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The AI workspace for software implementations
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Top Engineering, Product and Design Startups
This list has 629 startups and was last updated on Oct 15, 2026. 142 of them are hiring right now. Biggest hubs: San Francisco (360), New York (59), and London (22). Largest teams: GitLab, Optimizely, and Flock Safety. Latest round: Clueso raised $10M (Oct 13, 2026).
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Physics-based foundation models for CAD optimization.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Self learning computer use agent for developers
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Run open models as fast as your hardware allows
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Building tiny frontier AI models that run on edge devices
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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The Cursor for Chip Design - Delivering Silicon-Ready Chip Designs…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Payment infrastructure for AI agents
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Find what's losing you customers and money in your AI agent and fix it
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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The Routing Layer for AI Agents
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Identify churn risk and stay close to users at scale
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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The coding agent that actually collaborates with you
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Code and browse in the same place
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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The cloud platform built for coding agents
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Claude Code for Mechanical Engineers
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Datadog for Agent Reliability
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Turning all software into agent-first APIs
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Notion for AI chats
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Infrastructure for Autonomous Science
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Your software should build itself.
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Adversarial AI that breaks your AI
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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AI Video Production for Professionals
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Code review platform for humans and agents
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
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Make software self-healing
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Near-real-time video infrastructure for LLMs
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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OpenRouter for Agent Tools
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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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Effortlessly deploy cloud software factories.
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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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Legora for AEC (Architecture, Engineering, & Construction) firms
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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
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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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The biggest crowdsourced benchmark for Computer-Use
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Test agents in realistic worlds built from production usage
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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AI users that test your app on every device and browser
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Give AI agents the right context at the right moment
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Automate on-call at agent-scale.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States