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Evals for humans
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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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Least cost routing system to reduce 70%+ token spend
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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We find where AI agents fail, then train better models to run them.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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We turn waste gases into supply-secure chemicals
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HQ: Chicago, IL, United States
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AI engineer that debugs and fixes production incidents in realtime
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Floracene
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Vibecode + deploy HIPAA-compliant internal tools, no eng team needed
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
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AI FDE that deploys custom AI agents into ERPs
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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The IDE for Tokenmaxxers
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HQ: Boston, MA, United States
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AI native platform for real estate closings
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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OpenRouter for Voice AI: one API, every call on the best speech model
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
screenpipe
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Turn your company's computer work into AI agents.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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The cheapest, fastest inference cloud
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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
LemonLime
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Fully automated GTM for small business
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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
Locke
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The AI-native firm for public influence.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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AI-Native Insurance for Frontier Tech
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Building Autonomous Research Agents for Trading
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HQ: Boston, MA, United States
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Autonomous construction on Earth and beyond
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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The most capable American-made humanoid robot for $1,688
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Deploying robots to replace workers in hazardous spaces
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Autonomous AI defense system for cyber attack
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Internal industrial company data for frontier labs
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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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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The identity and communication layer for AI agents
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Edviro
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AI That Operates Energy Infrastructure
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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A cloud devbox that feels local
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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AI Agents to Make Local Gov Efficient
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Molagri
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Resistance free pesticides.
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Building drone swarms that hunt hidden enemies.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Research lab building the most robotic household in the world
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Build everyday back-office agents on one live model of your books
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Open source AI gateway that turns your traffic into better models
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Operon
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Agentic data layer for manufacturing & process industries.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
YC S26Early stage
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The AI-native contact center
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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We make law firms AI-native.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States