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Autopilot for Flight Operations
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
YC S26Early stage
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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What they do:
Next generation gas turbines for data centers & aviation
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YC F26Early stage
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Hyperscaling space manufacturing
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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States
YC F26Early stage
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Autonomous CNC factories for faster hardware
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
YC F26Early stage
What they do:
AI-guided ballistic missiles, cheap enough to field in numbers that…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
YC F26Early stage
Cruise
Acquired
What they do:
Self-driving cars.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Bear Flag Robotics
Acquired
What they do:
Autonomous driving technology for farm tractors.
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States
Oolu
Acquired
What they do:
Oolu is one of the fastest growing off-grid solar firms in West Africa
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HQ: Dakar, Senegal
Volansi
Acquired
What they do:
Autonomous VTOL delivery solutions.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Pachama
Acquired
What they do:
Restoring nature to solve climate change.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
MineralSoft
Acquired
What they do:
Data management platform for oil & gas assets
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HQ: Austin, TX, United States
Teleo
Acquired
What they do:
Supervised Autonomous Heavy Equipment
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Pina Earth
Acquired
What they do:
Unlocking carbon markets for European forest owners
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PowerX
Acquired
What they do:
AI powered sensors that save energy, water and emissions
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
Talyn Air
Acquired
What they do:
Long range, battery electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft.
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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States
Phiar
Acquired
What they do:
We are developing a revolutionary AI-powered augmented reality…
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Rain Neuromorphics
Acquired
What they do:
We build artificial intelligence processors inspired by the brain.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Octopart
Acquired
What they do:
Octopart is a search engine for electronic components
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
inBalance
Acquired
What they do:
Electricity price forecasts for energy storage, ev charging, etc.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Curo
Acquired
What they do:
Electric fleets park and charge anywhere with Curo
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Tule
Acquired
What they do:
Help farmers make irrigation decisions with sensors / computer vision
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HQ: Davis, CA, United States
Atomic Alchemy
Acquired
What they do:
We produce cancer-curing materials used in nuclear medicine.
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HQ: Idaho Falls, ID, United States
Orbillion Bio
Acquired
What they do:
Tasty and scalable cultivated meat at price parity
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Kapacity.io
Acquired
What they do:
Reducing energy costs & emissions in buildings.
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lvl5
Acquired
What they do:
HD maps for self-driving cars.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Glow Energy
Acquired
What they do:
Unlocking Virtual Power Plants for rental properties
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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States
FarmLogs
Acquired
What they do:
Software that helps farmers operate more profitable businesses.
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HQ: Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Roin Technologies
Acquired
What they do:
Building robots to automate commercial concrete construction.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Nexa Labs
Acquired
What they do:
Implantable microchips and AI for cattle monitoring
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Valor Water Analytics
Acquired
What they do:
Valor Water Analytics delivers a SaaS platform to utilities to detect…
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HQ: Seattle, WA, United States
Palifer
Acquired
What they do:
Predictive maintenance models for trains and heavy industry
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Prototyping.io
Acquired
What they do:
Autonomous manufacturing for mechanical parts
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Avea Robotics
Acquired
What they do:
The human-in-the-loop system for robots
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Auro Robotics
Acquired
What they do:
Autonomous shuttles for campus-like environments.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
YC S15Early stage