The Companies Shaping Tomorrow

Inferact

Making AI inference cheaper and faster for everyone

Built by the creators of vLLM, the most popular open-source AI inference engine, Inferact is on a mission to make deploying large language models at scale something any team can do.

Woosuk Kwon & Simon Mo

Co-Founders · vLLM creators

Valuation

$800M

Fundamental

Building the next frontier of AI research

Fundamental is an AI research company pushing the boundaries of what foundation models can do. With a massive $255M Series A, they're assembling a world-class research team.

Fundamental Research Team

AI Research Lab

Valuation

$1.4B

Simile

AI that mimics human decision-making

Simile is building AI systems that replicate how humans actually make decisions. Their technology captures the intuition, biases, and contextual awareness that make human judgment so hard to automate.

Simile Team

Decision Intelligence

Stage

Series A

Kaaj

AI-powered credit intelligence for small business lenders

Kaaj builds an agentic AI platform that automates end-to-end loan underwriting, turning days of manual credit analysis into minutes. Over $5B in loans processed.

Utsav Shah

Co-Founder & CEO

Valuation

~$15M

Corvera

Agentic AI that runs CPG supply chains hands-free

YC-backed Corvera deploys AI agents to automate end-to-end CPG operations — purchase orders, invoices, demand forecasts, inventory tracking — all hands-free.

Christopher Kong

CEO & Co-Founder

Valuation

~$25M

Bhindi AI

The AI-powered everything app that eliminates app fatigue

Bhindi consolidates 300+ background AI agents into a single interface, handling routine tasks 24/7 with dynamic prompting and real-time agent-switching.

Sowmay Jain

Founder & CEO

Valuation

~$28M

Fresh People

AI-powered leadership copilot for better team decisions

Valencia-based Booster platform helps 2,000+ managers connect strategy to execution with AI coaching. Adopted by Acciona, LaLiga, and Kave Home.

Camera Intelligence

The world's first AI-native mirrorless camera with a built-in LLM

London-based UCL spinout building a Micro Four Thirds camera with integrated LLM assistant. Voice-command controls, on-device AI editing, MagSafe iPhone mount.

Cosine

AI software engineer that codes like a human developer

London-based YC-backed startup building Genie, an autonomous AI coding assistant that mimics human reasoning to solve bugs, build features, and refactor code.

Alistair Pullen

CEO & Co-Founder

Stage

Seed

AMT

AI-powered platform automating influencer marketing

Built Lyra, an AI agent that automates the entire influencer partnership lifecycle. Reduces 9 hours of manual work to 5 minutes. Clients include Le Petit Lunetier and Neoplants.

Tom Hollands

Co-Founder & CEO

Stage

Seed

Adam

AI text-to-3D modeling and CAD copilot

YC W25-backed tool that generates professional 3D models from text prompts. Went viral with 10M+ social impressions before raising its seed round. Expanding into pro-grade CAD.

Zach Dive

Co-Founder & CEO

Stage

Seed

Upstream

The first inbox designed for both humans and AI agents

YC-backed startup rethinking email from the ground up for an AI-native world. A unified inbox where humans and AI agents coexist, with built-in automation and agent management.

Louis Lecat & Jonathan Tiret

Co-Founders

Stage

Pre-Seed

Origami Agents

Get your perfect customers with one prompt

YC F24’s fastest-growing startup builds AI research agents that identify high-intent buyers by scanning 100+ unstructured internet sources. Hit $50K MRR in 8-week beta. Customers include CBRE and Clipboard Health.

Finn Mallery & Kenson Chung

Co-Founders

Stage

Seed

Rulebase

AI agents automating compliance for banks and fintechs

AI agents that automate compliance and back-office operations for financial services

Gideon Ebose & Chidi Williams

Co-Founders

Stage

Pre-Seed

Pulse

Production-grade document extraction for enterprises and AI

Production-grade unstructured document extraction for enterprises and AI applications

Sid Manchkanti & Ritvik Pandey

Co-Founders

Stage

Seed

Cassidy

AI platform automating workflows using internal company data

AI platform automating business workflows using internal company data

Justin Fineberg & Ian Woodfill

CEO & Co-Founder / Co-Founder & CTO

Stage

Seed

AnswerThis

AI research assistant answering scientific questions with cited literature

AI research assistant that answers scientific questions with cited literature

Ayush Garg & Ryan McCarroll

Co-Founders

Stage

Seed

Codeplain

Generates production-ready code from durable plain-language specs

Built on a "Phoenix Architecture," Codeplain regenerates production-ready code from specs instead of hand-patching it. Customers include DevRev and HYCU.

Dusan Omercevic

Founder & CEO

Stage

Seed

Bubble Robotics

Building the ocean's autonomous workforce

Ex-NASA and ETH Zurich engineers building persistent autonomous ocean robots that stay at sea for months, replacing $50K/day ship crews with AI-driven subsea fleets at 1/10th the cost.

Jean Crosetti & Patricia Apostol

Co-Founders · Ex-NASA & ETH Zurich

Stage

Pre-Seed

Skild AI

A universal brain for every robot on Earth

Skild AI is building a single foundation model that can control any robot — from humanoids to quadrupeds to industrial arms — without knowing what type of body it's operating.

Deepak Pathak & Abhinav Gupta

Co-Founders · Ex-Carnegie Mellon

Valuation

$14B

TARS Robotics

Shanghai's humanoid robot factory

Just one year old and already valued at $1.9 billion, TARS is building humanoid robots for industrial and commercial applications.

Rollo Robotics

The world's first autonomous one-wheeled security robot

Rollo uses proprietary gyroscopic stabilization to build autonomous monowheel security robots that patrol at 1/10th the cost of human guards.

Mirai Robotics

Autonomous maritime vessels for dock-to-dock missions

From Puglia, Italy, Mirai builds software-defined autonomous surface vehicles that complete full maritime missions without human intervention — from departure to return.

GrazeMate

Robot cowboys that herd cattle with autonomous AI drones

YC-backed 19-year-old founder built autonomous drones that herd cattle using reinforcement learning — already mustering across 1.7M acres in Australia.

Sam Rogers

Founder & CEO · Age 19

Valuation

~$10M

Armatrix

Snake-like robotic arms for hazardous industrial environments

IIT Kanpur alumni building hyper-redundant robotic manipulators for shipbuilding, nuclear, oil & gas, and aviation inspection. IAC 2023 Best Presentation winner.

Rendezvous Robotics

Flat-packed tiles that self-assemble into space infrastructure in orbit

MIT Media Lab spinout commercializing TESSERAE — modular tiles that magnetically latch together in orbit. 3 ISS missions completed, ex-SpaceX/Blue Origin team.

Dr. Ariel Ekblaw & Phil Frank

Co-Founders · MIT Media Lab

Stage

Pre-Seed

Algorized

AI-powered people-sensing for safe human-robot interaction

Berkeley-based startup developing AI that transforms off-the-shelf wireless sensors into people-detection systems for safer human-machine collaboration in industrial settings.

Natalya Lopareva

CEO & Co-Founder

Stage

Seed

Buildroid

AI robotics automating construction workflows

Integrates BIM with AI-driven digital twin simulations on Nvidia Omniverse to optimize robotic construction. 10x productivity gains, 4x cost reduction. From Mighty Buildings founder.

Slava Solonitsyn

CEO & Co-Founder

Stage

Pre-Seed

SAEKI

Robotic microfactories for large-scale 3D printing

ETH Zurich spinout building automated manufacturing hubs combining 3D printing, milling, and inspection. Robots-as-a-service model serving construction, aerospace, and marine.

Oliver Harley

Co-Founder

Stage

Seed

Revise Robotics

AI-powered robots automating electronics refurbishment at scale

YC W25 startup using AI-powered robots to automate used electronics refurbishment. Tackling a 60M-ton annual e-waste crisis by making device recycling scalable and cost-effective.

Rupesh Jeyaram & Antonio Monreal

Co-Founders

Stage

Pre-Seed

Pave Robotics

Autonomous robots that seal asphalt cracks — fixing roads 24/7

YC W25-backed startup building Tracer, the world’s first fully autonomous crack-sealing robot. Ex-Mark Rober engineers tackling America’s $27B road crisis. Both founders named Forbes 30 Under 30.

Josh Kelly & Mason Smith

Co-Founders · Forbes 30U30

Stage

Seed

Red Barn Robotics

Autonomous weeding robots 15x faster than manual labor

Autonomous weeding robots that are 15x faster and 75% cheaper than manual labor

Adam Iseman, Ilya Kelner & Alex Neff

Co-Founders

Stage

Pre-Seed

Azalea Robotics

Robotic baggage handling for every airport

David Millard & John B. Stroud

Co-Founders

Stage

Seed

Sensetics

Hardware platform digitizing touch sensing for robots

Hardware platform digitizing touch sensing and haptics for robots

Adam B. Hopkins & Rayne Zheng

Co-Founders

Stage

Pre-Seed

Servo7

AI-powered robots that unload containers in warehouses

AI-powered robots that unload shipping containers in warehouses

Pieter Becking & Jasper van Leuven

Co-Founders

Stage

Seed

Sitegeist Robotics

Robots that renovate deteriorating concrete infrastructure

Automated, AI-enabled modular robots removing deteriorated concrete up to 10x faster than manual crews, spun out of TU Munich.

Lena-Marie Pätzmann & team

Co-Founder & CEO

Stage

Pre-Seed

Proxima

AI-powered drug discovery for "undruggable" targets

Formerly VantAI, Proxima is using AI to unlock an entirely new class of medicines called proximity therapeutics that traditional chemistry can't touch.

Korsana Biosciences

Oral therapeutics for allergies and autoimmune diseases

Korsana is developing oral STAT6 inhibitors for asthma and atopic dermatitis, aiming to replace expensive injectable biologics with simple pills.

auryx

Turning everyday earbuds into health monitors

Cambridge University spinout using AI to extract cardiac and respiratory data from the microphones already inside noise-cancelling earbuds — no new hardware needed.

Erika Bondareva

CEO & Co-Founder · Cambridge

Stage

Pre-Seed

Greatly Health

Evidence-based integrative oncology at scale

MSK-validated integrative oncology platform combining exercise, nutrition, and mind-body interventions into cancer treatment. 16% absolute improvement in overall survival.

Stoked Bio

AI-guided drug discovery targeting the world’s deadliest bacteria

McMaster University spinout developing enterololin, a novel antibiotic targeting WHO priority pathogens — drug-resistant bacteria implicated in infections and Crohn’s disease.

Jon Stokes

Founder

Stage

Seed

Gravity Rail

No-code AI operating system for healthcare engagement

HIPAA-compliant platform that lets healthcare teams build AI-powered patient engagement workflows across voice, SMS, and web — without writing code.

Mentaily

AI psychiatric diagnostics detecting crises in real time

Israeli startup from Sheba Medical Center built LIV, an AI system simulating psychiatric intake sessions for real-time detection of mental health deterioration.

Iris Shtein

Co-Founder & CEO

Stage

Seed

Lizzy Care

AI-powered platform reimagining at-home dementia care

Founded by the former CMO of Signify Health (10,000+ in-home providers), Lizzy Care combines predictive analytics with compassionate companionship for dementia families.

Dr. Marc Rothman

Co-Founder & CEO

Stage

Seed

Lamin Labs

Open-source data infrastructure for computational biology

Munich & New York-based YC W22 graduate building version-controlled data frameworks for multi-omics and microscopy datasets in biotech and pharma R&D.

Alex Wolf

Co-Founder

Stage

Seed

a2z Radiology AI

Comprehensive AI-powered CT interpretation and triage

First FDA-cleared system to simultaneously triage seven urgent conditions on CT scans. Reduces reporting time by 17.8% and mental demand by 22.4% for radiologists.

Ember

AI-native healthcare denial prevention

YC-backed platform that prevents insurance denials, assembles documentation, and appeals claims. Reduces denials by 57% and admin time by 83%. Founded by ex-Google Health product lead.

Charlene Wang

Co-Founder & CEO

Stage

Seed

Endless Health

At-home blood testing and preventive medicine for longevity

Stanford PhD-founded platform delivering at-home blood testing and preventive medicine. Partnered with 100+ medical groups to catch serious conditions before symptoms appear.

Cooper Galvin & Jiabao Li

Co-Founders

Stage

Seed

Pharos

AI that automates hospital quality reporting and prevents patient harm

YC S24-backed platform using AI to extract clinical metrics from medical records and submit to registries automatically. Saves hospitals ~$5M/year in manual reporting. Led by Felicis and General Catalyst.

Felix Brann & Team

Co-Founders · Ex-JP Morgan & Meta

Stage

Seed

Nucleo

AI-powered automated cancer diagnostics from CT scans

AI-powered automated cancer diagnostics that turn CT scans into actionable insights in seconds

Angelica Iacovelli & Luca Pegolotti

Co-Founders

Stage

Seed

Ditto Bio

Autoimmune drugs from millions of years of parasite evolution

Discovering breakthrough autoimmune drugs by harnessing millions of years of parasite evolution

Dennis Sun, Adair Borges & Emily Weiss

Co-Founders

Stage

Seed

Amperos Health

AI-native denial management for healthcare revenue cycles

AI-native denial management and revenue cycle automation for healthcare

Michal Miernowski, Alvin Wu & Wilson Wang

CEO, CPO & CTO

Stage

Seed

Metri Bio

3D endometrial models for endometriosis therapeutics

3D endometrial models for developing endometriosis therapeutics

Ashley Abel, Berna Sozen & Kathy Potts

CEO, Academic Co-Founder & COO

Stage

Pre-Seed

Xella Health

AI multi-omic diagnostics decoding female biology

AI-powered multi-omic testing combining blood and menstrual fluid to detect 130+ often-misdiagnosed women’s health conditions.

Kelly Lacob, Adriana Dantas & Jesus Ching

Co-Founders

Stage

Pre-Seed

Mercury

The bank that startups actually love

Mercury hit $650M in annualized revenue and four consecutive years of profitability. They just raised $200M at a $5.2B valuation — and they're on the verge of becoming a real bank.

Immad Akhund

Co-Founder & CEO

Valuation

$5.2B

Kalshi

The regulated exchange for betting on real-world events

Kalshi doubled its valuation to $22 billion, raising $1 billion to expand its regulated prediction market for real-world events.

Kalshi Team

CFTC-Regulated Exchange

Valuation

$22B

SolvaPay

The payment layer for AI agents

Building the world's first payment infrastructure for autonomous AI agents — letting them find, negotiate, and pay for services with built-in spend limits and policy controls.

Viggo Stenseth

CEO & Co-Founder · Ex-Spotify

Stage

Pre-Seed

Bless Payments

Making cross-border money transfers safe and affordable for migrants

Australian fintech enabling migrants to send money across 60 countries with better rates than traditional banks. Recently launched a no-fee travel card.

Affy Bhatti

Co-Founder & CEO

Valuation

~$15M

Secludy

Privacy-safe synthetic data unlocking AI for financial institutions

Secludy generates privacy-guaranteed synthetic data so banks and fintech companies can train AI models without exposing sensitive customer information. GDPR, CCPA, and HIPAA compliant by design.

Prosperr.io

The AI-powered financial operating system for working India

Bangalore-based SaaS building AI-powered tax management infrastructure with 5x YoY revenue growth and 80% consumer retention.

Manas Gond & Dev Kumar

Co-Founders

Valuation

~$15.6M

Onsetto

AI helping banks win business operating accounts

Founded by the creator of ClickSWITCH (sold to Q2 Holdings), Onsetto automates payroll and cash flow switching for 30+ community banks during onboarding.

Cale Johnston

Founder & CEO · Ex-ClickSWITCH

Stage

Seed

Elastics

AI-native trading tools for prediction markets

Warsaw-based platform letting traders describe positions in plain language and execute automatically. Ex-Goldman Sachs founder, backed by ElevenLabs co-founders.

Synply

Cloud-based loan syndication for community and regional banks

Wilmington-based Live Oak Bank spinoff digitizing loan syndication workflows for community banks. Built by bankers who lived the problem firsthand.

Corbin Penland

CEO & Co-Founder

Stage

Seed

Coinbax

Programmable trust layer for institutional stablecoin payments

Brings escrow, compliance controls, and programmable settlement to stablecoin transactions on Base and Solana. Founded by Geezeo creator (acquired by Fiserv).

Munify

Cross-border digital bank for the Egyptian diaspora

YC S25-backed neobank enabling instant transfers to Egypt, US bank accounts, debit cards, and FX hedging. Founded by ex-Microsoft/Uber engineer and Harvard Business School alum.

Khalid Ashmawy

Founder & CEO

Stage

Seed

Givefront

The financial operating system built for nonprofits

YC W24-backed fintech giving 1.8M+ US nonprofits corporate cards, real-time budgets, and compliance tools purpose-built for their workflows. Founded by 21-year-old Harvard dropout.

Matt Tengtrakool & Aidan Sunbury

Co-Founders

Stage

Seed

Cleva

USD banking for Africa — get paid in dollars, wherever you’re based

YC W24-backed neobank enabling African freelancers to receive USD payments, hold dollars, and spend via virtual debit card. $1M+ monthly volume within 4 months. Founded by ex-Stripe and ex-AWS engineers.

Tolu Alabi & Philip Abel

Co-Founders · Ex-Stripe & AWS

Stage

Pre-Seed

Astor

AI investment advisor for retail investors with fiduciary duty

AI investment advisor giving every retail investor institutional-grade financial guidance

Bruno Koba & Daniel Tulha

Co-Founders

Stage

Seed

Proximitty

AI operating system for commercial lending

Wye Yew Ho & Zi Zhang

Co-Founders

Stage

Seed

Kashimi

Alternative payment infrastructure API for banks and fintechs

Benas Pavlauskas

Co-Founder & CEO

Stage

Pre-Seed

Tapaya

Software turning any device into a payment terminal

Software infrastructure turning any device into a payment terminal

Laura Ďorďová, Roman Kuchařík & Petr Zahradník

Co-Founder & CEO

Stage

Pre-Seed

finperks

The Stripe for prepaid — one API for global prepaid rails

A single API connecting 1,000+ prepaid, gift card, and eCash brands across 30+ markets, from the founders behind viafintech.

Achim Bönsch, Sebastian Seifert & Andreas Veller

Co-Founders

Stage

Pre-Seed

Pickup Pointe

Giving restaurants their independence back

Born in California's Central Valley, Pickup Pointe is building a new kind of restaurant platform — one that lets restaurants own their customer relationships, keep their brand front and center, and stop hemorrhaging margins to big tech middlemen. Growing like wildfire, the platform is approaching 100 restaurants in just six months. Same food, same prices, no markups.

Ryan Arriaga

Founder & CEO · Central Valley, CA

Stage

Seed

Standing Ovation

Making dairy without the cow

This Paris-based startup uses precision fermentation to produce real casein — the protein that gives cheese its stretch and melt — without a single cow.

Standing Ovation Team

Paris, France

Stage

Series B

NoPalm Ingredients

Replacing palm oil with yeast-grown fats

NoPalm grows oleaginous yeast in fermentation tanks fed by potato peels and food waste to produce fats that replicate palm oil, shea butter, and cocoa butter.

NoPalm Team

Netherlands

Recognition

Food Planet Prize

Chowdeck

On-demand food delivery conquering West Africa

YC-backed food delivery platform in Nigeria and Ghana with 500K+ users, 20K+ riders, and 30-minute average delivery times across 11 cities.

Femi Aluko

Co-Founder & CEO

Valuation

~$15M

Alpa

The financial operating system for hospitality

Alpa gives restaurant operators real-time profit-and-loss views by integrating POS systems, banking data, and suppliers — no more waiting for monthly bookkeeping.

Anton Soulier & Jean-François Moy

Co-Founders · Ex-Deliveroo

Valuation

~$15M

Sizl

Cook-to-order food delivery reimagining everyday eating

Chicago dark kitchen cooking every meal from scratch, delivering in 30 minutes via e-bikes. Founders previously scaled to 55 outlets and $46M revenue in Moscow.

Alex Kolesnikov

CEO & Co-Founder

Valuation

$12M

Burnt

AI agents automating the food supply chain

YC S25 startup using AI agents to automate order management and invoicing for food distributors. Processing $10M+ monthly orders with 99.99% accuracy.

Joseph “JJ” Jacob

CEO & Co-Founder

Valuation

~$25M

Loman AI

Voice AI phone agent answering every restaurant call

AI phone agent handling orders, reservations, and FAQs with POS integration. 22% revenue gains and 17% labor savings for restaurant operators.

Christian Wiens

CEO & Co-Founder

Stage

Seed

Frozen One

High-protein ice cream with 40g protein per pint

Austin-based CPG brand delivering 40 grams of protein and under 400 calories per pint in indulgent flavors. Founded by two UW-Madison grads, expanding across retail.

Alan Chen

Co-Founder

Stage

Seed

cadootz!

Better-for-you kids’ snacks with organic protein

Organic, gluten-free, seed oil-free kids’ crackers with 5g protein per serving. First production run sold out in 2 hours. Founded by a food creator with 1.5M+ followers.

Rachel Mansfield

Co-CEO

Stage

Seed

Ripi

Chef-driven frozen pasta bringing restaurant quality home

Co-founded by a former investor and two-time Top Chef contestant. Chef-crafted ravioli now in 300+ retail locations, Whole Foods nationwide, and 1,100+ Target stores.

Joe Sasto

Co-Founder & CCO

Stage

Seed

Oddball

Chef-crafted plant-based jelly snacks reinventing how we snack

Singapore-born founder bringing Asian-inspired agar-based jelly snacks to the US. Now in Whole Foods, Target, and 2,300+ stores with plant-based, clean-label ingredients.

Sophia Cheng

Founder & CEO

Stage

Seed

BiteSight

The video-first food delivery app — TikTok meets DoorDash

YC W24-backed app where users discover restaurants via short-form dish videos. Went viral on TikTok (4M likes), briefly outranked Uber Eats in the App Store. 19,500+ restaurants, 4.9-star rating.

Lucious McDaniel IV & Zac Schulwolf

Co-Founders

Stage

Pre-Seed

Stockline

AI-native ERP automating order entry for food wholesalers

AI-native ERP that automates order entry and operations for food wholesalers

Mariem Ould Ismail & Moncef Djafri

Co-Founders

Stage

Pre-Seed

Certus AI

Replacing the restaurant phone line with Voice AI

Gurveer Singh, Adam Gamieldien & Isaac Nichols

Adam Gamieldien & Isaac Nichols, Co-Founders

Stage

Seed

Zavo

AI-powered operating system unifying payments and POS for restaurants

Can Zehebi & Ilkan Gezer

Co-Founders

Stage

Seed

Dishio

AI platform turning restaurant guest data into repeat revenue

AI platform helping restaurants turn guest data into repeat revenue

Brett Linkletter & Jace Kovacevich

Co-Founders

Stage

Seed

SOUS

AI growth platform helping independent restaurants get discovered

An “AI sous chef” deploying agents to manage a restaurant’s visibility across search, maps, and social, then convert reach into direct orders.

Devon Scoulelis, Thomas Scholte & William Hurst

Co-Founders

Stage

Seed

Astranis

Small satellites, massive internet coverage

Astranis builds geostationary satellites that are 1/20th the size of traditional ones, bringing affordable internet to the 4 billion people still without reliable connectivity.

John Gedmark & Ryan McLinko

Co-Founders · Ex-Planet Labs

Valuation

$1.4B+

Octavia Carbon

Direct air capture powered by Africa's geothermal energy

Building the Global South's first commercial direct air capture plant in Kenya, using geothermal energy to remove CO2 at a fraction of the cost of Western peers.

Martin Freimüller

Co-Founder & CEO · Kenya

Stage

Seed

Equilibrium

Carbon removal with 150,000 Indian farmers

Full-stack carbon infrastructure across India — agroforestry, biochar, and mangrove restoration with 150,000+ smallholder farmers, delivering verified carbon credits at scale.

Siddhanth Jayaram

Founder & CEO · Forbes 30 Under 30

Stage

Seed

Altrove

AI-powered discovery of rare-earth material alternatives

Using AI models and automated labs to discover alternatives to rare-earth materials 100x faster, reducing dependency on China-dominated supply chains.

Thibaud Martin

Co-Founder & CEO

Valuation

~$15M

Shatterdome Energy

AI-powered energy trading for a volatile grid

Shatterdome’s autonomous system ingests real-time grid data to determine when energy should be produced, stored, or sold — then executes trades programmatically.

BlueShift

Extracting critical minerals from waste while removing ocean CO2

Electrochemical tech extracts nickel and rare earths from industrial waste while simultaneously removing CO2 from seawater — 10x more energy efficient than competitors.

Deep Patel & David Kwabi

Co-Founders

Stage

Pre-Seed

Satellites on Fire

AI wildfire detection beating NASA alerts by 35 minutes

Founded by Argentine teens after wildfires hit home. Now protecting 56M hectares across 21 countries with satellite imagery updated every 5 minutes.

Mitico

Slashing carbon capture costs with prehistoric chemistry

Caltech spinout capturing 95%+ of CO2 from industrial exhaust using simple potassium carbonate salt — targeting under $85/ton at scale. 2 paid pilots deployed.

Clement Cid, PhD

Co-Founder & CEO

Stage

Seed

Orus Energy

AI-driven energy flexibility for commercial buildings

Paris-based startup enabling commercial buildings to automatically shift energy consumption during peak periods. Clients include IKEA and La Poste, managing 1M+ sqm.

Alexandre Girard

CEO & Co-Founder

Stage

Pre-Seed

PHNXX

Modular solar microgrids replacing diesel generators

Containerised solar and battery solutions that set up in hours. 34x cleaner than diesel, 5x cheaper per kWh. $20M sales pipeline across construction, mining, and agriculture.

Joel Tay

CEO & Co-Founder

Stage

Seed

Oxylus Energy

Green methanol from CO2 and water for aviation and shipping

Yale chemistry lab spinout producing e-fuels at room temperature using a cobalt catalyst. Targets aviation, shipping, and petrochemicals. All 3 co-founders on Forbes 30 Under 30.

Perry Bakas

CEO & Co-Founder

Stage

Seed

Helix Earth

NASA-derived chemistry cutting commercial AC energy use by 40%+

Forbes 30 Under 30 founder using NASA-derived chemistry to slash commercial HVAC energy consumption by 40%+. Non-invasive retrofit requires no equipment replacement.

Rawand Rasheed & Brad Husick

Co-Founders

Stage

Seed

Maritime Fusion

Fusion reactors designed for ships and off-grid power

YC W25-backed startup building compact tokamak fusion reactors for commercial ships. Ex-Tesla and SpaceX engineers with HTS cable that carried 5,000 amps. Backed by Trucks VC and Paul Graham.

Justin Cohen & Jason Kaufmann

Co-Founders · Ex-Tesla & SpaceX

Stage

Seed

COI Energy

Marketplace for businesses to sell unused electricity capacity

Marketplace platform letting businesses sell unused electricity capacity to reduce waste and carbon emissions

SaLisa L. Berrien

Founder & CEO

Stage

Pre-Seed

Arinna

Ultrathin flexible solar panels for the extremes of space

Ultrathin, flexible solar panels for the extremes of space

Koosha Nassiri Nazif & Alexander Shearer

Co-Founders

Stage

Seed

Dartboard Energy

AI analyst for grid-scale battery electricity markets

Rohun Ati & Bhasi Nair

Co-Founders

Stage

Pre-Seed

Plume

AI geospatial platform for renewable energy site selection

Edouard Labarthe & Marc Watine

Co-Founders

Stage

Seed

Pila Energy

Plug-and-play modular home batteries for renters

The Pila Mesh Home Battery plugs into a standard outlet and stacks to scale — backup power with no electrician or panel upgrade, from ~$1,299.

Cole Ashman

Founder & CEO

Stage

Seed

Torq

AI agents that run your security operations center

Torq's AI-powered security platform can autonomously handle 90% of Tier-1 security tickets without human intervention.

Ofer Smadari & Team

Co-Founders · Cybersecurity Veterans

Total Raised

$190M

Memcyco

Real-time protection against brand impersonation attacks

Memcyco detects and neutralizes phishing sites, fake apps, and brand impersonation attacks in real time — before customers get scammed.

Ciphero AI

The verification layer for enterprise AI

Built by the team behind Fakespot (acquired by Mozilla), Ciphero governs shadow AI and agentic workflows in real time — intercepting every AI interaction to enforce policies and prevent data loss.

Saoud Khalifah

Co-Founder & CEO · Ex-Mozilla/Fakespot

Stage

Pre-Seed

Cydelphi

AI-native ransomware recovery in days, not months

Patent-pending AI-native DFIR platform that automates ransomware recovery, reducing restoration from months to days and cutting incident response costs by 75%.

Ron Newman

Co-Founder & CEO

Valuation

~$12M

Hacktron

AI-powered security testing on every code change

Founded by DEF CON CTF winners, Hacktron runs deep AI-powered security checks on every code change — replacing periodic manual pen tests with continuous vulnerability detection.

Innerworks

AI-powered synthetic threat intelligence detecting AI-generated fraud

London-based platform distinguishes genuine human behavior from AI-driven imitations with 97% accuracy. Deployed in national infrastructure defense.

Oliver Quie

Co-Founder & CEO

Stage

Seed

Gambit Cyber

AI-native preemptive threat exposure management

Netherlands-based KnightGuard platform uses AI agents for continuous threat identification and remediation. Deployed across financial services and critical infrastructure.

Anuj Kumar & Manuj Kumar

Co-Founders

Stage

Seed

CyberNut

AI cybersecurity training built for K-12 schools

Gamified phishing simulations and micro-training for 400K+ users across 400+ school districts. Founded by serial entrepreneur who started his first EdTech at 17.

Oliver Page

Co-Founder & CEO

Stage

Seed

Bleach Cyber

Simple, affordable cybersecurity for startups

Austin-based Techstars 2023 graduate providing fast, affordable cybersecurity and compliance for startups and small businesses. 500+ companies onboarded within months.

Craig Goodwin

CEO & Co-Founder

Stage

Pre-Seed

Realm Security

AI-native security data fabric for the data explosion era

Unifies, transforms, and routes security data to manage cost and escape vendor lock-in. Founded by Carbon Black, Rapid7, and Cisco alumni tackling 300-500% data growth.

Pete Martin

CEO & Co-Founder

Stage

Seed

Hopae

Privacy-preserving digital identity on blockchain

Next-gen digital identity verification using blockchain. CEO co-developed COOV, South Korea’s COVID vaccination wallet with 43M daily active users. Products: hConnect and hCX.

Ace Shim

Co-Founder & CEO

Stage

Seed

Crosslayer Labs

Protecting every HTTPS connection through internet stack monitoring

Princeton researchers who invented MPIC — now an IETF standard — protecting HTTPS certificates from BGP hijacking and infrastructure attacks. YC W26 batch.

Henry Birge-Lee & Team

Co-Founders · Princeton

Stage

Pre-Seed

Gecko Security

The AI security engineer that finds and fixes vulnerabilities automatically

YC-backed AI platform that acts as an autonomous security engineer — simulates attacks, finds exploitable vulnerabilities, and applies working fixes. 30+ CVEs discovered in Ollama, Gradio, Cal.com. $440K ARR.

Jeevan Jutla & Artemiy Malyshau

Co-Founders · Ex-GCHQ & Cyberforces

Stage

Seed

Casco

Always-on autonomous security testing for apps and AI systems

Always-on autonomous security testing for web apps, APIs, and AI systems

Rene Brandel & Ian Saultz

Co-Founders

Stage

Pre-Seed

MindFort

Autonomous AI agents for continuous pentesting at scale

Autonomous AI agents that find, validate, and patch security vulnerabilities at scale

Brandon Veiseh & Akul Gupta

Co-Founders

Stage

Seed

PromptArmor

Secures LLM applications and AI agents from adversarial attacks

Vikram Jayanthi & Shankar Krishnan

Co-Founders

Stage

Seed

Emphere

Automates fixing software vulnerabilities in Linux distributions

Automates fixing software vulnerabilities in open-source Linux distributions

Ankit Kumar & Pallav Gupta

CEO & CTO

Stage

Pre-Seed

Overmind

Real-time supervision layer keeping autonomous AI agents secure

A supervision layer for agentic AI that detects and prevents agent “drift” in real time, built by ex-MI5/GCHQ engineers.

Tyler Edwards, Akhat Rakishev & Sam Brunt

Co-Founders

Stage

Seed

Cursor (Anysphere)

The AI code editor that developers can't stop using

Cursor went from zero to $2 billion in ARR in just three years — the fastest any B2B company has ever scaled. Now reportedly in talks for a $60B valuation.

Michael Truell

Co-Founder & CEO · MIT

Valuation

$29.3B

Chainguard

Securing the software supply chain by default

Chainguard delivers hardened, verified builds of the open-source software that the world depends on. From containers to AI agent skills, they're making supply chain security the default.

Dan Lorenc

Co-Founder · Ex-Google Security

Total Raised

$612M

Laminar

Observability built for AI agents

Open-source observability for autonomous AI agents. Capture every LLM call, tool use, and browser action with one line of code. Y Combinator S24 batch.

Robert Kim & Din Mailibay

Co-Founders · Ex-Palantir & AWS

Stage

Seed

Momentic

AI-native test automation using natural language

YC W24 graduate replacing Playwright and Selenium with AI-powered testing. Write end-to-end tests in plain English. Backed by General Catalyst and Box CEO Aaron Levie.

Zerops

Cloud infrastructure that doesn’t break between dev and production

Prague-based Zerops runs on bare-metal infrastructure at 4x lower cost than AWS. Their new AI panel connects coding agents directly to live production environments.

Aleš Rechtorík & Jan Saidl

Co-Founders

Stage

Seed

Empromptu

Enterprise AI app builder from prototype to production

Describe the AI app you want, get production-ready software with governance built in. Founded by Shanea Leven, whose previous startup CodeSee was acquired by GitKraken.

Shanea Leven & Dr. Sean Robinson

Co-Founders · Ex-Docker/Google

Stage

Pre-Seed

AlertD

Agentic AI eliminating DevOps toil and dashboard fatigue

Ex-Cisco/AppDynamics engineers built an AI daemon that indexes AWS environments and dynamically surfaces insights through natural language.

Geoff Hendrey & Freddy Mangum

Co-Founders · Ex-Cisco

Valuation

~$9.3M

Lingo.dev

AI localization engine making apps go global instantly

YC-backed CI/CD localization using Anthropic and OpenAI. $1.1M revenue, customers include Mistral AI. Founders previously sold Notionlytics (Stanford, Sequoia).

Max Prilutskiy & Veronica Prilutskaya

Co-Founders · Ex-Cornell

Stage

Seed

AutonomyAI

Agentic AI for production-grade front-end code

Israel-based startup emerged from stealth with its Agentic Context Engine, powering AI agents that generate production-grade front-end code with deep codebase understanding.

Adir Ben-Yehuda

CEO & Co-Founder

Stage

Pre-Seed

Resend

Developer-first email API built on React Email

Modern email API that lets developers code emails using React instead of HTML tables. Open-source React Email has 8K+ GitHub stars. Angels include Figma and Vercel founders.

Zeno Rocha

Co-Founder & CEO

Stage

Seed

Depot

Build acceleration making CI workflows up to 40x faster

YC W23-backed platform making container builds and GitHub Actions dramatically faster. 1M+ builds/month across 1,800+ organizations. Founded by platform engineers tired of slow CI.

Kyle Galbraith

Co-Founder & CEO

Stage

Seed

Trigger.dev

Open-source background jobs and AI workflow platform for TypeScript

YC W23-backed open-source platform for long-running background jobs and AI workflows in TypeScript. Solves serverless timeout limits with managed infrastructure for tasks running minutes or hours.

Matt Aitken & Eric Allam

Co-Founders

Stage

Seed

Greptile

AI code review agent with complete context of your codebase

YC W24-backed AI code review that understands your entire codebase. Integrates with GitHub to flag bugs and surface dependencies like a senior engineer. 500+ customers including Stripe and Amazon.

Daksh Gupta & Soohoon Choi

Co-Founders · Georgia Tech

Stage

Seed

ControlTheory

Observability control platform reducing telemetry costs 35%+

AI-powered observability control platform transforming telemetry management from cost burden to competitive advantage

Bob Quillin & Eric Anderson

Co-Founders

Stage

Seed

Modelence

Batteries-included TypeScript platform for AI apps

The batteries-included TypeScript platform for building and deploying production-ready AI apps

Aram Shatakhtsyan & Eduard Piliposyan

Co-Founders

Stage

Seed

ion design

AI visual builder turning Figma designs into production React code

AI visual builder that turns Figma designs into production React code

Samraaj Bath & Samuel Barnholdt

Co-Founders

Stage

Seed

Autosana

Agentic QA platform testing iOS, Android, and web apps

Agentic QA platform testing iOS, Android, and web apps automatically

Yuvan Sundrani & Jason Steinberg

Co-Founders

Stage

Seed

Salus

Runtime guardrails that validate AI agent actions before they execute

A policy-aware runtime proxy that intercepts every agent tool call, then repairs, rewrites, or escalates it instead of just blocking. YC W26.

Vedant Singh & Kevin Pan

Co-Founders

Stage

Seed