Startups Directory

Together AI is an AI Acceleration Cloud platform that enables developers and enterprises to train, fine-tune, and deploy generative AI models with 2-3x faster inference than hyperscalers. Supporting 200+ open-source models across all modalities, it provides the complete AI lifecycle from training to inference without vendor lock-in or infrastructure management burden. The platform powers 450,000+ AI developers and enterprises including Salesforce, Zoom, and SK Telecom with enterprise-grade security, model ownership, and performance.

Recogni develops AI inference processors that deliver 10x higher compute density, 10x lower power consumption, and 13x lower cost per query compared to GPU-based solutions. The company applies proprietary logarithmic number system (LNS) technology to enable efficient inference at scale for generative AI and autonomous vehicle applications. Recogni targets cloud data centers and automotive OEMs seeking to reduce the power, cooling, and infrastructure costs of AI deployment.

Stability AI develops open-source and commercial generative AI models for image, video, audio, 3D, and text generation. The company's flagship Stable Diffusion model has been downloaded over 150 million times and runs on consumer hardware with minimal GPU requirements, making advanced AI accessible to creators, enterprises, and developers. Unlike proprietary competitors, Stability AI emphasizes open-source accessibility, customizability, and the ability to run models locally without API dependencies or subscription fees.

DevRev is an AI-native enterprise software platform that unifies customer data and automates work through OneCRM (a purpose-built CRM for SaaS teams) and Computer (an AI agent that powers enterprise workflows). The platform connects developers, support, product, and sales teams on a single system by using proprietary knowledge graphs and real-time data synchronization. DevRev targets SaaS companies looking to increase product velocity, reduce customer churn, and consolidate fragmented business tools.

InMobi is a full-stack mobile advertising platform that combines a demand-side platform (DSP) for advertisers, a supply-side platform (SSP) and exchange for publishers, AI-powered audience targeting, and privacy-compliance tools. The company serves brands, app marketers, and publishers across in-app, mobile web, and emerging channels with programmatic, data-driven media buying. Beyond advertising, InMobi operates Glance, an AI-powered content discovery platform for smartphone lock screens that has achieved unicorn status separately.

ThoughtSpot is a cloud-based analytics and BI platform that enables business users to search, explore, and analyze large datasets in real-time without requiring technical expertise or IT assistance. The platform uses AI and machine learning to provide automated insights and recommendations, powering self-service data analysis across enterprise organizations. It serves both internal analytics use cases and customer-facing embedded analytics through separate product lines. ThoughtSpot has grown to 1,000+ customers including NVIDIA, Capital One, Hilton, and Unilever, with $4.2B valuation as of late 2021.

Domino Data Lab provides an enterprise MLOps platform that unifies data science teams, tools, and infrastructure to industrialize AI at scale. It replaces fragmented workflows with a seamless lifecycle management system—from data exploration through model deployment, monitoring, and governance. The platform serves highly regulated enterprises (20% of Fortune 100) with open-source tool support, automatic versioning, and flexible deployment options. What differentiates Domino is its focus on organizational discipline and reproducibility rather than individual data scientist productivity.

H2O.ai is an open-source, distributed in-memory machine learning platform that democratizes AI by enabling organizations to build, deploy, and scale machine learning models at speed. The platform supports gradient boosted machines, generalized linear models, deep learning, and industry-leading AutoML functionality that automatically evaluates algorithms and hyperparameters. Used by over 20,000 global organizations including half of the Fortune 500, H2O.ai combines open-source accessibility with enterprise subscriptions and cloud offerings, setting itself apart through highest-in-industry NPS (78) and employment of top Kaggle Grandmasters.

Cyberhaven is a unified data security platform that combines DSPM, DLP, insider risk management, and AI security with deep data lineage capabilities. It records every event for every piece of data—every move, copy, edit, and share—across endpoints and cloud applications to provide complete visibility into how data moves throughout an organization. The platform delivers 95% fewer false positives than traditional DLP solutions and enables customers to investigate incidents up to five times faster. Founded by five PhD researchers, it's trusted by top 5 North American banks, Fortune 500 companies, and highly regulated enterprises.

InstaDeep builds AI-powered decision-making systems that solve complex industrial problems across logistics, pharmaceuticals, and infrastructure. The company combines deep reinforcement learning and GPU-accelerated computing with productized innovation—translating research into enterprise-grade platforms like DeepPack (cargo planning), DeepChain (protein design), and chip design optimization. They serve Fortune 500 enterprises and global organizations including BioNTech, Deutsche Bahn, and the UN's FAO, differentiating through proven commercial deployments and strategic partnerships that turn customers into investors.

Nfinite is an AI-powered SaaS e-merchandising platform that enables retailers to create, manage, and display unlimited photorealistic product visuals through 3D CGI technology. The platform allows brands to generate product imagery from any angle, distance, or lighting configuration without expensive traditional photoshoots—reducing costs by up to 7x while accelerating time to market. Nfinite serves major retailers like Lowe's, Staples, and Wayfair, driving significant improvements in conversion rates (up to 53% lift) and customer engagement.

Ordergroove is an AI-powered subscription commerce platform that enables enterprise and mid-market brands to convert one-time transactions into recurring revenue streams. The platform provides end-to-end subscription lifecycle management, including a customer-facing subscription manager, AI-driven churn prediction, retention incentives, and dynamic pricing tools. With 15+ years of expertise and 500+ customers including Walmart, Nestlé, and L'Oréal, Ordergroove positions itself as both software and strategic partner for subscription optimization.

Tecton is an enterprise feature store that centralizes the management, serving, and governance of machine learning features used in production models. It solves the critical problem of training-serving skew by maintaining consistency between offline (batch) and online (real-time) feature environments, with online latencies under 5ms at 100K+ queries per second. The platform enables data teams to discover, reuse, monitor, and govern ML feature pipelines, reducing weeks from deployment cycles. Tecton was acquired by Databricks in August 2025.

Typeface is an enterprise AI platform that generates on-brand, personalized content at scale across email, social, and web channels. It solves the content paradox by combining brand governance with high-velocity content creation, using dedicated AI models trained on each customer's brand guidelines, assets, and voice. The platform recently launched its Marketing Orchestration Engine, enabling governed, repeatable cross-channel campaign execution. It's backed by $206M in funding and counts Fortune 500 companies and digital-native brands among its customers.

Horizon3.ai provides NodeZero, an autonomous penetration testing platform that safely executes real attack techniques at scale without agents or network disruption. The platform discovers and exploits vulnerabilities by chaining attack paths together—exactly as real attackers would—across internal networks, external surfaces, cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, Kubernetes), and web applications. Built by veterans in tech and military, it's trusted by 3,000+ organizations including Fortune 500 companies and national defense partners who need continuous proof of their security posture.

Builder.ai was a no-code AI-powered app development platform that claimed to automate software development from concept to launch. The platform positioned itself as a hybrid between DIY no-code tools and traditional development agencies, combining AI acceleration with human expertise. However, the company ceased operations in May 2025 after entering insolvency, with investigations revealing that most development work was performed by human engineers rather than AI, contradicting its core marketing narrative.

Rossum is an AI-powered intelligent document processing (IDP) platform that automates data extraction from transactional documents like invoices, purchase orders, and bills of lading. Built on Rossum Aurora, a proprietary transactional large language model trained on millions of business documents, the platform helps enterprises eliminate 90% of manual document processing work while maintaining data security through in-house AI models. It serves over 450 global customers across finance, logistics, and manufacturing, including Bosch, Siemens, and PepsiCo, with human-in-the-loop validation that continuously improves accuracy without relying on third-party LLMs.

FundGuard is a cloud-native, AI-powered investment accounting platform that serves as a core system of record for asset managers and fund administrators. It automates complex multi-asset accounting workflows, real-time NAV monitoring, and exception management across multiple books of record (IBOR, ABOR, X-BOR). The platform uses machine learning to automatically map financial data from any format (CSV, Excel, XML, screenshots) and transform accounting from reactive to proactive, reducing operational risk and manual effort.

LinkSquares is an AI-powered contract lifecycle management platform that helps in-house legal teams organize, analyze, and extract actionable insights from contracts. Its proprietary LinkAI engine uses predictive and generative AI to extract over 120 dates and clauses, automate redlining, and generate contract language. The platform excels at managing the second half of the contract lifecycle—post-signature analysis, compliance tracking, and obligation management—rather than initial drafting and negotiation.

Quincus is an enterprise SaaS platform that optimizes supply chain operations through AI-driven multi-modal logistics orchestration and real-time visibility. The platform serves e-commerce, logistics, and freight companies across Asia-Pacific, Americas, and Europe with machine learning-powered shipment allocation and a centralized control tower for end-to-end tracking. The company differentiates through advanced AI optimization that reduces fleet requirements by 33% while increasing stops per vehicle by 50%, and currently processes over 70 million shipments monthly.

Trigo is a computer vision and AI-powered platform that enables grocery retailers to operate fully or partially automated checkout-free stores. Using ceiling-mounted cameras and shelf sensors, the system creates a digital twin of the store to track shopper journeys and automatically detect product selections without facial recognition. The company offers three main solutions: autonomous checkout (EasyOut®), real-time loss prevention, and retail intelligence (StoreOS) for inventory optimization and pricing. Trigo has been deployed by major retailers including Tesco, REWE Group, Aldi Nord, and Netto across Europe.

Hyperscience is an AI-powered intelligent document processing (IDP) platform that automates back-office and business processes using proprietary machine learning and OCR technology. The platform processes documents with 99.5% accuracy and achieves 75-95% automation out-of-the-box, scaling to 99%+ with tuning. It serves enterprise customers across financial services, healthcare, and government sectors by orchestrating a composable mix of models—proprietary ML, vision language models, and LLMs—to meet specific cost, accuracy, and time-to-value requirements. What sets Hyperscience apart is its flexibility to let customers choose the right AI approach for their specific automation needs rather than forcing a one-size-fits-all solution.

⚠️ COMPANY STATUS: Near Intelligence filed for bankruptcy in December 2023 and is permanently closed. The following profile is provided for historical reference only. Near was a location intelligence SaaS platform that processed data from 1.6 billion unique user IDs and 70 million points of interest across 44+ countries. Its flagship product, Allspark, enabled marketing and operations teams to understand consumer online and offline behaviors through natural language queries. The platform served enterprises in retail, real estate, QSR, travel, telecom, and financial services.

SoundHound AI is a voice and agentic AI platform that enables businesses to build and deploy conversational AI agents across digital and physical channels—phones, kiosks, drive-thrus, in-vehicle systems, and more. The company's proprietary OASYS platform automates conversations by learning from documentation and call transcripts, then self-improves by identifying where customers get stuck. With 400+ patents and 10+ billion automated conversations annually, SoundHound is a core infrastructure provider for enterprise conversational AI.

Pryon is an AI Memory Layer that transforms unstructured enterprise data into searchable, conversational interfaces. The platform ingests multimodal content (text, audio, images, video) from dozens of sources like SharePoint, Salesforce, and Google Drive, then deploys proprietary AI models to provide accurate, grounded answers without hallucinations. It enables employees to instantly find and leverage knowledge scattered across the organization, reducing search time and unleashing unused enterprise content.

Optibus is an AI-powered SaaS platform that enables public transportation agencies and operators to plan and manage complex transit networks end-to-end. The platform automates route planning, scheduling, rostering, real-time operations, and passenger communication, reducing optimization work from days to minutes using advanced algorithms. Optibus powers operations in over 6,000 cities across 35+ countries, including 70% of UK buses and major operators like First Bus and LADOT, serving more than 7 billion annual passenger trips.

Modular is an AI infrastructure platform that unifies model serving and GenAI deployment through the Mojo programming language and MAX framework. It abstracts hardware complexity to run popular open models with 10-100x performance improvements over Python, without vendor lock-in. The platform addresses AI's fragmented infrastructure by rebuilding the entire stack from compilers up, enabling developers to deploy across CPUs, GPUs, and edge devices seamlessly.

TensorWave is an AI and HPC cloud platform built on AMD Instinct GPUs that accelerates LLM training, inference, and research workloads without the supply constraints and premium pricing of NVIDIA. The platform leverages AMD's physical GPU partitioning for true hardware isolation and includes direct liquid cooling that reduces data center energy costs by up to 51%. With 192GB of VRAM per GPU, customers can fine-tune massive models like 405B parameter LLMs on single 8-GPU nodes. TensorWave targets enterprises seeking high-performance compute with dedicated infrastructure, managed inference services, and autoscaling capabilities.

Inspiren is an AI-powered platform that unifies resident safety, care planning, staffing, and emergency response for senior living communities. The system combines proprietary hardware (the AUGi care companion device using geometric exoskeletal monitoring) with integrated software to detect falls, behavioral risks, and care utilization patterns in real-time while preserving resident privacy. Deployed across 230+ senior living communities, Inspiren has demonstrated measurable clinical outcomes including fall reduction and timely emergency response, with customers like Arrow Senior Living and Heritage Communities achieving 86% reductions in bedroom-related falls with injury.

You.com is an AI-powered search and agent platform that solves hallucination in large language models by grounding them with real-time, accurate web and private data. The company provides enterprise-grade search APIs and AI tools designed for AI agents and knowledge workers who need trustworthy, contextual information at scale. Founded by former Salesforce chief scientist Richard Socher, You.com has pivoted from consumer search toward B2B enterprise sales, serving finance, biotech, legal, and academic sectors with privacy-first infrastructure built for the agentic era.

Decart is an AI research lab building the fastest and most efficient generative AI models for real-time video generation and manipulation. Their flagship products—Oasis (real-time AI game world) and Mirage (live video editing via text prompts)—achieve 10x better efficiency than competitors like OpenAI's Sora, reducing inference costs from $100/hour to $0.25/hour. The company combines a proprietary LLM inference engine (built from scratch in C++ and CUDA) with advanced video generation capabilities, serving developers, enterprises, and streaming/gaming platforms.

Xanadu develops photonic quantum computing hardware and software platforms that operate at room temperature, eliminating the extreme cooling requirements of competing approaches. The company offers Aurora, a 12-qubit universal photonic quantum computer, alongside software tools like Pennylane for quantum programming and Lightning for high-performance simulation. Its continuous-variable encoding approach provides inherently higher tolerance to manufacturing imperfections, enabling faster progress toward quantum advantage. Xanadu serves defense, aerospace, pharmaceutical, semiconductor, and automotive sectors through cloud-based access and direct partnerships.

DataSnipper is an intelligent automation platform that embeds directly into Excel, allowing auditors to extract data from unstructured sources (invoices, bank statements, documents) with automatic reconciliation and complete audit trails. Used by 600K+ professionals across all Big Four accounting firms and 175+ countries, it solves the manual, error-prone work of matching and verifying financial data. The platform's key differentiator is working within Excel workflows rather than forcing migration to new systems, enabling rapid adoption and high user loyalty.

EnCharge AI develops analog in-memory computing hardware that performs AI computations directly within memory cells, eliminating energy-intensive data movement between processing and storage. The company's EN100 accelerator delivers 200+ TOPS of AI compute in an 8.25W power envelope for laptops and workstations, achieving up to 20x better performance per watt than competing solutions. Available in M.2 and PCIe form factors, EN100 brings advanced AI capabilities to edge devices and client platforms with unprecedented efficiency.

Basis builds AI agents that autonomously execute complex accounting workflows end-to-end, including tax return preparation, audit testing, and reconciliation tasks. The platform ingests data from accounting systems and ERPs, performs analysis and calculations, and delivers finished work for human review. Top accounting firms use Basis to shift their teams from execution to review, achieving 20-50% efficiency gains across tax, audit, and advisory practices.

Dataminr is an AI platform that analyzes over 1 million public data sources—including text in 150 languages, images, video, and sensor data—to detect breaking events, emerging risks, and threats in real-time. It processes nearly 500,000 daily events and alerts users to critical information across physical, digital, and cyber domains before mainstream media or traditional sources. The platform serves enterprise, government, and media organizations seeking early warning signals of high-impact incidents. Dataminr differentiates through multimodal AI fusion, global scope covering 100+ countries, and speed of detection that has repeatedly beaten traditional news by hours.

Hammerspace is a metadata-driven data orchestration platform that sits above file and object storage systems, providing a unified global namespace for accessing unstructured data across on-premises and public cloud infrastructure. Rather than storing data itself, it acts as a software layer that enables enterprises to access files regardless of storage type, vendor, or location while optimizing performance for AI and HPC workloads. The platform automatically transitions data between high-performance Tier 0 storage during compute-intensive operations and cost-efficient object storage during idle periods, eliminating GPU idle time caused by data bottlenecks.

Osapiens is a cloud-based, AI-powered compliance and operations automation platform that helps large enterprises manage supply chain compliance, sustainability, and regulatory requirements at scale. The platform integrates with existing ERP systems like SAP and Microsoft Dynamics, offering no-code workflow builders, real-time monitoring, and pre-built compliance modules for regulations like EUDR, CSDDD, and Germany's Supply Chain Due Diligence Act. With over 2,500 customers worldwide, Osapiens positions itself as the go-to solution for distributed organizations needing coordinated process management and audit readiness across complex operations.

Cognigy.AI is a low-code conversational AI platform that enables enterprises to automate customer and employee communications through intelligent voice- and chatbots across any channel (web, phone, SMS, mobile). The platform combines Large Language Models with structured logic workflows, allowing organizations to deploy sophisticated AI agents capable of independent decision-making while maintaining precise intent recognition. Available as SaaS or on-premise, it supports multilingual conversations and integrates seamlessly with backend systems. Now part of NICE following a $955M acquisition in September 2025.

Horizon3.ai provides NodeZero, an autonomous penetration testing platform that continuously simulates real-world attacks without agents or human intervention. The SaaS solution safely executes attack chains across AWS, Azure, and Kubernetes infrastructure to show exactly how attackers compromise systems and what data they access. Organizations use it to verify security fixes in production and stay ahead of evolving threats at scale.

Dream Security is an AI-native cybersecurity platform purpose-built for governments and critical infrastructure operators requiring sovereign deployment capabilities. The company's proprietary cyber language model—trained on threat intelligence datasets rather than general-purpose LLMs—automates threat detection, prediction, and response while operating entirely within national infrastructure, including classified and air-gapped systems. Dream transforms raw data into actionable threat narratives and defense strategies, with a founding team combining Israeli cyber expertise (NSO Group co-founder), Austrian political leadership, and IoT intelligence experience.

Supabase is an open-source backend-as-a-service platform that provides developers with a PostgreSQL database, authentication, instant APIs, real-time subscriptions, edge functions, and storage—all accessible through a web interface. It eliminates backend infrastructure setup, allowing developers to focus on frontend development while maintaining full control over their data through self-hosting capabilities. The platform has become the default backend for AI coding tools like Bolt and Lovable, and serves over 4 million developers including 36% of recent Y Combinator batches.

Clay is a data enrichment and automation platform that enables sales and growth teams to find, research, and personalize outreach to leads at scale. It functions as a smart spreadsheet that orchestrates data from 150+ sources, applies AI-powered workflows for enrichment and content generation, and automates prospecting without manual labor. Clay uses signal-led prospecting to identify buyers based on real-world triggers like funding rounds or hiring, making personalized outreach possible without expensive tools or manual work.

Spring Health delivers precision mental healthcare to employers and health plans using machine learning to match individuals with the right care modality—whether digital support, therapy, coaching, or medication. The platform has transformed traditional Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs) into data-driven solutions that achieve first appointments in under two days and improve outcomes 5.9 weeks faster than competitors. Spring Health guarantees measurable ROI: cost neutrality in year 1, 1.5x ROI by year 2, and 2x ROI by year 3, with customers achieving 21% net savings on mental healthcare spend.

Sakana AI develops foundation models using evolution-inspired techniques and collective intelligence to create domain-specific AI systems with minimal computational overhead. The company automates the entire AI development lifecycle through products like AI Scientist (automated research discovery) and Sakana Fugu (multi-agent model orchestration), serving enterprises in finance, defense, and research. Unlike traditional approaches requiring massive GPU clusters, Sakana's evolutionary model merge technique discovers optimal model combinations through natural selection, dramatically reducing energy consumption while achieving state-of-the-art performance.

Laurel is an AI-native time intelligence platform that passively captures digital work activity and uses firm-specific large language models to automatically generate structured, compliant time entries and billing narratives. Built specifically for enterprise professional services firms, it eliminates manual timekeeping while helping lawyers and accountants recover an average of 28 billable minutes per day—translating to 4-11% profit increases. Laurel is the first and only company applying generative AI to enterprise timekeeping, processing over $4.4 billion in professional time annually.

Snorkel AI is a data development platform that enables enterprises to programmatically label and curate training data for AI systems, including LLMs and RAG pipelines. Rather than expensive manual labeling, it uses labeling functions that encode expert intuition through heuristics, legacy models, and LLM calls to scale data preparation. Used by Fortune 500 companies, top US banks, and government agencies to build production AI applications faster and more cost-effectively. It represents a shift toward data-centric AI, where high-quality labeled data is the bottleneck rather than model architecture.

AIRIA is an enterprise AI platform that unifies orchestration, security, and governance in a single solution, enabling organizations to build, deploy, and govern AI agents and automated workflows at scale. The platform provides a model-agnostic control layer with an Agent Builder supporting no-code, low-code, and pro-code development, plus out-of-the-box connectors for enterprise systems like Salesforce, Microsoft OneDrive, and Slack. AIRIA differentiates by eliminating tool sprawl—delivering all three dimensions (orchestration, security, governance) in one unified platform rather than stitching together disconnected point solutions.

Majestic Labs builds Prometheus, a custom AI server that solves the memory wall problem by disaggregating memory from compute, enabling up to 128 TB of ultra-fast, power-efficient memory per server—nearly 100x more than leading GPU servers. The system allows organizations to run multi-trillion-parameter LLMs, mixture-of-experts models, and agentic AI systems in a single unit while dramatically reducing power consumption and infrastructure costs. Built by veteran silicon architects from Meta and Google, the company targets hyperscalers and enterprises that need to deploy massive AI models efficiently.

Parallel Web Systems builds APIs that enable AI agents to reliably access and reason over real-time web data. The company's Deep Research API and complementary tools (Search, Extract, Task, FindAll, Monitor) are optimized to feed clean, verified content directly into AI context windows, reducing hallucinations and operational costs. Founded by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, Parallel serves enterprise customers including banks, hedge funds, insurance companies, and AI-native platforms that need AI systems to perform complex research and automation tasks at scale.