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739 companies · 584 active · 52% AI · most in W23 (49)

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AIMemorablereducing agent reasoning into a graph search problemYC S27San FranciscoStartup →AITesserSeamless cloud dev environmentsYC W27Startup →AIXuluxPrepare your devtool for agentsYC W27San FranciscoStartup →AIAgent 37Cloud Sandbox for AgentsYC F26New York CityStartup →AIAgent RelayLet your teams' coding agents message each otherYC F26San FranciscoStartup →AIAlkera AIReliable and safe data engineering and data science agentsYC F26San FranciscoStartup →AIArmorer LabsContinuous security verification for AI systems in regulated…YC F26San FranciscoStartup →AIAucertA team of expert AI agents that test mobile apps on their own.YC F26San FranciscoStartup →AIBoatThe best cloud VMs for billions of agentsYC F26ParisStartup →AIBoxes.devA better place to run your coding agents.YC F26San FranciscoStartup →AIByteAskThe AI coding agent for C and C++YC F26San FranciscoStartup →AICavemanCaveman cuts what AI agents cost without making them dumber.YC F26AmsterdamStartup →AIComposalSwarms of agents acting like users to find bugs before releaseYC F26LondonStartup →Developer toolsEveryAppMaking every SaaS open sourceYC F26Startup →AIherdrbuilding the open agent runtimeYC F26AnkaraStartup →AIHueTest agents in realistic worlds built from production usageYC F26San FranciscoStartup →AIMaritimeThe managed cloud for AI agents.YC F26San FranciscoStartup →AIMirrorsFix recurring AI agent mistakes with real-time guidanceYC F26San FranciscoStartup →AIOrgoComputers for AgentsYC F26San FranciscoStartup →AIPapayaContinuously improve the quality of your AI agents.YC F26San FranciscoStartup →AIPlover LabsEnable enterprises to ship agent code without human reviewYC F26San FranciscoStartup →AIPomeradoTurn any website into an MCP for your agents, in minutesYC F26San FranciscoStartup →AIReason MachinesReason is the AI teammate for work and code.YC F26San FranciscoStartup →AIRightNowCo-designing the fastest intelligenceYC F26San FranciscoStartup →AIRouterPlusMarketplace for AI inference: the right model at the best priceYC F26BengaluruStartup →AIRysticTrain models and test agents in high-fidelity simulated environmentsYC F26San FranciscoStartup →AISimanticFirmware simulation for AI agentsYC F26WaterlooStartup →AISimulithicAI users that test your app on every device and browserYC F26San FranciscoStartup →AISpacesheepDocuments of the future: the collaboration surface for people and…YC F26San FranciscoStartup →AIThe Letter CompanyThe world's first coding agent, harness, & IDE for growth engineering.YC F26New York CityStartup →AITiloThe Microsoft of the AI era: the operating system for AI agents.YC F26San FranciscoStartup →AIUXDuckBuild better drones. Run better missions.YC F26San FranciscoStartup →AIWondersearchInstant semantic search over your data without embeddings.YC F26San FranciscoStartup →AIWorkers IOSimulation environments for verifying mission-critical softwareYC F26San FranciscoStartup →Developer toolsAgency Tool CompanyReliable infrastructure to build, deploy and manage real-world robots.YC S26DenverStartup →AIAgnost AIWe find where AI agents fail, then train better models to run them.YC S26San FranciscoStartup →AIArchalAPI sandboxes, built for AI agentsYC S26San FranciscoStartup →AIAutoresearch, Inc.Autoresearch as a service: we solve your hardest measurable problemsYC S26San FranciscoStartup →AICodagThe AI gateway for cheaper, faster, permissioned agents.YC S26San FranciscoStartup →AIConiferIntelligent decisions for critical AI operationsYC S26San FranciscoStartup →AIGitCafeThe Git forge for the next hundred billion commitsYC S26San FranciscoStartup →AIGraphify LabsOn-device Knowledge Graph engine for Enterprise SoftwareYC S26San FranciscoStartup →AIhardware intelligenceAI tools for the chips your AI runs onYC S26San FranciscoStartup →AIHilstartAutonomous Hardware TestingYC S26San FranciscoStartup →AIHopliteEffortlessly deploy cloud software factories.YC S26San FranciscoStartup →AIHyperProbeAI engineer that debugs and fixes production incidents in realtimeYC S26San FranciscoStartup →AIInkboxThe identity and communication layer for AI agentsYC S26San FranciscoStartup →AIJcodeHigh performance coding agentsYC S26San FranciscoStartup →AImachine0AWS for AgentsYC S26San FranciscoStartup →AIInactiveMentlioEngineering Intelligence and Token Optimization for the AI-Coding EraYC S26San FranciscoStartup →AIPrizedA cloud devbox that feels localYC S26San FranciscoStartup →AIRiftenEarned intelligence. An independent AI research lab.YC S26San FranciscoStartup →AIRindlerThe IDE for TokenmaxxersYC S26BostonStartup →AISpekoOpenRouter for Voice AI: one API, every call on the best speech modelYC S26San FranciscoStartup →AITokenlessWe find flaws in RL environments and evals and help you fix them.YC S26San FranciscoStartup →AIWaddle LabsLLMs that control robotsYC S26San FranciscoStartup →Developer toolsZavuZavu gives developers one API with smart routing to power every customer message across channels.500 Global Lucha - NONEUnited StatesStartup →AIdecuffUncensored AI models, served at scale with zero data retention.YC X26San FranciscoStartup →AIDeep InteractionsMultiplayer AI app builderYC X26San FranciscoStartup →AIInstaBoxCloud computers for AI agentsYC X26San FranciscoStartup →AIInthPrivacy and consent infrastructure that ships with your codeYC X26LondonStartup →AIKeyframe LabsBring AI to life with the world's best interactive avatarsYC X26Los AngelesStartup →AIKorsoIn DevelopmentYC X26IrvineStartup →AILinzumiTeam chat to command all your company's coding agentsYC X26San FranciscoStartup →AIParadev (formerly Superset)Building self-improving softwareYC X26San FranciscoStartup →AIReplicasRun any coding agent harness in the cloudYC X26San FranciscoStartup →AISuperlogMake software self-healingYC X26ParisStartup →AIZenbuThe browser for agentic developmentYC X26San FranciscoStartup →AI/dev/fast/dev/fast is the AI-native code forgeYC W26San FranciscoStartup →AICorelayerAI production engineer for regulated industriesYC W26San FranciscoStartup →AIIncidentFoxAI SRE agent that triages, coordinates, and fixes production incidentsYC W26San FranciscoStartup →AIo11OpenRouter wallet for paid goods and servicesYC W26San FranciscoStartup →AIQuotient LabsUse Claude Code at 47% less cost in one line of installation.YC W26San FranciscoStartup →AIRunAnywhereFastest inference anywhere: open models on-prem, hosted or on-deviceYC W26San FranciscoStartup →AISalusGuardrails to validate your agent's actions before they executeYC W26San FranciscoStartup →AISkillsyncSearch your agent session historyYC W26San FranciscoStartup →AIAirCaps AIVoice AI that hears what other models miss.YC F25San FranciscoStartup →AIInactiveCoastsLocalhost service isolation and orchestration for git worktreesYC F25Startup →AICompyleThe coding agent that actually collaborates with youYC F25San FranciscoStartup →AIdari.devThe Routing Layer for AI AgentsYC F25San FranciscoStartup →AIFastshotLovable for mobile appsYC F25ThessalonikiStartup →AIKestrel AIAI Agents for Platform EngineeringYC F25San FranciscoStartup →AILemmaProduction Monitoring for AI agentsYC F25San FranciscoStartup →AIMossReal-time semantic search for Conversational AIYC F25San FranciscoStartup →DataParseBuild an API to interact with any website.YC F25San FranciscoStartup →AIRadiusCode and browse in the same placeYC F25San FranciscoStartup →AIInactiveRovrAI FDE Engine that runs your engineering workflowsYC F25San FranciscoStartup →AIs2.devAPI for unlimited, durable, real-time streamsYC F25San FranciscoStartup →AISourcebotHelping humans and AI agents understand massive codebasesYC F25San FranciscoStartup →AISpecificThe cloud platform built for coding agentsYC F25StockholmStartup →AIThe Context CompanyFind what's losing you customers and money in your AI agent and fix itYC F25San FranciscoStartup →AIAgentMailEmail Inboxes for AI AgentsYC S25San FranciscoStartup →AIAlterPrivileged Access Management for AI AgentsYC S25New York CityStartup →Developer toolsargsA better GItHubYC S25New York CityStartup →AIAutosanaAI agents for E2E testing across mobile & webYC S25San FranciscoStartup →AICactus ComputeAutomation Foundation Models For Tiny DevicesYC S25San FranciscoStartup →AICyberdeskSelf learning computer use agent for developersYC S25San FranciscoStartup →AIDedalus LabsPersistent computers for AI agentsYC S25San FranciscoStartup →AIEmbedderAutonomous Firmware EngineerYC S25San FranciscoStartup →AIInterfereGive engineering, product, and design teams insight into unseen issuesYC S25New York CityStartup →
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Memorablereducing agent reasoning into a graph search problemteam of 2YC S27ActiveAI, Devtools
TesserSeamless cloud dev environmentsYC W27ActiveAI, Devtools
XuluxPrepare your devtool for agentsteam of 2YC W27ActiveAI, Devtools
Agent 37Cloud Sandbox for AgentsYC F26ActiveAI, Devtools
Agent RelayLet your teams' coding agents message each otherteam of 2YC F26ActiveAI, Devtools
Alkera AIReliable and safe data engineering and data science agentsteam of 3YC F26ActiveAI, Data, Devtools
Armorer LabsContinuous security verification for AI systems in regulated…team of 2YC F26ActiveAI, Devtools
AucertA team of expert AI agents that test mobile apps on their own.team of 2YC F26ActiveAI, Devtools
BoatThe best cloud VMs for billions of agentsteam of 3YC F26ActiveAI, Devtools
Boxes.devA better place to run your coding agents.team of 2YC F26ActiveAI, Devtools
ByteAskThe AI coding agent for C and C++team of 2YC F26ActiveAI, Devtools
CavemanCaveman cuts what AI agents cost without making them dumber.YC F26ActiveAI, Devtools
ComposalSwarms of agents acting like users to find bugs before releaseteam of 3YC F26ActiveAI, Devtools
EveryAppMaking every SaaS open sourceteam of 2YC F26ActiveDevtools
herdrbuilding the open agent runtimeYC F26ActiveAI, Devtools
HueTest agents in realistic worlds built from production usageteam of 2YC F26ActiveAI, Devtools
MaritimeThe managed cloud for AI agents.team of 3YC F26ActiveAI, Devtools
MirrorsFix recurring AI agent mistakes with real-time guidanceteam of 2YC F26ActiveAI, Devtools
OrgoComputers for AgentsYC F26ActiveAI, Devtools
PapayaContinuously improve the quality of your AI agents.team of 3YC F26ActiveAI, Devtools
Plover LabsEnable enterprises to ship agent code without human reviewteam of 2YC F26ActiveAI, Devtools
PomeradoTurn any website into an MCP for your agents, in minutesteam of 2YC F26ActiveAI, Devtools
Reason MachinesReason is the AI teammate for work and code.team of 2hiringYC F26ActiveAI, Devtools
RightNowCo-designing the fastest intelligenceteam of 2YC F26ActiveAI, Devtools
RouterPlusMarketplace for AI inference: the right model at the best priceteam of 3YC F26ActiveAI, Devtools
RysticTrain models and test agents in high-fidelity simulated environmentsteam of 2YC F26ActiveAI, Devtools
SimanticFirmware simulation for AI agentsteam of 4hiringYC F26ActiveAI, Devtools
SimulithicAI users that test your app on every device and browserteam of 2YC F26ActiveAI, Devtools
SpacesheepDocuments of the future: the collaboration surface for people and…team of 2YC F26ActiveAI, Devtools
The Letter CompanyThe world's first coding agent, harness, & IDE for growth engineering.team of 6YC F26ActiveAI, Devtools
TiloThe Microsoft of the AI era: the operating system for AI agents.team of 2YC F26ActiveAI, Devtools
UXDuckBuild better drones. Run better missions.YC F26ActiveAI, Devtools
WondersearchInstant semantic search over your data without embeddings.team of 2YC F26ActiveAI, Devtools
Workers IOSimulation environments for verifying mission-critical softwareteam of 2hiringYC F26ActiveAI, Devtools
Agency Tool CompanyReliable infrastructure to build, deploy and manage real-world robots.team of 3YC S26ActiveDevtools
Agnost AIWe find where AI agents fail, then train better models to run them.2 programsteam of 2YC S26 +1ActiveAI, Data, Devtools
ArchalAPI sandboxes, built for AI agentsteam of 2YC S26ActiveAI, Devtools
Autoresearch, Inc.Autoresearch as a service: we solve your hardest measurable problemsteam of 3YC S26ActiveAI, Devtools
CodagThe AI gateway for cheaper, faster, permissioned agents.YC S26ActiveAI, Devtools
ConiferIntelligent decisions for critical AI operationsteam of 4YC S26ActiveAI, Devtools
GitCafeThe Git forge for the next hundred billion commitsteam of 2YC S26ActiveAI, Devtools
Graphify LabsOn-device Knowledge Graph engine for Enterprise SoftwareYC S26ActiveAI, Devtools
hardware intelligenceAI tools for the chips your AI runs onteam of 2YC S26ActiveAI, Devtools
HilstartAutonomous Hardware TestingYC S26ActiveAI, Devtools
HopliteEffortlessly deploy cloud software factories.team of 2YC S26ActiveAI, Devtools
HyperProbeAI engineer that debugs and fixes production incidents in realtimeteam of 8YC S26ActiveAI, Devtools
InkboxThe identity and communication layer for AI agentsteam of 3YC S26ActiveAI, Devtools
JcodeHigh performance coding agentsYC S26ActiveAI, Devtools
machine0AWS for AgentsYC S26ActiveAI, Devtools
MentlioEngineering Intelligence and Token Optimization for the AI-Coding EraYC S26InactiveAI, Devtools
PrizedA cloud devbox that feels localteam of 3YC S26ActiveAI, Devtools
RiftenEarned intelligence. An independent AI research lab.team of 5YC S26ActiveAI, Devtools
RindlerThe IDE for Tokenmaxxersteam of 2YC S26ActiveAI, Devtools
SpekoOpenRouter for Voice AI: one API, every call on the best speech modelteam of 4hiringYC S26ActiveAI, Devtools
TokenlessWe find flaws in RL environments and evals and help you fix them.team of 3YC S26ActiveAI, Devtools
Waddle LabsLLMs that control robotsteam of 2hiringYC S26ActiveAI, Devtools
ZavuZavu gives developers one API with smart routing to power every customer message across channels.500 Global Lucha - NONENot statedDevtools
decuffUncensored AI models, served at scale with zero data retention.YC X26ActiveAI, Devtools
Deep InteractionsMultiplayer AI app builderteam of 6YC X26ActiveAI, Devtools
InstaBoxCloud computers for AI agentsteam of 6YC X26ActiveAI, Devtools
InthPrivacy and consent infrastructure that ships with your codeteam of 3YC X26ActiveAI, Devtools
Keyframe LabsBring AI to life with the world's best interactive avatarsteam of 2YC X26ActiveAI, Devtools
KorsoIn Developmentteam of 3YC X26ActiveAI, Devtools
LinzumiTeam chat to command all your company's coding agentsteam of 3YC X26ActiveAI, Devtools
Paradev (formerly Superset)Building self-improving softwareteam of 4hiringYC X26ActiveAI, Devtools
ReplicasRun any coding agent harness in the cloudteam of 2hiringYC X26ActiveAI, Devtools
SuperlogMake software self-healingteam of 2YC X26ActiveAI, Devtools
ZenbuThe browser for agentic developmentYC X26ActiveAI, Devtools
/dev/fast/dev/fast is the AI-native code forgeteam of 4YC W26ActiveAI, Devtools
CorelayerAI production engineer for regulated industriesteam of 3YC W26ActiveAI, Devtools
IncidentFoxAI SRE agent that triages, coordinates, and fixes production incidentsteam of 2YC W26ActiveAI, Devtools
o11OpenRouter wallet for paid goods and servicesteam of 2YC W26ActiveAI, Devtools
Quotient LabsUse Claude Code at 47% less cost in one line of installation.team of 2YC W26ActiveAI, Devtools
RunAnywhereFastest inference anywhere: open models on-prem, hosted or on-deviceteam of 5hiringYC W26ActiveAI, Devtools
SalusGuardrails to validate your agent's actions before they executeteam of 2hiringYC W26ActiveAI, Devtools
SkillsyncSearch your agent session historyteam of 2YC W26ActiveAI, Devtools
AirCaps AIVoice AI that hears what other models miss.team of 5hiringYC F25ActiveAI, Devtools
CoastsLocalhost service isolation and orchestration for git worktreesteam of 2YC F25InactiveAI, Devtools
CompyleThe coding agent that actually collaborates with youteam of 2YC F25ActiveAI, Devtools
dari.devThe Routing Layer for AI Agentsteam of 2YC F25ActiveAI, Devtools
FastshotLovable for mobile appsteam of 3YC F25ActiveAI, Devtools
Kestrel AIAI Agents for Platform Engineeringteam of 2YC F25ActiveAI, Devtools
LemmaProduction Monitoring for AI agentsteam of 2hiringYC F25ActiveAI, Data, Devtools
MossReal-time semantic search for Conversational AIteam of 5hiringYC F25ActiveAI, Devtools
ParseBuild an API to interact with any website.team of 4YC F25ActiveData, Devtools
RadiusCode and browse in the same placeteam of 2YC F25ActiveAI, Devtools
RovrAI FDE Engine that runs your engineering workflowsteam of 3YC F25InactiveAI, Devtools
s2.devAPI for unlimited, durable, real-time streamsteam of 5YC F25ActiveAI, Data, Devtools
SourcebotHelping humans and AI agents understand massive codebasesteam of 3hiringYC F25ActiveAI, Devtools
SpecificThe cloud platform built for coding agentsteam of 2YC F25ActiveAI, Devtools
The Context CompanyFind what's losing you customers and money in your AI agent and fix itteam of 2YC F25ActiveAI, Data, Devtools
AgentMailEmail Inboxes for AI Agentsteam of 10hiringYC S25ActiveAI, Devtools
AlterPrivileged Access Management for AI Agentsteam of 2YC S25ActiveAI, Devtools
argsA better GItHubteam of 2YC S25ActiveDevtools
AutosanaAI agents for E2E testing across mobile & webteam of 5YC S25ActiveAI, Devtools
Cactus ComputeAutomation Foundation Models For Tiny Devicesteam of 8YC S25ActiveAI, Devtools
CyberdeskSelf learning computer use agent for developersteam of 2YC S25ActiveAI, Devtools
Dedalus LabsPersistent computers for AI agentsteam of 8hiringYC S25ActiveAI, Devtools
EmbedderAutonomous Firmware Engineerteam of 6YC S25ActiveAI, Devtools
InterfereGive engineering, product, and design teams insight into unseen issuesteam of 8hiringYC S25ActiveAI, Devtools

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