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An ML research and product lab building general intelligence by enabling people and computers to work together creatively

Enterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US

David Luan(Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer)inAshish Vaswani(Co-founder & Chief Scientist)Niki Parmar(Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer)Augustus Odena(Co-founder)Maxwell Nye(Co-founder)inErich Elsen(Co-founder)

Co-investorsA.Capital VenturesAdditionAir Street CapitalAtlassian VenturesGeneral CatalystGreylock Partners+8 more

AllSpice.io provides a design management and collaboration platform for hardware engineering teams, enabling automated comparison of electronics schematics, layouts, and bills of materials with AI-powered risk detection and centralized design review workflows.

AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsHardwareSomerville, US

Valentina Ratner(Founder)

Co-investorsBenchstrength PartnersBowery CapitalFlybridge Capital PartnersRethink ImpactThe MBA FundGingerbread Capital

ApertureDB provides a database platform that unifies multimodal AI data, combining vector search and knowledge graph technologies to help teams build generative AI applications, agents, and RAG workflows.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsCupertino, US

Luis Remis(Founder)inVishakha Gupta(Founder)in

Co-investorsGenerationshipGraph VenturesTq Ventures Llc2048 Ventures

ApolloShield develops counter-unmanned aircraft systems (cUAS) and drone detection and neutralization technology using artificial intelligence and radio frequency fingerprinting.

Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDefense TechTel Aviv-Yafo, IL

Gilad Beeri(Founder/CEO)in

Co-investorsPartech VenturesY Combinator

Jamie Murdoch(Founder)in

CADY provides AI-powered schematic analysis that reviews Netlist and BOM files to detect design flaws, errors, and best-practice violations in high-density PCB designs within minutes.

AI & Machine LearningDeep TechHardwareRamat Hasharon

Or Shabtai(Director)Gilad Shapira(Executive Officer, Director)

BoardTal Ben Porath(Director)Nimrod Cohen(Director)Avidan Aryeh Ross(Director)

Co-investorsATOORO FUNDCatapult VenturesTAU VenturestoDay VenturesRoot Ventures

ChargeLab provides back-end software for managing EV chargers, letting charging networks, fleets, and solution providers connect and monitor any OCPP-compatible charger, apply dynamic power management, and use AI-based fault detection.

EnergyMobility & TransportationSaaS

Zak Lefevre(Cofounder)Zak L.(Founder)in

Co-investorsConstruct CapitalCreative Destruction Lab (CDL)Expansion Venture CapitalKing River CapitalMaple VCNotation Capital+1 more

Co-investorsComet LabsGreen Meadow Ventures

Automates critical energy infrastructure.

CruxOCM develops AI-powered automation software for industrial control room operations in energy infrastructure, enabling autonomous monitoring and control to improve throughput and reduce operational risk.

AI & Machine LearningCleantechClimate TechEnergyEnterprise SoftwareIoTCalgary, CA

Vicki Knott, P.Eng(Founder)inRoger Shirt(Director)Victoria Knott(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)

BoardEric Wiesen(Director)Gil Dibner(Director)

Co-investorsAngel InvestAngular VenturesBullpen CapitalGolden VenturesM12 (Microsoft's Venture Fund)Raven Capital+3 more

Daily provides WebRTC-based infrastructure that enables developers to build voice, video, and real-time AI applications.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkSan Francisco, US

Kwindla Hultman Kramer(Founder)in

Co-investorsCompoundGround Up VenturesMoxxie VenturesRenegade PartnersScribble VenturesWorklife Ventures+2 more

Helps semiconductor teams generate better PPA solutions for higher performing chips.

DeepWeave builds Loom, an AI-native optimization platform that augments the backend (physical) design stage of chip design, targeting power, performance, area, and yield through design-technology co-optimization within existing EDA flows.

AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsSemiconductors

Unni Narayanan(Founder and CEO)David Pan(Founder and CTO)

Co-investorsHomebrewRoot VenturesIncubate US

Determinate Systems develops Determinate Nix, a supported distribution of the Nix package manager, along with FlakeHub, a platform for managing and distributing Nix flakes.

Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwarePitsfield, US

Eelco Dolstra(Executive Officer, Director)Graham S. Christensen(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)

DigiChem operates an AI-native platform for on-demand custom molecule synthesis, letting users design and order molecules online and access process and analytical data.

AI & Machine LearningDeep TechNew Materials

Dusty Robotics builds the FieldPrinter, a mobile robot that automates layout and marking tasks on construction job sites.

Construction TechHardwareRoboticsMountain View, US

Tessa Lau(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)inPhilipp Herget(Director, Promoter)

BoardAvidan Ross(Director)Richard Boyle(Director)in

Co-investorsCanaan PartnersCantos VenturesGRIDS CapitalHumba VenturesNextGen Venture PartnersScale Venture Partners+1 more

Esper provides device management software using DevOps principles for company-managed devices, automating provisioning and exception-based management across Android and other platforms.

Developer ToolsEnterprise SoftwareIoTBellevue, US

Yadhu(Co-Founder & CEO)inShiv(Co-Founder & Chief Business Operator)inShiv Sundar(Founder)inYadhu Gopalan(Founder)in

Co-investorsGRIDS CapitalMadrona Venture GroupNimble PartnersPathbreaker VenturesCota CapitalGaingels+1 more

Feather is a cloud-based engineering simulation platform that runs finite element analysis — including linear static, thermal, modal, harmonic, and buckling analysis — for single parts and assemblies.

Cloud ComputingDeep TechSaaS

Fudge is an AI-powered page builder and store editor for Shopify merchants, letting users describe changes in plain language to build landing pages or edit storefront pages using native theme code.

AI & Machine LearningE-commerceRetail Tech

Ground Control provides facilities management for factories, covering site selection, feasibility, design, construction coordination, and ongoing operations.

Advanced ManufacturingConstruction TechHardware

HASH is an open-source platform that turns an organization's data — from databases, applications, fileshares, sensor feeds, chats, and more — into a continuously updated knowledge graph and process graph, or "world model." Organizations use it to integrate data, automate workflows, run simulations, ground AI agents, and govern access, serving domain-agnostic use cases including supply chain, risk modeling, and internal tooling.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureSaaS

IaSQL is an open-source developer tool that keeps a two-way connection between an AWS account and a PostgreSQL database, representing cloud infrastructure as rows in database tables.

Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools

Illoca builds Tracing Paper, a design tool that enables architects and designers to sketch, markup, and iterate on designs through a more natural workflow rather than rigid command-based interfaces.

Developer ToolsSan Ramon, US

Chiaowei Yu(Founder)Chin-Yi Cheng(Founder)

Co-investorsBessemer Venture PartnersAIX VenturesAlt VenturesRoot Ventures

Instance produces large-scale functional biological data intended for AI-driven biology and biological engineering, letting customers submit designs and receive functional data for their specific learning objectives.

AI & Machine LearningBiotechDeep Tech

David Scott(Founder)in

Instrumental provides a Manufacturing Engineering Control Platform that uses hardware, software, and AI to help electronics brands detect failures faster and optimize their manufacturing processes with visibility into the factory floor.

Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningHardwarePalo Alto, US

Anna-Katrina Shedletsky(Founder)inSamuel Weiss(Founder)in

Co-investorsCanaan PartnersIndustrious VenturesNimble PartnersNVentures

Spaceflight operations platform for satellite operators.

Kayhan Space develops technology to improve the safety of spaceflight operations.

AI & Machine LearningDeep TechSaaSSpace TechLafayette, US

Siamak Hesar(Founder)inAraz Feyzi(Founder)in

BoardKane Hsieh(Director)

Co-investorsInitialized CapitalRoot VenturesBeyond CapitalOverlineTechstarsEVE Atlas+2 more

Kodra builds a platform for automating integrations, workflows, and AI agent deployments across disconnected software systems without requiring native APIs.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSMountain View, US

Asif Khan(Founder)in

Co-investorsFloodgate

Latent Technology builds AI-driven generative physics for games, producing physical character rigs that react to their environment and drive their own muscle-based motion in real-time without keyframed animations.

AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsGaming

Co-investorsAlbionVCSpark Capital

Fabro is an open-source (MIT-licensed) workflow orchestration engine for AI coding agents, letting expert engineers define coding processes as version-controlled graph files that coordinate LLM agents, shell commands, and human approval gates.

AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsFuture of Work

Loombotic manufactures custom wire harnesses for hardware teams using AI-powered design interpretation and automated assembly.

Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningHardwareRoboticsToronto, CA

Lucas Crupi(Founder)inEthan Breit(Founder)in

Co-investorsY Combinator

Carl Peaslee(Founder)in

Mashgin develops automated checkout kiosks using computer vision and machine learning to instantly identify items without scanning or barcodes, serving retailers in stadiums, hospitality, hospitals, and foodservice venues.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareHardwareRetail TechSan Francisco, US

Abhinai Srivastava(Founder/CEO)inMukul Dhankhar(Founder)in

Co-investorsHumba VenturesMatrixNew Enterprise Associates (NEA)Y CombinatorACE & CompanyKleiner Perkins+2 more

Meroxa builds real-time data integration and streaming tools to help organizations liberate data from silos and create data-driven applications.

Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

Co-investorsAmplify PartnersDrive CapitalAdditionHustle FundIndex VenturesRoot Ventures+2 more

New York City, US

Matthew Heider(Executive Officer, Director)Brian O'Clair(Executive Officer, Director)

BoardAvidan Ross(Director)Matthew Goldstein(Director)

Co-investorsM12 (Microsoft's Venture Fund)Systemiq CapitalTechstarsTMV

Nordsense provides smart sensors and a data platform that monitor waste bins to track fill levels and generation patterns, helping cities, universities, and organizations optimize collection routes, reduce overflows, and cut emissions.

Circular EconomyCleantechIoT

Co-investorsRegeneration.VCACME Capital

nTop (nTopology) makes parametric engineering design software that lets teams generate, explore, and validate complex geometry with manufacturing constraints and embedded FEA/CFD simulation built into the workflow.

Advanced ManufacturingDeep TechEnterprise SoftwareSaaSNew York, US

Gregory Schroy(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Bradley Rothenberg(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)

Co-investorsCanaan PartnersCrunchFundNotation CapitalPathbreaker VenturesTuesday Capital1517+3 more

Nullify is an autonomous AI system that automates product security tasks across detection, triage, remediation and closure, handling vulnerability discovery, impact scoring, exploit proof, and pull request creation without requiring human intervention in the critical path.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper Tools

Shan Kulkarni(Founder)inTim Thacker(Founder)in

Co-investorsSyn Ventures Seed Management LlcSYN Ventures

Okteto is a developer platform that enables teams to develop cloud-native applications by moving development and preview environments into the cloud.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US

Ramiro Berrelleza(Founder)inPablo Chico de Guzman(Founder/CTO)inRamon Lamana(Founder)inRamiro Antonio Berrelleza Perez(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)

Co-investorsY CombinatorHaystackMAGIC FundTwo Sigma Ventures

Particle provides edge-to-cloud infrastructure for connected devices, including over-the-air software and model updates, abstracted wireless connectivity (LTE, 5G, Wi-Fi, satellite, LoRaWAN), real-time data automation, and a management console.

Cloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsIoT

Zach Supalla(Founder)in

Co-investorsBonfire VenturesCounterpart VenturesEnergy Impact PartnersGraph VenturesGreen Meadow VenturesHeavybit+3 more

Patterns provides an AI-powered platform for financial analysis and reporting that allows users to perform data analysis using natural language instead of traditional spreadsheets.

Data & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US

Ken Van Haren(Founder)inChris Stanley(Founder)in

Co-investorsWayfinder VenturesY CombinatorESSENCE VCStandard CapitalTwenty Two Ventures

Ensures customer data privacy without slowing down teams.

Co-investorsCrosscut Ventures

Quilter builds physics-driven AI that automatically generates printed circuit board (PCB) layouts, using Maxwell's equations, thermodynamics, and manufacturing constraints rather than human design patterns.

AI & Machine LearningDeep TechDeveloper ToolsHardwareLos Angeles, US

Sergiy Nesterenko(Founder and Chief Executive Officer)

BoardEric Vishria(Benchmark partner and board member)Nina Achadjian(Index Ventures partner and board member)

Co-investorsCoatue ManagementIndex VenturesBenchmarkRoot Ventures

San Jose, US

Warren Ahner(Executive Officer, Director)Jonathan Mullen(Executive Officer, Director)

BoardPhin Barnes(Director)

Co-investorsFontinalis Partners

Daniel Shen(Founder)in

Co-investorsKicker VenturesLink VenturesTaiwan Global AngelsThe E14 FundUNION Labs VenturesZelda Ventures

Seam provides a single API and pre-built UI components that let developers connect their applications to smart IoT devices such as locks, thermostats, cameras, and sensors.

Developer ToolsIoTSaaS

Seismic makes powered clothing that fuses apparel with robotics, using Flex-Drive electric muscles to provide core and hip support that reduces muscle strain and fatigue.

HardwareRoboticsWellness & Fitness

Rob Palfreymanin

Co-investorsThe Robotics Hub

Sensable offers a portable vision AI platform that monitors workforce interactions with machines and materials across shifts in both structured and unstructured environments.

Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningRobotics

Shaper Tools makes the Origin, a handheld, auto-correcting CNC.

Shaper Tools makes the Origin, a handheld, auto-correcting CNC.

San Francisco, US

Joseph Hebenstreit(Executive Officer, Director)Ilan Moyer(Executive Officer, Director)Alec Rivers(Executive Officer, Director)

Co-investorsComet LabsGreen Meadow Ventures

Skycatch provides spatial data capture, processing, and analysis solutions for mining and industrial operations, using AI capabilities to generate near-real-time digital twins and deliver operational insights.

AgTechAI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureIrving, US

Christian Sanz(Founder & CEO)Mark Heynen(Executive Officer)Sam Miller(Executive Officer)

BoardRichard Levandov(Director)B. Paul Santos(Director)Ram Shriram(Director)

Co-investorsADB VenturesAkkadian VenturesBee PartnersEntrée CapitalFf Venture CapitalMind the Seed - MTS Fund+7 more

Hawthorne, US

Benson Tsai(Founder)

Co-investorsCrosslink Capital

Sublayer is an AI-native software studio and lab that builds products, open source projects, and community around AI, including "Where Is Everyone," an attendance-prediction tool for community organizers.

AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsNew York, US

Scott Werner(Founder)

Co-investorsEntrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA)

Subtrace is a tool that captures and displays HTTP traffic to and from running processes in real time without requiring code modifications or elevated permissions.

Developer ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US

Adhityaa Chandrasekar(Founder)inSachin Sridhar(Founder)in

Co-investorsNorthside VenturesY Combinator

Superconductive develops GX Core, a data quality tool that lets technical teams define expectations and automated actions to detect and prevent bad data from moving through their data systems.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools

SuperTokens is an open-source authentication and session management solution that developers integrate via frontend and backend SDKs to build login, session handling, and user access controls.

CybersecurityDeveloper ToolsSaaS

Advait Ruia(Founder)inRishabh Poddar

ThruWave builds millimeter-wave (mmWave) imaging sensors and analytics software that see inside sealed packaging to automatically detect quality defects and contraband such as firearms, drugs, and tobacco.

AI & Machine LearningHardwareLogistics & Supply Chain

Andreas Pedroß-Engel(Founder)in

Co-investorsIn-Q-TelThe E14 FundFoothill VenturesUbiquity Ventures

Co-investorsFounder Collective

Oishii operates indoor vertical farms that grow premium produce, including its Omakase Berry, strawberry products, and Rubī Tomato, distributed to consumers and retailers such as Whole Foods across the New York metropolitan area, New Jersey, Connecticut, and D.C.

AgTechConsumerFoodTechNew York, US

Hiroki Koga(Co-founder)Brendan Somerville(Co-founder)Morgan Steffy(Executive Officer, Director)Evan Katz(Executive Officer, Director)

BoardEric Mathews(Director)Joel Seligstein(Director)

Co-investorsCeres PartnersE12 Venture Capital, LlcOrbia VenturesREMUS CapitalUnion Grove Venture Partners

Trieve provides backend infrastructure for implementing search, retrieval augmented generation, and recommendation systems, offering pre-built tools for ranking tuning, model customization, and hybrid semantic-keyword search.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US

Nick Khami(Founder)inDenzell Ford(Founder)Nicholas Khami(Founder)in

Co-investorsY CombinatorRoot Ventures

TruckLabs (part of ConMet) makes TruckWings, a tractor-mounted aerodynamic device that closes the gap between a truck's tractor and trailer to reduce drag, improve fuel efficiency, and lower CO2 emissions.

CleantechHardwareMobility & Transportation

Co-investorsCalibrate VenturesDorm RoomFusionX VenturesBlue Bear Capital Partners

Versatile.ai serves the construction industry, though specific product details are not provided on this "Who We Are" page.

Construction TechLos Altos, US

MEIRAV OREN(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)DANNY HERMANN(Executive Officer, Director)

BoardNIKITAS KOUTOUPES(Director)inGAD TOREN(Director)

Co-investorsBosch VenturesConductive VenturesEntrée CapitalInsight PartnersRobert Bosch Venture CapitalThird Sphere+1 more

Vibe Robotics is developing a multimodal, task-oriented user interface for general purpose robotics that works across hardware types such as industrial arms, humanoids, construction machines, and drones.

AI & Machine LearningHardwareRoboticsAustin, US

Co-investorsSchematic Ventures

Wildtype grows salmon directly from fish cells using cellular agriculture, allowing production of seafood without wild-caught or farmed fish.

BiotechClimate TechFoodTechSan Francisco, US

Justin Kolbeck(Executive Officer, Director)inArye Elfenbein(Director)

BoardJohn Melas-Kyriazi(Director)

Co-investorsBay Bridge Ventures ClimateCRV (Charles River Ventures)Maven VenturesMission BiocapitalS2G InvestmentsSpark Capital+2 more

Zed is a code editor written from scratch in Rust that uses multiple CPU cores and the GPU for high performance, with support for running AI agents in parallel to edit code and run tools.

AI & Machine LearningDeveloper ToolsFuture of Work

Nathan Sobo(Founder)inAntonio ScandurraMax Brunsfeld(Founder)in

Co-investorsMatchstick VenturesNimble PartnersPreston-Werner VenturesRedpoint VenturesSequoia CapitalV1 VC