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AI for the physical world
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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This list has 1,861 startups and was last updated on Oct 15, 2026. 377 of them are hiring right now. Biggest hubs: San Francisco (704), New York (137), and Los Angeles (79). Largest teams: Breadfast, DoorDash, and EquipmentShare. Latest round: Scimplify raised $25M (Oct 15, 2026).
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Truckload Planning at Machine Precision
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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AI-native real estate services firm
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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States
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AI-native software for managing rail and bulk operations.
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HQ: Olathe, KS, United States
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Digital transformation for real economy businesses
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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The AI equipment manager for post-acute care
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
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Frontier grows scalable biological brains as an ML training substrate
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HQ: London, United Kingdom
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Large-scale real-world robot & human data for embodied AI
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Machine intelligence for American Welding
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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States
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Vanta for hardware
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Technology to detect and track small drones
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HQ: London, United Kingdom
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Energy independent data centers with solar and repurposed batteries.
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Software for enterprise energy procurement.
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Autonomous operations for industrial distributors
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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AI-automated factory for PCBAs
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Measure freight with security cameras
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AI mobile app that helps factory technicians fix broken machines
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HQ: Germany
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Building the Data Infrastructure layer for Physical AI.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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AI agents that interviews every employee to hand context to AI tools.
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AI-native pharma company
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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USA-made magnetics for robotics and defense.
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HQ: Boston, MA, United States
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The market behind AI hardware.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Building a neutral, sovereign alternative to Starlink
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Making chemicals 100,000x faster
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Reliable infrastructure to build, deploy and manage real-world robots.
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HQ: Denver, CO, United States
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AI-native test infrastructure layer for hardware companies
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Agentic procurement & inventory for deep tech teams.
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Turns real businesses into robotics data vendors
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Evals for robots
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Discover novel defense related materials/molecules.
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HQ: Haifa, Israel
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Predictive maintenance for power infrastructure.
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HQ: Baltimore, MD, United States
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An AI-operated logistics company.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Embodied Scientific Intelligence
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Maximum information per experiment, minimum experiments per conclusion
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HQ: Lund, Sweden
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An AI bracelet that remembers your day and acts before you ask.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Motor cortex for physical AI
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States