AI startups in San Francisco

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

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

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)

AI Insurance

San Francisco

AI Insurance offers a platform for SMB insurers to run all business processes, aiming to do for SMB insurance what Salesforce did for SMB sales, targeting 10,000+ firms and $238B in admin waste, to digitize and automate claims and underwrit

Ello

San Francisco

Ello is an AI-powered education company aiming to improve literacy and learning outcomes for children and close educational gaps; backed by investors after YC W20 and a Series A, it pursues building the world’s first complete AI teacher for

Workplay Ventures

San Francisco

Mark Pincus Family Office, the investment vehicle of Zynga founder Mark Pincus, pursues diversified asset-class investments with emphasis on AI/ML, gaming, social networks/platforms, and web3, backed by a lean team (one analyst, a controlle

Stratus Aviation

San Francisco

Stratus Aviation, a YC-backed aviation tech startup, is building an intelligence layer for airport operations by converting live ATC radio, ADS-B, and sensor data into real-time situational awareness, and it participated in Y Combinator bat

Benchify

San Francisco

Benchify builds a reliability layer for AI-generated code, ensuring dynamic builds and self-healing pipelines so AI-powered software runs reliably and securely without human babysitting. Founded by Juan Castaño and Max von Hippel.

Cargo

San Francisco

Cargo redefines go-to-market execution by making teams leaner, faster, and engineer-driven, replacing SDR-heavy models with a hybrid manual-automation approach that enables full-cycle AEs. Its platform builds and scales AI-powered workforce

OneText

San Francisco

OneText, founded by former PayPal Checkout leaders, is a payments, AI, and marketing platform enabling payment via a phone number. Backed by Y Combinator, Coatue, Citi Ventures, Khosla Ventures, and founders of Warby Parker, Allbirds, Harry

Social Radar

San Francisco

Social Radar is a San Francisco-based B2B software and services company with a three-person team, founded by Rohan Arora and Venkat Krishnan. It bills itself as the best way to search for posts, people, and comments across channels.

CodeAnt AI

San Francisco

CodeAnt AI, a Y Combinator-backed startup in code quality and security, uses AI-driven and deterministic fixes to improve code quality and safety, earning trust from unicorns and public companies and support from top Silicon Valley investor

AIVideo.com

San Francisco

AIVideo.com is a vertically integrated studio that brings creators together every 10 weeks to produce content in a mansion, using viral feedback to productize ideas. It grew to $1.3M ARR in 12 months and seeks 10x growth, inviting talent.

Weave Robotics

San Francisco

Weave Robotics develops personal robots for home use and positions itself as the maker of the first home-built personal robots, with plans to ship its home-based robots in 2025.

Mentum

San Francisco

Mentum builds an LLM-powered, AI-native workflow tool for supply chains, helping procurement find and buy goods globally. Backed by Gradient Ventures and Y Combinator, it targets a $300B/year market and partners with manufacturers across re

Anglera

San Francisco

Anglera, a Y Combinator S24 company, uses AI agents to transform messy product data into structured, AI-ready listings and automate catalog management, positioning itself as infrastructure for intelligent commerce; led by Amay Aggarwal and

Surface Labs

San Francisco

Surface Labs builds an AI-powered marketing operations platform for B2B clients, generating tens of thousands of leads monthly for dozens of customers. Backed by investors and a remote team, founders include CEO Saharsh Agrawal and Arjun Sa

GoodFin

San Francisco

GoodFin is a seed-stage startup unlocking private wealth and markets with AI-native, human-driven platforms for hyperpersonalized, automated investments in alternative assets, targeting the next generation amid the largest intergenerational

QualGent

San Francisco

QualGent is an AI-powered QA tester for mobile apps, helping teams catch bugs before production and ship faster without extra QA hires; it was founded by Google veterans and is a YC X25 participant.