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: 2,113Market: United StatesUpdated: June 10, 2026
United States Market Snapshot
2,113
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lucem Health Davidson, United States | AI in Healthcare | $10.0 million | Lucem Health is a healthcare technology company that provides an AI-powered platform to help healthcare providers accelerate disease detection and treatment. |
| Cerebras Systems Sunnyvale, USA | AI Infrastructure | $4.8B+ | A computer systems company that builds the world's largest and fastest AI processors to accelerate deep learning training and inference at massive scale. |
| Anything San Francisco, USA | AI Developer Tools | $19.5M | Anything is an AI-powered, no-code platform that allows users to build websites, web applications, and tools using natural language. |
| MGT San Francisco, USA | AI in Fintech | $21.6M | An AI-native neo-insurer providing automated, full-stack commercial insurance solutions specifically designed for small businesses and artisan contractors. |
| Woodchuck Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA | AI in Climate / Energy | $3.75 million | An AI-powered platform that converts construction and manufacturing wood waste into renewable biomass energy. |
| Fundamental Research Labs San Francisco, USA | AI Agents | $42 million | An applied AI research company building AI agents and digital humans designed to learn, grow, and automate tasks alongside users. |
| Starday Foods Scottsdale, Arizona, United States; operates as a remote-first organization with a potential presence in New York | AI in Agriculture | $20 million | Starday is an AI-powered innovation partner for food and beverage companies, providing AI-driven product development services via its Starday Innovation platform. |
| Odynn New York, United States | AI in Fintech | $9.5M | An AI-powered, fully modular infrastructure platform that enables banks, fintechs, card issuers, and travel companies to launch embedded travel, loyalty, and rewards programs through white-label solutions and APIs. |
| Numos San Mateo, USA | AI in Fintech | $4.25M | An AI-powered finance platform that utilizes autonomous agents to automate complex accounting, FP&A, and strategic workflows for the office of the CFO. |
| Applied Intuition Sunnyvale, California (Headquarters), with additional offices in Washington, D.C.; San Diego, CA; Ft. Walton Beach, FL; Ann Arbor, MI; London; Stuttgart; Munich; Stockholm; Gothenburg, Sweden; Bangalore; Seoul; and Tokyo. | Robotics / Embodied AI | Over $1.2 billion | A vehicle software supplier that provides an integrated toolchain for the development, testing, and deployment of autonomous systems at scale. |
| Streetbeat Palo Alto, United States | AI in Fintech | $25M | AI-powered investment platform democratizing access to sophisticated trading strategies for retail investors and wealth managers. |
| Alfred Miami, United States | AI in Fintech | $15.0M | A B2B fintech infrastructure platform that enables real-time cross-border payments and stablecoin on/off-ramps across Latin America using blockchain rails. |
| Gelt Miami, Florida, USA | AI in Fintech | $21.2 million | An AI-native tax firm that provides premium, technology-powered tax solutions and expert CPA services. |
| Trump Media & Technology Group Sarasota, Florida, USA | AI in Media / Gaming / Entertainment | As a public company (NASDAQ: DJT), TMTG has raised capital through its SPAC merger ($300M), PIPE investment ($1B), and subsequent convertible note offerings. The company reported $2.1B in financial assets as of Q1 2026. In December 2025, it announced a $6B+ all-stock merger with TAE Technologies. | A media and technology company majority-owned by Donald J. Trump. Its flagship product is the social media platform Truth Social. The company operates Truth+ (streaming), Truth.Fi (fintech), and Truth Search AI (AI search). In December 2025, it announced a merger with fusion energy company TAE Technologies. |
| TailorCare Nashville, Tennessee, United States | AI in Healthcare | $15M+ (as of 2025, with $15M ARR) | TailorCare provides personalized, evidence-based musculoskeletal (MSK) care through value-based models, focusing on joint, back, and muscle health. |
| SandboxAQ Palo Alto, CA, USA | AI Infrastructure | Over $950 million | An enterprise SaaS company developing solutions at the intersection of AI and Quantum technology (AQ) to address complex challenges in cybersecurity, biopharma, and materials science. |
| Tray.ai San Francisco, CA, USA | AI Agents | $149M (approx.) | A composable AI integration and automation platform that streamlines and automates complex business processes for enterprises. |
| SynchNeuro Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA | AI in Healthcare | $3 million | Non-invasive glucose monitoring technology using EEG-based brain activity analysis for cardiometabolic health monitoring |
| Gong San Francisco, California, USA | AI in Marketing | $584M | Gong is a revenue intelligence platform that uses AI to analyze customer-facing interactions across phone, web conferencing, and email to help sales teams improve their performance and close more deals. |
| dbt Labs Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA | AI Developer Tools | $414.4M | dbt Labs provides a data transformation framework that enables data analysts and engineers to transform, test, and document data in the cloud data warehouse. |