Dev Agents
Dev Agents SF-based is revolutionizing AI development with its next-gen operating system for AI agents, simplifying the creation of AI agents with new UI patterns and a cloud-based OS. Raised $56.0M in a Seed round (Nov 2024). Team: 11 employees (+10% 6m, 1 recent hire), 9.1% eng. Founded by Hugo Barra (MIT, MIT, ex-Detect), David Singleton (University of Cambridge, ex-Stripe, ex-Google), Nicholas Jitkoff (Carnegie Mellon, Yale, ex-Figma, ex-Meta). Backed by Kyber Knight Capital (Salvatore Spina, Sunny Dhillon, Linus Liang), Conviction (Niki Nguyen, Vivian Nguyen, Pranav Reddy), Index Ventures (Avron Marcus, Brendan Boyle, Shaani Desai), CapitalG (Lauren Spiel, Kristin Drew, Andy Chu); partners: Nina Achadjian (Index Ventures), Jill Chase (CapitalG). Strong funding, elite founding team, and strategic investor support position Dev Agents as a leader in AI OS innovation.
Standard Bots
Standard Bots NYC-based pioneers in AI-powered robotics, offering the RO1, a six-axis robotic arm for manufacturing automation, alongside no-code programming and AI learning models. Raised $65.0M (6 rounds), latest: $63.0M Series B (Jul 2024). Team: 22 employees (+4.8% 6m, 1 recent hire), 40.9% eng. Founded by Evan Beard (Universitat Politècnica de València, LSE, ex-A Plus), David Golden (Wharton, LSE, ex-Miralinc Pharma). Backed by General Catalyst (Eduardo Correa, Nikolaus Pelinka, Josh R.), Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund, SV Angel (Elvis Frank Dominguez Vidal, Aaron McLear, Beth Turner), Presight Capital (Kevin Watanabe, CFA, Constantin Bisanz, Marley Windham-Herman); partners: Quentin Clark (General Catalyst), Max Rimpel (General Catalyst), Franziska Bossart (Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund), Fabian Hansen (Presight Capital). Significant funding, diverse investor base, and advanced robotics technology position Standard Bots at the forefront of manufacturing automation.
Nilus
Nilus NYC-based revolutionizes treasury management for finance teams with AI, offering real-time account visibility, automated reconciliation, and forecasting. Raised $18.6M (3 rounds), latest: $10M Seed (Jan 2025). Team: 40 employees (+11.1% 6m, 4 recent hires). Founded by Daniel Kalish (The Interdisciplinary Center, Zell Entrepreneurship Program @IDC, ex-PayPal), Danielle Shaul (Shenkar - Engineering. Design. Art., Ohel Shem, ex-Fundbox). [Nilus] backed by Better Tomorrow Ventures (Özge Öz, Lindsay Holden, Yoni Lateiner), Bessemer Venture Partners (Jaykishan Agarwal, Anita Umarji, Laura Weisbord, CPA); partners: Victoria Treyger (Felicis), Sheel Mohnot (Better Tomorrow Ventures), Yuval Ariav (Symbol), Adam Fisher (Bessemer Venture Partners). Rapid funding growth, strong founding team, tier-1 investor backing position Nilus as fintech leader.
Kilo Code
Kilo Code based in SF, California, introduces an open-source AI coding agent for VS Code, enhancing coding with features like Orchestrator, Architect, Code, and Debug modes. Founded by Sytse Sijbrandij (Geert Groote College, Y Combinator, ex-GitLab, ex-Sijbrandij Foundation). Kilo Code aims to automate coding tasks, offering a pay-as-you-use model with $20 free credits, targeting developers with a focus on open-source and community-driven development. The product emphasizes hallucination-free code by referencing library documentation and supports multiple language models. Kilo Code's remote-first approach and contributions to open-source projects underscore its commitment to developer productivity and innovation. Kilo has raised an undisclosed amount backed by Breakers VC & Quiet Capital
Unwrap.ai
Unwrap.ai Santa Barbara-based redefines user-builder communication with its AI-powered platform that proactively surfaces actionable insights for product and CX teams. Offers AI, Feedback Analytics, Customer Insights, Product Development, Data Aggregation. Raised $15.2M (2 rounds), latest: $12M Series A (Jan 2025). Team: 16 employees (+6.7% 6m, 1 recent hire), 12.5% eng. Founded by Ivan Bercovich (UC Santa Barbara, UMass Amherst, ex-ChipAgents, ex-Rogo), Ryan Millner (UNSW, Duke, ex-Allen Institute for AI (AI2), ex-Amazon), Ashwin Singhania (UC Santa Barbara, ex-Amazon). Backed by ScOp Venture Capital (James Freedman, Mark Weeks, Scott Coleman), Cercano Management (Brady Zerr, Ryan Gochenaur, CPA, Steven Slover), AI2 Incubator (Emad Elwany, Vu Ha, Bryan Hale), Scale Venture Partners (Joan DeGennaro, Lisa Gaston, Laura Sebastiani); partner: Rory O'Driscoll (Scale Venture Partners). Strong funding, diverse founding team, strategic investor support position Unwrap.ai as AI-driven customer insights leader.
Pace
Pace NYC-based pioneers AI-native Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) for insurers, offering AI, BPO, Insurance, Automation, Claims Processing, Policy Servicing. Team: 9 employees (+125% 6m, 5 recent hires), 0% eng. Founded by Jamie Cuffe (Princeton, ex-Retool, ex-Cheer). Pace's 'Agentic Process Outsourcing' (APO) contrasts traditional BPO by ensuring rapid deployment, expert accuracy through AI + human verification, instant speed at infinite scale, and performance-based pricing, aiming to revolutionize the $400 billion financial services outsourcing sector. Positioned as a leader in AI-driven BPO for the insurance industry with unique APO model.
TradeFox
TradeFox is a NYC–based prediction-market aggregator and self-custodial prime brokerage, building a professional trading terminal across venues such as Polymarket and other event markets. The project emerged from the earlier factCheck Polymarket terminal and is backed by AllianceDAO and CMT Digital, rather than Startupbootcamp. Founder Prithvir Jhaveri (Duke University; ex-Morgan Stanley) previously built Loch, a crypto portfolio and blockchain-intelligence platform. Recent ecosystem write-ups describe TradeFox as early-stage / testing, pre-token, with a focus on institutional-grade execution tools (TWAP, TP/SL, trailing stops) and self-custody.
Hyperbolic
Hyperbolic, Irvine-based, democratizes AI by aggregating global compute resources for affordable, scalable GPU access and AI services, enabling users to monetize idle computing resources. Raised $19.0M (3 rounds), latest: $12.0M Series A (Dec 2024). Team: 21 employees, 19% eng. Founded by Jasper Zhang (UC Berkeley, Peking University, ex-Citadel Securities), Yuchen Jin (University of Washington, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, ex-OctoML). Backed by Chapter One (Ty Wilkins, Alex Labossiere, Farouk Kadous), Variant (Thomas Dils, Alana Levin, Cooper Kunz), Nomad Capital (Pulkit Gupta), Faction (Nakul Gupta, Justin Barlow, Tim Khoury), Polychain (Luke Pearson, Molly Goldstein, Rima Reddy); partners: Ray Wu (Alumni Ventures), Jesse Walden (Variant). Rapid funding velocity, strong founding team, tier-1 investor backing position Hyperbolic as leader in AI cloud computing space.
Nozomio
Nozomio based in Almaty, Kazakhstan, is revolutionizing software engineering with AI, focusing on enhancing developer capabilities in managing AI agents for code writing and software lifecycle management. Offers AI, Web Development, Coding Education, Developer Tools, Modern Curriculum. Raised $6.7M (2 rounds), latest: $6.2M Seed (Oct 2025). Team: 5 employees (+25% 6m, 1 recent hire). Founded by Arlan Rakhmetzhanov (Y Combinator, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, ex-Stanford University). Backed by Jack Brody, Chris Howard, Sabrina Hahn, Kulveer Taggar, BoxGroup (Corey Nadell, CPA, Arielle Rothman, Disha Karale), Gustav Söderström, Tomer Cohen, Geoff Charles, Joshua Schachter, Y Combinator, LocalGlobe (Ambi Mistry, Georg Ell, Dan Brook), CRV (Heather Judd, Krista Canfield McNish, Hassan Ahmed), Michael Fertik, Thomas Wolf. Strong funding, innovative AI application, strategic investor support position Nozomio as a leader in AI-driven software development.
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Speakeasy
SF-based Speakeasy streamlines API integration with tools for creating SDKs, Docs, and Agentic Tools, targeting companies enhancing API processes. Offers API, SDKs, Terraform, Integration, Developer Tools, Type-safe, Documentation, Automation. Raised $25.9M (3 rounds), latest: $15M Series A (Oct 2024). Team: 17 employees (+6.2% 6m, 1 recent hire), 52.9% eng. Founded by Simon Yu (The London School of Economics and Political Science, Harvard Business School, ex-Flexport), Sagar Batchu (Harvey Mudd College, The International School Bangalore, ex-South Park Commons, ex-Plato). Backed by Firestreak Ventures (Amir Rustamzadeh, Walter Kortschak), Bucky Moore, StoryHouse Ventures (Sean Dempsey, Miles Bird, Matthew Estes), Ameet Patel, FPV Ventures (Alec Gilarde, Jennifer Snodgrass, Ali Esfahani), Todd Berman, Clint Sharp, Jordan Segall, GV (Sridhar Ramaswamy, MD, Chelsea Kunin, Scott Biller), Amit Agarwal, Quiet Capital (Joseph S., Adam Gries, Joanna Weldon), HMC INQ (Edith Harbaugh, Avi Geiger, Mike Beebe), Roopak Venkatakrishnan, Flex Capital (Neil Serebryany, Michel Tricot, Vera Mucaj). Significant funding, high engineering focus, and comprehensive API tooling position Speakeasy as a key player in API management.
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Every
Every SF-based streamlines back-office operations for startups, offering an all-in-one solution for financial management and compliance. Raised $32.0M (3 rounds), latest: $22.5M Series A (Sep 2024). Team: 14 employees (+0% 6m, 0 recent hires), 21.4% eng. Founded by Barry Peterson (ex-Sounding Board, Inc, ex-Reflektive). [Every] backed by Base10 Partners (Anirudh Nair, Sarah Ramos, Robby Greer), Formus Capital (Burak Karahasan, Fethi Sabancı Kamışlı, Cem Garih); partners: Rexhep Dollaku (Base10), Alex Bard (Redpoint), Garry Tan (Y Combinator), Rex Salisbury (Cambrian Ventures). Rapid funding velocity, strong founding team, tier-1 investor backing position Every as a leader in the startup ecosystem.
Anthrogen
Anthrogen SF-based pioneers carbon-negative polymer manufacturing using genetically engineered bacteria and enzymatic cascades. Raised $4.5M (2 rounds), latest: $4.0M Seed (Nov 2024). Team: 3 employees (+0% 6m, 0 recent hires), 0% eng. Founded by Ankit Singhal (Columbia College, Y Combinator, ex-Columbia University), Connor Lee (ex-Yucca Earth, ex-Academiq.ai). [Anthrogen] backed by ReGen Ventures (Rose Marcario, Renée Beaumont, Elena Klonsky), BoxGroup (Corey Nadell, CPA, Arielle Rothman, Disha Karale); partners: Gustaf Alstromer (Y Combinator). Strong founding team, innovative carbon capture technology, and strategic investor support position Anthrogen as a sustainability leader.
Daytona
Daytona, NYC-based, revolutionizes cloud infrastructure with secure, elastic, agent-native solutions enabling AI agents to autonomously execute tools and code in isolated environments. Offers AI Infrastructure, AI Agents, Secure Execution, Isolated Environments; features include sub-100ms sandbox spin-up, headless APIs, parallel execution. Raised $7M (2 rounds), latest: $5M Seed (Jun 2024). Team: 20 employees (+17.6% 6m, 3 recent hires), 25% eng. Founded by Ivan Burazin (University of Split, ex-Infobip, ex-Codeanywhere). Backed by Darkmode Ventures (Evan Piwowarski, Shani Taylor, Kat Orekhova); partners: Amir Shevat (Darkmode Ventures), Kevin Zhang (Upfront Ventures). Rapid funding velocity, strong founding team, tier-1 investor backing position Daytona as AI infrastructure leader.
Aikido Security
Aikido Security based in Belgium delivers a unified platform for code, cloud, and runtime security, integrating 12 security scanners including SCA, secrets detection, and cloud misconfiguration analysis; features AI-powered auto-fix, CI/CD integration, and IDE plugins. Raised $24.6M (3 rounds), latest: $17.0M Series A (May 2024). Team: 56 employees (+14.3% 6m, 7 recent hires), 25.0% eng. Founded by Felix Garriau (Hyper Island, ex-AREA42), Roeland Delrue (Hult International Business School, ex-Showpad), Willem Delbare (Ghent University, ex-Officient). Backed by Inovia Capital (Scott Munro, Meryl A., Claire Glossop Irani), Notion Capital (Thomas Diehl, Jack Richardson, Clare Truscott); partners: Henri Tilloy (Singular), Pietro Bezza (Connect Ventures). Strong funding, comprehensive security features, and significant investor support establish Aikido Security as a key player in the security sector.
ByCharlie Eriksen
