Eign Startup Index
What AI founders are building since 2024
A database of 1,495 AI startups connected to Y Combinator and a16z — where founders are building, who they sell to, and where verified funding is concentrating.
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A live map of the index. Node size shows reported funding, links show how categories connect to their source programs. Zoom, pan, and pull any node to read the structure your own way.
Every link is a counted category-to-program relationship from the current dataset; line weight reflects the number of startups. Funding sizes combine exact, minimum, and partial numeric totals; unknown amounts are not treated as zero. Link layer: the 2 best-covered source programs. 4 smaller programs (4 startups total) are omitted from the links but still counted in every category total: AI Grant, AWS Generative AI Accelerator, HF0, PearX.
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Company count by primary industry. A larger category signals more founder attention and experimentation — usually alongside more competition. Click any industry to filter the map below.
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Who the products are built for
Business type is tracked separately from industry, so the market a company serves stays distinct from the customer who pays. A healthcare startup can be B2B, B2C, B2G or Mixed.
The map
Database of all startups announced, 2024–2026
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$20MExactBuilds an AI-native coding environment for software development. Cursor understands entire codebases, provides context-aware code generation and editing, and lets developers delegate implementation tasks to autonomous agents that can build, test, and iterate on features across desktop, cloud, CLI, and other development workflows.
Builds spatial-intelligence and world models that can understand and generate interactive 3D environments. Its Marble technology turns text, images, or video into navigable worlds, giving creators and developers a way to produce spatial content and eventually build AI systems that reason about physical environments.
Builds frontier generative models and creative tools for producing and transforming visual media. Luma AI’s current stack includes advanced video and image-generation models exposed through its creative app and API, letting creators and developers generate, edit, and iterate on high-quality visual content from text, images, and video.
Builds generalizable physical-AI robots for industrial manufacturing, starting with difficult automotive tasks that still depend on human dexterity. Mind Robotics is targeting work such as wire-harness assembly, precision part placement, kitting, and sequencing, using large-scale factory data to train robots that can adapt across changing production environments.
Builds an agentic operating system for law firms and in-house legal teams. Legora combines legal research, large-scale document review, drafting and redlining, workflow automation, and client collaboration, with agents that can execute multi-step legal work from matter intake through analysis, document production, review, and delivery.
ExactProvides an open-source durable-execution platform for software that must keep running correctly despite failures, retries, or long delays. Developers use Temporal to orchestrate reliable workflows for cloud applications and AI agents, preserving state and automatically resuming work instead of hand-building complex recovery logic.
Builds an AI-native pharmaceutical company designed to develop medicines faster with a smaller operating footprint. Formation Bio acquires or licenses clinical-stage drug programs and uses proprietary AI systems across asset selection, evidence analysis, indication strategy, trial design, clinical execution, and organizational workflows to accelerate development toward approval.
Builds high-performance networking hardware and software for hyperscalers, neoclouds, and large AI data centers. NextHop AI supplies scale-out, scale-across, and front-end switching systems, optics, and SONiC-based networking software optimized for massive GPU clusters, with a focus on lower power, faster deployment, and customer-specific infrastructure.
Builds conversational AI agents for customer service and broader customer experience workflows. Decagon lets companies deploy agents across voice, chat, and email that answer questions, remember customer context, integrate with business systems, and execute actions such as refunds or account changes, with testing, guardrails, monitoring, and versioning built in.
Develops a new computing architecture for AI intended to deliver much higher energy efficiency than conventional GPU-heavy systems. The company is building analog-oriented hardware and systems for intelligence workloads, targeting the growing power and infrastructure costs of training and running advanced AI.
Develops frontier generative and multimodal AI models for developers, creators, and companies building visual products. Black Forest Labs’ FLUX family generates and transforms images, video, and audio and is expanding into action prediction for robotics, with models available through APIs, browser tools, enterprise licensing, and downloadable open weights.
Builds agentic conversational AI and workflow software for property management and healthcare. EliseAI automates leasing, resident and patient communication, scheduling, follow-ups, maintenance requests, intake, and other repetitive operational tasks across voice, text, email, and web chat while syncing activity into a centralized CRM.
Builds an AI-native, full-stack insurance platform for technology companies. Corgi handles quoting, underwriting, policy design, servicing, and claims while offering coverage for risks such as cyber incidents, AI model outputs, training-data disputes, directors and officers liability, and other operational exposures.
ExactBuilds a web search and research platform designed specifically for AI applications and agents. Exa provides APIs for semantic and keyword search, page contents, answers, deep research, monitoring, and structured web datasets so AI systems can retrieve fresh, high-quality information from the open web.
ExactBuilds infrastructure for running generative media models in production. fal gives developers a unified API for image, video, audio, speech, 3D, and multimodal models, plus serverless GPU infrastructure for deploying custom and fine-tuned models at high speed and large scale.
Builds highly natural conversational voice agents designed to feel more like persistent personal collaborators than traditional assistants. Sesame's agents such as Maya and Miles support fluid spoken conversations for exploring ideas, thinking through problems, and ongoing companionship, with research focused on expressive real-time speech and interaction.
Operates Quora, the question-and-answer knowledge platform, and Poe, a consumer platform for interacting with and building on multiple AI models and bots. Poe lets users access different model providers in one place, create custom bots, and share AI experiences without integrating each model separately.
Builds AI systems and automated laboratories aimed at accelerating scientific discovery. The company combines advanced models with robotics and experimental infrastructure so AI can propose, run, observe, and learn from physical experiments, shortening the loop between scientific hypotheses and real-world results.
Builds an agentic app-development platform that turns natural-language prompts into production-ready software. Emergent can generate full-stack web and mobile applications with frontend, backend, authentication, integrations, testing, GitHub connectivity, and deployment so nontechnical users and small teams can build software without assembling the development stack manually.
ExactBuilds self-improving AI tools intended to accelerate AI research and scientific discovery outside the largest frontier labs. Mirendil is developing systems that help researchers create and improve specialized models for fields such as biology and materials science, with the broader goal of making advanced AI development accessible to independent scientific organizations.
Builds orbital data centers designed to run GPU computing in space. Starcloud is initially providing onboard compute for satellites and testing high-powered AI workloads on orbit, with a longer-term goal of using abundant solar energy and radiative cooling in space to scale data-center capacity beyond terrestrial power constraints.
ExactBuilds an AI operating system for plaintiffs’ law firms. Eve supports cases from intake through settlement by handling lead qualification, medical-record review and chronologies, legal research, document drafting, demand letters, case analysis, and other repetitive legal workflows so attorneys and paralegals can manage more matters.
Builds an AI research and analysis workspace for investors, bankers, lawyers, and other teams making high-stakes decisions. Hebbia’s Matrix agents work across large volumes of documents, financial data, charts, tables, and connected sources to run multi-step diligence, market research, contract analysis, and deal workflows while showing citations and the intermediate work behind every conclusion.
Builds AI software for healthcare providers that digitizes patient referrals and other paperwork-heavy workflows. Tennr reads complex faxes and PDFs, checks that required information is present, coordinates with referring offices, and helps patients move from referral to scheduled specialist care faster.
ExactProvides a unified API and routing layer for accessing many large language models from different providers through one integration. Developers can compare models, manage pricing and availability, route requests across providers, and switch models without rebuilding their application around each vendor's separate API.
Builds production infrastructure for serving large AI models, based on the open-source vLLM project created by its founders. Inferact develops and commercializes high-performance inference software that helps AI teams run LLMs with better hardware utilization, throughput, latency, and scalability across production deployments.
Builds a human-security platform that helps companies prepare employees for AI-powered cyberattacks such as phishing, voice cloning, deepfakes, and impersonation. The product combines security training, multichannel attack simulations, email protection, employee risk monitoring, and AI-governance controls so security teams can reduce human-driven breaches.
Builds an AI-native social-engineering defense platform for enterprises. Doppel detects connected campaigns across spoofed domains, fake profiles, phishing, malicious ads, messaging, and deepfake impersonation, then uses AI agents and human review to validate threats, automate takedowns, and turn live attack intelligence into realistic security simulations.
Builds an AI-native ERP and accounting platform for high-growth companies and finance teams. It automates transaction coding, reconciliations, revenue workflows, close tasks, and reporting around a real-time general ledger so accountants can close books faster and spend less time moving data between systems.
Provides document-processing APIs for turning complex PDFs, scans, spreadsheets, and other files into structured data that AI systems can use. Developers use Reducto to parse, extract, classify, split, and transform difficult documents before feeding the information into search, RAG, agents, or automated workflows.
ExactBuilds healthcare-grade voice AI agents for communication with patients, payers, and providers. Infinitus automates workflows such as benefit verification, prior-authorization follow-up, patient onboarding, adherence outreach, and provider-directory checks, while its no-code Studio lets healthcare teams design, deploy, orchestrate, and guardrail their own clinical and administrative agents.
Builds real-time security controls for enterprises adopting autonomous and agentic software. Neo discovers AI applications and agent activity across devices, browsers, identities, and traditional software, understands sensitive actions before they execute, and lets security teams allow, block, or govern access to data and systems in real time.
Builds a foundation model and creative platform for AI image generation and editing. Ideogram specializes in reliable typography and design-quality visuals, with tools for prompt-based generation, editing, reframing, upscaling, transparency, editable text layers, and custom brand models available through its app, API, MCP integration, and open weights.
Builds Ash, an AI companion focused on conversations about mental health, emotions, relationships, and everyday challenges. The product provides an always-available space for users to talk through what they are experiencing and reflect, while positioning itself as support rather than a replacement for professional clinical care.
Builds an AI design and publishing tool for presentations, documents, websites, social posts, and visual content. Gamma turns prompts or source material into structured, polished pages, applies responsive layouts and themes automatically, generates supporting visuals, and lets users refine, present, publish, or export the result without designing every element manually.
Builds a finance agent for investment banks, private-equity and credit teams, consultants, and other financial-services professionals. Model ML works across Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, its own app, and firm systems to research, review documents, build analyses, create client-ready materials, update live files, and automate repeatable workflows using connected internal and external data.
ExactBuilds an AI creative suite for generating, editing, enhancing, and managing visual content across images, video, and 3D. Creators and professional teams can access many generative models in one workspace, fine-tune models, upscale assets, automate workflows, and iterate visually without stitching together separate specialist tools.
Builds AI digital workers for sales, marketing, and revenue-operations teams. Its agents research prospects, personalize outreach, engage leads across email, phone, social, and SMS, update sales workflows, and book qualified meetings so companies can run more of the pipeline without expanding headcount.
Builds compliant AI voice agents for consumer lenders and financial-services companies. Its agents handle high-volume servicing workflows such as collections, customer questions, disputes, chargebacks, total-loss cases, and follow-ups, helping lenders automate phone operations while maintaining the controls required in regulated environments.
ExactBuilds an AI platform for mechanical, electrical, and plumbing design in construction. Endra automates the creation and coordination of MEP systems, helping building teams produce designs and technical documentation faster while reducing the repetitive manual work traditionally required by engineers.
Builds a personalized AI chief of staff that learns a user's work context across email, calendars, messages, and documents. It surfaces what needs attention and can proactively handle follow-ups and recurring coordination work, reducing the need to repeatedly prompt an assistant for every small task.
Builds a multi-agent AI platform for large enterprises modernizing ERP and other mission-critical systems. Tessera automates data harmonization, legacy-code remediation, migration work, and cross-system orchestration across platforms such as SAP, Salesforce, Workday, and Oracle while keeping actions governed and auditable.
Provides AI builders with licensed, real-world datasets for training, fine-tuning, post-training, and model evaluation. Protege sources data from rights holders, curates and de-identifies it for specific model needs, handles permissions and secure delivery, and compensates data providers when their content is used.
Builds autonomous AI workers for logistics and supply-chain operations. HappyRobot’s agents communicate over voice, email, SMS, WhatsApp, and other channels, follow operational procedures, extract and structure data from conversations, call external systems and APIs, and complete workflows such as carrier outreach, scheduling, status checks, rate negotiations, and exception handling without constant human intervention.
ExactBuilds AI-powered back-office automation for consumer-goods brands, starting with retailer deductions. Glimpse ingests claims from retailer portals, EDI, email, PDFs, and other sources, identifies which deductions are invalid or worth disputing, gathers the supporting evidence, and executes recovery workflows so brands can reclaim revenue that would otherwise be lost to manual reconciliation.
ExactBuilds an AI creative workspace that connects leading text, image, and video models on one infinite canvas. FLORA lets individuals and teams combine models into reusable visual workflows for ideation, design exploration, image generation, video creation, and other multi-step creative processes without jumping between separate tools.
ExactBuilds AI-powered medical billing and revenue-cycle software for recurring-care providers such as behavioral health, pediatric therapy, long-term care, and substance-use clinics. Camber automates claim preparation and submission, prevents and works denials, tracks reimbursements, and gives operators reporting and payer insights so they get paid faster with less administrative work.
ExactBuilds autonomous AI systems that run administrative work for small businesses, starting with dental and doctors’ offices. Lassie handles back-office tasks such as insurance and payment operations, reconciliation, and other repetitive practice workflows, giving owners additional operating capacity without adding equivalent staff.
Builds an AI-native commercial insurance brokerage for businesses. Harper combines licensed brokers with AI that extracts information from applications and policy documents, organizes carrier appetite and quotes, drafts communications, prioritizes follow-ups, and helps the brokerage place and service coverage faster while human professionals make the final insurance decisions.
ExactBuilds high-fidelity training environments where AI agents can practice real workplace tasks and improve through reinforcement learning. Deeptune recreates software such as Slack, Salesforce, finance tools, and operational systems as interactive simulations, then packages them with tasks, datasets, and infrastructure for frontier AI labs training agents to perform multi-step knowledge work.
Builds an AI video-creation platform centered on controllable characters and cinematic scenes. Hedra combines dialogue, character identity, environment generation, camera direction, image, video, and audio models so creators can produce speaking characters, ads, stories, and longer visual sequences while keeping people and style consistent across shots.
ExactBuilds AI teammates that take ownership of repetitive multi-step business outcomes instead of only assisting with individual tasks. Convey learns a company’s procedures and operates across existing tools to execute recurring operational work, giving employees more time for decisions and relationship-heavy work while the AI handles the routine follow-through.
Builds an AI-native clinical platform for healthcare organizations in Latin America. It documents doctor-patient conversations, provides evidence-based decision support, connects information across hospital systems, and turns clinical activity into operational insights, reducing charting work while helping clinicians follow protocols more consistently.
Builds an AI-native operating system for behavioral-health providers. Ease combines admissions and CRM, clinical records and EHR workflows, and billing and revenue-cycle management in one platform, while AI handles documentation, charting, chart audits, calls, prior authorizations, and other administrative work.
Builds generative-audio models that create sound effects and music matched directly to video. Mirelo analyzes actions and scenes to generate synchronized Foley, ambience, and background audio, with tools for extending sounds, creating loops, repairing glitches, and integrating the models into editing software and other creative products through plugins and APIs.
Builds AI-powered dispatch and operations software for home-service businesses. It helps teams coordinate technicians and jobs, make better scheduling and routing decisions, and automate the operational work required to keep field-service calendars efficient as demand and daily conditions change.
Develops advanced audio intelligence models designed to understand and generate the nuance of human speech beyond plain transcription. Its technology focuses on elements such as tone, timing, emotion, and conversational dynamics so voice-based AI can communicate and respond more naturally.
Builds an identity and access control plane for autonomous AI agents. Keycard combines the identity of the user, device, agent, and task, enforces runtime permissions, issues short-lived scoped credentials without exposing secrets to the model, and records every tool and data access for security and audit teams.
Builds an AI business-development representative for sales teams running outbound prospecting. Artisan’s Ava finds and enriches target leads, uses intent signals to prioritize accounts, sends personalized outreach, runs follow-ups, updates CRM workflows, and books meetings automatically so companies can scale pipeline generation without adding the same amount of sales headcount.
PartialBuilds an AI-native primary care service that combines medical AI with licensed physicians. Patients can ask health questions, review symptoms, labs, medications, and medical records through AI, then bring a doctor into the same conversation for diagnosis, treatment decisions, prescriptions, testing, referrals, or escalation when needed.
Builds an autonomous accounts-receivable platform that performs collection work end to end for finance teams. Its AI handles customer outreach, payment follow-up, portal work, cash collection, and related AR workflows while retaining context across interactions, helping companies reduce manual effort and collect outstanding revenue faster.
Builds an open-source TypeScript framework for developing, observing, and improving production AI agents and applications. Mastra gives developers primitives for agents, tools, workflows, memory, retrieval, evaluations, and observability so they can move from prototypes to long-running agent systems without stitching together a separate framework for each layer.
ExactBuilds AI voice agents for healthcare organizations that automate patient-access and revenue-cycle phone workflows. The agents can handle scheduling, benefits checks, prior authorization, claims follow-up, and other administrative conversations while integrating with EHR and operational systems so staff can focus on cases requiring human judgment.
ExactBuilds a multi-agent procurement workforce for large enterprises. Lio’s specialized agents research suppliers, guide purchase requests, collect and compare quotes, negotiate terms, manage approvals, onboard vendors, track deliveries, and handle invoice workflows across existing ERP and procure-to-pay systems, reducing manual procurement operations while keeping policy controls in place.
ExactBuilds a sourcing and licensing platform for rights-cleared multimodal AI training data. It supplies frontier AI teams with custom and ready-made datasets built from real-world words, actions, and media.
ExactBuilds AI training and quality-assurance software for customer-experience teams. Its agents simulate realistic customer conversations so representatives can practice, then evaluate live interactions against the same performance criteria, helping teams connect onboarding and coaching directly to the gaps appearing in real support work.
MinimumBuilds automated simulation and evaluation infrastructure for AI agents, especially voice and chat systems. Coval generates large numbers of realistic test scenarios, measures agent behavior, and runs evaluations in CI/CD so teams can catch regressions, edge cases, and reliability problems before deploying changes to users.
ExactBuilds training data, reinforcement-learning environments, and evaluation systems for AI labs improving advanced models and agents. AfterQuery combines expert demonstrations, verifiers, tool-use and browser environments, preference data, and specialists across professional domains so models can practice complex tasks and receive structured feedback beyond pretraining.
ExactBuilds AI tools for engineers and manufacturers working with 3D geometry and CAD. Backflip converts scans and meshes into editable parametric CAD models, reconstructing features into tools such as Onshape or exportable STEP files so teams can reverse-engineer parts and move from physical objects to manufacturable digital designs much faster.
Builds a domain-specific AI workspace for insurance carriers, MGAs, brokers, and reinsurers. FurtherAI automates document-heavy workflows across submissions, underwriting, policy comparison, claims, audits, and compliance while keeping humans in control and integrating with existing insurance systems.
ExactBuilds AI agents that gradually learn how an individual works and earn autonomy over recurring tasks. Its Sauna agent starts with close user review, learns preferences and processes, and can eventually execute hours of professional work independently while the user keeps control over judgment, quality, and final approval.
ExactTasklet builds an AI agent that executes work rather than only answering questions. It is designed to take user instructions, operate tools, and complete multi-step tasks, reducing the amount of manual coordination required to move routine knowledge-work processes forward.
ExactBuilds an AI code reviewer that analyzes pull requests with full context of the surrounding codebase. Greptile indexes files, functions, and dependencies, uses multiple agents to find bugs and security issues beyond the visible diff, learns a team’s coding standards from past reviews, and can send identified problems directly to coding agents for fixes.
ExactBuilds a generative-design platform for fashion and apparel teams that turns ideas and reference material into realistic product visuals. Designers can explore silhouettes, colors, trims, fabrics, patterns, and variations quickly, reducing the manual work between an initial concept and imagery used for design reviews, merchandising, and marketing.
Builds AI growth agents for consumer companies. Hilbert first structures and labels fragmented growth data, then continuously analyzes it to surface opportunities, explain what is driving performance, and help teams move from analytics into operational actions across acquisition, retention, and other growth workflows.
Builds an AI-powered preventive-health platform for consumers in Europe. Lucis combines comprehensive blood testing across 100+ biomarkers with AI interpretation, clinician-reviewed insights, and personalized nutrition, exercise, and follow-up recommendations, helping users track risk factors over time and act before preventable health problems become acute.
ExactBuilds AI-powered infrastructure for matching people to work and expertise opportunities. Ethos uses voice agents and analysis of real work such as papers, code, portfolios, and interviews to capture skills that resumes miss, then matches people with expert calls, research projects, fractional roles, and full-time jobs.
Builds a consumer platform for creating and sharing interactive AI-generated entertainment, beginning with anime and fan-fiction experiences. It gives audiences creation tools and participatory formats so stories can be remixed, extended, and experienced more interactively than a traditional passive video or comic feed.
ExactBuilds AI pathology systems that analyze digitized tumor slides to help oncologists make more informed cancer-treatment decisions. Its models extract biological signals from routine pathology images and turn them into predictive information that can help identify which patients are more likely to benefit from specific therapies.
Builds an AI-native global tax-compliance platform for companies selling across jurisdictions. It automates sales-tax, VAT, and GST monitoring, registrations, calculation, filing, and remittance, while connecting to billing systems and local tax authorities so finance teams can expand internationally without managing each jurisdiction manually.
ExactBuilds a cloud workspace for software teams running multiple coding agents in parallel. Conductor gives each agent an isolated microVM with repositories and dependencies ready, supports first-party tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and OpenCode, and lets teammates supervise and collaborate on long-running development work from desktop, mobile, or API.
ExactBuilds an AI platform for private-market investors and lenders. F2 turns unstructured deal materials into investment-grade analysis and memos, helping private credit, private equity, and commercial-banking teams accelerate diligence, underwriting, collaboration, and ongoing portfolio monitoring.
ExactBuilds persistent memory infrastructure for AI agents and applications. Mem0 automatically extracts, updates, compresses, and retrieves useful information from past interactions so agents can remember preferences and history across sessions, provide more personalized responses, and avoid repeatedly sending large conversation histories back to the model.
ExactBuilds AI agents for hospitals that automate administrative work across legacy clinical and financial systems. Its agents can execute workflows around admissions, coding, billing, and other operational tasks, reducing repetitive computer work for hospital staff without requiring those systems to be replaced first.
ExactProvides models and infrastructure for teams building production coding agents. Relace handles high-speed code merging and retrieval across very large repositories, giving agents the context and tooling they need to understand, edit, and combine code reliably at scale.
ExactBuilds a cross-platform workspace for musicians to organize, share, and develop music from early ideas through finished projects. It gives artists a purpose-built place for demos, recordings, collaboration, and creative workflow instead of scattering files and feedback across generic storage and messaging tools.
Builds AI agents that automate accounts receivable from billing through cash collection. Fazeshift works with existing systems such as Salesforce, NetSuite, SAP, and Stripe to create invoices, send collections messages, review contracts, match incoming payments, handle disputes, assess credit risk, and keep finance teams focused on exceptions rather than repetitive work.
ExactBuilds cloud browser infrastructure for AI agents and web automation. KERNEL provides isolated serverless Chromium sessions with managed authentication, proxies, captcha handling, persistent sessions, live viewing, replays, and large-scale parallel execution so developers can run reliable browser agents without operating their own browser fleet.
ExactBuilds an AI growth platform for financial advisors. FINNY identifies high-intent prospects from life and financial signals, ranks them by likelihood to convert, creates personalized content and outreach, runs follow-up campaigns across channels, and keeps working until qualified prospects reach the advisor’s calendar.
ExactBuilds an AI customer-support agent for software companies that can resolve tickets rather than only answer questions. It connects to tools such as billing and internal systems, looks up the needed context, takes actions like processing refunds, and completes complex support requests end to end.
ExactBuilds AI-assisted robotic process automation for companies with repetitive desktop and browser workflows. Teams can turn a screen recording into an automation that uses language models and computer vision to handle tasks such as data entry, scraping, filing, and multi-step processing across existing software.
ExactBuilds GPU virtualization and cloud infrastructure designed to improve accelerator utilization and lower the cost of AI compute. Thunder Compute applies systems research to GPU fleets and provides developers simple cloud access, including one-click development environments, so expensive GPUs can be shared and used more efficiently.
ExactBuilds an AI operating system for system integrators and professional-services teams implementing enterprise software such as SAP, Oracle, and Salesforce. Auctor captures requirements, generates execution-ready artifacts like process flows, user stories, plans, and documentation, and keeps project knowledge synchronized so implementations move from discovery to delivery with fewer handoff errors.
ExactBuilds an AI game-creation platform that turns ideas into playable games without coding. Users describe a concept, customize its rules, visuals, and theme, remix existing creations, test the game instantly, and publish it for others to play and share.
ExactBuilds a real-time AI meeting assistant that listens to conversations, understands on-screen context, and helps users while a call is happening. Cluely can suggest answers, surface information, and generate notes and next steps without joining the meeting as a visible bot, giving users live support rather than only a post-call transcript.
Builds an AI recruiting platform that automates high-volume screening and first-round candidate evaluation for employers and staffing teams. Alex reviews resumes, conducts personalized phone, video, text, and WhatsApp interviews, verifies candidate identity, schedules qualified applicants, and resurfaces relevant talent already stored in a company’s ATS.
ExactBuilds an AI-native compliance operating system for financial firms regulated by the SEC and FINRA. Greenboard unifies communications archiving, employee trading oversight, marketing reviews, firm policies, vendor diligence, risk assessments, and regulatory records, while its AI layer answers policy questions, pre-checks materials, researches third parties, and prepares compliance tasks for human approval.
ExactBuilds a generalized AI tutor for people who want to learn a topic, skill, or goal in depth. Oboe creates a structured learning path and teaches through conversation, bringing in lessons, quizzes, flashcards, podcasts, study guides, and diagrams on demand while adapting to follow-up questions and deeper exploration.
Builds an agentic audit platform for internal-audit and compliance teams, starting with SOX control testing. Its AI performs evidence collection, testing, documentation, and other mechanical audit work so professionals can spend more time on risk analysis, judgment, and exceptions.
Builds stateful cloud computers and operating infrastructure for AI agents that need a persistent machine to work on. Runta gives agents isolated environments where they can install software, keep files and sessions, use browsers and tools, and continue long-running computer workflows reliably.
Methodology
How to read this data
Scope
Publicly listed AI startups connected to Y Combinator and a16z, from January 2024 through July 2026. The a16z portion covers public Speedrun companies and publicly announced investments; confidential investments are not visible in public data.
Classification
Each company gets one primary industry based on the market it serves. Business type — B2B, B2C, B2G, Mixed — is tracked independently, because who pays is a different question from where the problem lives.
Company count is founder attention
A large category means more founders are building there. It does not measure revenue, survival, market quality or future success — and it usually means more competition.
Funding confidence
Funding evidence has been deeply researched and audited, with accepted totals classified by confidence where a usable public amount or program minimum was available. Funding is shown for 1,494 of 1,495 companies; the rest are marked "Not yet researched", which is not a claim that they raised nothing.