AI Compute Ecosystem · Funding Intelligence
Every funded company building the AI compute ecosystem — who's hiring, what stage, who backed them, and exactly where your background fits. Updated as new companies are found.
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| If your function was… | Your domains | Why you fit |
|---|---|---|
| Cloud / Infrastructure / Solution Architecture (AWS · Azure · GCP) | D6D8D4 | The hyperscaler skillset the whole ecosystem is built on |
| DevTools / DevOps / Platform Engineering | D6D7D8 | Coding agents are built for the developer buyer you know |
| Data Infrastructure / Databases / Integration | D6D4 | Data platforms for AI need your scale experience |
| Data & Analytics / BI | D6D8 | Data fluency is the foundation of the app layer |
| Cybersecurity / Security | D7D8D4 | AI security is a whole new category |
| IT Ops / ITSM / Observability | D6D5 | The plumbing that runs AI at scale |
| Sales / Revenue / CRM | D7D8 | GTM agents are built by people who lived the motion |
| Marketing / MarTech | D7D8 | AI is rebuilding marketing tooling category by category |
| Finance / FinTech / Accounting | D7D8 | Finance AI needs people who know the workflows |
| HR / People / Talent | D7D8 | AI talent + HR platforms need domain operators |
| Customer Experience / Support | D7D8 | The hottest AI app category |
| Collaboration & Productivity | D7D8 | Work tooling is going agentic |
| ERP / Back-office systems | D8 | The enterprise stack is being rebuilt in AI |
| Supply Chain / Procurement / Logistics | D8D6 | Both the app layer and the physical buildout |
| Legal / GRC / Compliance | D7D8 | Legal & governance AI is a top category |
| Industrial / Manufacturing (vertical) | D1D2D3D6 | The physical AI buildout needs operators who scale complex sites |
| Energy / Climate / Utilities (vertical) | D1D2 | Power is THE bottleneck of the buildout |
| Life Sciences / Pharma / Biotech / Drug Discovery | D10D8 | AI drug discovery is the hottest capital destination in biotech |
| Healthcare / Clinical Ops / Digital Health | D11D8 | AI is rebuilding care delivery, diagnostics, and patient workflow |
| Defense / Aerospace / National Security | D12D9 | Sequoia and Founders Fund are now writing checks into defense tech |
The models everything else is built on — and where the capital is most concentrated. Split into closed frontier labs, the open-weight alternative enterprises turn to when they will not hand their IP to two vendors, enterprise/specialised models, and device-native models that run off the data center. · 11 companies.
| Company | What They Do | Coming from | Stage | Raised | Backed by | Hiring |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| xAI xai.ai | Grok models and assistants | Horizontal AI / platform | — | $45.0B | Valor Equity Partners, a16z, Sequoia, Fidelity | ✅ |
| OpenAI openai.co | Frontier AI models, ChatGPT | Horizontal AI / platform | — | $168.0B | Microsoft, SoftBank, Thrive Capital, Nvidia | ✅ |
| Anthropic anthropic.com | Enterprise and safety-focused AI | Horizontal AI / platform | — | $67.0B | Google, Amazon, Lightspeed, Bessemer | ✅ |
| Mistral AI mistral.ai | Open-weight frontier AI models | Horizontal AI / platform | — | $3.0B | ASML, General Catalyst, a16z, Nvidia | ✅ |
| Reflection AI reflectionai.ai | Open frontier AI models | Horizontal AI / platform | — | $2.1B | Nvidia, Sequoia, Lightspeed, DST Global | ✅ |
| Cohere cohere.com | Enterprise foundation models, agents | Horizontal AI / platform | — | $1.5B | Inovia Capital, Nvidia, Oracle, Salesforce Ventures | ✅ |
| AI21 Labs ai21.com | Enterprise LLMs and orchestration | Horizontal AI / platform | — | $636M | — | ✅ |
| Liquid AI www.liquid.ai/careers | Device-native foundation models (LFMs) that run on phones, laptops and cars instead of the data center — frontier-level performance under 1GB, 3000+ variants tuned to different hardware | Model research, edge/embedded ML, inference optimization, systems engineering, semiconductor or device partnerships, enterprise AI platform leadership | Series A | $250M at ~$2B valuation | AMD (led), Texas Instruments | ✅ |
| Thinking Machines Lab thinkingmachines.ai | Frontier AI research lab building general agents and multimodal models | Frontier-lab research, ML infrastructure, applied AI engineering | Seed | $2.0B at ~$12B valuation | Andreessen Horowitz (led), Nvidia, Accel | ✅ |
| World Labs worldlabs.ai | Spatial intelligence and world models — 3D scene generation and understanding | Computer vision, 3D graphics, simulation, robotics perception | Late-stage venture | $1.0B (Feb 2026, Autodesk anchoring $200M) | NEA, Andreessen Horowitz, Radical Ventures, Autodesk | ✅ |
| Black Forest Labs blackforestlabs.ai | FLUX open-weight image generation models, production-grade | Generative vision research, diffusion models, creative tooling | Series B | $300M at $3.25B valuation | NEA, Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst | ✅ |
The new Fortune-500 software stack — legal, finance, healthcare, support, security. The widest landing zone. · 185 companies.
| Company | What They Do | Coming from | Stage | Raised | Backed by | Hiring |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anysphere anysphere.ai | AI coding platform (Cursor) | Dev tools / IDEs | — | $3.4B | Thrive Capital, a16z, Accel, Coatue | ✅ |
| Inflection AI inflection.com | Enterprise AI after reset | Horizontal AI / platform | — | $1.5B | — | ✅ |
| Perplexity perplexity.ai | AI search and answer engine | Enterprise search / knowledge mgmt | — | $1.2B | IVP, Nvidia, SoftBank, NEA | ✅ |
| Luma AI lumalabs.ai | AI video and world models | Martech / content / creative | — | $1.1B | — | ✅ |
| Harvey harvey.ai | Legal AI for professionals | Legal tech | Venture round | $966M | Andreessen Horowitz, WndrCo, T. Rowe Price | ✅ |
| Runway runway.ai | AI video and world models | Martech / content / creative | — | $860M | — | ✅ |
| Uniphore uniphore.com | Enterprise conversational AI | Contact center / CX | — | $851M | — | ✅ |
| ElevenLabs elevenlabs.io | Voice AI and audio tools | Contact center / CX | — | $781M | Sequoia, a16z, ICONIQ, Lightspeed | ✅ |
| Abridge abridge.com | AI clinical documentation platform | Healthcare IT / EHR | — | $758M | — | ✅ |
| Poolside poolside.ai | AI for software development | Dev tools / IDEs | Series B | $626M | Bain Capital Ventures, DST Global, StepStone Group | ✅ |
| Lovable lovable.ai | AI app builder for everyone | Dev tools / IDEs | Series B | $553M | CapitalG, Menlo Ventures, NVentures | ✅ |
| Synthesia synthesia.com | Enterprise AI avatar videos | Martech / content / creative | — | $536M | — | ✅ |
| Mercor mercor.com | AI hiring and expert matching | HR / recruiting / staffing | Series C | $486M | Felicis, Benchmark, General Catalyst | ✅ |
| Decagon decagon.ai | AI concierge for customer support | Contact center / CX | Series D | $481M | Coatue Management, Index Ventures, a16z | ✅ |
| Unconventional AI unconv.ai | Analog AI compute startup | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Seed | $475M | Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed, Lux Capital | ✅ |
| Replit replit.com | AI app-building platform | Dev tools / IDEs | Late-stage venture | $472M | Prysm Capital, Amex Ventures, Coatue | ✅ |
| Magic magic.ai | AI software engineer | Dev tools / IDEs | Series C | $465M | Eric Schmidt, Atlassian, Sequoia | ✅ |
| DeepL deepl.com | AI translation and writing | Martech / content / creative | — | $415M | — | ✅ |
| Hugging Face huggingface.co | Open-source AI platform | Horizontal AI / platform | — | $395M | — | ✅ |
| EvenUp evenup.law | AI for personal injury law | Horizontal AI / platform | Series E | $385M | Bessemer Venture Partners, REV, B Capital | ✅ |
| Suno suno.ai | AI music creation platform | Martech / content / creative | — | $375M | — | ✅ |
| Sakana AI sakana.ai | Nature-inspired AI lab | Horizontal AI / platform | — | $365M | — | ✅ |
| EliseAI eliseai.com | AI automation for housing, healthcare | Healthcare IT / EHR | Series E | $363M | Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners, Sapphire Ventures | ✅ |
| SiMa.ai sima.ai | Physical AI edge compute | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Late-stage round | $355M | Maverick Capital, StepStone Group | ✅ |
| Ambience Healthcare ambiencehealthcare.com | Ambient AI for clinicians | Healthcare IT / EHR | — | $343M | — | ✅ |
| Writer writer.com | Enterprise generative AI platform | Horizontal AI / platform | — | $326M | — | ✅ |
| Positron positron.com | Energy-efficient inference hardware | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Series B | $305M | ARENA Private Wealth, Jump Trading, Unless | ✅ |
| Blaize blaize.com | Edge AI hardware platform | Horizontal AI / platform | Public | $287M | Polar Asset Management, Franklin Templeton, Temasek | ✅ |
| Cresta cresta.ai | Contact-center AI coaching platform | Contact center / CX | Series D | $276M | WiL, QIA, Accenture | ✅ |
| Legora legora.ai | Collaborative AI for lawyers | Legal tech | Series C | $266M | Bessemer Venture Partners, ICONIQ, General Catalyst | ✅ |
| Paradox paradox.ai | Conversational AI for recruiting | HR / recruiting / staffing | Acquired | $253M | Stripes, Sapphire Ventures, Thoma Bravo | ✅ |
| Augment augmentcode.com | AI coding for teams | Dev tools / IDEs | Series B | $252M | Sutter Hill Ventures, Index Ventures, Innovation Endeavors | ✅ |
| Cornami cornami.com | FHE acceleration hardware | Horizontal AI / platform | Late-stage | $212M | Undisclosed | ✅ |
| Kore.ai kore.ai | Enterprise conversational AI platform | Contact center / CX | Strategic growth | $204M | FTV Capital, NVIDIA, Vistara Growth | ✅ |
| You.com you.com | AI search infrastructure | Enterprise search / knowledge mgmt | — | $195M | — | ✅ |
| Character.AI character.ai | Consumer AI character chat | Horizontal AI / platform | — | $193M | — | ✅ |
| Ada ada.ai | Customer service automation platform | Contact center / CX | Series C | $188M | Spark Capital, Tiger Global, Accel | ✅ |
| Stability AI stabilityai.com | Open-source image generation | Martech / content / creative | — | $181M | — | ✅ |
| Amelia amelia.com | Enterprise conversational AI software | Contact center / CX | Acquired | $175M | BuildGroup, Monroe Capital | ✅ |
| DevRev devrev.ai | AI-native support and product platform | Horizontal AI / platform | Series A | $171M | Khosla Ventures, Mayfield Fund, Param Hansa Values | ✅ |
| Reka AI reka.ai | Multimodal AI models | Horizontal AI / platform | — | $170M | — | ✅ |
| Luminance luminance.com | Legal-grade contract AI | Legal tech | Series C | $165M | Point72 Private Investments, Forestay Capital, Schroders Capital | ✅ |
| Eve eve.ai | AI platform for plaintiff firms | Legal tech | Series B | $164M | Spark Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners | ✅ |
| Hebbia hebbia.ai | AI search for knowledge work | Enterprise search / knowledge mgmt | Series B | $161M | Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, GV | ✅ |
| LangChain langchain.com | LLM app development platform | Horizontal AI / platform | Series B | $160M | IVP, Sequoia Capital, Benchmark | ✅ |
| Rogo rogo.ai | AI analyst for finance | FinTech / finance ops | Series C | $151M | Sequoia Capital, Henry Kravis, Wells Fargo | ✅ |
| Aisera aisera.com | AI service experience automation | Horizontal AI / platform | — | $150M | — | ✅ |
| Sana sana.ai | Enterprise knowledge AI | Enterprise search / knowledge mgmt | — | $136M | — | ✅ |
| Pika pika.art | AI video generation platform | Martech / content / creative | — | $135M | — | ✅ |
| StackBlitz stackblitz.com | Browser-based AI coding platform | Dev tools / IDEs | Series B | $135M | Emergence Capital, GV, Madrona | ✅ |
| Arize AI arize.com | AI observability and evaluation | BI / analytics | — | $131M | — | ✅ |
| Jasper jasper.ai | AI marketing content platform | Martech / content / creative | — | $131M | — | ✅ |
| Forethought forethought.ai | AI for customer support | Contact center / CX | Series D | $117M | Blue Cloud Ventures, NEA, Industry Ventures | ✅ |
| Inworld AI inworld.ai | Real-time AI characters | Horizontal AI / platform | — | $117M | — | ✅ |
| Articul8 articul8.ai | Enterprise generative AI platform | Horizontal AI / platform | Series B | $110M | Adara Ventures, NXC, Aditya Birla Ventures | ✅ |
| CodaMetrix codametrix.ai | AI medical coding automation | Healthcare IT / EHR | — | $107M | — | ✅ |
| Eudia eudia.ai | AI platform for legal ops | Legal tech | Series A | $105M | General Catalyst, Floodgate, Sierra Ventures | ✅ |
| Infinitus infinitus.ai | Automates healthcare phone-call workflows | Healthcare IT / EHR | Series C | $103M | Andreessen Horowitz, Memorial Hermann, GV | ✅ |
| Yellow.ai yellow.ai | Customer and employee service automation | HR / recruiting / staffing | Series C | $102M | WestBridge Capital, Sapphire Ventures, Salesforce Ventures | ✅ |
| Captions captions.ai | AI video creation platform | Martech / content / creative | — | $100M | — | ✅ |
| Descript descript.com | AI audio and video editor | Martech / content / creative | — | $100M | — | ✅ |
| Ideogram ideogram.ai | Text-to-image with typography | Martech / content / creative | — | $97M | — | ✅ |
| Klarity klarity.ai | Contract review and workflow AI | Legal tech | Series B | $90M | NFDG, Scale Venture Partners, Tola Capital | ✅ |
| Gamma gamma.ai | AI presentations and documents | Martech / content / creative | — | $87M | — | ✅ |
| Supio supio.ai | Plaintiff-law data analysis AI | Legal tech | Series B | $85M | Sapphire Ventures, Mayfield, Thomson Reuters Ventures | ✅ |
| Krea krea.com | GenAI creative workspace | Martech / content / creative | — | $83M | — | ✅ |
| Motion motion.dev | AI work suite for SMBs | Horizontal AI / platform | Series C | $75M | Scale Venture Partners, HOF Capital, 468 Capital | ✅ |
| Tome tomeapp.ai | AI storytelling for sales | Revenue intelligence / sales tech | — | $75M | — | ✅ |
| Galileo galileo.ai | AI evaluation and observability | BI / analytics | — | $68M | — | ✅ |
| Hume AI humeai.com | Empathic voice AI platform | Contact center / CX | — | $68M | — | ✅ |
| Quadric quadric.ai | Edge AI inference IP | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Series C | $68M | ACCELERATE Fund, Uncork Capital, Pear VC | ✅ |
| HeyGen heygen.ai | AI avatar video creation | Martech / content / creative | — | $66M | — | ✅ |
| Bland AI blandai.co | Enterprise AI phone calls | Contact center / CX | Series C | $115M | Dell Technologies Capital, Emergence Capital, Scale Venture Partners, HubSpot Ventures, Y Combinator | ✅ |
| Bria bria.ai | Licensed enterprise visual AI | Horizontal AI / platform | — | $64M | — | ✅ |
| Photoroom photoroom.com | AI photo editing for commerce | E-commerce / Retail / Supply Chain | — | $64M | — | ✅ |
| Solve Intelligence solveintelligence.com | AI for patent workflows | Legal tech | Series B | $55M | Visionaries Club, 20VC, Thomson Reuters Ventures | ✅ |
| Kinara www.google.com/search?q=Kinara%20AI | Edge AI NPUs | Horizontal AI / platform | Acquired | $54M | Tiger Global, Silicon Motion, Exfinity | ✅ |
| Regie.ai regie.ai | AI sales engagement platform | Revenue intelligence / sales tech | Series B | $51M | Scale Venture Partners, Foundation Capital, Khosla Ventures | ✅ |
| Hedra hedra.co | Character-driven AI video | Martech / content / creative | — | $42M | — | ✅ |
| LawGeex lawgeex.com | Contract review automation | Legal tech | Series C | $42M | Corner Ventures, La Maison, Aleph | ✅ |
| 1mind 1mind.com | AI-led sales superhumans | Revenue intelligence / sales tech | Series A | $40M | Battery Ventures, Primary Ventures, Wing Venture Capital | ✅ |
| DeepIP deepip.ai | AI for patent drafting | Legal tech | Series B | $40M | Korelya Capital, Serena, Headline | ✅ |
| DeepScribe deepscribe.ai | Ambient AI medical scribe | Healthcare IT / EHR | — | $39M | — | ✅ |
| Numeric numeric.io | AI accounting close platform | FinTech / finance ops | Series A | $38M | Menlo Ventures, IVP, Founders Fund | ✅ |
| Leya leya.com | AI workspace for lawyers | Legal tech | Series A | $36M | Redpoint Ventures, Benchmark, Alt Capital | ✅ |
| Anyword anyword.com | Performance marketing copy AI | Martech / content / creative | — | $30M | — | ✅ |
| Lakera lakera.ai | GenAI security platform | Security / SIEM | — | $30M | — | ✅ |
| Tuskira tuskira.ai | AI-powered unified threat defense | Security / SIEM | Series A | $29M | Intel Capital, SYN Ventures, Sorenson Capital | ✅ |
| Colossyan colossyan.com | AI training video platform | Martech / content / creative | — | $28M | — | ✅ |
| Paxton AI paxton.com | Legal research and drafting AI | Legal tech | Series A | $28M | Unusual Ventures, Kyber Knight, 25Madison | ✅ |
| ConverzAI converzai.com | AI recruiters for staffing firms | HR / recruiting / staffing | Series A | $22M | Menlo Ventures, Left Lane Capital, Foundation Capital | ✅ |
| Genie AI genieai.co | Open-source legal drafting AI | Legal tech | Series A | $19M | GV, Khosla Ventures | ✅ |
| Radiant Security radiantsecurity.ai | AI-enhanced SOC investigations | Security / SIEM | Series A | $15M | Next47, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Acrew Capital | ✅ |
| Copy.ai copy.ai | GTM AI content workflows | Martech / content / creative | — | $14M | — | ✅ |
| Cortical Labs corticallabs.ai | Biological computing platform | Horizontal AI / platform | Series A | $12M | Horizons Ventures, Blackbird Ventures, In-Q-Tel | ✅ |
| Haptik haptik.ai | Conversational AI chatbots | Contact center / CX | — | $12M | — | ✅ |
| Theo Ai theoai.ai | Litigation outcome prediction AI | Legal tech | Seed extension | $10M | Run Ventures | ✅ |
| Udio udio.com | AI music generation platform | Martech / content / creative | — | $10M | — | ✅ |
| OptimHire optimhire.com | AI recruiter for hiring | HR / recruiting / staffing | Seed | $8M | Mucker Capital, SparkLabs, Citta Capital | ✅ |
| Scenario scenario.ai | AI content for games | Martech / content / creative | — | $6M | — | ✅ |
| AMT amt.ai | AI influencer campaign marketplace | Martech / content / creative | Seed | $4M | NFX, Charge Ventures, Entrepreneurs First | ✅ |
| Parasail parasail.io | DePIN collateral and coordination | Horizontal AI / platform | Seed | $4M | Protocol Labs, MH Ventures, Fenbushi Capital | ✅ |
| Breakout getbreakout.ai | AI sales reps for inbound | Revenue intelligence / sales tech | Seed | $3M | Village Global, Recall Capital, Z21 Ventures | ✅ |
| Playground AI playgroundai.com | Creative AI image tools | Martech / content / creative | — | N/A | — | ✅ |
| Speechify speechify.ai | AI text-to-speech tools | Martech / content / creative | — | N/A | — | ✅ |
| Cyera cyera.com | AI-powered data security posture management (DSPM) | Security / data governance / CISO org | Series E+ | ~$2B | Evolution Equity Partners (lead); $12B val, $150M ARR | ✅ |
| Geordie AI geordie.ai (verify) | Security and governance platform for AI agents ('air traffic control for agents') | Security / governance / CISO org | Series A | $30M | (verify) | ✅ |
| Manifold manifold.ai | Vertical AI / agent platform for life sciences & drug development | Biopharma / clinical ops / life-sci IT | Series B | $40M | Reach Capital, SilverArc, TQ Ventures, Calibrate | ✅ |
| Neural Concept neuralconcept.com | AI-native engineering & simulation platform | CAE / simulation / engineering | Series C | $138M | Goldman Sachs Growth Equity | ✅ |
| Uncountable uncountable.com | AI platform for enterprise R&D (materials, chemicals, food) | R&D / data science / materials | Series A | $27M | Sageview Capital, SE Ventures, 8VC, Teamworthy | ✅ |
| ZestyAI zesty.ai | AI property & climate risk models for insurance | Insurance / risk / property data | Growth | $46M | Plug and Play, CIBC Innovation Banking (credit) | ✅ |
| Informed.IQ informediq.com | AI loan verification — income/identity/fraud for lenders | Lending / fintech / risk ops | Growth | $83M | Invictus, Nyca Partners, US Venture Partners | ✅ |
| Clearspeed clearspeed.com | Voice-based AI risk assessment (fraud, vetting, claims) | Risk / fraud / security / defense | Series D | $110M | Align Private Capital, KBW Ventures, IronGate | ✅ |
| Novi Labs novilabs.com | AI-driven well planning & production forecasting for oil & gas | Energy / oil & gas / data science | Growth | $42M | Invictus Growth Partners, Cottonwood Venture Partners | ✅ |
| Xelix xelix.com | Agentic AI for accounts payable (fraud, reconciliation, helpdesk) | Finance ops / AP / fintech | Series B | $160M+ | Insight Partners, Passion Capital, LocalGlobe | ✅ |
| OnCorps AI oncorps.com | Agentic fund operations for asset managers & administrators | Fund ops / capital markets / fintech | Growth | $55M | Long Ridge Equity Partners | ✅ |
| Helpfeel helpfeel.com | AI knowledge & FAQ search with intent prediction + AI agents | Customer support / knowledge mgmt / CX | Series E | $42M | Global Brain, SMBC Venture Capital, JP Investment | ✅ |
| Sigma360 sigma360.com | AI risk intelligence & financial-crime/AML screening | AML / compliance / risk / fintech | Series B | $17.3M | Moderne Ventures, Vocap Partners, Contour Ventures | ✅ |
| Tadaweb tadaweb.com | AI-powered OSINT / open-source intelligence platform | Intelligence / defense / security analytics | Growth | $40M | Forgepoint Capital, Arsenal Growth, Wendel | ✅ |
| Metaview metaview.ai | Vertical AI for recruiting — interview notes & hiring agents | HR tech / recruiting / talent | Series B | $50M | GV (Google Ventures), Plural, Vertex Ventures, Seedcamp | ✅ |
| nPlan nplan.io | Deep-learning forecasting & risk for construction/infrastructure projects | Construction / infra / project mgmt / data science | Series B | $36.5M | GV (Google Ventures), Chevron Technology Ventures, CapHorn, Suffolk Technologies | ✅ |
| ThinkSono thinksono.com | AI ultrasound guidance enabling non-specialists to detect DVT | Medical imaging / healthtech / ML | Seed | $12M | Cur8 Capital | ✅ |
| Reckon.ai reckon.ai | Computer-vision smart cabinets for autonomous checkout-free retail | Retail tech / computer vision / IoT | Series A | $9M | Iberis Capital, Armilar Venture Partners, NOS 5G Fund | ✅ |
| Veezoo veezoo.com | AI-native agentic analytics — natural-language data Q&A on a knowledge graph | BI / analytics / data | Series A | $6M | ACE Ventures | ✅ |
| Flow Engineering* flowengineering.com | AI-augmented hardware engineering platform — requirements & rapid iteration | Hardware / systems engineering / PLM | Series A | $31.5M | Sequoia, Odyssey Ventures, Patrick & John Collison, David Helgason | ✅ |
| Eightfold AI eightfold.ai | AI talent-intelligence platform — deep-learning skills & talent matching | HR / talent / recruiting / TA | Series E | $410M | SoftBank Vision Fund, General Catalyst, IVP, Foundation Capital | ✅ |
| EvolutionaryScale evolutionaryscale.ai | Generative protein-design AI models (ESM3) | ML / AI research / computational biology | Seed | $142M | Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, Lux Capital | ✅ |
| Cradle cradle.bio | AI protein-engineering platform for biologists | ML / protein engineering / bio software | Series B | $103M | IVP, Index Ventures, Kindred Capital | ✅ |
| Latent Labs latentlabs.com | Programmable-biology foundation models | ML / AI research / computational biology | Series A | $50M | Radical Ventures, Sofinnova, Flying Fish | ✅ |
| Chai Discovery chaidiscovery.com | AI molecular-structure & design models | ML / AI research / drug discovery | Series B | $230M | Oak HC/FT, General Catalyst, Thrive Capital | ✅ |
| Bioptimus bioptimus.com | Biology foundation models for life sciences | ML / AI research / computational biology | Series A | $76M | Cathay Innovation, Sofinnova, Bpifrance | ✅ |
| Atomwise atomwise.com | AI small-molecule discovery platform | ML / cheminformatics / drug discovery | Series C | $218M | B Capital, Sanabil, DCVC | ✅ |
| Owkin owkin.com | Federated biomedical AI for pharma R&D | ML / data science / biomedical AI | Active (Series B+) | $304M | Bristol Myers Squibb, F-Prime, GV | ✅ |
| insitro insitro.com | Machine-learning disease modeling & drug discovery | ML / data science / computational biology | Series C | $643M | a16z, CPP Investments, T. Rowe Price | ✅ |
| Isomorphic Labs isomorphiclabs.com | AI-first drug design (AlphaFold lineage) | ML / AI research / computational chemistry | Growth ($600M) | $600M | Alphabet, Thrive Capital, GV | ✅ |
| Xaira Therapeutics xaira.com | AI drug-discovery platform (protein design) | ML / protein design / biopharma R&D | Series A | $1.0B | ARCH Venture Partners, Foresite Labs, F-Prime | ✅ |
| Genesis Therapeutics genesistherapeutics.ai | AI-designed small-molecule medicines | ML / computational chemistry / biopharma | Series B | $280M | a16z, Rock Springs, Radical Ventures | ✅ |
| Terray Therapeutics terraytx.com | AI small-molecule discovery at scale | ML / chemistry / biopharma R&D | Series B | $200M | NVentures (NVIDIA), Bedford Ridge, Maverick | ✅ |
| Sandstone | AI for in-house legal teams / counsel workflow | legal tech / GRC / compliance / enterprise SaaS | Series A | $30M | Lightspeed Venture Partners | ✅ |
| Digital Asset digitalasset.com | Blockchain infra for capital markets (Canton Network) | fintech / capital-markets infra / blockchain | Growth | $355M | a16z Crypto, Citadel Securities, ADIA, BNP Paribas, CME Ventures, Broadridge, HSBC, S&P Global, Tradeweb | ✅ |
| Taktile taktile.com | AI decisioning platform for FinTech — automated risk, fraud detection, and underwriting workflows at scale | FinTech / risk management / data science / enterprise SaaS / banking ops | Series C | $110M | Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Balderton Capital, Index Ventures, Tiger Global | ✅ |
| Warp | AI-native HR and payroll automation platform — replaces manual HR workflows with AI agents | HR tech / payroll / people ops / enterprise SaaS / workforce management | Series B | $60M | Battery Ventures, Peak XV Partners, Sound Ventures, Y Combinator | ✅ |
| Attention | Revenue AI platform — automates CRM updates, call analysis, and sales workflow from live conversations | Sales ops / revenue operations / CRM / enterprise SaaS / GTM leadership | Series B | $30M | RTP Global, Aglaé Ventures, Eniac Ventures, Alven | ✅ |
| 8090 www.8090.ai | AI "Software Factory" — humans + AI agents build/modernize enterprise software | Dev tools / IDEs | Series A | $135M | Salesforce, WndrCo, Craft Ventures, The Production Board, LAUNCH | ✅ |
| Norm AI norm.ai | Agentic law — encodes regulation into AI agents; operates Norm Law, an AI-native law firm for institutional clients | Legal / regulatory counsel / legal ops | — | $120M | Khosla Ventures | ✅ |
| Emergent | AI coding and software-generation platform (unicorn) | Software engineering / dev tools | Series C | $130M | Khosla Ventures, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Lightspeed, Y Combinator | ✅ |
| Rime | Enterprise voice AI platform | Conversational AI / voice engineering | Series A | $24M | M13 (w/ Twilio Ventures, Corazon Capital, Unusual Ventures) | ✅ |
| CuspAI | AI for materials discovery | Computational chemistry / materials science / ML engineering | Series B | $450M | Kleiner Perkins, NEA | ✅ |
| Neo | AI application security | Security engineering / AppSec | Seed + Series A | $100M | Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners | ✅ |
| Empirical Security | Cybersecurity / AI-assisted exposure management | Security engineering / vulnerability management | Series A | $25M | Brightmind Partners | ✅ |
| Agave | AI for construction industry financials | Fintech / construction tech / vertical SaaS | Series A | $15M | Accel | ✅ |
| Hostie | AI virtual concierge for restaurants | Hospitality tech / customer experience | Series A | $12M | Obvious Ventures | ✅ |
| TwelveLabs twelvelabs.io | AI video-understanding platform (Video Cognition System) indexing footage for search | media tech, ML engineering | Series B | $100M | NEA, NAVER Ventures, Amazon, Radical Ventures | ✅ |
| Venice AI venice.ai | Privacy-first AI model access platform, no prompt logging | consumer product, trust/privacy engineering | Series A | $65M | Dragonfly, Coinbase Ventures, North Island Ventures | ✅ |
| MDOTM | AI investment platform (Sphere) sold to banks and asset managers | asset management, fintech product | Growth | $27M (total $36.5M) | Expedition Growth Capital | ✅ |
| 1001 | Sovereign AI for aviation, ports, energy and manufacturing infrastructure | industrial ops, infrastructure, Gulf-region enterprise | Series A | $30M | Lux Capital, Sanabil (PIF), General Catalyst | ✅ |
| EquiLibre Technologies | AI trading agents handling billions in daily equities volume with Tower Research | quant trading, ML research | Series A | Undisclosed (~$500M valuation) | Creandum | ✅ |
| KredosAi | AI/behavioral-science platform recovering late consumer payments | fintech ops, collections, behavioral science | Series A | $7M | BMW i Ventures | ✅ |
| Odyssey | AI world models and simulation platform, founded by self-driving industry veterans | Autonomy / perception engineering, simulation | Series B | $310M | Natural Capital, Amazon, GV, AMD Ventures, EQT, IQT | ✅ |
| Gradial | Agentic enterprise marketing AI platform | Marketing tech / GTM ops | Series C | $65M | Insight Partners, VMG Partners, Madrona, PruVen Capital | ✅ |
| Bland | Enterprise voice AI platform | Conversational AI / voice engineering | Series C | $50M | Dell Technologies Capital, HubSpot Ventures, Emergence Capital, Upfront Ventures, Tribeca VP | ✅ |
| Meshy | AI-powered 3D model generation from text/image prompts | 3D/graphics eng, creative tech, product leadership | Series B | ~$400M at $1.5B valuation | Existing investors (undisclosed) | ✅ |
| Paper | AI design platform for the agentic era, used by Ramp, Lovable, Vercel, PostHog | product design, dev tools, enterprise SaaS | Series A | $34M | Accel, ICONIQ | ✅ |
| Vikk AI | Consumer legal AI platform - plain-language legal Q&A, document drafting, AI-search lawyer advertising | legal tech, product, marketing/GTM | Seed | $4.2M total | Undisclosed | ✅ |
| Glow | AI-powered endpoint security platform | cybersecurity, EDR/endpoint engineering, security ops | Growth (stealth launch) | $180M total raised ($100M newest round) | Sequoia Capital, Cyberstarts, Greenoaks, Redpoint | ✅ |
| Centralize | AI ‘deal GPS’ — agents build live relationship maps of enterprise buying committees from calls, emails, calendar and web data | enterprise sales/SaaS engineering, GTM, sales ops | Series A | $15M ($19M total raised) | New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Salesforce Ventures, Y Combinator, 20Sales, Ritual Capital, Adverb Ventures | ✅ |
| Fish Audio | Open-source-rooted AI voice-model platform for creators, developers, and enterprises | voice AI/speech product leadership, applied ML for audio, developer-platform GTM | Seed | $52M | Coreline Ventures, Capital Today | ✅ |
| Dili | AI compliance automation turning unstructured construction/infrastructure project documents into structured data | construction/infrastructure compliance ops, AI product | Series A | $15M ($21.7M total) | Khosla Ventures, Allianz, Rebel Fund | ✅ |
| Ellis AI | AI-native operating layer automating private-credit fund workflows: reconciliation, LP reporting, compliance | private credit fund ops, fintech/AI product leadership | Seed | $10M+ | First Round Capital, 645 Ventures, Harlem Capital, Khosla Ventures, Thrive Capital | ✅ |
| Smallest.ai | Real-time, sub-second voice AI infrastructure (Hydra speech-to-speech model) for enterprise voice agents | voice AI/speech engineering leadership | Series A | $13M ($21M total) | Seligman Ventures, Sierra Ventures, 3one4 Capital | ✅ |
| Pangram | AI-generated text and image detection (Pangram 4 model) | trust & safety, ML detection engineering | Seed extension | $9M ($13M total) | Menlo Ventures, Haystack, ScOp | ✅ |
| Abstract Security | Composable, streaming-first security operations platform positioned as an AI-native SIEM alternative | SecOps/SIEM product leadership, detection & response engineering, security architecture | Series A extension | $25M ($50M total) | Cheyenne Ventures, AVP | ✅ |
| Inforcer | Unified Microsoft 365 security and shadow-AI detection/governance platform for MSPs serving SMBs | MSP/IT security leadership, Microsoft 365 security engineering | Series C | $50M | Insight Partners, Meritech Capital, Dawn Capital | ✅ |
| June www.june.ai | Scans legacy enterprise stacks (Salesforce, ServiceNow, Databricks, Workday) to map workflows and technical debt, then auto-generates AI deployment roadmaps and code — built to remove the forward-deployed-engineer dependency | enterprise systems/CRM/ERP leadership, solutions architecture, deployment and integration consulting, industry-domain operations | Pre-seed | $20M | Time Ventures (Marc Benioff), Michael Dell, Aaron Levie, George Kurtz | ✅ |
| Rillet www.rillet.com | AI-native ERP and general ledger where AI agents perform finance work in real time | finance systems leadership, ERP/NetSuite implementation, controller and FP&A tech | Series C | $200M | ICONIQ, Sequoia, a16z, Bain Capital Ventures | ✅ |
| Higgsfield higgsfield.ai | AI video and image creation platform for brands, agencies and studios | creative ops, media production, marketing technology leadership | Series B | $400M | DST Global, Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Valor, Tribe Capital | ✅ |
| Wispr wisprflow.ai | AI voice-to-text dictation (Flow) and its own speech model, Canto | consumer/prosumer product, speech and NLP engineering, platform GTM | Series B | $361M | Menlo Ventures, NEA, 8VC, Notable Capital | ✅ |
| Omilia omilia.com | Agentic voice-first customer experience platform for large enterprises | contact center operations, CX leadership, enterprise voice/telephony | Series B | $67M | Expedition Growth Capital | ✅ |
| Skan AI www.skan.ai | Process intelligence that observes how work actually gets done and feeds it to AI agents | business process improvement, operational excellence, RPA/automation leadership | Series C | $120M | Cathay Innovation, Dell Technologies Capital, Citi Ventures, Wipro Ventures | ✅ |
| OLIGO Security www.oligo.security | Runtime security for application code, cloud workloads and AI systems | application security, cloud security engineering, CISO organizations | Series C | $140M | Lightspeed, Ballistic Ventures, Greenfield Partners, TLV Partners | ✅ |
| Mindgard mindgard.ai | AI red teaming, shadow-AI discovery and runtime protection for AI systems | offensive security, AppSec, AI governance and risk | Series A | $30M | Album VC, Karma Ventures, .406 Ventures, Lakestar, IQ Capital | ✅ |
| Horizon3.ai horizon3.ai | NodeZero autonomous penetration testing and automated remediation | offensive security, vulnerability management, security operations leadership | Series E | $325M | NightDragon, NEA, Sapphire Ventures, PSG, SAIC | ✅ |
| Corma corma.ai | Foundation model built from the ground up for defensive cybersecurity operations | security operations, detection engineering, SOC leadership | Seed | $60M | Sequoia Capital, Khosla Ventures, Coatue | ✅ |
| Thrive Holdings thriveholdings.com | Buys accounting and IT services firms and rewires their workflows with AI | professional services leadership, PE operating partners, finance and IT transformation | Growth | $2B | SoftBank, D1 Capital, Altimeter, OpenAI | ✅ |
| Socure www.socure.com | AI platform for digital identity verification, fraud prevention and compliance risk; acquired agentic fraud/compliance startup Fravity alongside the round | Fraud/financial-crime, KYC-AML compliance, risk analytics, identity data science leadership | Growth | $156M | Summit Partners (lead) | ✅ |
Agents that do the work — eating SaaS category by category. · 98 companies.
| Company | What They Do | Coming from | Stage | Raised | Backed by | Hiring |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glean www.glean.com | Enterprise AI search agents | Enterprise search / knowledge mgmt | — | $765M | Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed, Sequoia, Wellington | ✅ |
| Sierra sierra.ai | Customer service AI agents | Contact center / CX | Venture round | $635M | Greenoaks, ICONIQ, Thrive Capital | ✅ |
| Cognition cognition.ai | AI software engineering agents | Dev tools / IDEs | Late-stage venture | $596M | Founders Fund, 8VC, Lux Capital | ✅ |
| Parloa parloa.ai | AI agents for customer service | Contact center / CX | Series D | $557M | General Catalyst, Altimeter Capital, Durable Capital Partners | ✅ |
| Adept adept.co | Enterprise AI action agents | Horizontal AI / platform | Series B | $415M | General Catalyst, Spark Capital, Nvidia | ✅ |
| Adept AI adept.ai | AI agents for workflows | Horizontal AI / platform | — | $415M | — | ✅ |
| Hippocratic AI hippocraticai.com | Healthcare AI agents | Healthcare IT / EHR | Series C | $402M | Avenir Growth Capital, CapitalG, General Catalyst | ✅ |
| Moveworks moveworks.ai | Employee support AI assistant | HR / recruiting / staffing | Acquired | $305M | Tiger Global, Alkeon Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners | ✅ |
| Codeium windsurf.com | AI coding assistant | Dev tools / IDEs | Acquired | $243M | General Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins, Greenoaks | ✅ |
| H hcompany.ai | Agentic AI for enterprises | Horizontal AI / platform | Seed | $220M | Accel, UiPath, Bpifrance | ✅ |
| Observe.AI observe.ai | AI agents for contact centers | Contact center / CX | — | $214M | — | ✅ |
| PolyAI poly.ai | Enterprise voice AI agents | Contact center / CX | Series D | $202M | Georgian, Hedosophia, Khosla Ventures | ✅ |
| Suki suki.ai | AI assistant for clinicians | Healthcare IT / EHR | Strategic equity | $168M | Zoom Ventures, Hedosophia, Venrock | ✅ |
| Port port.io | Agentic engineering platform | Dev tools / IDEs | Series C | $160M | General Atlantic, Accel, Bessemer Venture Partners | ✅ |
| Cognigy cognigy.ai | AI agents for contact centers | Contact center / CX | Acquired | $150M | Eurazeo Growth, DN Capital, Insight Partners | ✅ |
| Wonderful wonderful.com | Multilingual customer-service AI agents | Horizontal AI / platform | Series A | $134M | Index Ventures, Insight Partners, IVP | ✅ |
| Parallel parallel.ai | Web infrastructure for AI agents | Horizontal AI / platform | Series B | $230M | Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Index Ventures, Spark Capital | ✅ |
| Nabla nabla.com | AI assistant for clinicians | Healthcare IT / EHR | — | $120M | — | ✅ |
| Emergence emergence.ai | Autonomous enterprise AI agents | Horizontal AI / platform | Venture round | $97M | Learn Capital | ✅ |
| Heidi Health heidihealth.com | AI clinician copilot | Healthcare IT / EHR | — | $97M | — | ✅ |
| Hyro hyro.ai | AI agents for healthcare access | Healthcare IT / EHR | Strategic growth | $95M | Healthier Capital, Norwest, Define Ventures | ✅ |
| Corti corti.ai | AI healthcare voice assistant | Healthcare IT / EHR | — | $92M | — | ✅ |
| Spellbook spellbook.com | AI copilot for contracts | Legal tech | Series B | $82M | Khosla Ventures, Threshold Ventures, Inovia Capital | ✅ |
| 11x 11x.ai | AI digital workers for revenue | Revenue intelligence / sales tech | Series B | $76M | Andreessen Horowitz, Benchmark, SV Angel | ✅ |
| Exaforce exaforce.com | Agentic SOC security platform | Security / SIEM | Series A | $75M | Khosla Ventures, Mayfield, Thomvest Ventures | ✅ |
| Nimble nimble.ai | Web search infrastructure for agents | Enterprise search / knowledge mgmt | Series B | $75M | Norwest, Databricks Ventures, Square Peg | ✅ |
| Factory factory.ai | AI software development agents | Dev tools / IDEs | Series B | $70M | NEA, Sequoia Capital, NVIDIA | ✅ |
| Robin AI robinai.com | AI copilot for contracts | Legal tech | Growth/extension | $65M | PayPal Ventures, Cambridge University | ✅ |
| Tavus tavus.io | Personalized AI video agents | Martech / content / creative | — | $64M | — | ✅ |
| Ema ema.ai | Universal AI employees for enterprises | Horizontal AI / platform | Series A | $61M | Accel, Section 32, Prosus Ventures | ✅ |
| Unify unify.ai | AI outbound for revenue teams | Revenue intelligence / sales tech | Series B | $59M | Battery Ventures, OpenAI Startup Fund, Thrive Capital | ✅ |
| Dropzone AI dropzone.ai | Autonomous AI SOC analyst | Security / SIEM | Series B | $57M | Theory Ventures, Madrona, In-Q-Tel | ✅ |
| /dev/agents sdsa.ai | Operating system for AI agents | Horizontal AI / platform | Seed | $56M | Index Ventures, CapitalG | ✅ |
| Sema4.ai sema4.ai | Enterprise AI agent platform | Horizontal AI / platform | Series A extension | $56M | Snowflake Ventures, Rocketship VC, MVP Ventures | ✅ |
| Tabnine tabnine.com | AI coding assistant | Dev tools / IDEs | — | $55M | — | ✅ |
| Lindy lindy.com | AI executive assistant automation | Horizontal AI / platform | Series B | $50M | Coatue, Menlo Ventures, Battery Ventures | ✅ |
| Unique unique.ai | AI agents for finance | FinTech / finance ops | Series A | $49M | CommerzVentures, DN Capital, VI Partners | ✅ |
| Landbase landbase.ai | Agentic AI for go-to-market | Revenue intelligence / sales tech | Series A | $43M | Sound Ventures, Picus Capital, 8VC | ✅ |
| Prophet Security prophetsecurity.ai | Agentic AI for SOCs | Security / SIEM | Strategic investment | $41M | Amex Ventures, Citi Ventures, Accel | ✅ |
| Leena AI leena.ai | Employee helpdesk and enterprise assistants | HR / recruiting / staffing | Series B | $40M | Bessemer Venture Partners, Greycroft, B Capital Group | ✅ |
| Atomicwork atomicwork.com | Agentic IT service management | Horizontal AI / platform | Series A | $39M | Khosla Ventures, Z47, Battery Ventures | ✅ |
| Artisan artisan.co | AI employees for outbound sales | Revenue intelligence / sales tech | Series A | $38M | Glade Brook Capital, Oliver Jung, Day One Ventures | ✅ |
| Relevance AI relevanceai.com | Build and manage AI agents | Horizontal AI / platform | Series B | $37M | Bessemer Venture Partners, King River Capital, Insight Partners | ✅ |
| Firsthand firsthand.ai | AI agents for brands | E-commerce / Retail / Supply Chain | Series A | $33M | Radical Ventures, FirstMark Capital, Aperiam Ventures | ✅ |
| interface.ai interface.ai | Banking AI agents | FinTech / finance ops | Growth round | $30M | Avataar Venture Partners | ✅ |
| Synthflow AI synthflow.ai | No-code AI voice agents | Contact center / CX | Series A | $29M | Accel, Atlantic Labs, Singular | ✅ |
| LlamaIndex llamaindex.ai | Enterprise agent data framework | Horizontal AI / platform | Strategic equity | $28M | Databricks, KPMG, Norwest Venture Partners | ✅ |
| Maven AGI mavenagi.com | AI agents for customer support | Contact center / CX | Series A | $28M | M13, Lux Capital, Mentors Fund | ✅ |
| MultiOn multion.com | AI agent browser automation | Horizontal AI / platform | Follow-on equity | $28M | General Catalyst, Amazon Alexa Fund, Samsung NEXT | ✅ |
| Tavily tavily.com | Web search API for agents | Enterprise search / knowledge mgmt | Acquired | $25M | Insight Partners, Alpha Wave Global | ✅ |
| Auxia auxia.io | Agentic customer journey orchestration | Horizontal AI / platform | Seed + Series A | $24M | VMG Technology Partners, MUFG Innovation Partners, Incubate Fund | ✅ |
| Dust dust.tt | Enterprise internal AI assistants | Horizontal AI / platform | — | $22M | — | ✅ |
| Sully.ai sully.ai | AI employees for healthcare | Healthcare IT / EHR | Seed | $22M | Amity Ventures, Haroon Mokhtarzada, Beyond Capital | ✅ |
| StackAI stackai.com | No-code enterprise AI agents | Dev tools / IDEs | Series A | $19M | Lobby VC, LifeX Ventures, Guillermo Rauch | ✅ |
| Arcade arcade.com | Agent tool-calling infrastructure | Horizontal AI / platform | Seed | $12M | Laude Ventures, Flybridge, Hanabi Capital | ✅ |
| Qeen.ai qeen.ai | Agentic AI for e-commerce | E-commerce / Retail / Supply Chain | Seed | $12M | Prosus Ventures, Wamda Capital, 10x Founders | ✅ |
| Onyx onyx.app | Open-source enterprise search agent | Enterprise search / knowledge mgmt | Seed | $10M | Khosla Ventures, First Round Capital, Y Combinator | ✅ |
| Simbian simbian.ai | Autonomous security operations platform | Security / SIEM | Seed | $10M | Cota Capital, Icon Ventures, Rain Capital | ✅ |
| Retell AI retellai.com | Voice AI agents platform | Contact center / CX | Seed | $5M | Alt Capital, Y Combinator, Carya Venture | ✅ |
| AiSDR aisdr.com | AI SDR and prospecting | Revenue intelligence / sales tech | Seed | $3M | Y Combinator, Flyer One Ventures, SID Venture Partners | ✅ |
| Tars hellotars.com | AI agents for customer conversations | Contact center / CX | Seed | $0M | Upekkha | ✅ |
| Botpress botpress.com | Infrastructure platform to build & deploy AI agents | Conversational AI / dev tools | Series B | $45M | Framework VP, HubSpot Ventures, Deloitte Ventures | ✅ |
| Fetch.ai fetch.ai | Decentralized platform for autonomous AI agents | AI agents / ML / Web3 | Series C | $78M | DWF Labs, GDA, Bitscale | ✅ |
| Markup AI markup.ai | Content Guardian Agents — brand/compliance scoring & rewrite (ex-Acrolinx) | Content ops / martech / NLP | Series A | $27.5M | Genui Partners, EMH Partners, Capital Factory | ✅ |
| Iterate.ai iterate.ai | Interplay — low-code enterprise & edge AI platform | Enterprise app dev / AI | Growth | $17.3M | Auxier Asset Management | ✅ |
| Curvestone AI curvestone.io | Agentic automation for regulated legal & compliance workflows | Legal / compliance / finance ops | Seed | $4M | MTech Capital, Boost Capital Partners, D2 Fund | ✅ |
| Prometheus | Full-stack AI for physical product R&D — building an 'artificial general engineer' | ML systems / robotics / simulation / applied science / AI agents | Series B | $12B | Jeff Bezos, JPMorgan, BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, DST Global, ARCH Venture Partners | ✅ |
| Engram | Enterprise AI memory layer — persistent, structured memory for AI agents across the enterprise stack | Enterprise software / AI/ML platform / solution architecture / knowledge management | Seed | $98M | General Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia, Amplify Partners | ✅ |
| Runlayer | AI agent governance and compliance platform for enterprise — controls, audit trails, and policy enforcement for deployed AI agents | GRC / enterprise security / compliance / AI/ML platform engineering | Series A | $30M | Felicis Ventures, Khosla Ventures | ✅ |
| Oak | AI agent identity and governance operating system | Security / identity & access management engineering | Seed | $60M | Accel, Greylock Partners, CRV | ✅ |
| Natural | Agentic AI / payments infrastructure for AI agents | Fintech engineering / payments infra | Series A | $30M | Forerunner Ventures | ✅ |
| Lyzr | Agentic AI platform for enterprise automation | Enterprise SaaS / AI product leadership | Series B | $100M | Lead not publicly named | ✅ |
| Sherpa.ai | Data-sovereign / privacy-preserving AI governance platform | Data privacy / security / governance | Growth | $18M | Forgepoint Capital | ✅ |
| Kapture CX | Agentic enterprise customer-experience stack (India) | Customer experience / CX platforms | Pre-Series B | $10M | Bajaj Finserv Ventures | ✅ |
| LinqAlpha | AI agents that process filings, transcripts, and news for hedge funds and asset managers | Finance / fintech ops / research | Series A | $22M | AVP, Atinum Investment, GFT Ventures | ✅ |
| Talp | AI "personas" that simulate customer behavior/decision-making to replace surveys | Market research / consumer insights / GTM | Pre-seed | undisclosed ($20M valuation) | Formus Capital, a16z Scout Fund | ✅ |
| AIsa | Transaction/payment network enabling AI agents to pay for goods and services (stablecoin settlement, agent-to-agent commerce) | Payments / fintech ops | Seed | $6.5M | Alibaba, Tribe Capital, Draper Associates, Sumitomo Corporation | ✅ |
| geoSurge | Monitors and manages how brands appear in AI-generated answers | marketing tech, brand/SEO, AI governance | Seed | €10M (~$12M) | AlbionVC, Play Ventures, Octopus Ventures | ✅ |
| Build | Agentic AI automating infrastructure/data-center due diligence | real estate/infra development, project finance | Seed | $8.5M | Index Ventures | ✅ |
| Dawnguard | AI-native security architecture automation for cloud systems | security architecture, cloud/DevSecOps | Pre-seed extension | $3.3M (total $6.3M) | BNVT Capital, Curiosity VC, eCAPITAL | ✅ |
| Codeplain | AI that generates, tests, and updates production code from plain-language specs | software engineering, dev tools | Seed | €2.6M (~$3M) | Undisclosed | ✅ |
| Arrakis | Deploys AI agents across industrial operations (aerospace, energy, logistics, manufacturing) | industrial ops, systems eng, agentic AI product | Series A | $30M ($38M total) | Blossom Capital, Accel | ✅ |
| AegisAI | Autonomous AI agents defending inboxes against AI-crafted spear phishing and BEC | security eng, CISO, threat intel | Series A | $36M ($49M total) | Battery Ventures, Accel, Foundation Capital | ✅ |
| Neo Security | Agentic software control platform for enterprises | cybersecurity, enterprise IT, agentic AI engineering | Growth (undisclosed) | $75M | Bessemer Venture Partners, Andreessen Horowitz | ✅ |
| Freehand | Autonomous AI agents that manage complex supply chain spend — invoice verification, contract compliance, and vendor negotiation — for Fortune 500 enterprises | supply chain ops, procurement, logistics, enterprise operations | Series B | $75M ($100M total raised) | Battery Ventures, NewRoad Capital Partners, Nexus Venture Partners, Penny Pritzker | ✅ |
| Act Security | Action-centric cloud security platform governing what AI agents and non-human actors can do inside cloud infrastructure | cloud security architecture, IAM/PAM leadership, DevSecOps | Seed + Series A | $60M | Team8, Bessemer Venture Partners, Notable Capital | ✅ |
| Hush Security | Identity-security platform governing AI agents and non-human identities with just-in-time scoped credentials | IAM/identity security leadership, CISO, non-human-identity/secrets management engineering | Series A | $30M ($41M total) | Battery Ventures, YL Ventures, Akamai (new strategic) | ✅ |
| Simile | Agentic 'synthetic twin' simulations of consumers for market research, clients incl. CVS Health and Deloitte | market research/data science leadership, applied ML | Series B | $200M at $2B valuation | Greenoaks, Index Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, A* | ✅ |
| Encore AI | AI voice and revenue agents trained on customer interactions for enterprise contact centers | contact center ops, voice AI product leadership | Series A | $30M | Team8, Planven, The Garage | ✅ |
| Naïve | One API that lets AI agents set up and run an actual company — LLC formation, payment processing, virtual cards, email, phone numbers, cloud infrastructure, storage, plus Stripe and QuickBooks integration. The back office as a programmable service. | Business operations, RevOps, finance ops or office management — you already run the incorporation, billing, payroll and vendor stack this replaces, and that operational knowledge is what tells an agent what good looks like. | Series A | $32M | Nexus Venture Partners (lead), Y Combinator, Zetta, Liquid 2, Gokul Rajaram, Tim Zheng (Apollo.io), JD Sherman (ex-HubSpot COO) | ✅ |
| HappyRobot www.happyrobot.ai | AI agents automating voice, email and document operations for logistics and supply chain | supply chain and logistics operations, contact center, enterprise ops leadership | Series C | $190M | Prysm Capital, Eurazeo, a16z, Base10, Y Combinator | ✅ |
| Sapiom www.sapiom.ai | Infrastructure that gets AI agents into production and routes each call to the cheapest capable model | platform engineering, MLOps, cloud cost/FinOps | Series A | $50M | Dragonfly, Accel, Gradient, Menlo Ventures, Anthropic | ✅ |
| Twin1 AI twin1.ai | AI digital twins that scale an individual professional's judgment and context across an enterprise | knowledge management, enterprise transformation, professional services leadership | Seed | $20M | Bessemer Venture Partners, Tribeca Venture Partners, Aramco Ventures | ✅ |
| June AI june.ai | AI agents that automate the implementation, migration and adoption of enterprise software | enterprise software implementation, systems integration, IT transformation leadership | Pre-seed | $20M | Time Ventures (Marc Benioff), Michael Dell, Diane Greene, Aaron Levie, SV Angel | ✅ |
| Faro AI (Faro Health) | Agentic AI to speed up and scale clinical-trial/clinical-development work | Clinical operations, biostatistics, agentic AI product leadership | Series B | $37.3M | Merck Global Health Innovation Fund, S32 (co-leads), General Catalyst, Northpond Ventures, Polaris Partners, PTX Capital, Zetta, Ankona Capital | ✅ |
| Instinct | Personal AI assistant/agent handling task management via SMS and phone calls | Consumer AI product, conversational AI engineering leadership | Series B | $250M ($350M total) | Index Ventures, Benchmark | ✅ |
| Agentrys | Agentic design automation for chip design - self-improving AI agent workforce for verification and physical design | Chip design (EDA), semiconductor verification engineering leadership | Seed | $24.5M (incl. $5.4M pre-seed) | Etna Labs (seed lead), MediaTek (pre-seed) | ✅ |
| Arga Labs | Builds digital-twin sandbox environments (Salesforce, Workday, email) to train and test enterprise AI agents before deployment | Enterprise SaaS integration, AI agent testing/QA leadership | Seed | $10M | General Catalyst, Box Group, Emergence, Gradient, SV Angel | ✅ |
AI-first clouds + the tools that schedule and run AI workloads. Home base for hyperscaler cloud architects. · 55 companies.
| Company | What They Do | Coming from | Stage | Raised | Backed by | Hiring |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nscale nscale.com | AI hyperscale cloud and datacenters | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Series C | $3.3B | Aker ASA, 8090 Industries, NVIDIA | ✅ |
| CoreWeave coreweave.com | GPU cloud for AI workloads | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Public | $3.0B | Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs | ✅ |
| Crusoe crusoe.ai | AI factories and energy-linked compute | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Series E | $2.5B | Mubadala Capital, Valor Equity Partners, NVIDIA | ✅ |
| Lambda lambda.ai | AI developer cloud and GPUs | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Series E | $2.4B | TWG Global, USIT, existing investors | ✅ |
| Nebius nebius.ai | Public AI cloud infrastructure platform | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Public | $700M | Accel, NVIDIA, Orbis | ✅ |
| Fluidstack fluidstack.com | GPU cloud and AI clusters | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Equity financing | $653M | Not publicly disclosed | ✅ |
| Baseten baseten.com | AI inference deployment platform | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Series E | $585M | IVP, CapitalG, NVIDIA | ✅ |
| Together AI together.ai | AI cloud and inference | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | — | $534M | — | ✅ |
| Voltage Park voltagepark.com | AI GPU cloud capacity provider | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Initial funding | $500M | Navigation Fund, Jed McCaleb | ✅ |
| VAST Data vastdata.com | AI data platform | Legacy databases / data mgmt | Series E | $381M | Fidelity, NEA, BOND Capital | ✅ |
| Qumulo qumulo.com | File data platform at scale | Legacy databases / data mgmt | Series E | $347M | BlackRock, Amity Ventures, Highland Capital | ✅ |
| Vultr vultr.com | Independent cloud and AI infrastructure | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Growth financing | $333M | LuminArx Capital Management, AMD Ventures | ✅ |
| Fireworks AI fireworks.ai | AI inference cloud platform | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | — | $327M | — | ✅ |
| WEKA weka.ai | AI-native data platform | Legacy databases / data mgmt | Series E | $309M | Valor Equity Partners, NVIDIA, Generation | ✅ |
| Anyscale anyscale.com | Ray-based distributed AI platform | Horizontal AI / platform | Series C extension | $260M | Addition, Intel Capital, Foundation Capital | ✅ |
| Pliops pliops.com | Storage acceleration for AI infra | Legacy databases / data mgmt | Series D | $205M | Koch Disruptive Technologies, SK hynix | ✅ |
| Ori ori.io | Sovereign AI cloud platform | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Acquired | $192M | Wa'ed Ventures, Wayra, NextEra Energy | ✅ |
| WhiteFiber whitefiber.ai | AI cloud and datacenters | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Public | $183M | B. Riley Securities, Needham, Macquarie | ✅ |
| Hammerspace hammerspace.com | AI data orchestration platform | Legacy databases / data mgmt | Strategic | $157M | TGC Square, SK Square | ✅ |
| Aleph Alpha aleph-alpha.com | Sovereign enterprise AI | Horizontal AI / platform | — | $153M | — | ✅ |
| MinIO minio.io | Object storage for AI | Legacy databases / data mgmt | Series B | $126M | Intel Capital, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Dell Technologies | ✅ |
| Modal modal.com | Serverless AI and data cloud | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Series C | $466M | Lux Capital, Redpoint Ventures, General Catalyst | ✅ |
| TensorWave tensorwave.com | AMD-based AI cloud infrastructure | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Series A | $100M | Magnetar, AMD Ventures, Prosperity7 | ✅ |
| Lightbits Labs lightbitslabs.com | Software-defined NVMe storage | Legacy databases / data mgmt | Series C | $92M | Atreides, J.P. Morgan, Valor Equity Partners | ✅ |
| DataCrunch datacrunch.com | European sovereign GPU cloud | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Series A | $77M | byFounders, Skaala, Tesi | ✅ |
| Alluxio alluxio.com | Data acceleration layer for AI | Horizontal AI / platform | Series C | $73M | Hillhouse Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Seven Seas | ✅ |
| NexGen Cloud nexgencloud.com | Sovereign AI cloud infrastructure | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Series A | $59M | Moore & Moore Investments Group | ✅ |
| io.net io.net | Decentralized GPU compute network | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Series A | $40M | Hack VC, Multicoin Capital, 6th Man Ventures | ✅ |
| SF Compute sfcompute.com | AI compute marketplace | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Series A | $40M | DCVC, Wing Venture Capital | ✅ |
| Volumez volumez.com | Cloud-aware data infrastructure | Legacy databases / data mgmt | Series A | $40M | Koch Disruptive Technologies, Pitango, Viola Ventures | ✅ |
| Tigris Data tigrisdata.ai | Distributed object storage for AI | Legacy databases / data mgmt | Series A | $25M | Spark Capital, Andreessen Horowitz | ✅ |
| RunPod runpod.io | Developer-first GPU cloud platform for 1M+ developers — $1B valuation; rejected $500M acquisition to stay independent | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter / developer platforms | Series A | $100M | Summit Partners | ✅ |
| Hyperbolic hyperbolic.ai | GPU marketplace and inference cloud | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Series A | $19M | Variant, Polychain Capital, Lightspeed Faction | ✅ |
| GMI Cloud gmicloud.ai | GPU cloud for enterprises | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Series A | $15M | Headline Asia, Banpu Next, Wistron | ✅ |
| Lepton AI lepton.ai | GPU cloud and AI deployment | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Acquired | $11M | CRV, Fusion Fund | ✅ |
| Vast.ai vast.ai | GPU rental marketplace | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Seed | $4M | DRW Holdings, Nazare Venture Capital | ✅ |
| OpenRouter openrouter.ai | Unified API and marketplace routing across LLM providers | Cloud / platform / developer infrastructure | Series B | Series B 2026 (undisclosed) | (verify) | ✅ |
| Ultralytics ultralytics.com | YOLO open-source computer-vision AI models | Computer vision / ML engineering | Series A | $30M | Elephant, SquareOne | ✅ |
| Synthesized synthesized.io | Agentic AI-native test data & data infrastructure | Data engineering / QA / MLOps | Series A | $30.5M | Redalpine, IQ Capital, UBS, Seedcamp | ✅ |
| K2view k2view.com | GenAI data fabric — AI-ready data for agentic AI | Data engineering / integration / data mgmt | Growth | $43M | Forestay Capital, Trinity Capital, Genesis Partners | ✅ |
| Vercel vercel.com | AI Cloud for building & deploying apps + v0 AI app builder | Cloud / dev tools / frontend eng | Series F | $863M | Accel, GIC, BlackRock, Khosla Ventures | ✅ |
| Anaconda anaconda.com | Python platform to build & manage enterprise AI/ML | Data science / ML engineering / Python | Series C | $210M | Insight Partners, Mubadala Capital | ✅ |
| NinjaOne www.ninjaone.com | IT operations, endpoint management & AI-ops platform | IT ops / ITSM / observability / endpoint security | Series C Extension | $400M | ICONIQ Growth, Wellington, TVG, BDT & MSD, Sequoia, NEA, CapitalG | ✅ |
| Prime Intellect primeintellect.ai | Decentralized compute + reinforcement-learning frameworks so companies can train and OWN their own AI agents instead of renting from a frontier lab | Cloud / infrastructure / ML engineering | Series A | $130M | Radical Ventures, NVIDIA, Intel Capital, Dell Technologies Capital, Iconiq | ✅ |
| Ollama ollama.com | Free tool to run open AI models locally on your own hardware; used inside 85% of the Fortune 500 | ML engineering / DevOps / infrastructure | — | $65M | — | ✅ |
| Spectro Cloud | AI infrastructure control-plane and MLOps governance platform | Cloud/DevOps / platform engineering | Growth/Series D | $100M+ | Goldman Sachs Alternatives (Growth Equity) | ✅ |
| Infinity | AI chip inference software | ML systems / compiler engineering | Seed | $15M | Not disclosed in source | ✅ |
| Bespoke Labs | Builds RL training environments for AI agents | ML research / RL engineering / infra | Seed + Series A | $40M | Wing VC, 8VC | ✅ |
| DataBahn | Agentic data control plane that activates, governs, and routes enterprise data/telemetry for AI models | data engineering/data platform leadership, security data ops | Series B | $40M | Insight Partners, Forgepoint, GTM Capital, S3 Ventures | ✅ |
| Multiverse Computing | Quantum-inspired AI model compression for efficient edge-to-cloud deployment | ML infrastructure/model-optimization eng leadership, edge AI deployment | Series C (in progress) | targeting up to $570M / €500M | Not fully disclosed in initial coverage | ✅ |
| Groundcover | Cloud observability platform rebuilt for the AI era, positioned as a Datadog challenger | observability/DevOps engineering leadership, SRE | Series C | $100M at $500M valuation | One Peak, Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, Zeev Ventures | ✅ |
| Callosum callosum.ai | Orchestration that routes AI workloads to the cheapest capable chip and model | cloud infrastructure, MLOps, FinOps and capacity planning | Seed | $110.25M | Atomico, Plural, DCVC, UK Sovereign AI Fund | ✅ |
| River AI river.ai | Platform to train, tune and serve custom open-weight models without an infra team | ML platform engineering, developer tools, inference infrastructure | Series A | $1.1B | General Catalyst, AMP PBC, NVIDIA, AMD Ventures, Y Combinator | ✅ |
| Silicon Data www.silicondata.com | Independent GPU price indices and performance benchmarks for the AI compute economy | market data, index/benchmark products, data-center capacity planning | Series A | $30.5M | Valor Atreides AI Fund, CME Group, DRW, F-Prime, Samsung, VanEck | ✅ |
| Blacksmith blacksmith.sh | CI cloud on bare metal for validating AI-generated code, 2x faster than stock runners | developer productivity, platform/DevOps engineering, build infrastructure | Series B | $60M | Peak XV Partners, Y Combinator, GV | ✅ |
The chips — GPUs, accelerators, inference silicon. · 46 companies.
| Company | What They Do | Coming from | Stage | Raised | Backed by | Hiring |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cerebras Systems cerebras.ai | Wafer-scale AI chips and systems | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Series H | $2.8B | Tiger Global, Benchmark, Fidelity | ✅ |
| Groq groq.com | AI inference chips and cloud | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Series E | $1.8B | Disruptive, BlackRock, Neuberger Berman | ✅ |
| MetaX Integrated Circuits metax-tech.com | Chinese GPGPU chip platform | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Public | $1.6B | HongShan, Lenovo Capital, China Life Capital | ✅ |
| SambaNova Systems sambanovasystems.ai | AI chips and inference systems | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Series E | $1.5B | Vista Equity Partners, Cambium Capital, Intel Capital | ✅ |
| Tenstorrent tenstorrent.com | AI chips and RISC-V IP | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Series D | $1.0B | Samsung Securities, AFW Partners, Bezos Expeditions | ✅ |
| Iluvatar CoreX iluvatar.com | Chinese GPGPU infrastructure chips | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Public | $810M | ZTE, UBS AM, CFIG | ✅ |
| Enflame Technology www.enflame-tech.com | AI training and inference chips | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Series D | $746M | Shanghai International Group, Tencent, Meituan | ✅ |
| Etched etched.ai | Transformer-only AI chips | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Late-stage venture | $625M | Stripes, Peter Thiel, Ribbit Capital | ✅ |
| MatX matx.com | LLM-focused training chips | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Series B | $605M | Jane Street, Situational Awareness, Marvell | ✅ |
| Graphcore graphcore.ai | IPU accelerators for AI | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Acquired | $534M | Ontario Teachers', Fidelity International, Schroders | ✅ |
| Cambricon cambricon.com | Chinese AI chipmaker | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Public | $470M | SDIC Venture, Alibaba, Lenovo Capital | ✅ |
| Rebellions rebellions.ai | Korean AI inference chipmaker | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Series C | $459M | Samsung Electronics, Arm, KB Securities | ✅ |
| d-Matrix dmatrix.ai | AI inference chips and datacenter | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Series C | $429M | Bullhound Capital, Triatomic Capital, Temasek | ✅ |
| Axelera AI axelera.ai | Edge AI acceleration chips | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Late-stage venture | $380M | Innovation Industries, BlackRock, SiteGround Capital | ✅ |
| Hailo hailo.ai | Edge AI inference chips | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Series C extension | $341M | Poalim Equity, OurCrowd, Talcar | ✅ |
| Tachyum tachyum.ai | Universal processor for AI | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Series C | $300M | European investor, IPM Group | ✅ |
| Mythic mythic.ai | Analog AI inference chips | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Series D | $287M | DCVC, NEA, Honda | ✅ |
| Axiado axiado.com | AI security chips for infrastructure | Security / SIEM | Series C+ | $206M | Maverick Silicon, Prosperity7, Orbit Venture Partners | ✅ |
| FuriosaAI furiosa.ai | AI accelerator chips | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Series C bridge | $202M | Korea Development Bank, IBK, Keistone Partners | ✅ |
| Recogni tensordyne.ai | Low-power AI inference chips | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Series C | $176M | Celesta Capital, GreatPoint Ventures, Mayfield | ✅ |
| Kneron www.kneron.com | Edge AI chips and software | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Series B extension | $159M | Foxconn HH-CTBC, Alltek, Horizon Ventures | ✅ |
| Untether AI www.google.com/search?q=Untether%20AI%20%28acquired%20by%20AMD%29 | At-memory AI inference chips | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Shutdown | $158M | Tracker Capital, CPP Investments, Intel Capital | ✅ |
| Ethernovia ethernovia.com | Networking chips for physical AI | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Series B | $154M | Maverick Silicon, Socratic Partners, Conduit Capital | ✅ |
| BrainChip brainchip.ai | Neuromorphic edge AI chips | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Public | $149M | LDA Capital, institutional investors | ✅ |
| EnCharge AI enchargeai.com | Analog AI inference accelerators | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Series B | $144M | Tiger Global, Maverick Silicon, Samsung Ventures | ✅ |
| EdgeQ edgeq.io | 5G and AI baseband chips | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Series B | $126M | Phaistos Investment Fund, SDF, EDBI | ✅ |
| Esperanto Technologies esperanto.ai | RISC-V AI inference processors | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Series BB | $108M | Elematec Corporation | ✅ |
| DEEPX deepx.ai | On-device AI semiconductors | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Series C | $103M | SkyLake Equity Partners, AJU IB, Timefolio | ✅ |
| Prophesee prophesee.ai | Event-based vision sensors | Horizontal AI / platform | Series C | $94M | Prosperity7, Sinovation Ventures, Xiaomi | ✅ |
| Flex Logix www.google.com/search?q=Flex%20Logix | Embedded FPGA and AI IP | Horizontal AI / platform | Acquired | $82M | Mithril Capital, Lux Capital, Eclipse Ventures | ✅ |
| Gyrfalcon Technology www.google.com/search?q=Gyrfalcon%20Technology | AI accelerators for edge | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | N/A | $68M | LG Electronics, Sailing Capital, V-Capital | ✅ |
| Moffett AI moffettai.com | Sparse AI computing chips | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Series B | $68M | Ant Group, Shengjing Jiacheng | ✅ |
| MemryX memryx.com | Edge AI accelerator chips | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Series B | $63M | HarbourVest, M Ventures, eLab Ventures | ✅ |
| Rain Neuromorphics rain.ai | Neuromorphic AI chips | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Series A | $25M | Prosperity7, Sam Altman | ✅ |
| NovuMind www.google.com/search?q=NovuMind | AI inference chips and IP | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Series A | $15M | ZhenFund, China Broadband Capital, Hongtai Capital | ✅ |
| Extropic extropic.ai | Physics-based AI computing chips | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Seed | $14M | Kindred Ventures, HOF Capital, Weekend Fund | ✅ |
| Ambient Scientific ambientscientific.ai | Ultra-low-power edge AI processors | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Series A | $7M | Cota Capital, Walden International, Artiman Ventures | ✅ |
| Biren Technology biren.com | China AI GPU developer | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Public | $1.9B | UBS Asset Management, Ping An, Lion Global | ✅ |
| Moore Threads en.mthreads.com | Chinese full-stack GPU maker | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Public | $1.8B | Shanghai IPO investors | ✅ |
| Fractile fractile.ai | In-memory compute chips to speed up AI inference | Semiconductor / hardware / data center | Series B | $220M+ | Factorial Funds, Accel | ✅ |
| General Intuition generalintuition.ai | Spatial AI training infrastructure at frontier scale — building the compute layer for next-generation frontier models | ML infrastructure / distributed systems / large-scale compute / GPU cluster management | Series A | $320M | Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, Jeff Bezos, Eric Schmidt | ✅ |
| SambaNova | AI chip/compute platform for enterprise inference and training | semiconductor / systems engineering / data center ops | Series F (1st close) | $1B | General Atlantic | ✅ |
| Oxmiq | Licensable AI-chip architecture (OxCore) cutting cost of custom AI silicon | chip design, semiconductor eng | Series A | $35M | Samsung Catalyst Fund, Fundomo | ✅ |
| Architect Labs | AI-driven custom chip design tooling | Chip design / semiconductor engineering | Seed | $24M | Kindred Ventures, TQ Ventures, Race Capital, Together Fund | ✅ |
| Xsight Labs | Programmable Ethernet switch and DPU silicon for AI and cloud data-center networks | networking/silicon engineering, data-center chip leadership | Growth | $300M+ at $2.8B valuation | Fidelity Management & Research, Intel Capital, Battery Ventures, T. Rowe Price | ✅ |
| Velaura AI velaura.ai | Ultra-low-power AI chip IP (Titan Core) cutting 2-4x the energy of AI matrix math | semiconductor IP, ASIC design leadership, power/thermal engineering | Series A | $110M | Seligman Ventures, Samsung Catalyst, Mayfield, Capricorn | ✅ |
Moving data between chips and servers fast. · 18 companies.
| Company | What They Do | Coming from | Stage | Raised | Backed by | Hiring |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ayar Labs ayarlabs.com | Optical interconnects for AI chips | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Series E | $872M | Neuberger Berman, ARK Invest, Qatar Investment Authority | ✅ |
| Lightmatter lightmatter.ai | Photonic interconnects and compute | Martech / content / creative | Series D | $822M | T. Rowe Price, Fidelity, GV | ✅ |
| Celestial AI celestial.ai | Photonic fabric for AI systems | Martech / content / creative | Acquired | $588M | Fidelity, BlackRock, Maverick Silicon | ✅ |
| Lightelligence lightelligence.ai | Optical computing and interconnects | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Series C | $246M | China Mobile, Shanghai State-owned Investment | ✅ |
| Enfabrica enfabrica.com | AI networking and memory fabric | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Acquired | $240M | Spark Capital, Maverick Silicon, VentureTech Alliance | ✅ |
| Luminous Computing luminous-co.squarespace.com | Photonic AI supercomputing hardware | Martech / content / creative | Series A | $123M | 8090 Partners, Gigafund, Horsley Bridge | ✅ |
| AttoTude attotude.com | THz interconnects for AI datacenters | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Series B | $90M | Mayfield, The Westly Group, Sutter Hill Ventures | ✅ |
| Avicena avicena.io | MicroLED optical chip interconnects | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Series B | $90M | Tiger Global, SK hynix, Prosperity7 | ✅ |
| DustPhotonics dustphotonics.com | Silicon photonics for data centers | Martech / content / creative | Series B follow-on | $82M | Sienna Venture Capital, Greenfield Partners, Atreides | ✅ |
| NeuReality neureality.ai | AI inference networking systems | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Growth round | $63M | EIC Fund, Varana Capital, Cleveland Avenue | ✅ |
| Xscape Photonics xscapephotonics.ai | Silicon photonics for AI fabrics | Martech / content / creative | Series A | $57M | IAG Capital Partners, Cisco Investments, NVIDIA | ✅ |
| Mesh Optical Technologies meshoptical.com | Optical transceivers for AI datacenters | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Series A | $50M | Thrive Capital, Also Capital, Banner VC | ✅ |
| Salience Labs saliencelabs.ai | Photonic switching for AI networks | Martech / content / creative | Series A | $42M | ICM HPQC Fund, Applied Ventures, Braavos | ✅ |
| Oriole Networks oriolenetworks.com | Photonic AI networking infrastructure | Martech / content / creative | Series A | $35M | Plural, UCL Technology Fund, Clean Growth Fund | ✅ |
| Lucidean lucidean-inc.com | Coherent optical links for datacenters | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Seed | $18M | Entrada Ventures, Koch Disruptive Technologies | ✅ |
| Hyperlume hyperlume.com | MicroLED optical interconnects | Cloud / infrastructure / datacenter | Acquired | $13M | BDC Deep Tech, ArcTern Ventures, Intel Capital | ✅ |
| Ephos ephos.ai | Glass photonic chips | Martech / content / creative | Seed | $9M | Starlight Ventures, Collaborative Fund, Exor Ventures | ✅ |
| Eliyan | Electro-optical interconnect silicon solving AI-chip-cluster connectivity bottlenecks | semiconductor/photonics engineering, data-center hardware leadership | Series C | $145M at $1B valuation | Seligman Ventures, Cisco Ventures, Lumentum | ✅ |
Powering the buildout. For energy, utilities, and power backgrounds. · 6 companies.
| Company | What They Do | Coming from | Stage | Raised | Backed by | Hiring |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| X-Energy x-energy.com | Small modular reactors powering AI data centers | Energy / utilities / power | Public (Nasdaq: XE) | $1.8B | Amazon, DOE | ✅ |
| TerraPower terrapower.com | Natrium advanced nuclear reactors | Energy / utilities / power | Series D | $1.52B | Bill Gates, DOE | ✅ |
| Kairos Power kairospower.com | Molten-salt small modular reactors | Energy / utilities / power | Series B | $136M (+$303M DOE) | Google (PPA), DOE | ✅ |
| Oklo oklo.com | Fast-fission microreactors | Energy / utilities / power | Public (NYSE: OKLO) | — | Sam Altman, AltC | ✅ |
| NuScale Power nuscalepower.com | Light-water small modular reactors | Energy / utilities / power | Public (NYSE: SMR) | — | Fluor | ✅ |
| Emerald AI | Software that turns AI data centers into flexible, grid-responsive power assets | Data-center power/grid engineering, utility partnerships, AI infra leadership | Series A (oversubscribed) | $150M | Energize Capital, DCVC (co-leads), Nvidia, Samsung Ventures, Siemens, Salesforce Ventures, GE Vernova, In-Q-Tel | ✅ |
The buildings. For real estate, facilities, and data-center operators. · 7 companies.
| Company | What They Do | Coming from | Stage | Raised | Backed by | Hiring |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Equinix equinix.com | Global colocation and interconnection | Real estate / facilities / datacenter ops | Public (Nasdaq: EQIX) | — | Public markets | ✅ |
| Digital Realty digitalrealty.com | Hyperscale and colocation data centers | Real estate / facilities / datacenter ops | Public (NYSE: DLR) | — | Public markets | ✅ |
| Vantage Data Centers vantage-data-centers.com | Hyperscale data center campuses | Real estate / facilities / datacenter ops | Private (PE-backed) | $9.2B equity | DigitalBridge, Silver Lake | ✅ |
| Aligned Data Centers aligneddc.com | Adaptive hyperscale data centers | Real estate / facilities / datacenter ops | Private (PE-backed) | — | BlackRock, GIP, Macquarie | ✅ |
| CyrusOne cyrusone.com | Hyperscale colocation data centers | Real estate / facilities / datacenter ops | Private (PE-backed) | — | BlackRock, GIP | ✅ |
| STACK Infrastructure stackinfra.com | Hyperscale data center platform | Real estate / facilities / datacenter ops | Private (PE-backed) | — | Blue Owl, IPI Partners | ✅ |
| DataBank databank.com | Edge and enterprise data centers | Real estate / facilities / datacenter ops | Private (PE-backed) | — | DigitalBridge | ✅ |
Keeping the racks cool. For industrial, mechanical, and thermal backgrounds. · 6 companies.
| Company | What They Do | Coming from | Stage | Raised | Backed by | Hiring |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vertiv vertiv.com | Power and thermal management for data centers | Industrial / mechanical / thermal | Public (NYSE: VRT) | — | Public markets | ✅ |
| LiquidStack liquidstack.com | Two-phase immersion liquid cooling | Industrial / mechanical / thermal | Acquired (Trane) | $20M | Trane Technologies, Wiwynn | ✅ |
| Submer submer.com | Immersion cooling systems | Industrial / mechanical / thermal | Private | $60M | Planet First Partners | ✅ |
| Iceotope iceotope.com | Precision liquid cooling | Industrial / mechanical / thermal | Private | — | nVent, ABC Impact | ✅ |
| Accelsius accelsius.com | Two-phase direct-to-chip cooling | Industrial / mechanical / thermal | Private | — | Innventure | ✅ |
| Omen AI | Inline spectrometer monitoring of coolant in liquid-cooled AI data centers | data-center ops, facilities engineering | Series A | $31M | Nava Ventures, CRV | ✅ |
Intelligence on devices — robots, drones, sensors, vehicles. · 40 companies.
| Company | What They Do | Coming from | Stage | Raised | Backed by | Hiring |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arkeus (verify) | Autonomous drone AI for aerial detection and intelligence | Robotics / defense / industrial / embedded | Series A | $25M (~$100M val) | (verify) | ✅ |
| Auterion auterion.com | AuterionOS — AI autonomy software for drones & defense swarms | Robotics / defense / embedded software | Series B | $195M | Bessemer, Lakestar, Mosaic Ventures, Costanoa | ✅ |
| Wandelbots wandelbots.com | No-code AI programming for industrial robots | Industrial automation / robotics | Series C | $126M | Insight Partners, Microsoft, 83North, EQT | ✅ |
| PassiveLogic passivelogic.com | Generative autonomy for buildings — physics digital twins + AI | Building systems / IoT / controls | Series C | $125M | NVIDIA (NVentures), Brookfield, Addition, Prologis | ✅ |
| Wayve wayve.ai | Embodied AI for autonomous driving — end-to-end self-driving models | Autonomous systems / robotics / ML | Series D | $1.5B | SoftBank, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Eclipse Ventures | ✅ |
| Zeitview zeitview.com | AI-led aerial inspection analytics for renewables & infrastructure | Energy / renewables / inspection / CV | Growth | $174M | Upfront Ventures, Hearst Ventures, Valor Equity Partners | ✅ |
| Miovision miovision.com | Computer-vision & AI for traffic management & smart cities | Smart city / transportation / CV | Growth | $307M | Maverix Private Equity, OMERS Ventures | ✅ |
| NEURA Robotics neura-robotics.com | Cognitive humanoid robots and physical AI — 4NE1 humanoid + Neuraverse open AI ecosystem for cross-deployment robot learning | Robotics / AI systems / embedded / manufacturing | Series C | $1.4B | Tether, Qualcomm, Amazon, NVIDIA, Bosch, Schaeffler, European Investment Bank | ✅ |
| Standard Bots standardbots.com | AI-native industrial robots; no-code training by demonstration (US-made) | robotics / mechatronics / manufacturing ops / robot learning | Series C | $200M | General Catalyst, Amazon, Samsung Next, RoboStrategy, BoxGroup | ✅ |
| NewOrbit | Autonomous spacecraft / in-space operations | aerospace / autonomy / GNC software / embedded | Series A | $18.5M | Voyager Ventures, Atlantic VC, Lifeline Ventures, Illusian, Custos Family Office | ✅ |
| Aina | Hardware to directly control AI agents | Robotics / embedded systems / hardware engineering | Seed | $5.5M | Redstart Labs (Info Edge India), 360 ONE | ✅ |
| Walden Robotics | Toyota-spinoff general-purpose humanoid robots | Robotics / mechanical engineering / controls | Seed (stealth launch) | $300M | Deviation Capital & Toyota Motor Corp (w/ Nvidia, Boeing, Samsung Ventures) | ✅ |
| TerraFirma | Semi-autonomous heavy-equipment robotics | Robotics / autonomy engineering (aerospace background a plus) | Series A | ~$100M | Kleiner Perkins (w/ Bain Capital Ventures, Glade Brook, PEAK6) | ✅ |
| LimX Dynamics | Humanoid robotics | Robotics / mechanical & controls engineering | Pre-IPO round | ~$200M | — | ✅ |
| Monumental | Bricklaying/construction robotics (UK/US) | Robotics / construction tech engineering | Series B | $32M | Khosla Ventures | ✅ |
| Gradium | Kyutai spinout building the real-time voice layer for AI — TTS/STT, voice translation, edge-tuned models | Edge/embedded engineering ops / GTM | Seed extension | ~$30M added (total seed >$100M) | Nvidia | ✅ |
| Hive | Unified physical AI platform ("silicon brain") letting industrial machines perceive, decide and act autonomously | Industrial ops / manufacturing / plant operations | Seed | $15M | SuperSeed, Veriten, Skyfall, Nysnø | ✅ |
| Dogtooth Technologies | Robotic harvesting — computer vision + AI + robotic manipulation for autonomous fruit/produce picking | Agtech ops / supply chain / robotics deployment | Growth round | £14M+ (~$18M) | 24 Haymarket, EMV Capital, ACF Investors, Innovate UK | ✅ |
| Luffy AI | "Neuroplastic AI" (sparse neural networks trained in simulation) for real-time adaptive control of industrial motors, pumps, fans and conveyors | Industrial automation / controls engineering ops | Series A | £8.1M (~$10.3M) | BGF, MIG Fonds, Bow Capital, Chrysalix, Momenta | ✅ |
| Luxonis | OAK camera platform and open-source DepthAI software — vision/perception hardware+software for robotics and industrial automation | Hardware ops / robotics engineering leadership | Series A | $14M | Denali Growth Partners, Taiwania Capital | ✅ |
| Mowito | AI foundation models that let industrial robotic arms learn manufacturing tasks via demonstration instead of manual programming | Manufacturing ops / robotics deployment | Pre-seed | $3M | Version One Ventures | ✅ |
| CarbonSix | Deploy-ready robotic hands/manipulators for manufacturing lines | manufacturing/industrial engineering, robotics | Series A | $40M | DSC Investment, LB Investment | ✅ |
| Proception | Dexterous robotic hands for humanoid robots | robotics/mechatronics engineering | Seed | $11M | First Round Capital, Y Combinator, BoxGroup | ✅ |
| Atoms | Industrial physical-AI platform (software, sensors, robotics) automating food, mining, and logistics work | robotics eng, supply chain ops, industrial automation | Growth equity | $1.7B | Andreessen Horowitz, Bain Capital Ventures, Uber, Fifth Wall, A* | ✅ |
| Humanoid | Industrial and wheeled humanoid robots, manufactured at scale with Bosch | mechatronics eng, robotics, manufacturing ops | Series A | $152M at $1.35B valuation | Prime Movers Lab, Bosch, Schaeffler | ✅ |
| Sereact | Warehouse robotics and physical-AI robot brain (Cortex 2.0) automating picking and returns | robotics eng, warehouse/logistics ops, perception AI | Series B extension | $116M total | Headline, Zalando | ✅ |
| 1872 | AI software plus robotics running an autonomous steel fabrication factory in Cincinnati | manufacturing ops, robotics eng, industrial AI | Seed | $15M | The O.H.I.O. Fund | ✅ |
| Elio | Builds AI-purpose-built sensors for AI systems, distinct from conventional human-eye-oriented sensors | sensor hardware eng, perception AI, semiconductor/robotics | Early-stage | $21M | Innovation Endeavors, Xora, Kevin Weil | ✅ |
| Enigma | Builds hardware-agnostic AI foundation models and control interfaces letting any robot on any hardware learn tasks | robotics/embodied-AI engineering leadership, human-robot interaction (HRI) product management | Seed / stealth exit | $71M | Index Ventures, Ribbit Capital, Conviction Partners | ✅ |
| Axis Robotics | Distributed, human-in-the-loop physical-AI data engine training robot foundation models across hardware types | robotics data engineering, simulation leadership | Seed | $12M | Hack VC, Nomad Capital, Pi Network Ventures | ✅ |
| UNIT AI | Modular AI-powered robotic fulfillment platform for ecommerce warehouses, no rip-and-replace required | warehouse/fulfillment ops, robotics engineering | Seed | $12M | Prologis Ventures, Dynamo Ventures, Ground Up Ventures | ✅ |
| Kinematic Trees | Nature-inspired, hardware-independent robot control-layer software | robotics control software engineering | Pre-seed | £585K (~$740K) | Haatch, D2N2 Early-Stage Angel Fund | ✅ |
| Inner Logic | Simulation and validation platform for the autonomous surgery industry | biomedical/surgical robotics R&D, simulation/digital-twin product leadership, regulatory affairs | Seed | $11.5M | General Catalyst, Bison Ventures | ✅ |
| SUIND | Vision-based, non-GPS-reliant autonomous drones for agriculture spraying and infrastructure inspection | drone/UAV engineering, agri-tech ops | Seed | ~$2.2M (₹20.5 Cr) | Transition VC, IIMA Ventures | ✅ |
| Noosphere Labs | Human-centered physical intelligence — AI for interacting with the physical world beyond screens | robotics research, simulation engineering, physical-AI product | Seed | $10.25M | Trilogy Equity Partners, Madrona | ✅ |
| Gravis Robotics gravisrobotics.com | Autonomous heavy construction machinery - self-operating excavators deployed on real sites | construction operations, field service leadership, industrial automation, manufacturing | Series A | $200M | SoftBank Group | ✅ |
| Dogotix | XPeng's humanoid robotics subsidiary, maker of the 'Iron' humanoid robot | Robotics engineering, manufacturing ops, supply-chain leadership | Growth (external financing round) | $900M total commitment ($600M external + $300M XPeng/insiders) | IDG Capital, Alibaba, Tencent, Gaorong Ventures | ✅ |
| Generalist | General-purpose embodied-AI foundation models letting robots learn new tasks from short video demonstrations | Robotics ML research, embodied AI engineering leadership | Series B (extension) | ~$200M (brings Series B to $600M) | 8VC (lead), Radical Ventures, Nvidia, Union Square Ventures, Bezos Expeditions, Fei-Fei Li | ✅ |
| Gatik | Autonomous middle-mile freight trucking for Fortune 50 retail/grocery/CPG supply chains | Autonomous-vehicle engineering, logistics operations leadership | Series D | $200M ($500M total) | Qatar Investment Authority, Koch Disruptive Technologies (co-leads), Millennium Management, ARK Invest, Intact Private Capital | ✅ |
| Physical Intelligence physicalintelligence.company | General-purpose foundation models for robots and the physical world | Robotics, controls, embedded ML, manufacturing engineering | Series B | $1.1B total ($600M Series B, ~$5.6B valuation) | Thrive Capital, Jeff Bezos, Lux Capital, OpenAI, Sequoia | ✅ |
AI-native drug discovery, genomics, and platform biotech. Hires computational biology, ML engineering, and data platform leadership. · 17 companies.
| Company | What They Do | Coming from | Stage | Raised | Backed by | Hiring |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Osanni Bio | AI-driven ophthalmology and cardiology biotech — multi-program pipeline with AI-powered discovery and trial design | Computational biology / ML engineering / clinical data science / life sciences data platform | Series B | $190M | Patient Square Capital, Horowitz Group, Invus Opportunities | ✅ |
| RQ Bio | AI-powered ophthalmology biotech platform (UK) — multi-program pipeline using AI for drug discovery and clinical design | Computational biology / ML engineering / clinical data science / life sciences data platform | Series A | $115M | Frazier Life Sciences, EQT Life Sciences, Forbion, Oxford Science Enterprises | ✅ |
| MindRank AI | AI-native drug discovery platform (Molecule Arts Platform); lead asset in Phase 3 for obesity | Computational biology / pharma R&D | Series B | $52M | Institutional/healthcare fund group | ✅ |
| Alchemab Therapeutics | AI-enabled antibody discovery platform (Resiliome); ALS asset licensed to Eli Lilly | Immunology / antibody discovery / biotech ops | Series A extension | £25M (~$34M) | British Business Bank | ✅ |
| GENESIGHT (Huayuan SmartGene) | AI Virtual Cell (AIVC) models that predict gene/protein/signaling-pathway changes to assess drug efficacy and toxicity pre-clinically | Computational biology / pharma R&D ops | Seed | Tens of millions RMB (undisclosed exact) | Tsinghua Innovation Ventures | ✅ |
| Flare Therapeutics | Proteomic/mass-spec discovery engine targeting undruggable transcription factors | computational biology, clinical development | Series C | $85M | Third Rock Ventures, Nextech Invest, Pfizer Ventures | ✅ |
| Telum Therapeutics | Generative-AI antimicrobial discovery platform (APEX) targeting drug-resistant bacteria | computational biology, synthetic biology | Series A | €18M (~$19.4M) | AMR Action Fund, Inveready | ✅ |
| Transcripta Bio | AI-powered drug discovery using transcriptomic signature matching; pipeline spans neuromuscular and neurological disease | computational biology, ML/data science, translational medicine | Series A follow-on | $24M ($34M total) | Mayo Clinic, Omnimed, JAZZ Venture Partners, BlueYard Capital | ✅ |
| Scribe Therapeutics | In vivo CRISPR gene-editing biotech targeting disease prevention via durable gene edits, co-founded by Jennifer Doudna | gene-therapy CMC/manufacturing, regulatory affairs (FDA gene-editing pathway), public-company IR | IPO | $128.7M (Nasdaq: SCTX) | Public offering (underwriters) | ✅ |
| CORE Biomedicine | Preclinical precision-oncology biotech targeting lineage-dependent cancer drivers beyond genomics | translational oncology, BD/licensing, cross-border business development | Series A | $21M | UTokyo Innovation Platform, Elikon Venture | ✅ |
| Ratio Therapeutics | Clinical-stage targeted radiopharmaceutical company expanding its oncology pipeline | radiopharma/clinical development leadership | Series C | $70M | Duquesne Family Office, Bristol Myers Squibb, Catalio Capital, Eli Lilly | ✅ |
| QuantHealth www.quanthealth.ai | AI clinical-trial simulation that tests trial designs before any patient enrolls | clinical development, biostatistics, pharma R&D operations | Series B | $70M | Qumra Capital, Pitango HealthTech, Sanofi Ventures, Bertelsmann | ✅ |
| LifeMine Therapeutics lifeminetx.com | Digital genomic search across 100,000 fungal strains to find novel drug compounds | computational biology, genomics platform leadership, translational research | Series E | $263M | Milky Way Investments, Bezos Expeditions, Gates Frontier, RA Capital | ✅ |
| Infinimmune www.infinimmune.com | Human-derived antibody discovery using the Anthrobody platform and GLIMPSE antibody language models | biologics discovery, immunology research leadership, computational drug design | Series A | $75M | Regeneron Ventures, Playground Global, RA Capital, Merck GHI | ✅ |
| Inocras www.inocras.com | Whole-genome sequencing with automated analytics — CancerVision tumor profiling and MRDVision residual-disease tracking | bioinformatics leadership, clinical lab operations, genomics commercial | Series B-3 | $100M | NDS Corporation, Aimed Bio, IMM Investment, Korea Investment & Securities | ✅ |
| Dash Bio www.dashbio.com | Automated bioanalysis lab plus a proprietary software platform returning GLP-compliant results in days | lab operations, pharma services leadership, laboratory automation | Series A | $47.5M | Oak HC/FT, Freestyle Capital, Swift Ventures | ✅ |
| Accipiter Bio accipiterbio.com | AI-designed de novo protein therapeutics for complex disease | computational protein design, biologics discovery, translational research | Seed ext. | $23.2M | Takeda, Flying Fish Partners, Columbus Venture Partners, Cercano Capital | ✅ |
AI-powered care delivery, diagnostics, and clinical workflow. Voice agents, imaging AI, and care ops platforms. · 26 companies.
| Company | What They Do | Coming from | Stage | Raised | Backed by | Hiring |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assort Health | AI voice agent platform for healthcare — automates patient scheduling, intake, and care coordination via intelligent phone agents | Healthcare IT / clinical ops / contact center / enterprise SaaS / digital health | Series C | $120M | Menlo Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Felicis Ventures, First Round Capital | ✅ |
| Bunkerhill Health | AI agents automating hospital admin/clinical workflows ("Carebricks") | Health IT / clinical informatics | Series B | $25M ($55M total) | Khosla Ventures (w/ Sequoia, Felicis, Optum Ventures, YC) | ✅ |
| Neko Health | AI-powered full-body preventive scanning clinics | Health tech / diagnostics / clinical ops | Series C | $700M | Lightspeed Venture Partners, O.G. Venture Partners | ✅ |
| Pearl Health | AI platform helping primary care providers manage Medicare value-based care risk | Value-based care / health plan ops / clinical analytics | Series C + debt facility | $110M ($50M equity + $60M debt) | a16z (equity), Trinity Capital (debt) | ✅ |
| Telepatia | AI clinical platform (AI doctors/nurses/auditors) across LatAm hospital systems | Clinical informatics / LatAm health ops | Series A | $33M | a16z | ✅ |
| Candid Health | AI-powered autonomous revenue cycle management - automates medical billing, claims review, reimbursement workflows | healthcare ops, RCM/billing, data/ML leadership | Series D | $120M | Sixth Street Growth, Oak HC/FT, 8VC | ✅ |
| Assured Health | AI-native provider network management - autonomous agents verify credentialing/payer enrollment data against 2,000+ sources | healthcare ops, credentialing/compliance, AI product | Series A | $19M ($25M total) | Insight Partners, First Round Capital, Kindred Ventures | ✅ |
| Karoo Health | AI-native operating system for cardiovascular care connecting payers, providers, and patients | clinical informatics, care coordination, data/ML | Series A | $16.2M | 7wire Ventures, Allumia Ventures | ✅ |
| CARPL.ai | Radiology AI marketplace aggregating 300+ third-party AI applications into hospital PACS workflows | health-IT/clinical informatics leadership, radiology IT/PACS integration, hospital enterprise GTM | Series A | $10M | International Finance Corporation (IFC), Stellaris Venture Partners | ✅ |
| Prosper Medical | AI-powered concierge primary care platform maintaining longitudinal patient context and coordinating specialist referrals | population health/care management ops, health plan network contracting, clinical informatics | Seed | $16M | FUSE (Aurum Partners, Better.vc, Cal Innovation Fund, Fluent, Latitude Capital, Knoll Ventures, WTI) | ✅ |
| Vivid Dx | AI + Raman spectral database platform for rapid pathogen identification direct from blood, targeting sepsis and drug-resistant infections | clinical microbiology/lab medicine, hospital infection-control leadership, diagnostics commercialization | Seed | $15M | Oxford Science Enterprises, Cedars-Sinai IP Co, Jameel Investment Management | ✅ |
| Procode | AI-powered medical billing/RCM for private-practice surgeons, with published peer-reviewed coding-accuracy data | healthcare RCM ops, surgical practice management, payer contracting/coding compliance | Series A | $10M ($14M total) | Health Velocity Capital | ✅ |
| Bioscan Research | Near-infrared spectroscopy + ML device (CEREBO) to non-invasively detect intracranial bleeding/traumatic brain injury at point of care | emergency medicine/trauma ops, med-device regulatory affairs, point-of-care diagnostics commercialization | Seed | $1M | Unicorn India Ventures | ✅ |
| Dopl Technologies | Telerobotic ultrasound platform combining robotics, AI, and remote clinical expertise for underserved/rural sites | medical device/robotics engineering, regulatory affairs | Seed | $6.3M ($8M+ total) | SpringTide Ventures, WRF Capital, Tacoma Venture Fund | ✅ |
| Flourish Health | In-home, psychiatrist-led intensive mental health care (Care Pods) for youth in crisis | behavioral health service-line operations, pediatric psychiatric program leadership, value-based contracting | Series A | $26M ($46M total) | B Capital, F-Prime, Cherryrock Capital | ✅ |
| Throne Science | AI-powered smart toilet sensor using computer vision to analyze gut health, hydration, and urinary function | consumer health-device product/regulatory (FDA pathway), clinical validation partnerships, digital health commercialization | Series A | $10M | Will Ventures (large syndicate incl. Emerson Collective, Felix Capital, Symphony) | ✅ |
| Qureight | AI 3D deep-learning chest-imaging foundation model powering lung/heart clinical trial endpoints | clinical imaging/computational biology leadership | Series B | $20M | Molten Ventures, Hargreave Hale AIM VCT, XTX Ventures | ✅ |
| Function Health | Preventive-health and lab-testing membership platform that recently added an AI 'Medical Intelligence Lab' chat layer | consumer health ops, care delivery leadership | Growth | $450M | General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund | ✅ |
| Precise Behavioral | Physician-led behavioral health services platform (ED boarding, virtual psychiatry, collaborative care) | behavioral health ops leadership | Venture | $14.2M | A1 Health Ventures, Ziegler Link-Age Fund, Converge Capital Partners | ✅ |
| Flagler Health www.flaglerhealth.io | AI operating system for musculoskeletal care, embedded natively in the EMR | healthcare revenue cycle, clinical operations, provider-network leadership | Series B | $63M | Bessemer Venture Partners, SignalFire, Tribeca Venture Partners | ✅ |
| HealthSnap healthsnap.io | AI-powered virtual care management and remote monitoring for chronic disease | healthcare operations, population health, care-management leadership | Growth (debt) | $25M | Eastward Capital Partners | ✅ |
| Body Vision Medical bodyvisionmedical.com | LungVision — AI-powered real-time intraoperative image guidance for minimally invasive lung procedures | medical device commercial leadership, clinical affairs, international distribution | Growth | Undisclosed | Business Asia Consultants, Sprim Global Investments | ✅ |
| Rivvi rivvi.ai | Agentic AI infrastructure for healthcare — patient outreach, care-gap closure and medication adherence | healthcare operations, patient engagement, payer/PBM leadership | Strategic | Undisclosed | Massive Bio | ✅ |
| Craif craif.com | AI cancer diagnostics from urine microRNA for early multi-cancer detection | regulatory affairs, clinical operations, diagnostics commercial leadership | Series D | ~$34M | Granite-Integral, Tauns Co Ltd | ✅ |
| Onos Health | AI platform reading unstructured behavioral-health clinical notes to give payers clinical intelligence on care patterns and spending | Clinical informatics, payer analytics, healthcare data science leadership | Series A | $17M | Costanoa Ventures (lead), Flare Capital Partners, CVS Health Ventures | ✅ |
| Arintra | GenAI autonomous medical coding platform, expanding into healthcare revenue-assurance/documentation-integrity AI | Health-tech RCM, medical coding, clinical NLP leadership | Series B | $25M | Define Ventures (lead), Yale New Haven Ventures, Endeavor Ventures, Y Combinator, Ten13 Capital, Counterpart Ventures, Spider Capital, Peak XV Partners | ✅ |
Autonomous systems and AI software for defense, aerospace, and national security. Growing fast as top-tier VC moves into the sector. · 25 companies.
| Company | What They Do | Coming from | Stage | Raised | Backed by | Hiring |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stark Defence | Autonomous drone systems and AI-powered defense platforms — contracted to equip a full German brigade; US expansion underway | Defense / aerospace / embedded systems / autonomous vehicles / program management | Series C | $570M | Sequoia Capital, Founders Fund, NATO Innovation Fund | ✅ |
| Helsing | German AI defense/autonomous-systems platform | Defense systems engineering / autonomy | Series E | $1.8B | Dragoneer Investment Group (w/ Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Lightspeed, General Catalyst, JPMorgan) | ✅ |
| Senra Systems | Software-driven wire-harness manufacturing for aerospace/defense | Manufacturing engineering / supply chain | Series B | $65M ($112M+ total) | Lowercarbon Capital, Interlagos (w/ General Catalyst, Sequoia, a16z, Founders Fund) | ✅ |
| Kraken Technology Group | Uncrewed autonomous maritime defense vehicles | Naval engineering / maritime robotics | Series B | $175M (€152.9M) | DTCP (w/ NATO Innovation Fund, Rheinmetall) | ✅ |
| Skapion | Mobile counter-swarm drone defense system | Missile defense / counter-UAS systems | Seed | $36M | UP Partners, Khosla Ventures | ✅ |
| Quantum Systems quantum-systems.com | Munich-based maker of autonomous/software-defined uncrewed systems for air, land, and sea military operations | Defense program management / government affairs / manufacturing ops | Series D | $1.2B | Blackstone, Noteus, Airbus, Advent, BOND, Fidelity, Wellington Management | ✅ |
| Dominion Dynamics | Arctic surveillance networks and drone command-and-control systems | defense program management, systems engineering | Series A | ~$100M (CAD 139M) | Georgian, Valor Equity Partners, OMERS Ventures | ✅ |
| Six Robotics | Software (Valkyrie) letting one operator command a coordinated drone swarm | defense systems engineering, autonomy software | Seed | €12M (~$13M) | DTCP Defence, EIFO, Scale Capital | ✅ |
| Vegvisir | AI-powered, platform-agnostic command-and-control software unifying manned/unmanned systems for NATO | defense C2 systems, software engineering | Investment | Undisclosed | Iron Wolf Capital | ✅ |
| Dream | Sovereign AI platform for national cyber defense | Defense/gov cyber engineering, federal sales | Growth | $260M | Bicycle Capital, Group 11, Bain Capital Ventures, Antler, Tru Arrow Partners | ✅ |
| Twenty | Offensive cyber warfare tools for the US military and Intelligence Community | Defense cyber engineering, cleared talent | Series B | $100M | Accel, Friends & Family Capital, Point72 Ventures, Caffeinated Capital | ✅ |
| Cathedral | AI-driven offensive and defensive cyber tools for the U.S. military, founded by former DOGE/Pentagon staffers | cybersecurity, national security, DoD program management | Growth (undisclosed) | $160M at $1.4B valuation | Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital | ✅ |
| Array Labs | Coordinated fleet of radar satellites delivering continuously-updated, all-weather ISR on terrain, infrastructure, and activity | ISR/remote sensing program management, radar systems engineering, satellite/aerospace manufacturing, export controls (ITAR/EAR) | Strategic round | $21M | Mitsubishi Electric, Catapult Ventures, Kompas VC, Y Combinator | ✅ |
| Istari Digital | Agentic AI infrastructure for aerospace/defense digital engineering — digital twins, digital thread, model-based systems engineering | DoD acquisition/program management, digital engineering/MBSE, Air Force sustainment and airworthiness certification | Series (in progress, Form D) | $22.6M toward $40M target ($62.7M total) | Prior backers incl. Eric Schmidt, Aero X Ventures, Icon Ventures | ✅ |
| Agon | Synthetic/virtual battlefield infrastructure to train and orchestrate military AI systems, including counter-drone | defense simulation engineering, military ops background | Seed | $30M ($7M pre-seed + $23M seed) | Lux Capital, XYZ Venture Capital, Northzone | ✅ |
| K2 Space | Satellite manufacturer supplying an Anduril-led team building space-based interceptors for the Golden Dome missile-defense program | aerospace/satellite manufacturing leadership | Series D | $500M at $6.8B valuation | Kleiner Perkins, ICONIQ | ✅ |
| Neros Technologies www.neros.tech | FPV strike and counter-drone interceptor drones with onboard autonomy | hardware manufacturing at volume, aerospace program management, defense supply chain | Series C | $300M | Sequoia Capital, American Strategic Technology Fund, Valor, Thiel Capital | ✅ |
| Hadrian www.hadrian.co | Factories-as-a-Service - AI and robotics running automated precision-parts plants for defense and aerospace | manufacturing operations, industrial automation, aerospace/defense supply chain | Series D | $1.37B | WCM, Washington Harbour, Valor Equity, Baillie Gifford, a16z, Founders Fund | ✅ |
| Cambridge Aerospace cambridgeaerospace.com | Low-cost drone-interceptor missiles (Skyhammer) for counter-UAS air defense | aerospace program management, missile systems engineering, defense manufacturing | Series C | $636M | DFJ Growth, Lux Capital, Accel, Lakestar, Elad Gil | ✅ |
| Smack Technologies smacktechnologies.com | Domain-specific AI models and fires-planning software for military decision-making at the tactical edge | defense software, mission systems engineering, national security program leadership | Series B | $90M | Costanoa Ventures, First In, Point72 Ventures, Felicis, Bloomberg Beta | ✅ |
| Aurelius Systems www.aureliussystems.com | AI-powered autonomous directed-energy counter-drone platform (Archimedes) | defense hardware engineering, directed energy, manufacturing ramp | Series A | $40M | Draper Associates, KAS Venture Partners, General Catalyst, Hanwha Defense USA | ✅ |
| Neuraspace www.neuraspace.com | AI-driven space traffic management and defence-grade space domain awareness | aerospace software, satellite operations, defense systems engineering | Growth | ~$18M | Lince Capital, Explorer Investments, Armilar Venture Partners | ✅ |
| Castelion www.castelion.com | Hypersonic strike weapons built on a low-cost, high-rate manufacturing model | aerospace program management, missile systems engineering, defense manufacturing, government BD | Series C | $1B | JPMorganChase SIG, a16z, Carlyle, T. Rowe Price | ✅ |
| Terra Industries terraindustries.co | Autonomous defense systems for African and allied militaries, expanding into Europe | defense engineering, international business development, government relations | Seed ext. | $52M | 8VC (Joe Lonsdale), Silent Ventures | ✅ |
| Mara Inc. | Builds 'Spike,' a portable, backpack-deployable autonomous counter-drone interceptor with 360-degree detection/engagement against FPV drone swarms | Defense systems engineering, autonomy, counter-UAS leadership | Pre-seed | $7M | Khosla Ventures (lead), a16z Speedrun, Night Capital, Palmdrive, Protagonist, Freedom Fund, Indicator Fund | ✅ |
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