AI & Machine Learning Startups

Forward Deployed Venture Capital (FDVC) is a venture capital firm led by General Partner Mark Scianna that invests in mission-critical sectors including defense, energy, industrials, and artificial intelligence. Founded by a former Palantir forward deployed engineer, the firm launched its Fund I in 2022 with a focus on early-stage technology companies.

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Forward Therapeutics develops oral small-molecule medicines targeting inflammation-driven diseases, using a structure-based, data-driven discovery engine to design drugs against validated pathways. The company applies expertise in chemistry, immunology, CNS biology, and clinical development.

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Fotographer AI provides middleware and tools for creators to generate, edit, and control AI-generated images and video across design and marketing workflows. The company serves e-commerce and creative professionals with integrated image generation, character training, lighting editing, and background removal capabilities.

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FotoNation develops silicon-proven imaging and AI technology deployed across billions of devices. The company serves semiconductor manufacturers and consumer electronics companies with IP-based solutions for imaging and artificial intelligence.

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Fotoware is a digital asset management platform that helps organizations organize, automate, and secure content workflows at scale. It serves enterprise teams in media, archives, and large organizations with metadata-driven automation, rights management, and secure cloud hosting.

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Found builds an "Intelligence Engine" from a company's data, workflows, and institutional logic, then deploys specialized AI "Analysts" that learn individual operational workflows to identify and reduce financial leakage. It serves enterprise operations across industries such as commercial real estate, financial services and insurance, distributed retail, supply chain and logistics, energy and materials, and manufacturing.

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Foundation builds a customer experience platform for home builders and construction companies, providing native mobile apps and integrated portals to manage buyer engagement alongside back-office systems like CRMs and ERPs.

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Foundational provides cross-platform data lineage generated automatically by analyzing the source code that defines data pipelines, transformations, and analytics across SQL, Python, and Scala frameworks like dbt, Spark, and Airflow. It serves engineering and data governance teams, mapping field-level data flow from source applications through pipelines to BI tools without accessing underlying data or PII.

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Foundational Bio is building an AI-native, fully automated laboratory ("self-driving lab") that replaces manual workflows to increase the speed and reliability of life-science experimentation. It serves the life sciences and research sector.

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Founderment is a Nordic venture capital fund based in Aarhus, Denmark, focused on CommerceTech. It invests in early-stage, AI-first startups building infrastructure, tools, and solutions for the future of global commerce, leading pre-seed rounds of up to DKK 6 million.

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A consulting service that uses generative AI and analytics to help companies identify new growth opportunities, assess markets and competitive landscapes, and design more profitable economic models. It offers a plug-and-play service model to augment corporate strategy, marketing, and sales teams.

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Founderz is an online school offering certificate programs in artificial intelligence for professionals and enterprises, covering topics such as AI innovation, responsible AI leadership, AI in sports, and Microsoft Copilot. Its programs are certified jointly with Microsoft, and it markets itself as Europe's leading AI school, also delivering tailored AI adoption training for corporate teams.

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Foundever delivers customer experience management services to major global brands, managing 9 million customer interactions daily across 45 countries with a team of 130,000 associates. The company specializes in creating customer connections and employee engagement programs for the world's leading and innovative brands.

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Foundry BioSciences develops protein language models powered by AI for protein engineering to address aging and longevity. The company serves users, partners, and patients globally through novel protein sequences.

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Fount provides a customer data platform purpose-built for insurance marketers, unifying data from policy admin, CRM, call centers, web analytics, and paid channels into single customer profiles optimized for machine-driven marketing and attribution. The platform enables lead valuation based on policy economics, multi-touch attribution, and audience segmentation powered by insurance-specific metrics.

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Fountain9 provides demand forecasting and inventory optimization software to food brands and retailers, using historical sales data and pricing information to predict future inventory needs and reduce both stockouts and waste.

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FourNet is a UK provider of cloud, managed services, and communications technology that transforms customer and citizen service journeys, modernises networks and infrastructure, and adds AI capabilities for organisations in regulated and high-volume sectors including public sector, emergency services, and healthcare. Founded in Manchester as 4net Technologies, it delivers contact centre, unified communications, security, and networking solutions.

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Fourthline provides KYC investigations and customer due diligence (CDD) reporting, combining machine learning algorithms with a team of financial crime experts to investigate potential hits, detect fraud, and produce audit trails. It serves businesses needing regulatory compliance, focusing on 5AML regulations across European countries.

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Fovus offers a serverless high-performance computing (HPC) platform that auto-benchmarks workloads, determines optimal cloud HPC strategies, and auto-scales resources across cloud zones to reduce runtime and cost. It uses AI-driven optimization and spot instances to manage cloud HPC logistics for teams running compute-intensive innovation workloads.

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Foxie.ai is a customer experience automation platform for agencies that collects client feedback through personalized outreach and identifies churn and revenue risks early. It gives agency leadership visibility into which client accounts are protected, uncertain, or at risk to support revenue predictability.

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Foxo offers a precision longevity program combining systems-biology diagnostics, biomarker and ageing-clock testing, AI-driven personalization, lifestyle and therapeutic interventions, and healthspan coaching. It targets biological ageing at the cellular level to help individuals extend healthspan and maintain cognitive and physical performance.

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FoxyAI applies computer vision and machine learning to real estate imagery to produce property intelligence and actionable data for property professionals. Its models are aimed at helping real estate professionals lower costs and improve margins.

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FPT MongoDB Enterprise provides real-time system monitoring and performance visualization for database infrastructure, with alerting thresholds to help technical teams proactively identify and resolve issues.

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Fractile designs a new class of AI accelerator processors that physically interleave memory and compute to deliver low latency and high throughput for frontier AI model inference. Its full-stack hardware, spanning transistor-level circuit design to cloud inference server logic, targets large-scale, high-speed token processing for AI workloads.

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