Machine Learning 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Filevine is a legal operating platform that integrates AI for case management, document assembly, lead management, and billing for law firms. The platform serves nearly 6,000 customers and 100,000 legal professionals. Founded in 2014 in Salt Lake City, Filevine reached unicorn status at a $3B valuation following its $400M Series E in 2025.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Platform for deploying and scaling machine learning models in production.

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

Ashby is an all-in-one recruiting platform that combines an applicant tracking system, CRM, scheduling automation, and analytics into a single product. Used by companies like OpenAI, Notion, and Ramp, it helps ambitious hiring teams scale with AI-powered workflows and deep recruiting insights.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Eight Sleep builds connected sleep technology, most notably the Pod — a smart mattress cover that uses biometrics, AI, and dynamic temperature control to optimize sleep. The company is expanding from consumer sleep fitness into predictive, AI-driven health and medical applications such as sleep apnea detection. It is a New York-based unicorn valued at $1.5B.

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.

Serval is an AI-native IT service management platform that deploys intelligent agents to automate help desk operations, access management, and workflow automation. The platform replaces legacy ticketing systems with adaptive AI agents that reason and take action across systems.

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

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

Beacon Software is a Toronto-based permanent holding company that acquires and grows essential subscription software businesses serving niche markets such as campgrounds, concrete makers, and youth sports operators. The company integrates acquisitions onto a shared platform, deploys engineering support, and embeds AI agents to automate customer tasks. It operates as a rival to Constellation Software, targeting profitable, entrepreneur-led SMB software vendors with at least $1M in annual revenue.

Moloco is a machine learning company that powers performance advertising and monetization for app developers, marketers, and retailers. Its core products — Moloco Ads, Moloco Retail Media Platform, and Moloco Streaming Monetization — apply proprietary ML models to first-party data to drive measurable user growth and revenue. Founded in 2013 by former Google engineers, the company is headquartered in Redwood City / Menlo Park, California.

Taktile is an AI-powered decision platform built for financial institutions, enabling automated decisions across credit underwriting, fraud detection, AML compliance, and customer onboarding.

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

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.

RobCo is a Munich-founded industrial robotics startup providing modular, plug-and-play robotic hardware kits and AI-powered automation software for small and mid-sized manufacturers. Its RobCo Studio software enables no-code programming of robots for tasks like machine tending, palletizing, welding, and dispensing. Backed by Lightspeed and Sequoia, it is scaling US operations with offices in San Francisco and Austin.

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

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.

Standard Bots builds AI-native industrial robot arms and the software stack that runs them, targeting manufacturers who want automation without dedicated robotics engineers. Its RO1 cobot combines a no-code/AI control interface with US-based manufacturing in Glen Cove, NY. The company hit a $1B valuation with a $200M Series C in June 2026.

Candid Health is an autonomous revenue cycle automation platform for healthcare providers. It automates claims processing, billing, and payment operations, serving over 200 healthcare organizations.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Machina Labs develops AI-powered robotic manufacturing systems for sheet metal forming and industrial production, reducing the need for traditional tooling.

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

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

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

Arize AI provides an AI engineering platform for observability and evaluation of LLM apps, AI agents, and RAG systems. It lets teams trace, debug, evaluate, and monitor AI systems in development and production, and covers traditional ML models on the same platform. It also maintains Phoenix, its open-source tracing and evaluation tool.

Astromech is an AI-and-biology startup recruiting across genomics, evolutionary modeling, synthetic data, and alignment research to decode and simulate complex living systems.

Distyl AI is an enterprise AI company that turns Fortune 100 standard operating procedures into auditable, agent-executed workflows through its Distillery platform. It pairs AI-native software with an embedded forward-deployed engineering team to ship production AI systems for regulated industries like healthcare, telecom, CPG, retail, and manufacturing. Founded in 2022 by ex-Palantir engineers Arjun Prakash and Derek Ho, it raised a $175M Series B at a $1.8B valuation in September 2025.

Strava is a social fitness platform that tracks running, cycling, and other athletic activities via a mobile app and connected GPS devices. Founded in 2009, it connects over 150 million athletes worldwide in a social network where they share routes, achievements, and compete on leaderboards. The company earns revenue through a premium subscription tier and has expanded into AI-driven training tools.

BRINC Drones builds public-safety drone systems for 911 rapid response, indoor tactical operations, firefighting, and search and rescue, including the Lemur 2, Responder, and Guardian aircraft plus its LiveOps command-and-control software. Its platform integrates with Motorola Solutions' police radios, 911/CAD, and CommandCentral systems and is used by 900+ public-safety agencies and more than 20% of U.S. SWAT teams. Founded by CEO Blake Resnick and headquartered in Seattle, the company is scaling U.S. manufacturing with a new Queen Anne factory and HQ.

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.

ExaCare is an AI-powered platform for post-acute care that automates referral review and patient admission decisions for skilled nursing facilities and home care agencies. Its AI agents ingest unstructured referral packets and millions of medical documents to surface clinical risk signals and standardize admission decisioning. The company serves 1,500+ facilities and operators across the U.S.

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.

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

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

Dyna Robotics develops high-performance general-purpose robots powered by proprietary embodied AI foundation models that achieve 99+ percent success rates in commercial environments with self-improving capabilities.

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.

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

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.

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.

Turing provides an AI-native platform for software engineering and model-development execution, combining vetted talent networks with enterprise delivery workflows.

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.

Sunday is a robotics company building Memo, a household humanoid robot designed to assist families with everyday chores like dishes, laundry, and tidying. Founded by Stanford-trained roboticists Tony Zhao and Cheng Chi, the company uses data from thousands of real homes to train its robots. Sunday reached a $1.15 billion valuation with its Series B round and is preparing to deploy its first robots through a Founding Family Beta program.

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.

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.

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

Netic is an autonomous AI revenue engine for America's essential service industries, including HVAC, plumbing, roofing, and electrical businesses. The platform executes entire revenue workflows autonomously, from client outreach and booking to marketing and analytics, having booked over 50,000 jobs in just months. Founded by former Scale AI executive Melisa Tokmak and backed by Founders Fund and Greylock, Netic is transforming how small and mid-sized service businesses grow.

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.

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

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.

hyperexponential (hx) is a UK-based pricing decision intelligence platform for commercial and specialty insurance underwriters. Its flagship product hx Renew enables insurers to build, deploy, and refine actuarial pricing models using large datasets and machine learning. The company has expanded into North America following its 2024 Series B funding.

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

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.

The most advanced platform to optimize your health through personalized recommendations, AI-driven insights, and comprehensive health tracking to improve longevity and wellness.

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.

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

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

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

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

Multiverse is the UK's first EdTech unicorn, providing an alternative to university through professional apprenticeships in AI and tech skills. Partnered with over 1,500 companies in the US and UK.

Foundation Health provides AI-powered digital healthcare infrastructure for telehealth, diagnostics, pharmacy operations, and care delivery workflows.

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.

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

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

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

LMArena develops and operates large-model evaluation infrastructure, including comparative benchmarks and community-driven testing workflows for frontier LLMs.

Meshy builds generative AI tools for creating production-ready 3D models and textures from text or images for game, XR, and creative workflows.

Nudge is developing advanced whole-brain interfaces for everyday life using phased-array ultrasound-based wearable devices capable of both imaging and modulating brain activity, enabling at-home treatments for mood, memory, focus, and chronic conditions like pain, addiction, and anxiety.

Numeric is an AI accounting automation platform that unifies close management, reporting, and cash management for complex accounting teams. The platform automates reconciliations, cash matching, and journal entries.

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

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

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.

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

Light is an AI-powered financial platform that provides fully automated general ledger, accounts receivable, and accounts payable solutions designed specifically for multinational companies, redefining ERP by delivering fast and joyful finance automation.

Advanced patient monitoring platform using AI and sensors to provide continuous health tracking and early detection of medical complications in healthcare settings.

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.

Agentio is an AI-native ad platform that enables brands to buy creator-led advertising as easily and scalably as Meta or Google ads. The platform automates sourcing, pricing, contracting, delivery, and measurement of creator marketing campaigns across YouTube and other platforms. Over 100 leading enterprise brands including Uber, DoorDash, and CashApp have shifted paid media budgets to creator campaigns built on Agentio.

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

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.

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

Loop is a San Francisco-based, full-stack AI platform for logistics and supply chains that ingests and normalizes fragmented shipment, carrier, and financial data to give shippers visibility and predict and prevent disruptions. Its DUX family of logistics-specific models and agents automates freight audit, payment, and accounts payable/receivable decisions. Customers include Olipop, Kendra Scott, and Dot Foods.

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.

Pave is an AI-powered compensation management platform that helps organizations benchmark, plan, and communicate compensation with real-time market data from 8,700+ companies. It provides tools for merit cycles and an employee-facing total rewards portal.

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

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

Bureau is a no-code identity decisioning platform that uses AI-powered insights to prevent fraud in real-time. It serves over 200 global brands across fintech, banking, e-commerce, insurance, and gig economy sectors, having verified over 300 million identities.

Carbon Robotics develops AI-powered agricultural robotics, including its flagship LaserWeeder which uses computer vision, deep learning, and CO2 lasers to identify and eliminate weeds with millimeter accuracy. The company also offers Carbon ATK, a tractor autonomy solution, and operates across 15 countries supporting over 100 crop types. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Seattle.

Dexterity develops physical AI robotic systems for industrial automation, enabling warehouses and logistics operations to automate complex manipulation tasks.

AI-powered code review platform that provides complete codebase context to help development teams automate pull request reviews, bug diagnostics, and enhance development workflows with intelligent code understanding.

Lassie deploys autonomous AI agents to automate the full administrative stack of small medical and dental practices, handling insurance claims, payment reconciliation, ledger posting, and records updates. The company serves 700+ practices across the US, returning hundreds of thousands of labor hours annually. Founded by Steijn Pelle and Frederic Renken.

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

NewLimit develops epigenetic reprogramming medicines to restore youthful cellular function and treat diseases with large unmet needs. Co-founded by Brian Armstrong, the company targets liver, immune, and vascular systems.

Nexxa builds specialized AI agents that automate complex technical workflows in heavy industries using multi-agent architecture and computer use capabilities.

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

Pallet builds AI workers for logistics, offering its CoPallet platform that automates back-office operations such as order entry, freight quoting, and document processing for carriers, brokers, 3PLs, and shippers.

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

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

AppZen is an AI platform for finance and accounts payable automation, using agentic AI to audit expenses, invoices, and contracts for enterprise customers. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Jose, CA, it serves 500+ global enterprises including 65 Fortune 500 companies such as Amazon, Salesforce, and JP Morgan Chase. The company is cash flow positive and raised a $180M Series D in 2025.

Glow Security, Inc. is a 2025-founded, AI-native enterprise endpoint security platform based in Palo Alto, CA and Tel Aviv that protects employee devices, browsers, developer tools, and on-device AI agents. It goes beyond malware detection to give enterprises control over which AI tools and agents run, what data they can access, and which software is allowed, restricted, or removed, using dedicated AI agents and a prevention-first posture. In July 2026 it emerged from stealth with a $180M Series A at a $1.2B valuation led by Sequoia, Cyberstarts, Greenoaks, and Redpoint, reaching unicorn status.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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%.

Quartermaster (legally Quartermaster AI Inc.) builds SmartMast™, a weather-hardened COTS sensor package — HD camera, software-defined radio, and onboard AI — that mounts on commercial and civilian vessels and turns them into nodes of a distributed maritime sensing network. The platform fuses video, radar, RF sensing, and AIS into near-real-time maritime domain awareness for coast guards, navies, insurers, energy operators, and researchers, positioning itself as a replacement for the spoofable, opt-in AIS standard. The company reports 600+ sensors deployed across 25+ countries and over 400,000 vessels identified outside of AIS.

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

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

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

Tomo Mortgage is a digital mortgage lender founded by former Zillow executives that uses AI to automate underwriting and sales, offering home loans with no lender fees and below-market rates. The company operates in 31+ states and ranked in the top 10% of U.S. mortgage lenders by December 2024 purchase volume. In March 2025 it raised a $20M Series B backed by Progressive Insurance, bringing total funding to $130M.

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.

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.

Conduit Health is a New York-based healthcare technology startup that simplifies access to insurance-covered durable medical equipment (DME) for Medicare and Medicaid patients. Its agentic AI platform, CareOS, automates clinical evaluation, insurance verification, prior authorization, and equipment fulfillment in a single workflow. The company raised a $17M Series A led by Drive Capital in March 2026, bringing total funding to $22M.

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

Haus builds incrementality measurement software that helps consumer brands run geo experiments, quantify causal lift, and optimize media spend across online and offline channels.

Justt is an AI-powered chargeback automation platform that helps merchants automatically dispute and recover revenue lost to chargebacks. The platform uses machine learning to analyze transaction data and build tailored evidence packages.

Lyric is an AI-powered supply chain platform that provides unified modeling, planning, and frontier intelligence for enterprise supply chains. Serving Fortune 500 companies including Coca-Cola, Estee Lauder, and Nike, it makes advanced supply chain science accessible through composable, integrated, and extensible solutions.

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.

Ownwell is an AI-driven property tax appeal service that challenges property tax assessments on behalf of homeowners and commercial property owners across a dozen states. Operating on a contingency model, Ownwell charges no upfront fees and collects 25–35% of the savings it secures for clients. Since launching in 2021, it has processed over 1 million appeals and saved customers more than $400M in property taxes.

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.

Sage Care builds an AI care-navigation operating system for health systems, automating patient communication, triage, and access workflows.

SmarterDx builds clinical AI that performs a second-level review of every patient chart before billing, catching documentation gaps and coding errors that cause missed, denied, or underpaid claims. Its SmarterPrebill and SmarterDenials products help hospitals and health systems recover earned revenue and more accurately represent care quality. Founded by physicians Michael Gao and Joshua Geleris, the company is headquartered in New York City and hires fully remote across the US.

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

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

AI-based molecular interactions platform for drug discovery performing state-of-the-art structure prediction and antibody design

Colossal Biosciences is a genetic engineering and de-extinction company using CRISPR technology to restore extinct species like the woolly mammoth and protect critically endangered ecosystems.

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.

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

Gather AI builds autonomous drone systems for warehouse inventory monitoring. Its AI-powered drones and software platform enable logistics operators to scan facilities, count stock, and achieve inventory visibility without manual cycle counts. The company was founded in 2017 by Carnegie Mellon alumni and serves modern warehouses and distribution centers.

AI-native operating system for investment management, providing automated trading, data and analytics, risk management, and portfolio optimization for fixed income. APIs power firms representing 100B+ in assets.

AI-powered baby monitoring company using computer vision to track infant sleep, health and development, trusted by over one million families with upcoming Parenting Intelligence System

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.

Orion Sleep develops an AI-powered smart mattress cover that combines dual-zone hydro-based temperature regulation with built-in biometric sensors tracking sleep stages, heart rate, movement, and HRV. Its Orion Intelligence learns each sleeper's thermal profile and adaptively optimizes deep and REM sleep. The product fits over any existing mattress and is positioned as a more affordable alternative to Eight Sleep.

Osmo uses AI-powered olfactory intelligence to digitize and generate custom scent formulas, building the world's first AI-powered fragrance house with robotic production capabilities.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Axion (formerly Axion Ray) is an AI-powered quality intelligence platform for manufacturers. It unifies field, service, and design data to detect, investigate, and resolve product quality issues earlier and cut root-cause analysis time. Customers span industrial, aerospace, consumer, and medtech manufacturing, including Daikin, Harley-Davidson, and SharkNinja.

Baselayer is an AI-powered business identity network for KYB (Know Your Business) verification, credit risk assessment, and fraud prevention. Its platform unifies public records, agentic AI, and networked intelligence so banks, fintechs, lenders, marketplaces, and government institutions can onboard and underwrite businesses in real time instead of via static data and manual review. Products span identity verification and business ratings, credit signals (liens, lawsuits, bankruptcies), and ongoing portfolio monitoring.

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.

Corvus Robotics builds fully autonomous warehouse inventory drones that scan, count, and track pallets without facility modifications or external infrastructure. Its Level 4 autonomous drones navigate aisles and read barcodes to automate inventory management for warehouses and manufacturing facilities. The company sells this inventory-and-inspection capability as a service to enterprise logistics operators.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Moderne provides a platform for mass-scale automated code refactoring and modernization, built on the open-source OpenRewrite project. The platform enables enterprises to automatically remediate technical debt, apply security fixes, and perform framework migrations at scale.

Odin Dynamics is a defense technology company building autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) and advanced robotics for undersea warfare, including precision strike, ISR, and mine-warfare missions. Its Dolphin-M and Dolphin-S UUV platforms emphasize high endurance, long range, and modular payloads, with in-house battery/powertrain engineering as a core differentiator. Founded by a former Tesla powertrain engineer and a 23-year Navy EOD officer, the company is headquartered in Los Angeles with a Washington, DC presence.

Omnifold builds an AI planning platform purpose-built for supply chain forecasting and commercial decision-making. Its product helps companies model operations, optimize planning, and make better tradeoffs across complex business workflows using deep learning and reinforcement learning. The company targets enterprise customers seeking self-improving forecasting algorithms for demand planning and adjacent decision support.

Orchid offers whole-genome embryo screening and preconception genetic testing to help prospective parents reduce inherited disease risk.

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

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

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

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.

WorkWeave (also branded 'Weave') is an AI-powered engineering analytics platform that quantifies software engineering output by analyzing every pull request and developer activity to measure real work and the impact of AI coding tools. It gives engineering leaders visibility into team performance and AI investment ROI. Founded by the ex-Causal team and backed by Y Combinator (W25), it serves 150+ customers including Rho, 11x, and Browserbase.

Leading AI-powered security awareness platform protecting against deepfake personas, AI-driven phishing, and multi-channel social engineering threats through realistic attack simulations and tailored employee training.

Albert Invent develops AI software for chemistry and materials R&D teams to accelerate formulation, experiment planning, and commercialization workflows.

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.

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

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

Duetti is a New York-based music financing platform that buys catalog rights and individual master/publishing tracks from independent artists, using data-driven valuations to price deals. Artists receive upfront cash while Duetti monetizes and markets the acquired catalogs. Founded in 2022, it has since expanded into publishing catalog deals and new funding programs for indie creators and songwriters.

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

Fulcrum is an AI platform for insurance brokerages that automates policy servicing, claim analysis, and proposal generation. The platform integrates with legacy systems of record and uses AI agents to cut policy delivery from weeks to same-day turnarounds.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Akur8 provides an AI-powered insurance pricing and reserving platform that automates actuarial workflows using transparent machine learning. Founded in France in 2018, it serves P&C and health insurers globally with SaaS tools for pricing, loss reserving, and portfolio management. The company has expanded internationally with offices in New York, London, Tokyo, and Milan.

Ataraxis AI is a New York-based clinical AI research lab building multi-modal precision-medicine models that predict patient outcomes and treatment response. Its foundation models (Falcon, Kestrel) for digital pathology power products like Ataraxis Breast, an AI-native prognostic test for breast cancer. Founded in 2023 as an NYU spinout, it counts Yann LeCun among its founding advisors.

Camber is an AI-powered admin automation platform for healthcare that streamlines insurance reimbursement and claims processing. The platform reduces administrative burdens on clinics and providers, achieving 95% first-pass accuracy on claims while serving 90,000 patients across 40 states.

Chef Robotics builds AI-enabled robotic systems for food factories, prepared-meal production, and food assembly operations. Its robots automate repetitive plating, portioning, and packaging tasks in commercial food production, offered via a Robotics-as-a-Service model. The company has deployed systems that have produced tens of millions of meals.

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

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.

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

Novellia is a patient-powered health data platform that lets anyone in the US access and unify up to ~20 years of their complete medical history in under 30 seconds, for free. It turns that de-identified, patient-consented data into real-world data products for biopharma R&D, already working with several of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies. The company offers both a web platform and a patient-facing mobile app.

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

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

Synthetic data generation platform for autonomous vehicle training and simulation.

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

Sapien builds AI-native analysts for finance and operations teams, connecting ERP, warehouse, spreadsheet, and operational data. Its agents help CFO and analytics teams find profit drivers, explain variance, and act on messy transaction-level data faster.

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.

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

Airbound builds the world's most efficient delivery drones, developing advanced autonomous aircraft using blended-wing-body designs for ultra-low-cost logistics. Founded by 20-year-old Naman Pushp, the Bengaluru-based company aims to achieve one-cent drone deliveries at scale, serving medical, defense, and industrial applications.

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

Arkestro is a San Francisco-based predictive procurement orchestration platform that applies behavioral science, game theory, and AI/ML to automate supplier negotiations and optimize sourcing outcomes. The platform integrates with existing ERP and procure-to-pay systems via pre-built APIs, enabling enterprises to reduce procurement cycle times and manage more spend without additional headcount. Fortune 500 customers include Mars, McDonald's, and Aramark.

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

Predictive delivery intelligence platform providing centimeter-precise indoor tracking for last-mile delivery. Uses smartphone sensors to solve the 'last 500 feet' problem for logistics and e-commerce.

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.

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

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

InHouse is a marketplace and AI-powered design platform that helps short-term rental hosts and property residents furnish and design their spaces. The platform combines AI floorplan analysis with professional design recommendations and offers exclusive pricing on products from premium brands.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Quadrillion Labs builds Qualia, an agentic research intelligence platform that runs real computational research — generating, executing, and analyzing experiments inside notebook-based research workspaces. It acts as both a copilot and an autonomous research assistant for data scientists, quants, and technical research teams. The NYC-based team comes from Stanford NLP, HRT, Citadel, Jane Street, Google Research, and Harvard Med.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Assured is an AI-native provider operations platform that automates physician credentialing, payer network enrollment, multi-state licensing, and ongoing qualification monitoring for medical groups, digital health companies, and health systems. Its AI agents verify licenses, education, and compliance data against 2,000+ primary sources, compressing processes that normally take weeks or months into days. The company is an NCQA-certified Credentialing Verification Organization serving 100+ healthcare organizations, including Houston Methodist.

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

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

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.

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.

Infinitus builds AI voice agents that automate routine healthcare administrative and clinical phone calls between patients, providers, and payors, covering benefit verifications, prior authorization follow-ups, and patient outreach. Its agents run with healthcare-specific guardrails and human-in-the-loop review, and the company reports handling hundreds of millions of healthcare interactions. Founded in 2019 by Ankit Jain and Shyam Rajagopalan, it is headquartered in San Francisco.

NationGraph is a govtech intelligence platform that makes public sector data accessible and actionable for businesses selling to cities, counties, state agencies, schools, and special districts. Its data and intelligence engine surfaces buying signals derived from millions of public sources across roughly 110,000 government agencies. Founded in 2024 by CEO Kimia Hamidi and CTO Eden Ding, with offices in San Francisco, Toronto, and Miami.

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.

Open-source multimodal data logging and visualization SDK for robotics and computer vision teams, enabling engineers to log, replay, and inspect spatial and temporal data.

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.

Spade is a New York–based fintech data company whose API turns raw, messy card transaction strings into structured records matched against a proprietary database of verified businesses, returning a persistent counterparty ID, clean merchant name, category, and location. Banks, fintechs, and platforms including Stripe, Mercury, Bilt, FIS, and Corpay use Spade to power authorization decisions, rewards, spend controls, analytics, and AI features. The company processes as many as 1.9 billion transactions daily and reported 470% YoY revenue growth before its 2026 Series B.

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.

The Bot Company is a San Francisco robotics startup founded in 2024 by former Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt, ex-Tesla AI lead Paril Jain, and ex-Cruise engineer Luke Holoubek. It is building an affordable, non-humanoid household robot that uses AI to pick up, organize, and put away items so people spend less time on chores. The company has raised over $550M pre-product, most recently at a valuation above $4B.

Tolans (Portola) is developing an AI-powered conversational companion in the form of playful alien characters designed to enhance creativity, imagination, and emotional connection, offering every person on Earth a personalized embodied AI best friend.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Bretton AI (formerly Greenlite AI) is an agentic AI platform for financial crime compliance, automating AML, KYC/KYB, sanctions investigations, and transaction monitoring for regulated financial institutions. It is trusted by OCC-, FDIC-, and Federal Reserve-regulated banks and fintech platforms including Robinhood, Mercury, and Gusto. The company rebranded from Greenlite AI in February 2026 following its $75M Series B.

Deal Intelligence Platform purpose-built for legal and financial professionals, using proprietary AI to transform complex transactional documents into strategic insights, serving nearly half of AmLaw 10 firms.

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

Click Therapeutics develops, validates, and commercializes prescription digital therapeutics (PDTs) — FDA-regulated software-based medical treatments delivered as mobile apps. Its pipeline targets psychiatry, neurology, oncology, and cardiometabolic disease, including Rejoyn for major depressive disorder and CT-155 for schizophrenia. The company partners with pharma firms such as Otsuka and Boehringer Ingelheim to commercialize its treatments.

AI-driven manufacturing platform that automates the creation and management of model-based work instructions from CAD files. BuildOS generates 3D animations of assembly steps, reducing documentation time from weeks to hours.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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%.

Prudentia Sciences develops AI software for life-sciences diligence, asset valuation, and investment decision support across biopharma programs.

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.

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

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

Verana Health is a digital health data company that turns real-world clinical data into research-grade insights for life sciences, providers, and regulators. It is exclusively entrusted by specialty medical societies (ophthalmology, neurology, urology) to curate registry and EHR data from 20,000+ providers across 70+ EHR systems. Its VeraQ population-health data engine and Qdata modules use AI-assisted curation to power drug development, label expansion, and post-market surveillance.

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.

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

Anterior is a clinical AI platform built for health plans that automates review of patient records and policy guidelines to streamline utilization management, serving payer organizations covering over 50 million lives.

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

Dusty Robotics develops robotic layout systems for construction teams, including the FieldPrinter platform for translating BIM plans to jobsites.

Ecorobotix is a Swiss agricultural technology company that develops AI-powered precision spraying systems, including the ARA field sprayer, which uses computer vision and machine learning to detect individual plants and apply herbicides with up to 95% less chemical usage. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland, the company has deployed approximately 1,000 ARA units across Europe and operates in over 20 countries.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Paris-based Geology AI company that uses foundation models and deep domain expertise to accelerate the discovery of critical mineral and metal deposits.

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.

Loyal is a clinical-stage veterinary medicine company developing longevity drugs to help dogs live longer, healthier lives. They are the first company to receive FDA approval for a longevity drug candidate targeting aging in dogs.

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

Mindset (Mindset Care) is an AI-powered platform that helps people with serious mental illness and their caregivers apply for Social Security Disability benefits. It combines a team of disability representatives with automation to prequalify claimants, guide them through the SSA application process, and reduce denials and delays. The company was launched from Science Inc.'s startup studio and runs community outreach teams across the US.

Modern Life is a New York-based, technology-enabled life insurance brokerage that gives financial advisors access to 30+ carriers across term, permanent, annuity, disability, and long-term care products. Its platform combines instant quoting, data-driven and AI-assisted underwriting assessments (including instant "Express Decision"), digital applications, and end-to-end agency management. Founded by fintech veterans Michael Konialian (ex-CoverWallet) and Jack Arenas (co-founder/CTO of Petal), it has raised $35M from Thrive Capital, New York Life Ventures, Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures, and Allegis.

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

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

Builds the world's most advanced ductless heat pump for residential use with integrated AI that identifies heating and cooling patterns to optimize efficiency.

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.

AI-native agentic process automation platform that automates data entry, scraping, and processing flows using LLMs and computer vision for enterprise workflows.

Sybill is an AI-powered GTM workflow assistant that analyzes meeting conversations to automatically generate summaries, deal notes, and CRM updates for sales teams.

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.

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

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

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

Angitia is a biotechnology company developing novel therapies for endocrine and metabolic diseases, including rare disease programs.

Next-generation care enablement platform combining online consultation with real-time productivity tools in a multiplayer dashboard for healthcare clinics, used across hundreds of NHS clinics.

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

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

Casca is an AI-native loan origination platform for SBA lenders and FDIC-insured banks that processes loans 10x faster by automating document collection, KYB checks, and compliance procedures, achieving 90% reduction in manual effort and 3x higher conversion rates.

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

Covariance is a machine-learning platform that turns external and alternative data into firm-level KPIs and business forecasts. Its product analyzes actual purchase data from millions of households to give consumer brands insights on category shifts, competitor moves, audience behavior, and campaign impact, and also serves investment users with alternative-data signals. Founded out of MIT research by CEO Michael Fleder, it is based in New York City.

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

Builds and operates automated drill rigs to accelerate mineral discovery, integrating autonomous control systems and real-time data streams into diamond core drilling for mineral exploration.

Fairmarkit is a Boston-based autonomous sourcing platform that uses AI to automate RFP creation, supplier selection, and competitive bidding for enterprise procurement teams. Founded in 2017, the company serves customers including BP, Boeing, and Snowflake. In 2026 it launched Total Agentic Sourcing to apply AI across all enterprise spend categories alongside leading ERPs.

Generation Lab is an AI biotechnology company building an agent scientist platform to program the immune system and accelerate antibody and cell therapy discovery.

Hook is an AI-powered Customer Success platform that uses intelligent agents to predict churn with 93% accuracy, automate workflows, and identify risks in real-time. The platform integrates with CRM, product analytics, and revenue systems to help CS teams free up 50% of their time and achieve 25-35% efficiency gains through automated risk management and next-best action recommendations.

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

Lindus Health is an "anti-CRO" that runs end-to-end clinical trials for biotech, pharma, and medtech sponsors on its own software platform (Citrus), covering study design, patient recruitment, EDC/eSource, monitoring, and biostatistics. Since launching in 2021 it has run 40+ end-to-end trials and enrolled 36,000+ patients across the US and Europe. It also operates Lindus Therapeutics (LTx), an in-licensing arm developing clinical-stage assets on the same trial infrastructure.

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

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

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.

AI research lab building self-learning expert agents that continuously adapt and develop domain expertise through experience rather than static training data.

AI-native investment bank for small and mid-market businesses, using AI agents to match buyers with acquisition targets in days instead of months, focusing on M-M revenue companies.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Third Way Health combines AI technology with human expertise to transform front-office operations for medical practices and payer organizations, managing scheduling, insurance verification, referrals, prior authorizations, and patient communication. The platform reduces administrative costs by up to 40% and serves practices collectively caring for over 5 million patients annually.

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

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.

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

Versatile delivers construction intelligence software and IoT-enabled jobsite data capture to improve productivity, planning, and risk management.

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

Wonder Studios is an AI-native film and content production studio harnessing generative AI to develop original films, music videos, and branded content. Founded in London with offices in New York and Los Angeles, the studio works with a community of over 200 AI-native filmmakers and has produced its first AI-generated anthology series.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Copilot Money is a personal finance management app for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Web that uses machine learning to deliver hyper-personalized finance data insights, helping over 100,000 users effortlessly understand and manage their spending, budgeting, and investing.

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

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.

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

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.

OpenSpace builds AI-powered reality capture and analytics software that helps construction teams track project progress and reduce field risk.

Optimal Dynamics is a New York–based SaaS company that applies AI and sequential decision-making research spun out of Princeton University to freight and logistics planning. Its decision-automation platform helps trucking carriers and shippers plan loads, drivers and capacity, with customers reporting 17–24% increases in weekly revenue per truck. Customers include CRST, KBX Logistics, Leonard's Express and Uber Freight.

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.

Contextual AI platform for life sciences and healthcare, providing a visual development environment for building enterprise AI applications across drug discovery, clinical development, and healthcare operations.

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

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.

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

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

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

Zoo builds AI-native CAD infrastructure for hardware engineers, offering a browser-based design studio, programmable geometry tooling, and agentic workflows for creating manufacturing-ready 3D models.

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

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

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

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.

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

Eyebot builds an AI-powered eye exam and vision-care platform with automated kiosks to expand access to eye care.

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

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

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

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

Gym Class is a leading VR sports game by IRL Studios for Meta Quest, allowing players to play basketball, baseball, and football in virtual reality. With a 4.9-star rating and 69K+ reviews, it counts the NBA and Golden State Warriors among its investors.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Natural Cycles is the world's first FDA-cleared birth control app, using a proprietary algorithm and body temperature data to provide a non-hormonal, non-invasive contraceptive solution trusted by millions of women globally.

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

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

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

Prometheus is a Physical AI company co-founded by Jeff Bezos and Vik Bajaj building an 'artificial general engineer' — AI that can design, experiment on, and manufacture complex physical products such as jet engines, drugs, and advanced materials. The company operates out of San Francisco, London, and Zurich, recruiting researchers from OpenAI, DeepMind, and Meta. It raised a $12B round in June 2026 at a ~$41B valuation, bringing total funding above $18B.

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

Spur is an AI QA engineer that automates functional and end-to-end website testing using natural language descriptions. Users describe actions like 'add to cart' or 'apply for a job' and Spur's AI agent simulates them, detects bugs, and delivers instant feedback. The company serves e-commerce, travel, and enterprise customers including Alo Yoga, HelloFresh, Nextdoor, and Docusign.

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.

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

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.

Alaffia Health provides AI-driven payment integrity and claims operations tools that help health plans improve accuracy, reduce waste, and accelerate reviews.

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

Anagram (formerly Enigma) is a human-driven security platform that embeds security into everyday employee behavior through gamified microlearning, AI-powered phishing simulations, and real-time security nudges. It helps enterprises reduce human-related risks such as phishing, social engineering, insider threats, and risky data handling. Its customers include large enterprises across finance, media, and insurance.

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

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

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.

Caro is an HR and workforce management platform focused on home-based care, connecting caregivers with families and care agencies. It streamlines scheduling, compliance, and payroll for home care providers.

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.

Flash-frozen specialty coffee capsule company that delivers barista-quality coffee to consumers, requiring no machine — just add water or milk to enjoy.

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

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.

Eli Health develops AI-based smart devices for women's reproductive health monitoring, offering a point-of-care device that provides instant hormone profiles from saliva samples. The technology enables continuous hormone monitoring for daily and lifelong health insights.

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

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

Kula is a modern all-in-one ATS with native AI, built to unify sourcing, candidate screening, interview coordination, scheduling, and analytics into a single recruiting workflow.

Kwant is an AI-powered workforce management and safety platform for construction and industrial job sites. The platform uses proprietary low-powered sensors and real-time analytics to automate data collection, increase productivity, and ensure compliance across complex job sites.

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

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

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

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

Optura builds an AI orchestration platform for healthcare teams to identify high-value use cases, deploy AI into real workflows, and measure operational impact.

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

Pascal builds an AI-native operating system for the offline economy, starting with consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands. It unifies fragmented customer, trade, fulfillment, production, and accounting data into one system, then layers on deductions recovery, demand forecasting, and supply chain exception management. The company is based in New York City and says it is backed by Silicon Valley investors and operators.

Phia is a New York-based AI shopping assistant, offered as a mobile app and browser extension, that compares prices across thousands of retailers and resale platforms to find the cheapest new or secondhand version of an item. Founded in 2023 by Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni, it launched publicly in April 2025 and has since surpassed 1M users and 6,200 retail partners. It monetizes through retail/affiliate partnerships and positions itself as the AI alignment layer for commerce.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

AI-powered data platform that transforms unstructured web data and documents (websites, PDFs, pitch decks, reports) into structured, enterprise-ready datasets using their proprietary DoRa model that navigates and extracts data like a human, enabling real-time web extraction for business intelligence and data workflows.

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

Trullion is an AI-powered accounting platform that automates financial workflows for accounting and audit teams, including lease accounting, revenue recognition, and audit management.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

AI Clearing provides AI-powered construction progress monitoring and reporting software. Its platform leverages machine learning and drone-captured data to deliver automated digital field tracking, 3D site reports, and 4D geospatial analytics for energy, utilities, and infrastructure projects.

AirWorks provides geospatial AI and aerial mapping workflows to convert raw field data into utility and infrastructure-ready design deliverables.

Aitan builds edge-AI robotic weapon systems for allied militaries and national-security organizations, offering a "Robotic Sovereignty-as-a-Service" platform to deploy, coordinate, and sustain autonomous robotic combat capabilities. Its systems have been battle-tested with the IDF since October 2023, logging over 500,000 operational hours.

Aleph Neuro is a San Francisco research lab building non-invasive brain interfaces, aiming to read and transmit "latents" — raw thoughts — toward direct brain-to-brain communication. In June 2026 it publicly launched with what it claims are the highest-resolution 3D images of the human brain captured from outside the skull, delivering MRI-level detail without surgery or bulky hardware. The system is built on Butterfly Network's Ultrasound-on-Chip technology via the Butterfly Embedded licensing and co-development program.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Armstrong Robotics builds general-purpose robots for commercial kitchens, starting with AI-powered dishwashing automation that handles messy, unpredictable environments with commercial-grade reliability. Its systems use robot arms with 3D perception trained on thousands of hours of real dishwashing data and integrate with existing commercial dish machines on a subscription model. The platform is designed to extend to other repetitive kitchen tasks beyond dishwashing.

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

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

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

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

AI-powered inventory management platform that helps retail and fashion brands predict demand, optimize stock levels, reduce waste, and increase sales through intelligent forecasting.

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

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.

Backline is an autonomous security remediation platform that deploys a fleet of AI agents to eliminate enterprise security backlogs at scale. Its AI team automatically interprets vulnerabilities, plans fixes, generates production-ready code, and verifies changes.

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.

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

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

Blok is a behavior simulation platform that helps product teams make confident decisions before shipping. Using AI-powered synthetic users modeled from real behavioral data, it predicts how different user groups will interact with new designs or features, achieving up to 87% behavioral fidelity when backtested against real user data.

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