What they do:
Scale AI scientists whose own breakthroughs accelerate the next.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
New Startups
This list has 825 startups and was last updated on Oct 15, 2026. 205 of them are hiring right now. Biggest hubs: San Francisco (587), New York (68), and London (19). Largest teams: Zerocater, Human Archive, and Perit.AI. Latest round: Beyond Reach Labs raised $10M (Oct 6, 2026).
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HERA
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We make sure every factory in the world builds without mistakes.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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AI For The Skilled Workforce
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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OpenClaw for manufacturers
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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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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The autonomous AI model factory
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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The AI-native trading company: factory prices, delivered, one number
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, 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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Hotels that run themselves
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Organizing company knowledge
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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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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Building Products and Datasets for Frontier Models
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Grok bot for GTM & Revenue teams
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Aktoria Robotics
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Human as API for robots
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Rational
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First Zero-human Accounting Firm
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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24/7 Personal Health & Longevity Companion
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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AI tools for the chips your AI runs on
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Building and Protecting an Exciting Future
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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States
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Autonomous rovers to make the ‘Google Maps’ of underground utilities
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Ooak Data
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We turn company data into training data
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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The world's frontier hacker of AI agents.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Autonomous IT Delivery
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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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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Self-optimizing neocloud that cuts LLM costs by 100x
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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The frontier data platform for aligned health and biological AI
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HQ: London, United Kingdom
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The Media Engine of the AI Era
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Reliable and safe data engineering and data science agents
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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The robot workforce for infrastructure
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Autopilot for Flight Operations
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
YC S26Early stage
ProvenMetal
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AI-native electronics manufacturing for the American industrial base
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Drone swarm defence at a small-unit level
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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The company brain for construction companies
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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agents for the rest of us
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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The AI BPO for financial servies, run by computer-use agents
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Distributed, hardware-agnostic AI inference
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Torus
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Legora for physical engineering firms
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States