Startups in San Francisco Bay Area

Xaira Therapeutics

South San Francisco

an integrated biotechnology company driving advances in AI to transform how we treat disease.

Poolside

San Francisco

Poolside is building the world's most capable AI for software development, focusing on distributed training and inference of large language models for source code generation, with a mission to unlock developers' potential through AI for sof

The Bot Company

San Francisco

The Bot Company builds household robots to give people back time, pursuing in-house AI, software and hardware. It plans to deploy millions at home before expanding, and has raised $300M, including a $150M Greenoaks-led round, valuing the co

ALSO

Palo Alto

Also is an electric micromobility company that provides e-bikes and other mobility solutions.

Decagon

San Francisco

Decagon is a leading conversational AI platform delivering concierge customer experiences with AI agents across chat, email, and voice in any language. It serves brands like Hertz, Eventbrite, Duolingo, and Oura and is backed by Accel and A

Decart

San Francisco

Decart provides efficient systems-level AI infrastructure that dramatically accelerates training and inference of the largest generative models, enabling Decart to train its own foundational interactive models and offer real-time access to

Cursor

San Francisco

Anysphere develops Cursor to automate coding and build the premier tool for professional programmers, driven by research, design, and engineering from a San Francisco team backed by investors; its engineers and scientists have a track recor

Corgi

San Francisco

Corgi is an AI financial infrastructure company focused on building AI-enabled financial infrastructure, placing it at the intersection of artificial intelligence and finance.

Cowboy Space

San Carlos

Cowboy Space is a space technology company developing solar-powered orbital data centers for AI computing infrastructure.

Periodic Labs

Menlo Park

Periodic Labs develops artificial intelligence systems that simulate and predict the properties of materials using machine learning.

Attovia Therapeutics

San Carlos

Attovia is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing next-generation therapeutics for immune-mediated diseases with high unmet need.

LMArena

San Francisco

LMArena, created by UC Berkeley researchers, is an open platform for accessing and comparing leading AI models, where users rate responses and help build a public, real-world leaderboard to increase transparency in AI progress.

Parallel Web Systems

Palo Alto

Parallel Web Systems builds a new web for AI, creating crawling, indexing, ranking, retrieval, and reasoning systems. Its first product is a set of APIs for AIs to do more with web data.

Rhoda AI

Palo Alto

Rhoda AI develops general-purpose robots powered by frontier AI models for real-world tasks in logistics, manufacturing, and beyond; backed by over $225 million from top-tier investors and building a world-class team to advance technology a

Assort Health

San Francisco

Assort Health offers what it calls the most comprehensive patient experience platform, handling 115M+ interactions since 2023 with 98%+ resolution, 99% scheduling accuracy, 4.4/5 patient satisfaction, and 15x revenue growth since Q4 2024, l

Factory

San Francisco

Factory is a platform for agent-driven software development. It serves customers such as MongoDB, Framer, Empower, Zapier, and Eightfold AI, and raised a $15 million Series A led by Sequoia Capital.

Exaforce

San Jose

Increase the productivity and efficacy of your SOC team by 10x with AI bots ("Exabots") + advanced data exploration.

Cartesia

San Francisco

Cartesia builds the next generation of AI—ubiquitous, interactive intelligence that runs wherever you are. It maintains a Discord community (discord.com/invite/cartesia) and showcases its work at cartesia.ai.

Together AI

San Francisco

Together AI is a research-driven AI cloud infrastructure provider. Our purpose-built GPU cloud platform empowers AI engineers and researchers to train, fine-tune, and run frontier class AI models. Our customers include leading SaaS companies such as Salesforce, Zoom, and Zomato, as well as pioneering AI startups like ElevenLabs, Hedra, and Cartesia. We advocate for open source AI and believe that transparent AI systems will drive innovation and create the best outcomes for society.

Prime Intellect

San Francisco

Prime Intellect builds open-source decentralized AI training infrastructure that pools global compute so teams can train, fine-tune, and RL-train their own models and agents.

Inferact

San Francisco

Inferact is a startup founded by creators and core maintainers of vLLM, the most popular open-source LLM inference engine. Our mission is to grow vLLM as the world's AI inference engine and accelerate AI progress by making inference cheaper and faster.

Dyna Robotics

Redwood City

Dyna Robotics develops general-purpose robots powered by a proprietary embodied AI foundation model for real-world deployment, targeting automation of repetitive stationary tasks with affordable robotic arms, beginning in hospitality and re

Higgsfield

San Francisco

We're a video AI company dedicated to democratizing social media content creation to everyone

Serval

San Francisco

Serval is an AI platform for IT teams that replaces legacy systems with automation, freeing people to focus on meaningful work. It is trusted by Perplexity, Together AI, Writer, Mercor, and Verkada to automate over half of their IT tickets.

DepthFirst

San Francisco

depthfirst is an applied AI lab dedicated to securing the world's software, focusing on AI-native security as software underpins modern civilization and exploits are expected to rise with AI proliferation.

Etched

San Jose

Etched.ai is an AI chip startup that develops Sohu, a chip designed specifically for running transformer models.

Scout AI

Sunnyvale

Scout AI is a venture-backed defense technology company founded in 2024, focusing on AI for defense robotics. Headquartered in Silicon Valley with a Maine center of excellence, it aims to keep the U.S. and allies ahead in defense.

Deep Fission

Berkeley

Deep Fission is transforming the energy landscape by installing modular nuclear power reactors a mile deep.

EnerVenue

Fremont

EnerVenue builds simple, safe, maintenance-free energy storage for the clean energy revolution – based on technology proven over decades in extreme conditions, now scaled for large, long duration energy storage…

Reducto

San Francisco

Reducto offers an API-style platform that converts complex documents into inputs for large language models, serving hundreds of customers from startups to Fortune 10 and processing tens of millions of pages monthly from its San Francisco he

Bland

San Francisco

The company provides AI-powered phone call capabilities for enterprise customers, positioning itself as an enterprise-first provider and aiming to lead AI-driven telephony for large organizations.

Eudia

Palo Alto

Eudia uses AI-powered Augmented Intelligence to redefine legal work for Fortune 500 teams, blending automation with human expertise to accelerate workflows and reduce risk, transforming legal from a cost center to a growth driver; raised $1

Campfire

San Francisco

Campfire is an AI-native ERP for mid-size and enterprise companies to close fast and scale faster. Based in San Francisco, it is backed by Accel, Foundation Capital, Y Combinator and Capital49(Airwallex), serving 50 to 5,000-employee firms

Listen Labs

San Francisco

Listen is an autonomous market researcher that uses AI to design interviews, recruit participants, and analyze responses, delivering insights in hours rather than weeks, 24/7. Trusted by Google, Microsoft, SKIMS, Nestlé, and hundreds of ent

Lunar Energy

Mountain View

Lunar Energy powers homes around the world with endless clean energy.

Bretton AI

San Francisco

Bretton AI (formerly Greenlite AI) builds AI agents for financial crime compliance, helping banks and fintechs automate AML and KYC work.

CodeRabbit

San Francisco

CodeRabbit is an innovative, AI-driven platform that transforms the way code reviews are done. It delivers context-aware, human-like reviews, improving code quality, reducing the time and effort required for thorough manual code reviews, and enabling teams to ship software faster. Trusted by over a thousand organizations, including The Economist, Life360, ConsumerAffairs, Hasura, and many more, to improve their code review workflow. CodeRabbit is SOC 2 Type 2, GDPR certified, and doesn't train on customer's proprietary code.

Witness AI

Mountain View

Enable Enterprise AI, Safely.

David AI

San Francisco

David AI builds audio datasets through R&D; founded in 2024 by former Scale AI engineers, it counts FAANGs and AI labs among customers and raised a $50M Series B from Meritech, NVIDIA and others, achieving seven-figure revenue in six months

WisdomAI

San Mateo

WisdomAI provides data insights to every employee, leveraging Generative AI. As an early-stage company with Fortune100 paying customers, it is positioned to shape its product and engineering roadmap.

GC AI

San Mateo

The AI for in-house counsel

Edison Scientific

San Francisco

Edison Scientific, spun out from FutureHouse in 2025, accelerates scientific discovery by building and commercializing AI agents for science, pursuing an AI Scientist to scale autonomous research and tackle challenges such as drug developme

RoboForce

Milpitas

Building Physical AI-powered Robo-Labor.

Runware

San Francisco

Runware delivers AI-as-a-Service at 5–10x lower cost and with higher speed than competitors. Built for scale, the service has already powered 4 billion+ creations for +100K developers and +250M end-users worldwide. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in San Francisco, Runware is backed by Insight Partners and a16z.

Stand Insurance

San Francisco

The company protects and insures homes against wildfire and hurricane risks by applying physics and AI to model true property risk, enabling more homes to be insurable.

Salient

San Francisco

Salient is an AI-driven workflow automation platform for lenders, starting with auto loan servicing. Since launching in 2023, it has surpassed $10M ARR, achieved cash-flow positivity, partnered with major U.S. lenders, and identified 35k+ C

Peak Energy

Burlingame

Peak Energy develops and manufactures sodium-ion battery energy storage systems for utility-scale grid storage. It runs cell R&D in Colorado and is building a 4 GWh systems factory in Sacramento, California.

Giga

San Francisco

Giga provides enterprise customer support by deploying AI agents, handling over 1 million tickets monthly, and counting industry leaders like Postman and Zepto among its clients, with rapid scaling backed by investors including Garry Tan and Nexus Venture Partners.

Zip

San Francisco

Zip, founded in 2020, pioneered procurement orchestration and leads $50B+ TAM, serving enterprises such as Instacart, Sephora, Reddit, Lyft, and brands like Airbnb, Facebook, Google. Valued at $2.2B with $370M in funding from Y Combinator,

Plasmidsaurus

South San Francisco

Plasmidsaurus accelerates cures and a healthier planet by boosting productivity of scientists using DNA tools through 10 24/7 labs, serving Nobel Prize winners, with rapid DNA-sample logistics under 12 hours and a goal to save 4 million hou

DatologyAI

Redwood City

The company builds data and modeling solutions to improve business outcomes. It raised $46 million in a Series A led by Felicis Ventures, with Elad Gil, M12, and Amazon Alexa Fund as investors.

Fireworks AI

Redwood City

Fireworks.ai provides a generative AI platform as a service designed to accelerate product development and minimize cost to serve by enabling rapid iteration on top of generative AI.

Ambience Healthcare

San Francisco

Ambience Healthcare is a San Francisco-based AI platform for documentation, coding, and clinical workflows that reduces administrative burden and protects revenue at the point of care. Founded 2020 by Mike Ng and Nikhil Buduma; backed by Oa

Unframe

Cupertino

Unframe provides a managed AI delivery platform for enterprises to deploy tailored AI solutions, emphasizing speed, scalability, and enterprise readiness. It also markets no data sharing and no upfront cost.

Inception

Palo Alto

Inception develops diffusion-based LLMs (dLLMs) that generate answers in parallel, delivering up to 10x faster, more efficient, best-in-class quality. It pioneered diffusion in language, launched the first commercially available dLLMs in 20

Habitat Health

San Francisco

Habitat Health was founded in 2023 to deliver fully integrated health and social care to older adults on Medicare or Medicaid who wish to remain living independently in their homes and communities. Habitat Health provides care through the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly ("PACE") in collaboration with local community partners. The company is supported by Kaiser Permanente, Town Hall Ventures, and New Enterprise Associates.

Rox Data

San Francisco

Rox helps businesses secure and grow revenue.

Lindy

San Francisco

Lindy is an AI assistant that manages tasks and acts as an executive assistant for busy professionals. Its agents integrate with tools and use personalized context to automate tasks, aiming to automate knowledge work by enabling workflow au

Artisan

San Francisco

Artisan builds AI employees called Artisans and aims to replace the SaaS stack with a single integrated platform, starting with outbound sales; it consolidates every sales SaaS into one platform, framing it as next Industrial Revolution and

Archetype AI

San Mateo

Archetype AI develops Physical AI agents that harness real-world sensor data to enhance decision-making and automate processes.