AI & Machine Learning Startups

UPSTACK is a technology advisory firm that helps enterprise customers identify, evaluate, and source AI and machine learning solutions while managing vendor relationships and contracts. The company serves Fortune 1000 customers across various industries by providing advisory services, vendor comparison, and unified technology management.

1 investor

Upstart offers an AI platform for school districts that lets staff ask questions about student data in plain English and receive answers with charts, tables, and an audit trail, or generate scheduled reports. It connects to the multiple systems holding student data to replace manual exports and ticket-based reporting workflows.

1 investor

Uptempo is a marketing-native data platform that unifies plans, budgets, spend, and performance data into a single source of truth for enterprise marketers. The platform integrates with existing finance, ERP, CRM, and advertising systems to help CMOs demonstrate ROI, control spending with rigor, and move marketing from cost center to growth driver.

1 investor

Uptiq is a software platform for accelerator program managers that uses AI to assess startup needs, build personalised acceleration plans, and track cohort progress through a unified dashboard. It connects accelerators, mentors, startups, and investors, covering onboarding, mentoring, progress tracking, and investor showcases.

1 investor

UpTrials builds AI workforce and operations software for clinical trial sites, CROs and sponsors.

1 investor

uqudo provides an identity verification and anti-fraud platform that combines AI-powered document tampering detection, biometric verification, AML/PEP screening, transaction monitoring, and business verification. It targets anti-fraud and compliance teams, with solutions tailored to the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region.

1 investor

UrbanChain Group builds an AIoT system that turns properties into urban mobility hubs, integrating automated vehicle recognition, EV charging control, car sharing, and a data-driven SaaS platform. It operates across Japan, Hong Kong, and other markets, focusing on more efficient use of urban resources by connecting people, vehicles, and destinations.

1 investor

UrbView uses AI to analyze over 15 data layers—including crime, lighting, and spatial quality—to measure how safe and walkable urban streets are. It delivers these insights via a dashboard, tailored intervention reports, and a scoring API for city governments, insurers, public transport companies, real estate firms, and police.

1 investor

Urecsys provides an AI intelligence layer that optimizes HVAC performance and indoor air quality in commercial real estate buildings by continuously adjusting ventilation strategies based on occupancy, outdoor air quality, and compliance requirements. The platform deploys on existing infrastructure without requiring retrofits and operates both with and without building automation systems.

1 investor

URSA Secure builds formal methods software to verify AI-generated code before production, helping companies reduce rework, prevent incidents, and accelerate modernization of large codebases. The toolkit applies formal verification techniques to prove software behavior and behavioral equivalence in AI-assisted development.

1 investor

Urumi is an AI platform for direct-to-consumer brands running on WooCommerce, keeping their stores fast and stable while catching checkout, cart, and pricing bugs and handling engineering and growth tasks. It offers performance optimization, revenue-leak detection, integrations, and analytics, connecting via the Model Context Protocol to AI assistants like Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini.

1 investor

uRun offers real-time AI model APIs for speech, language, and video that can be chained together on one machine without network trips between them, aimed at latency-sensitive applications like voice agents, live video, and avatars. It also runs an open platform for model labs to serve and tune their own models for developers.

1 investor

A company offering a managed model service (USF Series) that provides domain-specialized, right-sized AI models deployed on-premise, aimed at reducing the cost of running inference compared to per-token cloud API pricing.

1 investor

Allies is a platform where brands use an AI prompt to find and hire creators and influencers, and where creators monetize their audience through brand deals, online courses, digital products, paid communities, and payment links. It also offers AI tools for building sales funnels, lead magnets, and content, targeting creators, coaches, and brands globally.

1 investor

Almanac provides an AI agent with its own dedicated computer, complete with a browser, files, and logins, allowing it to sign in and operate web tools directly the way a human would. It can handle tasks across services that lack formal integrations, such as pulling receipts from Uber and DoorDash and attaching them in Mercury.

1 investor

Cortex builds HydraDB, a graph database built on object storage with tiered hot/warm/cold storage, designed as a context and memory layer for AI agents and applications. It lets developers build ontologies, agent memory, company brains, and context graphs, combining graph structures with vector and relational primitives to deliver relevant, temporally versioned context.

1 investor

Mast is an AI-native, headless, API-first origination platform for banks and lenders that runs lending workflows from application through underwriting, offer, and completion, with policy-bound decisions and audit trails for AI agents and human underwriters. It targets building societies, specialist lenders, and banks, with a focus on mortgage origination.

1 investor

Offer is an AI-powered digital transaction coordinator for real estate brokerages and agents, handling deal documentation, flagging missing signatures or late addenda, and indicating which deals are ready for payment. It works from the user's inbox and answers questions in plain English without software training.

1 investor

Plasma Industries is a pre-launch, Seattle-based startup building AI tools for frontline workers in the trades and other hands-on fields. The company is currently in stealth mode, working with a small number of early partners.

1 investor

Quid is an accounts payable automation system that ingests invoices from sources like AP inboxes, ERPs, and supplier portals, then classifies and codes each line (GL, cost center, tax, project, entity) based on historical postings and rules before posting to accounting platforms. It provides cost reporting by unit, project, cost center, location, and entity, along with controls for duplicates, variances, and bank detail changes, aimed at finance teams managing multi-entity audited processes.

1 investor

Userdoc is a software definition workspace that uses AI to create and manage software specifications, user stories, and requirements from ideas, existing code, and team knowledge. It serves software development teams, product managers, and freelancers who need to define, document, and scope software for both human and AI-driven development.

1 investor

Userflow is a product adoption platform that enables teams to build in-app onboarding, feature guidance, and messaging without engineering involvement. The platform uses AI (FlowAI) to automatically identify friction points, surface trends, and recommend improvements across user adoption workflows.

1 investor

User Local provides big data and AI-based analytics tools, including SNS/social media analysis, serving primarily large domestic enterprises in Japan. The company reports supporting over 6,000 businesses.

1 investor

Usersnap is a product evidence platform that captures and enriches user feedback from surveys, support tickets, interviews, sales meetings, and in-app sources to guide product discovery, roadmapping, and reporting. It serves B2B enterprise product teams and integrates with existing sales, support, and devops tools, with EU-based hosting and GDPR-oriented privacy controls.

1 investor