All startups in San Francisco Bay Area

Newton

San Francisco

Newton offers a next-generation AI phone system for dental organizations, targeting fast-growing dental groups to streamline patient communication and replace outdated phone systems and clunky tools, delivering unmatched visibility into the

Paraform

San Francisco

Paraform is a recruiting marketplace that connects companies with a network of specialized recruiters to fill roles faster and more accurately. Backed by prominent investors and partners like Palantir and Decagon, it aims to be the first en

Tavus

San Francisco

Tavus is a human computing research lab and pioneer in human computing, building AI Humans to bridge the gap between people and machines and teach machines to be human. Founders Hassaan Raza and Quinn Favret lead Tavus, which is growing.

Unusual

San Francisco

Unusual defines Brand Engineering, a research field that measures how LLMs perceive brands and benchmarks brand performance against peers. Through applied interpretability and narrative-control experiments, it aims to let people shape their

Advex AI

San Francisco

Advex is seed-stage startup backed by Construct Capital, PearVC, founders of Dropbox, Gradient Ventures, with team from CMU, Berkeley AI Research Lab, Google Brain, Scale AI, and Qualcomm, publishing research and winning competitions at ICL

Medra

San Francisco

Medra uses AI, robotics, and biology to accelerate life science research and eradicate disease, building a Scientific Physical AI platform to scale lab work and generate orders of magnitude more data for faster drug development and biology

AirOps

San Francisco

AirOps is the first end-to-end content engineering platform for marketing teams, helping brands get found and stay found in the AI era. With hubs in San Francisco, New York, and Montevideo, it serves marketers and is backed by prominent inv

Incident.io

San Francisco

Incident.io is an all-in-one incident management platform for engineering teams, integrating on-call scheduling, incident response, and status pages with AI-powered automation, serving 10,000+ responders at 600+ companies including Netflix,

Firebender

San Francisco

Firebender is an AI software company that develops AI coding assistance tools. Founded in 2024, it has raised $3.5 million in funding and currently has a team of three.

Argos

San Francisco

Argos builds the AI operating system for in-house legal teams, is based in San Francisco, California, and has $3.5M pre-seed funding as it enters an early stage with pilots launching soon.

AMT

San Francisco

The company builds AI employees to staff non-creative marketing roles, aiming to unlock human creativity by deploying AI to fill every non-creative marketing position.

Synch

San Francisco

Synch, based in New York City, is the first AI-powered Salesforce system of engagement, backed by Y Combinator and executives from Retool, Ramp, and Superhuman. It enables enterprises to manage their Salesforce environment using natural-lan

Allocate

Palo Alto

Transforming the Private Market Investing Experience

Chalk

San Francisco

The data platform for inference. Build, deploy, and iterate faster with Chalk's feature engine.

Droyd

Burlingame

Droyd builds robots for tasks in controlled environments, starting with data centres, using digital twins and integrations to accelerate rack build-outs; backed by Lux, Refactor, and Ravelin with $3.4M raised, a 4–6 engineer team, planning

HappyRobot

San Francisco

HappyRobot offers an AI-native operating system for real economy, starting with supply chains. It has raised $62M, including a $44M Series B in Sept 2025, from YC, Andreessen Horowitz, and Base10, led by Pablo and Javier Palafox and Luis Pa

Neuron 7

San Jose

Agentic AI for Complex Service

Apriora (YC W24)

San Francisco

Apriora is a recruitment technology company that enables enterprise clients with autonomous AI recruitment powered by conversational AI, backed by thousands of interviews across engineering, IT, retail, and hospitality, and integrations bui

Usul (YC S24)

San Francisco

Usul positions itself as the 'Amazon for Government,' enabling companies to sell to government quickly. With Fortune 500, U.S. Government, and NATO as customers and ARR near $5M, it is scaling a repeatable enterprise motion with internation

Opaque Systems

San Francisco

OPAQUE is the confidential AI platform unlocking sensitive data to securely accelerate AI into production. Created by world-renowned researchers at the Berkeley RISELab, OPAQUE’s user-friendly platform empowers organizations to effortlessly run cloud-scale, general-purpose AI workloads on encrypted data with cryptographic verification of privacy and sovereignty. OPAQUE supports popular languages and frameworks for AI, including Python and Spark, enabling teams to securely combine datasets with cryptographic verification of privacy. OPAQUE customers deploy high-performance AI faster and eliminate the tradeoff between innovation and security.

Gridware

San Francisco

Gridware is a privately held technology company in San Francisco focused on protecting and enhancing the electrical grid, backed by climate-tech and Silicon Valley investors, addressing faults—especially in remote, aging infrastructure and

TurbineOne

San Francisco

TurbineOne delivers do-it-yourself Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning (AI/ML). TurbineOne’s Frontline Perception System (FPS) allows users to build, tune, and deploy computer-powered recognition algorithms without having to code and without requiring a cloud. The FPS is applicable to organizations that are overwhelmed with vast quantities of data from different sensors and need to empower analysts to quickly find what’s important.

Conduit AI

San Francisco

Conduit builds AI-native conversational agents to automate high-touch business communications, focusing on hospitality and housing. It offers a help-desk platform for creating agents that handle text and voice conversations and escalate to

Besimple AI

San Mateo

Besimple AI builds a data flywheel that enables continuous model improvement and monitoring through human-in-the-loop, serving AI teams of all sizes and budgets.

Adapt.com

San Francisco

Adapt is an AI platform that connects databases, SaaS tools, tickets, docs, and finance across data stack to turn scattered signals into evidence-backed answers. Its AI agents monitor, analyze, and explain data, surface anomalies, and recom

Zero Labs

San Francisco

At Zero develops a tax-forecasting engine with the goal of eliminating tax liabilities, positioning itself in the tax technology space.

Ulyssean

San Francisco

Ulyssean builds security for AI data centers and closed a $3 million seed round, with backers including security leaders from Anthropic, DeepMind, CrowdStrike, and government advisors; it enters a 3-month design partnership with a data cent

Clera

San Francisco

Clera is an AI-powered talent agent that connects 55,000+ tech professionals with VC-backed startups through personalized outreach, reaching over $1M ARR in six months and backed by 1984 Ventures, Deel Ventures, and top investors from OpenA

CozmoX AI

Mountain View

CozmoX provides AI employees with voice technology for natural, human-like conversations that handle repetitive tasks 24/7. It offers a no-code platform to deploy voice-driven digital workers, has unveiled three AI employees, and is backed

FlowState

San Francisco

FlowState provides video search and video workflow automation solutions, enabling activation of archival footage, needle-in-a-haystack searches, and automated actions based on video content, establishing itself as a technology-focused provi

Dataleap

San Francisco

Dataleap is the world's first vibe working platform, backed by $3 million in funding, aiming to be the first agentic work platform for tech-forward companies, with agents serving 2-person startups to 2,000-person unicorns; founders are Jan

Sapling

San Francisco

Sapling is building an operating system for independent private practices, starting with pediatrics and expanding to adult primary care, to help clinicians reclaim independence by automating the back-office and ultimately coordinating care.

Parakeet Health

San Francisco

Parakeet Health is an AI patient engagement platform for healthcare organizations, using language models to improve patient experiences in doctors’ offices. It blends healthcare veterans with technologists, serving paying clients and planni

Quander

San Francisco

Quander runs an applied AI product lab that automates invention, building thousands of inventions to improve humanity's future. It develops AI systems to discover, grow, and scale new ventures, driving venture creation through automated inv

Arphie

San Francisco

Arphie is building a platform for collaborative intelligence between go-to-market and product/engineering teams. Backed by top-tier VC firms and led by CEO/CTO co-founders who met at Harvard, it has posted rapid ARR growth since commerciali

Circleback

San Francisco

Circleback focuses on improving how teams communicate and getting the most out of every conversation. By prioritizing effective conversations, it aims to maximize the value of team interactions and enable better collaboration.

Metalware

San Francisco

Metalware develops advanced firmware security solutions for real-time embedded systems, safeguarding aerospace, automotive, industrial control, telecom, medical devices, and IoT from cyber threats.

Outset

San Francisco

Outset, a Y Combinator–backed startup, uses AI and ChatGPT to conduct in-depth qualitative interviews at scale, aiming to revolutionize qualitative research and deliver rich, scalable insights through innovative research tooling.

Miter

San Francisco

Miter positions itself as the modern construction operating system, a leading HCM platform for the $2 trillion construction industry that uses AI and embedded payments to overhaul HR, finance, and operations, delivering cost savings and pro

Albert Invent

Bay Area

Albert Invent provides a digital platform for materials science research and development.