Machine Learning Startups

Pachyderm provides tooling for building and running production data pipelines, including data versioning and data lineage. It lets teams chain together steps such as data ingestion, cleaning, processing, modeling, and analysis, and convert ad-hoc scripts into reproducible pipelines.

9 investors

Shiru uses machine learning to discover and design proteins for sustainable food production. The company applies computational methods to develop plant-based protein ingredients.

9 investors

Waterplan provides a platform that assesses water risk for industrial and consumer goods companies by combining operational data with satellite imagery, then recommends mitigation strategies ranging from infrastructure upgrades to ecosystem-based approaches.

9 investors

Dynamo provides automated AI risk evaluation and red-teaming tools designed to assess the privacy, safety, and compliance of AI systems. The platform offers guardrails, hallucination detection, and observability solutions for organizations deploying generative and agentic AI models.

8 investors

FINNY is a growth platform that identifies and targets financial prospects for advisors through data aggregation and automated outreach, enabling personalized client acquisition at scale.

8 investors

Metreecs provides data science and AI-driven insights to businesses, leveraging client data, external factors, and business trends to help companies operate more efficiently and profitably.

8 investors

Proven is a data-driven skincare company that creates personalized skincare products based on over 47 factors about an individual's skin, genetics, lifestyle, and environment. Its formulations draw on the proprietary Skin Genome Project, a beauty database built in-house containing more than 20 million consumer datapoints and scientific research.

8 investors

Shelf Engine built an AI-driven forecasting system for grocery ordering, used across more than 10,000 grocery locations to manage fresh food inventory. The company exited in 2024.

8 investors

Strong Compute offers software and hardware optimizations that significantly accelerate neural network training and cloud computing tasks, targeting AI development workloads in the broader cloud infrastructure market.

8 investors

SmartSpot builds a computer-vision-powered hardware system for live, at-home fitness training that lets trainers see class participants in real time and give personalized feedback remotely. It serves home fitness consumers in the connected fitness category.

8 investors

hiloop provides snapshottable, forkable compute infrastructure with built-in observability for AI agents that propose, run, and verify experiments (autoresearch). It offers self-provisioning sandboxes via API, brokered secrets, and per-run tracing with token and cost tracking queryable via SQL, aimed at teams doing autoresearch, model training, and performance-critical development.

7 investors

Blissway provides roadside toll collection and vehicle tracking systems using wireless autonomous devices (WAL-Es) and cloud analytics, replacing traditional gantry and transponder infrastructure for highway management agencies.

7 investors

Casca provides business loan eligibility checks, with a focus on helping small businesses access SBA loans.

7 investors

Momento is a Mexican auto insurance company offering customizable car and motorcycle policies with flexible payment options and digital-first customer service. The company uses AI-powered risk models and provides rapid claims resolution through a fully digital platform.

7 investors

OnDeck develops video understanding technology for enterprise customers, leveraging vision language models grounded in real data to enhance reliability beyond standard off-the-shelf approaches.

7 investors

Osmosis provides reinforcement learning infrastructure that enables AI agents to improve themselves from experience. The platform allows developers to fine-tune models on proprietary data with full ownership, addressing practical challenges in deploying and scaling AI agents across multi-step tasks.

7 investors

Persist AI provides AI-driven formulation development services for pharmaceutical compounds, combining robotic lab automation with machine learning models to accelerate drug formulation optimization and reduce time-to-market.

7 investors

Reverie Labs built machine learning software for pharmaceutical companies and later developed its own drug pipeline using those ML tools. The company was acquired by Ginkgo in February 2024.

7 investors

Rosebud AI offers a tool that lets people create browser games from text descriptions without coding skills, using generative AI. It targets anyone who wants to build games regardless of technical background.

7 investors

SigOpt is a cloud-based optimization platform that tunes machine learning and research pipelines using an ensemble of optimization algorithms. It serves customers in industries including insurance, credit cards, algorithmic trading, and consumer packaged goods.

7 investors

Undermind provides AI-powered research discovery tools that help R&D teams find relevant scientific papers and research quickly. The platform serves biotech and pharmaceutical companies conducting drug discovery and development work.

7 investors

1stCollab is an influencer marketing platform that connects creators with brand partnership opportunities. The platform handles campaign matching, contract management, and payment processing for creators and agencies seeking sponsorship deals.

6 investors

222 is a membership-based social platform that matches compatible people for shared experiences like dinners, cocktail outings, and group activities across multiple cities.

6 investors

64x Bio develops cell-line engineering and production technologies to overcome manufacturing bottlenecks in advanced and next-generation therapies. It serves biopharma and therapeutics developers by combining large-scale parallelized screening with computational analysis to engineer high-yield cell lines.

6 investors