AI Startup Directory

Browse the AI startups tracked by AI Market Watch, each with a VC-grade investment score. Page 9 of 10.

• NoveeAn AI-driven offensive security platform that provides continuous, automated penetration testing to counter machine-speed cyberattacks through a proprietary 'AI Hacker' engine.
• BedrockAn AI robotics company developing autonomous retrofit kits and software to transform existing heavy construction machinery into self-operating equipment.
• VoxelVoxel is an AI-powered site visibility platform that transforms existing security cameras into intelligent monitoring systems to proactively identify workplace safety hazards and operational risks in industrial environments.
• Listen LabsAn AI platform that conducts and analyzes qualitative customer interviews at scale using conversational AI to uncover deep insights and the 'why' behind feedback.
• Noetra Corp.Japan's sovereign AI consortium building multimodal foundation models for physical AI and robotics, backed by 44 Japanese firms including SoftBank, Sony, NEC, and Honda with ¥1 trillion ($6.2B) in government support.
• ArtemisAn AI-native cybersecurity platform that automates threat detection, investigation, and response.
• ZerothChinese AI robotics company building affordable, emotionally-aware humanoid companion robots for home, elderly care, and education markets.
• HyphenA robotic restaurant makeline and kitchen operations platform that automates digital order assembly underneath the counter while human staff serve in-store customers above.
• Firestorm LabsModular, attritable, multi-mission drone systems leveraging additive manufacturing and open-source architectures to enable affordable mass deployment for defense.
• Nous ResearchApplied AI research group developing and open-sourcing advanced Large Language Models (LLMs), datasets, and architectural improvements, exploring decentralized training.
• Ambience HealthcareAn AI-powered operating system for healthcare organizations, designed to automate clinical and administrative workflows.
• GranolaAn AI-powered meeting notepad that transcribes and enhances notes without requiring visible meeting bots, combining human-written notes with AI-powered transcription and intelligent summarization.
• Rino.aiRino.ai is a leading L4 autonomous driving technology company in China, specializing in R&D, manufacture and sales of driverless delivery vehicles for middle-mile and last-mile logistics.
• SapiomA financial infrastructure platform providing payment rails and digital identities for AI agents to autonomously discover, provision, and pay for technical services.
• SharpaA robotics AI company developing general-purpose humanoid robots and advanced fine-manipulation systems designed to replicate human-level dexterity for complex manual tasks.
• K25.aiSingapore-based AI-native live streaming and watch-to-predict platform combining AI, live content, creator communities, and prediction-based information markets for APAC markets.
• EliyanA semiconductor startup developing high-performance chiplet interconnect technology designed to eliminate the 'memory wall' and 'IO wall' in AI and high-performance computing (HPC) systems.
• Upscale AIA high-performance AI networking infrastructure company developing open-standard hardware and silicon to power large-scale Generative AI clusters.
• WorldLabsInnovation platform connecting creators, entrepreneurs, and researchers for funding, collaboration, and impact.
• PaleBlueDotA 'Neocloud' pioneer providing specialized, high-performance GPU infrastructure and a marketplace tailored for generative AI and AGI development.
• Gimlet LabsA multi-silicon inference cloud platform designed to optimize and orchestrate complex agentic AI workloads across heterogeneous hardware architectures.
• AcuityMDAcuityMD raised $80 million in Series C funding, reaching a $955 million valuation to expand its AI-powered sales optimization platform for the medical technology sector.
• Blue EnergyBlue Energy raised $380M to build grid-scale nuclear reactors in shipyards, aiming to solve the energy bottleneck for AI data centers through faster, more predictable construction.
• CallosumSystem-level software platform that orchestrates AI workloads across heterogeneous chips and models to enable 'Heterogeneous Intelligence' — diverse AI models running on different hardware types working together as an integrated, co-evolved system.
• MotifA South Korean AI startup developing high-performance open-source large language models (LLMs) and multimodal foundation models with proprietary Grouped Differential Attention (GDA) architecture for enterprise and personal AI applications.
• OrkesA battle-tested orchestration platform for building and scaling reliable enterprise AI agents and workflows.
• Cheerio AIAn AI-powered omnichannel marketing automation platform that unifies marketing, sales, support, and communication workflows to help enterprises optimize customer acquisition cost to lifetime value (CAC-to-LTV) ratio through intelligent customer engagement.
• Tattvam AIAI-powered semiconductor chip design automation platform that builds reasoning models to understand circuit structures from first principles and automate the RTL-to-GDSII physical design process, reducing development cycles from years to weeks.
• TaalasA platform for rapidly turning any AI model into custom silicon, embedding entire deep learning models directly into specialized chips that achieve 1000x efficiency improvements over traditional GPU-based approaches.
• MetropolisMetropolis is an AI-powered parking platform that uses computer vision to enable checkout-free payment experiences in parking facilities.
• HopperA mobile travel booking app that uses AI and big data to predict flight and hotel prices, advising customers on the best time to buy.
• Ant InternationalSingapore-headquartered global digital payment, digitisation and financial technology provider spun out of Ant Group, operating Alipay+, Antom, WorldFirst, and Bettr across 150M+ merchants and 2B+ users worldwide.
• SlackSlack is the AI-powered workplace messaging and collaboration platform, now a Salesforce subsidiary, embedding AI agents (Claude, Devin, Copilot) directly into team chat channels via its new Slack Code product.
• AidocAI-powered clinical decision-support platform for radiologists and healthcare providers, focusing on medical imaging analysis and triage
• Qwen (Alibaba Cloud)Alibaba Cloud's foundation model and AI business unit, developing the open-weight Qwen family of LLMs, multimodal models, and voice/agent products.
• Crypto.comSingapore-based cryptocurrency exchange and financial services platform offering trading, payments, staking, and AI-driven trading tools, trusted by over 150 million users globally.
• Cart.comCart.com is a unified commerce and logistics platform providing enterprise-grade software, fulfillment services, and AI-powered tools for B2C and B2B brands to manage omnichannel selling and order fulfillment.
• Scout AIScout AI raises $100M Series A to build VLA-based military AI for autonomous vehicles, with contracts from DARPA and Army.
• Genspark AIGenspark is an all-in-one AI workspace and agent platform that uses specialized AI agents to automate research, content creation, and business workflows.
• TempleAn experimental wearable sensor device that continuously monitors cerebral blood flow in real-time, designed to measure physiological and neurological metrics that existing wearables cannot track with comparable precision.
• Companion LabsAn AI-powered interactive entertainment platform that creates personalized, vernacular language storytelling experiences where users play as the main character in AI-driven narratives.
• 7AIAn agentic security platform that uses swarming AI agents to automate cybersecurity operations and address alert fatigue.
• Humans&A frontier AI research lab developing human-centric generative models designed to augment human intelligence and foster collaborative reasoning through high emotional intelligence (EQ).
• AgnikulA space-technology company providing customizable, on-demand small satellite launch services and developing orbital AI infrastructure using world-first 3D-printed engine technology.
• ComfyUIComfyUI is an open-source, node-based generative AI platform for creating images, video, and audio through visual workflows.
• Bolt Data & EnergyAn integrated AI infrastructure platform that combines abundant energy production, large-scale GPU computing, and scalable land expansion opportunities to deliver reliable power and fast deployment for AI workloads.
• GO Inc.Japan's largest taxi-hailing app operator, providing the GO app with 80% market share by usage time, now expanding into robotaxis after Japan's biggest IPO of 2026.
• Saidou TechnologySeres Group-backed AI automotive company that launched the AIVA brand, integrating ByteDance's Doubao AI model for smart cockpit technology in China's mainstream EV segment above RMB 200,000.
• HelionHelion is building the world's first fusion power plant using a pulsed, magneto-inertial fusion approach with direct electricity recovery.
• ZutaCoreZutaCore is a leader in waterless, direct-to-chip, two-phase liquid cooling solutions for AI and high-performance computing data centers.
• SageCloud-based operations management platform for senior living communities that replaces legacy nurse call systems with modern technology to improve care coordination and operational efficiency.
• Human ArchiveMultimodal data provider for robotics and world modeling, collecting egocentric and tactile data via gig workers to train physical AI systems
• IsaraA multi-agent orchestration platform designed to coordinate thousands of autonomous AI agents to solve complex, large-scale enterprise tasks through swarm intelligence.
• LightelligenceA silicon photonics AI chip maker developing optoelectronic computing solutions for data centers and AI inference, listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
• Veeda AIToronto startup building multimodal foundation world models that simulate physical reality so embodied agents/robots can learn through interaction.
• Source FoundryStealth semiconductor equipment startup building alternative extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography tools to challenge ASML for AI chip manufacturing.
• FractileDevelops advanced AI chips using a novel in-memory compute approach to supercharge AI model inference.
• Pragmatik LabsAI agent startup founded by ex-Alibaba Qwen tech lead Lin Junyang, building next-generation agents spanning the digital and physical worlds.
• EnigmaEnigma is a physical AI company building foundation models and intuitive interfaces for robotics, emerging from stealth with a $70M+ seed round to launch the world's first interactive AI robotics experience.
• CodexWholesale stablecoin FX and institutional on/off-ramp infrastructure powered by a purpose-built stablecoin chain.
• OlixA semiconductor startup developing next-generation photonic AI hardware designed to eliminate the need for High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) in large-scale AI inference.
• Procode AIAI-powered revenue cycle management (RCM) company for surgeons in private practice, offering an AI Coding Copilot that automates surgical billing and coding.
• Axiom MathAxiom Math is building a self-improving AI mathematician that can solve complex math problems, generate proofs, propose new conjectures, and check its own work. Founded by 24-year-old Stanford dropout Carina Hong with ex-Meta AI researchers.
• AirTrunkAirTrunk is Asia-Pacific & Middle East's leading hyperscale data centre platform, powering cloud and AI infrastructure for the world's largest technology companies.
• Ricursive IntelligenceA frontier AI lab dedicated to automating and optimizing semiconductor design through advanced reinforcement learning, creating a recursive feedback loop between AI software and hardware.
• FloraAn AI-first, node-based design platform built to provide professional designers with granular, non-destructive control over generative media and digital assets.
• Recursive SuperintelligenceBuilding recursive self-improving superintelligence — AI systems that autonomously improve their own code, architecture, and research capabilities through open-ended algorithms.
• SalmonA consumer finance app in the Philippines using AI-driven underwriting to expand digital credit access for underbanked Filipinos.
• Knowledge WorkJapanese startup building a verticalized 'Sales AI Agent OS' and sales-enablement SaaS for enterprise sales teams.
• HarmonicHarmonic is building mathematical superintelligence through Aristotle, an AI model that achieves gold medal-level performance in mathematical competitions and provides hallucination-free mathematical reasoning
• Valar AtomicsDeveloping high-temperature gas-cooled small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) to power AI data centers, industrial facilities, and produce synthetic fuels at scale.
• Neusignal TherapeuticsA Tohoku University spin-off developing novel small molecule therapies for Alzheimer's disease, led by drug candidate NTX-083 targeting K-ATP channels.
• Physical IntelligenceBuilding general-purpose AI foundation models for robotics that control any robot to perform any task in the physical world.
• Model MLModel ML provides an AI-powered workspace that automates financial research and due diligence for Wall Street investment firms, analysts, and portfolio managers.
• Rhoda AIA developer of foundational artificial intelligence robotics models that train intelligent robots using millions of publicly available internet videos to perform various industrial tasks.
• ZyphraZyphra is developing MaiaOS, a multimodal agent system that combines advanced neural network architectures, long-term memory, and reinforcement learning.
• Ineffable IntelligenceIneffable Intelligence is an AI research lab building a superlearner that discovers knowledge through reinforcement learning rather than human-generated data.
• Chai DiscoveryAn AI-powered platform for drug discovery that predicts and designs molecular structures and interactions.
• InherentLondon AI lab founded by DeepMind alumni building Faraday, a recursively self-improving AI agent for scientific discovery.
• Safe Superintelligence Inc.A dedicated AI research lab focused exclusively on building safe superintelligence.
• Periodic LabsAI for material science discovery, founded by former OpenAI/DeepMind researchers.
• Genesis AIGenesis AI is building a universal robotics foundation model (RFM) and horizontal platform for general-purpose physical AI, using a data-centric approach combining physics simulation, generative modeling, and real robot data.
• Advanced Machine IntelligenceA frontier AI research lab building safe, controllable AI systems based on 'world models' that understand and reason about the physical world from real-world sensor data.
• ShadowShadow is a bot-free macOS AI interface that sees your screen, hears your voice/meetings, and runs custom Skills for notes, follow-ups, voice typing, and actions.
• Reflection AI Inc.Reflection AI is developing autonomous coding agents that leverage reinforcement learning and large language models to automate complex software development tasks, pushing the boundaries toward superintelligent systems.
• Korsana BiosciencesA biotechnology company developing next-generation brain-penetrating antibody therapies for neurodegenerative diseases, starting with Alzheimer's disease.
• Luminar SemiconductorPhotonics and semiconductor chip subsidiary of Luminar Technologies (formed from Black Forest Engineering, Optogration, Freedom Photonics, and EM4), specializing in ROICs, laser sources, and photonic integration for lidar/sensing; acquired by Quantum Computing Inc. (QCi) in Feb 2026 for $110M.
• Unconventional, Inc.Developing novel AI hardware and custom silicon to challenge current GPU dominance, founded by Naveen Rao.
• GeordieAn agent-native security platform that helps enterprises safely adopt and control agentic AI.
• Suanmiao TechChinese 3D AI chip startup developing domestically-produced 3D-stacked inference chips, leveraging technology roots from Ethereum mining hardware.
• JD Chip Core TeamAI inference chip and hardware-software system startup spun out from JD.com's chip team, founded in May 2026 by core member Jeffrey Xu.
• Creao AICreao AI is a platform for building and deploying conversational super agents that automate complex workflows across business tools.
• AlcatrazAI-powered facial authentication for access control, replacing badges and PINs with privacy-focused edge-based authentication.
• DeepSnitch AIDeepSnitch AI is a blockchain intelligence platform that uses AI agents to provide real-time on-chain surveillance, sentiment analysis, and risk detection for cryptocurrency traders.
• HiddenLayerAI security platform that protects machine learning models, agents, and workflows from adversarial attacks, vulnerabilities, and malicious code injections.
• Tashi Zhihang (TARS Robotics)Shanghai-based embodied AI company building general-purpose humanoid robots and the AWE (AI World Engine) embodied foundation model for real industrial, logistics, and home tasks.
• SolveAIAn enterprise AI platform that enables non-technical employees to build production-ready, IT-compliant, full-stack applications using natural language, capturing enterprise-specific context to generate bespoke software that integrates seamlessly with existing infrastructure.
• Om AI (联汇科技)Chinese AI company building edge-side streaming multimodal models (VLX) for physical-world robotics, drones, and smart terminals, with a focus on end-side real-time perception-action pipelines.
• 眸深智能 (Motion Brain / MoShen Intelligence)A Shanghai-based embodied AI startup building a cross-form-factor 'robot brain' foundation model that enables robots to understand environments, generate actions, and perform tasks across different hardware platforms.
• CohesityCohesity is an AI-powered data security and management company that provides a unified platform for data protection, cyber resilience, and AI-driven data insights for enterprises.