AI startups in San Francisco Bay Area

A37

San Francisco

The company offers a generative AI-driven platform to automate and optimize DevOps workflows, reducing cloud overspend and deployment delays. It targets startups and enterprise DevOps teams and has raised an X.XM funding round from a tier-1

Indigo (In Stealth)

San Francisco

An AI healthcare startup enabling physicians to own independent practices, aiming to reshape healthcare. It achieved product-market fit in under 9 months with ARR of xMM and a pipeline to xxMM by 2026, led by technologists, physicians, engi

Chestnut

San Francisco

Chestnut is the first AI mortgage lender licensed in Texas and Colorado, completed YC X25 and backed by Y Combinator and Olive Tree Capital, founded by Spencer Brown to disrupt the $128B mortgage market with AI.

Strada

San Francisco

Strada provides AI agents that handle sales and service calls 24/7 for insurance brokers, MGAs, and carriers, enabling them to scale operations. Based in San Francisco and backed by Y Combinator, it serves carriers and MGAs, engaging thousa

Smithery

San Francisco

Smithery is a platform that helps developers discover and deploy services for communicating with AI agents, enabling seamless integration by providing access to agentic services and accelerating agentic AI development.

Veritus Agent

San Francisco

Veritus is a YC-backed AI-native platform for loan servicing and debt collection that operates its own collections agency on the platform, acquires charged-off debt to service it with in-house AI agents, and owns the full stack from acquisi

Kino AI

San Francisco

Kino AI is a startup backed by Y Combinator and AI Grant, led by Luke Igel (MIT ’22) formerly at NASA JPL, SpaceX, Slack, CSM, and KoKo; the founding team includes members from MIT, SpaceX, and NASA.

Pump.co

San Francisco

Pump is a cloud cost-savings company using group buying and AI to reduce AWS compute spend for startups; Forbes calls it the 'Costco of Cloud compute,' with 250+ customers and India expansion to save up to 60% on AWS costs.

Everest Systems

Mountain View

Everest Systems develops AI-powered business software for mid-sized enterprises, backed by renowned investors and led by SAP veterans. With ~130 staff across Mountain View, Heidelberg, London, and Porto Alegre, it operates a subscription-ba

Vapi

San Francisco

Vapi provides a configurable platform to deploy voice agents. Aiming to make voice humanity’s default interface, it's grown to 400,000 developers in 20 months and raised $20M in Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners, Canadian founders J

Assembly HOA

San Francisco

Assembly HOA Management is a California-based HOA management firm that automates administrative tasks, enhances transparent communication, and provides online access to information, aiming to transform homeowner associations into turnkey co

Distro

Palo Alto

Distro is a Y Combinator–backed startup delivering an AI Revenue Platform for sales reps in industrial distribution, modernizing software for counter staff and inside sales at industrial wholesale distributors, with strong traction and vent

Activepieces

San Francisco

Activepieces is an MIT-licensed, open-source no-code business automation platform that can be self-hosted on customers' servers, positioned as a self-hosted alternative to cloud tools like Zapier and aimed at making AI a native part of ente

Broccoli

San Francisco

Broccoli is an AI company for home service businesses that integrates with Service Titan and other tools, aiming to democratize access to world-class customer service, sales, and marketing for every contractor.

Layerup

San Francisco

Layerup builds AI Agents for critical industries, starting with financial services and insurance, backed by investors including Y Combinator, Pioneer Fund, and Founders Inc. It has built AI apps, robots, and drones and was invited by NASA f

Sphere

San Francisco

Sphere is an AI-powered cross-border tax compliance platform that automates sales tax, VAT, and GST, building local rails into tax authorities worldwide and the world’s first AI-native tax engine; backed by Felicis Ventures and Y Combinator

People.ai

San Francisco

People.ai is a San Francisco-based AI-powered foundational data platform that maps people, companies, and the information flowing between them within a global business activity and identity graph, fueling enterprise growth through real-time

SnapMagic

Redwood City

SnapMagic, formerly SnapEDA, is a leading library for electrical engineers, built by engineers for engineers. Its electronic component data are used by over 1.5 million engineers across the world's largest organizations and serve about 2 mi

Floot

San Francisco

Floot builds an AI-first software foundation enabling non-coders to build and deploy full-stack web apps. It grew to 600+ customers after Y Combinator and features founders from Retool and AWS, with a CTO who bootstrapped a SaaS to $5M+ ARR

Cairns Health

Sunnyvale

Cairns Health is a health technology company aimed at improving care for people with chronic conditions. It seeks to make healthcare more accessible by simplifying complex care plans, connecting care teams, and meeting patients where they l

14.ai

San Francisco

14.ai, founded by Michael Fester and Marie Schneegans, builds customer support solutions for 1000x teams; backed by Y Combinator and SV Angel, with backers including founders from Vercel, Slack, Dropbox, and Algolia, and Fester previously c

Middleware

San Francisco

Middleware is a fast-growing San Francisco-based startup backed by a tier-1 investor, delivering insights and visibility into complex systems for B2B software and services infrastructure. Led by founder-CEO Laduram Vishnoi, who previously b

Careforce

Oakland

Careforce AI, formerly Helpcare AI, is a well-funded, YC-backed healthtech company aiming to triple care capacity by eliminating administrative burden and breaking the 40-year interoperability barrier, with strong customer demand signaling

Capy

San Francisco

Scout is an AI-native software engineering agent that operates asynchronously on its own VM and tackles long-horizon tasks on large codebases.

Berry

San Francisco

Berry is a Y Combinator-backed startup serving SaaS companies worldwide. Led by co-founder and Chief Product Officer Ann Chan and founder Yan Fu, a former startup CTO, Berry scales services for SaaS firms using React, TypeScript, Python, RE

OpenFunnel

San Francisco

OpenFunnel is a time-aware search engine for GTM teams that surfaces insights from time-based signals, delivering daily actionable findings. Trusted by over 1,000 users (including Central, Mintlify, and Everest Systems), it reveals pain poi

Readily

San Francisco

Readily provides AI-powered compliance tools for healthcare organizations, aiming to build the compliance layer for every company and cut admin costs. Founded by Edward Tiong and Wei An Wang, it serves large healthcare clients and reports 3

RealRoots

San Francisco

RealRoots is an early-stage, women-focused friendship startup that helps women form meaningful, long-lasting friendships in their city, addressing the decline of IRL connection; seed-funded and backed by investors including Y Combinator, Go

Decipher AI

San Francisco

Decipher AI offers an analytics agent that analyzes session replays to reveal user behavior, automatically uncover and prioritize issues, and reduce churn. It is led by a small team of ex-Googlers, including co-founders Rohan Das and Michae

TypeOS

San Francisco

TypeOS is an education technology company behind VibeGrade and VibeLearn, backed by Y Combinator.

Stardrift

San Francisco

Stardrift is an AI travel search assistant that converts unstructured travel data into structured information to enable a corporate booking experience, launching with USA corporate travel search. Led by Leila Clark, a Princeton CS graduate

Nitrode

San Francisco

Nitrode is an AI-powered game engine and platform that enables developers to build, launch, and play games, claiming complex and fully functional games can be created in two days. It aims to push development boundaries and revolutionize the

Edexia

Brisbane

Edexia is a company focused on fixing education, aiming to provide personalized learning that cultivates curiosity, critical thinking, and purpose for learners. It plans a trillion-dollar business with a team of 30 or fewer, using AI to amp

Trueplace

San Francisco

Trueplace provides interview-preparation tools through its Confetto AI and Soreno AI platforms, offering resources designed to help individuals prepare effectively for interviews.

Gale

San Francisco

Gale disrupts the $10B immigration services market by delivering a tech-enabled, human immigration process for US H-1Bs that uses automation and AI to boost lawyers' efficiency, reduce costs, and shorten visa turnaround times for U.S. compa

Letter AI

San Francisco

Letter AI provides generative AI-powered sales enablement, unifying training, coaching, and content creation to improve win rates. Since launch, it has onboarded Lenovo and Redpanda as its first customers and secured funding from Y Combinat

Origami

San Francisco

The company builds vertical AI agents to handle sales research and develops custom AI web agents. Co-founded by Finn Mallery and Kenson Chung, who previously served as CTO of an enterprise sales platform with $1B+ revenue clients; partnersh

Undermind

San Francisco

Undermind is an AI-powered research agent used by thousands of experts, including top pharma R&D firms and university libraries. Described as the most intelligent science search and synthesis engine, it aims to reinvent research by augmenti

Patterns

San Francisco

Patterns aims to make data analysis accessible by using natural language processing and AI to analyze data, aiming to simplify analytics and transform business intelligence, with next-gen financial analysis and AI agents for reporting; tech

Luthor

San Francisco

Luthor is the first AI-native compliance firm for RIAs and broker-dealers, delivering a full-stack program that automates SEC, FINRA, and FinCEN compliance by blending purpose-built LLMs with human expertise (including former SEC attorneys)