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319 companies · 81% AI · latest cohort SR007 · Games, consumer and AI; 12-week program

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32 of 32 companies

CompanyProgram
Echo ChunkAI Strategy Games that Generate Themselves. Starting with Echo Chess: the viral "Wordle for Chess"Not statedAIspeedrun +1SR003
nunu.aiBuilding the first multimodal agents to play and test games.ActiveAIYC +1W23
2weeksMaking breakout hits on the open web for you and your friends.Not statedOtherspeedrunSR003
AdzapMobile-grade performance and attribution solution for PC/Console gamesNot statedOtherspeedrunSR003
AvatarOSMaking Digital Humans RealNot statedAIspeedrunSR003
CloutedClouted: where culture meets distribution.Not statedAIspeedrunSR003
Communioncreating Altar — a social deduction royale.Not statedOtherspeedrunSR003
Crema SocialRedefining international dating one lunch at a timeNot statedOtherspeedrunSR003
Definitely GamesBuilding the future of online coop games.Not statedOtherspeedrunSR003
Eclipsa AIPioneering Conversational Commerce in gaming through social messaging.Not statedOtherspeedrunSR003
ElseBuild something ElseNot statedAI, DevtoolsspeedrunSR003
Endo HealthWe are building the first AI clinic for weight lossNot statedAIspeedrunSR003
EntropiaAI Native Anime & Comics for Gen Z.Not statedAIspeedrunSR003
Exia LabsWe enable teams of robots and humans to complete combat missions autonomously.Not statedAIspeedrunSR003
Flat2VR StudiosTransforming your favorite games into immersive VR experiences. Flat2VR Studios brings the classics to life in virtual reality.Not statedOtherspeedrunSR003
Hatsu LabsgamingNot statedAIspeedrunSR003
Human ComputerBuilding the world's greatest triple-I game studio.Not statedOtherspeedrunSR003
KeewanoThe first database built for machine reasoning at scale, giving agents the context to answer questions traditional databases were never designed to handle.Not statedAIspeedrunSR003
LFGThe Hit Factory Building the Biggest Games for Gen AlphaNot statedOtherspeedrunSR003
Little UmbrellaSocial AI Games for next generation!Not statedAI, DevtoolsspeedrunSR003
ManifestGen Z mental health. 15.8 million manifestations since the start of Speedrun.Not statedAIspeedrunSR003
NoMiNoMi gives you the end result of therapy and all you have to do is play a game.Not statedAIspeedrunSR003
OrbitalBuilding the Pixar of AI.Not statedAIspeedrunSR003
Refactor GamesNext-generation sports video gamesNot statedOtherspeedrunSR003
RUNREALAccelerate Game Development with RUNREALNot statedDevtoolsspeedrunSR003
SchemataVirtual Training and Simulation for Defense and EnterpriseNot statedAIspeedrunSR003
SekaiWhat You Imagine is What You get.Not statedAIspeedrunSR003
SoundmapTop 5 in Music on the App Store :)Not statedOtherspeedrunSR003
Spark SpaceHelping teachers and students use AI to enhance learningNot statedAIspeedrunSR003
TaleMonster GamesRedefining what casual means in mobile gamingNot statedOtherspeedrunSR003
TapTap LiveNext generation social games 💛 starting with TapTap Trivia (played by 100K+ Gen Z college students)Not statedAIspeedrunSR003
VRLGames that go viralNot statedOtherspeedrunSR003

About a16z speedrun

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Andreessen Horowitz
Focus
Games, consumer and AI; 12-week program
Source
the speedrun companies API (what speedrun.a16z.com/companies reads)
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Monthly, on the first Monday; last read 2026-09-24, 319 rows
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