AI & Machine Learning Startups

PolarGrid runs open-weight AI models on GPU nodes distributed at the edge across North America, offering an OpenAI-compatible API for low-latency inference including sub-300ms voice pipelines (STT, LLM, TTS). It targets teams building latency-critical AI products such as voice agents, real-time LLM applications, and computer vision, and also hosts customers' fine-tuned or proprietary models.

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Polari Group is a biotech company focused on infectious disease research and product development, leveraging scientific expertise in virology, bioengineering, and microfluidics.

2 investors

POLARISqb combines quantum computing, genetics, and molecular chemistry to design novel drugs for previously undruggable diseases. The company targets pharmaceutical development using advanced computational methods to accelerate drug discovery.

2 investors

Polars is a DataFrame library for processing data at any scale, from local development to production workloads handling terabytes. It provides a unified API and high-performance query engine trusted by organizations worldwide for data pipelines.

2 investors

Poliark builds AI infrastructure for real estate design and development, combining AI with geometric computing to analyze spatial, regulatory, and financial data for site validation, compliant design generation, and planning. It serves developers, investors, planners, and architects through an API and a Studio interface.

2 investors

PolicyDock provides a modular, API-first platform for insurance companies and managing general agents to launch new insurance products or digitize existing offerings. The platform enables rapid product deployment with customizable modules for underwriting, policy management, and rating workflows.

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PolicyFly provides a digital platform for specialty insurance that automates underwriting, policy servicing, and submission management. The platform serves specialty insurance carriers and agents, consolidating previously fragmented processes into a single system.

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Pollen offers a tool for handling excess and near-expiry inventory, letting companies upload raw spreadsheets that are automatically parsed and enriched without ERP integration. It targets brands and distributors managing surplus stock to recover tied-up working capital before shelf life runs out.

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Poltio provides AI-powered guided selling solutions for e-commerce businesses, enabling them to match customers with products through interactive quizzes and product finders. The platform uses automated questionnaires and personalized recommendations to improve conversion rates and customer experience.

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Poly is an AI-powered file browser that uses deep content understanding to enable users to search, summarize, generate, and collaborate on files across multiple formats. The platform indexes file content down to granular levels like pages, paragraphs, and pixels, supporting semantic search by image, concept, color, and other attributes.

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Polybee builds autonomous drone fleets and AI vision systems to provide real-time crop monitoring and precision pollination for fresh produce growers. The company helps farms optimize harvest timing, detect crop stress early, and increase profitability by making farming operations data-driven and predictable.

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Polyfact operates an AI platform that continuously ingests French and European political and legislative sources — the Assemblée, Sénat, Légifrance, regulators, and EU institutions — transcribing debates and connecting documents and videos into searchable, sourced answers. It serves public affairs and government relations professionals who need to monitor parliamentary activity, amendments, and regulatory consultations.

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Polysense builds camera and vision-based hardware that inspects product quality inline on food production lines, detecting defects, measuring dimensions, monitoring colour and identifying foreign material at production speed. It targets food processors, with a stated focus on potato processing, and integrates with existing shop-floor systems such as SCADA, MES, PLC and ERP.

2 investors

Polytrade is developing a new AI-native version of its platform, described as "built to think." The page is a teaser announcement and does not describe the product's concrete function or target users.

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POMA AI develops PrimeCut, a document ingestion and RAG chunking technology that preserves structural relationships in documents including text, tables, and scanned PDFs. The system is designed for technical documents like research papers, financial filings, and engineering specifications where context and hierarchy matter for retrieval accuracy.

2 investors

Pomello provides analytics software that maps a company's organizational culture team-by-team and integrates with existing recruiting processes to identify candidates likely to thrive in the organization. Its technology is based on research in Organizational Behavior developed at Stanford University.

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Ponder is an AI-powered video editing tool that analyzes raw footage—reading pacing, composition, tone, and dialogue—and assembles a rough first cut from a single natural-language prompt. It serves professional video editors, producers, and content creators across formats like real estate, marketing, YouTube, and documentary, and exports to editors such as Premiere Pro, Final Cut, and DaVinci Resolve.

2 investors

CircleCI provides a CI/CD platform that automatically tests, validates, builds, and deploys software across many languages, frameworks, and target environments, including AI and LLM applications. It serves development and DevOps teams with agent-powered pipelines and tooling for continuous integration and delivery.

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Ponyrun automates the evaluation of potential prospects and candidates by analyzing their publicly available information to determine suitability for sales outreach or hiring decisions. The platform ingests lists of people or search results and applies user-defined criteria to assess fit.

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PopCom operates intelligent vending machines that integrate AI and real-time analytics to provide retailers and entrepreneurs with sales automation and customer insights. The company targets the retail hardware and point-of-sale market.

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Popcorn AI is an AI agent platform that handles sales, customer support, and product recommendations over WhatsApp for e-commerce brands. It syncs with a store's catalog, orders, and policies to answer customer questions, track orders, and complete checkout within the chat, integrating with Shopify, Salla, and Zid.

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PoplarML provides tooling to deploy machine learning models to GPU infrastructure and expose them as scalable API endpoints with minimal configuration.

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Pops is a platform for casual and arcade-style games where creators can compete for weekly prizes within a community. The platform hosts multiple game categories ranging from arcade and 3D games to puzzles, sports simulations, and party games.

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Pops is an AI-based health insurance assistant that users can have live conversations with 24/7 to get help understanding and selecting an insurance plan. It provides plan recommendations based on the user's needs and hands off to vetted experts for enrollment, positioning itself as unbiased toward broker commissions.

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