Infrastructure AI Startup Jobs

Defense technology company building autonomous systems and AI-powered defense capabilities to transform military and border security operations.

Unified analytics platform for data and AI, helping companies process and analyze big data in the cloud.

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.

Airwallex is a venture-backed fintech building cross-border payments and global financial infrastructure for businesses operating internationally. It offers multi-currency business accounts, global payments, cards, and embeddable money-movement APIs, and is expanding into AI-native and agentic finance products. The company runs dual global headquarters (Singapore and San Francisco) with a significant US presence and hiring footprint.

Defense AI company building autonomous aircraft and AI pilot technology for military applications.

Crusoe builds renewable-powered AI infrastructure, including cloud, data center, and manufacturing capabilities designed for large-scale AI workloads.

Cloud infrastructure platform providing affordable GPU compute for AI workloads and model training.

CesiumAstro builds communications systems and phased-array hardware/software for space, air, and ground missions, supporting satellite and defense connectivity use cases.

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.

Fivetran builds automated ELT data pipelines with 700+ pre-built connectors that move data from SaaS apps, databases and files into cloud warehouses and lakehouses. In October 2025 it completed an all-stock merger with dbt Labs, adding data transformation and modeling to its movement layer for a combined entity approaching $600M ARR. Headquartered in Oakland, CA, it remains private and is the surviving brand with co-founder George Fraser as CEO.

Data infrastructure company providing high-quality training data for AI applications, recently partnered with Meta.

VAST Data is an AI data platform company that provides a unified storage, database, and data management operating system designed to capture, enrich, and serve massive datasets for AI and enterprise workloads at scale.

Vast is a US-based commercial space company building human-rated artificial-gravity orbital space stations, starting with its single-module Haven-1 station targeted as the world's first commercial space station. Founded by Jed McCaleb and headquartered in Long Beach, California ('Space Beach'), the company designs and manufactures its spacecraft hardware in-house. It is racing to provide a commercial successor to the International Space Station.

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.

Base Power is building America's next-gen power company by deploying whole-home battery backup systems that protect families from outages and strengthen the grid. Deployed over 100MWh of residential battery capacity.

Flexport is a technology-enabled freight forwarding and supply chain logistics platform that combines software, data, and operational services to help businesses manage global trade and freight movement. The company offers ocean and air freight, customs brokerage, trucking coordination, and fulfillment solutions for over 13,000 companies across more than 147 countries.

Hadrian builds AI-enabled autonomous factories that manufacture precision components and systems for aerospace, defense, shipbuilding, and other industrial customers, combining software, robotics, machining, inspection, and factory operations.

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.

Company behind the open-source Grafana observability stack providing monitoring, logging, and tracing solutions, reaching $400M ARR as a fully remote company across 40+ countries.

General Matter is rebuilding domestic uranium enrichment capacity in the U.S., developing low-enriched and high-assay low-enriched uranium to support advanced nuclear power and American energy security.

Figure develops general-purpose humanoid robots and embodied AI systems for industrial and logistics environments, combining robotics hardware with AI control systems.

Nuro develops autonomous driving technology and licenses its Nuro Driver platform to automotive and mobility partners for commercial deployment.

Vanta provides an AI-powered Trust Management Platform that automates compliance, security, and risk management for businesses. The company helps organizations earn and prove trust through automated security monitoring and compliance frameworks.

Atoms is Travis Kalanick's physical-AI and industrial robotics holding company, rebranded in March 2026 from City Storage Systems. It operates business units across food (CloudKitchens, Otter, Lab37, Picnic), autonomous mining (built on acquired robotics firm Pronto), and transport, building a shared robotics 'wheelbase' for specialized industrial machines rather than humanoids. The company runs operations in 110+ cities and raised $1.7B led by a16z in July 2026, with Ben Horowitz joining the board.

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.

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.

Apex is a defense-grade satellite bus manufacturer producing configurable, productized spacecraft platforms (Aries, Nova, Comet) for LEO, MEO, and GEO orbits. The Los Angeles-based company serves commercial and sovereign government customers at scale with peak annual capacity exceeding 200 units per year. Apex launched Project Shadow, the first commercially-led on-orbit space-based interceptor demonstration.

Autonomous penetration testing platform that continuously discovers and exploits attack paths.

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.

Radiant is pioneering mass-produced portable nuclear microreactors, with its flagship Kaleidos reactor delivering 1 MW of clean, zero-emission power in a shipping container-sized form factor. Valued at $1.8 billion, the company is building its factory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

Cloud platform for frontend teams building with Next.js and modern web frameworks, offering global edge infrastructure.

1X Technologies builds general-purpose humanoid robots designed for home and industrial use. Their flagship products include EVE for industrial facilities and NEO for the home. Backed by OpenAI.

Varda Space Industries builds orbital manufacturing and reentry platforms that produce materials in the unique microgravity environment of space. The company's W-Series reentry capsules are used to manufacture pharmaceuticals and other products that benefit from weightlessness. Founded in 2021, Varda is establishing the first scaled industrial operations off Earth.

Northwood Space designs and manufactures electronically steered phased-array ground stations that enable scalable, rapidly deployable satellite communication and tracking infrastructure. The company serves commercial and government customers including a $50M U.S. Space Force contract to modernize the Satellite Control Network.

Delivers secure container images and tooling to protect open-source supply chains by default.

Real-time public safety data platform for law enforcement and first responders.

AI infrastructure company providing cloud GPUs, GPU clusters, private cloud, and hardware systems for AI training and inference workloads.

The Nuclear Company operates as America's deployment platform for nuclear power, constructing a series of nuclear power plants using a design-once, build-many approach with proven and licensed technology to deliver safe and reliable electricity at the lowest cost.

Nuclear energy innovation company developing advanced reactor prototypes using silicon carbide technology for next-generation nuclear power

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.

Platform for deploying and scaling machine learning models in production.

Inversion Space is turning space into a transportation layer for Earth by building autonomous re-entry vehicles that enable precision delivery of cargo to anywhere on the planet in under an hour, creating an on-demand logistics network in Low-Earth Orbit.

Kong Inc. provides an open-source API gateway, service mesh, and API management platform that lets developers connect, secure, and observe APIs and microservices across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Its Konnect SaaS platform extends this into unified API lifecycle management and, more recently, connectivity for AI applications. Founded in 2009, Kong is a widely adopted developer-infrastructure company.

Aircall is a cloud-based call center and CCaaS platform that enables businesses to set up and manage phone support operations integrated with CRM, helpdesk, and productivity tools. Founded in 2014 in Paris, the company reached unicorn status in 2021 with a $1B+ valuation and reported $204M ARR. It serves over 85,000 customers globally.

Agentic software creation platform enabling anyone to build applications using natural language with collaborative browser-based IDE

Cloud email security platform using AI to detect and prevent sophisticated email attacks.

Waabi develops AI-first autonomous trucking software and simulation systems to accelerate validation and deployment of self-driving transport technology.

Neutral-atom quantum computing systems and software.

Jeeves is a global financial infrastructure platform providing corporate cards, expense management, cross-border payments, and bill pay for businesses operating across 25+ countries. Founded in 2019 and valued at $2.1B, Jeeves enables companies to spin up their finance function within minutes.

Vertically integrated home electrification company deploying affordable all-electric heat pump systems across North America, reducing upgrade costs up to 50% with over 1,000 installations to date

1Password provides password, secrets, and access management software for teams and enterprises, securing credentials, app access, and AI tool usage in one platform.

Postman is an API development and collaboration platform that enables developers to design, build, test, and document APIs. With over 30 million developers and 500,000 companies using the platform, it is the world's leading API platform. The company was founded in 2014 and reached $313M ARR at a $5.6B valuation.

Building general-purpose robotic intelligence and foundation models for adaptable robots across environments and tasks.

API-first stock/ETF/crypto brokerage infrastructure for developers.

Antares is developing mass-producible, inherently safe nuclear microreactors for terrestrial, underwater, and space-based applications, producing between 100 kilowatts and 1 megawatt of electricity. The company has a 145,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Torrance, California and is on track to achieve first reactor criticality by mid-2026. Founded by alumni of SpaceX, MIT, and Los Alamos National Lab, Antares is backed by over $130 million in venture capital and government funding.

Data pipeline platform that gives you control over your observability data.

Stoke Space Technologies develops the fully and rapidly reusable Nova rocket designed to operate with aircraft-like frequency. Founded by former Blue Origin and SpaceX employees, raised over $1.3B.

VulcanForms is an advanced digital manufacturing company using metal additive manufacturing, precision machining, and automation to build industrial-scale production capabilities.

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.

Supabase is an open-source Firebase alternative providing a full backend-as-a-service platform built on PostgreSQL, including database, auth, realtime subscriptions, edge functions, storage, and vector embeddings for developers.

Edge computing company providing modular data centers and connectivity platforms to deliver cloud and AI capabilities to remote environments.

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.

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.

Genesis AI is building a universal foundation model for robotics, training on large-scale synthetic physical-world data for research and production systems.

Unified observability platform for hardware sensor data

Vultr offers global cloud compute services, providing high-performance, cost-effective virtual servers and GPUs for developers and businesses.

TensorWave provides AMD-powered AI infrastructure and cloud GPU clusters for large-scale training and inference workloads.

Dash0 is building the first AI-native observability platform powered by Agent0, an SRE AI agent that helps developers and operators quickly identify and fix application and infrastructure issues, processing millions of data points with OpenTelemetry-native architecture.

Gigs provides telecom infrastructure and APIs that let companies launch branded mobile services, phone plans, and connectivity products without becoming carriers.

Mollie is a European payment service provider offering a simple, developer-friendly API for online payments, subscriptions, and financial services. It supports a wide range of payment methods across Europe, serving tens of thousands of businesses from startups to enterprises.

WEKA builds a cloud and AI data platform that accelerates model training and inference workloads with high-performance, software-defined storage.

n8n is a fair-code workflow automation platform that enables technical teams to build complex automations with the flexibility of code and the speed of no-code, supporting 400+ integrations and self-hosted or cloud deployment.

Sentry is an application monitoring platform that helps developers diagnose, fix, and optimize the performance of their code. It provides error tracking, performance monitoring, and session replay across 100+ languages and frameworks.

Mytra develops automated robotic storage and warehouse automation solutions using bots, software, and modular cells. The platform features AI-optimized dynamic pathways, slotless inventory management, and a three-dimensional grid system for storing and moving materials in warehouses. Founded by ex-Tesla and Rivian leaders.

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.

Partly provides infrastructure and APIs for the auto parts industry, standardizing communication protocols and enabling automation across the supply chain for repairers, OEMs, and green suppliers.

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

Encord is a data development platform for AI that helps teams curate, manage, and label training data at scale. The company serves 300+ AI teams including Toyota and Skydio, processing over 5PB of data.

Meter provides enterprise network infrastructure as a managed service, bundling hardware, software, and operations for office connectivity and security.

NODA AI is an AI-native defense company building autonomy orchestration software that enables command and control of mixed autonomous and manned assets across multi-domain military operations. Its platform serves as a vendor-agnostic reasoning layer coordinating heterogeneous autonomous systems for the Department of Defense and allied defense customers.

PhysicsX is an AI company accelerating industrial innovation by combining AI-driven multiphysics inference with numerical simulation to improve the design, manufacturing, and operation of complex products. Founded in 2019 by former Formula 1 engineers, the platform serves enterprises across aerospace, defense, automotive, semiconductors, and energy sectors. PhysicsX raised over $155M including investments from NVIDIA, Atomico, and Temasek.

Smart panel provider for home energy management enabling intelligent control and optimization of household energy consumption

Digital engineering platform focused on digital twins and secure collaboration for modeling and simulation of complex systems.

Render provides cloud infrastructure for developers to deploy, run, and scale applications, databases, static sites, and AI workloads.

Tailscale builds identity-first networking software on WireGuard so teams can securely connect users, devices, services, and AI systems across private infrastructure without VPN complexity.

Bedrock Robotics brings autonomy to construction equipment, deploying AI systems that operate heavy machinery on real job sites to accelerate infrastructure work.

Building America's next generation of power infrastructure with hybrid inertial-battery systems combining mechanical flywheels with battery duration, providing grid stabilization without combustion or chemicals.

Array Labs builds high-power, low-cost space radar systems and a formation-flying radar constellation for large-scale 3D Earth imaging and persistent monitoring.

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.

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.

Torq builds a hyperautomation platform for security operations teams, connecting detections, investigations, and response workflows so analysts can automate repetitive SOC work across tools.

7AI builds an agentic cybersecurity platform that uses swarming AI agents to automate SOC investigations and response workflows.

Provides unified SDK and tools for connecting AI agents to SaaS APIs and secure credentials.

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.

LiveKit is an open-source infrastructure platform for building realtime voice, video, and AI agent applications. Their platform powers products like OpenAI's ChatGPT Voice Mode, serving over 200,000 developers with billions of calls per year.

Overland AI develops autonomous ground vehicle software and systems for off-road and contested environments, with defense-focused robotics deployments.

Pacific Fusion is building a high-gain pulsed magnetic fusion system designed to achieve net facility gain, delivering more fusion energy output than all stored energy input. The company develops affordable, modular fusion technology using common materials to provide abundant, clean energy for a prosperous planet.

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.

Application security and software supply chain security platform for modern DevSecOps.

Function Health offers a membership-based health platform that gives consumers access to 100+ lab tests, clinician-reviewed insights, and longitudinal health tracking to detect risk earlier and manage wellness proactively.

Mythic builds power-efficient analog compute technology for AI inference, targeting edge-to-enterprise deployments where energy efficiency and throughput are critical.

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

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

Primer builds payment orchestration infrastructure for online merchants, giving teams a no-code workflow layer to connect processors, optimize routing, and manage the full payment stack through one integration.

Designs and fabricates superconducting quantum processors at industrial scale using its open VIO architecture, serving 50+ customers across 20 countries.

Quantum and AI company developing solutions for drug discovery, cybersecurity, and navigation.

WorkOS is a developer platform that provides APIs for quickly adding enterprise-grade features like Single Sign-On (SSO), Directory Sync (SCIM), Audit Logs, and User Management to applications. Often described as 'Stripe for enterprise features,' WorkOS powers authentication and identity for the fastest-growing AI companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cursor.

A robotics company providing robotic solutions for wind turbine blade maintenance and inspection, using specialized robots for cleaning, coating, and repair.

Kepler Communications is a Toronto-based satellite connectivity operator building a global low-Earth orbit constellation for broadband and IoT connectivity. The company deploys optical inter-satellite links and is expanding into orbital AI compute via Nvidia Orin chips. Founded in 2015, Kepler has raised over $177M to connect space-borne and ground assets worldwide.

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.

Vertically integrated electrical wire harness manufacturing platform for complex industrial supply chains.

Embedded credit card platform enabling businesses to launch and manage integrated credit card experiences. Partners include Coinbase, Bilt, Qatar Airways, and Alibaba.

Clear Street is a cloud-native clearing, custody, and brokerage platform built to modernize capital markets infrastructure. It serves institutional clients including hedge funds, family offices, and ETF issuers across equities, options, futures, and fixed income.

Developing analog in-memory compute chips and software for energy-efficient AI at the edge.

Eon is the first cloud backup posture management (CBPM) platform, automating and unifying complex cloud backups into a queryable data lake for fast recovery, compliance, and AI analytics. Founded by the team behind AWS Disaster Recovery, Eon converts idle backup data into an accessible secondary storage layer for enterprise AI workloads.

Vega offers a lightweight, AI-native security analytics fabric that provides instant access to all data sources without requiring migration, designed to replace traditional SIEM solutions with state-of-the-art security analytics for modern enterprises.

Corelight provides network detection and response (NDR) software built on the open-source Zeek framework, giving security teams deep network visibility and evidence for threat hunting and incident response. Its platform pairs network traffic analysis with AI-driven detections and integrates with SIEM, XDR, and SOC workflows. Corelight sells to large enterprises and U.S. federal and government agencies.

Gruve delivers AI-native infrastructure, inference systems, and enterprise AI agents for inference-heavy workloads with an emphasis on speed, security, and measurable outcomes.

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.

Protege operates a governed marketplace platform for ethical sourcing of multimodal, real-world AI training data with compliant data exchange capabilities.

Retool builds an enterprise application platform for creating internal tools, workflows, and AI agents on top of existing databases, APIs, and business systems.

TerraFirma is an Austin-based, vertically integrated construction robotics company founded in 2024 by former SpaceX engineers Noah Schochet (CEO) and Noah McGuinness (CTO). It retrofits heavy equipment — excavators, dozers, loaders, rollers, skid steers — for AI-assisted remote and semi-autonomous operation, paired with AI construction planning software. Rather than only selling robots to contractors, TerraFirma takes on earthwork, demolition, site prep, and infrastructure projects itself for data centers, roads, substations, and energy sites.

Upscale AI provides high-performance networking solutions for AI infrastructure. The company delivers open-standard connectivity for specialized computing, making AI more accessible through ready-to-use networking platforms designed for next-generation AI workloads.

Nexthop AI builds networking systems for AI-scale data centers, focusing on high-performance switching infrastructure for hyperscale and cloud environments.

Alice & Bob is a Paris-based quantum computing startup building the first universal, fault-tolerant quantum computer using cat qubits with built-in error correction. The company has developed a roadmap to 100 logical qubits by 2030.

Anaconda provides the world's most popular open-source Python and R distribution for data science and AI development. Serving over 45 million users, its platform enables enterprises to manage packages, environments, and AI workflows at scale with security and governance controls.

Privacy-first mobile carrier redesigning telecommunications from the ground up. Cape owns and operates its own mobile core and SIMs, providing ultra-private and secure connectivity for enterprises, government, and consumers.

CoLab Software builds an AI-powered Design Engagement System (EngineeringOS) that helps mechanical and hardware engineering teams collaborate on CAD designs, conduct design reviews, and apply AI-driven checks (AutoReview) to accelerate product development. Customers include Johnson Controls and Ford. The platform turns every review into a structured, searchable knowledge base for engineering teams.

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.

Normal builds AI systems and thermodynamic computing hardware to accelerate semiconductor design and improve energy efficiency in compute. The company works with large chip and manufacturing partners while developing its own next-generation computing architecture.

Omni is a modern business intelligence and analytics platform that combines a unified semantic data model with SQL flexibility, enabling AI-powered trustworthy answers in seconds. The platform supports embedded analytics, custom dashboards, and governed data exploration.

OpenRouter provides developers with seamless access to 500+ AI models through a single unified API, eliminating the need to rewrite code or renegotiate contracts for LLM integration.

Tive delivers real-time shipment visibility with sensor hardware and cloud software, helping teams monitor location and condition to reduce logistics risk and loss.

Defense technology company building AI-powered software for national security missions.

Anchorage Digital is an institutional crypto platform offering custody, trading, staking, and regulated banking services for digital assets.

Fingerprint provides device intelligence APIs that help teams recognize returning visitors, prevent fraud, secure accounts, and reduce abuse across web and mobile products.

Firecrawl is a web data infrastructure platform that converts websites into clean, structured data optimized for AI applications through a simple API, turning entire websites into LLM-ready markdown or structured data.

Flock Safety builds AI-powered cameras and software that help law enforcement and communities solve and prevent crime. The platform uses machine learning and computer vision to provide investigative intelligence for cities, neighborhoods, and businesses.

Mesh builds crypto payments infrastructure that lets merchants and fintech platforms accept digital assets while settling instantly in stablecoins.

MoonPay is a cryptocurrency payment infrastructure platform that enables users and businesses to buy, sell, and swap crypto assets through credit cards, bank transfers, and other methods.

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

Robotics company using wall-climbing robots and AI for industrial inspections and predictive maintenance.

Roboflow provides end-to-end computer vision tools that enable developers and enterprises to build, deploy, and manage vision AI models. The platform supports the full lifecycle from data labeling and model training to inference deployment, serving over 250,000 developers and powering applications across industries including manufacturing, retail, and agriculture.

Tomorrow.io delivers weather intelligence software and proprietary weather data products for aviation, defense, logistics, and enterprise operations.

Airalo offers a global eSIM-based connectivity platform for travelers, providing affordable international mobile data packages.

Builds Large Physics Models that use AI to simulate atmospheric behavior for faster weather forecasting, producing predictions in minutes rather than hours via traditional supercomputers.

Efficient Computer builds the world's most energy-efficient general-purpose processor, the Electron E1, offering up to 100x greater efficiency than traditional CPUs. Spun out of Carnegie Mellon University, their Fabric architecture minimizes data movement, enabling applications in AI, edge computing, space, defense, and consumer devices.

Semiconductor company pioneering chiplet interconnect technologies to unleash the performance of AI chips, backed by AMD, Arm, Meta, Samsung and Intel Capital

Parafin builds embedded finance infrastructure that lets platforms offer capital and financial services to small businesses.

Builds open-source frontier AI infrastructure including SGLang, the fastest LLM inference engine, and large-scale RL training frameworks.

Rootly is an AI-native incident management and on-call platform that integrates with Slack to help engineering teams detect, manage, and resolve production incidents faster.

Story provides AI-native blockchain infrastructure for registering, licensing, and monetizing intellectual property across the internet.

Supply chain technology platform founded by former Amazon exec Dave Clark, integrating with inventory systems to provide AI-powered insights for revolutionizing global supply chain operations.

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.

incident.io is an incident management platform used by over 1,000 companies including Netflix, Airbnb, and Block to manage hundreds of thousands of incidents. The platform integrates with Slack for real-time coordination and builds AI agents that help resolve incidents autonomously.

Last Energy designs, builds, owns, and operates micro-modular nuclear power plants, most notably the PWR-20, a factory-built 20 MWe pressurized water reactor delivered as pre-fabricated modules. It sells full-service on-site baseload power to data centers, industrial facilities, and utilities, and is building a 5 MW pilot reactor at the Texas A&M-RELLIS campus. Spun out of the Energy Impact Center in 2019 by founder Bret Kugelmass, it is now headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Lunar Energy builds home energy systems and software that integrate batteries, solar, and grid services for households and utilities.

Qdrant develops an open source vector database for semantic search and retrieval workloads in production AI systems.

Tines provides an intelligent workflow and orchestration platform that lets security, IT, and operations teams automate complex actions, investigations, and AI-assisted processes without heavy custom code.

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.

Intelligent terminal for developers with AI-powered features, built with Rust to supercharge developer productivity through Agent Mode for seamless code generation, editing, and task management.

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.

Flare helps security teams detect, prioritize, and remediate external cyber threats before they escalate with automated threat exposure management and security intelligence.

Fundamental builds large tabular models and enterprise AI infrastructure for prediction and analysis on complex business data, focused on tabular reasoning and decision support.

LemFi provides international payments and financial services for immigrants, offering multi-currency accounts, remittances, credit, and payments. The platform processes over $1 billion in monthly transactions across 30+ countries.

Opal Security is the authorization reasoning platform built to secure every identity, from employees and contractors to service accounts and AI agents. Provides unified visibility and defense-in-depth infrastructure for access management.

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

Runlayer is the enterprise control plane for Model Context Protocol (MCP), providing security, observability, and management that lets organizations safely connect AI agents to their internal systems. Backed by customers including Gusto, Instacart, and Opendoor, the platform combines threat detection, detailed permissions, and enterprise development capabilities in one solution.

Taara develops free-space optical communication technology that delivers high-speed connectivity through narrow beams of light instead of fiber or radio spectrum. Spun out of X, Alphabet's Moonshot Factory, the company builds optical wireless systems and photonics technology for expanding broadband infrastructure.

Zeta is a next-generation banking technology company providing cloud-native, fully stackable card processing and core banking platforms for banks and fintechs. Its Tachyon platform powers credit, debit, and prepaid card issuance, lending, and digital banking experiences for issuers. Over 25 million cards run on Zeta-powered platforms across 7 countries, supported by 1,700+ employees.

Company behind Astro, a managed Apache Airflow DataOps platform for data & AI pipelines.

Atomic Industries is an AI-powered tool-and-die manufacturer that applies machine learning to modernize precision manufacturing.

Column is a nationally chartered bank building developer-first banking infrastructure. It offers APIs and software for payments, ledgers, compliance, and bank programs so fintech companies can build on regulated banking rails.

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.

Mecka (Mecka AI) is a New York–based startup building the data engine for Physical AI — it collects real human motion data from body sensors and iPhones to train robots and embodied AI. The company provides the data, evaluation, and deployment infrastructure that helps robots learn from real human activity and move from lab demos to reliable real-world work.

SigNoz is an open-source, OpenTelemetry-native observability platform that unifies metrics, traces, and logs in a single tool, positioned as a self-hostable alternative to Datadog. It offers both self-hosted and cloud options and is used by 700+ customers with 26,000+ GitHub stars. Founded in 2020 by Pranay Prateek and Ankit Nayan, the company was part of Y Combinator and operates primarily out of India with a US entity.

TwelveLabs builds multimodal foundation models that understand, index, and search video content for developers and enterprises.

Blacksmith accelerates GitHub Actions by running CI/CD workflows 2x faster at half the cost using high-performance gaming CPUs optimized for continuous integration.

Catalyx Space builds orbital logistics infrastructure, combining spacecraft, software, and operations to move experiments and manufactured payloads to orbit and back. The company focuses on reusable capsules and faster, more predictable in-space deployment and downmass services.

Doppel provides AI-powered digital risk protection that combines brand protection, executive protection, social engineering simulation, and awareness tooling to detect and disrupt impersonation, phishing, and other online threats.

Skyryse develops SkyOS, a universal operating system for flight, and is bringing software-defined avionics and autonomy to existing and new aircraft platforms.

Layer-1 blockchain purpose-built for stablecoins and real-world payments, born from Stripe's experience in global payments and Paradigm's expertise in crypto technology.

Agentic BI and data-insights platform that unifies structured/unstructured data and answers with verified source retrieval.

Yuzu Health is a next-generation third-party administrator (TPA) that gives organizations the infrastructure to design, launch, and operate their own health insurance plans without legacy vendors. Its platform covers benefits configuration, partner integrations (PBM, stop-loss), document generation, an in-house claims adjudication engine, payments, and white-labeled member/employer/provider portals. The company supports customers in all 50 states and has facilitated over $1B in claims payments.

Supply chain intelligence platform using AI to provide global value chain transparency for enterprises and governments.

Archy provides cloud software for dental practices, integrating clinical workflows, revenue cycle operations, and patient communications into one platform.

Charge Robotics builds autonomous robots that construct solar farms through the Sunrise system, a portable robotic construction unit that automates the assembly and installation of solar-tracking hardware, making renewable energy deployment faster and more cost-effective.

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

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.

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.

Terraforming robotics company that uses autonomous subsurface injection robots to lift and stabilize flood-prone terrain by injecting wood slurry deep underground, addressing urban flooding and land subsidence caused by sea level rise, extreme weather, and groundwater withdrawal with minimal surface disturbance.

Enterprise-grade platform running powerful AI on local devices without cloud dependency, enabling companies to work with sophisticated AI models while keeping sensitive data in place.

Arbor Energy develops supercritical CO2 turbines that deliver clean, carbon-negative power through fuel-flexible technology optimized for AI data centers and industrial applications.

A FinOps platform that automates cloud cost collection, allocation, and analysis to help engineering teams build cost-efficient software and improve unit economics.

Coinflow is a payment service provider that lets merchants, web3 games, and consumer apps accept traditional card payments and settle instantly using stablecoins. Its API handles global card acceptance across 170+ countries, fraud prevention, merchant underwriting, and crypto-to-USD payouts to bank accounts. Founded in 2022 and headquartered in Chicago, it raised a $25M Series A led by Pantera Capital in October 2025.

Marketplace and tooling for transferable clean-energy tax credits, extending into broader climate finance.

Databento is a market data platform that delivers real-time and historical data on futures, options, and equities through a single API, positioning itself as a developer-first, usage-based alternative to legacy providers like Bloomberg and LSEG. Founded in 2019 by former quant trader Christina Qi, it lets trading firms, funds, and fintechs access normalized institutional-grade market data without long-term contracts.

Open-access AI cloud providing fast, affordable GPU compute, serverless inference, and dedicated hosting through a decentralized marketplace, helping developers reduce AI infrastructure costs by 50-75%.

Matic is the world's most advanced floor cleaner, a fully autonomous robot vacuum that continuously scans the perimeter of your home with high-resolution cameras, LiDAR, radar, and thermal sensors for comprehensive cleaning.

Medra develops autonomous AI-powered robotic scientists that run and refine laboratory experiments end-to-end, interfacing with standard lab tools to accelerate drug discovery and biological research.

Network infrastructure management platform based on open-source NetBox for enterprise automation.

Sent provides a unified messaging API for SMS, WhatsApp, RCS, and other channels, handling routing, compliance, templates, delivery tracking, and fallback logic for developers building communication workflows.

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.

Flexion Robotics builds the brain for humanoid robots with an AI-driven reinforcement learning and sim-to-real autonomy platform founded by former Nvidia researchers powering humanoids across morphologies and tasks.

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.

Phantom is a leading multi-chain, self-custodial crypto wallet supporting Solana, Ethereum, Bitcoin, Base, and Polygon with over 15 million monthly active users. The platform offers token swaps, staking, NFT management, and cross-chain capabilities.

Dynamic SaaS security platform that discovers and protects all SaaS applications, AI agents, and shadow AI tools through identity governance, configuration security, and hidden threat detection, analyzing over 100 billion interactions across 220+ SaaS app integrations.

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.

Defense technology company providing software platform for military logistics and field operations optimization.

Suger is an end-to-end cloud marketplace revenue engine that helps SaaS companies manage product listings, contracts, billing, and metering across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Talos provides end-to-end institutional crypto trading platform with liquidity access, automated execution, and clearing services, reaching unicorn status with $1B+ valuation.

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

Traversal builds AI-powered site reliability engineering agents that investigate incidents, triage alerts, and automate infrastructure remediation.

Energy flexibility platform-connects distributed assets with markets to decarbonize the grid.

Chalk builds a real-time inference data platform that gives ML and AI teams low-latency feature computation, retrieval, and production orchestration for online decisioning workloads.

Merge provides a Unified API platform that lets B2B companies add hundreds of integrations to their products through a single integration. Covering HRIS, accounting, CRM, ATS, and file storage, Merge powers integrations for over 3,000 companies including Ramp, Drata, and AngelList.

Building vertically integrated, automated metal factories in Detroit that deliver raw materials faster, cheaper, and more reliably to US manufacturers. Software-driven quoting in milliseconds.

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.

Starcloud is building orbital data-center infrastructure to provide large-scale compute capacity in space, leveraging abundant solar power and passive cooling.

Stedi is the only programmable, API-first healthcare clearinghouse, replacing legacy batch-and-portal clearinghouses with a modern cloud-native platform. It processes over 1 billion healthcare transactions per year.

Sunrise Robotics builds intelligent robotic cells for manufacturing, combining AI software, computer vision, and industrial automation to take repetitive work off factory floors.

SynthBee is an AI-native technology company building enterprise AI and cloud infrastructure solutions, with hiring currently routed through Gusto-hosted postings.

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.

Convex is a backend-as-a-service platform for modern web applications, combining reactive databases, server functions, and auth-ready infrastructure.

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.

Grid-aware orchestration software that schedules AI data-center compute based on real-time power signals.

Finix is a full-stack payment processor and payments infrastructure platform that helps software platforms, marketplaces, and businesses accept payments, send payouts, manage risk, and build embedded payment experiences.

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.

Lumos builds an identity and SaaS management platform that helps IT and security teams automate access requests, lifecycle management, access reviews, and software spend controls from one system.

Method provides API infrastructure for consumer liability account connectivity, real-time debt data, and embedded repayment experiences across lending and fintech products.

Oxide Computer Company builds rack-scale cloud computing infrastructure for enterprises that need the agility of public cloud with the control and security of on-premises hardware. Their integrated hardware-software platform delivers a complete cloud experience in a single rack unit.

PlanetScale is a managed database platform built on Vitess that helps developers ship MySQL workloads with branching, non-blocking schema changes, and global scale.

AI-enabled managed IT service platform providing technology services, talent, expertise, and capital to help MSPs build generational businesses. Backed by Thrive Holdings and ZBS Partners with experience in over 200 acquisitions.

Sycamore is a Palo Alto AI infrastructure startup building a trusted agent operating system that enables enterprises to deploy, govern, and orchestrate autonomous AI agents with built-in security and human oversight. The platform supports the full agent lifecycle — discover, build, deploy, observe, and evolve — using a progressive trust framework that grants agents more autonomy as they prove reliability. Founded in fall 2025 by Sri Viswanath, former CTO of Atlassian.

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.

Until Labs develops reversible cryopreservation technology to pause biological time, starting with organ-scale preservation to extend the viability of donor organs for transplantation. The company is building medical infrastructure toward whole-body medical hibernation technology.

Vesta provides mortgage infrastructure software for lenders, covering origination, processing, and servicing on a cloud platform.

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.

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.

Daytona provides secure, elastic sandbox infrastructure for running AI-generated code and agent workflows, giving developers and AI agents isolated, programmable environments with fast startup and persistent state.

Open-source cloud infrastructure providing secure sandboxed environments for AI agents to run code and complete complex tasks, trusted by 88% of Fortune 100 companies.

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.

Data platform for creating and managing training data for machine learning applications.

Positron develops AI inference hardware and systems designed to deliver lower-cost, lower-power deployment for large language models and other modern AI workloads.

Resend provides an email API and deliverability platform built for developers to send and manage transactional and marketing email.

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.

Market-leading SaaS platform helping governments worldwide automate building permitting, inspection, licensing, planning, and community development with enterprise-grade cloud solutions.

Automated cloud cost optimization platform with AI-based analysis, reserved instance management, anomaly detection, and infrastructure rightsizing to help companies save up to 75% on AWS costs.

Networking software for AI/HPC workloads to improve reliability and throughput.

Codex is building a stablecoin-native blockchain designed specifically for cross-border payments and FX, providing on-ramps, off-ramps, and fiat-to-fiat transfers with built-in compliance and identity systems. The platform operates on an Ethereum Layer 2 using Optimism's tech stack, targeting payment service providers and enterprises in emerging markets.

Enode provides an API that connects energy devices like EV chargers, batteries, and solar systems for energy apps.

Halcyon is the leading anti-ransomware and cyber resilience platform purpose-built to defeat ransomware attacks through multiple layers of prevention, detection, and recovery. Using proprietary capsule neural network AI models, it captures encryption keys and enables autonomous system recovery in minutes.

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

Develops advanced AI, robotic, and autonomous drone systems specifically designed for wildfire suppression, using AI to locate and knock down fires before they spread.

Code intelligence platform that helps developers search, understand, and fix code.

World Labs is advancing spatial intelligence by building foundational AI models that can perceive, generate, and interact with 3D worlds. Founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, the company's flagship product Marble generates and edits persistent 3D environments from text, images, video, or 3D layouts. Backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Nvidia, AMD, and Autodesk, World Labs has raised over $1.2 billion to bring world models into creative and industrial workflows.

A24 is an independent entertainment company producing and distributing films, television, and related consumer media products.

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

Onchain governance infrastructure platform providing protocols and tools for DAOs and blockchain projects to manage voting, delegation, and community decision-making.

SaaS platform providing state and local governments with simple permitting, licensing, and inspections solutions, reducing processing times by 75% through digital transformation.

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

Ditto builds an edge synchronization platform and mobile database that keeps apps in sync even when devices are offline or intermittently connected.

Extropic is building thermodynamic computing hardware and software for radically more energy-efficient AI workloads. The company combines physics, chip design, and systems engineering to develop new compute architectures for next-generation intelligence.

Fin is a New York–based payments platform built for high-value, global, and instant transactions, using stablecoins to let users and businesses move millions of dollars in seconds to other Fin users, bank accounts, or crypto rails. Founded by ex-Citadel engineers Ian Krotinsky and Aashiq Dheeraj, the company was previously known as TipLink, a Solana-based link-to-send crypto wallet. It combines crypto settlement speed with traditional-finance reliability and compliance for cross-border and enterprise payments.

Workload as a Service platform delivering intelligent orchestration for AI workloads, eliminating inefficiencies by dynamically placing workloads on optimal compute

Forerunner builds AI-enabled software for public-sector emergency management and disaster recovery workflows, helping agencies manage grants, compliance, and program operations.

Geordie AI builds an AI governance platform to help enterprises adopt agentic AI safely with observability, compliance controls, and risk intelligence.

LayerZero is an omnichain interoperability protocol that enables seamless cross-chain messaging and asset transfers across 50+ blockchains. It allows developers to build decentralized applications that operate natively across multiple networks.

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

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.

Software supply chain security platform delivering comprehensive vulnerability management with curated near-zero-CVE open-source images, automated CVE remediation, and container hardening capabilities. Simplifies FedRAMP compliance and accelerates DevSecOps workflows.

Computer vision company spun out of Intel, developing AI-powered smart vision systems for robotics, biometrics and access control markets using stereoscopic depth sensing technology

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

Token Security builds machine-first identity security to discover, govern, and secure non-human identities across cloud and SaaS environments.

Viam is a software platform that makes the physical world programmable, enabling engineers to build, deploy, and manage robotics and IoT applications. Founded by MongoDB co-founder Eliot Horowitz, Viam powers AI and automation solutions across robotics, food and beverage, climate tech, marine, and industrial manufacturing.

Allium is an enterprise-grade blockchain data platform that provides accurate, fast, and simple blockchain data across 100+ blockchains and 1000s of schemas, delivering historical and real-time data through interactive dashboards, APIs, and custom integrations for institutions and crypto enterprises.

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

Apex.AI builds safety-certified, developer-friendly software for autonomous and software-defined vehicles, including its Apex.Grace (formerly Apex.OS) middleware derived from the open-source ROS 2 framework. Its products power autonomous mobility and robotic systems for automotive, trucking, and agricultural-machinery OEMs. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with offices in Germany, Sweden, Japan, and South Korea.

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

AtoB builds a financial services platform for fleets, freight brokers, factors, and logistics operators, offering fuel and spend cards, instant payments, working-capital products, fraud controls, and fleet payments infrastructure.

Log monitoring and observability platform for developers providing comprehensive monitoring solutions with profitability achieved in 2023

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.

Browserbase provides cloud-hosted browser infrastructure purpose-built for AI agents and web automation. The platform enables developers to host, manage, and monitor headless browsers at scale with features including proxies, stealth mode, session recording, and debugging tools, serving over 20,000 developers.

Cortex is an internal developer portal and Engineering Operations platform that helps organizations reduce developer tax and improve operational maturity. It provides engineering teams with a centralized catalog of services, scorecards for reliability standards, and automation to foster ownership.

Fiddler AI provides an AI observability and governance platform for monitoring model performance, drift, bias, and risk across machine learning and generative AI systems. It acts as a control plane for AI agents and models, helping enterprises ensure safety, transparency, and accountability in production. Customers span financial services, retail, and technology. The company was formerly known as Fiddler Labs.

Fun builds payments infrastructure that moves money on and off blockchains, offering white-label deposit, withdrawal, orchestration, and checkout flows for fintech, DeFi/trading, and sports/gaming platforms. It is the sole deposit provider for Polymarket and also powers payment flows for Lighter and Aave, processing over $18B in annual volume. Founded in 2022 and previously in stealth, the company is headquartered in Midtown NYC and is opening a Singapore office.

Hugging Face is the leading open-source AI platform for building, training, and deploying machine learning models. It hosts hundreds of thousands of models and datasets, serving as the central hub for the AI developer community.

An all-in-one open source platform to securely manage application configuration and secrets like API keys and database credentials across teams and infrastructure.

Prefect builds workflow orchestration and AI infrastructure software that helps teams automate, observe, and manage data and application workflows.

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.

Resolve AI builds an autonomous AI Production Engineer that investigates and fixes complex production system issues end-to-end. Founded by the core creators of OpenTelemetry and former leaders of Splunk Observability, the platform automates site reliability engineering tasks.

Sequen provides real-time search, ranking, recommendation, and personalization infrastructure for consumer-internet and e-commerce companies. Its platform uses Large Event Models (LEMs) to dynamically re-rank content and products in under 50ms based on live in-session behavior (clicks, scrolls, views) rather than only historical profiles. Founded by ex-Etsy ranking lead Zoë Weil, it processes billions of monthly requests for Fortune 500 customers.

Substrate is America's next-generation semiconductor foundry, developing advanced X-ray lithography technology to challenge industry giants like ASML and TSMC. Founded by brothers James and Oliver Proud, the company uses compact particle accelerators to enable more cost-effective and rapid chip manufacturing in the United States. Backed by Founders Fund, General Catalyst, and In-Q-Tel, Substrate aims to restore American leadership in semiconductor production.

Tracebit builds cloud-native deception technology, automatically generating and maintaining decoy resources ("canaries") across AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, developer workstations and identity providers. When an attacker touches a canary, it fires a high-fidelity alert, cutting breach detection from months to minutes. Founded in 2023 by ex-Tessian engineers Andy Smith (CEO) and Sam Cox (CTO), it is headquartered in London with a New York office and counts Riot Games, Snyk, Docker and Synthesia as customers.

Urban SDK delivers geospatial AI and mobility analytics software for cities, transportation agencies, and public safety teams to improve planning and operational decisions.

ALICE Technologies provides AI-driven construction planning and scheduling software that simulates project scenarios to improve cost and timeline outcomes.

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.

Fully managed change data capture (CDC) streaming platform that replicates production databases into data warehouses and lakes in real time. Trusted by Substack, ClickUp, and Alloy, processing over 700 billion rows annually.

Chroma builds open-source data infrastructure for AI, giving developers an embeddings database and retrieval layer to add memory, search, and state to LLM applications.

Cover designs and manufactures custom modular residential structures in a factory and assembles them on-site in weeks. The company uses proprietary design software and a steel-frame building system for ADUs and backyard homes.

Builds an AI-powered knowledge engine that helps security operations teams investigate alerts and automate cybersecurity workflows.

Finch is a unified employment API platform that enables HR tech, fintech, and benefits companies to securely read and write data across 250+ HRIS and payroll systems through a single integration. Founded via Y Combinator in 2020.

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.

Identity infrastructure provider for managing access to AI agent tools with task-based permissions and dynamic policy enforcement

Lithic is a modern card issuing platform for developers, enabling businesses to create, manage, and process virtual and physical payment cards via flexible APIs.

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.

MotherDuck is a serverless cloud data warehouse built on the open-source DuckDB engine, enabling fast SQL analytics with no infrastructure to manage. The platform supports hybrid local-cloud execution, allowing analysts to query data seamlessly across laptop and cloud.

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.

Prismic is a headless CMS and page builder designed for modern web development, enabling marketing teams to create pages independently while developers maintain control using frameworks like Next.js, Nuxt, and SvelteKit.

AI-driven security operations center (SOC) platform that automates alert triage, investigation, and response using agentic AI SOC analysts. Reduces investigation time by 360,000 hours and delivers 10x faster response times while reducing false positives by 96%.

Relace is a provider of auxiliary coding models for faster, more reliable AI code generation that makes it easy to deploy production-ready coding agents with models co-optimized with infrastructure to achieve state-of-the-art performance across million-line repositories.

An agentic data security platform that autonomously scans, catalogs, and classifies data in motion and at rest while automating remediations for the AI era.

Valthos is an applied biological intelligence company developing AI and software to detect biological threats and design medical countermeasures in real time.

Bluesky is a decentralized social network built on the AT Protocol, giving users control over their social graph and enabling an open, interoperable layer for social applications. Founded as a Public Benefit Corporation in 2021, it has grown to tens of millions of users as an open-protocol alternative to X, letting users choose their own algorithms, moderation tools, and data portability.

AI-powered infrastructure intelligence platform for transportation infrastructure management using LiDAR sensors, cameras, and advanced AI algorithms.

Echo is an AI-native software security company that builds CVE-free, vulnerability-free container base images as drop-in replacements for standard Docker images. Its AI agents strip open-source images of non-essential components to eliminate vulnerabilities at the source while preserving functionality. Founded in 2025 by ex-Argon founders Eilon Elhadad and Eylam Milner, it is headquartered in Tel Aviv with a New York office.

Crypto exchange infrastructure company behind Phoenix, a decentralized exchange on Solana.

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.

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.

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.

Self-healing software platform that automates bug detection, diagnosis, and resolution, enabling applications to fix user experience issues before humans intervene. Backed by Y Combinator (S25), Vercel, and Designer Fund.

Browser infrastructure platform for AI agents with sub-150ms cold starts, built-in stealth mode, automatic CAPTCHA solving, and persistent sessions for web automations.

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.

An AI video security system that transforms existing IP cameras into intelligent agents for real-time detection and automated monitoring in healthcare and other sectors.

MatrixSpace develops AI-enabled 4D radar sensing and edge-to-cloud situational awareness software for defense, security, and critical infrastructure applications.

Pulumi builds an infrastructure as code platform that lets engineers define and manage cloud infrastructure using general-purpose programming languages such as TypeScript, Python, Go, C#, and Java instead of bespoke DSLs. Its open-source engine is paired with Pulumi Cloud, a managed service for state, secrets, policy, and team collaboration across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Kubernetes. The company is remote-first, headquartered in Seattle, and hires through Greenhouse.

Rainforest provides embedded payments infrastructure for vertical SaaS platforms, including merchant onboarding, payment operations, and payfac-as-a-service capabilities.

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.

Speakeasy is a complete API development platform that polishes OpenAPI, generates production-ready SDKs and Terraform providers, and builds MCP servers from OpenAPI documents with extensive customization options to connect LLMs to data wherever it lives.

StackOne provides a unified API platform for product teams to ship customer-facing integrations quickly across SaaS systems.

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.

Turnkey provides secure, scalable, and programmable crypto wallet infrastructure for embedded wallets and onchain transaction automation. Built by the team that scaled Coinbase Custody past $100B in assets, it powers 50M+ embedded wallets.

Vantage provides cloud cost observability and optimization software for engineering and finance teams managing multi-cloud spend.

Voliro develops autonomous aerial robotics for industrial inspections, combining a drone platform, tiltable payload system, and software for high-value asset inspection workflows.

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

Catena Labs builds AI-native financial infrastructure spanning agent identity, stablecoins, and banking rails so AI agents can participate in the economy safely.

Checkly offers application monitoring powered by Playwright and OpenTelemetry so teams can test and monitor apps, APIs, and services as code.

Credal provides a secure AI agent platform for enterprises, enabling teams to build AI agents and MCP-connected workflows across internal data sources with governance controls.

Builds encryption infrastructure for developers, including tokenization and PCI compliance tools for payments and sensitive data.

Griffin is an API-first UK bank providing a full-stack banking-as-a-service platform for companies that need regulated accounts and payments.

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.

M0 builds programmable stablecoin infrastructure for financial institutions, providing minting, settlement, treasury, and compliance primitives for digital dollar products.

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.

Medusa builds open-source commerce infrastructure and modular APIs that let developers compose storefronts, carts, checkouts, and backend workflows without adopting a monolithic commerce stack.

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.

Morpheus Space develops electric propulsion systems and mobility solutions for satellites, including modular thrusters for commercial and government space missions.

A Layer 1 blockchain designed from the ground up for the AI era, building a planetary-scale verifiable supercomputer that concentrates the world's compute into a single blockchain.

Unified ingress platform providing developers with secure tunnels, reverse proxy, API gateway, and global load balancing used by over 7 million developers worldwide.

ORION Security provides security posture and exposure management focused on the software supply chain and SaaS ecosystems, using AI to prioritize and remediate risk.

Open-source, identity-aware access proxy providing zero-trust secure access to internal applications without requiring a VPN, continuously verifying user identity and device context.

Popcorn is a next-generation telco built software-first, offering a $69/month global mobile plan covering 180+ countries with no roaming fees, eSIM activation, and AI-powered call screening.

Quilter uses physics-driven AI to fully automate PCB layout design, converting schematics into fabrication-ready boards in hours rather than weeks. Integrates with Altium, Cadence, and Siemens.

Railway offers a cloud deployment platform that helps engineering teams ship and operate applications and databases with minimal infrastructure overhead.

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.

Sphere Labs (Sphere Laboratories, Inc.) builds SpherePay, a global stablecoin payments API and dashboard that lets businesses move dollars across borders and settle in under 30 minutes across 160+ markets. The platform handles fiat/stablecoin on- and off-ramps, cross-border settlement via local banking partners, treasury and liquidity management, and local compliance. It is also developing SphereNet, its own payments network.

Spiral is a data infrastructure company that provides a multimodal data platform for AI, unifying governance and exposing a single API for every data modality including video, audio, geospatial, and text, engineered for machine-scale throughput to keep GPUs fully saturated.

Sweet Security provides runtime-powered CNAPP and AI security software that helps enterprises discover assets, detect attacks, reduce vulnerability noise, and investigate incidents faster.

Unit provides embeddable banking and lending products that enable software platforms to integrate financial services—including accounts, money movement, card issuing, and capital products—directly into their products. Processes over $80B in annual transactions.

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.

Zanskar is an AI-powered geothermal exploration company that uses custom-built machine learning models to discover untapped conventional geothermal resources. The platform combines seismic characterization, directional drilling guidance, and reservoir modeling, and develops utility-scale geothermal power plants across the western United States.

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

Airloom Energy is reinventing wind power with a novel, low-profile track-based turbine system that dramatically reduces the cost and complexity of harnessing wind energy. Backed by Bill Gates' Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Lowercarbon Capital, the Laramie, Wyoming-based startup is developing a pilot facility to demonstrate its modular wind technology. Airloom's design uses lightweight airfoils on an oval track, offering a simpler and more affordable alternative to traditional wind turbines.

Alpen Labs builds Bitcoin infrastructure and cryptography tooling, using zero-knowledge proofs to deliver a modular rollup that makes Bitcoin scalable, private, and programmable. The remote-first team of cryptographers and engineers (ex-Blockstream, Palantir, Nethermind) is building financial rails on Bitcoin, including lending and BTC yield products. Founded in 2022, it has raised $19.1M across a seed round led by Ribbit Capital and a January 2025 strategic round led by DBA and Cyber Fund.

A biotechnology company developing carbon-negative polymers and materials using genetically engineered enzymes.

Atlas Data Storage develops DNA-based data storage systems for ultra-long-term, resilient archival storage.

A web3 gaming infrastructure platform providing wallet-as-a-service and payment rails for games.

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.

Building the world's most biomimetic musculoskeletal androids featuring over 200 degrees of freedom and proprietary artificial muscles. The Protoclone V1 can be manufactured for under $20,000.

Cube is the AI-powered financial intelligence platform built for FP&A teams, providing a spreadsheet-native solution that integrates with Excel and Google Sheets to streamline financial planning, analysis, and reporting workflows.

Flox builds reproducible development environments for enterprise software teams, built on Nix with Nix knowledge optional. Its platform delivers cryptographically pinned environments that stay identical from a developer's laptop through CI to production, eliminating environment drift and strengthening software supply chain security. A spinout of the D. E. Shaw group, Flox offers both an open-source platform and enterprise SaaS.

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.

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.

Internet Backyard is building the financial backbone for the global compute economy, helping operators finance and scale infrastructure.

Micruity provides retirement-income data infrastructure connecting recordkeepers, insurers, and asset managers to operationalize lifetime income products.

New Lantern builds an AI-powered cloud-native PACS platform that automates radiology workflows. Its AI Radiology Resident suite handles imaging and reporting tasks, enabling radiologists to work faster and more accurately across all modalities.

Nile is a Postgres backend for modern B2B SaaS applications, bundling multi-tenant primitives like auth, authorization, and tenant-aware data infrastructure.

Pipedream Labs is building an autonomous underground delivery network using robotic carts that travel through buried tubes at speeds exceeding 60 mph, making delivery feel like teleportation. The company aims to eliminate emissions, reduce traffic congestion, and dramatically lower last-mile delivery costs.

Playbook is a creative file manager designed specifically for designers, serving as a beautifully organized cloud storage and sharing platform. The platform uses image tagging technology to transform files into expressive Pinterest-style galleries, making it easy for designers to store, organize, and share their creative work.

Plural provides a Kubernetes management platform for deploying, operating, and governing fleets across cloud environments.

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.

Decentralized blockchain AI platform enabling collaborative AI development with secure asset control.

Sentra provides cloud-native Data Security Posture Management platform, securing enterprise data for AI adoption with 300% YoY revenue growth and multiple Fortune 500 customers.

Universal staking protocol offering a modular coordination framework for blockchain ecosystem, enabling protocols to evolve security models and unlock new economic primitives with over $2.7B peak TVL.

Trajectory is a San Francisco research and product lab building a platform for continual learning, letting AI products keep post-training on real production signals (user edits, corrections, retries, rejections) instead of freezing after deployment. Its SDK and dashboards instrument live AI behavior, steer model optimization, and ship improvements continuously. Customers include Clay, Harvey, Decagon, Mercor, Mistral, and Rogo.

Union.ai provides production infrastructure for AI and ML workflows on top of Flyte, helping engineering teams orchestrate, deploy, and operate reliable model and data pipelines.

Zo Computer is building a new category of personal computing — an intelligent cloud computer powered by AI. The platform enables users to build powerful personal software, automate tasks, and manage their digital lives through a private cloud infrastructure. Founded by former Venmo, Substack, and Stripe engineers, Zo makes personal cloud computing accessible to everyone.

Aetherflux develops space-based solar power systems that collect energy in orbit and transmit it to Earth.

Arcol is a cloud-native, browser-based BIM platform for architects, often described as Figma for BIM. It enables real-time 3D collaborative building design with construction intelligence at its core.

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.

bem provides a production layer for unstructured data, turning documents, audio, images, and other messy inputs into deterministic, schema-enforced outputs for operational workflows.

Cake provides enterprise AI infrastructure for highly regulated industries, helping teams deploy compliant, governed AI workloads with managed open-source components.

CapitalOS provides embedded spend management infrastructure for vertical SaaS platforms, enabling business credit and spend controls via API integrations for platform customers.

A company building quantum computers on silicon chips using AI software to create qubits 1000x faster than current manual methods.

Electronic warfare company building AI-driven software and hardware—incl. SIGINT payloads and autonomous drones—for spectrum dominance.

David Energy builds clean energy software and operates as a technology-driven retail electricity supplier, optimizing how commercial and industrial customers consume, manage, and distribute power. Its platform integrates distributed energy resources like batteries and solar to run buildings on clean energy around the clock while lowering costs. The New York-based company competes directly with legacy utility incumbents.

Developer of EigenLayer restaking and the EigenCloud/EigenDA stack, enabling Ethereum stakers and operators to secure new decentralized services (AVSs).

Etherealize builds institutional-grade financial infrastructure on Ethereum, providing tokenization, Ethereum-native settlement, and zero-knowledge privacy systems for traditional financial institutions. Co-founded by Ethereum researcher Danny Ryan and former Wall Street trader Vivek Raman, it positions itself as the institutional product, business development, and marketing arm of the Ethereum ecosystem.

Open-source financial infrastructure platform that provides programmable ledgers, payment connectivity, orchestration tools, and reconciliation services for building modern financial applications, trusted by companies like Booksy, Doctolib, Liberis, and Shares.

Decentralized protocol that executes and verifies machine learning workloads across any device, unifying global compute into a single open network.

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.

Heirloom is a direct air capture company that accelerates limestone's natural ability to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, reducing the process from years to just days. The company has built facilities in California and Louisiana to permanently remove CO2 at scale, supporting the global effort to combat climate change. Backed by Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Lowercarbon Capital, Heirloom is one of the leading carbon removal technology providers.

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

Impilo provides full-stack digital health infrastructure for remote patient monitoring, combining device logistics (4PL), an e-commerce/API layer, and patient support so healthcare organizations can deploy and manage at-home monitoring devices. Its middleware connects providers, devices, and data to enable remote care and diagnostics. The Philadelphia-based company serves hospitals and digital health companies running RPM programs.

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.

InspectMind AI (YC W24) builds an AI agent that reviews construction drawings and catches design issues before they become costly rework. The platform cross-checks architecture, engineering, and specifications to detect conflicts and compliance problems in minutes, helping teams avoid downstream errors.

Isometric is an AI-native certification and registry platform for carbon removal and broader industrial climate attributes, focused on rigorous measurement, verification, and issuance.

Bot protection and anti-fraud security platform with transparent, CAPTCHA-free defense.

Kivo provides regulatory, quality, and clinical document management software for emerging life sciences teams, with workflows for compliant collaboration and submissions.

Global payments infrastructure company building on Bitcoin and the Lightning Network, enabling instant low-cost money movement worldwide through APIs and SDKs for fiat, stablecoin, and bitcoin transfers.

Embedded analytics platform enabling SaaS companies to build and deploy customer-facing dashboards directly into their products with drag-and-drop interfaces and code-based SDKs.

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.

Open-source, ACID-compliant search & analytics database—an Elasticsearch alternative built on PostgreSQL.

Paragon is an embedded integration platform that enables SaaS companies to rapidly build and ship production-grade third-party integrations without building each connector from scratch.

Provides AI-powered mapping tools like Farsight to help defense teams generate 3D terrain and plan missions.

Syenta develops Localized Electrochemical Manufacturing (LEM) technology for advanced semiconductor chip packaging, enabling scalable, high-density interconnects without traditional lithography. Spun out from the Australian National University, their approach addresses memory bandwidth bottlenecks in AI computing.

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

V7 provides a data engine for computer vision teams to manage datasets, label data, and train AI models at scale.

High-performance multiplayer code editor built in Rust by the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter, designed for speed and real-time collaboration with AI coding features, used by 150,000+ active developers.

Activeloop provides a data platform for AI and unstructured data, helping teams build, manage, and query multimodal datasets for AI search and model training.

Focuses on developing AI acceleration chips and data center infrastructure tailored for running next-generation AI models.

Axiom is a cloud-native observability platform providing serverless log management, tracing, and AI telemetry. It eliminates the need to manage complex infrastructure or worry about data limits when storing and querying event data.

Building a privacy-preserving Ethereum Layer 2 with programmable privacy and client-side proofs.

Cal.com is an open-source scheduling infrastructure platform that enables absolutely everyone to build scheduling into their applications, providing a flexible and customizable alternative to proprietary scheduling tools.

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

Chestnut Carbon develops and manages U.S. nature-based carbon removal projects, primarily through reforestation and afforestation on farmland and degraded land. The company uses proprietary MRV (Measurement, Reporting, and Verification) technology and data modeling to identify optimal land parcels, accelerate carbon measurement, and reduce monitoring costs. Projects adhere to Gold Standard verification and span 37 states, conserving over 200,000 acres and targeting removal of over 100 million tons of carbon over project lifetimes.

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

Clerk provides developer-first authentication and user management infrastructure, including embeddable sign-in flows, session management, organizations, and backend APIs for modern web applications.

Daylight is a decentralized energy company using software, financing, and crypto-native infrastructure to accelerate home electrification. The platform helps households adopt clean energy products while coordinating distributed energy and financing workflows.

Divine Research builds an undercollateralized lending system using stablecoins on World Chain. Since launching in December 2024, it has issued over 1 million loans to 900,000+ unique borrowers without requiring collateral or credit history.

Dub is an open-source link attribution platform that powers short links, QR codes, conversion tracking, and affiliate programs for modern marketing teams. Used by over 1,000 companies including Twilio, Vercel, Perplexity, and Buffer, it provides advanced analytics and branded link management infrastructure.

FlutterFlow is a low-code visual development platform for building native mobile and web applications, used by over 1.3 million developers across 200+ countries.

Guild.ai is a San Francisco company building a control plane for AI agents in the enterprise. The platform lets teams build, deploy, govern, and share agents in production, enforcing identity and permissions at the moment of action while recording every input and tool call for audit and reversibility. It is code-first, model-agnostic, and vendor-neutral, with security and observability built into the runtime.

Gynger is a New York–based fintech that provides embedded payments and financing infrastructure for B2B technology purchases. Its platform lets software, cloud/GPU, and hardware vendors offer branded credit and flexible payment terms to buyers, while Gynger handles origination, underwriting, servicing, compliance, and collections. The company reports over $200M in contracts financed through the platform.

Kingdom Supercultures engineers microbes to create functional ingredients for food and beverage brands.

Open-source metering and usage-based billing platform that enables SaaS companies to build flexible pricing models with consumption tracking, subscription management, and payment orchestration.

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.

Developer observability for live apps: dynamic logs, metrics, traces without restarts.

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

Osium AI builds an AI platform for materials and chemicals R&D, helping industrial teams accelerate discovery, formulation, and optimization workflows.

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

Proof provides identity-centric trust infrastructure for high-stakes digital transactions, combining identity verification, notarization, and authorization workflows.

Provides a unified interface to design AI workflows by connecting data, models, and automations.

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.

Shortcut is a project management platform for product and engineering teams, combining planning, issue tracking, docs, and collaboration in one workflow.

AI-led B2B payments platform offering order-to-cash workflow automation including checkout, risk assessment, payment reconciliation, and cash management, deployed on platforms like Walmart, Alibaba, IKEA, and Samsung.

Stable Sea provides global stablecoin-to-fiat offramp infrastructure for businesses, enabling programmatic conversion of stablecoins to local currencies across 40+ countries through a unified API.

Tella makes screen recording and async video creation tools for entrepreneurs and teams, combining capture, editing, and sharing in a single product.

Tinybird is a real-time data platform that enables data and engineering teams to build real-time data products and APIs at scale. The platform ingests, transforms, and serves large volumes of data with sub-second latency for analytics and operational intelligence.

Generates realistic synthetic data to power software testing and analytics without exposing sensitive production data.

Transcend is an enterprise-grade data privacy infrastructure platform that serves as the compliance layer for customer data. It enables organizations to automate data subject requests, map data across systems, manage consent, and activate data for AI responsibly at scale.

Company behind TruffleHog, a leading open-source secret scanning tool with 15M+ downloads that detects, verifies, and remediates leaked API keys, tokens, and credentials across code repositories.

Zeal is a modern payroll infrastructure platform that enables staffing companies and platforms to onboard, pay, and bill workers through its API-first approach. The platform automates payroll compliance, tax calculations, and worker onboarding.

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.

1Money is building the world's first Layer 1 blockchain protocol designed exclusively for stablecoin payments. Founded by former Binance.US CEO Brian Shroder, the network targets enterprise-grade payment use cases with the fastest and most compliant infrastructure.

Develops factory-fabricated modular nuclear microreactors designed for AI data centers and industrial applications. The Aalo Pod is a 50 MWe power plant purpose-built for data centers.

Adept AI is a machine learning research company building AI systems for human-computer collaboration in enterprise workflows. After raising $415M, the company underwent a reverse acquihire by Amazon in June 2024, with founders joining Amazon while Adept continues operating independently.

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.

A cloud infrastructure service for deploying and managing intelligent, autonomous AI agents for various enterprise tasks.

Amberflo is an AI monetization infrastructure platform that enables companies to track usage precisely through unified metering, cost attribution, and billing automation. Built for the AI and agentic era, it provides centralized FinOps, credits management, and revenue recognition capabilities for teams deploying LLM-based products.

Amenitiz offers an all-in-one hotel management platform for independent hoteliers, including booking, payments, and operations tools.

AppBrilliance offers a patented Money API that enables real-time, non-custodial payments through FedNow® and RTP®.

Applied Atomics is a US-based deep-tech startup that develops and operates full-stack nuclear power plants (100MW–1GW) for industrial customers, delivering dispatchable, carbon-free electricity through long-term power purchase agreements. Founded by former SpaceX and aerospace leaders, it vertically integrates Gen III+ reactor technology with in-house plant engineering, supply chain, and operations to speed deployment and lower cost. It raised an $8.3M Seed round in March 2026 led by Transition, bringing total funding to roughly $12M.

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.

Arena is building AI-powered solutions.

Arga Labs builds real-world sandboxes for testing and training AI agents, creating high-fidelity stateful 'digital twins' of third-party services like Salesforce, Workday, Slack, GitHub, Stripe and Gmail (API, CLI, MCP and UI). Teams seed scenarios in natural language, run automated evaluations per commit or PR, and capture full traces of provider calls and service-state changes. The company is a Y Combinator Spring 2026 company based in San Francisco.

Astrada is the data layer for autonomous finance, providing real-time card transaction data infrastructure that unifies financial data across fragmented enterprise systems. It connects directly to card networks to deliver structured, real-time transaction data via API, enabling AI-powered forecasting and autonomous finance operations for spend management platforms. Customers include Workday, Zoho, Payhawk, Miter, and Extend.

AstroForge is a deep-space mining company focused on extracting valuable metals from asteroids, particularly platinum group metals (PGMs) and critical minerals. The company develops technology to locate, reach, and mine asteroids to provide sustainable resources for Earth and space industries.

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.

All-in-one web-based map builder and geospatial analysis platform that enables users to create, collaborate on, and share custom maps with built-in GIS tools.

An AI-native cybersecurity platform designed to ensure the secure use of AI applications across enterprises, focusing on defense against evolving threats.

Fusion energy startup developing modular micro-fusion reactors for compact, scalable clean power and propulsion applications.

Axis Robotics builds a distributed data engine for physical AI, letting a global network of contributors generate robot training data through browser-based teleoperation and mobile collection tools. Its simulation-first stack combines large-scale pretraining data, hybrid augmentation, and corrective post-training feedback into a continuously improving loop for embodied AI models. The network claims 100,000+ contributors producing roughly 1,200 hours of simulation and 20,000 hours of real-world data monthly, with commercial partners including Booster Robotics and Geely Auto.

Ayar Labs builds optical I/O and in-package photonics technology to reduce data-movement bottlenecks in large-scale AI and high-performance computing systems.

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.

Bird (formerly MessageBird) is an AI-powered cloud communications platform that enables enterprises to connect with customers globally through email, SMS, WhatsApp, and other messaging channels at scale with 99.3% delivery rates. The platform powers 40% of global commerce email.

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.

Modern logging and observability platform for AI applications and engineering teams, offering fast log ingestion, search, and alerting with a columnar storage architecture.

Butlr is a privacy-first ambient sensing platform spun out of MIT Media Lab that uses thermal sensors and AI to detect human presence, occupancy, and posture without capturing personally identifiable information. The sensors serve enterprises across workplace optimization, senior living, and building energy management.

Byteport builds global upload acceleration infrastructure for 1GB-100TB files using DART (Dynamic Accelerated Record Transfer), a proprietary UDP-based protocol that is typically 10x faster than TCP. The platform serves AI clusters, robotics, satellite networks, drone fleets, and defense applications, with SDKs across Python, Java, .NET, C++, Node.js, iOS, and Android. Backed by Y Combinator Winter 2026.

A venture-backed defense tech company building mass-producible hypersonic weapons systems using modern hardware development and manufacturing processes.

Cellares is an integrated development and manufacturing organization (IDMO) for cell therapies, using automation and industrial-scale manufacturing systems to expand access to life-saving treatments.

Charm builds open-source tools and libraries for the command line, including Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss, and Glow, making terminal user interfaces beautiful and developer-friendly.

CloudEagle.ai is an AI-powered SaaS management, spend optimization, and identity/AI governance platform for enterprises. It gives IT, finance, and procurement teams a single system to discover shadow SaaS, automate license provisioning and access reviews, and renegotiate vendor renewals. The company reports managing over $15B in SaaS spend and was named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for SaaS Management Platforms.

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.

CodeComply builds AI-powered plan review software that automates building code compliance checks and permitting workflows. The platform reduces approval cycles by identifying non-compliant designs, generating reports, and enabling real-time collaboration between architects, contractors, and code officials.

Conduktor builds an enterprise data management platform for Apache Kafka, giving teams a unifying layer to monitor, secure, and govern real-time data streaming. It provides security controls, monitoring, and governance to help regulated enterprises scale their Kafka usage. The company is headquartered in London with US expansion underway.

Conifer develops compact, rare-earth-free electric powertrains using patented axial flux motor technology and ferrite magnets. Founded by ex-Apple and Lucid engineers, the company's software-driven manufacturing approach enables cost-effective, supply-chain-resilient motors for two- and four-wheel vehicles, lawn equipment, and tractors.

Coralogix is a full-stack observability and security platform that unifies logs, metrics, traces, and security data using a streaming ('Streama') engine and customer-owned storage, purpose-built for AI-scale telemetry. It serves 5,000+ customers including IBM and JFrog. The Israel-founded company raised a $200M Series F in June 2026 at a $1.6B valuation, bringing total funding to $550M.

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.

Cortical Labs builds biological computers by integrating lab-grown human neurons with silicon chips. Their CL1 system represents the first commercial biological computer, enabling energy-efficient computation through living neural networks for AI and scientific research applications.

Courier is a developer platform for building and managing product notifications across email, SMS, push, chat, and in-app channels.

Creao AI is an agentic AI platform where AI super agents autonomously execute tasks, write code, call APIs, and deliver reusable automation workflows. Founded in late 2024 and headquartered in Cupertino, California, the platform targets enterprise teams and individuals who want to turn workflows into intelligent, interactive software.

Frontier coding data provider for foundation models, using gamified bounty platform with 14,000+ vetted engineers to create expert-quality training data for leading AI labs.

Dawnguard is a security architecture automation platform that shifts cloud security decisions into the design phase instead of scanning for vulnerabilities after systems ship. Its AI-powered platform translates corporate policy, regulatory requirements, and security standards into concrete architecture decisions, guardrails, and production-ready Infrastructure as Code across AWS, Azure, and GCP. It continuously validates that systems meet those requirements in both development and production.

Decart is an AI research lab building real-time generative and world models plus the inference stack that runs them. Its products include DOS (a hardware-optimized training/inference layer that lets models run across different AI chips), Lucy (live video transformation for virtual try-on and interactive media), and Oasis (an interactive world model for gaming, robotics, and physical AI). Founded in Israel with offices in Tel Aviv and San Francisco.

Dedalus Labs builds infrastructure for agentic AI, with products and APIs for deploying multimodal, multi-tool agents and experimenting with autonomous workflows in production.

Deel is an all-in-one HR and payroll platform that helps businesses hire, manage, and pay global teams across 150+ countries. The platform combines payroll processing, compliance, benefits administration, and workforce management with AI-driven automation.

Deep Cogito is a San Francisco AI research company building toward general superintelligence through advanced reasoning and iterative self-improvement, using its Iterated Distillation and Amplification (IDA) post-training method. It ships the open-weight Cogito model family (3B to 671B parameters) whose flagship matches or beats DeepSeek R1-0528 with roughly 60% shorter reasoning chains. Alongside the open models, it sells a post-training engine that builds specialized models on enterprises' proprietary data and outcomes.

Defakto (formerly SPIRL, rebranded October 2025) builds a non-human identity and access management platform that replaces static secrets and overprivileged service accounts with short-lived, cryptographically verifiable workload identities. Built on the open SPIFFE standard, it discovers, issues, enforces, and governs identities for services, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes workloads, and AI agents across multi-cloud and on-prem environments. Founded by Eli Nesterov (CTO) and Danny Oliveri (CEO), it was named a Gartner Cool Vendor in Identity-First Security in 2025.