S26 Power Rankings

Community ranking of the YC Summer 2026 batch. 243 companies and counting as the batch is announced. Vote the ones you believe in up, the rest down.

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    Effortlessly deploy cloud software factories.

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    AI collections agency for late stage portfolios

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    Autonomous construction on Earth and beyond

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    Extrapolative AI to unlock First-in-Class drugs

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    Nervous System for Physical AI

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    First AI-Native Medical Group for Mental Health

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    Least cost routing system to reduce 70%+ token spend

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    AI that runs factories.

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    Building drone swarms that hunt hidden enemies.

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    Expert computer-use data for frontier AI labs

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    ParasmaHiring

    Replacing GPUs with human brain cells

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    Agentic Hotel Operating System

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    AI-native materials discovery powered by unpublished experimental data

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    Modernizing Chip Manufacturing Infrastructure

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    Reliable infrastructure to build, deploy and manage real-world robots.

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    One group chat to hear and steer your coding agents.

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    cards for AI agents

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    We find where AI agents fail, then train better models to run them.

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    Databricks for Enterprise Codebases

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    Human as API for robots

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    Reliable and safe data engineering and data science agents

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    The company brain for construction companies

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    Organizing company knowledge

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    OpenRouter for Agent Tools

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    High performance file system for agents

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    A new kind of camera that can see through walls.

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    The social trading app for stocks, memes, and perps

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    API sandboxes, built for AI agents

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    Autonomous IT Delivery

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    AI agents that run small businesses

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    AI-native pharma company

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    The AI-native property management company for short-term rentals

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    Floating nuclear powered data centers at sea.

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    AI-native debt collection company

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    The AI operating system for radiology networks

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    Hotels that run themselves

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    AI chips for ultra-fast training and inference

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    The custom AI model factory.

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    AI employees that run home appliance repair companies

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    AI-native Accounting Firm that's killing Deloitte

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    OpenClaw for manufacturers

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    AI native software factory

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    BloomyHiring

    AI-native learning for every school

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    Agent analytics for real user outcomes

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    AI agents to run primary healthcare operations

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    The AI Operating System for Auto Shops.

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    Hosting platform for software you can't afford to have hacked

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    AI that finds value creation opportunities across enterprise…

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    We help startups win gov contracts

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    Research services for ChatGPT and Claude

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    The AI Coach for in person sales reps.

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    The biggest crowdsourced benchmark for Computer-Use

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    The AI gateway for cheaper, faster, permissioned agents.

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    Derivatives Exchange for Compute

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    We give AI agents realtime web context via API

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    Financial infrastructure for family caregiving

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    RL post-training for science reasoning and performance engineering

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    AI-native test infrastructure layer for hardware companies

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    The secure training data R&D engine for physical AI

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    Automatic Diagnosis & Fix for Industrial Automation Cells

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    Training company-specific models that approve AI actions.

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    Network for Physical AI Data Business

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    Build everyday back-office agents on one live model of your books

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    DentaHiring

    Dental Insurance

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    AI Brokers for Industrial Trade

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    The AI-native contact center

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    AI-controlled optical switching for AI clusters

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    Multiplayer workspace for agents and humans

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    The AI-native trading company: factory prices, delivered, one number

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    Using VLMs to Catch Damage

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    Drone swarm defence at a small-unit level

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    EdgerunHiring

    Military exoskeletons

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    Quant Neolab building self-improving agents from quant data

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    AI That Operates Energy Infrastructure

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    Your personal context, securely portable across every AI app.

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    World Model for Freight

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    Building Autonomous Research Agents for Trading

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    Healthcare AI

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    Real-world RL environments for robotics models

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    We help lawyers start and scale AI-native law firms.

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    We make silicon on the Moon, to power everything in space.

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    Instant healthcare for all, starting with work comp

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    The open source tool gateway

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    Building a neutral, sovereign alternative to Starlink

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    Open source AI gateway that turns your traffic into better models

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    The world's frontier hacker of AI agents.

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    Movies in Every Language. Better than Humans.

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    Connect your agents to the stock market

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    Vibecode + deploy HIPAA-compliant internal tools, no eng team needed

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    Florin is an AI-native insurance company that runs autonomously

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    AI for Construction's Back Office

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    Frontier grows scalable biological brains as an ML training substrate

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    Curing cancer. Starting with dogs.

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    The Git forge for the next hundred billion commits

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    GlenHiring

    Institutional Learning Layer for Every Agent in Your Company

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    On-device Knowledge Graph engine for Enterprise Software

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    Robots for waste manipulation

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    AI brain for creators that runs their social content

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    AI-Native Defense Contractor

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    We sequence your gut and build the probiotics it’s missing

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    AI tools for the chips your AI runs on

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    APIs for robotics data teams to verify data quality for model training

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    HERAHiring

    We make sure every factory in the world builds without mistakes.

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    Autoresearch as a service: we solve your hardest measurable problems

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    Autonomous Hardware Testing

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    Hop AeroHiring

    Rocket cargo delivery to contested environments

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    AI-native retrieval engine for medical records

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    AI engineer that debugs and fixes production incidents in realtime

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    24/7 Personal Health & Longevity Companion

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    Air Defense as a Service for Civilian Infrastructure.

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    Building intellectually curious AI

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    The identity and communication layer for AI agents

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    AI-native gaming platform turning every game into an RL environment

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    The AI-Native Decision Layer for Health Insurance

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    Mass-produced AI strike systems and Counter-UAS

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    High performance coding agents

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    Making health insurance invisible

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    Making Diamond Semiconductors

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    AI For The Skilled Workforce

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    Lightning fast chips with hardcoded AI models

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    AI-native accounting firm.

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    Predict how market participants behave

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    LemonLimeHiring

    Fully automated GTM for small business

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    Robotic crews for large-scale infrastructure construction

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    Evals for humans

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    LockeHiring

    Locke powers agentic government work.

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    Luca IQHiring

    API-first tax engine for CPA firms and developers

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    Oura Ring for Skin

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    Foundation models on enterprise transaction data.

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    AWS for Agents

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    Monetize your agent's traces.

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    Simulating Agents Running Industrial Companies

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    Drop-in robotic labor that works on Day 1

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    MarbleHiring

    The autonomous back-of-house for restaurants.

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    AI-Native Engineering Firm designing Data Centers

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    Platform + FDEs that rebuild enterprises agent-first

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    USA-made magnetics for robotics and defense.

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    Engineering Intelligence and Token Optimization for the AI-Coding Era

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    Drones that clear clouds over solar farms and weaken hurricanes

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    Search Engine for the Physical World

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    Watch and create anime

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    Resistance free pesticides.

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    agents for the rest of us

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    Defining the frontier of multiplayer AI.

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    Research lab building the most robotic household in the world

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    Virtual Reality for Training Robots

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    Autonomous AI defense system for cyber attack

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    Building robots to automate wetlabs

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    Industrial Controllers built for AI

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    AI for high volume GTM Engineering

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    The most capable American-made humanoid robot for $1,688

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    Building multi-agent simulations for model evals and training.

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    A research lab for one

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    The open source AI teammates for your company.

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    The cheapest, fastest inference cloud

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    Ooak DataHiring

    We turn company data into training data

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    Distributed, hardware-agnostic AI inference

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    Model Agnostic AI coworker in Slack

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    AI that turns any camera to an autonomous worker with real-time vision

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    OperonHiring

    Agentic data layer for manufacturing & process industries.

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    Self-optimizing neocloud that cuts LLM costs by 100x

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    AI advanced planning and optimisation for manufacturers.

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    OS3Hiring

    Affordable, intelligent humanoid robots built to deploy at scale

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    AI-native network of corporate law firms

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    The frontier data platform for aligned health and biological AI

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    Mass-producing and financing micro data center incredibly quickly.

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    The Media Engine of the AI Era

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    AI-native sales agents that run marketplaces

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    AI that finds and fixes OS-level vulnerabilities across device fleets

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    Agentic OS for e-commerce operations

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    AI-native freight brokerage

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    PennantHiring

    The World Model for Corporate Governance

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    We make law firms AI-native.

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    PetrarchHiring

    Internal industrial company data for frontier labs

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    LinkedIn for agents

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    Host a Poker Club and Make Money

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    Turns real businesses into robotics data vendors

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    Superintelligent health insurance that keeps employees healthy

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    AI-native insurance company for the compute economy

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    A cloud devbox that feels local

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    Training the world's best AI model for quantitative finance.

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    Robots to maintain and assemble data centers

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    AI-native electronics manufacturing for the American industrial base

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    Legora for commercial insurance carriers

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    The AI-native radiology practice

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    AI-native back-office for banks and fintechs

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    Making chemicals 100,000x faster

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    RationalHiring

    First Zero-human Accounting Firm

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    AI-native OS for Real Estate Brokerages

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    Scale AI scientists whose own breakthroughs accelerate the next.

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    AI-native BPO for enterprise order-to-cash

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    Earned intelligence for every company

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    The IDE for Tokenmaxxers

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    We turn waste gases into supply-secure chemicals

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    AI-Native Insurance for Frontier Tech

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    Evals for robots

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    Full Stack Pharmaceutical Company for Personalized Peptides and GLP-1s

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    Deploying robots to replace workers in hazardous spaces

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    Turn your company's computer work into AI agents.

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    We help Fortune 500 companies hedge their supply chain risk

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    Robots that learn on the job

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    AI agent that manages manufacturing operations over text

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    Autopilot for Flight Operations

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    AI-native procurement services for the physical economy

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    We are a multi-strategy trading firm that trains AI traders.

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    OpenRouter for Voice AI: one API, every call on the best speech model

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    Teaching AI to Design Chips

  208. 208
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    A primary care clinic where AI earns clinical autonomy

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    The market behind AI hardware.

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    Accurately simulate market response at scale

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    Autonomous rovers to make the ‘Google Maps’ of underground utilities

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    We are building an AI-native telemedicine clinic for addiction. 🌻

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    New semiconductors that merge compute and vision

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    Vaccines for any cancer or infection in weeks.

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    Supply chain compliance and cost savings

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    The BlackRock of collectibles

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    Infrastructure for building and scaling AI-native service businesses.

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    Robotic factories that build robots

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    TorusHiring

    Legora for physical engineering firms

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    Market for future inference capacity

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    AI iOS assistant that instantly uses voice and video to take action

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    AI agents for compliance at institutional trading firms

  223. 223
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    CrowdStrike for AI Agents

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    Combining open-source AI models for better answers at lower cost

  225. 225
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    Autonomous offensive security agents. The best defense is offense

  226. 226
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    AI FDE that deploys custom AI agents into ERPs

  227. 227
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    TryNearbyHiring

    Local creators for local businesses

  228. 228
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    TsentaHiring

    AI career agent that finds matching jobs & applies on your behalf

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    Metal manufacturing, faster, cheaper, and more versatile.

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    AI native TPA starting with workers comp

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    Let your users build their own features on top of your product

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    AI Agents to Make Local Gov Efficient

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    AI cybersecurity for financial institutions' digital assets

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    Mass-deployable radars for air defense

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    AI native platform for real estate closings

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    LLMs that control robots

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    Agentic procurement & inventory for deep tech teams.

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    AI Operating System for Wholesale Distribution

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    Duolingo for learning anything

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    The AI BPO for financial servies, run by computer-use agents

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    The Bloomberg of Loans

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    The customer brain that connects data to explain customer behavior

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    Helping AI understand the physical world