrowers through loan options and connecting engaged leads to human loan officers. Its agents currently help originate more than $1 billion in mortgages per month and are used by six of the ten largest independent mortgage banks in the US.

Applied Compute is a San Francisco-based AI startup founded by former OpenAI researchers that builds 'Specific Intelligence' — proprietary AI agents trained on a company's own operations and data that improve with every interaction. It develops custom AI models and a forward-deployed agent platform for enterprises. The company launched publicly in October 2025 and reached a $1.3B valuation in April 2026.

Architect Labs builds AI systems that design and formally verify custom silicon, turning demanding workloads into purpose-built chips and full-stack hardware solutions. It partners with enterprises, AI labs, and governments to dramatically accelerate custom chip development timelines. Founded by Ebrahim Hussain and Aaditya Subedi (incorporated as Architect Silicon Inc.), it emerged from stealth in June 2026 with a $24M seed round led by Kindred Ventures.

David AI is the world's first dedicated audio data research lab, building the data layer for next-generation audio AI. Founded by former Scale AI engineers, serving most FAANG companies and major AI labs.

Flip CX (formerly RedRoute) is a vertical Voice AI company that automates inbound customer support phone calls for retail/eCommerce, healthcare, and transportation businesses. Its Alexa-like voice assistant resolves up to 90% of routine inbound calls and has automated 300M+ calls for 250+ enterprise brands including Under Armour, Tory Burch, and Newell Brands. The company reached eight-figure ARR growing 3x year over year.

General Legal is an AI-native law firm focused on growth-stage companies, providing fast, high-quality contract drafting, review, and negotiation for a flat fee. Founded by former Casetext and Thomson Reuters alumni, it combines experienced attorneys with proprietary AI workflows to deliver 10x the efficiency of traditional law firms. Handles MSAs, NDAs, DPAs, and vendor agreements with guaranteed turnaround times.

Mirendil is a San Francisco frontier AI research lab building 'AI that builds AI' — training frontier models that are expert at AI R&D and wrapping them in a product that autonomously runs research, experimentation, and optimization on its own GPUs. Founded by former Anthropic researchers, it aims to move frontier AI work outside the big labs and shorten AI R&D cycles.

Sandbar is an interface company building Stream, a voice-first smart ring and conversational AI computer designed to augment users in an agentic world. Founded by former Meta and CTRL-labs engineers, Stream pairs a touch-activated microphone ring with a companion app for hands-free note capture, AI conversation, and agentic control. The company is headquartered in New York City.

Thread AI builds enterprise AI infrastructure with a knowledge-graph-based context engine to improve AI application accuracy and reliability.

Titan is a banking-native AI platform purpose-built for regulated financial institutions. Its proprietary small language models are trained on OCC, CFPB, FFIEC, FDIC, and Federal Reserve guidance and deployed as governed agents that help bankers draft credit memos, summarize loan files, extract regulatory guidance, and automate compliance and lending workflows. Every response ships with a chain-of-thought audit log for auditability.

Twelve Labs builds multimodal AI foundation models and an API platform for video understanding, enabling search, analysis, and reasoning over video content at scale. The company partners with AWS and NVIDIA to power 'video superintelligence' for enterprise and developer customers.

11x builds AI-powered digital workers for go-to-market teams, including autonomous agents for prospecting, outreach, and lead qualification.

Aaru provides near-instant customer research using AI agents that simulate human behavior to predict how specific demographics will respond to products and campaigns, replacing traditional surveys and focus groups.

Ankar AI builds an AI operating system for patent teams, supporting drafting, office-action workflows, and patent intelligence with legal-domain AI tools.

AIUC builds confidence infrastructure for enterprise AI adoption through AIUC-1, a SOC 2-style certification standard that stress-tests AI agents against roughly 5,000 risk-and-attack scenarios covering jailbreaks, hallucinations, and data leaks. Certified agents can be paired with liability insurance covering up to $50M in losses, with customers including Cursor, ElevenLabs, Harvey, KPMG, and Lovable.

Basecamp Research is a London-based biotech company that uses AI trained on a proprietary biodiversity database, built from global expeditions, to design novel proteins and therapeutics. It raised an oversubscribed $140M Series C in September 2026 led by S32, with participation from NVIDIA and Anthropic's Anthology Fund.

Concurrence (formerly Amigo) builds clinical AI agents that healthcare teams use for intake, triage, and ongoing patient engagement across primary and specialty care workflows.

Conversion is an AI-native marketing automation platform for B2B marketing teams, automating lead organization, personalized email follow-ups, no-code workflows, and dynamic audience segmentation. Roughly 90% of its customers switched from legacy tools like HubSpot, Salesforce Pardot, and Adobe Marketo. Founded by UC Berkeley dropouts Neil Tewari and James Jiao, it is approaching $10M ARR.

Endex builds Excel-native AI agents for financial modeling and analysis, helping finance teams automate spreadsheet-heavy workflows.

Gumloop is a no-code AI automation platform that enables users to build and deploy AI-powered business workflows through drag-and-drop modular components.

AI video research lab and creator platform building full-stack foundation models for short-form video creation, editing, and marketing. Formerly known as Captions, Mirage powers over 200 million videos with AI-driven tools used by 20 million creators and businesses worldwide.

Modus is an AI-native audit and accounting platform that partners with accounting firms, pairing its proprietary AI agent 'Andi' with experienced auditors to deliver faster, more accurate financial statement audits. Founded in 2025, it combines technology investment with strategic acquisitions of audit-first accounting firms.

AI-enabled image editing app offering background removal, retouching, and batch editing services, processing 5 billion images annually and serving over 150 million downloads for e-commerce and social media content creators.

Siena builds autonomous customer experience agents for commerce brands, combining conversational AI, workflow automation, and analytics to resolve support issues while preserving brand voice.

Topline Pro is an AI platform that runs the marketing, sales, and back-office operations for local home service businesses — landscapers, roofers, plumbers, painters. Its generative AI builds and maintains their websites, SEO, social posts, ads, reviews, customer messaging, booking, and payments. Founded in 2020 (YC W21, originally ProPhone), it operates out of Brooklyn and Boston.

Descript is an all-in-one video and podcast editing platform that makes editing as easy as editing a document. It offers text-based editing, screen recording, transcription, and AI-powered tools for content creators and media teams.

Endra is an AI-powered platform that automates mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) system design for commercial buildings, integrating with Autodesk Revit to reduce design timelines from months to hours.

Fyxer provides AI assistants for email and meetings, automating inbox management, scheduling, and routine coordination tasks for professionals.

Krea is a next-generation AI creative suite that provides a unified platform combining multiple generative AI models with a custom interface for image, video, and multimedia creation. It is designed to give designers and creatives intuitive, fine-grained control over AI-generated content. Customers include Pixar, LEGO, and Samsung.

Prosper AI builds AI voice agents that automate patient and payor phone communications for healthcare providers. The platform answers patient calls, schedules appointments directly in the EHR, verifies insurance benefits/eligibility, handles prior authorizations, and automates patient billing. It integrates with 80+ EHRs and serves outpatient groups and health systems.

Runware provides a unified AI API platform that aggregates 300+ model classes and hundreds of thousands of AI model variants behind a single consistent schema, delivering up to 10x better price and performance for generative AI applications.

AssemblyAI develops speech AI APIs and voice models for transcription, speech understanding, and developer workflows that turn audio into structured application data.

DatologyAI builds automated data curation tooling that selects, filters, and optimizes the training data used to build AI models. Its platform aims to cut training compute and cost while improving model quality by feeding models better data rather than more data. Founded in 2023 by ex-Meta AI/DeepMind researcher Ari Morcos with Bogdan Gaza and Matthew Leavitt, it is based in Redwood City, CA.

Contract drafting, review, and negotiation AI powered by legal knowledge and precedent, delivering an AI Associate that executes complex legal workflows within Word with 95% acceptance rate.

Globality is an autonomous sourcing and procurement platform powered by its enterprise AI agent 'Glo', which automates the full sourcing workflow from scoping requirements and matching suppliers to evaluating proposals and negotiating. Headquartered in Palo Alto and backed by SoftBank Vision Fund, it serves enterprise customers including HSBC and Tate & Lyle, helping reduce months-long RFP processes to hours.

GMI Cloud is an AI-native GPU cloud platform offering serverless inference and dedicated NVIDIA GPU clusters (H100, H200, and Blackwell) for training and running production AI workloads. Founded in 2022 and headquartered in San Jose, CA, the company serves startups and enterprises seeking scalable GPU infrastructure as an NVIDIA Preferred Partner.

Luminary is a vertical SaaS platform for the trust and estate services industry, used by wealth, legal, and tax advisors serving high-net-worth clients. Its AI tooling digitizes and summarizes estate planning documents into structured data, then visualizes and models estate plans including distributions, growth scenarios, and tax liabilities. Founded in 2022 in New York and backed by 8VC, Focus Financial Partners, and Rockefeller Asset Management.

Mercura provides AI-powered quoting and order automation for distributors and manufacturers in HVAC, electrical, and plumbing industries, extracting RFQs from emails and calls to generate accurate quotes and sync with ERPs. Backed by Y Combinator (W25), the Munich-based company serves 60+ distributors and manufacturers.

Generative design software for fashion and consumer brands to rapidly create on-brand visual concepts.

Roadrunner is a San Francisco-based AI-native revenue infrastructure startup rebuilding the quote-to-cash stack for enterprise sales teams. It replaces legacy CPQ (Configure, Price, Quote) software with what it calls PQA — Prompt, Quote, Approve — using agents to generate quotes from natural language and route approvals across deal desk, finance, and legal. Founded in 2025 by Joubin Mirzadegan (CEO), Ajay Natarajan (CPO), and Eugene Shao (CTO), it was incubated at Kleiner Perkins.

Rowspace is a San Francisco-based AI platform that helps financial services firms—especially private equity and investment firms—turn proprietary, scattered internal data into actionable decision intelligence. It unifies information across document repositories, investment platforms, and accounting systems to support investment research, risk analysis, and deal evaluation. Founded in 2024 by former Notion CTO Michael Manapat and CFO Yibo Ling, it emerged from stealth in February 2026.

Unlimited Industries is an AI-native construction company that vertically integrates design and build for large-scale infrastructure projects including data centers, energy facilities, and advanced manufacturing. The company's proprietary AI platform can explore tens of thousands of design configurations to optimize costs and timelines, reducing pre-construction engineering from months to weeks. Founded by serial entrepreneurs and backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Unlimited is rethinking how America's critical infrastructure gets built.

Ande is an AI-native operating system for corporate entertainment, letting enterprises book, manage, and reconcile client dinners, events, and experiences through a network of 93,000 vetted vendors and venues. Customers include Cloudflare, Salesforce, and McGraw Hill, with over $400M moving through the platform annually.

August is the first AI platform built specifically for midsize law firms, enabling configurable legal AI workflows for contract review, due diligence, discovery preparation, and drafting. Founded by a team from Columbia University's ML research lab, August serves an underserved market of over 50,000 midsize law practices worldwide employing half a million lawyers.

Citizen is an NYC-based consumer safety app that delivers real-time alerts about nearby incidents using 911 radio feeds, user-submitted video, and location data. Launched in 2016 as Vigilante and rebranded in 2017, it also sells Citizen Protect, a paid subscription offering 24/7 access to live safety agents. The company says over 9 million people use the service across major US cities.

Customer insights and research platform that centralizes and analyzes feedback from calls, surveys, tickets, and reviews using AI to identify themes and patterns for product teams.

F2 is an AI platform for private markets investors, purpose-built for private credit, private equity, and commercial banking. It turns unstructured deal data and a firm's historical deal history into a queryable institutional knowledge asset, using multi-model agentic workflows (including its autonomous agent, Adam) to produce investment-grade analysis and memos in minutes. Spun out of Arc Technologies in 2025, F2 serves 100+ funds and banks representing $400B+ in AUM.

AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes, and summarizes meetings into searchable notes.

AI video generation platform that creates lifelike animated characters by combining text, image, and audio inputs.

AI-powered sales role-play and assessment platform for hiring and training.

Hyro provides a responsible AI agents platform for healthcare to automate patient communications across voice and digital channels.

Jack & Jill is a London-based startup that puts AI voice agents on both sides of hiring: Jack represents job seekers through career-coaching conversations, while Jill represents employers by digging into what success in a role looks like. The two agents negotiate matches and arrange direct introductions, bypassing traditional applications and resumes.

Enterprise AI marketing platform that helps teams generate on-brand content and campaign assets at scale, with workflows and AI copilots for marketing operations.

AI foundation models platform focused on making biology programmable and accelerating protein design.

AI-native GTM platform that helps revenue teams personalize buyer journeys, identify pipeline opportunities, and operate more effectively.

AI-powered medical information platform that synthesizes peer-reviewed clinical literature for physicians, functioning as an always-on clinical decision support tool used by hundreds of thousands of doctors.

Pace is an AI-native business process outsourcer (BPO) for the world's leading insurers, combining agentic AI for document processing, web automation, and phone calls with human review to automate mission-critical insurance operations. The platform handles submission intake, FNOL, policy servicing, claims handling, and data entry tasks that traditionally relied on offshore labor. Backed by Sequoia Capital, Pace counts Prudential, The Mutual Group, and Newfront among its customers.

Patronus AI builds evaluation and reliability tooling for enterprise AI systems, helping teams test, monitor, and improve LLM behavior in production.

Picsart is an AI-powered creative platform for photo and video editing with over 150 million monthly active users. It provides AI-driven tools for content creation, background removal, and design for both consumers and businesses.

Raindrop is an observability and monitoring platform for AI agents, often described as 'Sentry for AI products.' The platform helps engineering teams detect, track, and fix silent failures in AI agents running in production environments. Founded by Y Combinator alumni and backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Raindrop provides automated issue discovery, triage, and detailed failure explanations for AI systems.

Sabi is a Palo Alto startup building a non-invasive brain-AI interface embedded in everyday wearables like a baseball cap, using custom EEG sensors and a proprietary Brain Foundation Model trained on over 100,000 hours of neural data to translate imagined speech into text and AI commands. Co-founded by CEO Rahul Chhabra and CTO Atmadeep Banerjee in 2024, the company raised a $50 million seed round led by Khosla Ventures at a reported $600 million valuation, and plans to demo its first devices at CES 2027.

Sanas provides a real-time speech understanding platform using patented AI for accent translation and noise cancellation for contact center agents. The platform has been adopted by hundreds of thousands of agents across 39 countries.

Sandstone builds an AI-native operating system for in-house legal teams, ingesting and triaging incoming legal requests from email, Slack, and Jira and routing them through automated workflows. The platform also automates document drafting, contract review, and compliance analysis using domain-specific models. Founded in 2025 and based in New York, it serves legal departments ranging from small teams to Fortune 500 companies.

Taste Labs is building the data and infrastructure layer that gives AI models and agents "taste" — the ability to judge subjective quality rather than just correctness, starting with design. It supplies frontier labs with post-training preference data, rubrics and RL/eval environments, and gives application teams context and verification tools so agent output is more on-brand and creative. The company emerged from stealth in June 2026 with an $18.5M seed co-led by CRV and Amplify Partners.

Alloy is a data platform for robotics that helps companies process, organize, and search through the massive volumes of sensor, camera, and telemetry data their robots generate. The Sydney-based startup enables natural language search across robot data and automated issue detection, reducing data processing time by up to 90%.

Botpress is an AI agent infrastructure platform that gives developers the tooling to build, deploy, and scale production-ready AI agents. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Montréal, the company raised a $25M Series B in June 2025 to expand its agent infrastructure stack.

AI-powered drug discovery platform advancing nature-inspired therapeutics from plants and natural products into clinical development.

Epsilon Health is an AI-native radiology practice that combines purpose-built AI models with board-certified radiologists to deliver faster, more consistent medical imaging interpretation. Rather than selling a diagnostic tool, it operates as the radiology practice itself, serving imaging centers and health systems amid a growing U.S. radiologist shortage.

Helm.ai develops AI software for autonomous driving (AD/ADAS) and robotics automation, using an unsupervised 'Deep Teaching' approach that trains neural networks without human annotation or simulation. It partners with major automotive OEMs, and in October 2025 received an additional strategic investment from Honda to accelerate next-generation AD/ADAS development.

Inception (Inception Labs) is a Palo Alto-based AI research company building diffusion large language models (dLLMs) that generate text and code in parallel, delivering up to 10x faster inference and lower cost than traditional autoregressive LLMs. Its Mercury model family targets latency-sensitive, real-time applications. Founded in 2024 by Stanford professor Stefano Ermon with Aditya Grover and Volodymyr Kuleshov.

Lindy is an AI agent platform that lets users build and deploy AI employees to automate repetitive knowledge work including inbox management, meeting scheduling, customer support, and lead research. Their platform features an Agent Builder for prompt-to-agent creation and Autopilot for browser and desktop automation tasks.

Minerva is a New York (Brooklyn) based AI platform for consumer marketing leaders. It unifies a brand's fragmented first-party data, enriches it with proprietary consumer context, and runs end-to-end marketing workflows with AI agents. Customers span sports, hospitality, financial services, real estate, and travel, and the company collaborates with OpenAI.

Mirelo builds AI for generating sound and audio layers for videos and games.

Open-source AI company building tools to structure, understand, and collaborate with unstructured data including GPT4ALL, Atlas visualization platform, and Nomic Embed text embeddings.

Ollama is an open model platform that lets developers download, run, and manage large language models locally on their own machines or servers via CLI, API, and cloud scaling, used to build chatbots, coding assistants, and AI agents. It is the largest developer network in the open model ecosystem, with roughly 8.9M monthly active developers and 67,000+ community-built integrations, and is used within 85% of the Fortune 500. Founded in 2023 by Jeffrey Morgan and Michael Chiang.

Phylo is an applied AI research laboratory developing Biomni Lab, an integrated workspace enabling scientists to plan, author, execute, and collaborate on complex biological research tasks with state-of-the-art agentic AI.

Reka builds multimodal foundation models and enterprise AI systems that combine text, image, audio, and reasoning capabilities for production applications.

Sable is a San Francisco-based startup building Aidan, an AI employee that joins live customer calls to run real-time product demos using computer use, vision, and voice inside a real browser environment. Founded in October 2025 by four Harvard-connected founders, it is already deployed at companies like Notion and Decagon. Sable raised a $45M round co-led by Sequoia Capital and 8VC in July 2026, with Shaun Maguire and Joe Lonsdale joining its board.

Slite builds an AI-powered knowledge base for teams to document, search, and share company knowledge with collaborative docs and workflows.

Terra AI builds AI-driven subsurface modeling and generative/foundation-model technology to accelerate discovery of critical minerals and clean energy resources like geothermal and carbon storage. The company partners with mining and energy companies such as Rio Tinto and BHP to speed up exploration.

AI-native GTM platform that combines prospecting data, AI agents, and multi-channel sequencing to help B2B sales teams generate qualified pipeline at scale. Used by hundreds of teams including Cursor and Perplexity.

AI-powered design collaboration platform for industrial and product designers, enabling rapid concept sketching, rendering, and 3D visualization from rough sketches.

You.com builds AI search and retrieval infrastructure for teams that need domain-specific, production-ready search inside their own products and workflows.

222 is an AI-powered social platform that accelerates in-real-life chance encounters, helping users form, deepen, and maintain meaningful relationships through curated offline experiences. Using psychological data and machine learning, the platform matches compatible people for intimate social events at curated venues. Backed by Y Combinator, General Catalyst, and Upfront Ventures, 222 is rebuilding social connection in the age of digital isolation.

8090 (8090 Solutions Inc) builds the 8090 Software Factory, an AI-native platform where coordinated AI agents and human reviewers plan, build, test, and ship enterprise software under governed oversight. Co-founded and led as CEO by Chamath Palihapitiya, it also runs an enterprise delivery business serving healthcare, insurance, life sciences, financial services, manufacturing, and government. It is headquartered in Redwood City, CA with an additional office in Toronto.

AI research company building adaptive models that learn continuously without expensive retraining, using less computing power than leading AI models, founded by former Cohere VP of Research Sara Hooker

Aqua Voice is an AI-powered voice input software that lets users write at 4x typing speed with sub-50ms startup and 3.2% word error rate. Works across any app including Cursor, Gmail, Slack, and terminal.

Physical AI company building Newton foundation model that fuses real-time multimodal sensor data with natural language to interpret and act on physical phenomena

Cambio is an AI-native platform for commercial real estate operations, using agentic AI to help property owners and operators automate asset management, improve building efficiency, and decarbonize their portfolios. Founded in 2022 by former institutional CRE operators, the company serves enterprise clients across the US, EU, UK, and APAC.

Ciridae is an AI transformation firm that builds AI-native operating systems for mid-market 'real economy' businesses such as restoration, logistics, and industrial services companies. It embeds directly with each customer to rebuild core workflows—scheduling, procurement, invoicing, claims management, and financial operations—as purpose-built AI software deployed in as little as two weeks. Founded by ex-a16z and ex-Salesforce leaders, it reached high seven-figure run-rate revenue within six months of selling while staying cash-flow positive.

Comfy develops ComfyUI, an open-source node-based platform for generative AI that enables creators to build visual AI workflows, used by over 1 million creators at companies like Netflix, Amazon Studios, and Tencent.

Cradle builds an AI-powered protein engineering platform that helps biotech teams design and optimize proteins faster across discovery workflows.

Debut is a beauty biotechnology company that uses AI-powered ingredient discovery and biofermentation to create high-performing, sustainable beauty ingredients from molecules that nature produces only in minute quantities. Named one of TIME100 Most Innovative Companies in 2025, the company partners with major brands like L'Oreal to develop next-generation skincare actives with a focus on skin longevity. Headquartered in San Diego, Debut has raised over $89 million and screens billions of candidate molecules through its proprietary platform.

AI-powered compliance training platform for frontline workers that automatically identifies risks, generates documentation, and delivers bite-sized training content in over 25 languages.

Ease Health is an AI-native operating system for behavioral health providers, unifying patient intake (CRM), clinical documentation (EHR), and billing/revenue cycle management (RCM) into a single platform. It embeds AI across ambient documentation, automated charting and chart auditing, an agentic call center, and an autonomous prior authorization engine. Founded in 2025 and based in New York, it emerged from stealth in March 2026 with a $41M Series A led by a16z.

Epoch AI is a research institute that collects data on and forecasts the trajectory of AI, publishing datasets, dashboards and benchmarks (including FrontierMath) on model capabilities, compute, and training trends. It operates as a philanthropically funded nonprofit rather than a VC-backed startup, originally fiscally sponsored by Rethink Priorities. The team is fully distributed (~30 people, planning to roughly double) with many roles requiring Americas time-zone overlap.

Finch is an AI-powered pre-litigation platform for personal injury law firms, pairing experienced paralegals and case staff with AI agents to automate intake, case management, medical records, lien management, and demand drafting. Founded in 2025 and based in New York City, it launched with a Sequoia-led seed round and raised a $20M Series A led by Redpoint Ventures.

Autonomous website platform that uses AI to automatically build, rewrite, A/B test, and optimize landing pages based on visitor behavior and market changes. Enables growth teams to scale web presence with automated marketing research, comparison pages, personalization, and achieves 50% higher Google Ads conversion rates for AI companies like Cognition and Modal.

Kore.ai develops enterprise conversational and agentic AI software for customer service, employee support, and workflow automation across regulated industries.

Legion Intelligence (formerly Yurts) builds governed AI agent-orchestration software for defense, public sector, and enterprise operations. Its platform lets organizations securely deploy, manage, and scale autonomous AI agents across sensitive networks (including IL-4/5/6) for decision support and operational intelligence, with deployments at U.S. Special Operations Command and other DoD environments.

AI design tool helping teams prototype product ideas with AI-powered UI generation from concept to production

Nowadays is the first AI-native platform for corporate event planning, automating everything from venue sourcing to vendor negotiations. Built by MIT engineers, it leverages a database of 400,000 global venues and AI agents that contact venues by email and phone to manage end-to-end event logistics.

Question-and-answer platform that connects people to share knowledge across millions of topics, featuring AI-powered Poe chatbot platform

SF Compute provides rentable, large, low-cost GPU clusters for AI pre-training workloads. The platform operates as a marketplace connecting AI teams with on-demand high-performance computing capacity, offering flexible access to supercomputing-scale infrastructure with InfiniBand interconnects.

StackBlitz is the creator of Bolt, an AI-powered full-stack web development platform that enables users to build, run, and deploy applications entirely in the browser. Leveraging WebContainers technology that runs Node.js natively in the browser.

Tern builds an all-in-one software platform for travel advisors and agencies, replacing the fragmented back-office tools they use today. Its product combines CRM, itinerary and proposal building, client communication, invoicing and payments, with agentic AI features that import trip content from any source and generate destination guides. The platform is used by more than 5,000 advisors and 1,000 agencies.

Thesis Care (formerly Trovo Health) is a healthtech startup that deploys AI agents backed by in-house expert clinicians to handle clinical operations and care management workflows for provider groups, health systems, and health plans. Founded in 2024 by former Cedar executives Dr. Niren Gandra and Aditya Pandyaram, it is based in New York.

Vals AI builds independent evaluation and benchmarking tools for large language models, measuring real-world capabilities across domains like legal, financial, coding, and healthcare. Its platform helps enterprises and research labs compare model performance and validate AI behavior before production use.

Ada is an AI-powered customer service automation company that enables enterprises to resolve customer inquiries at scale using AI agents. The platform handles billions of interactions across 50+ languages for brands like Meta, Verizon, and Square.

AMI Labs is a frontier AI research lab building world-model-based intelligence systems with planning, memory, and safety controls for real-world applications.

Arcade AI is an MCP runtime platform that enables AI agents to take secure, authenticated actions across business systems. The platform provides agent-optimized tool calling, OAuth-based authorization, and governance infrastructure for production AI deployments.

Basata builds AI agents that automate US healthcare administrative workflows, including fax-based referral intake, patient chart creation, and specialty-specific voice agents that call patients to schedule specialist appointments. The platform serves specialty medical practices across cardiology, urology, gastroenterology, and ophthalmology.

Basis Research Institute is a nonprofit applied AI research organization building a universal reasoning engine by establishing the mathematical principles of intelligence. The organization focuses on probabilistic programming, causal reasoning, and program synthesis to solve intractable scientific and societal problems at unprecedented scale.

AI marketing platform for small businesses and solopreneurs achieving 10M ARR with tools for content generation and marketing automation

Blockit AI builds an autonomous scheduling agent that books, reschedules, and coordinates meetings over email and Slack, integrating with Google and Outlook calendars. It learns users' time preferences and negotiates directly with other people's calendar agents to eliminate scheduling back-and-forth.

Bolna is a voice AI platform that lets businesses design, deploy, and manage AI phone agents for outbound and inbound calls across sales, collections, customer support, and recruitment. Its agents are tuned for Indian telephony conditions and support 10+ Indian vernacular languages, handling regional accents and noisy lines. A YC F25 company, it reports 1,050+ paying customers and over 200,000 calls per day.

CrewAI builds a multi-agent platform and open-source framework for orchestrating collaborative AI agent workflows in production applications.

Didero is a US-based AI procurement and supply-chain startup that builds agentic AI sitting on top of a company's existing ERP to automate core procurement workflows for manufacturers and distributors—supplier communication, order tracking, exception handling, and spend analysis. Founded in 2023 and based in New York, it is embedded with 30+ customers. In February 2026 it raised a $30M Series A co-led by Chemistry and Headline with participation from Microsoft's M12.

Harmonic is a US-based AI research company building Mathematical Superintelligence (MSI) — reasoning models whose outputs are formally verified, eliminating hallucinations. Its flagship model, Aristotle, reached formally verified gold medal-level performance on the 2025 International Mathematical Olympiad and is offered as an autonomous mathematician agent and API for researchers and developers. Founded in 2023 by Tudor Achim (CEO) and Robinhood co-founder Vlad Tenev (Executive Chairman), it is headquartered in Palo Alto with a London presence.

Heron Data uses AI and LLMs to automate document-heavy workflows in lending, equipment finance, and insurance, extracting and enriching information from documents at scale. The company processes over 350,000 documents per week for 150+ customers including FDIC-insured banks and insurance carriers. It closed a $16M Series A led by Insight Partners in July 2025.

Inflection AI develops personal AI assistant products and foundation-model capabilities for natural language interaction and conversational intelligence.

Inherent is a London-based frontier AI lab building Faraday, an AI system for open-ended scientific discovery where humans and self-improving AI collaborate to tackle hard problems in science. Founded by ex-DeepMind researchers, it aims to build AI that recursively self-improves to explore 'unknown unknowns' and surface paradigm-shifting research questions.

LM Studio is a desktop application and developer toolkit built by Element Labs Inc. that lets users discover, download, and run large language models locally and privately on their own hardware. It provides an OpenAI-compatible local API server and supports Windows, macOS, and Linux. Founded in 2022 by Yagil Burowski and headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

Melius is a New York-based AI platform where teams of AI agents generate ad campaigns, images, video, and audio on a node-based creative canvas. Founded by ex-Ramp engineers Joowon Kim, Young Kim, and Arnav Ramu, the company pivoted from an ad-spend optimization tool into an "agents lab for creative work."

Merciv is an AI-native consumer intelligence platform for enterprise commerce, connecting internal systems, syndicated research, social signals, and the open web into one queryable layer that returns cited answers. Its agentic system, EVA (Enterprise Virtual Analyst), turns price shifts, demand changes, and competitor activity into recommendations and automated workflows. After two years in stealth, it launched publicly in January 2026 and says its platform drives 8-figure gross margin improvements for large retailers.

Noon is an AI-native product design platform that unifies design and code on a single canvas, letting product teams design directly on top of their own production components and design systems. It aims to eliminate the handoff gap between designers and engineers by generating real code instead of static design files. Headquartered in San Francisco with an engineering team in Bengaluru.

Engineering general intelligence (“Archie”) that performs quantitative and spatial reasoning for physical engineering.

Pantograph is a San Francisco-based public benefit corporation and applied research lab building generally intelligent, low-cost robots. It trains general models on internet-scale video and video games, then deploys them onto its own fleet of affordable, durable robots for large-scale real-world interaction data collection. The company owns its full stack — hardware, firmware, training infrastructure, and learning algorithms — and released its first video-pretrained model in July 2026.

Playground develops AI-native creative tools for generating and editing visual assets, with a focus on fast ideation workflows for designers and marketers.

Poetic (formerly Forge) is a San Francisco-based AI automation platform that learns an enterprise's own procedures, training materials, and expert feedback instead of requiring hand-coded workflows, then compiles them into deterministic software that runs end-to-end business processes. The system claims 99%+ accuracy and self-heals when underlying enterprise systems change. It is deployed at financial institutions including SoFi, AIG, and Chime for transaction monitoring, KYC compliance, and dispute investigations.

Scaled Cognition is a reliability-focused AI lab building APT (Agentic Pretrained Transformer), a frontier model purpose-built for enterprise customer experience that aims to eliminate hallucinations and enforce policy compliance. It was founded in 2022 by CTO Dan Klein (a UC Berkeley NLP professor) and CEO Dan Roth, who previously built and sold an early agentic AI company (Semantic Machines) to Microsoft. The model is already embedded in partners like Genesys for agentic virtual agents across telecom, travel, banking, and retail.

Shuttlebase (formerly Moonshot AI) builds an autonomous conversion-optimization platform that turns static e-commerce websites into self-improving ones. Its generative-AI system analyzes visitor behavior, generates and A/B-tests design, copy and UX variations, then deploys the winning variants automatically without engineering work. Founded in 2023 by Aviv Frenkel and Evyatar Segal, it is headquartered in New York City with a team also in Tel Aviv.

Stacks is an agentic AI platform for enterprise accounting that automates the financial close process, including reconciliations, journal entries, variance analysis, and reporting. Founded by former Uber and Plaid leaders, Stacks enables finance teams and AI agents to collaborate to close the books twice as fast.

Supersonik builds AI agents that run live, multilingual product demos for SaaS teams, so prospects can explore software instantly without scheduling calls.

Venice is a private, uncensored AI chat and API platform founded by crypto entrepreneur Erik Voorhees and Jesse Proudman. It gives users surveillance-free access to a wide range of AI models, processing over 1.3 trillion tokens per month and 1.7 million daily API calls.

Alleviate Health builds conversational AI agents that accelerate patient recruitment for clinical research sites. Their AI engages patients 24/7 across SMS and Voice, having supported 500K+ patient interactions across 190+ sites.

alphaXiv is an AI research platform that helps users understand academic papers in minutes by bringing together papers, benchmarks, and implementations in one place. The platform bridges the gap between AI research and practice, enabling engineers to quickly surface relevant papers, compare methods, and interact with implementations. Since launching in 2024, alphaXiv has reached millions of users across academia and industry.

Andera builds AI-native software that automates internal audit and corporate compliance work, including evidence collection, control testing, and workpaper generation for SOX and other regimes. Founded in 2024 by Aryo Patel and Tinah Hong, the San Francisco startup targets Fortune 100 enterprises and public accounting firms.

Bunkerhill Health builds Carebricks, an agentic AI platform that lets hospitals and health systems build, deploy, and govern production-grade AI agents for clinical, operational, and administrative work — from cardiac imaging analysis and lung nodule detection to patient triage and insurance prior authorization. Customers include Cleveland Clinic, UTMB, Intermountain Health, and Mayo Clinic, with UTMB running 20+ agents on the platform. The YC W19 company raised a $25M Series B led by Khosla Ventures in July 2026, bringing total funding to $55M.

A platform that allows users to create custom AI chatbots from their own data and embed them on their websites.

Edia is an AI-powered unified data platform designed to boost learning outcomes in K-12 mathematics education by enabling teachers to differentiate instruction and deliver personalized help 10x faster, backed by a guarantee of improved state exam results.

Endeavor builds AI-powered agents for enterprise revenue operations, automating complex workflows across sales, finance, and customer success. Its platform integrates with existing enterprise systems to execute multi-step business processes autonomously.

Evertune is a Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) and AI marketing platform that helps enterprise brands measure and improve their visibility in AI search and LLM-generated answers. Founded by Trade Desk veterans, it analyzes how large language models select and rank brands, then delivers data-driven insights and content strategies to increase AI discoverability.

FutureFit AI provides an AI-powered career navigation platform that helps enterprises, governments, and workforce organizations reskill and redeploy their workforce. Its personalized career GPS supports career navigation, reskilling, and job placement for Fortune 500 clients and public-sector partners.

Gradium is a Paris-based AI company building ultra-low latency voice foundation models that enable near-instant, expressive, and multilingual voice AI at scale. Spun out of French AI lab Kyutai, the company was founded by former Google DeepMind researchers who pioneered key advances in audio language modeling. Backed by a $70 million seed round from FirstMark Capital, Eurazeo, Eric Schmidt, and Xavier Niel, Gradium aims to make voice the universal interface for AI.

Highlight AI (legal name Highlight Holding, Inc., also known as Embedded Intelligence) builds a shared intelligence layer that captures commitments, connects context across tools like Slack, Notion, GitHub, and Gmail, and automates next steps for teams. Its product auto-drafts tickets and documents from meetings, tracks commitments, and automates recurring workflows for the agentic age of work. Founded in 2024 and led by CEO Sergei Sorokin (former Discord VP of Product), it raised a $40M Series A led by Khosla Ventures in March 2026.

Hume AI develops empathic AI models and APIs for voice, speech, and expression understanding, including the Empathic Voice Interface for real-time emotionally intelligent conversations.

Intelligence is a San Francisco product lab building large-scale evaluation platforms for frontier AI models, best known for Design Arena — a crowdsourced human-preference arena that ranks models on design, web dev, game dev, image, video, audio and slide generation. It reports 5.3M+ users in its first eight months and works directly with labs including OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Meta, xAI and Mistral to benchmark state-of-the-art multimodal models. The company raised a $7.9M seed led by Index Ventures in August 2026.

Lunos AI is an accounts receivable automation platform that deploys AI agents to manage receivables like a human colleague, reading customer histories, adapting tone and timing, handling two-way conversations, and working around the clock. The platform integrates with tools like QuickBooks and NetSuite, addressing the challenge of 57% of invoices being paid late across B2B finance.

Meticulous is an AI-powered frontend testing platform that removes the need to write or maintain end-to-end UI tests. It records real user interactions in development and staging, then automatically generates and continuously updates an exhaustive visual regression test suite that runs on every pull request. London-based with a San Francisco presence, backed by Y Combinator, Chemistry, Menlo Ventures and Coatue.

Monk is an AI-native accounts receivable automation platform that turns contracts into cash using AI, real-time tracking, and smart workflows to handle invoice and collection exceptions.

Frontier AI lab building reasoning models that let anyone describe a game or simulation in natural language and see it transformed into a working interactive 2D/3D scene within minutes.

Paradigm is an AI-native spreadsheet platform that puts swarms of intelligent agents at your fingertips. Each cell can be powered by its own AI agent to crawl the web, fill in data, and automate structured data workflows. Backed by General Catalyst and Y Combinator.

Petra Labs is building the attribution and experimentation layer for AI search, helping enterprises measure and improve how often their brands appear in answers generated by AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. It combines proprietary software with an embedded team that runs large-scale simulations and agentic analysis to connect AI search visibility to pipeline, traffic, and revenue. Founded in 2025 and based in SoHo, New York.

Pinecone is a fully managed vector database that makes it easy to add vector search to production applications, powering AI applications with fast and scalable similarity search at any scale.

Raylu is an AI-native deal origination platform for private-market investors that automates market mapping, target research, and outreach. Venture, growth equity, private equity, and corporate development teams use it to go from investment thesis to booked founder meetings in minutes instead of weeks. More than 45 funds representing over $500B in AUM use Raylu as their AI sourcing engine.

Universal API for real-time meeting data, providing developers with recordings, transcripts, and metadata from Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and other video conferencing platforms. Powers over 300 enterprise clients including Instacart and Sybill.

Recraft is a text-to-image model and design platform for photorealistic assets, vector generation, custom brand styles, mockups, and collaborative creative workflows.

Sekai (incorporated as Versa Inc) is a Sunnyvale, CA-based AI platform founded in 2024 by Lucky Zhang and Arthur Cheung, a founding member of TikTok. The platform lets users create, play, and remix AI-generated mini apps via text prompts, with over 15 million mini apps created and more than 200,000 generated daily.

Sim is an open-source platform for building, shipping, and scaling agentic AI workflows, often described as "Figma for AI agents" for its visual drag-and-drop canvas. It combines a workflow editor with knowledge bases, structured data tables, file storage, and execution logging so developers can go from a single agent to complex multi-agent systems in production. Founded in early 2025 in San Francisco, it reports 60,000+ developers and 100+ companies running workflows on the platform.

Slingshot AI is a New York- and London-based startup building a foundation model for psychology and consumer mental health products. Its flagship product Ash is a conversational AI designed specifically for therapy, launched publicly on iOS and Android in July 2025 after 18 months of development with ~50,000 beta users. The company was founded by Casper co-founder Neil Parikh and ML engineer Daniel Cahn, and is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Radical Ventures, and Forerunner Ventures.

Squint is an AI-powered manufacturing intelligence platform that helps industrial frontline operators reduce downtime and improve quality at scale. The platform delivers AR-guided procedures and knowledge-sharing tools to factory floors, serving customers like PepsiCo, Michelin, and Ford.

Third Dimension AI is a 3D generative AI platform that creates high-fidelity, rendering engine-ready environments from text prompts and images. The platform serves professionals in gaming, film, autonomous vehicles, and defense.

Trebellar is an AI-native platform for corporate real estate decisions, helping enterprise CRE teams unify fragmented lease, space, and occupancy data into a single decision-making layer. The company replaces manual spreadsheet work with AI agents for portfolio management, location strategy, and workplace planning.

Waystation AI is the AI-native system of record for CPG (consumer packaged goods) procurement. It connects to a team's existing email inbox and uses AI to capture, structure, and organize supplier communications—quotes, specs, COAs, certifications, and lead times—into a shared, searchable workspace for procurement, R&D, quality, and operations teams at mid-market CPG companies, co-manufacturers, and consulting firms. Founded in 2024 by CircleUp founder Ryan Caldbeck and based in Redwood City, CA.

AgentSmyth builds autonomous AI agents for institutional trading and investment teams, delivering real-time market intelligence, earnings analysis, macro context, sentiment, and auditable decision support for regulated finance.

Anything (formerly Create.xyz) is an AI-powered app builder that transforms natural language prompts into fully functional mobile and web applications with backend infrastructure, authentication, databases and payment integrations.

Artisan AI builds AI employees for go-to-market teams and automates outbound prospecting with its AI-first sales platform, including Ava for AI SDR workflows.

Bespoke Labs is an applied AI company that builds the reinforcement learning environments, data curation systems, and infrastructure used to train, evaluate, and post-train reliable long-horizon AI agents for frontier labs and enterprises. It is known for open-source tooling like Bespoke Curator and open datasets. Founded in 2024 by Mahesh Sathiamoorthy and Alex Dimakis, it is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Blackstar is an AI hardware startup building a new computing device and operating system aimed at fundamentally improving how humans interact with AI. Founded by former OpenAI Codex engineer Daniel Edrisian, the ~8-person team is split between San Francisco and Shenzhen and has not yet shipped a public product.

Boson AI builds proprietary multimodal foundation models for voice and audio (Higgs) and Feynman Flow, an agentic platform that turns model capability into deployed intelligence. Founded in 2023 by former AWS AI leaders Alex Smola and Mu Li, the company focuses on audio/voice understanding, generation, and real-time interaction. The team of 30+ researchers and engineers operates across Santa Clara and Toronto.

Bubble is a no-code platform that lets founders and businesses build and ship web and mobile applications visually, without writing code. Founded in 2012 and based in New York City, it serves over a million users ranging from solo founders to enterprise teams.

BuildForever is a software company crafting consumer products that feel personal, magical, and deeply human. Their first product, Extra, is an email platform designed to reimagine everyday digital communication. The company believes the best consumer products come from small, inspired teams who care deeply about craft and emotion rather than scale.

AI document generation platform for life sciences that automates regulatory paperwork for diagnostic, medical device, and drug development companies. Founded by Surbhi Sarna and Nate Smith.

AI teammate that researches, plans, and executes multi-step work across 25+ enterprise apps using deep company context (OM1).

Platform for creating a digital you—an AI persona trained on your content and style for Q&A and interactions.

Flora is a node-based AI design tool and infinite canvas platform for creative professionals. The platform allows designers to build and automate creative workflows using a visual node orchestration layer, enabling creation of images, videos, and other media assets. Used by designers at Alibaba, Brex, Pentagram, and Lionsgate.

GenPeach AI develops multimodal generative foundation models for human-centric image and video creation, powering digital humans, virtual influencers, and AI companions for creative industries. Founded in 2025 and based in Zurich, Switzerland (with team members in Warsaw), it is an early-stage startup backed by angels and founders from OpenAI, Meta AI, Google DeepMind, and Microsoft AI. Per PitchBook/Nordic9 it has raised roughly $1.5M in pre-seed funding.

Julius is an AI-powered data analysis platform that acts as a personal data scientist, enabling users to analyze and visualize datasets and perform predictive modeling through natural language prompts. With over 2 million users generating more than 10 million visualizations, Julius makes data science accessible to everyone.

Langbase is a serverless AI developer platform for building, deploying, and scaling AI agents. It processes 700TB+ of vector memory and billions of AI agent runs monthly, serving 100,000+ developers with support for 600+ LLMs.

Lotus Health (Lotus Health AI) is a San Francisco-based consumer primary care app that aggregates a patient's fragmented medical records and uses AI plus board-certified physicians in a "physician-in-the-loop" model to deliver 24/7 guidance, care plans, lab orders, and prescriptions in 50+ languages. The service is free and requires no insurance, monetizing instead through in-app premium sponsorships. Founded by KJ Dhaliwal (previously sold dating app Dil Mil for $50M), it launched in May 2024.

Luminos.AI builds automated governance and testing tools for generative and agentic AI systems, built by lawyers and data scientists. The platform helps legal and compliance teams assess AI risk, run compliance evaluations, and generate automated reporting to detect legal, regulatory, safety, and security liabilities before AI products are deployed.

Magic is an AI coding agent company building autonomous software engineers capable of handling complex, long-horizon coding tasks. Its system combines frontier LLMs with proprietary long-context retrieval and tool-use to write, test, and deploy production-ready code.

Mainframe is building generative computing software that lets teams orchestrate AI agents and automate knowledge work through its Cobot product.

New Generation, also known as New Gen, builds AI-native commerce infrastructure that turns static product catalogs into structured data, generative storefronts, and conversational shopping experiences for brands and agents.

Phota Labs is building personalized generative AI experiences for photography, focused on making high-quality visual creation and enhancement accessible to mainstream users.

Polymath builds simulation environments for training and evaluating long-horizon AI agents, including virtual worlds with real tools and multi-step tasks. Their flagship benchmark, Horizon-SWE, measures AI performance on end-to-end software engineering tasks, and they sell RL training infrastructure to frontier labs.

QuantHealth is a dual-HQ New York/Tel Aviv startup building an AI platform that simulates clinical trial outcomes, allowing pharma and biotech partners to run thousands of trial design variations to de-risk and accelerate drug development. It has simulated more than 600 clinical trials across 30 indications with up to 90% predictive accuracy.

Rime builds enterprise-grade, real-time speech-to-speech AI models for handling customer phone calls, recording its own proprietary conversational voice data rather than relying on scraped audio. The company processes over 100 million calls per month for enterprise customers.

Shade is an AI-native unified file system for creative and post-production teams, combining cloud storage, real-time large-file streaming into editing tools, and natural-language search across footage and imagery. The platform consolidates the fragmented post-production stack (cloud storage, streamable file systems, media asset management, and review tools) into one system and has ingested 60M+ assets for brands, agencies, and sports organizations.

AI-powered contract lifecycle management platform embedding workflows into Teams, Slack and Word, serving enterprise customers including NBA, MLB and NFL teams with five consecutive years of 100%+ ARR growth

Builds autonomous AI agents that automate end-to-end work for startups using natural language instructions.

Togal.AI builds AI takeoff and preconstruction workflow software that automates quantity measurements from construction plans.

Tomo is a personal AI 'champion' that lives inside your text messages: you text a phone number and it learns your goals, remembers what matters to you, and sends reminders and motivation to help you follow through. It can join group chats, track calories from food photos, budget from bank-statement screenshots, and connect to your calendar, email, Notion and Google Drive. The company emerged from stealth in June 2026 after reaching over 10,000 paying customers on word of mouth.

Variant is a creative intelligence platform that brings taste to code generation, allowing users to generate endless design variations for apps and websites from a single idea. Backed by Y Combinator (F24), the tool combines AI-powered design sensibility with code generation to help developers build better software through visual exploration.

Varick Agents is a San Francisco applied-AI company that builds custom AI agent systems to replace the manual work employees do between enterprise systems — exception routing, cross-system coordination, data reconciliation and other operational tasks. It embeds forward-deployed engineers inside Fortune 500/2000 customers and ships production agents into their existing tools across finance ops, RevOps, procurement, compliance and logistics. Founded in 2025 by ex-Meta engineer Vasuman Moza and backed by NOMO Ventures.

Vectara provides a retrieval-augmented generation platform with enterprise search, grounded generation, and evaluation tooling to help teams build production-grade generative AI assistants.

Willow develops AI voice dictation software designed to dramatically speed up professional writing and communication workflows across email, documents, and messaging tools.

Wonder is the first AI-native design tool built on an infinite canvas that understands your components and design patterns, automatically suggesting the right elements to keep work consistent while accelerating creative exploration. The platform enables designers to explore layouts, UX flows, and build design systems with AI-powered assistance.

Agent platform for planning, verification, and abstraction to co-invent future products and discoveries with humans.

Basedash is an AI-native business intelligence platform that lets teams create dashboards and understand their data using natural language. It connects to 600+ data sources and provides shared dashboards without requiring SQL.

Browser Use is an open-source framework that enables AI agents to autonomously navigate and interact with websites like a human user. Built by ETH Zurich alumni, the project has amassed over 80,000 GitHub stars and powers agentic AI platforms.

Camfer is building an AI mechanical engineer that works on top of industry-standard CAD platforms such as SolidWorks and Onshape. Its product converts natural-language prompts or images into design artifacts — sketches, features, and assemblies — directly inside existing CAD workspaces. The Y Combinator-backed company targets hardware engineering and physical product workflows.

Conductor is a developer-tools startup that lets engineers run a team of AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) in parallel, isolated workspaces on their Mac, then review and merge the agents' work. Launched in 2025, it is used by engineers at companies like Linear, Vercel, Notion, and Stripe. It raised a $22M Series A led by Matrix and Spark in March 2026.

Doji is an AI fashion shopping app that creates a personalized avatar so consumers can try on real apparel products, explore looks, and share style ideas before purchasing.

YC W24 AI platform that translates codebases into structured documentation, architecture maps, and history guides, compressing technical discovery from months to days.

AI-native commerce platform enabling brands to create dynamic, personalized shopping experiences across every digital touchpoint. Bridges the gap between ad creative and checkout for DTC brands on Meta and TikTok.

Fulcrum builds an agentic debugger for AI systems, with red-teaming agents that plug into environments, agent traces, and source code to diagnose why AI agents fail. It uncovers reinforcement learning environment bugs, detects reward hacking and catastrophic failures, and generates explorable diagnostic reports.

Guru is an AI source-of-truth platform for knowledge work that connects company knowledge, delivers verified answers in workflow tools, and keeps information accurate automatically.

Ineffable Intelligence is a London-based AI research lab founded in late 2025 by David Silver, former reinforcement learning lead at Google DeepMind and creator of AlphaZero. The company is building a 'superlearner' system that discovers knowledge purely through self-directed experience and reinforcement learning, without relying on human-generated data. Its stated mission is to make first contact with superintelligence.

Inference provides a distributed, serverless platform that lets developers run open-source AI models without managing infrastructure. The company aggregates underutilized data center capacity to offer cost-effective LLM inference via a simple API.

LlamaIndex is a data framework for LLM applications that enables developers to connect, index, and query custom data sources with large language models through their open-source library and LlamaCloud platform.

MagicSchool is an all-in-one AI platform built for school districts, transforming teaching and learning with safer, smarter, and more personalized education at scale. The platform offers AI tools to fight teacher burnout and enhance K-12 instruction.

Mechanical Orchard uses AI to modernize legacy enterprise software and mainframe systems, helping large organizations transform older codebases while preserving critical business logic. Its product, Imogen, captures actual system behavior to guide incremental rewrites into modern cloud-native code. Founded by Rob Mee (ex-CEO of Pivotal Labs), it targets enterprises seeking to reduce technical debt without disrupting operations.

Omi builds a wearable and app-based AI memory assistant for capture, transcription, search, and automated follow-up tasks.

Parahelp provides an AI support agent platform built for fast-moving software companies, automating complex support tickets and handling refund requests like a teammate, serving leading companies like Perplexity, Framer, Replit, and HeyGen.

Pulse is a production-grade unstructured document extraction platform that converts complex PDFs, Word, Excel, and other document formats into structured, LLM-ready data. Built for enterprise reliability with OCR, bounding boxes, and vision language model capabilities.

Sudo Robotics is building general-purpose robots powered by a manipulation-centric foundation model, with its flagship #sudo R1 system integrating self-developed hardware and software. The system trains manipulation policies in simulation alone, using reactive observation-conditioned control at 15-25 Hz to achieve high reliability in object picking and grasping. The company targets physical-AI applications across manufacturing, logistics, agriculture, and eldercare.

Thorin is an applied AI startup born out of 8VC's Build program that builds proactive, long-horizon AI agents observing work across Slack, email, meetings, and documents. It creates a real-time digital twin of how a business operates to automate and coordinate work, reducing leadership bottlenecks inside organizations.

Thunder Compute builds GPU virtualization software that pools idle GPU capacity across data centers, letting cloud providers and enterprises schedule workloads far more efficiently. Founded in 2024 by Carl Peterson and Brian Model, the company aims to become the "VMware for GPUs" and has already served over 10,000 users on its own cloud.

Virio is an AI content engine that helps vertical SaaS and B2B companies turn LinkedIn into their primary go-to-market channel. Its agents pull in company context, vertical news, and ABM/ICP signals to generate executive-led and employee-generated content that is brand-safe, tone-aligned, and pipeline-generating. Founded by Eric Lay and Emmett Chen-Ran, the SF-based team is backed by investors and operators from LinkedIn, YouTube, HubSpot, Rippling, and Google.

dottxt builds structured generation tooling for production LLM applications, helping developers force reliable outputs that plug into existing software systems.

Ares Interactive is a mobile game studio focused on AI-enhanced live game operations and global publishing of action and RPG titles.

Autonomous is an AI-powered financial advisor that pairs robo-advisor automation with the personalization of a human wealth manager at a 0% advisory fee. Built by Autonomous Technologies Group (ATG), an applied AI research lab founded by Paperspace co-founders Dillon Erb and Daniel Kobran, it uses frontier AI models and real-time market data to build and manage personalized investment portfolios. The consumer iOS app aims to be SOC2, FINRA-licensed, and SEC-compliant at launch.

Clarify is a US-based, AI-native CRM and revenue platform built for founders and early-stage sales teams to automate manual CRM work. Founded in Seattle in 2024, it connects to email, calendar, and call data to summarize meetings, auto-update records, track pipeline, and prep for customer calls.

Open-source AI coding agent that runs in your IDE to plan, write, and edit code with your project context.

AI-native operating system for biopharma companies, unifying internal and external data, codifying decision logic, and generating critical deliverables across the drug development lifecycle.

Deduction is a New York-based consumer fintech startup building Taylor, CPAI — an AI tax accountant for U.S. consumers that pairs an autonomous AI agent with licensed-CPA oversight. The platform delivers on-demand tax filings, year-round tax planning, and instant answers via call, text, chat, or email at a fraction of a traditional accountant's cost.

Epiminds builds agentic AI marketing teams powered by specialized agents that handle reporting, optimizations, budget pacing, bidding, and creatives. Founded by former Google and Spotify executives, their AI marketing manager 'Lucy' leads a team of 20+ specialized agents.

AI-powered technical design workspace for diagrams, docs, and visual architecture that helps engineering teams communicate systems clearly.

Espa is a privacy-first AI executive assistant that handles scheduling, inbox management, and task follow-ups on behalf of users. Accessible via text, voice, or email, it integrates with Google/Outlook calendars and executes actions autonomously — sending emails, booking meetings, and surfacing missed follow-ups. Founded by Deon Nicholas (previously co-founder of Forethought/Zendesk).

Firsthand builds an AI-powered Brand Agent platform that enables marketers and publishers to engage consumers through personalized, real-time AI interactions using proprietary content.

No-code website design and publishing platform based in Amsterdam serving over 500K monthly active users, reaching $50M ARR in 2025 and operating profitably.

Freed is an AI clinical assistant that eliminates medical documentation burden by automatically generating accurate medical notes from patient encounters. The platform helps clinicians reduce time spent on paperwork and administrative tasks, allowing them to focus more on patient care while maintaining comprehensive documentation.

Builds games that generate reinforcement learning training data for frontier AI models, enabling millions of players to naturally evaluate and improve AI systems through gameplay.

GovDash provides an AI-driven platform for government contractors to streamline capture, proposal development, and contract management in a unified workspace.

Graphon AI is a pre-model intelligence layer that transforms enterprise multimodal data (documents, video, audio, logs, databases) into persistent relational memory using graphon mathematical functions. It enables LLMs and AI agents to reason accurately across unlimited connected data sources with larger effective context. The company was founded by researchers from Amazon, Meta, MIT, Google, Apple, and NVIDIA.

Griting is an AI-native talent infrastructure company that makes capability provable through evidence-based, traceable evaluation—an evidence-first system designed for trustworthy talent decisions.

HoneyHive provides observability, evaluation, and monitoring tools for teams building production AI agents.

Humans& is a human-centric AI research lab focused on building agentic AI systems and frontier models.

Imbue (formerly Generally Intelligent) is an AI research lab building agents that can robustly reason and code. The team trains foundation models optimized for reasoning and ships applied tools (Sculptor, Bouncer) that let anyone build and control custom AI agents. The company has raised over $200M to support its long-term mission.

Inkeep provides a platform for customer-facing AI agents and automations, combining no-code builders with developer SDKs for support, product, GTM, and operations teams.

Krisp provides AI-powered noise cancellation and meeting intelligence software that removes background noise, voices, and echoes from calls in real time. The platform also offers meeting transcription, AI meeting notes, and voice AI features for contact centers and remote teams. Krisp serves hundreds of thousands of agents and processes over 75 billion minutes of conversations monthly.

Mastra is an open-source TypeScript framework for building AI agents and applications, created by the team behind Gatsby. It provides modular tools for agent orchestration, tool calling, and workflow automation.

Natter is an AI-native conversation intelligence platform that runs thousands of simultaneous 1:1 video conversations with employees, members, and customers, then uses AI to moderate them and turn the transcripts into themes, sentiment, and decision-ready insights. It positions itself as a replacement for enterprise surveys, focus groups, and research interviews, since a seven-minute conversation yields roughly 1,000 words of data versus about ten from a survey answer. Customers include Accenture, ServiceNow, Deloitte, Salesforce, PwC, and Philip Morris.

Nuraline is an applied AI company building a forward-deployed AI agent that enables AI systems to continuously self-improve in production by connecting telemetry, traces, and user feedback to generate evaluations and tested improvements across the technology stack. The platform works closely with product teams and enterprises requiring measurable reliability gains in reasoning-heavy applications like enterprise search and web navigation. Currently operating as Introspection (introspection.dev), the company is in its earliest stage of development.

Multimodal AI video clipping platform that automatically finds, edits, and posts short-form social content from long videos. Used by media companies like iHeart, marketing teams, and podcasters to 10x social impressions with autonomous video workflows, custom-trained agents, and multi-platform scheduling for TikTok, Instagram, YouTube Shorts, and X.

AI-powered IP protection platform that automates monitoring, takedown, and retroactive compensation for brand infringement across 7,800+ platforms. Cuts enforcement time by up to 90%.

Enterprise-grade AI voice assistants handling complex customer interactions across hospitality, healthcare, and financial services, spun out of Cambridge University.

Poolside builds open-weight foundation models purpose-built for software engineering, including its Laguna series of agentic coding models for reasoning, code generation and execution. Founded in 2023 by former GitHub CTO Jason Warner and Eiso Kant, it sells AI coding systems to enterprises and government customers, with partnerships including AWS and U.S. Department of Defense entities. The team is ~150 people worldwide and hires almost entirely remotely across the US and EMEA.

Decentralized open-source AGI platform backed by Founders Fund and Pantera Capital, building an open AGI network where multiple AI agents collaborate in real time to prevent single-entity AGI control.

Smallest.ai is a full-stack voice AI platform that owns the entire conversational loop, from raw waveform to response, so enterprises can build and scale real-time human-like voice agents. Its in-house model stack includes Lightning (ultra-low-latency TTS, ~100ms, 15+ languages), Pulse (STT across 38+ languages), Electron (a sub-4B-parameter conversational SLM with ~50ms time-to-first-token), and Hydra (native speech-to-speech). Founded by ex-Robert Bosch engineers Sudarshan Kamath and Akshat Mandloi, it targets contact-center and enterprise voice automation.

Semantic KV caching layer built for LLM inference, enabling AI applications to reduce inference costs and latency by reusing cached computation across similar prompts.

VoiceOps is an AI-powered conversation intelligence platform that analyzes sales and customer service calls to surface insights and coaching opportunities. It helps revenue teams improve performance through automated call analysis and real-time feedback.

ZeroDrift is an AI compliance firewall that enforces regulatory and company-policy rules on AI-generated messages before delivery, blocking, rewriting, or approving them in real time across chatbots, voice, and AI agents. Deterministic checks flag violations against standards like SOC 2 and GDPR, then an LLM rewrites a compliant version of the message. It targets tier-one banks, asset managers, and insurers deploying AI in regulated communications.

Alterego is building a near-telepathic neural interface that translates silent speech and biosignals into computing input for more intuitive human-computer interaction.

Ceramic.ai builds enterprise AI training infrastructure that improves the speed, efficiency, and scalability of large-model development.

Cleric builds an AI site reliability engineer that investigates incidents, reasons across production signals, and helps engineering teams resolve operational issues faster.

Composite is an AI autopilot for your browser that intelligently detects and automates repetitive digital tasks in real time, running locally inside the browser users already use. Unlike standalone AI browsers, Composite transforms Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Edge into intelligent assistants, already used by professionals at Google, Uber, Tesla, and Salesforce.

Cynch AI develops agentic software for tax and accounting operations, automating document-heavy bookkeeping and client workflows for small business finance teams.

Discovery Loop is a Palo Alto public benefit corporation founded in August 2026 by ex-Google AI leaders Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le. It is building autonomous AI systems to automate the scientific method — proposing, running, and evaluating experiments at scale across machine learning, science, and engineering.

Fastino builds task-specific language models and small-model infrastructure for production AI workloads, focused on speed, accuracy, and agentic AI use cases.

Fika Jobs is a Stockholm-based video-first hiring platform that runs personalized AI-agent video interviews (currently powered by Google's Gemini) and compiles candidate responses into short video profiles, letting employers assess communication and personality beyond resumes. The platform is free for job seekers and charges employers 10% of a successful hire's first-year salary. It raised a $4M pre-seed in June 2026 led by Luminar Ventures.

Glyphic is an AI copilot and revenue orchestration platform for sales teams that transforms sales conversations into CRM data, coaching insights, and automated next steps. The platform automates CRM updates, follow-ups, and deal risk alerts.

Gravity operates an AI-native advertising network that places contextual and sponsored content inside AI chatbots, assistants, and agents, including ChatGPT and a range of smaller AI products. It also runs an agent-to-agent advertising product that feeds product catalogs directly to AI shopping agents rather than human users, with advertiser clients including Best Buy, Target, Vercel, and MongoDB.

AI-enabled contract automation platform that lets legal and business teams create, negotiate, approve, sign, and manage contracts in one collaborative workspace.

Larridin builds AI productivity intelligence software for enterprises adopting generative AI. Its platform measures AI adoption, fluency, impact, and developer productivity across teams. The company targets mid-to-large enterprises in technology, financial services, healthcare, and manufacturing seeking to quantify operational ROI from AI transformation.

Layercode provides voice AI infrastructure for developers, enabling production-ready, low-latency voice AI agents using TypeScript. The platform handles real-time audio processing across 330+ global edge locations with sub-50ms latency, supporting multiple LLM and voice providers.

Lazarus AI (Lazarus Enterprises, Inc.) is a Boston/Cambridge, MA-based enterprise AI company focused on document understanding and intelligent data processing. Its platform — OCR/Forms extraction, the RikAI reasoning engine, and a Vector Knowledge Graph — extracts and reasons over documents, images, and other unstructured data without training, serving insurance, public-sector, and healthcare customers. It received undisclosed strategic investments from WaveFx (Aug 2024) and QBE Ventures (Oct 2024).

Manifest is an AI-powered learning and support platform built for small business entrepreneurs. It combines enterprise-grade AI with industry expertise and learning science to deliver personalized, conversational guidance to SMB owners.

Mem0 is a universal, self-improving memory layer for LLM applications that enables them to remember and learn from user interactions over time, powering personalized AI experiences with over 41,000 GitHub stars and 14 million Python package downloads.

Onlook is an open-source visual IDE for React and Next.js applications, described as 'Cursor for Designers.' It lets teams design directly in their real codebase by visually editing components while AI syncs changes back to source code in real time. Founded in 2024 and backed by Y Combinator (W25) and Leonis Capital.

Onton is an AI-powered product search and discovery engine that uses neuro-symbolic, multimodal search to help shoppers find the right product. Originally focused on furniture (formerly Deft), the platform is expanding to apparel and consumer electronics. It aims to dramatically shorten shopping decision time compared to traditional e-commerce browsing.

Pierre is an opinionated git platform that rebuilds code hosting, code review, and CI from the ground up for small engineering teams augmented by AI. Founded by Bootstrap co-creator Jacob Thornton and early Twitter engineer Ian Ownbey.

poetiq is an AI research and engineering company building reasoning systems and self-improving intelligence infrastructure, founded by former Google DeepMind researchers.

Unified AI platform for financial institutions enabling banks and credit unions to offer banking services through AI-powered chats and voice conversations

Public (Public Holdings, Inc.) is a New York-based fintech company operating a multi-asset investing platform where users trade stocks, options, bonds, ETFs, crypto, and treasuries. It offers AI-powered tools such as Alpha and agentic investing automation, with brokerage services provided through its FINRA/SIPC member subsidiary.

Qloo is a New York–based taste AI company whose API delivers anonymized cultural preference and affinity data across music, film, TV, dining, travel, fashion, books and more. Its Taste AI engine powers personalization and recommendation features for customers in tech, entertainment, retail, hospitality and CPG, including Netflix and Michelin. The company also ships LLM-facing products that ground generative models in real-world cultural taste data.

Radical AI is building next-generation AI infrastructure with a focus on custom silicon and compute systems optimized for large-scale model training and inference. It aims to reduce the cost and energy consumption of AI workloads through purpose-built hardware and software co-design.

Ranger is an AI-powered QA testing platform that writes, runs, maintains, and triages end-to-end tests for software teams. Its service combines AI-generated Playwright coverage with human QA review so product and engineering teams can catch production risks while shipping faster.

Reer is an early-stage AI startup building the agentic layer for CAD and BIM, with AI agents that run natively inside tools like Rhino and Revit to automate batch edits, parametric design, rendering, and documentation via natural language. Founded in 2024 by Connie Hui (CEO, Harvard GSD) and graduated from Harvard Innovation Labs, the company is in free beta with 9,200+ users targeting the AEC software market.

Solva builds AI agents that automate insurance claims handling for carriers and MGAs, sitting on top of existing claims systems. Its agents detect incomplete evidence, policy breaches, and fraud, and return source-cited, verifiable claim recommendations to cut wrongful payouts and manual review time. Founded in 2025 by insurtech and fintech operators, the company went through Y Combinator's Summer 2025 batch.

Superlinked builds information retrieval infrastructure for AI applications, combining multimodal and structured signals to improve enterprise search and matching.

Wafer builds autonomous AI agents that act as performance engineers, continuously profiling and optimizing AI inference workloads across models, serving engines, kernels, and hardware (including non-Nvidia chips like AMD's). The San Francisco company offers dedicated and serverless inference for open-source models and reached roughly $8M in annualized revenue within months of launch.

1001 is a GCC- and London-based deep-tech startup building a localized, sovereign AI operating system for critical physical infrastructure — aviation, ports, shipping, and energy. Its platform builds live operational models of complex systems to predict failures, automate high-stakes decisions, and optimize physical workflows. Founded by ex-Scale AI operator Bilal Abu-Ghazaleh, it embeds forward-deployed engineers with Gulf infrastructure operators.

A Security is an autonomous offensive-security and remediation platform that defends organizations against weaponized AI attacks. Its AI agents chain vulnerabilities, validate real exploitability, build attack paths, and help remediate them before AI-enabled attackers can strike. The Tel Aviv-based startup emerged from stealth in June 2026 with $37M from Cyberstarts and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Abacus.AI is a San Francisco-based enterprise AI platform offering an "AI Super Assistant" (ChatLLM) and agentic automation tools (DeepAgent) that connect to internal systems to automate workflows. Founded in 2019 as RealityEngines.AI by Bindu Reddy, Arvind Sundararajan, and Siddartha Naidu, it serves Fortune 500 clients across retail, finance, healthcare, and manufacturing.

Acedly is a real-time AI interview assistant ('interview copilot') that overlays private, low-latency guidance to job candidates during live video interviews across major meeting platforms. Its product suite includes mock interviews, meeting transcription/translation, coding-interview support, and ATS-oriented resume review. It is a consumer-facing tool sold directly to individual job seekers via free, monthly ($69/mo), and lifetime ($988) tiers.

Acuity Health builds an AI receptionist for specialty medical practices that answers every patient call, books appointments directly into the practice's EMR, and captures after-hours demand. It handles routing by location, provider, visit type and scheduling rules, escalating exceptions to staff with full call context. The company is focused on ophthalmology and dermatology groups and is an AdvancedMD marketplace partner.

Adaline provides an LLMOps platform for product and engineering teams to iterate, evaluate, deploy, and monitor prompts and AI applications, helping teams manage experimentation, observability, and reliable production rollouts.

Decentralized AI search network for the Web3 Internet providing personalized search experiences and helping developers build custom search functionalities

Aether AI is a frontier AI research company building causal world models — systems that reason through causal mechanisms rather than statistical correlations, so machines can reason under interventions and act reliably in complex real-world environments. Founded by UC San Diego professor and causal-discovery researcher Biwei Huang, its initial commercial focus is Physical AI and robotics. The company raised a $20M seed round in June 2026 led by MPCi.

AI claims copilot for insurers-automates intake, triage, and adjuster workflows with explainable outputs.

A generative AI content platform for marketing that produces high-quality personalized videos, avatars, and visual assets.

Alma is an AI-powered nutrition companion app that makes healthy eating simple and personalized. Using AI voice and photo meal logging with natural language processing, it provides proactive insights beyond calorie counting to help users build sustainable eating habits.

Alta is an AI-powered personal stylist app that organizes your wardrobe, creates outfit recommendations, and enables virtual try-ons using a digital avatar. Backed by Menlo Ventures and LVMH-backed Aglae Ventures, Alta leverages over a dozen proprietary multimodal AI models trained in-house on fashion data.

Altur builds autonomous voice AI agents for debt collection, operating across phone calls, WhatsApp, and SMS. The platform enables banks and call-center partners to automate outbound debt-collection outreach at scale, with AI agents that negotiate, handle objections, and secure payments. Since launching in Mexico, Altur's agents have collected over $6M USD on live accounts.

Anara (formerly Unriddle) is an AI-powered research assistant that helps scientists and academics rapidly find insights across research papers, enabling faster literature reviews and scientific discovery.

Anomalo is an AI-powered enterprise data quality monitoring platform that automatically detects data issues across warehouses and lakes without manual rule configuration. The platform uses machine learning to monitor structured and unstructured datasets for enterprises like Block and Discover Financial.

Anytime AI builds an all-in-one agentic AI platform purpose-built for plaintiff law firms handling complex litigation such as medical malpractice, personal injury, and trucking accident cases. The platform automates legal workflows from intake through settlement, including medical record analysis, demand letter drafting, discovery responses, and trial preparation. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in White Plains, New York.

Apex Intelligence is a Beijing-based foundation model research lab building self-evolving AI systems for open-ended scientific discovery, aiming to position AI as a co-researcher rather than an assistive tool. Founded in June 2026 by Tsinghua professor Yongchao Chen, its team includes researchers from Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Kimi, Zhipu AI, Ant Group, Tsinghua, Harvard, MIT, and the University of Michigan.

AI headshots at scale-turn selfies into studio-quality portraits for teams and individuals.

AI video ads platform-generate UGC-style creatives from scripts, product links, and assets.

Arcanist is a New York–based, Accel-backed startup building an "always-on execution layer" for companies: autonomous AI agents that learn company context, identify what needs to happen, and execute it rather than waiting for instructions. The founding team (Shivam Pandey, ex-engineering lead at Raylu; Josiah Parappally, ex-Ramp staff engineer) is betting that AI-native workflows will replace today's workflows rather than augment them. The company is pre-Series A, deliberately keeping a very small in-person NYC team and hiring generalist full-stack/applied-AI engineers.

Artificial Societies builds large-scale AI simulations of human societies to help organizations predict how real-world audiences think, feel, and respond to messaging, strategies, and campaigns. Each simulation deploys networks of 300 to 5,000 interconnected AI personas grounded in real-world behavioral data.

Astrus is an AI-powered microchip design company that develops software to automate analog chip layout design. The platform uses reinforcement learning to help circuit designers create advanced microchips, learning semiconductor physics and balancing performance with manufacturability. The company is based in Toronto and Waterloo, Canada.

Async (formerly Podcastle) is an AI-powered audio and video content creation platform that helps podcasters, educators, and marketers produce professional-grade multimedia content.

Attention delivers enterprise AI for sales teams, helping automate call analysis, CRM workflows, and revenue execution.

Augment Code is an AI coding assistant built for professional software engineers, offering deep codebase understanding through long-context retrieval and enterprise-grade security. It integrates with existing development workflows to accelerate code generation, review, and refactoring at scale.

Augrade is an AI-powered spatial computing platform that automates heavy industry design and engineering, generating manufacturing and construction-grade CAD models in minutes.

Neuro-symbolic AI company developing foundational model for conversational agents combining generative AI with rule-based AI for controllable interactions

Autonomous Cyber is an AI-native platform for offensive cybersecurity operations, offering FUZZ-E to support the full cyber kill chain from vulnerability discovery and exploit development to penetration testing and operationalization. The platform augments government and commercial security teams, compressing multi-day tasks into minutes. It was founded by former NSA and U.S. Army personnel and targets both defense and private-sector customers.

Autosana is an AI-powered QA platform that automates end-to-end testing for mobile apps, letting teams write test cases in plain English. It supports iOS and Android across frameworks like React Native, Flutter, Swift, and Kotlin, with self-healing tests that adapt to UI changes.

Autumn is open-source billing infrastructure built on top of Stripe for AI startups, handling pricing, subscriptions, usage-based billing, prepaid credits, and feature access via simple APIs. It lets developers avoid rebuilding usage limits, credits, and subscription logic while keeping payments, webhooks, and usage in sync.

Backflip AI turns text prompts into 3D models and design-ready assets for physical products.

BackOps is an AI-native operating system for global supply chain operations, automating freight booking, customs documentation, carrier claims, and supplier communication for mid-market importers and exporters. Its AI Process Center and Relay automation engine learn how logistics teams work and turn manual, cross-system tasks into always-on agentic workflows.

BenchFlow is a San Francisco-based frontier environment lab building a unified platform to evaluate AI models and agents using standardized, reproducible benchmarks derived from real-world tasks. It ships products such as SkillsBench, ClawsBench, and the BenchFlow runtime, supporting evaluation of coding agents, web agents, RAG systems, and call-center automation. Founded in 2024 by CEO Xiangyi Li, the company offers custom benchmarks built on reinforcement learning and open community contributions.

Billdr is building an AI-native operating system (vertical SaaS) for SMB general contractors, covering estimates, invoicing, project and team management, and payments. Founded in 2020 as a home-renovation marketplace, it pivoted in 2023 to construction back-office software and is expanding into financial infrastructure (bill pay, corporate cards, lending, insurance) plus AI features like voice-to-action commands and text-to-action agents. Based in Montréal, it serves hundreds of contractors across the US and Canada.

Bindwell is an AI-powered pesticide discovery company that uses machine learning models 4x faster than DeepMind's AlphaFold to screen billions of molecules and design safer, more effective crop protection products. Unlike traditional agtech software companies, Bindwell develops and licenses complete proprietary pesticide molecules to major agrochemical companies. Founded by teen entrepreneurs Tyler Rose and Navvye Anand through Y Combinator's W25 batch, the company is backed by General Catalyst and Paul Graham.

Black Forest Labs is a generative AI company that created FLUX, one of the most advanced open-source image generation models, and previously pioneered Latent Diffusion and Stable Diffusion. Founded by machine learning researchers Robin Rombach, Patrick Esser, and Andreas Blattmann, the company builds powerful creative AI models from labs in Freiburg, Germany and San Francisco. Valued at $3.25 billion after raising $300 million in Series B funding, Black Forest Labs is at the forefront of generative media technology.

Blessed is a fast-growing tech company dedicated to empowering Christian communities with cutting-edge digital technology through its app. The platform offers Bible reading, daily devotional content, guided prayers, and AI-assisted Bible Q&A features, with approximately 2.3 million monthly downloads.

Blue J is a Toronto-based generative AI platform for tax research, providing citation-backed answers on tax law along with predictive outcome analysis for courts and the IRS. It serves thousands of organizations including Big Four accounting firms and has raised over $150M in total funding, most recently a $122M Series D in August 2025 led by Oak HC/FT and Sapphire Ventures.

Blue Voice builds a CJIS-compliant AI assistant that gives law-enforcement officers access to legal, policy, and community resources. Its platform retrieves department-specific rules and protocols while linking officers back to source material. The Boston startup is backed by SignalFire and Las Olas Venture Capital.

Boardy is an AI networking product that uses conversational workflows to introduce founders, operators, investors, and other professionals who should know each other.

Born is an AI character company based in Berlin and New York City (formerly known as Slay). It builds AI companions designed for emotional connection and social play; its flagship app Pengu is a virtual pet that friends co-raise together, with over 15 million registered users. Since 2022 the company has launched five consumer social apps that reached #1 globally on the App Store.

Bounti builds an AI sales agent platform for prospecting, account research, and outreach workflows. The platform automates identifying sales prospects and generating personalized outreach, helping sales, marketing, and customer success teams engage more efficiently while keeping humans in the loop.

BRAHMA AI is an AI-native operating system for enterprise audiovisual content, combining BRAHMA AI Core (content intelligence and management) with BRAHMA AI Studio (AI-powered creation of video, audio, digital humans, and voice). The platform serves media & entertainment, sports, healthcare, and advertising enterprises.

Brainfish builds ambient AI support agents and product knowledge systems that help companies resolve customer issues proactively inside their software. The platform focuses on automated answers, product guidance, and lower support burden for support teams.

Brainly is an AI-powered learning and Q&A community platform helping students with homework and study questions. With offices in Poland, Spain, and the US, it serves over 350 million users worldwide and offers AI-enhanced tutoring features.

Brandlight is an AI visibility platform that helps enterprise brands monitor, manage, and optimize how they appear across AI-driven search, answers, and agentic commerce. Founded in Tel Aviv in 2024, it serves Fortune 500 CMOs including LG, Kimberly-Clark, and Estée Lauder.

BuildPrompt is an AI-powered document analysis platform for the construction industry. It enables professionals to extract key information from project documents through natural language prompts, with features for custom AI workflows and model tuning.

Buster is an open-source AI-native analytics platform that gives teams AI data analysts and engineers for their data stack.

Visual design platform empowering users to create professional graphics, presentations, and marketing materials with drag-and-drop interface and AI-powered features

careCycle builds voice AI agent teams for Medicare and ACA insurance agencies, automating post-enrollment member engagement to reduce churn. Its AI receptionist Cora handles after-hours calls, callbacks, and lead qualification with built-in HIPAA/CMS compliance before warm-transferring to licensed agents.

Cartwheel builds AI animation tools that turn text, motion, and video inputs into production-ready character animation for games, film, advertising, and social content.

Certus AI builds voice AI agents that replace the restaurant phone line, answering calls 24/7 to take orders, book reservations, handle complaints, and process deliveries in multiple languages. The platform integrates directly with major POS systems including Toast, Square, and Clover, as well as delivery platforms. It is backed by Y Combinator (S25).

CFO.ai (formerly Runway Financial) builds Ari, an AI agent that acts as a founder's CFO by connecting to business systems like NetSuite, Rippling, and Salesforce to build live financial models, answer questions, flag anomalies, and generate board decks. Founded by Siqi Chen in 2020, the company pivoted from AI-native accounting/FP&A software to an agentic CFO product in 2026.

A leading conversational AI platform enabling users to create, interact with, and share AI chatbots for social and entertainment purposes with over 10M users.

Channel3 is building a universal, API-driven product graph—a database of every product on the internet—so AI agents can reliably search, recommend, and purchase products. Its catalog already spans 50 million products and includes built-in commission-based monetization for developers building agentic commerce experiences.

An AI tool that allows users to chat with any PDF document, making it easy to extract information and summarize content.

Civils.ai is a no-code AI tool for construction projects that automates tendering, desk studies, and compliance checks. The platform helps civil engineers minimize construction risks and uncertainty through AI-powered data extraction and project analysis.

Community platform for fine-tuning and sharing open-source AI models like Stable Diffusion, enabling users to customize models and access a marketplace of generative AI content with over 23 million monthly visitors.

ClarityCare AI builds AI agents for utilization management and prior authorization automation in healthcare. The platform processes authorization cases within minutes, applies clinical guidelines with human-level accuracy, and integrates directly into existing utilization management environments. It targets health insurers and healthcare operators to streamline clinical review workflows and reduce UM operational costs.

CloudX is an AI-native mobile advertising and supply-side platform (SSP) founded by the creators of MoPub and MAX. It rebuilds mobile publisher monetization on a secure, AI-native auction infrastructure powered by Trusted Execution Environments (TEE), with autonomous agents handling SDK integration, price floors, and line-item management. The company is based in San Francisco.

Clove is a London-based fintech reimagining financial advice by combining real human advisers with AI to break the traditional economics of the advice industry. Founded by the creators of payments unicorn Paddle.

Coactive AI is an enterprise platform that enables AI-powered search and analytics across unstructured image and video data without requiring metadata or manual tagging. Its multimodal AI models help data teams unlock insights, moderation, and monetization opportunities from visual content at scale.

Coincidence Labs builds an agentic AI platform for pharmaceutical R&D, enabling scientists to search, synthesize, and explain molecular insights with literature-backed evidence. Its product serves as an AI copilot for extracting insights from patents, scientific literature, and related documents to accelerate research decisions.

Collate is the company behind OpenMetadata, the open-source metadata platform, and offers a managed AI-powered data platform for data discovery, lineage, quality, observability, and governance. Founded in 2021 by Hadoop/Hortonworks and Uber data infrastructure veterans Suresh Srinivas and Sriharsha Chintalapani, it is based in Menlo Park, CA.

Common Knowledge is a research lab and product company reimagining the document in the age of AI, building document-native interfaces and workflows for intelligence-rich, collaborative knowledge work.

Compresr is a YC-backed startup building LLM-native context compression technology, offering question-aware compression that reduces token usage by up to 90-100x while preserving answer accuracy. It provides an SDK and open-source proxy for LLM pipelines and agentic workflows, serving enterprise clients in finance, healthcare, and other regulated industries.

Consensus (legally Consensus NLP, Inc.) is an AI-powered search engine for scientific research that extracts and synthesizes findings from over 200 million peer-reviewed papers. It is expanding beyond search into an "AI operating system for research" covering writing, annotation and reference workflows. The company serves 10M+ students, researchers and clinicians and maintains an in-person office in San Francisco alongside remote roles.

Context builds an AI-native office suite that turns fragmented company information into shared operating context for teams and agents. Its platform connects workplace tools to automate documents, analysis, and knowledge workflows. The Palo Alto startup is backed by Lux Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, General Catalyst, and other investors.

Contextual AI provides an enterprise platform for building specialized RAG 2.0 agents that enable domain-specific AI applications with advanced retrieval-augmented generation technology.

Continua develops a Social AI agent that integrates into group chats on SMS, iMessage, and Discord to enhance collaboration and productivity. Founded by former Google Distinguished Engineer David Petrou, the AI assistant can automatically set reminders, launch polls, and add calendar invitations during group conversations.

Converge Bio develops generative AI platform trained on molecular data to help pharma and biotech companies discover and develop more effective drugs faster, utilizing Large Language Models specifically trained on biological languages.

Convey is an enterprise AI workforce platform that lets non-technical operators train, deploy, and manage "digital teammates" — AI agents taught by demonstration that run complex business workflows end-to-end, from email triage to invoice processing and financial reconciliation. Founded in 2025 by former early DoorDash engineer Rohan Chopra and headquartered in San Francisco, the company is SOC 2 Type II certified and HIPAA compliant. It has executed over one million hours of automated work for customers including NBCUniversal, Samsara, TelevisaUnivision, Unity, Faire, and ChargePoint.

Conway Research is an applied AI lab founded by Sigil Wen (creator of the Web 4.0 manifesto and a Thiel Fellow) building efficient frontier models and inference engines for on-device personal AI. Its flagship product, Underdog, runs private AI models (including the 4B-parameter 'Woof' and 'Underdog 27B') entirely on consumer hardware like Macs and iPhones without sending data to external servers. In October 2026 the company announced backing from Andreessen Horowitz, Khosla Ventures, Hummingbird Ventures, and Anthology (Anthropic/Menlo Ventures), among other investors.

Cora AI builds a platform of AI agents that automate the full customer success lifecycle for B2B SaaS companies, including onboarding, adoption monitoring, renewals, and expansion. The agents act autonomously across CRM, email, Slack, and other customer tools to drive retention and growth. The company launched from stealth in early 2026 and counts customers such as BetterUp, Coursera, Dialpad, and Fountain.

Core Automation is a San Francisco AI research lab founded in late March 2026 by Jerry Tworek, former VP of Research at OpenAI, where he led work on reinforcement learning and the o1/o3 reasoning models. It is pursuing new learning algorithms and non-Transformer architectures aimed at continual learning — models that keep improving from real-world experience after deployment rather than from static pretraining checkpoints. Its stated goal is to build the world's most automated AI lab, with a founding team recruited from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic.

Corma builds foundation models purpose-built for defensive cybersecurity, deploying AI agents that act as a virtual security workforce integrated with an organization's existing tools. Dual-headquartered in Tel Aviv and San Francisco, it serves Fortune 100/500 customers across healthcare, financial services, energy, and critical infrastructure.

Creao AI (CREAO) is an agentic AI platform where users describe a task in conversation and a cloud-based "super agent" executes it end-to-end, writing code, calling APIs, and operating a browser in a sandboxed environment. Successful runs are saved as reusable, schedulable Agent Apps with persistent memory, letting small teams automate recurring business workflows like sales, marketing, and recruiting.

Creati Gen AI Inc. is a San Francisco-based AI creative tools company founded by Ella Zhang, best known for Creati Studio, a generative AI design and video platform with over 20 million users. In April 2026, the company raised $20M led by Redpoint Ventures to launch Buzzy, a conversational AI video editor that lets creators fix and refine video content through text commands.