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AWS for AI Agents
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Top Generative AI Startups
This list has 256 startups and was last updated on Oct 15, 2026. 71 of them are hiring right now. Biggest hubs: San Francisco (143), New York (37), and London (9). Largest teams: Legora, Leena AI, and Humand. Latest round: Clueso raised $10M (Oct 13, 2026).
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We turn traditional companies into AI companies
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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AI co-pilot for building plan review and building code compliance
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HQ: Salt Lake City, UT, United States
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Simulation Engine for Benchmarking AI Products
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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The agentic CRM for blue-collar services
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
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AI Shopping Agent for Your Ecommerce Store
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
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The boring stuff, handled. Everything else, supercharged.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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The first platform where families can create AI cartoons in minutes
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Enterprise post-training, monitoring, and continual learning platform
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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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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Databricks for Enterprise Codebases
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Robots that learn on the job
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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The AI coding agent for C and C++
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Transform Document Workflows with AI Agents
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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The simplest way to extract web data at scale
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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AI agents for high-value professional work
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HQ: London, United Kingdom
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AI realtime voice companion for language learning
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
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AI agents for global trade compliance
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Digital AI humans that model clothes for e-commerce brands.
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
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AI Agents for Audit
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
YC W25Early stage
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Accelerating world models.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
YC X25Early stage
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Agentic Business Intelligence
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
YC S25Early stage
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A graph based IDE for when agents program faster than you can read
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
YC F26Early stage
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
PlayAI
Acquired
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Our mission is to make Voice AI accessible and useful to all.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Langfuse
Acquired
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Open source LLM engineering platform
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Allure Systems
Acquired
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A.I. to create stunning fashion images for eCommerce.
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
Humanloop
Acquired
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Humanloop is the LLM evals platform for enterprises.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Aquarium Learning
Acquired
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We help ML teams improve their models by improving their datasets
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Traceloop
Acquired
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Know what your LLM is doing — and why it’s failing
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Kraftful
Acquired
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Copilot for product teams
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Monterey AI
Acquired
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Turn user feedback to product insights
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
EzDubs
Acquired
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Real-time speech translation
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Typedream
Acquired
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Build & launch your website in minutes with AI
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Mulligan
Acquired
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AI automation for insurance brokerages
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
OfOne
Acquired
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AI-powered order taker for restaurant drive-thrus
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States