AI startups in San Francisco Bay Area

VESSL

San Mateo

Founded in Seoul, the company is expanding to the United States after a $12 million Series A, with about 40 employees and backing from top-tier Korean investors. It serves AI-native startups, research labs, and enterprises, supporting AI in

Onecrew

San Francisco

OneCrew is an all-in-one software platform for asphalt paving crews that centralizes estimating, scheduling, invoicing, and communication, helping contractors get more done, faster and enabling more efficient operations on paving projects.

Rejigg

San Francisco

Rejigg aims to simplify buying and selling small businesses by building an exclusive marketplace that connects motivated buyers with owners of high-quality businesses.

Poly

San Francisco

Poly provides a personal cloud storage platform for files and media, positioning itself as the most advanced in its category and aiming to replace Finder/File Explorer on the desktop, using proprietary AI to reimagine the stack.

KODIF

San Francisco

The company, founded by Chyngyz Dzhumanazarov (CEO), Norm Usenkanov (CTO), and Mike Zayonc (Co-Founder), combines consumer products, platform engineering for customer support, and venture-backed growth, positioning itself at the intersectio

Zuma

San Francisco

Zuma provides Kelsey, an AI leasing assistant for multifamily resident lifecycle, helping operators automate leasing and resident tasks. It blends agentic AI with humans-in-the-loop to preserve brand voice, accuracy, and empathy, and runs 2

Parity

San Francisco

Parity builds AI SRE for incident response, line of defense for on-call engineers, with adoption and backing from Y Combinator, General Catalyst, Sugar Free Capital, and angels from Midjourney and Crusoe; founded by Jeffrey, Coleman, and Wi

Reacher

San Francisco

Reacher is a San Francisco-based B2B software and services company that automates creator marketing for the world’s largest brands, positioning itself as the AI Brand Manager for ecommerce scaling through the creator economy.

A0.dev

San Francisco

a0.dev is a platform generating custom React Native projects to help mobile developers build apps in days, not weeks. It has launched apps used by hundreds of thousands of users and relies on React Native, TypeScript, Node.js, Express, Next

Stepwork

San Francisco

It offers a pay-for-SaaS model based on usage in the SaaS cost optimization market, helping organizations reduce waste and cut monthly SaaS bills by up to 30% by analyzing usage, contracts, and spend data—a data-driven, usage-based approach

Mesh

San Francisco

Mesh operates the first global crypto payment network connecting exchanges, wallets, and PSPs for digital asset payments, and is building AI-native accounting infrastructure to automate journal entries, reconciliation, and accruals for high

Labelbox

San Francisco

Labelbox provides critical AI data infrastructure that powers model development for leading research labs and enterprises. Founded in 2018, it emphasizes data-centric approaches fundamental to AI development.

Speak

San Francisco

Speak is a language-learning app founded in South Korea that became the country's top language app and now serves learners across markets in 15+ languages, positioning itself as a leading AI company; it has raised over $150M from top invest

Athelas

Mountain View

Athelas is a healthtech company backed by Sequoia and General Catalyst that merged with Commure to expand its AI-powered platform. It serves 250,000+ clinicians and hundreds of thousands of patients across care sites, keeping providers conn

Legionfarm

San Francisco

Legionfarm is a platform that lets gamers pay to play with pro players (top 1%), turning gaming into careers; it connected 7,000 pros and 400,000 sessions in the past year and is building AI-driven agents to manage sales and schedules.

Kapwing

San Francisco

Kapwing is a creative software company that enables digital storytelling and serves as infrastructure for collaborative video creation; launched in 2017 by and for millennials, it has hosted over 30 million videos and helps media companies

Prodigal

Mountain View

Prodigal builds AI agents for loan servicing and collections to automate critical roles, enhance operations, and drive revenue as a vertical SaaS company in consumer finance; based in Mountain View and backed by Accel, Menlo Ventures, and Y

Gem

San Francisco

Gem is a recruiting technology company helping organizations hire great teams; co-founded by CEO Steven Bartel (former Dropbox engineer), it launched in 2018 and has attracted funding from Accel, Greylock, and Y Combinator to modernize recr

Senso

San Francisco

Senso.ai is a B2B software and services analytics company delivering generative AI solutions to enterprises, operating under Senso.ai, Senso, and senso.ai; founded by Saroop Bharwani and Thomas Nelson, it aims to help enterprises compete in

PicnicHealth

San Francisco

PicnicHealth makes medical records easily accessible and uses the data to power patient-centered, non-interventional clinical research, leveraging AI to advance data-powered studies.

Netomi

San Mateo

Netomi AI delivers AI-driven, brand-safe customer engagement and Self-Driving Customer Care for the world's largest brands, claiming a leading role in the Generative AI revolution; backed by Y Combinator, Index Ventures, Jeffrey Katzenberg,

Compound Eye

San Francisco

Compound Eye builds computer vision and perception tech to teach machines to see. With a US team of 15, it closed a Series A led by a tier-one VC and backed by Khosla Ventures, serving automotive, agriculture, healthcare, defense.

LLM Data Company

San Francisco

Odes and Ink is a creative agency guided by the belief that creativity is transformative; it uses design and technology to build meaningful brands and user experiences that deliver positive, lasting value.

Hyperbound

San Francisco

Hyperbound builds the Sales Performance OS, a sales-tech category that helps sales teams observe and replicate top performers’ behaviors for competitive advantage. A YC S23 alumnus with marquee customers (LinkedIn, Monday.com, Autodesk, Van

Arist

San Francisco

Arist is an enterprise enablement company that automates learning end-to-end with AI-powered enablement team embedded in leaders' tools, delivering right knowledge at right moment through private and public LLMs in messaging apps employees

Flockjay

San Francisco

Flockjay empowers people and companies to show up as their best to customers, with a team drawn from Salesforce, Quizlet, and Teach for America, and backed by investors including Y Combinator, Salesforce Ventures, Lightspeed, and Serena Wil

Serif

San Francisco

"People have a voracious appetite for a better way, and yesterday’s ‘wow’ quickly becomes today’s ‘ordinary’."

TaxGPT

San Francisco

TaxGPT offers an AI co-pilot for tax accountants, claiming to boost productivity and profits by 10x with a proprietary AI model. With 50,000+ users, it aims to transform tax research and compliance and is expanding hiring for sales roles.

Oway

San Francisco

Oway is an AI-driven rideshare freight platform in the US trucking industry that fills unused capacity by connecting a marketplace of carriers and businesses to coordinate shipments, backed by Y Combinator and investors including Uber, Flex

Cartage

San Francisco

Cartage is an AI-managed logistics platform that functions as a logistics team for shippers, with Wilson coordinating booking, tracking, and end-to-end shipment management for manufacturers and distributors.

RetailReady

San Francisco

The company provides a unified retail compliance solution with real-time monitoring integrated into warehouse operations and brands' tech stacks, serving the retail and supply chain compliance market.

Orchid

San Francisco

Orchid (W23) is an AI-powered EHR for independent mental health professionals. Based in San Francisco, it has a four-person team and was founded by Joseph Pomianowski.

Persana AI

San Francisco

Persana AI, a YC Winter 2023 startup, aims to revolutionize how companies execute go-to-market strategies, led by CEO Sriya Maram and co-founder Rush Shahani, with backgrounds at LinkedIn and NLP-focused roles at ElementAI and Shopify.

Tessel AI: Rigorous Medical Imaging AI Evaluation for Hospitals

San Francisco

Tessel builds evidence infrastructure for safety-critical AI, providing independent validation and benchmarking for medical imaging AI in collaboration with academic centers, delivering standardized metrics and regulatory-aligned evidence t

Nell

San Francisco

Nell reimagines media for the AI era, aiming to transform how people engage with content. Led by SoundCloud's founder, Nell seeks to be world's leading generative-media company with highest quality and to democratize access to personalized

Exponent

San Francisco

Exponent builds specialized software engineering agents to automate the software engineering lifecycle for large engineering teams. By envisioning engineers managing fleets of AI agents, it aims to shape the future of software engineering a

Augrade

San Francisco

Augrade Inc is an AI research lab building an agentic platform to automate construction workflows across design, estimation, and vendor management, aiming to create an AI architect and engineer that can realize projects for users regardless

Swizzl

San Francisco

Swizzl helps car dealers convert hesitant leads into confident buyers before they walk through the door, generating more ready-to-buy traffic and smoother closes for auto dealerships with a no-pressure, no-chasing approach to lead conversat

Darwin

Palo Alto

A company that creates real-time, adaptive media experiences personalized to each viewer’s identity, preferences, and intent; its first product is Wayve.

Chief AI

San Francisco

It builds a system of AI-native products to supercharge leaders in government and the C-suite, shaping a leadership-focused approach across government and the executive suite.