What they do:
Building intellectually curious AI
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Top Deep Learning Startups
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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What they do:
Waymo for excavators
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
What they do:
Enterprise post-training, monitoring, and continual learning platform
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
What they do:
A factory for small and specialized video reasoning models
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Aquarium Learning
Acquired
What they do:
We help ML teams improve their models by improving their datasets
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Segments.ai
Acquired
What they do:
Build better computer vision models by building better datasets
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HQ: Brussels, Belgium
Jido Maps
Acquired
What they do:
Turn your data into a deployed computer vision model
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Sepsis Scout
Acquired
What they do:
Wearables and AI to predict and prevent sepsis outside the hospital
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Vathys
Shut down
What they do:
Accelerating machine learning through software
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HQ: Portland, OR, United States
AudioFocus
Shut down
What they do:
Hearing aids that work in noisy places, like restaurants, using ML.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Quadrant Eye
Shut down
What they do:
Breaking new ground in online eyecare.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Whirlscape
Shut down
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Mobile keyboards + emoji + deep learning. We make Dango. We also made…
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Preloop
Shut down
What they do:
Translate your experimental scripts into production ML services
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HQ: Seattle, WA, United States