AI Agents

Beyond chatbots lies a new frontier: AI agents that autonomously plan, execute, and iterate. Discover the startups building the next generation of intelligent automation.

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IBM Tivoli

IBM Tivoli

IBM Tivoli was a suite of software products for IT infrastructure management, now largely rebranded.

IT Infrastructure
Analytics & Performance Software
Storage Management Software
$3M
Austin

BMC Helix ITSM

An AI-powered IT service management platform for automating and optimizing IT workflows and service delivery.

IT Service Management (ITSM)
IT Service Management
Enterprise Software
N/A
Houston

Mobileye

Mobileye is a global leader in autonomous driving technology and ADAS chips, providing vision-based sensing and AI software for vehicles worldwide.

Automotive
Autonomous
$515M
poolside

poolside

AI coding models and pair programmer built for on-device execution with privacy-first architecture.

Artificial Intelligence
Developer Tools
Code Generation
$2.8B
Paris
Cognition AI

Cognition AI

AI Agents
$400M
Safe Superintelligence

Safe Superintelligence

Safe Superintelligence (SSI) is Ilya Sutskever's AI safety-focused research lab with the singular goal of building safe superintelligent AI.

Artificial Intelligence
Foundation Models
Generative AI
$3.0B
Percepto

Percepto

Drones
Autonomous
Robotics
N/A
BigPanda

BigPanda

AI-powered incident intelligence and automation platform for IT operations.

AIOps
Incident Management
IT Operations
$408M
Redwood City
Humans&

Humans&

Human-centric AI focused on multi-agent RL, memory, and collaborative coordination for real work.

Artificial Intelligence
Reinforcement Learning
Multi-Agent Systems
$480M
San Francisco
Periodic Labs

Periodic Labs

AI-powered materials science and discovery platform to accelerate scientific breakthroughs.

Artificial Intelligence
Materials Science
Drug Discovery
$300M
San Francisco
Thinking Machines Lab

Thinking Machines Lab

Frontier AI lab building multimodal AI systems with customizable, collaborative capabilities for enterprise applications.

Artificial Intelligence
Frontier Lab
Foundation Models
$3.0B
San Francisco
General Intuition

General Intuition

World models for AI spatial reasoning using 2 billion+ gameplay video clips as training data.

Artificial Intelligence
World Models
Reinforcement Learning
$134M
San Francisco
Apptronik

Apptronik

Humanoid robot startup building robots for tasks like unloading trailers and picking warehouse inventory.

Robotics
Humanoid Robotics
Industrial Robotics
$1.6B
Austin
Gitar

Gitar

AI-powered code review for AI-generated code.

Artificial Intelligence
Developer Tools
Computer Science
$9M
San Francisco
Airbyte

Airbyte

An open-source data integration platform for ELT, reverse-ETL, and AI agents.

Data Integration
Open Source
Data Engineering
$181M
San Francisco
Leapwork

Leapwork

Automated Continuous Validation Platform for AI Software Development

Artificial Intelligence
Software Development
Automation
$63M
Copenhagen
Inflection

Inflection

Develops enterprise AI solutions and conversational AI models, formerly known for its personal AI assistant, Pi.

AI
Enterprise Software
Generative AI
$1.5B
Palo Alto
Reflection AI

Reflection AI

Autonomous coding agents built with reinforcement learning for end-to-end software engineering tasks.

Artificial Intelligence
Developer Tools
Coding Agents
$2.0B
San Francisco

Zeta Global

AI-powered marketing cloud unifying data and AI for customer acquisition, growth, and retention.

Marketing Technology
AI Marketing
Customer Data Platform
$855M
New York City
Xtend

Xtend

Drones
Virtual Reality (VR)
Augmented Reality (AR)
$93M
Rapid7 InsightIDR

Rapid7 InsightIDR

Cloud-native SIEM and XDR for accelerated threat detection and response.

Cybersecurity
Threat Detection
Incident Response
$30M
Boston
Torii

Torii

Enterprise
Information Technology (IT)
Automation
$65M
Torq

Torq

Enterprise
Development
Cybersecurity
$190M
Mind Robotics

Mind Robotics

Building AI-enabled robotic systems at industrial scale using Physical AI and real manufacturing data

Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Industrial Automation
$615M
Palo Alto
DevRev Inc.

DevRev Inc.

AI-native platform unifying customer support and product development with a knowledge graph.

AI-native platform
Customer Support
Product Development
$151M
Palo Alto
Rhoda AI

Rhoda AI

Developing AI-powered robot foundation models for autonomous operation in real-world industrial environments.

Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Automation
$613M
Palo Alto
Skyryse

Skyryse

Developer of SkyOS, a universal, semi-automated flight operating system for aircraft.

Aerospace
Transportation
Aviation
$300M
El Segundo

Agile Robots

Develops AI-powered robotic automation solutions for industries, focusing on intelligent, flexible, and adaptive systems.

Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Automation
$250M
Munich
Phantom Auto

Phantom Auto

Automotive
ADAS
Autonomous
$87M
Autobrains

Autobrains

Automotive
ADAS
Autonomous
$120M
Arbe

Arbe

Automotive
ADAS
Autonomous
$84M
Kodiak.ai

Kodiak.ai

Automotive
ADAS
Autonomous
$195M
Nexar

Nexar

Automotive
ADAS
Autonomous
$150M
Innoviz Technologies

Innoviz Technologies

Automotive
ADAS
Autonomous
$252M
Bluewhite

Bluewhite

Autonomous
Autonomous Software Testing
Agritech
$88M
Tonkean

Tonkean

AI-powered platform for enterprise intake and process orchestration, automating workflows for procurement, legal, and IT.

Enterprise
Intelligence
RPA
$83M
Palo Alto
Orca AI

Orca AI

Maritime
Analytics
Shipping
$112M
SupPlant

SupPlant

Agritech
Irrigation
Autonomous
$53M
Tessl

Tessl

Enterprise
Software Development
Generative AI
$125M
Nominal

Nominal

Generative AI
Enterprise
ERP
$109M
Cortica

Cortica

Image
Video Recognition
Video
$68M
Browserbase

Browserbase

Cloud browser infrastructure for AI agents — run, manage and monitor headless browsers at scale.

AI Infrastructure
Developer Tools
AI Agents
$68M
San Francisco
Zencoder

Zencoder

AI coding agent and workflow orchestration platform built by the founder of Wrike.

Artificial Intelligence
Developer Tools
AI Agents
$100K
San Francisco
Tenex

Tenex

Managed threat detection and response services provider.

Cybersecurity
Artificial Intelligence
Managed Services
$277M
San Francisco
Actively AI

Actively AI

GTM superintelligence platform that uses AI reasoning to identify and prioritize the highest-value prospects for B2B revenue teams.

Sales Tech
AI
GTM Intelligence
$45M
San Francisco
Crosby

Crosby

An AI-powered law firm that reviews and negotiates contracts at high speed for startups.

Sales
CRM
AI Legal
$86M
San Francisco
Parasail

Parasail

Cloud computing service for AI model inference.

Artificial Intelligence
Cloud Computing
Infrastructure
$42M
Valerie Health

Valerie Health

AI-driven platform for healthcare benefits navigation.

Healthcare
HealthTech
AI-Driven Healthcare
$39M

Daytona

Builds agent-native compute infrastructure.

Enterprise
AI Infrastructure
Agentic AI
$31M
New York
Steel.dev

Steel.dev

A platform for building and running browser automation workflows.

Developer Tools
API Platform
Workflow Automation
$17M
Vapi

Vapi

Vapi provides a highly configurable API platform for developers and enterprises to build, deploy, and scale human-like voice AI agents for various use cases, from inbound calls to outbound campaigns.

Voice AI
API Platform
Conversational AI
$24M
San Francisco
Augmented Intelligence (AUI)

Augmented Intelligence (AUI)

Assistant
Sales
E-commerce
$35M
SUPERDIAL

SUPERDIAL

AI for healthcare customer service and support.

Healthcare
HealthTech
Revenue Cycle Management
$23M
Dust

Dust

Dust is a platform for building custom AI agents, connecting them to company knowledge and tools, and leveraging leading AI models to transform work processes.

Text to AI Agent
AI Agents
AI Agent Builder
$22M
Adept

Adept

Adept builds agentic AI that enables software to understand and execute complex workflows across various applications, empowering employees to focus on strategic work.

Agentic AI
AI Research & Development
AI Agents
$65M
Cognata

Cognata

3D Modeling
ADAS
Autonomous
$24M
Adasky

Adasky

Automotive
ADAS
Autonomous
$65M
Ottopia

Ottopia

Automotive
Autonomous
Teleoperation
$27M

Chef Robotics

AI-guided robot arms for food production.

Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Food Technology
$53M
San Francisco

Creatio

Enabling reliable AI agent deployments in complex enterprise environments.

Artificial Intelligence
Enterprise Software
Automation
$63M
AI agents—systems that perceive, decide, and act without human intervention—are transitioning from research labs to production. Anthropic's API with tool use, OpenAI's function calling, and open-source frameworks like LangChain and CrewAI have matured the infrastructure. But building agents that actually work remains brutally hard: task decomposition fails, hallucinations compound over steps, and real-world uncertainty breaks pure language model planning. The winners aren't pure "agent platform" startups; they're domain-specific agentic applications: customer service agents for Zendesk tickets, sales agents for pipeline automation, DevOps agents for infrastructure management. Startups like Retool and Zapier have embedded agents into workflow platforms, while Pure Storage launched StorageGPT to automate storage optimization—narrow domains with measurable outcomes. The next inflection point is multi-agent systems: teams of specialized agents collaborating to solve complex problems. This requires new debugging infrastructure, governance frameworks, and evaluation metrics. The startups that own agent orchestration (the Kubernetes of AI agents) and domain-specific agent libraries will outcompete point-solution competitors. Expect consolidation around agent platforms by 2026.

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