Artificial Intelligence startups in San Francisco Bay Area

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.

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.

DeepGrove

San Francisco

The company develops AI foundation models optimized to run efficiently on any device, including on-device large language models that can operate entirely on a smartphone, aiming to match top-tier rivals like OpenAI or Google in performance

XOXO AI

San Francisco

XOXO AI is a stealth research lab building consumer social AI that predicts user needs and fulfills them without prompts, aiming to democratize intelligent interfaces. It is assembling engineers, designers, and researchers to lead the next

Sorcerer

San Francisco

Sorcerer builds a global network of persistent airborne sensors to improve weather forecasting; its system is used daily by meteorologists to track extreme weather across the US and Central America, led by a team with Urban Sky and SumUp ex

Truva

San Francisco

**About** Sell more. Grind less with AI agents. Truva handles the busywork intelligently saving your sales team hours each week, so they can focus on what matters most - building and closing deals. **TL;DR** Truva is a Sales AI agents pl

Promise

Oakland

Promise modernizes government payments by delivering better payment systems for governments and communities, helping agencies recover revenue while offering residents flexible, humane ways to pay. Replacing broken systems with scalable tech

Tradespace

San Francisco

Tradespace is the first AI-native IP platform that helps innovators generate, manage, and commercialize their IP portfolios across the entire innovation cycle, from disclosure to commercialization, and operates the largest global IP marketp

Ego

San Francisco

Ego is a startup building an Infinite Game—a persistent virtual 3D world with embodied AI agents. Led by Vishnu Hari (ex-Facebook AI, Meta Reality Labs), it leverages Unreal Engine, C++, AWS, Azure, and Roblox, and participates in YC Launch

Hud

San Francisco

The company provides a platform for building reinforcement learning environments and evaluations, enabling researchers to design, run, and assess RL experiments, and offers the CUA Evals framework with scalable agent evaluation and training

Anthropic

San Francisco

We're an AI research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Our first product is Claude, an AI assistant for tasks at any scale. Our research interests span multiple areas including natural language, human feedback, scaling laws, reinforcement learning, code generation, and interpretability.

OpenAI

San Francisco

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first — ahead of profit. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.