Infrastructure Startups

Mach9 builds automated feature-extraction software for transportation, telecom, and construction industries, enabling rapid extraction and mapping of large-scale infrastructure projects. The company serves surveyors, transportation agencies, and engineering firms in North America.

6 investors

Pipeshift provides managed inference infrastructure for deploying and scaling AI models with low latency and high reliability. The platform serves developers and teams building real-time AI agents, offering dedicated GPU clusters, custom SLA management, and model optimization tools.

6 investors

Piris Labs develops photonic networking hardware to reduce idle time on AI computing chips and improve the efficiency of AI infrastructure deployments.

6 investors

RDash is a construction management software that helps builders, contractors, and design firms manage projects through features covering design management, procurement, progress reporting, site quality control, and financial tracking. The platform serves construction companies, suppliers, and clients in the construction and interior design industry.

6 investors

Unsiloed builds AI models that read and analyze document pages using attention-guided heatmaps to identify and extract structured data from tables, figures, and text regions. The product serves organizations that need to process complex multi-page documents and extract information while preserving hierarchical relationships.

6 investors

ZSCC designs AI silicon chips (XPU) optimized for energy efficiency in machine learning inference and training, targeting the infrastructure demands of recursive self-improvement and advanced AI systems. The company is developing both individual processor units and clustered systems for scientific discovery and model training applications.

6 investors

BotCity provides a centralized platform for managing Python scripts created by AI or human developers, offering orchestration, monitoring, security controls, and governance capabilities.

5 investors

Cerebrium provides a cloud platform for deploying and operating AI applications, including real-time voice bots and large-scale inference pipelines, abstracting infrastructure complexity for teams building AI products.

5 investors

CrowdVolt builds a marketplace platform that automates bookings and logistics for electronic dance music events and raves.

5 investors

Inkbox provides an identity layer for AI agents, enabling them to have email, phone, iMessage, and internet addresses for communication and interaction.

5 investors

Kernel provides infrastructure built on unikernels that enables AI agents to access and interact with the internet through web browsers, featuring fast startup times, stealth capabilities, session persistence, and comprehensive logging for developers.

5 investors

Lemma provides production monitoring and observability for AI agents, surfacing failures, aggregating issues, and enabling quick resolution through integrated alerts and context-sharing tools.

5 investors

Pluto is a regulated exchange that enables trading of compute resources as derivatives.

5 investors

Manufact provides a platform and open-source SDK for developers to build, test, and deploy MCP (Model Context Protocol) applications and servers for AI agents and chat interfaces like ChatGPT and Claude. The platform includes hosting, debugging tools, analytics, and publishing checks to help teams get their MCP apps to marketplace stores.

5 investors

ParadeDB is a Postgres extension that adds full-text search, vector retrieval, and aggregation capabilities to PostgreSQL databases. It enables developers to consolidate search and analytics workloads into a single database using standard SQL without requiring a separate search engine.

5 investors

RunAnywhere is a research-first inference lab that hand-writes GPU kernels and develops SDKs to accelerate large language model inference on consumer silicon, particularly Apple devices. The company provides inference runtime software and open-source tools for developers deploying AI models on mobile and edge devices.

5 investors

Archil provides a file system that virtualizes cloud storage buckets to offer local disk-like access with higher performance, allowing AI applications and analytics workloads to query large datasets without transferring data. Researchers use it to maintain version-controlled local storage for datasets and models without capacity constraints.

4 investors

Automorphic develops machine learning infrastructure where deployed models continuously improve themselves using generated data as training material.

4 investors

Cedana provides live migration technology for CPU and GPU containers that saves workload state, migrates jobs across nodes or clusters, and resumes execution without code changes. The platform serves compute infrastructure teams and enables workload portability across Kubernetes, SLURM, AWS, Google Cloud, and NVIDIA environments.

4 investors

Decawork provides an operating layer for IT teams to deploy, govern, and maintain AI agents running across a company's systems. It handles agent identity, scoped access to internal systems, spending caps, approval gates, and audit records so agents stay controlled from onboarding through audit.

4 investors

Elph builds digital payments infrastructure. The company was part of Y Combinator's Winter 2019 batch and has since been acquired by Brex.

4 investors

Entangl provides AI-powered operational management software for data centers and critical infrastructure, helping teams prevent outages. The platform serves data center operators managing compute infrastructure that powers global financial markets and AI workloads.

4 investors

Expanse predicts the GPU, memory, runtime, and failure risk of compute jobs before they run, so clusters do more work on the same hardware and reduce failed or overprovisioned jobs. It works alongside existing schedulers such as SLURM, Kubernetes, or Nomad, serving engineers running training, HPC simulations, and inference workloads.

4 investors

Lilac provides GPU compute infrastructure for startups, offering dedicated GPU VMs, bare-metal nodes, and private clusters with flexible capacity management options. The platform serves AI and machine learning workloads through serverless APIs, monthly subscriptions, and batch processing services.

4 investors