Startups Directory

Weka provides NeuralMesh, a software-defined storage platform purpose-built for accelerating AI workloads at scale with microsecond latency and exabyte capacity. The platform unifies multiple storage protocols (S3, POSIX, NFS, CSI) and supports hybrid and multi-cloud deployments with a zero-copy architecture. It enables 10x faster AI model training with 93% GPU utilization and serves 11 of the Fortune 50 plus leading research organizations.

Torq is an AI-driven security hyperautomation platform that automates threat detection, investigation, prioritization, and response across enterprise security operations. The platform uses agentic AI (notably its Socrates agent) to autonomously handle alert triage, case management, and threat remediation at scale, claiming to resolve 95% of Tier-1 alerts without human intervention. It serves Fortune 500 enterprises and MSSPs seeking to reduce mean time to respond (MTTR) and investigation overhead, positioning itself as an open, modern alternative to monolithic legacy SOAR platforms from Palo Alto Networks and Splunk.

Darwinbox is a cloud-based HCM platform that manages the entire employee lifecycle from recruitment through retirement. The platform combines recruitment, onboarding, payroll, performance management, and analytics in a single system with 15 modules built in just 6 years. It serves mid-market enterprises (3,000+ employees) across 130 countries with a mobile-first, AI-powered interface and exceptional customization capabilities.

Fal is a serverless inference platform that hosts 1,000+ production-ready generative AI models (image, video, audio, 3D) as easy-to-use APIs with custom-optimized CUDA kernels for lightning-fast inference. The platform eliminates traditional deployment friction—no GPU configuration, cold starts, or autoscaler setup—enabling developers and enterprises to integrate generative media into applications at scale. Fal serves over 2 million developers and 300+ enterprises including Adobe, Canva, and Shopify, generating $100M+ ARR through pay-as-you-go and enterprise usage-based pricing.

fileAI is an AI-powered file processing platform that automates the extraction and enrichment of data from unstructured documents (PDFs, spreadsheets, emails, handwritten forms) at enterprise scale. The platform combines proprietary ML and vision language models to deliver deterministic, hallucination-free results with 28x better accuracy than AWS, Google, and OpenAI on real-world data tasks. It serves enterprises across insurance, finance, QSR, and professional services who need to automate document-intensive workflows without manual data wrangling.

Noname Security is an AI-powered API security platform that automatically discovers, inventories, and protects all APIs across an organization's environment. The platform identifies vulnerabilities including data leakage, authorization issues, misconfigurations, and suspicious behavior without requiring agents or network modifications. It serves enterprises across financial services, healthcare, retail, and public sector, protecting over 10 million APIs and nearly $3 trillion in revenue streams. Noname was acquired by Akamai in May 2024 for $450M and is being integrated into Akamai's API Security offering.

GreyOrange provides AI-driven software (GreyMatter™ WES) and autonomous mobile robots (Ranger™ series) that orchestrate warehouse operations by optimizing interactions between human workers, robots, and inventory systems in real-time. The platform delivers 1 million+ optimizations per minute across goods-to-person, smart zone transfer, assisted picking, and unmanned inventory movement. GreyOrange serves major retailers and logistics operators like Walmart, H&M, Coupang, and GXO Logistics, differentiating through vendor-agnostic integration and proprietary AI that treats the warehouse as a unified orchestration system rather than isolated robotic components.

PhysicsX is a physics AI platform that accelerates engineering and manufacturing by combining AI-driven multiphysics inference with numerical simulation. The platform reduces simulation run times from hours to seconds and enables engineers to run 100,000 simulations in a day versus weeks with traditional methods. Built by former Formula 1 engineers, it integrates with industry-standard CAE tools like ANSYS, CATIA, and Siemens NX, spanning design, manufacturing, and operations across multi-physics domains.

Angle Health is an AI-enabled health insurance platform that combines carrier, third-party administrator, and managing general underwriter capabilities into a single integrated system. It enables brokers to generate firm underwritten quotes on custom group health plans in minutes instead of weeks, while using proprietary AI models trained on millions of patient records to predict healthcare risks and personalize interventions. The platform integrates with 100+ payroll and HRIS systems, serving 2,600+ small business employers across 44 states with plan designs ranging from HDHPs to comprehensive PPO-style options.

Armada builds a full-stack edge AI platform that combines ruggedized modular data centers (Galleon, Leviathan), software orchestration (Commander Connect, Atlas), and connectivity to deploy and scale AI workloads across distributed, remote networks without relying on centralized cloud. The platform serves energy, maritime, defense, and logistics companies operating in disconnected or contested environments. Armada differentiates through hardware-software integration, sovereignty focus, and real-world deployments like AI factories on Norwegian oil rigs and edge computing for the U.S. Navy.

Decagon is an AI agent platform that enables brands to deploy personalized, omnichannel customer service agents capable of handling complex workflows like refunds, identity verification, and escalations 24/7. The platform uses a centralized intelligence layer with Agent Operating Procedures (AOPs)—plain English instructions that allow AI to learn and improve from every interaction without requiring code changes. Customers like Chime, ClassPass, and Duolingo have achieved 60-80% support cost reductions and 95% improvements in resolution efficiency. Decagon's differentiator is its ability to handle sophisticated tasks across any channel while maintaining consistency and learning continuously from customer interactions.

KINEXON provides a real-time location intelligence platform (KINEXON OS) that converts UWB, BLE, RFID, and GPS data into a digital twin of industrial operations. The platform enables precise centimeter-level asset tracking and automated control of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs/AGVs) across manufacturing and logistics environments. With over 10,000 daily users across BMW plants, Continental, and other Fortune 500 manufacturers, KINEXON delivers measurable ROI through operational automation and cost savings. The company is a Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader for Indoor Location Services.

Deepgram is a foundational AI company that builds vertically integrated voice AI infrastructure, controlling model development, data labeling, synthetic data generation, and its own data centers. The platform offers three core capabilities: Listen (speech-to-text), Think (language understanding), and Speak (text-to-speech), with particular strength in handling real-world audio conditions like background noise, overlapping speakers, accents, and technical terminology. Serving over 1,300 organizations including NASA, Spotify, and Twilio, Deepgram differentiates through superior accuracy, lowest latency, and 2-5x more affordable pricing than competitors by owning its entire stack.

Jasper is an AI agent workspace that combines 100+ specialized agents, content pipelines, and brand governance tools to help teams execute marketing campaigns end-to-end. The platform integrates AI-powered content creation, image generation, research, and optimization capabilities with a brand context layer (Jasper IQ) that ensures on-brand consistency across channels. It's built for enterprises that need to scale content production while maintaining quality control and compliance, with notable customers including Wayfair, SentinelOne, and iHeartMedia.

Enfabrica is a fabless networking semiconductor company that designs ultra-high-performance chips for AI infrastructure. Their flagship Accelerated Compute Fabric SuperNIC (ACF-S) delivers 3.2 terabits/second of connectivity between GPUs, CPUs, and accelerators in data centers, reducing GPU compute requirements by ~50% at equivalent performance. The company also offers EMFASYS, a system combining RDMA Ethernet networking with CXL-based memory to provide elastic memory capacity for AI inference workloads. Built by veterans from Broadcom and Google, Enfabrica differentiates through vendor-agnostic architecture that avoids proprietary lock-in.

Observe.AI is an AI-powered conversation intelligence platform for contact centers that analyzes customer interactions in real-time and post-interaction to improve agent performance, operational efficiency, and customer experience. The platform combines real-time agent assistance, automated quality assurance, AI-powered agents, and summarization capabilities to help enterprises transform conversations into business outcomes. Trusted by 350+ global enterprises including SoFi, DoorDash, Uber, and Prudential, Observe.AI enables contact centers to handle high-volume calls, reduce after-call work, and maintain compliance while delivering measurable ROI.

Cresta is an AI-first enterprise contact center platform that transforms customer conversations into revenue opportunities. The platform combines an AI Agent for automated customer interactions, Agent Assist for real-time guidance to human agents, and Conversation Intelligence for actionable business insights. Built by former Google and OpenAI leaders, Cresta serves Fortune 500 companies like Hilton, Cox Communications, and CarMax to improve customer satisfaction, resolution rates, and operational efficiency.

Code Metal is an AI-powered development platform that automatically translates high-level research code (Python, Julia, MATLAB) into optimized, production-ready code for any hardware target (CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs). It uses formal methods to mathematically verify translation accuracy, ensuring compliance and correctness for mission-critical systems. The platform enables engineers to write once and deploy across multiple languages and hardware platforms while maintaining code safety guarantees that LLMs alone cannot provide.

Tessl is an AI-native software development platform that uses Spec-Driven Development to enable teams to write, test, and maintain code through natural language specifications. It prevents AI hallucinations and API errors by maintaining a registry of 10,000+ verified library specs, allowing developers to specify intent once and have the platform automatically maintain code alignment. Unlike traditional AI coding assistants that bolt automation onto existing workflows, Tessl reimagines development as spec-centric rather than code-centric.

FuriosaAI designs and manufactures high-performance, energy-efficient AI accelerators (NPUs) for data center deployments of large language models, multimodal applications, and computer vision workloads. Their flagship RNGD chip delivers 2.25x better inference performance per watt compared to traditional GPUs while consuming only 180W of power. The company serves enterprise customers and hyperscalers seeking cost-effective alternatives to Nvidia GPUs for AI inference at scale.

SparkCognition is an industrial AI company that delivers machine learning solutions for predictive maintenance, anomaly detection, and cybersecurity. The platform uses IoT sensor data and advanced algorithms to predict equipment failures before they occur, identify cyber threats, and optimize operations across industrial assets like turbines, pumps, and generators. SparkCognition serves energy, manufacturing, and maritime sectors, helping operators avoid costly downtime and reduce operational inefficiencies by billions of dollars.

Alation is an agentic data intelligence platform that automatically catalogs, organizes, and makes enterprise data discoverable through machine learning and natural language processing. It solves the critical problem that 60-73% of enterprise data goes unused because teams can't find or understand what data they have. The platform provides end-to-end data lineage, governance, and trust signals across 120+ connectors, enabling data teams to work faster and organizations to unlock trapped analytics value.

Blue J is an AI-powered tax research platform that enables tax professionals, accountants, and legal teams to complete hours of manual research in seconds using large language models and authoritative source verification. The platform automates tax research, legal analysis, and client communication drafting, with over 2,800 organizations including Big Four accounting firms and Fortune 100 companies relying on it. Users save an average of 2.7 hours per week, allowing them to redirect time toward higher-margin advisory work. Blue J is purpose-built for tax professionals and is the only major platform specifically designed for this use case.

Omni is a modern AI-native analytics platform that combines a governed semantic layer with flexible SQL and UI tools for data exploration, visualization, and reporting. It sits between raw data and users, defining metrics, access controls, and calculation rules in one place. Built by Looker and Stitch veterans, Omni resolves the traditional governance vs. agility trade-off in business intelligence, enabling self-service analytics without chaos or siloed SQL exploration.

Parloa is an AI Agent Management Platform (AMP) that enables enterprise contact centers to automate customer service at scale using generative AI agents designed through natural language briefings rather than scripts. The platform specializes in voice-first interactions across phone, chat, and messaging channels, allowing businesses to deploy teams of autonomous AI agents that engage in dynamic, natural conversations with customers. Trusted by Fortune 200 companies like Allianz, Booking.com, and SAP, Parloa has achieved $50M+ ARR with 150% net revenue retention, positioning itself as an industry-first solution for agentic AI in customer service.

Hailo develops patented silicon AI accelerators that enable efficient deep learning inference on edge devices with minimal power consumption (<3W), eliminating cloud dependency while protecting privacy. The Hailo-8 and Hailo-10H chips integrate all required memory on the processor die, delivering 26+ TOPS of performance while maintaining exceptional power efficiency. Serving automotive, security, retail, industrial, and medical sectors, Hailo has secured over 300 customers including HP, Dell, BMW, Sony, and Bosch.

Cybereason is a cybersecurity platform combining EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response), XDR (Extended Detection and Response), and next-gen antivirus to detect and remediate threats across endpoints, servers, cloud workloads, and networks. Founded by Israeli Unit 8200 veterans, the platform uses behavioral analysis and cross-machine correlation to identify complex attacks with exceptional accuracy. The company has achieved perfect scores in MITRE ATT&CK evaluations and is trusted by Fortune 500 companies including Lockheed Martin. It differentiates through deep expertise in offensive cyber operations translated into defensive capabilities, enabling threat hunting and root cause analysis at scale.

Harmonic builds Aristotle, an AI-driven mathematical reasoning engine that uses formal verification via the Lean 4 proof assistant to solve complex mathematical problems with provable correctness. The platform translates natural-language math problems into formally verified proofs, eliminating the guesswork in mathematical reasoning. Harmonic serves mathematicians, quantitative researchers, software verification teams, and enterprises needing formally verified code generation. Unlike general-purpose AI models that can hallucinate intermediate steps, Aristotle guarantees each reasoning step is mathematically sound.

XBOW is an AI-powered autonomous penetration testing platform that identifies and exploits vulnerabilities in web applications without human intervention. Using swarms of AI agents, it simultaneously explores multiple attack vectors, reducing testing times from weeks to hours while providing reproducible proof of exploitation. The platform is trusted by Fortune 500 companies including UKG, Samsung SDS, and Moderna, and recently ranked #1 on the HackerOne leaderboard, outperforming thousands of human hackers.

VAST Data provides an operating system for AI that unifies compute, storage, and data management into a single platform designed for high-performance AI and analytics workloads. Built on DASE (Disaggregated Shared Everything) architecture, it eliminates data movement bottlenecks through components like VAST DataStore, DataBase, DataEngine, and InsightEngine with NVIDIA. The platform serves enterprises and GPU cloud providers running intensive AI training and inference, with over 25% of Fortune 100 companies adopting it for strategic AI initiatives.

Exein develops embedded runtime security that integrates directly into device firmware to detect and prevent threats in real-time at the kernel level. The platform uses eBPF-based observability and AI-driven behavior analysis to protect IoT, industrial, automotive, and aerospace devices without degrading performance or requiring hardware changes. Unlike traditional endpoint security that detects breaches after compromise, Exein blocks malicious execution paths before they can run, eliminating entire attack classes at the edge.

Verda is a vertically integrated AI cloud infrastructure provider that manages the entire stack from physical servers and data centers to developer tools for building and deploying AI workloads. The company offers GPU instances, bare-metal clusters, and managed endpoints for AI inference at up to 90% lower cost than hyperscalers. Built by experienced cloud entrepreneurs, Verda targets AI developers and teams who need production-grade GPU resources with a developer-first experience and no sales friction.

Ataccama ONE is a unified platform combining data quality, master data management, governance, lineage, and reference data into a single environment purpose-built for trusted agentic AI. The platform autonomously finds and fixes data quality issues across the entire data estate, ensuring data remains trusted, reliable, and AI-ready. Unlike tools that only observe issues, Ataccama manages data quality end-to-end with AI-driven automation. It serves enterprise organizations across banking, financial services, insurance, life sciences, healthcare, and retail that depend on high-quality data for critical business decisions.

Coralogix is a full-stack observability platform built on proprietary Streama© technology that analyzes logs, metrics, traces, and security events in real-time without requiring indexing or hot storage. The platform serves engineering teams at scale who need instant insights and long-term trend analysis while reducing observability costs by up to 70%. Unlike traditional solutions that separate real-time alerting from historical analysis, Coralogix uniquely solves both through in-stream processing using Kafka and Kubernetes, enabling dynamic alerting and anomaly detection without external datastores.

SeekOut is an AI-powered talent acquisition platform that searches nearly one billion public profiles and ATS data to help companies source, screen, and engage qualified candidates at scale. The company offers two main products: SeekOut Recruit, an intelligent recruiting platform with job-specific workflows and labor market insights, and SeekOut Spot, an agentic AI service that delivers interview-ready candidates in 14 days with human recruiter guidance. SeekOut differentiates through unique sourcing capabilities for GitHub profiles and patent/research publication data across engineering and life sciences, enabling companies to find untapped deep tech talent efficiently.

Rescale is an enterprise cloud simulation platform that enables research scientists and engineers to run high-performance computing (HPC) workloads—including finite element analysis (FEA), computational fluid dynamics (CFD), and AI simulations—on their choice of cloud providers without infrastructure setup or maintenance. The platform automates hybrid cloud orchestration with built-in security, architectural controls, and financial governance. Engineers can configure complex engineering analyses for computation in minutes via a web browser, dramatically reducing time-to-market for product design cycles. Rescale serves 300+ customers including 7 of the top 10 automakers, 7 of the top 10 aerospace companies, and 3 of the top 6 life science companies.

Enfabrica develops specialized networking chips and systems that solve critical data movement bottlenecks for AI and machine learning workloads at hyperscale. Their Accelerated Compute Fabric (ACF) SuperNIC chip delivers multi-terabit Ethernet connectivity and memory disaggregation, enabling GPUs, CPUs, and memory to communicate 4x faster than competing solutions. Built by former Broadcom and Google infrastructure leaders, the company bridges PCIe/CXL memory semantics with RDMA networking to reduce AI processing costs and improve efficiency.

Turing is a three-pronged AI platform founded in 2018 that works with frontier AI labs to advance LLM reasoning and coding capabilities, builds enterprise AI applications for Fortune 500 companies, and operates a talent cloud of 4M+ vetted software engineers and data scientists. The company powers its services through an AI-driven vetting and matching engine plus ALAN, a fine-tuning platform for model development. Turing has evolved from a remote engineering hiring marketplace into a critical infrastructure player in AGI advancement and enterprise AI deployment.

Labelbox is a data-centric AI platform that helps AI teams and Fortune 500 enterprises create, manage, and iterate on high-quality labeled training data at scale. The platform combines a collaborative annotation software with managed labeling services and generative AI automation (Foundry) to reduce the time and cost of producing training data. It processes petabytes of multimodal data and serves over 80% of Fortune 500 AI teams, positioning itself as a command center for the entire ML training data iteration loop.

SirionLabs is an AI-native contract lifecycle management (CLM) platform that extracts, normalizes, and organizes contract data across the entire contract lifecycle—from negotiation through post-signature performance monitoring. The platform delivers 85% faster contract insights and validates invoices against contract terms to reduce overpayments and disputes. Built for large enterprises managing complex buy-side and sell-side contracts, SirionLabs differentiates itself by providing visibility into contract performance and relationships, not just storage, while integrating seamlessly with Salesforce, SAP, and other enterprise systems.

Reka is an AI research and product company that develops multimodal AI models capable of understanding text, images, video, and audio natively. The company builds frontier AI models that match or exceed competitors like GPT-4 and Gemini Ultra while requiring significantly less computational power. Reka serves enterprises and government organizations through products like Reka Core (multimodal model), Reka Vision (video/image analysis platform), and Reka Research (agentic AI for information synthesis). What differentiates them is their focus on efficiency—achieving state-of-the-art performance with orders of magnitude lower compute demands than competitors.

Copy.ai is an AI-powered Go-To-Market (GTM) platform that helps sales and marketing teams generate high-volume content, from blog posts and product descriptions to sales outreach and account research. The platform uses advanced language models (GPT-4o, Claude 3.5) and features Content Agent Studio, which allows teams to create endless content variations while maintaining brand voice—without prompt engineering. Founded in 2020 and acquired by Fullcast in October 2025, Copy.ai serves enterprise customers like Datadog, Thermo Fisher, and Siemens across 50+ countries.

CAST AI is a machine learning-powered platform that automatically optimizes Kubernetes clusters and cloud infrastructure in real time, reducing cloud costs by 50% or more while improving application performance and security. Unlike competitors that merely monitor and recommend fixes, CAST AI actively implements optimizations across AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-premises environments. The platform uses advanced ML algorithms to continuously analyze workload behavior, automate resource allocation, and eliminate waste through intelligent bin packing and pod scheduling.

Prytek Holdings is a technology investment group that builds and operates financial services infrastructure through a dual-arm model: a corporate services division providing managed financial services, cybersecurity education, and recruiting solutions; and a venture capital division investing in fintech, regtech, cybersecurity, and data companies. The company operates a vertically integrated ecosystem of 25+ portfolio companies serving over 140 financial institutions and 1,000 corporate clients. Prytek differentiates through its integrated platform approach, combining multiple complementary technologies and services under one structure rather than competing as standalone products.

Persivia is an AI-powered population health management platform that unifies clinical, claims, social, and operational data from hundreds of sources into a single longitudinal patient record. The platform serves hospitals, health systems, payers, and ACOs managing value-based care contracts by automating risk stratification, care coordination, eligibility determination, and clinical decision-making. It analyzes over 1,600 data points per patient to achieve 90% accuracy in identifying high-cost patients and forecasting hospitalization risks. Persivia differentiates by managing the entire care lifecycle from risk identification through point-of-care intervention with comprehensive, vendor-agnostic data integration.

AskToSell is an AI-powered sales automation platform that deploys autonomous agents to contact leads, qualify prospects, prepare proposals, handle objections, and close deals automatically. Built for SMBs with repetitive, transactional sales processes, it enables companies to scale deal volume without burning out sales teams or inflating customer acquisition costs. The platform operates at 10-30x lower cost than human sales labor, with agents learning product details and autonomously managing the entire sales workflow until deal approval.

Blaize provides a full-stack edge AI platform combining purpose-built hardware (GSP-based processors delivering 16 TOPS inference at 7W power) with a no-code/low-code software suite (AI Studio) for rapid deployment. The platform enables real-time AI inference at the network edge with 60% greater efficiency and 10x lower latency than cloud-optimized alternatives. Serving automotive, surveillance, retail, and industrial automation verticals, Blaize eliminates the complexity of deploying AI on power- and thermally-constrained devices.

Qventus develops AI-powered automation software that optimizes healthcare operations across inpatient and perioperative settings. The platform uses generative AI, machine learning, and behavioral science to predict bottlenecks, automate administrative tasks, and recommend interventions for hospital care teams. Health systems using Qventus reduce patient length of stay by up to one day, recover 20-35% of excess bed days, and achieve 10X average annualized ROI. The company functions as an 'AI teammate' integrated with existing enterprise systems like EHRs, surfacing data and automating workflows without replacing staff.

Eudia is an AI-powered legal intelligence platform that creates a 'Company Brain' by digitizing institutional legal knowledge from contracts, templates, and playbooks. It deploys specialized AI agents called MINDs to handle complex legal tasks like contract redlining and M&A due diligence, reducing review times from hours to minutes. The platform is purpose-built for Fortune 500 in-house legal teams, integrating into existing workflows via Microsoft 365, ServiceNow, and iManage while encoding how organizations actually make legal decisions.

Antithesis is a deterministic simulation testing platform that automatically validates software reliability by running fully automated, massively parallel simulations of entire system architectures in a controlled environment. It compresses months of production behavior into hours, injecting faults and exploring edge cases to uncover bugs before they reach production. The platform's key differentiator is complete determinism—any failure discovered can be perfectly reproduced, eliminating flaky tests and enabling engineers to diagnose even rare production mysteries. It's trusted by high-stakes organizations like Jane Street, Ethereum, and MongoDB where software failures carry significant consequences.