What they do:
building the open agent runtime
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HQ: Ankara, Turkey
Top AI Agent Startups
This list has 292 startups and was last updated on Oct 15, 2026. 91 of them are hiring right now. Biggest hubs: San Francisco (151), New York (32), and London (9). Largest teams: Leena AI, Magic, and Plivo. Latest round: Harmonic Security raised $50M (Oct 14, 2026).
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What they do:
Visual AI shopping
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
YC S21Early stage
What they do:
AI Operations Partner for Mortgage & Banking
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
YC W22Early stage
What they do:
Random labs is building long running autonomous coding agents.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
YC S24Early stage
What they do:
AI Employee for Manufacturing Operations
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
YC X26Early stage
What they do:
cards for AI agents
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
YC S26Early stage
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Incorporated: 2024
Funding:
$21.2M · Equity · Jan 2026
Command AI
Acquired
What they do:
AI-powered user assistance platform
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Truva
Acquired
What they do:
Sell more. Grind less with AI agents.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
DeepSource
Acquired
What they do:
Unified DevSecOps platform, helping developers ship good code.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Clear Genetics
Acquired
What they do:
Clear Genetics is scaling delivery of Genomic services
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Symplex
Acquired
What they do:
Applied Reinforcement Learning Research Laboratory
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
Deasy Labs
Acquired
What they do:
Metadata for GenAI workflows
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
Benchmark
Acquired
What they do:
Decision infrastructure for investment firms
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
Brewit
Acquired
What they do:
Conversational data analytics for every team
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Hey Revia
Acquired
What they do:
Voice AI to automate complex phone calls for healthcare providers
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Bytebot
Acquired
What they do:
Bytebot is the open source container for AI desktop agents.
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HQ: Boston, MA, United States
Nara
Acquired
What they do:
Answer 70% of your support and sales questions. Instantly
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Vocode
Acquired
What they do:
Open source Voice AI
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Opearlo
Acquired
What they do:
Opearlo produces voice apps for Amazon Alexa and Google Home.
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HQ: London, United Kingdom
Soundry AI
Acquired
What they do:
Remix any song into any style
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HQ: Seattle, WA, United States
Remedy
Acquired
What they do:
AI Agents for Pharmacies
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Criya
Shut down
What they do:
AI that builds GTM assets in seconds
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Nophin
Shut down
What they do:
AI Deal Screening Analyst for Commercial Real Estate Acquisitions
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
Jasmine Energy
Shut down
What they do:
Claim solar incentives with AI
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HQ: Washington, DC, United States
Lynx
Shut down
What they do:
AI platform for investigating and resolving engineering incidents
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Milo
Shut down
What they do:
The Family AI - a copilot for parents to tackle the invisible load of…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Forage Mail
Shut down
What they do:
AI that solves email overwhelm. Not another mail app.
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
Phind
Shut down
What they do:
AI search engine
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Upfront
Shut down
What they do:
A personal assistant for every homeowner
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Lilac Labs
Shut down
What they do:
We automate the person taking orders at drive-thrus with a voice AI
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Platypus
Shut down
What they do:
The Distributed Data Operating System
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Ponyrun
Shut down
What they do:
Automate prospect research at scale
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Argovox
Shut down
What they do:
Voice AI agents for patient billing and collections
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Blume Benefits
Shut down
What they do:
The AI copilot for health insurance brokers.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
What they do:
First agentic AI-powered community for 1 billion people with criminal…
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HQ: Miami, FL, United States