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Building a frontier world model for power
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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States
Top Industrials Startups
This list has 485 startups and was last updated on Oct 15, 2026. 139 of them are hiring right now. Biggest hubs: San Francisco (237), Los Angeles (40), and New York (21). Largest teams: Cruise, Relativity Space, and Tractian. Latest round: HyLight raised €13M (Oct 12, 2026).
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Genetically engineering plants for disease resistance.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Building low-cost cruise missiles
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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States
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Datadog for robots
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Robotic Training Data at Scale
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HQ: Boston, MA, United States
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Quick-turn bent tube shop for aerospace, energy, industrials
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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States
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AI-native remote operations center for hardware fleets
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Distributed energy infrastructure unlocking grid power to data centers
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HQ: London, United Kingdom
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Robots for the inspection and maintenance of data centers
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HQ: Boston, MA, United States
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Life sciences reagents and software
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HQ: Boston, MA, United States
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End-to-end Simulation for Defense Autonomy
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Next generation robot deployer
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
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AI-Native Data Center Engineering
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Waymo for excavators
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Powering tomorrow's industrial revolution in space
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HQ: San Diego, CA, United States
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Fast Physics Simulations for Rapid Design and Real Time Control
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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AI native radars for self-driving cars
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Foundation models for 24/7 Earth Observation
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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The robot workforce for infrastructure
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Automating dexterous tasks in warehouses with AI-powered robots
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Drones that clear clouds over solar farms and weaken hurricanes
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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AI that runs factories.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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The hardware-agnostic operating system for drone defense
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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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Humanoid robot platform for builders.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Hyper-efficient coolers for data centers
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Submarine drones for defense
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The fully autonomous intelligence layer in the sky.
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HQ: Boston, MA, United States
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Deployment infrastructure for Physical AI
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Robots for vehicle maintenance.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Making Diamond Semiconductors
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Real-world RL environments for robotics models
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Simulating Agents Running Industrial Companies
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Making Defense Manufacturing Faster and Cheaper
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
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Drop-in robotic labor that works on Day 1
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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States
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Industrial Controllers built for AI
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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States