humans&
humans&, based in Stanford, California, provides AI models that solve complex business challenges through memory-aware AI and conversational interfaces. Founded in 2025 by Eric Zelikman (ex-xAI, Microsoft, Google), Noah Goodman (ex-Stanford University, Google DeepMind), and Georges Harik (ex-Google, Silicon Graphics), the company has 8 employees (+60% 6M growth). Bootstrapped, they focus on scaling across industries to improve decision-making. 11,214 web visits, 381 LinkedIn followers, 7 signals (90d)🔥.
Yutori
Yutori, based in San Francisco, reimagines web interaction by building AI agents for everyday digital tasks, aiming to be an AI chief-of-staff. Founded in 2024 by Devi Parikh (ex-Meta, Georgia Institute of Technology) and Dhruv Batra (ex-Caliper), the company has 33 employees (+57.1% 6M growth). Raised $15M from investors like SV Angel, Fei-Fei Li, Guillermo Rauch, Vladlen Koltun, Bryan McCann, and Rob Toews from Radical Ventures. 34,846 web visits (+120.3%), 3,688 LinkedIn followers, 6 signals (90d)🔥.
Terraform Industries
Terraform Industries, based in Los Angeles, scales technology to produce cheap natural gas from sunlight and air, reducing CO2 emissions. Founded in 2021 by Casey Handmer (ex-NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Hyperloop One), the company has 24 employees (+33.3% 6M growth). Raised $36M from investors Patrick Collison, Climate Capital, Nat Friedman, John Collison, and Trajectory Ventures (Peter Bordes). Delivered carbon-neutral synthetic natural gas to utility partners. 11,341 web visits (+56.1%), 3,490 LinkedIn followers, 5 signals (90d)🔥.
Superpower
Superpower, based in San Francisco, provides a health optimization platform with over 100 lab tests annually and personalized health insights for $499. Founded in 2022 by Kevin Unkrich (ex-Monosi, Amazon), Jacob Peters (ex-Commsor, J.P. Morgan), and Max Marchione (ex-Goldman Sachs, Ultraviolet Ventures), the company has 149 employees (+30.7% 6M growth). Raised $34M from investors including Visible Ventures and Winklevoss Capital. 150,000+ members. 302,156 web visits (+9.5%), 29,411 LinkedIn followers, 6 signals (90d)🔥.
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Rox
Rox, based in San Francisco, offers an AI-powered sales productivity platform to enhance customer engagement and sales performance. Founded in 2024 by Avanika Narayan (ex-Stanford University, Predibase), Ishan Mukherjee (ex-New Relic, Inc., Pixie), Diogo Ribeiro (ex-Lacework, ThousandEyes), Shriram Sridharan (ex-Confluent, Amazon Web Services (AWS)), and Lindsay Grace (ex-Verkada), the company has 76 employees (+111.1% 6M growth). Raised $50M from Sequoia Capital and General Catalyst. 39,932 web visits (-29.2%), 8,295 LinkedIn followers, 5 signals (90d)🔥.
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Cursive
Cursive, based in London, provides generative AI experiences for software integration, targeting B2B teams. Founded in 2025 by Olivier Henaff (ex-Google DeepMind, New York University), the company has 5 employees. Bootstrapped, they focus on scalable AI features for enterprise applications. 1,306 web visits, 186 LinkedIn followers, 4 signals (90d)🔥.
Dust
Dust is building an operating system for AI agents. It provides a platform for organizations to build, deploy, and manage custom AI assistants and applications tailored to their internal workflows and data. Raised $21.5M (2 rounds), latest: $16.1M (Jun 2024). Team: 39 employees. Founded by Stanislas Polu (Stanford, ex-OpenAI, ex-Stripe), Gabriel Hubert (Stanford, ex-Stripe, ex-Alan). Backed by Sequoia Capital; partners: Juliene Bek and Konstantine Buhler.
Staer
Staer provides physical AI for autonomous mobile robot fleets, enabling them to map, understand, plan, and improve. Their technology enables robots to map new environments, understand space, plan movements, and continuously improve their operations, making them truly autonomous. Team: 6 employees. Founded by Jan Erik Solem (Lund University, ex-Meta), Johan Gyllenspetz (Lund University, ex-Meta), Carl Silbersky (ex-BIMobject), Yubin Kuang (Lund University, ex-Meta). The team brings deep prior collaboration, having built Mapillary together before its acquisition by Facebook.
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HumanLayer (YC F24)
HumanLayer is building a bridge between autonomous AI workflows and human judgment, giving developers granular control over approvals and feedback loops. Its mission is to make AI the best way to solve hard problems in complex codebases. Raised $0.5M in a Pre Seed round (Dec 2024). Team: 2 employees. Founded by Dexter Horthy (The University of Chicago, ex-Metalytics.dev, ex-Replicated).
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Sylvan Labs
Sylvan Labs developing an AI-powered account manager specifically designed for post-sales teams. Their core mission is to make customer relationships transparent and easily understandable. With a team of 5, it's co-founded by Charles Li (The University of Texas at Austin, ex-Vista Equity Partners, ex-Bessemer Venture Partners), Shangyan Li (Harvard University, ex-GrubMarket Inc.), and Raj Mukherjee (Ex-Indeed, Ex-Google, Ex-Microsoft). Sylvan Labs is backed by Krew Capital, Kyber Knight Capital and New Era Ventures.
Chroma
Chroma is an open-source AI application database that provides embeddings, vector search, document storage, full-text search, metadata filtering, and multi-modal capabilities in a single platform. Raised $20.3M (2 rounds), latest: $18M (Apr 2023). Team: 21 employees. Founded by Jeff Huber (ex-Standard Cyborg, ex-MightyHive). Backed by Alexander Kvamme from Quiet Capital.
Cosmic Labs
Cosmic Labs is building the control plane for firmware and integration engineering. It’s a workspace where engineers can configure, test, and debug real devices with precision and control. Cosmic Labs is spearheaded by a small team of 3. Founders include Kislay Parashar (University of Maryland, ex-EchoStar Corporation) and Meg McNulty (Stanford University, ex-SandboxAQ). Cosmic Labs is backed by the NVIDIA Inception Program and AWS Activate.
Cosmic
Trupeer.ai
Trupeer.ai creates AI-powered product videos and documentation from screen recordings. Trupeer.ai has secured $3.1M across 4 rounds, with the latest being $3.0M on July 15, 2025. The team comprises 19 members. Founded by Shivali Goyal (IIT Delhi, ex-Pillow - DeFi For Everyone, ex-Boston Consulting Group), Pritish Gupta (IIT Bombay, ex-Dozee, ex-Boston Consulting Group). Partnered with Madhur Makkar from RTP Global.
Daytona
Daytona provides a secure, scalable infrastructure for executing AI-generated code. The company has raised $14.0M over 4 rounds, with a notable $5.0M raised on June 25, 2024. Daytona's team has grown to 21 employees. It was founded by Ivan Burazin (University of Split, ex-Infobip, ex-Codeanywhere) and Vedran Jukic (ex-Codeanywhere). Backed by investor partners including Amir Shevat from Darkmode Ventures and Kevin Zhang from Upfront Ventures.
Cargolabs
Cargolabs leverages AI to revolutionize logistics and supply chain management. It specializes in optimizing freight operations, predictive analytics, and automated decision-making. Team: 3 employees. Founded by Denis Stepanov (Lomonosov Moscow State University, ex-Inkitt), Dr. Pierric Appert (University of Glasgow, ex-Superlyst Ventures, ex-Devialet).
Dynamiq
Dynamiq focuses on AI-driven solutions for business efficiency, featuring process automation, data analytics, and custom AI models. Raised undisclosed amount in Pre Seed round (May 2024). Team: 9 employees. Founded by Vitalii Duk (Wrexham University, ex-Anecdote, ex-Careem). Backed by Diaspora Ventures (Marvin Liao), TA Ventures (Richard Armstrong), u.ventures (Bohdan Svyrydov), Geek Ventures (Ihar Mahaniok).
FrontierOne
FrontierOne is building the Sovereign AI Cloud and infrastructure for secure national AI applications. Our mission is to accelerate the frontiers of AI globally - by building the Sovereign AI Cloud and Infrastructure with the cyber-security, accuracy, and ownership that countries need for AI in critical national functions - such as defense, health, finance and other core government industries - and enables them to develop a strong local AI ecosystem. Team: 5 employees. Founded by Sameer Chishty (Harvard College,ex-Bain, ex-McKinsey), Frank Meehan (University of Sydney, ex-Inq Mobile, ex-Ericsson), Tee Ganbold (University of Leeds, ex-Cambridge Analytica, ex-ConsenSys).
Kortix AI
Kortix AI is building AI infrastructure for transitioning from human to AI workforce.. Team: 8 employees. Founded by Marko O. Kraemer (Europäische Schule Rhein/Main, ex-Plutus), Domenico Gagliardi ( Università degli Studi 'Gabriele d'Annunzio' di Chieti, ex- IGT Italia). Kortix AI has raised $4.0M backed by Agent Fund, Entrepreneur First and Fifth Quarter Ventures.
Kortix Team
Rivet
Rivet leverages design and technology to streamline product development processes. Rivet is a visual AI tool that enables product designers to directly change any UI in software. Rivet provides a platform focused on enhancing collaboration among product teams, integrating features like real-time feedback, version control, and automated workflow optimizations. Founded by Sam Gorman (Stanford University, ex-Snorkel AI). River is backed by Y Combinator (Partner: Aaron Epstein).
