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Rebuilding healthcare with AI at the core
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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States
This list has 49 startups and was last updated on Oct 15, 2026. 15 of them are hiring right now. Biggest hubs: San Francisco (29), Los Angeles (2), and London (2). Largest teams: Akido Labs, Focal Systems, and Mashgin. Latest round: Numerion Labs raised $19.8M (Mar 19, 2026).

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Rebuilding healthcare with AI at the core
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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States

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Building the Operating System for B&M Retail using Deep Learning
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States

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Self-Checkout using Computer Vision.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States

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Artificial intelligence for drug discovery.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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$19.8M · Equity · Mar 2026

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AI Document Understanding API
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Reshaping industrial quality with AI, hardware, and software
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States

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Making Anime Real
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States

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Enable creators and developers to generate realistic AI personas
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Handl converts documents (invoices, income stabs, custom forms, etc.)…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States

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AI-native Robotics
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HQ: Boston, MA, United States

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The next generation care enablement platform
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HQ: London, United Kingdom

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Video AI to automatically detect and respond to production line…
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HQ: Zürich, Switzerland

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Database for AI
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States

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We work on generalizable tools for the next era of biotech.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States

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Generative AI for protein design
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States

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Building AGI that can innovate.
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HQ: Remote

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Computational antibody design
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HQ: Austin, TX, United States

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Cloud AI microscopy automation
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HQ: Austin, TX, United States

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Transform your video monitoring with AI
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States

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Fast, reliable, reproducible AI with GPU live migration
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HQ: New York, NY, United States

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Self-Driving Customer Care
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States

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Language models for enterprise applications.
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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States

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Robotic factories that build robots
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HQ: Emeryville, CA, United States

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AI That Operates Energy Infrastructure
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States

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Scale AI scientists whose own breakthroughs accelerate the next.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States

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We tell sellers exactly when a company is ready to buy.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States

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A live watermark inside AI voice that survives phone calls
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States

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Enzyme design models.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States

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Unlock wasted GPU capacity.
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HQ: London, United Kingdom

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Shire uses CCTV to run restaurants in real time.
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HQ: Myrtle Beach, SC, United States

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Enable robots to operate safely in the real world.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States

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Infuse knowledge into language models with just 10 samples
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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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Wet lab infrastructure that turns AI experiments into training data.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States

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Predictive maintenance for power infrastructure.
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HQ: Baltimore, MD, United States

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Forward Deployed Research Services
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
There are 49 startups on this list, last updated on Oct 15, 2026.
15 of them are hiring right now, including Mashgin, Overview, and Spellbrush.
By team size: Akido Labs (1,000 employees), Focal Systems (170 employees), and Mashgin (150 employees).
Latest rounds: Numerion Labs — $19.8M Equity (Mar 2026).
The biggest hubs are San Francisco (29), Los Angeles (2), and London (2).