What they do:
AWS for precision manufacturing
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Top Industrials Startups
This list has 485 startups and was last updated on Oct 16, 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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Buoyant Aero
Hiring
What they do:
Bringing back blimps
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HQ: New York, NY, United States
Mineflow
Hiring
What they do:
Mineflow predicts the shape and location of mineral deposits
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Zettascale Computing
Hiring
What they do:
Chips for frontier AI
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Enhanced Radar
Hiring
What they do:
AI for air traffic control
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
OS3
Hiring
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Affordable, intelligent humanoid robots built to deploy at scale
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Robotic factories that build robots
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HQ: Emeryville, CA, United States
Waddle Labs
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What they do:
LLMs that control robots
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
One Robot
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What they do:
World models for robot evals and training.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
OctaPulse
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OctaPulse builds computer vision and robotics for fish farms and…
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HQ: Frisco, TX, United States
Ventura
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What they do:
AI Workforce for Distributors and Manufacturers
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Terranox AI
Hiring
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The first AI-powered uranium discovery company
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Discovered Materials
Hiring
What they do:
AI scientists to discover materials for the semiconductor industry.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
HERA
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What they do:
We make sure every factory in the world builds without mistakes.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Synapse Semiconductor
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What they do:
New semiconductors that merge compute and vision
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HQ: Durham, NC, United States
IMPACT Drones
Hiring
What they do:
Air Defense as a Service for Civilian Infrastructure.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Aktoria Robotics
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What they do:
Human as API for robots
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Drone swarm defence at a small-unit level
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Humanoids to restock retail shelves & pick orders
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HQ: Switzerland
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Tesseract builds better thrusters for modern satellites
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HQ: Livermore, CA, United States
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We turn CO2 into battery-grade graphite and oxygen.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Building flying wind turbines.
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Repellent coatings without PFAS
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HQ: State College, PA, United States
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The spot market for semiconductors
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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We stop cows from burping methane.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
What they do:
Building persistent, high-performance infrastructure in the sky
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HQ: Seattle, WA, United States
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We make robots that move boxes in warehouses
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
Consus
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The fastest and cheapest way to use AI with ITAR or CUI data.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Mass-producing and financing micro data center incredibly quickly.
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Rocket cargo delivery to contested environments
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HQ: Los Angeles, CA, United States
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AI that tells mining companies where to mine to maximize profits
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Minimum
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Helping corporates achieve Net Zero through tech solutions.
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HQ: London, United Kingdom
YC S20Early stage
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Autonomous street sweeping as a service by retro-fitting vehicles
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States
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Hypersonic space plane that can take-off from any location and weather
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HQ: Dayton, OH, United States
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Farm Genetics Made Easy - Using DNA and Software
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HQ: Asheville, NC, United States
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Unified flight software and hardware for the mission of tomorrow
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HQ: San Francisco, CA, United States