AI startups in San Francisco

Kapwing

San Francisco

Kapwing is a creative software company that enables digital storytelling and serves as infrastructure for collaborative video creation; launched in 2017 by and for millennials, it has hosted over 30 million videos and helps media companies

Gem

San Francisco

Gem is a recruiting technology company helping organizations hire great teams; co-founded by CEO Steven Bartel (former Dropbox engineer), it launched in 2018 and has attracted funding from Accel, Greylock, and Y Combinator to modernize recr

Senso

San Francisco

Senso.ai is a B2B software and services analytics company delivering generative AI solutions to enterprises, operating under Senso.ai, Senso, and senso.ai; founded by Saroop Bharwani and Thomas Nelson, it aims to help enterprises compete in

PicnicHealth

San Francisco

PicnicHealth makes medical records easily accessible and uses the data to power patient-centered, non-interventional clinical research, leveraging AI to advance data-powered studies.

Compound Eye

San Francisco

Compound Eye builds computer vision and perception tech to teach machines to see. With a US team of 15, it closed a Series A led by a tier-one VC and backed by Khosla Ventures, serving automotive, agriculture, healthcare, defense.

LLM Data Company

San Francisco

Odes and Ink is a creative agency guided by the belief that creativity is transformative; it uses design and technology to build meaningful brands and user experiences that deliver positive, lasting value.

Hyperbound

San Francisco

Hyperbound builds the Sales Performance OS, a sales-tech category that helps sales teams observe and replicate top performers’ behaviors for competitive advantage. A YC S23 alumnus with marquee customers (LinkedIn, Monday.com, Autodesk, Van

Arist

San Francisco

Arist is an enterprise enablement company that automates learning end-to-end with AI-powered enablement team embedded in leaders' tools, delivering right knowledge at right moment through private and public LLMs in messaging apps employees

Flockjay

San Francisco

Flockjay empowers people and companies to show up as their best to customers, with a team drawn from Salesforce, Quizlet, and Teach for America, and backed by investors including Y Combinator, Salesforce Ventures, Lightspeed, and Serena Wil

Serif

San Francisco

"People have a voracious appetite for a better way, and yesterday’s ‘wow’ quickly becomes today’s ‘ordinary’."

TaxGPT

San Francisco

TaxGPT offers an AI co-pilot for tax accountants, claiming to boost productivity and profits by 10x with a proprietary AI model. With 50,000+ users, it aims to transform tax research and compliance and is expanding hiring for sales roles.

Oway

San Francisco

Oway is an AI-driven rideshare freight platform in the US trucking industry that fills unused capacity by connecting a marketplace of carriers and businesses to coordinate shipments, backed by Y Combinator and investors including Uber, Flex

Cartage

San Francisco

Cartage is an AI-managed logistics platform that functions as a logistics team for shippers, with Wilson coordinating booking, tracking, and end-to-end shipment management for manufacturers and distributors.

RetailReady

San Francisco

The company provides a unified retail compliance solution with real-time monitoring integrated into warehouse operations and brands' tech stacks, serving the retail and supply chain compliance market.

Orchid

San Francisco

Orchid (W23) is an AI-powered EHR for independent mental health professionals. Based in San Francisco, it has a four-person team and was founded by Joseph Pomianowski.

Persana AI

San Francisco

Persana AI, a YC Winter 2023 startup, aims to revolutionize how companies execute go-to-market strategies, led by CEO Sriya Maram and co-founder Rush Shahani, with backgrounds at LinkedIn and NLP-focused roles at ElementAI and Shopify.

Tessel AI: Rigorous Medical Imaging AI Evaluation for Hospitals

San Francisco

Tessel builds evidence infrastructure for safety-critical AI, providing independent validation and benchmarking for medical imaging AI in collaboration with academic centers, delivering standardized metrics and regulatory-aligned evidence t

Nell

San Francisco

Nell reimagines media for the AI era, aiming to transform how people engage with content. Led by SoundCloud's founder, Nell seeks to be world's leading generative-media company with highest quality and to democratize access to personalized

Exponent

San Francisco

Exponent builds specialized software engineering agents to automate the software engineering lifecycle for large engineering teams. By envisioning engineers managing fleets of AI agents, it aims to shape the future of software engineering a

Augrade

San Francisco

Augrade Inc is an AI research lab building an agentic platform to automate construction workflows across design, estimation, and vendor management, aiming to create an AI architect and engineer that can realize projects for users regardless

Swizzl

San Francisco

Swizzl helps car dealers convert hesitant leads into confident buyers before they walk through the door, generating more ready-to-buy traffic and smoother closes for auto dealerships with a no-pressure, no-chasing approach to lead conversat

Chief AI

San Francisco

It builds a system of AI-native products to supercharge leaders in government and the C-suite, shaping a leadership-focused approach across government and the executive suite.

A37

San Francisco

The company offers a generative AI-driven platform to automate and optimize DevOps workflows, reducing cloud overspend and deployment delays. It targets startups and enterprise DevOps teams and has raised an X.XM funding round from a tier-1

Indigo (In Stealth)

San Francisco

An AI healthcare startup enabling physicians to own independent practices, aiming to reshape healthcare. It achieved product-market fit in under 9 months with ARR of xMM and a pipeline to xxMM by 2026, led by technologists, physicians, engi

Chestnut

San Francisco

Chestnut is the first AI mortgage lender licensed in Texas and Colorado, completed YC X25 and backed by Y Combinator and Olive Tree Capital, founded by Spencer Brown to disrupt the $128B mortgage market with AI.

Strada

San Francisco

Strada provides AI agents that handle sales and service calls 24/7 for insurance brokers, MGAs, and carriers, enabling them to scale operations. Based in San Francisco and backed by Y Combinator, it serves carriers and MGAs, engaging thousa

Smithery

San Francisco

Smithery is a platform that helps developers discover and deploy services for communicating with AI agents, enabling seamless integration by providing access to agentic services and accelerating agentic AI development.

Veritus Agent

San Francisco

Veritus is a YC-backed AI-native platform for loan servicing and debt collection that operates its own collections agency on the platform, acquires charged-off debt to service it with in-house AI agents, and owns the full stack from acquisi

Kino AI

San Francisco

Kino AI is a startup backed by Y Combinator and AI Grant, led by Luke Igel (MIT ’22) formerly at NASA JPL, SpaceX, Slack, CSM, and KoKo; the founding team includes members from MIT, SpaceX, and NASA.

Pump.co

San Francisco

Pump is a cloud cost-savings company using group buying and AI to reduce AWS compute spend for startups; Forbes calls it the 'Costco of Cloud compute,' with 250+ customers and India expansion to save up to 60% on AWS costs.

Vapi

San Francisco

Vapi provides a configurable platform to deploy voice agents. Aiming to make voice humanity’s default interface, it's grown to 400,000 developers in 20 months and raised $20M in Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners, Canadian founders J

Assembly HOA

San Francisco

Assembly HOA Management is a California-based HOA management firm that automates administrative tasks, enhances transparent communication, and provides online access to information, aiming to transform homeowner associations into turnkey co

Activepieces

San Francisco

Activepieces is an MIT-licensed, open-source no-code business automation platform that can be self-hosted on customers' servers, positioned as a self-hosted alternative to cloud tools like Zapier and aimed at making AI a native part of ente

Broccoli

San Francisco

Broccoli is an AI company for home service businesses that integrates with Service Titan and other tools, aiming to democratize access to world-class customer service, sales, and marketing for every contractor.

Layerup

San Francisco

Layerup builds AI Agents for critical industries, starting with financial services and insurance, backed by investors including Y Combinator, Pioneer Fund, and Founders Inc. It has built AI apps, robots, and drones and was invited by NASA f

Sphere

San Francisco

Sphere is an AI-powered cross-border tax compliance platform that automates sales tax, VAT, and GST, building local rails into tax authorities worldwide and the world’s first AI-native tax engine; backed by Felicis Ventures and Y Combinator

People.ai

San Francisco

People.ai is a San Francisco-based AI-powered foundational data platform that maps people, companies, and the information flowing between them within a global business activity and identity graph, fueling enterprise growth through real-time

Floot

San Francisco

Floot builds an AI-first software foundation enabling non-coders to build and deploy full-stack web apps. It grew to 600+ customers after Y Combinator and features founders from Retool and AWS, with a CTO who bootstrapped a SaaS to $5M+ ARR