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1,770 companies from every program · 30% of YC F26 · 200 acquired · 193 inactive

Newest developer tools companies

AIHubReal-world training data for frontier AI labs and robotics.YC X26San FranciscoStartup →AIHypercubicAgentic AI for Mainframe Operations and ModernizationYC F25San FranciscoStartup →AISazabiAI-native observability and security platformYC X26San FranciscoStartup →AIBrickantaAgentic AI for Society BuildersYC F25StockholmStartup →AIAcquiredOnyxOpen Source AI ChatYC W24San FranciscoStartup →AIBolna AIVoice AI to enable India's next billionYC F25BengaluruStartup →AIMinicorScalable windows desktop automationsYC X26San FranciscoStartup →AIRASPIREAutonomous Runtime SecurityYC X26CairoStartup →AIDiditInfrastructure for identity and fraud.YC W26CTStartup →AIe2ethe software verification layer for the agentic coding eraYC X26WarsawStartup →AIManiculeAgentRel, Devrel For AgentsYC X26San FranciscoStartup →AITaskletAgents that own the workYC X26San FranciscoStartup →AIPiris LabsThe Networking Layer of AIYC W26San FranciscoStartup →AINaïveAutonomous Company InfrastructureYC X25San FranciscoStartup →AIRuntime.siRobots that think in simulationYC F26San FranciscoStartup →AILuca IQAPI-first tax engine for CPA firms and developersYC S26San FranciscoStartup →AIRunAnywhereFastest inference anywhere: open models on-prem, hosted or on-deviceYC W26San FranciscoStartup →AItruthsystemsAutomatically blocking risky behavior with real-time governance agentsYC S25San FranciscoStartup →AITolmoTolmo is the AI security platform that secures every layer of cloud…YC X26San FranciscoStartup →AISimanticFirmware simulation for AI agentsYC F26WaterlooStartup →AISpekoOpenRouter for Voice AI: one API, every call on the best speech modelYC S26San FranciscoStartup →AIOpenWorkThe open source alternative to Claude CoworkYC X26San FranciscoStartup →AIParadev (formerly Superset)Building self-improving softwareYC X26San FranciscoStartup →AIHyperspellYour Company BrainYC F25San FranciscoStartup →AIAgnost AIWe find where AI agents fail, then train better models to run them.YC S26San FranciscoStartup →AIDecaworkTraining company-specific models that approve AI actions.YC S26San FranciscoStartup →AIModalAI infrastructure that developers loveNeoStartup →AIAcquiredBlaxelThe infrastructure for autonomous agentsYC X25San FranciscoStartup →AIWeaveAI to understand and then route engineering workYC W25San FranciscoStartup →AIAcquiredZeroEntropyArtificial Specialized IntelligenceYC W25San FranciscoStartup →AIStoaThe market behind AI hardware.YC S26San FranciscoStartup →AIAmborasAI Native ShopifyYC X26San FranciscoStartup →AIArdentDatabase sandboxes for AgentsYC X26San FranciscoStartup →AIArmatureWe get your product picked by coding agents.YC X26ParisStartup →AIRainbrandThe brand layer for agents.YC X26San FranciscoStartup →AISoriaAI Financial Research Terminal built for Healthcare (and beyond)YC X26New York CityStartup →AIAemonThe Forward-Deployed AI Research EngineerYC W26San FranciscoStartup →AIVisibl SemiconductorsCustom silicon for power electronicsYC W26San FranciscoStartup →AIF2The AI platform for private markets investorsYC S25New York CityStartup →AISF TensorInfrastructure for AI labs to focus on research.YC F25San FranciscoStartup →AIInvertixAI that operates power plantsYC F26MunichStartup →AIFamiliarMultimodal TranslationYC S26TorontoStartup →AIHyperProbeAI engineer that debugs and fixes production incidents in realtimeYC S26San FranciscoStartup →AIProjectXAgent native workspace for heavy parallel workflows on the webYC X26KolkataStartup →AIAcquiredFlowiseAIOpen source GenAI development platformYC S23RemoteStartup →AIidlerHill-climb any benchmark, for any model, in any domain.YC S25San FranciscoStartup →AIBayMachinesAir-gapped compute for defense contractorsYC X26San FranciscoStartup →AIAirCaps AIVoice AI that hears what other models miss.YC F25San FranciscoStartup →AIAntigenContinuous offensive security for the enterprise.YC F25San FranciscoStartup →AIMossReal-time semantic search for Conversational AIYC F25San FranciscoStartup →AILuceboxSelf-improving inference workstationYC W27MilanStartup →AIReason MachinesReason is the AI teammate for work and code.YC F26San FranciscoStartup →AIWorkers IOSimulation environments for verifying mission-critical softwareYC F26San FranciscoStartup →AIEdviroAI That Operates Energy InfrastructureYC S26San FranciscoStartup →AIParasmaReplacing GPUs with human brain cellsYC S26San FranciscoStartup →AIWaddle LabsLLMs that control robotsYC S26San FranciscoStartup →AIHumworkHuman experts as API for AI AgentsYC X26San FranciscoStartup →AIKlaimeeLiability insurance for AI Agents. You deploy agents, we cover you.YC X26San FranciscoStartup →AIReplicasRun any coding agent harness in the cloudYC X26San FranciscoStartup →AIUno WalletThe AI mobile wallet that replaces Apple PayYC X26San FranciscoStartup →AICumulus LabsThe Fastest Multimodal Inference OSYC W26San FranciscoStartup →AIOrthogonalAgentic Payments for APIsYC W26San FranciscoStartup →AISalusGuardrails to validate your agent's actions before they executeYC W26San FranciscoStartup →Developer toolsshortkitMedia infra for consumer appsYC W26Startup →AIZatannaBuilding the infrastructure for AI to interact with softwareYC W26San FranciscoStartup →DataSupabaseBuild in a weekend. Scale to millions.YC S20San FranciscoStartup →AIAgentMailEmail Inboxes for AI AgentsYC S25San FranciscoStartup →AIMagneticAI Tax Preparer for CPA firmsYC S25San FranciscoStartup →AIJinkoTravel Search & Booking Infrastructure for AI agentsYC F26ParisStartup →AIThe Letter CompanyThe world's first coding agent, harness, & IDE for growth engineering.YC F26New York CityStartup →AIContext.devWeb data API for agentsYC S26San FranciscoStartup →AIArga LabsReal-world sandboxes to test and train AI agentsYC X26San FranciscoStartup →AIDeep InteractionsMultiplayer AI app builderYC X26San FranciscoStartup →AIInstaBoxCloud computers for AI agentsYC X26San FranciscoStartup →AILiteLLMCall every LLM API like it's OpenAI [100+ LLMs]YC W23San FranciscoStartup →AIKERNELCrazy fast, open source infra for AI agents to use the InternetYC S25San FranciscoStartup →AIMOVEdotAI Agents for Hardware EngineeringYC F25San FranciscoStartup →AIAfterQueryApplied research lab curating data solutions for foundation model…YC W25San FranciscoStartup →AIWaferAI that makes AI fastYC S25San FranciscoStartup →AIRaindropSentry for AI AgentsYC W24San FranciscoStartup →AIDedalus LabsPersistent computers for AI agentsYC S25San FranciscoStartup →AIInterfereGive engineering, product, and design teams insight into unseen issuesYC S25New York CityStartup →AIAikido TechnologiesClean marine AI datacentersYC F26San FranciscoStartup →AIObsessionDBReal-time data warehouse for agentsYC F26San FranciscoStartup →AISona8Voice agents survey employees to map, improve & automate workflowsYC F26San FranciscoStartup →AICautionHosting platform for software you can't afford to have hackedYC S26George TownStartup →AIRiftenEarned intelligence. An independent AI research lab.YC S26San FranciscoStartup →AIOvershootWe optimize inference stacks for teamsYC W26San FranciscoStartup →AISixtyfourIntelligence Infrastructure on People and EntitiesYC X25San FranciscoStartup →AILuminalMaking AI run fast on any hardware.YC S25San FranciscoStartup →AIMSPilotTurn AI adoption into a recurring revenue line.YC F25San FranciscoStartup →AIScott AIThe planning layer for teams that build with coding agentsYC F25New York CityStartup →AISourcebotHelping humans and AI agents understand massive codebasesYC F25San FranciscoStartup →AICodeAnt AIAutonomous offensive and defensive cybersecurity platformYC W24San FranciscoStartup →AIHUDPlatform and marketplace for RL environments and AI dataYC W25San FranciscoStartup →AICascoAutonomous security testing for web apps, APIs, cloud, and AI systemsYC X25Startup →AIGodelaAI Physics Engine to replace simulations and prototypesYC X25San FranciscoStartup →Developer toolsAviernUnmanned cargo airplanesYC F26Los AngelesStartup →AIDreamscale LabsReal-time cloud inference for robotics.YC F26San FranciscoStartup →AITilionSuper fast, unblockable browser infra for agentsYC F26San FranciscoStartup →AIConiferIntelligent decisions for critical AI operationsYC S26San FranciscoStartup →AIOneTrianglePrefill optimizations for the fastest inferenceYC S26San FranciscoStartup →AIOpenVectorAI that turns any camera to an autonomous worker with real-time visionYC S26San FranciscoStartup →AIExpanseUnlock wasted GPU capacity.YC X26LondonStartup →AIPLAN0 AIConstruction Cost Intelligence.YC X26Startup →AI/dev/fast/dev/fast is the AI-native code forgeYC W26San FranciscoStartup →AIARC Prize FoundationAI benchmarks that measure general intelligence and inspire new ideasYC W26San FranciscoStartup →AIChamberThe AIOps Agent for ML TeamsYC W26SeattleStartup →AIShofoThe World's Largest Video LibraryYC W26San FranciscoStartup →AISynthetic SciencesInfrastructure for Autonomous ScienceYC W26San FranciscoStartup →AIAutumnBilling infrastructure for AIYC S25LondonStartup →AIManufactCloud infrastructure for MCP servers and Claude / ChatGPT plugins.YC S25San FranciscoStartup →AITesoraFrontier AI for ActuariesYC S25San FranciscoStartup →AILemmaProduction Monitoring for AI agentsYC F25San FranciscoStartup →AIUnsiloed AIAPI for parsing multimodal unstructured dataYC F25San FranciscoStartup →AISciloopExpert STEM reasoning data for frontier AI labs.YC F25San FranciscoStartup →AIAirweaveThe open-source context retrieval layer for agentsYC X25San FranciscoStartup →AIMesmerWe build software factories for engineering teamsYC X25BerlinStartup →DataFivetranThe leader in automated data movementYC W13San FranciscoStartup →AISpurSpur is the validation infrastructure enterprises use to ship at the…YC S24New York CityStartup →
Company
HubReal-world training data for frontier AI labs and robotics.team of 60hiringYC X26ActiveAI, Data, Devtools
HypercubicAgentic AI for Mainframe Operations and Modernizationteam of 3on 3 Glyph sourcesYC F25 +1ActiveAI, Devtools
SazabiAI-native observability and security platformteam of 10on 3 Glyph sourcesYC X26ActiveAI, Devtools
BrickantaAgentic AI for Society Buildersteam of 25hiringYC F25ActiveAI, Devtools
OnyxOpen Source AI Chat32.2k starsteam of 20YC W24AcquiredAI, Data, Devtools
Bolna AIVoice AI to enable India's next billionteam of 21hiringYC F25ActiveAI, Devtools
MinicorScalable windows desktop automationsteam of 9hiringYC X26ActiveAI, Devtools
RASPIREAutonomous Runtime Securityteam of 52 programsYC X26 +1ActiveAI, Devtools
DiditInfrastructure for identity and fraud.team of 20YC W26ActiveAI, Devtools
e2ethe software verification layer for the agentic coding erateam of 8hiringYC X26ActiveAI, Devtools
ManiculeAgentRel, Devrel For Agentsteam of 8hiringYC X26ActiveAI, Devtools
TaskletAgents that own the workteam of 8hiringYC X26ActiveAI, Devtools
Piris LabsThe Networking Layer of AIteam of 8hiringYC W26ActiveAI, Devtools
NaïveAutonomous Company Infrastructureteam of 12on 4 Glyph sourcesYC X25ActiveAI, Devtools
Runtime.siRobots that think in simulationteam of 5hiringYC F26ActiveAI, Devtools
Luca IQAPI-first tax engine for CPA firms and developersteam of 5hiringYC S26ActiveAI, Devtools
RunAnywhereFastest inference anywhere: open models on-prem, hosted or on-deviceteam of 5hiringYC W26ActiveAI, Devtools
truthsystemsAutomatically blocking risky behavior with real-time governance agentsteam of 62 programsYC S25 +1ActiveAI, Devtools
TolmoTolmo is the AI security platform that secures every layer of cloud…team of 12YC X26ActiveAI, Devtools
SimanticFirmware simulation for AI agentsteam of 4hiringYC F26ActiveAI, Devtools
SpekoOpenRouter for Voice AI: one API, every call on the best speech modelteam of 4hiringYC S26ActiveAI, Devtools
OpenWorkThe open source alternative to Claude Coworkteam of 4hiringYC X26ActiveAI, Devtools
Paradev (formerly Superset)Building self-improving softwareteam of 4hiringYC X26ActiveAI, Devtools
HyperspellYour Company Brainteam of 8hiringYC F25ActiveAI, Data, Devtools
Agnost AIWe find where AI agents fail, then train better models to run them.2 programsteam of 2YC S26 +1ActiveAI, Data, Devtools
DecaworkTraining company-specific models that approve AI actions.2 programsteam of 2YC S26 +1ActiveAI, Devtools
ModalAI infrastructure that developers loveled by General Catalyst25 open rolesNeo Not statedAI, Devtools
BlaxelThe infrastructure for autonomous agentsteam of 12acquiredYC X25AcquiredAI, Devtools
WeaveAI to understand and then route engineering workteam of 16on 3 Glyph sourcesYC W25ActiveAI, Data, Devtools
ZeroEntropyArtificial Specialized Intelligenceteam of 6acquiredYC W25 +1AcquiredAI, Devtools
StoaThe market behind AI hardware.team of 3hiringYC S26ActiveAI, Devtools
AmborasAI Native Shopifyteam of 3hiringYC X26ActiveAI, Data, Devtools
ArdentDatabase sandboxes for Agentsteam of 3hiringYC X26ActiveAI, Data, Devtools
ArmatureWe get your product picked by coding agents.team of 3hiringYC X26ActiveAI, Devtools
RainbrandThe brand layer for agents.team of 3hiringYC X26ActiveAI, Devtools
SoriaAI Financial Research Terminal built for Healthcare (and beyond)team of 3hiringYC X26ActiveAI, Devtools
AemonThe Forward-Deployed AI Research Engineerteam of 3hiringYC W26ActiveAI, Devtools
Visibl SemiconductorsCustom silicon for power electronicsteam of 3hiringYC W26ActiveAI, Devtools
F2The AI platform for private markets investorsteam of 15hiringYC S25ActiveAI, Devtools
SF TensorInfrastructure for AI labs to focus on research.team of 6hiringYC F25ActiveAI, Devtools
InvertixAI that operates power plantsteam of 8YC F26ActiveAI, Devtools
FamiliarMultimodal Translationteam of 8YC S26ActiveAI, Devtools
HyperProbeAI engineer that debugs and fixes production incidents in realtimeteam of 8YC S26ActiveAI, Devtools
ProjectXAgent native workspace for heavy parallel workflows on the webteam of 8YC X26ActiveAI, Devtools
FlowiseAIOpen source GenAI development platform55.5k starsteam of 5YC S23AcquiredAI, Devtools
idlerHill-climb any benchmark, for any model, in any domain.team of 12hiringYC S25ActiveAI, Devtools
BayMachinesAir-gapped compute for defense contractorsteam of 7YC X26ActiveAI, Devtools
AirCaps AIVoice AI that hears what other models miss.team of 5hiringYC F25ActiveAI, Devtools
AntigenContinuous offensive security for the enterprise.team of 5hiringYC F25ActiveAI, Devtools
MossReal-time semantic search for Conversational AIteam of 5hiringYC F25ActiveAI, Devtools
LuceboxSelf-improving inference workstationteam of 2hiringYC W27ActiveAI, Devtools
Reason MachinesReason is the AI teammate for work and code.team of 2hiringYC F26ActiveAI, Devtools
Workers IOSimulation environments for verifying mission-critical softwareteam of 2hiringYC F26ActiveAI, Devtools
EdviroAI That Operates Energy Infrastructureteam of 2hiringYC S26ActiveAI, Devtools
ParasmaReplacing GPUs with human brain cellsteam of 2hiringYC S26ActiveAI, Devtools
Waddle LabsLLMs that control robotsteam of 2hiringYC S26ActiveAI, Devtools
HumworkHuman experts as API for AI Agentsteam of 2hiringYC X26ActiveAI, Devtools
KlaimeeLiability insurance for AI Agents. You deploy agents, we cover you.team of 2hiringYC X26ActiveAI, Devtools
ReplicasRun any coding agent harness in the cloudteam of 2hiringYC X26ActiveAI, Devtools
Uno WalletThe AI mobile wallet that replaces Apple Payteam of 2hiringYC X26ActiveAI, Devtools
Cumulus LabsThe Fastest Multimodal Inference OSteam of 2hiringYC W26ActiveAI, Devtools
OrthogonalAgentic Payments for APIsteam of 2hiringYC W26ActiveAI, Devtools
SalusGuardrails to validate your agent's actions before they executeteam of 2hiringYC W26ActiveAI, Devtools
shortkitMedia infra for consumer appsteam of 2hiringYC W26ActiveDevtools
ZatannaBuilding the infrastructure for AI to interact with softwareteam of 2hiringYC W26ActiveAI, Devtools
SupabaseBuild in a weekend. Scale to millions.110.8k starsteam of 120YC S20ActiveData, Devtools
AgentMailEmail Inboxes for AI Agentsteam of 10hiringYC S25ActiveAI, Devtools
MagneticAI Tax Preparer for CPA firmsteam of 10hiringYC S25ActiveAI, Devtools
JinkoTravel Search & Booking Infrastructure for AI agentsteam of 6YC F26ActiveAI, Devtools
The Letter CompanyThe world's first coding agent, harness, & IDE for growth engineering.team of 6YC F26ActiveAI, Devtools
Context.devWeb data API for agentsteam of 6YC S26ActiveAI, Devtools
Arga LabsReal-world sandboxes to test and train AI agentsteam of 6YC X26ActiveAI, Devtools
Deep InteractionsMultiplayer AI app builderteam of 6YC X26ActiveAI, Devtools
InstaBoxCloud computers for AI agentsteam of 6YC X26ActiveAI, Devtools
LiteLLMCall every LLM API like it's OpenAI [100+ LLMs]59.6k starsteam of 20YC W23ActiveAI, Devtools
KERNELCrazy fast, open source infra for AI agents to use the Internetteam of 22YC S25ActiveAI, Devtools
MOVEdotAI Agents for Hardware Engineeringteam of 10YC F25ActiveAI, Devtools
AfterQueryApplied research lab curating data solutions for foundation model…team of 30hiringYC W25ActiveAI, Data, Devtools
WaferAI that makes AI fastteam of 21YC S25ActiveAI, Devtools
RaindropSentry for AI Agentsled by Lightspeedteam of 9YC W24ActiveAI, Devtools
Dedalus LabsPersistent computers for AI agentsteam of 8hiringYC S25ActiveAI, Devtools
InterfereGive engineering, product, and design teams insight into unseen issuesteam of 8hiringYC S25ActiveAI, Devtools
Aikido TechnologiesClean marine AI datacentersteam of 5YC F26ActiveAI, Devtools
ObsessionDBReal-time data warehouse for agentsteam of 5YC F26ActiveAI, Data, Devtools
Sona8Voice agents survey employees to map, improve & automate workflowsteam of 5YC F26ActiveAI, Devtools
CautionHosting platform for software you can't afford to have hackedteam of 5YC S26ActiveAI, Devtools
RiftenEarned intelligence. An independent AI research lab.team of 5YC S26ActiveAI, Devtools
OvershootWe optimize inference stacks for teamsteam of 5YC W26ActiveAI, Devtools
SixtyfourIntelligence Infrastructure on People and Entitiesteam of 12hiringYC X25ActiveAI, Devtools
LuminalMaking AI run fast on any hardware.team of 7hiringYC S25ActiveAI, Devtools
MSPilotTurn AI adoption into a recurring revenue line.team of 3hiringYC F25ActiveAI, Devtools
Scott AIThe planning layer for teams that build with coding agentsteam of 3hiringYC F25ActiveAI, Devtools
SourcebotHelping humans and AI agents understand massive codebasesteam of 3hiringYC F25ActiveAI, Devtools
CodeAnt AIAutonomous offensive and defensive cybersecurity platformteam of 252 programsYC W24 +1ActiveAI, Devtools
HUDPlatform and marketplace for RL environments and AI datateam of 24hiringYC W25ActiveAI, Devtools
CascoAutonomous security testing for web apps, APIs, cloud, and AI systemsteam of 10hiringYC X25ActiveAI, Devtools
GodelaAI Physics Engine to replace simulations and prototypesteam of 10hiringYC X25ActiveAI, Devtools
AviernUnmanned cargo airplanesteam of 4YC F26ActiveDevtools
Dreamscale LabsReal-time cloud inference for robotics.team of 4YC F26ActiveAI, Devtools
TilionSuper fast, unblockable browser infra for agentsteam of 4YC F26ActiveAI, Devtools
ConiferIntelligent decisions for critical AI operationsteam of 4YC S26ActiveAI, Devtools
OneTrianglePrefill optimizations for the fastest inferenceteam of 4YC S26ActiveAI, Devtools
OpenVectorAI that turns any camera to an autonomous worker with real-time visionteam of 4YC S26ActiveAI, Devtools
ExpanseUnlock wasted GPU capacity.team of 4YC X26ActiveAI, Devtools
PLAN0 AIConstruction Cost Intelligence.team of 4YC X26ActiveAI, Data, Devtools
/dev/fast/dev/fast is the AI-native code forgeteam of 4YC W26ActiveAI, Devtools
ARC Prize FoundationAI benchmarks that measure general intelligence and inspire new ideasteam of 4YC W26ActiveAI, Devtools
ChamberThe AIOps Agent for ML Teamsteam of 4YC W26ActiveAI, Devtools
ShofoThe World's Largest Video Libraryteam of 4YC W26ActiveAI, Data, Devtools
Synthetic SciencesInfrastructure for Autonomous Scienceteam of 4YC W26ActiveAI, Devtools
AutumnBilling infrastructure for AIteam of 5hiringYC S25ActiveAI, Data, Devtools
ManufactCloud infrastructure for MCP servers and Claude / ChatGPT plugins.team of 5hiringYC S25ActiveAI, Devtools
TesoraFrontier AI for Actuariesteam of 5hiringYC S25ActiveAI, Devtools
LemmaProduction Monitoring for AI agentsteam of 2hiringYC F25ActiveAI, Data, Devtools
Unsiloed AIAPI for parsing multimodal unstructured datateam of 2hiringYC F25ActiveAI, Devtools
SciloopExpert STEM reasoning data for frontier AI labs.team of 6YC F25ActiveAI, Data, Devtools
AirweaveThe open-source context retrieval layer for agentsteam of 7hiringYC X25ActiveAI, Devtools
MesmerWe build software factories for engineering teamsteam of 7hiringYC X25ActiveAI, Devtools
FivetranThe leader in automated data movementteam of 1.2k11.8k starsYC W13ActiveData, Devtools
SpurSpur is the validation infrastructure enterprises use to ship at the…team of 153 programsYC S24 +2ActiveAI, Devtools

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  • Developer Tools739
  • Infrastructure204
  • Open Source182
  • API149
  • Generative AI87
  • Machine Learning79
  • Analytics66
  • Data Engineering59
  • Cloud Computing59
  • DevOps54
  • Fintech49
  • Enterprise Software48

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