What they do:
Visual AI shopping
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
YC S21Early stage
Top AI Startups in the United States
This list has 1,958 startups and was last updated on Oct 15, 2026. 632 of them are hiring right now. Biggest hubs: San Francisco (1,355), New York (312), and Los Angeles (47). Largest teams: Cruise, Relativity Space, and Podium. Latest round: Agriculture Scout AI raised $425K (Oct 13, 2026).
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What they do:
Online University for Tech Professionals
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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AI Operations Partner for Mortgage & Banking
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
YC W22Early stage
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AI operating system for veterinary care
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
YC W24Early stage
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Open-source agentic security automation platform
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
YC W24Early stage
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Generate ads. Iterate till perfect.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
YC W24Early stage
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An AI agent for scientific research
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
YC S24Early stage
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Random labs is building long running autonomous coding agents.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
YC S24Early stage
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Transform Images And Videos Into Immersive 3D With AI
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
YC S24Early stage
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AI Agents for Audit
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
YC W25Early stage
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Reimagining how Machines Learn
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
YC W25Early stage
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Accelerating world models.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
YC X25Early stage
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Agentic Business Intelligence
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
YC S25Early stage
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Bizzy works 24/7 so you never miss a lead.
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
YC S25Early stage
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General Purpose Robots
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
YC F25Early stage
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Explore dozens of design directions with your agent
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
YC F25Early stage
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AI Document Workflows for Enterprises
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
YC W26Early stage
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AI-native back-office for banks and fintechs
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
YC S26Early stage
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AI-controlled optical switching for AI clusters
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HQ: Boston, MA, United States
YC S26Early stage
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AI Employee for Manufacturing Operations
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
YC X26Early stage
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Engineering Intelligence and Token Optimization for the AI-Coding Era
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
YC S26Early stage
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The simplest interface in the world to talk AI models + spawn agents
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
YC X26Early stage
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Teaching AI to Design Chips
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
YC S26Early stage
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World Model for Freight
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
YC S26Early stage
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cards for AI agents
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
YC S26Early stage
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Autopilot for Flight Operations
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
YC S26Early stage
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AI teammates for your business-critical work.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
YC S26Early stage
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AI-native Accounting Firm that's killing Deloitte
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
YC S26Early stage
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Persistent sandboxes for agents like hermes, openclaw, claude code
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
YC F26Early stage
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Resin helps engineers design electronics faster and more reliably
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
YC F26Early stage
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AI-guided ballistic missiles, cheap enough to field in numbers that…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
YC F26Early stage
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A graph based IDE for when agents program faster than you can read
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
YC F26Early stage
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Mashup any game
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
YC F26Early stage
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Commercial insurance for small businesses
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HQ: Salt Lake City, UT, United States
YC F26Early stage
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The crowdsourced benchmark for AI-generated music and music production
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Cruise
Acquired
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Self-driving cars.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States