Regional AI Startup Intelligence
US AI Startups to Watch
Discover US AI startups across foundation models, infrastructure, AI agents, developer tools, healthcare, fintech, and cybersecurity.
Companies tracked: 2,669Market: United StatesUpdated: November 13, 2026
United States Market Snapshot
2,669
tracked companies
8
category clusters
8
funding signals surfaced
The US remains the deepest AI funding market, but the useful signal is category concentration, not raw company volume.
Representative Companies
A crawler-visible market map sample from the AI Market Watch database.
| Company | Category | Funding | Focus |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hammerspace Redwood City, California, USA | AI Infrastructure | $156.7M | Hammerspace provides a global data environment software platform that unifies unstructured data across disparate storage systems (on-premises and cloud) into a single, high-performance, parallel global file system accessible via standard protocols like NFS. |
| Sesame California, USA | Voice / Speech AI | $307.6M | Sesame AI offers advanced voice assistants, Maya and Miles, that engage in natural, emotionally aware conversations. |
| Irregular Tel Aviv, Israel and San Francisco, USA | AI Safety | $80 million | An AI safety and security company that tests and mitigates the risks of advanced AI models. |
| Plot New York, NY, USA | Computer Vision | $14 million | Plot uses AI to extract insights directly from video content across TikTok, Instagram Stories and Reels, and YouTube Shorts. |
| Ramp New York, NY, USA | AI in Fintech | Over $4.85 billion in equity financing | An all-in-one, AI-powered financial operations platform that combines corporate cards, expense management, bill payments, procurement, and accounting automation to help businesses save time and money. |
| Resolve AI San Francisco, USA | AI Agents | $200.0M | An AI-native operations platform that deploys autonomous software maintenance agents to detect, diagnose, and resolve production incidents and system outages. |
| WisdomAI San Francisco Bay Area, USA | AI Agents | $73 million | WisdomAI provides an agentic data insights platform with autonomous AI agents that function as 24/7 data analysts for enterprises. |
| Bobyard San Francisco, USA | Computer Vision | $38.63M | An AI-powered platform that automates construction takeoffs and estimates using computer vision and NLP to convert blueprints into accurate bids in minutes. |
| Exodigo Palo Alto, USA | AI in Government / Public Sector | $214.0M | An AI-powered subsurface imaging platform that uses multi-sensor fusion to create high-resolution 3D digital twins of underground infrastructure without physical excavation. |
| Duos Minneapolis, United States | AI in Healthcare | $163M | Duos is a digital health company that provides an AI-powered platform to help older adults navigate healthcare, benefits, and community resources, empowering them to live independently. |
| Zed Industries Denver, Colorado, USA | AI Developer Tools | $42 million | A high-performance, multiplayer, AI-powered code editor designed for collaborative software development. |
| Hub.xyz San Francisco, California | AI Infrastructure | $1.7 million | Multimodal data lab that captures, curates, and annotates real-world/egocentric data for frontier AI labs and robotics companies via a global contributor network. |
| Sentra Tel Aviv, Israel (HQ); New York, USA | AI in Cybersecurity | ~$253M total (all rounds) | AI-powered cloud-native data security platform providing discovery, classification, prioritization, and remediation of data risks across hybrid environments. |
| Tailor San Francisco, CA, USA (with operations in Tokyo, Japan) | AI Agents | $37 million | Tailor is a headless, composable ERP platform designed for modern retail and e-commerce businesses, enabling modular, API-first operations with native AI capabilities. |
| Goodfire San Francisco, USA | AI Safety | $207.0M | An AI interpretability platform and research lab dedicated to 'decoding' neural networks to make large language models transparent, steerable, and debuggable. |
| Parallel Finance San Francisco, CA, USA | AI Infrastructure | $29 Million | Parallel Finance was a multi-chain DeFi lending/staking protocol on Polkadot and Ethereum; core products were shut down in 2025 after a parachain exploit, with only legacy access and wind-down/recovery activity remaining while the team explores a rebuild. |
| Aniai New York, United States | Robotics / Embodied AI | $19.0M | Aniai is a kitchen automation startup that develops AI-powered robotic grills and cloud-based quality management systems to automate burger patty cooking for high-volume commercial kitchens. |
| Cactus San Francisco, USA | AI Agents | $7M | Cactus is an AI-powered 24/7 call center automation platform designed for home service businesses, managing customer communication end-to-end to expand capacity without additional staff. |
| depthfirst San Francisco, USA | AI in Cybersecurity | $120M | An applied AI lab building 'General Security Intelligence' through autonomous agents designed to identify, analyze, and remediate software vulnerabilities at scale. |
| Tess AI San Francisco, California, USA | AI Agents | $5.0M | An enterprise AI agent orchestration platform that autonomously executes complex professional tasks by orchestrating 250+ leading AI models through intelligent multi-agent workflows. |