Core Automation investigates alternatives to conventional model scaling, exploring new learning algorithms and neural network architectures that extend beyond traditional pretraining and reinforcement learning. Its work includes building AI agents and systems designed to perform iterative tasks, optimize workflows, and support research activities. The company structures its operations around teams augmented by automated systems, using internal workflows as test environments for experimentation and refinement. It integrates systems engineering with machine learning research to design tools that improve productivity and enable continuous feedback between development and deployment. | | | 10 - 50 | 2026 | $100,000,000 |
Compresr is a platform that compresses text for LLMs, saving tokens and costs, and includes an API, a Python SDK & adjustable compression. | | | 2 - 10 | 2026 | $500,000 |
Vector Legal is a hybrid AI law firm + legal tech platform. Our customers benefit from state of the art software for their legal operations and an experienced lawyer-in-the-loop when needed. | | | 5 - 10 | 2026 | $500,000 |
Lance is an AI voice agent for hotels that automates guest calls, messages, bookings, and service requests via system integrations. | | | 2 - 10 | 2026 | $5,500,000 |
Balerion AI specializes in an agentic AI platform designed specifically for the mortgage lending industry. | | | 2 - 10 | 2026 | $6,000,000 |
Waniwani is an AI distribution infrastructure company that builds the ''Shopify for services,'' enabling companies to sell quote-based offerings directly inside large language models such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini | | | 1 - 10 | 2026 | $8,000,000 |
OMG Goals is a developer of goal-tracking and career exploration platform for students. | | | 1 - 10 | 2026 | $165,000 |
TsugiCinema is a media and entertainment company that offers a platform for people to watch and publish cinema on the internet. | | | 1 - 10 | 2026 | $250,000 |
We help highly regulated financial institutions and fintechs prevent financial crimes.
With our AI agents, you can process 10X compliance workload per analyst, with bullet-proof audit logs for regulators! | | | 1 - 10 | 2026 | $3,000,000 |
IP remains one of the most powerful tools companies have to protect the innovations that drive future revenue. Yet the work behind it is still slow and fragmented - split across silos, legacy systems, and manual processes. The result is unclear priorities, delayed decisions, and avoidable risk.
We’re reinventing how companies create and protect innovation by building modern IP infrastructure, so teams can move faster, focus on what matters, and turn invention into durable advantage. | | | 2 - 10 | 2026 | $11,000,000 |
Your agent processed a refund without looking up the order, costing you thousands. It emailed your top lead using hallucinated data, ruining the deal. You only found out three hours later from a support ticket or an angry email.
Evals, output scoring, and observability are all necessary - but all reactive. They can reduce the likelihood of these problems occurring, but there's no solution that inspects an action as it’s about to execute. Salus does that.
If you are deploying agents and want to improve their correctness we’d love to help. Book a demo on our website, and we can onboard you immediately. We can get you started with just a pip install and a few lines of code. | | | 1 - 10 | 2026 | $500,000 |
Shortkit offers an SDK for integrating, delivering, managing, and analyzing short-form vertical videos. | | | 1 - 10 | 2026 | $500,000 |
Carrot Labs develops AI software that generates and tests code changes to help developers build and modify software applications. | | | 1 - 10 | 2026 | $500,000 |
End Close offers software that automates payment reconciliation, exception handling, and compliance reporting. | | | 1 - 10 | 2026 | $500,000 |
Zerosettle offers a merchant web checkout software for iOS apps to process payments, manage tax, and handle compliance and disputes. | | | 2 - 10 | 2026 | $500,000 |
Unisson is a B2B software company that offers AI agents that learn product workflows and execute complex tasks inside software. | | | 1 - 10 | 2026 | $500,000 |
Asimov collects and labels real-world human activity data to train AI models for robots to operate in physical environments. | | | 1 - 10 | 2026 | $500,000 |
Hex Security is a cybersecurity company that offers autonomous AI agents for penetration testing in web apps and APIs. | | | 1 - 10 | 2026 | $500,000 |
Rev1 offers AI-powered geometric, dimensioning, and tolerancing automation for mechanical engineers. | | | 1 - 10 | 2026 | $500,000 |
Revnu is an AI growth team that runs your entire business — except the product. Ad campaigns, SEO, A/B testing, email automation, customer support, win-back flows, pricing intelligence, session analysis, community management, affiliate programs. All the work founders know they should be doing but never get round to. Merge one PR and AI agents go to work, around the clock. You build the app. Revnu runs everything else. | | | 1 - 10 | 2026 | $500,000 |
Humble makes fully autonomous, electric haulers designed for the most efficient, cost-effective commercial freight transportation. Humble's Class 8 vehicles are built from the ground up to handle complex logistics scenarios, blending vision-language-action (VLA) models and robust, lightweight hardware on a universal platform that supports multiple vehicle configurations. We're currently hiring across robotics, physical AI, engineering, and logistics. | | | 10 - 50 | 2026 | $24,000,000 |
Lovie.co is a fintech startup providing smart banking solutions for payments, payroll, and financial operations for modern users. | | | 10 - 50 | 2026 | |
Exterview is an agentic AI hiring platform powered by six agents: JD Intelligence, Resume Intelligence, Voice Interview, Avatar Interview, Human Interview Orchestration, and BGV. Together they automate screening, interviews, fraud checks, and decisions end to end at scale | | | 10 - 50 | 2026 | $1,000,000 |
Mocha Care is a SaaS platform that offers AI-powered staffing and workforce management tools for home care agencies. | | | 1 - 10 | 2026 | $500,000 |
Otto is the first voice-first, self-driving anti-CRM built around AI. For decades, CRM has relied on manual updates — moving deal stages, logging notes, maintaining fields. Even with AI layered on top, the underlying architecture still depends on human upkeep. Otto changes that. Otto listens to sales conversations, updates deal stages automatically, and keeps your pipeline accurate in real time. Before your first meeting, Otto briefs you. After every call, Otto updates. By the end of the day, your forecast is already real. No logging. No pipeline clean-ups. No chasing reps for updates. Your reps sell. Otto runs the system. | | | 10 - 50 | 2026 | $500,000 |
Clone Labs is building a User Model an AI that understands user intent and context without requiring constant intervention, enabling autonomous decision-making on the user's behalf. | | | 1 - 10 | 2026 | |
The Terminal for Coding Agents - Run a team of 100 Claude Code, Codex, or any CLI agents on your machine | | | 1 - 10 | 2026 | |
Our mission is to secure agentic workflows in real time without slowing innovation. | | | 1 - 10 | 2025 | |
Shaping the future of law, compliance, and AI through intelligent, domain-specific systems | | | 10 - 50 | 2025 | |
Meteor presents itself as an agentic browser that understands pages, suggests actions, and automates tasks with a single click. | | | 1 - 10 | 2025 | $500,000 |
Tenvie Therapeutics is a biotechnology company founded to improve patients' lives with neurological, cardiometabolic, and ophthalmic diseases. The company is focused on developing small molecules targeting brain inflammation, metabolic dysfunction, and lysosomal issues, with a robust pipeline inherited from Denali Therapeutics. Tenvie is progressing a range of therapeutics aimed at addressing neurological, cardiometabolic, and ophthalmic conditions. Its collection of fully owned, highly brain-penetrant, and precisely designed peripherally restricted small molecules targets three main factors of disease: alleviating inflammation, correcting metabolic dysfunction, and rejuvenating lysosomal function. | San Francisco | CA | 20 - 50 | 2025 | $200,000,000 |
How do you discover the future of software engineering? We're building it. Language models can write code better than most humans, but they often destroy codebases due to poor context management and understanding. The future isn't about replacing developers - it's about empowering them to orchestrate AI agents effectively. We're creating systems that enable small teams of developers to manage large-scale agent operations across the entire software lifecycle - from development to QA, security audits, and deployment. It's called Nozomio. | | | 1 - 10 | 2025 | $8,200,000 |
Operative is a software that lets coding agent debug itself using AI infrastructure. | | | 2 - 10 | 2025 | $500,000 |
Ovlo is an workflow automation software for supply chain using AI agents | | | 1 - 10 | 2025 | $500,000 |
Retail Clienteling on a whole new level. Modern and extraordinary engaging. | | | 5 - 10 | 2025 | |
Code Four is a GovTech company that uses Artificial intelligence for law enforcement through AI-driven automation. | | | 10 - 50 | 2025 | $2,700,000 |
Maive streamlines the aerospace compliance documentation required on the manufacturing shop floor. | | | 1 - 2 | 2025 | $500,000 |
Orchids is an AI app builder for web, mobile, and agents using existing AI subscriptions. It supports multiple platforms, including web apps, mobile apps, Slack bots, browser extensions, and AI agents. The platform works across any tech stack, covering languages and frameworks such as React, Python, Swift, and Flutter. Orchids functions as a full-stack coding agent that helps generate, iterate, and deploy applications from a single interface. | | | 2 - 10 | 2025 | $500,000 |
Cranston AI offers an AI-powered platform for accounting and bookkeeping services. | | | 1 - 10 | 2025 | |
BuildForever build products that feel personal, magical and deeply human. | | | 1 - 10 | 2025 | $9,500,000 |
Cumulus Labs is an inference platform for production AI. IonRouter, our public API, runs every class of workload from language to vision to multimodal at best-in-class speed and price, powered by Ion, our proprietary engine purpose-built for NVIDIA Grace superchips. Trusted in production by venture-backed companies and US defense and intelligence agencies. Y Combinator W26. San Francisco. | | | 2 - 10 | 2025 | $500,000 |
We're building the first AI email client for accounting.
We're starting with accounts payable, because we learned that AP teams spend 80% of their day just in the inbox- that's 4x more time than actually processing invoices.
Our platform equips you with agents that handle everything: triaging emails, managing multiple mailboxes, responding to vendor and internal inquiries, processing and matching invoices, onboarding vendors, and detecting fraud.
Find out why customers choose Mod AI to manage their AP at usemod.ai. Backed by the first investors in Airbnb, DoorDash, and Dropbox. | | | 1 - 10 | 2025 | $500,000 |
Zalos provides artificial intelligence software that automates finance operations through computer-based agents that execute tasks within existing enterprise systems. The company develops AI agents that log into accounting platforms, enterprise resource planning systems, and external portals to perform workflows such as invoice processing, reconciliations, payroll operations, and form handling without requiring system replacements. Its platform is designed to replicate human interactions with software interfaces, enabling automation across fragmented systems, including those with login barriers, multi-factor authentication, and legacy environments. These agents can extract data from documents, input information across systems, and trigger downstream processes, allowing finance teams to streamline repetitive and manual tasks. | | | 2 - 10 | 2025 | $4,100,000 |
AI-powered robotics for scientific lab automation. Backed by Y Combinator (X25). | | | 5 - 10 | 2025 | |
LineWise is a AI Engineer troubleshoot system that helps manufacturers maximize production uptime. | | | 2 - 10 | 2025 | $1,600,000 |
Lightberry designs and develop robotic software for human-robot interactions with emotional intelligence. | | | 2 - 10 | 2025 | $500,000 |
Notte is the fastest, most reliable framework for Browser Using Agents. We provide an open-core browser infrastructure with a perception layer turning webpages into an action API in text—making it simple for LLMs to read, understand, and act on sites. Our tech wins on speed, cost, and task success, letting you build smaller, faster, and smarter agents—ready for production. | | | 2 - 10 | 2025 | $2,500,000 |
Go global with video conferencing that delivers split-second audio translation, synchronized lip movements, and natural expressions, so you can conduct calls and webinars and seem like a native speaker. Whether you’re working with global teams, meeting new clients, connecting casually, or presenting to millions, Pinch eliminates language barriers and makes every interaction feel authentic and effortless. Everything works, in a Pinch! | | | 2 - 10 | 2025 | $500,000 |
Infrastructure to power every customer interaction on the internet. | | | 10 - 50 | 2025 | $500,000 |
We are making the AI scientist that will fully automate the scientific exploration workflow advancing science at a breakneck speed. Our first version, takes in a seed idea, an initial code base, and it conducts research exactly like a human researcher would. It comes up with hypothesis, runs experiments, gathers results and publishes a real research paper. We are trying to make onboarding super simple: connect your research repository, give the AI Scientist a direction to work towards, and see tangible results in minutes. | | | 2 - 10 | 2025 | $500,000 |
Robby offers AI software that supports HVAC technicians with job context, documentation, and syncing service data to office systems. | | | 1 - 10 | 2025 | $500,000 |
The simulation engine to benchmark GenAI agents | | | 1 - 10 | 2025 | $500,000 |
Kaigo Health delivers an AI-enabled care management platform that supports post-discharge follow-ups, remote patient monitoring, and ongoing engagement for Medicare and senior populations. The software automates outreach via phone, SMS, and chat to check symptoms, medication adherence, and vitals from connected devices. Risk scoring and triage flag issues early, route tasks to care teams, and surface readmission risk for timely intervention. Dashboards visualize patient status and trends and translate insights into next-step actions within existing clinical workflows. APIs and integrations connect to electronic health records and care team tools to streamline data capture and handoffs. Use cases include transitional care management, chronic disease management, and preventative outreach for provider groups and payer programs. | | | 1 - 10 | 2025 | |
Honeyjar is the AI platform for PR teams, agencies, and marketing and communications leaders. Designed by comms professionals, Honeyjar expertly runs the entire workflow while bringing news, social, and all the critical data for comms into one intelligent, centralized workspace. | | | 1 - 10 | 2025 | $2,000,000 |
Veritus is a fintech start-up that builds an AI-native platform of intelligent agents for the consumer lending industry. | | | 1 - 10 | 2025 | $10,100,000 |
Paloma ingests your contracts, quotes and emails and spins them into billing-ready logic. | | | 1 - 10 | 2025 | $500,000 |
Hire Glide offers an AI platform that ranks applicants against job descriptions and sources pre-assessed candidates for hiring. | | | 2 - 10 | 2025 | $500,000 |
A new way to measure the quality of AI agents using human feedback.
Our mission: build the engine that powers self-improving software. | | | 1 - 10 | 2025 | $500,000 |
Perseus Defense produces counter-drone systems for the Department of Defense and homeland security. | | | 2 - 10 | 2025 | $6,500,000 |
Janus AI is an AI testing company that evaluates AI agents and creates simulated AI users to replace manual testing process. | | | 2 - 10 | 2025 | $500,000 |
TensorFlow is an artificial intelligence and machine learning software library. Although it can be applied to a variety of tasks, neural network training and inference are its primary uses. It is among the most widely used deep learning frameworks, along with PaddlePaddle and PyTorch. | | | 1 - 10 | 2025 | $500,000 |
Semble AI automates fire and life-safety system design using AI to turn manual workflows into code-compliant processes. | | | 2 - 10 | 2025 | $500,000 |
InventoryQuant is an AI platform that converts audio and video inventory data into structured, itemized reports for insurance workflows. | | | 1 - 10 | 2025 | $500,000 |
Doe is an enterprise AI system that provides real-time financial insights to boost efficiency and profitability. | | | 1 - 10 | 2025 | $500,000 |
Thinking Machines Lab Inc. is an American artificial intelligence (AI) startup founded by Mira Murati, the former chief technology officer of OpenAI. The company was founded in February 2025, and by July had completed an early-stage funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz, raising $2 billion at a valuation of $12 billion overall from investors such as Nvidia, AMD, Cisco, and Jane Street. The company is based in San Francisco and structured as a public benefit corporation. | | | 50 - 200 | 2025 | |
Miniswap offers a marketplace for tabletop wargaming miniatures. | | | 1 - 10 | 2025 | $4,000,000 |
Kaizen International works with the world’s largest and most dynamic companies to drive extraordinary success on an accelerated timeframe. | | | 2 - 10 | 2025 | $500,000 |
Nixo is an operations platform that equips FDEs with the necessary operations infrastructure. | | | 1 - 10 | 2025 | $500,000 |
Pgdogs LLC provides professional services. The Company offers accounting, advertising, marketing, consulting, and architectural services. | | | 1 - 10 | 2025 | |
A1Base functions as the communication, trust, and identity framework for AI agents, aimed at enhancing interactions with human users. | | | 1 - 10 | 2025 | $500,000 |
Collate uses AI to create and streamline paperwork for diagnostic, medical device, and drug development companies-from concept to market. Our mission is to accelerate life-saving innovations by creating accurate documentation for the life sciences industry. | | | 10 - 50 | 2025 | $30,000,000 |
Attune makes blazingly fast build tools that require zero migration effort. | | | 5 - 10 | 2025 | $500,000 |
Valius offers the most comprehensive molecular workup for cancer.
We help patients understand their cancer in depth, and intelligently evaluate therapeutic options. | | | 1 - 10 | 2025 | $10,000,000 |
At Roadrunner, we are rebuilding Quote-to-Cash, starting with an AI-native CPQ. Our ambition is to put revenue back in motion, and we’re starting by giving every Account Executive the ability to structure any deal instantly, just like the best rep in the company.
Roadrunner is the first Kleiner Perkins incubation since Glean, now valued at $7.2B.
Our seed round is led by Mamoon Hamid, and our CEO, Joubin Mirzadegan, brings deep, long-standing relationships with the enterprise buyers we’re building for. We’ve co-developed the product with paying design partners and have a seemingly endless customer waitlist.
We’ve assembled a world-class technical team from Robinhood, Citadel, Snowflake, Databricks, and NASA. | | | 5 - 10 | 2025 | $27,200,000 |
RadixArk focuses on developing infrastructure for AI inference and training systems. It builds tools to make frontier-level AI more efficient, accessible, and cost-effective. | | | 10 - 50 | 2025 | $100,000,000 |
Lapis is a software company currently based in San Francisco, California, United States. It has been founded in 2025 by Varunram Ganesh and Sai Surbehera. | | | 2 - 10 | 2025 | $125,000 |
Pi Security is an agentic AI-driven product security platform that enables organizations to automate security throughout the software development lifecycle, proactively uncover risks, strengthen compliance, and accelerate secure software delivery. | | | 1 - 10 | 2025 | $35,000,000 |
Fluxa transforms static pricing into a continuously optimized economic system - rebalancing thousands of pricing decisions per second across the physical economy. | | | 1 - 10 | 2025 | $1,500,000 |
Structured AI reads building codes, standards, drawing, and project requirements to generate and update the technical documents that normally take weeks to complete. Its AI agents live inside software tools like Revit, Word, Excel, and SharePoint that mechanical, electrical, civil, and structural engineers already use. | | | 2 - 10 | 2025 | |
Liva AI is a software company currently based in San Francisco, California, United States. It has been founded in 2025 by Ashley Mo and Aoi Otani. | | | 2 - 10 | 2025 | $3,000,000 |
Tensormesh is the next-generation AI infrastructure company helping teams maximize GPU efficiency and accelerate large language model inference. Built on the open-source LMCache project, Tensormesh’s caching-based optimizations deliver up to 10× faster inference at a fraction of the cost. Backed by Laude Ventures and leading angels. | | | 10 - 50 | 2025 | $24,500,000 |
Hobbes is an in-app copilot that sees what your users see, turning every software experience into an effortless adventure | | | 2 - 10 | 2025 | |
Reprogram Biosciences is a biotechnology company that develops cancer treatment with cell reprogramming technology. | | | 1 - 10 | 2025 | $6,000,000 |
Modern Relay provides context graph for enterprise AI. | | | 2 - 10 | 2025 | 2500000 EUR |
Numos develops an AI-powered platform designed to automate financial operations for businesses. Its platform integrates with existing enterprise systems and uses advanced reasoning to turn raw financial data into actionable insights, helping finance teams reduce manual work and focus on strategic decision-making. | | | 2 - 10 | 2025 | $4,250,000 |
Narrative is the AI video processing infrastructure, enabling agents to understand and process video as easily as they do text. | | | 1 - 10 | 2025 | $500,000 |
Altara is a San Francisco–based startup building a scientific-intelligence AI platform that analyzes complex physical-science and engineering data (batteries, chips, materials, etc.) to speed up R&D and failure analysis. | | | 1 - 10 | 2025 | $7,000,000 |
Acrely provides an AI-powered voice assistant that handles inbound calls, qualifies leads, books appointments, and manages follow‑ups. | | | 1 - 10 | 2025 | $500,000 |
Drafted.ai is an AI-powered platform that creates personalized home floor plans and layouts based on user inputs, including room count, style, and preferences. | | | 1 - 10 | 2025 | $17,650,000 |
Patientdesk.ai is an AI-powered front desk platform aimed largely at dental clinics, automating patient interactions such as calls, bookings, insurance verification, and payment. | | | 2 - 10 | 2025 | $3,800,000 |
Kestroll is an AI-based platform that offers a central interface for the entire organization to access and distribute content. | | | 1 - 10 | 2025 | $500,000 |
MindPortal makes a wearable device that can read your mind. It’s as accurate as Neuralink but requires no surgery. | | | 5 - 10 | 2025 | $5,000,000 |
Fearn is an AI-native patent drafting platform that lets inventors and companies prepare patent applications in minutes instead of 50+ hours, with flat-rate pricing and no third‑party AI models. | | | 2 - 10 | 2025 | $5,500,000 |
Zarna offers an AI agent that automates sourcing, diligence, and portfolio workflows for private equity and investment firms. | | | 5 - 10 | 2025 | $500,000 |
Panta Insurance Services offers liability, property, worker's compensation, cyber and tech, and commercial auto insurance. | | | 1 - 10 | 2025 | |
Lumian is built to help Amazon brands run more efficiently through a combined model of specialized AI agents and experienced brand managers. Its system monitors account activity continuously, surfaces issues like stockouts, suppressions, and wasted spend, and supports end-to-end management of Amazon operations. | | | 10 - 50 | 2025 | $3,000,000 |
HeyJared is an AI-powered public relations platform designed for early-stage startups. The platform helps founders land press coverage by providing AI-driven journalist matching, personalized pitch generation, and comprehensive media research tools. With access to 100K+ journalists, 100K+ newsletters, and 4.8M podcasts, HeyJared enables startups to find and connect with the right media sources at a fraction of traditional PR agency costs ($99/month vs. $10K+ retainers). Key features include: • AI-powered journalist matching based on beat and writing style • Automated pitch generation tailored to each reporter • Database of verified media contacts across 50K+ publications • Coverage tracking and journalist response monitoring • Filter by beat, outlet, geography, and recent activity | | | 1 - 10 | 2025 | |
Kaliper is the agentic ops layer for performance marketing. Its AI agents score, route, dedupe, and audit every inbound call in real time, replacing the operations teams that pay-per-call networks rely on to manage call quality, compliance, and attribution. | | | 2 - 10 | 2025 | |
Digipals builds an AI-native group chat app that helps to hang out with friends | | | 2 - 10 | 2025 | $500,000 |
Deeptrace develops AI SRE agents that detect, investigate, and resolve production incidents. | | | 1 - 10 | 2025 | $5,500,000 |