Startups Directory

Scale AI is an AI infrastructure company providing data annotation, RLHF services, and LLM evaluation through a global workforce of 240K labelers. The company offers an API-first platform for collecting, curating, and annotating unstructured data—images, videos, documents, audio, LiDAR, and 3D point clouds—optimized for model training. Scale serves self-driving, robotics, and AI teams at major enterprises like Google, OpenAI, and Meta. The company's core differentiator is cost-effective human-in-the-loop labeling at scale, enabling continuous data pipelines and real-time model feedback loops.

Applied Intuition provides a cloud-based simulation and validation platform that enables autonomous vehicle developers to test and validate their systems in virtual environments before real-world deployment. The company's modular software suite—including Simian for simulation, Spectral for sensor modeling, and Basis for data management—accelerates development cycles from weeks to days while reducing costs. Serving 18 of the top 20 global automakers plus suppliers and autonomous programs, Applied Intuition has become the critical infrastructure for safety-critical vehicle software development across automotive, trucking, construction, and defense sectors.

Vercel is a frontend-as-a-service platform that automates deployment, scaling, and optimization of web applications through Git-connected CI/CD pipelines. The company maintains Next.js, the world's most popular React framework with 15M weekly downloads, and recently launched v0, an AI model for full-stack web development that has generated over 100M applications in under a year. Vercel serves developers and engineering teams at companies like OpenAI, PayPal, Nike, and Netflix with managed infrastructure, serverless functions, edge computing, and AI-powered development tools.

Uniphore is an AI-native platform that enables enterprises to deploy agentic AI across business functions through a composable, secure infrastructure. The Business AI Cloud combines a unified data layer, autonomous small language model factory, governed model foundation, and workflow-based agent orchestration—designed specifically for large enterprises requiring production-grade AI with data governance and security. Uniphore powers over 750,000 end users across 1,600 enterprises in 20 countries, with customers including JPMorgan Chase, Verizon, DHL, and the U.S. Coast Guard.

Quantexa is a Decision Intelligence platform that connects siloed internal and external data sources to create contextualized views of people, organizations, and events using AI and machine learning. The platform delivers 90% more accuracy and 60x faster model resolution than traditional approaches through proprietary entity resolution and contextual scoring technology. It serves enterprise organizations across financial services, telecommunications, and public sector to automate compliance, detect fraud, and unify customer views without requiring legacy system replacement.

Tomorrow.io is a weather intelligence platform that delivers hyperlocal, real-time forecasts and actionable atmospheric insights powered by proprietary satellite data, IoT networks, and AI models. The company serves enterprises across aviation, energy, logistics, and sports that need to mitigate weather-related operational risks and capitalize on opportunities. Tomorrow.io differentiates itself as a software-first company with its own weather models running at ultra-high resolution, rather than a traditional earth observation company selling raw data. The platform includes Gale, a generative AI assistant that synthesizes complex weather data into personalized recommendations.

Glean is an AI-powered enterprise search and workplace assistant that builds a knowledge graph of an organization's internal data, people, and interactions to generate highly personalized, permissions-aware answers. Unlike general-purpose AI tools, Glean understands company context and combines it with large language models to solve real business problems. The platform has evolved from enterprise search to a general-purpose work assistant with an agent platform for automating workplace tasks. It serves enterprise organizations looking to unlock knowledge trapped across dispersed data sources.