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Robot Cowboys that Herd Cattle with AI Drones
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Deep Tech Startups Hiring Now
This list has 377 startups and was last updated on Oct 15, 2026. Biggest hubs: San Francisco (180), New York (50), and Los Angeles (19). Largest teams: DoorDash, EquipmentShare, and 99minutos. Latest round: HyLight raised €13M (Oct 12, 2026).
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PerfectBit, Inc.
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Robotics
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
LightSprint
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What they do:
Software factory for product teams
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Nine Fives
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RF test equipment for next-gen spacecraft, drones, and cellphones
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
AquaShield
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AI water leak detection for buildings
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Arlo Industries
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What they do:
Track drones and missiles without radars - Accurate, Passive, Scalable
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
Neuromorphic
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Building robots to automate wetlabs
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
83 Sciences
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AI-native materials discovery powered by unpublished experimental data
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Vernius Systems, Inc.
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What they do:
Mass-deployable radars for air defense
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
The Subvocal Company
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What they do:
Talk to your computer without talking
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Buoyant Aero
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What they do:
Bringing back blimps
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
Osium AI
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What they do:
Speed up materials innovation with Artificial Intelligence
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Mineflow
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Mineflow predicts the shape and location of mineral deposits
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Zettascale Computing
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What they do:
Chips for frontier AI
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Cerulion
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What they do:
Open source operating system for robots
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
PermitPortal
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What they do:
AI Operating System for Pre-construction
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Fresco
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What they do:
AI copilot for construction estimators
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Enhanced Radar
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What they do:
AI for air traffic control
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Hey Telo
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What they do:
Voice AI for Home Services
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HQ: Germany
Paragon
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The AI Growth Engine for Industrials
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Chestnut
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The first AI mortgage lender
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Opusense AI
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What they do:
AI for Field Inspection Reports
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OS3
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What they do:
Affordable, intelligent humanoid robots built to deploy at scale
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Waddle Labs
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What they do:
LLMs that control robots
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
One Robot
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What they do:
World models for robot evals and training.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
AutoSitu
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What they do:
The AI operating system for the built world
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OctaPulse
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Building the robotics layer for seafood production
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HQ: Frisco, TX, United States
Ventura
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What they do:
AI Workforce for Distributors and Manufacturers
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Terranox AI
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The first AI-powered uranium discovery company
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Rudus
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What they do:
AI Takeoffs for Concrete
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Discovered Materials
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What they do:
AI scientists to discover materials for the semiconductor industry.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
HERA
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What they do:
We make sure every factory in the world builds without mistakes.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Synapse Semiconductor
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What they do:
New semiconductors that merge compute and vision
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HQ: Durham, NC, United States
IMPACT Drones
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What they do:
Air Defense as a Service for Civilian Infrastructure.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Marble
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What they do:
The autonomous back-of-house for restaurants.
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
Aktoria Robotics
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What they do:
Human as API for robots
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States