The search

204 companies I’m working through

I build agents and the infrastructure they run on, and I got tired of running a job search out of a spreadsheet — so I built a portal for it instead. It keeps two halves. One is private: who I’ve spoken to, what I’ve sent, what I make of it. That half runs somewhere this page has no route to, and stays there.

This is the other half — the shared, objective map of the companies themselves. Every card links to that company’s live jobs board, so it’s worth something to you whether or not you came here looking for me.

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204companies
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204live jobs boards

SF Bay Area 129

Makes NEO, a humanoid robot designed to help people with everyday tasks around the home.

San Carlos, CA · Series B · ~$126M raised · ~1,000+ people

enriched

Airweave

Jobs ↗

Open-source context-retrieval layer that lets AI agents search and use data from many sources.

San Francisco, CA · YC P25 · ~7 people

agentsinfraretrievalyc-p25

Algolia

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Provides hosted search and discovery APIs that power the fast search bars inside many apps and websites.

San Francisco, CA · Series D · $150M @ ~$2.3B (2021) · ~$100M ARR

dev-toolssearchinfraenriched

Alpaca

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A self-clearing broker-dealer offering stock and crypto trading as an API that other apps can build on.

San Mateo, CA · YC W19 · Series D · $320M+ raised

fintechtradingbackendyc-w19

Anthropic

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AI research lab behind the Claude family of AI models, assistants, and developer tools.

San Francisco, CA · Series H · ~$183B valuation

ai-labagentsinfraenriched

Anyscale

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Anyscale Jobs

San Francisco, CA · ~$281M raised · ~$1B valuation

enriched

Applied Intuition

Jobs ↗

Makes software and simulation tools that help car, truck, and defense companies develop and test autonomous vehicles.

Sunnyvale, CA · Series F (2025) · $15B valuation

enriched

Aravolta

Jobs ↗

Builds an operating system for running and managing data centers.

San Francisco, CA · YC P25

fdeinfradistributedyc-p25

Arlo Industries

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Develops passive, scalable systems that track drones and missiles without using radar.

San Francisco, CA · YC P26 · ~3 people

defensenational-securityyc-p26

Artisan AI

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Builds AI "employee" software for sales teams — its flagship agent, Ava, automates outbound sales outreach.

San Francisco, CA · YC W24 · $25M Series A (~$46M total) · ~37 people

aiagentsyc-w24enriched

Baseten

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A platform that helps companies deploy and run their AI models in the cloud quickly and reliably.

San Francisco, CA · Series E · ~$5B valuation

enriched

Braintrust

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Makes evaluation and observability tools that help teams measure, test, and improve their AI products and agents.

San Francisco, CA · Series B ($80M, 2026)

enriched

Browser Use

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Maintains the leading open-source project for AI agents that browse and operate the web, earning 50k GitHub stars in three months.

San Francisco, CA · YC W25 · ~7 people

agentsdev-toolsossyc-w25

Browserbase

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Runs headless web browsers in the cloud so AI agents and apps can browse and interact with websites programmatically; maintains the open-source Stagehand framework.

San Francisco, CA · Series B ($40M, 2025) · ~$300M valuation

enriched

Candid Health

Jobs ↗

Automates medical billing and revenue-cycle work for healthcare providers.

San Francisco, CA · YC W20

fintechinfrayc-w20

Canvas

Jobs ↗

Develops continual-learning technology so AI agents keep improving over time.

San Francisco, CA · YC F24 · ~3 people

agentsinfrayc-f24

Cartesia

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Builds fast, real-time voice AI powered by state-space models, a new alternative to transformer models.

San Francisco, CA · Series B · ~$191M raised

enriched

Casco

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Autonomous security testing for web, API, cloud, and AI systems.

YC P25 · ~10 people

agentssecurityyc-p25

Cerebras

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Builds wafer-scale AI chips — the largest computer chips ever made — and a cloud service for very fast AI inference.

Sunnyvale, CA · Public — NASDAQ: CBRS

enriched

Checkr

Jobs ↗

Runs an AI-driven background-check platform that companies like DoorDash and Lyft use to screen new hires quickly.

San Francisco, CA · YC S14 · ~$5B valuation · ~$800M ARR

b2binfraenriched

Cline

Jobs ↗

Open-source AI coding agent that works inside the editor, with millions of installs and a large open-source community.

San Francisco, CA · Series A · $32M raised · ~$110M valuation

enriched

Cognition

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Maker of Devin, an autonomous AI software engineer, and the Windsurf AI-powered coding editor.

San Francisco, CA · $1B+ raised (2026) · ~$26B valuation

enriched

Conductor

Jobs ↗

Lets developers run a whole team of AI coding agents on their Mac.

San Francisco, CA · YC S24 · ~6 people

agentsdev-toolscodingyc-s24

Confident AI

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Evaluation and observability platform for testing large language model applications, makers of the DeepEval framework.

San Francisco, CA · YC W25 · ~7 people

ml-infraevalsyc-w25

Continue.dev

Jobs ↗

Open-source AI coding assistant that plugs into developers' editors and IDEs.

San Francisco, CA · YC-backed seed · small team (~9 people)

enriched

Corgea

Jobs ↗

AI that autonomously finds and fixes insecure code and vulnerable packages.

San Francisco, CA · YC S23 · ~6 people

agentssecuritydev-toolsyc-s23

Cresta

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Makes AI agents and real-time coaching software for customer-service contact centers.

San Francisco, CA · Series D — $125M · ~$270M raised

enriched

Crusoe

Jobs ↗

Builds and operates large AI data centers and a GPU cloud where companies train and run AI models.

San Francisco, CA · Series E · $10B+ valuation

enriched

d-Matrix

Jobs ↗

Designs chips that compute inside memory to run AI inference more efficiently in data centers.

Santa Clara, CA · Series C · ~$2B valuation

enriched

Decagon

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Builds AI customer-support agents that companies deploy to handle their customer conversations end to end.

San Francisco, CA · Series D ($250M, 2026) · $4.5B valuation

enriched

DeepGrove

Jobs ↗

Makes frontier AI models run directly on any device through efficient edge inference.

San Francisco, CA · YC S25 · ~3 people

ml-infraedgeinferenceyc-s25

Dexterity

Jobs ↗

Builds intelligent robotic arms that pick, pack, and move goods inside warehouses.

Redwood City, CA · ~$1.65B valuation · ~$307M raised

enriched

Dioxus Labs

Jobs ↗

Open-source Rust framework for building web, desktop, and mobile apps from a single codebase.

San Francisco, CA · YC S23 · ~4 people

dev-toolsrustyc-s23

Entangl

Jobs ↗

AI that finds and resolves engineering and operations issues in data centers.

San Francisco, CA · YC S24 · ~11 people

agentsinfradatacenteryc-s24

Etched

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Developing Sohu, a computer chip built exclusively for transformer AI models to make inference much faster.

San Jose, CA · Series A · $120M raised

enriched

Factory AI

Jobs ↗

Makes "Droids" — AI software-development agents that write and maintain code for enterprise engineering teams.

San Francisco, CA · Series C ($150M, 2026) · $1.5B valuation

enriched

Fal

Jobs ↗

A cloud platform for running generative media AI — image, video, and audio models — at high speed.

San Francisco, CA · Series D · ~$4.5B valuation

enriched

Fieldguide

Jobs ↗

Makes AI-powered software for audit and advisory firms to run their engagements.

San Francisco, CA · YC S20

agentsaiyc-s20

Figure AI

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Builds general-purpose humanoid robots powered by its Helix AI foundation model.

San Jose, CA · Series C (2025) · ~$39B valuation

enriched

Fireworks AI

Jobs ↗

Runs open-source AI models as a fast cloud service so companies can use AI without managing their own GPUs.

San Mateo, CA · Series C · $4B valuation

enriched

FriendliAI

Jobs ↗

Makes a high-performance engine for serving AI models, helping companies run them faster and cheaper.

Redwood City, CA · ~$26M raised

enriched

FurtherAI

Jobs ↗

AI teammates that handle insurance workflows like underwriting and claims paperwork.

San Francisco, CA · YC W24 · $5M seed

fdeagentsyc-w24

Generalist AI

Jobs ↗

Robotics AI company building GEN-1, an embodied foundation model that teaches robots general physical skills.

San Mateo, CA · Series B (2026) · ~$2B valuation

enrichedgeneralistgeneralistai

Glean

Jobs ↗

Enterprise AI search and assistant that helps employees find and use knowledge across all their company's apps, with agents built on top.

Palo Alto, CA · Series F ($150M, 2025) · $7.2B valuation

enriched

Groq

Jobs ↗

Makes the LPU, a chip designed for lightning-fast AI responses, and sells access through its GroqCloud service.

Mountain View, CA · Series E · $6.9B valuation

enriched

Gumloop

Jobs ↗

No-code platform for building AI-powered automations and agent workflows without writing code.

San Francisco, CA · Series A ($17M, 2025) · YC W24

enriched

Halluminate

Jobs ↗

Builds data and reinforcement-learning environments aimed at automating knowledge work.

San Francisco, CA · YC S25 · ~5 people

rlml-infradatayc-s25

Harvey

Jobs ↗

Builds AI assistants and agents that help law firms and legal teams draft, research, and analyze documents.

San Francisco, CA · $200M round at $11B valuation · ~$190M ARR

enriched

Hex Security

Jobs ↗

Runs AI-agent-driven offensive security testing (red teaming) at scale.

San Francisco, CA · YC W26 · ~7 people

agentssecurityyc-w26

HumanLayer

Jobs ↗

Makes developer tools that help engineering teams use AI coding agents on production codebases.

San Francisco, CA · YC F24 · ~2 people

agentsdev-toolscodingyc-f24

Infinite

Jobs ↗

A B2B payment processor that lets businesses send and receive payments using stablecoins.

San Francisco, CA · YC W25 · seed · ~4 people

fintechcryptobackendyc-w25

Infisical

Jobs ↗

Open-source platform for managing secrets, credentials, and privileged access across engineering teams.

San Francisco, CA · YC W23

dev-toolsdevopsyc-w23

Kastle

Jobs ↗

Builds production AI agents for mortgage lenders, turning messy lending workflows into automated software.

San Francisco, CA · YC S24

fdeagentsfintechyc-s24

Kodiak AI

Jobs ↗

Develops self-driving technology for long-haul trucking, with an expanding push into defense autonomy.

Mountain View, CA · Public — NASDAQ: KDK

enriched

Lambda

Jobs ↗

GPU cloud company offering on-demand compute and clusters for training and running AI models.

San Jose, CA · Series E ($1.5B+) · ~$5.9B valuation

gpu-clusterml-infraenriched

LangChain

Jobs ↗

Builds popular open-source frameworks for creating AI applications and agents, plus LangSmith, a platform for testing and monitoring them.

San Francisco, CA · Series B ($125M, 2025) · ~$1.25B valuation

enriched

Letta

Jobs ↗

Builds a memory framework that lets AI agents remember and learn over time, spun out of UC Berkeley research (originally MemGPT).

San Francisco, CA · Seed · $10M · ~16–19 people

aiagentsinfraenriched

LiteLLM

Jobs ↗

Open-source AI gateway routing hundreds of millions of LLM calls a day, used by companies like Netflix, Stripe, and Nvidia.

San Francisco, CA · YC W23 · ~$7M ARR

agentsml-inframcpyc-w23

LiveFlow

Jobs ↗

Makes real-time finance and accounting software that keeps company books and reports up to date.

San Francisco, CA · YC W21

fintechinfrayc-w21

Luma AI

Jobs ↗

AI lab behind the Dream Machine video-generation model, building large-scale GPU infrastructure for multimodal AI.

Palo Alto, CA · Series C — $900M at ~$4B valuation

enriched

Luminal

Jobs ↗

A machine-learning compiler that automatically generates fast GPU code for AI models.

San Francisco, CA · YC S25

ml-infragpurustyc-s25

Magic.dev

Jobs ↗

AI research company building frontier code-generation models with extremely long context windows.

San Francisco, CA · $320M raised (2024) · ~$1.5B target valuation

enriched

Manufact

Jobs ↗

Open-source SDK plus cloud infrastructure for building MCP servers and ChatGPT apps.

San Francisco, CA · YC S25 · ~5 people

agentsmcpinfrayc-s25

Mercoa

Jobs ↗

AI agent for bill-pay platforms that pays invoices using virtual cards.

San Francisco, CA · YC W23 · ~2 people

fintechagentsyc-w23

Mercor

Jobs ↗

Runs an AI-powered talent marketplace that connects domain experts with AI labs for model training and evaluation work.

San Francisco, CA · Series C — $350M at ~$10B valuation

enriched

Modular

Jobs ↗

Builds the Mojo programming language and MAX platform to make AI software faster and less tied to Nvidia's CUDA.

Los Altos, CA · Series C · $1.6B valuation

enriched

Momentus

Jobs ↗

Space infrastructure company offering in-orbit transportation and services to move satellites where they need to go.

San Jose, CA · Public — NASDAQ: MNTS

spaceinfradistressedenriched

Naïve

Jobs ↗

Builds "Agent Infrastructure as Code" — infrastructure tooling for deploying and running AI agents.

San Francisco, CA · YC P25 · ~8 people

agentsinfrayc-p25

Nessie

Jobs ↗

Builds a shared context layer that connects individuals, teams, and AI agents.

San Francisco, CA · YC F25 · ~2 people

agentscontextyc-f25

NewLimit

Jobs ↗

Biotech company working to extend human healthspan by epigenetically reprogramming cells to make them young again.

South San Francisco, CA · Series C · $435M @ ~$3.1B valuation (~$610M raised)

biotechlongevitymlenriched

Nozomio

Jobs ↗

A product lab building tools that solve context management for AI systems.

San Francisco, CA · YC S25 · ~5 people

agentscontextyc-s25

Nuro

Jobs ↗

Autonomous driving company that licenses its Nuro Driver self-driving system to vehicle makers.

Mountain View, CA · Series E (2025) · ~$6B valuation

enriched

Oklo

Jobs ↗

Develops compact advanced nuclear fission reactors to deliver clean, reliable power, including for data centers.

Santa Clara, CA · Public — NYSE: OKLO

energynucleardeep-techenriched

Onyx

Jobs ↗

Open-source AI chat platform for teams and enterprises.

San Francisco, CA · YC W24 · ~20 people

agentsdev-toolsossyc-w24

OpenAI

Jobs ↗

AI research lab behind ChatGPT and the GPT models, building AI assistants, coding agents, and developer platforms.

San Francisco, CA · ~$852B valuation

ai-labinfraagentsenriched

OpenWork

Jobs ↗

Builds an open-source platform for agent-powered work and productivity.

San Francisco, CA · YC P26 · ~4 people

agentsproductivityclaude-codeyc-p26

Osmosis

Jobs ↗

Reinforcement-learning platform for training and improving AI agents.

San Francisco, CA · YC W25 · ~6 people

rlagentsml-infrayc-w25

ParadeDB

Jobs ↗

An open-source alternative to Elasticsearch, built as a Rust extension that adds search and analytics to Postgres.

San Francisco, CA · YC S23

dev-toolsrustinfrayc-s23

PAX Markets

Jobs ↗

Building a high-speed cryptocurrency exchange with its own in-house trading technology.

Redwood City, CA · YC W25

fintechtradingrustyc-w25

Perplexity

Jobs ↗

AI-powered answer engine that blends search with conversational AI to answer questions with cited sources.

San Francisco, CA · ~$22.6B valuation · ~$1.7B raised

enriched

Phantom

Jobs ↗

Makes a popular crypto wallet app for storing, buying, and trading digital assets across multiple blockchains.

San Francisco, CA · Series C ($150M) · ~$3B valuation

cryptowalletfull-stackenriched

Physical Intelligence

Jobs ↗

Develops foundation models that give robots general-purpose physical skills across many different tasks.

San Francisco, CA · Small team (~12 people)

Polymath Robotics

Jobs ↗

General-purpose autonomy software for industrial vehicles.

San Francisco, CA · YC S22 · ~13 people

roboticsautonomyyc-s22

Prime Intellect

Jobs ↗

Builds infrastructure for distributed AI training, letting researchers pool compute to train models and run reinforcement learning.

San Francisco, CA · ~$70M raised · small team

ml-infradistributed-trainingenriched

Replicas

Jobs ↗

Lets developers run any coding-agent harness in the cloud.

San Francisco, CA · YC P26 · ~2 people

agentsdev-toolsharnessyc-p26

Replit

Jobs ↗

Online coding platform where anyone can write, run, and ship software, now centered on an AI agent that builds apps from plain-English prompts.

Foster City, CA · ~$400M round (2026) · ~$9B valuation

enriched

Retell AI

Jobs ↗

Real-time AI voice agents that answer and handle phone calls for businesses.

San Carlos, CA · YC W24 · $36M ARR

agentsbackendyc-w24

Rigetti Computing

Jobs ↗

Builds quantum computers — designing and fabricating superconducting quantum processors and offering access to them over the cloud.

Berkeley, CA · Public — NASDAQ: RGTI

quantuminfradeep-techenriched

River Markets

Jobs ↗

Prime brokerage and trade execution for prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket, with proprietary execution algorithms.

San Francisco, CA · YC P26 · ~2 people

fintechtradingyc-p26

Runtime

Jobs ↗

Runs coding AI agents inside secure sandboxes with observability and guardrails.

San Francisco, CA · YC P26

agentsdev-toolsyc-p26

SambaNova

Jobs ↗

Builds AI chips and complete computer systems that companies use to run large AI models.

Palo Alto, CA · ~$350M round (2026) · ~$2.2B valuation

enriched

Saphira AI

Jobs ↗

Makes AI software that helps robotics and hardware companies meet safety and compliance requirements.

San Francisco, CA · YC S24 · ~8 people

roboticsphysical-aiyc-s24

Scale AI

Jobs ↗

Provides the data labeling and evaluation infrastructure used to train AI models, plus generative-AI platforms for enterprises and governments.

San Francisco, CA · ~$29B valuation (Meta acquired ~49% stake, 2025)

aidata-infraenriched

Scout AI

Jobs ↗

Develops Fury, a robotic foundation model that lets military ground, air, and sea vehicles understand commands and act autonomously.

Sunnyvale, CA · Series A · $100M

enriched

SF Compute

Jobs ↗

A marketplace where companies buy and sell GPU computing power, traded like an exchange order book.

San Francisco, CA · Series A · ~$300M valuation · ~54 people

enriched

Shef

Jobs ↗

Runs a marketplace where local home cooks sell homemade meals to people nearby.

San Francisco, CA · YC W19

infrayc-w19

Short Story

Jobs ↗

A retail company that personalizes apparel shopping and clothing fit.

San Francisco, CA · YC S19

infrayc-s19

Sierra

Jobs ↗

Builds conversational AI agents that handle customer service for large enterprises, co-founded by Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor.

San Francisco, CA · Series E ($950M, 2026) · ~$15.8B valuation

enriched

Sieve

Jobs ↗

Infrastructure for running video processing and AI model pipelines at large scale.

San Francisco, CA · YC W22

ml-infradistributedyc-w22

Sim

Jobs ↗

Open-source platform for building AI agent workflows.

San Francisco, CA · YC P25 · ~6 people

agentsdev-toolsossyc-p25

Skydio

Jobs ↗

The largest US drone maker — self-flying drones used for public safety, defense, and infrastructure inspection (60K+ shipped).

San Mateo, CA · Series F · $110M @ $4.4B valuation (~$672M raised)

enriched

Slash

Jobs ↗

Business banking platform serving around 5,000 companies and moving tens of billions of dollars a year across payment rails.

San Francisco, CA · YC S21 · ~70 people

fintechbackendyc-s21

Socratix AI

Jobs ↗

AI agents that investigate fraud and risk cases for financial companies in real time.

CA · YC S25

agentsfintechbackendyc-s25

Sourcebot

Jobs ↗

Open-source code search and understanding for massive codebases, built for both humans and AI agents.

San Francisco, CA · YC F25

agentsdev-toolsyc-f25

Substack

Jobs ↗

Runs a publishing platform where writers publish newsletters and readers subscribe to them directly.

San Francisco, CA · YC W18

infrayc-w18

Sweep

Jobs ↗

AI coding assistant built for JetBrains IDEs.

San Francisco, CA · YC S23 · ~4 people

dev-toolsagentic-codingyc-s23

SyntheticFi

Jobs ↗

Low-cost securities-backed lending for financial advisors and high-net-worth clients.

San Francisco, CA · YC S23 · ~15 people

fintechyc-s23

Tasklet

Jobs ↗

Builds AI agents that autonomously run knowledge work around the clock.

San Francisco, CA · YC P26

agentsaiyc-p26

Theorem

Jobs ↗

Program-verification tools that mathematically check software for correctness.

San Francisco, CA · YC P25 · ~4 people

dev-toolsverificationyc-p25

Thinking Machines Lab

Jobs ↗

AI research lab founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati; its first product, Tinker, is an API for fine-tuning AI models.

San Francisco, CA · Seed — $2B at $12B valuation · ~90 people

enriched

Thunder Compute

Jobs ↗

GPU virtualization — often described as VMware for GPUs — letting more AI workloads share the same graphics hardware.

San Francisco, CA · YC S24 · $4.5M raised

ml-infragpuinfrayc-s24

Together AI

Jobs ↗

Cloud platform for running, fine-tuning, and serving open-source AI models on large GPU infrastructure.

San Francisco, CA · Series B ($305M) · $3.3B valuation

ml-infragpu-clusterenriched

TraceRoot.AI

Jobs ↗

Open-source self-healing observability layer that monitors and fixes AI agents.

San Francisco, CA · YC S25 · 1 person

agentsdev-toolsobservabilityyc-s25

Two Dots

Jobs ↗

AI agent for fraud prevention and underwriting.

San Francisco, CA · YC S22 · ~28 people

fintechagentsyc-s22

Unsiloed AI

Jobs ↗

A multimodal document-parsing API that turns messy PDFs and files into clean data for AI agents.

San Francisco, CA · YC F25

agentsbackendinfrayc-f25

Unsloth AI

Jobs ↗

Popular open-source software that makes training and fine-tuning AI models much faster, with millions of monthly downloads.

San Francisco, CA · YC S24

ml-infragpuyc-s24

Vannevar Labs

Jobs ↗

Builds AI-powered software and intelligence tools for national-security missions, including agent platforms for defense analysts.

Palo Alto, CA · Series B · $75M @ ~$575M valuation (~$91.5M raised)

enriched

Verne Robotics

Jobs ↗

AI foundation models that teach robots new skills in hours instead of months.

San Francisco, CA · YC S25 · ~6 people

roboticsfoundation-modelsyc-s25

Warp

Jobs ↗

Reimagines the terminal as a fast, modern, AI-powered command center for developers, including cloud-based coding agents.

San Francisco, CA · Series B · $73M raised

enriched

Waymo

Jobs ↗

Alphabet's self-driving company, operating driverless robotaxi services in cities like San Francisco, Phoenix, LA, and Austin.

Mountain View, CA · Alphabet subsidiary · ~2,500 people

enriched

Wealthfront

Jobs ↗

Automated investing and banking service that helps people grow and manage their money without a traditional advisor.

Palo Alto, CA

appliedfintechbackendbay-areajava

World Labs

Jobs ↗

AI research company co-founded by Fei-Fei Li building Marble, software that generates interactive 3D worlds.

San Francisco, CA · ~$5B valuation · ~$1.23B raised

enriched

Woz

Jobs ↗

Makes a plugin for Claude Code that cuts AI token usage and cost roughly in half.

San Francisco, CA · YC W25 · ~8 people

agentsdev-toolsclaude-codeyc-w25

Writer

Jobs ↗

Enterprise generative-AI platform that companies use to build AI apps, agents, and writing workflows on Writer's own models.

San Francisco, CA · Series C ($200M, 2024) · $1.9B valuation

enriched

xAI

Jobs ↗

Builds the Grok AI assistant and trains frontier models on Colossus, one of the world's largest GPU supercomputer clusters.

Palo Alto, CA · Series E — $20B at ~$230-250B valuation

enriched

Zep AI

Jobs ↗

Builds memory infrastructure that helps AI agents keep and use context over time.

San Francisco, CA · YC W24 · ~5 people

agentsinframemoryyc-w24

ZeroEntropy

Jobs ↗

Builds specialized retrieval and search infrastructure for AI applications.

San Francisco, CA · YC W25 · ~6 people

ml-infraretrievalsearchinfrayc-w25

Zettascale

Jobs ↗

Designs energy-efficient computer chips for AI workloads.

San Francisco, CA · YC S24 · ~4 people

ai-chipsml-infrayc-s24

Zoox

Jobs ↗

Amazon-owned robotaxi company building a purpose-designed autonomous vehicle and the full self-driving stack behind it.

Foster City, CA · Amazon subsidiary (acquired 2020)

enriched

Los Angeles / SoCal 35

Anduril Industries

Jobs ↗

Builds autonomous defense systems — drones, sensors, and the Lattice command-and-control software.

Costa Mesa, CA · Series H · ~$61B valuation

defenseautonomynational-securityenriched

AstroForge

Jobs ↗

Asteroid-mining startup building autonomous deep-space spacecraft to prospect and extract metals from asteroids.

Seal Beach, CA · YC W22 · $40M Series A · ~45 people

spaceminingearly-stageenriched

Castelion

Jobs ↗

Develops mass-produced hypersonic strike missiles (Blackbeard), aiming to make hypersonic weapons affordable for national defense.

Torrance, CA · Series B · $350M (~$450M total)

enriched

CHAOS Industries

Jobs ↗

Builds advanced radar and counter-drone detection systems, plus the command-and-control software that ties them together for the military.

Hawthorne, CA · $510M round · ~$4.5B valuation (>$1B raised)

enriched

Curri

Jobs ↗

Runs a logistics marketplace that delivers construction materials and supplies on demand.

Ventura, CA · YC S19

infrayc-s19

Field AI

Jobs ↗

Builds "physics-first" foundation models that let robots navigate and work autonomously in complex, GPS-denied environments.

Mission Viejo, CA · $400M+ raised · $2B valuation

roboticsaifoundation-modelsenriched

Hadrian

Jobs ↗

Runs highly automated factories that machine precision parts for aerospace and defense, powered by its own factory software.

Torrance, CA · Series C · $260M

enriched

Icarus

Jobs ↗

Builds stratospheric aircraft for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, plus the telemetry and command software behind them.

El Segundo, CA · YC F25

defensefdebackendyc-f25

Impulse Space

Jobs ↗

Builds in-space transportation vehicles — the Mira orbital transfer vehicle and Helios kick stage — to move satellites between orbits.

Redondo Beach, CA · Series D · $500M (Jun 2026) · ~$4.26B valuation

spacepropulsionenriched

K2 Space

Jobs ↗

Builds large, high-power "mega class" satellite buses for commercial and government space missions.

Torrance, CA · Series C · $250M at ~$3B valuation

spacesatellitesenriched

Karman Space & Defense

Jobs ↗

Designs and manufactures hardware systems and components for space and defense programs.

Huntington Beach, CA · Public — NYSE: KRMN

spacedefenseenriched

Mach Industries

Jobs ↗

Develops military vehicles, propulsion, and energetics — new kinds of drones and weapons systems for the US Army.

Huntington Beach, CA · Series C · $300M @ $1.8B valuation

enriched

Machina Labs

Jobs ↗

Combines robotic arms and AI to shape sheet metal into finished parts on demand, serving aerospace and defense manufacturing.

Chatsworth, CA · Series C (Feb 2026) · ~$223M raised

roboticsmanufacturingdefenseenriched

MindFort

Jobs ↗

Autonomous AI red-team agents that find, exploit, and patch security vulnerabilities in software.

Los Angeles, CA · YC X25

agentssecuritydev-toolsyc-x25

Motiv Space Systems

Jobs ↗

Builds robotic arms and space robotics for satellites and in-orbit servicing; now Rocket Lab's space-robotics arm.

Pasadena, CA · Acquired by Rocket Lab (NASDAQ: RKLB), May 2026

spaceroboticsrocket-labenriched

Northwood Space

Jobs ↗

Builds networks of software-defined phased-array ground stations — the antennas and software that connect satellites to Earth.

Torrance, CA · Series A · $30M (2025)

spaceground-systemsinfraenriched

Paragon

Jobs ↗

An embedded integration platform that lets software products connect natively to their customers' other apps.

Los Angeles, CA · YC W20 · Series A · ~48 people

dev-toolsfdeyc-w20

Picogrid

Jobs ↗

Builds an open integration layer that connects military radars, cameras, and drones into unified command-and-control systems.

El Segundo, CA · Series A · $45M

enriched

Pure

Jobs ↗

A marketplace and pricing platform for rare coins — like a Bloomberg Terminal for collectible coins — handling tens of millions in monthly volume.

Los Angeles, CA · YC S23

fintechmarketplaceyc-s23

Relativity Space

Jobs ↗

Rocket company known for using large-scale 3D printing to build its launch vehicles.

Long Beach, CA

spacelaunchenriched

Rocket Lab

Jobs ↗

Space company that builds and launches rockets and spacecraft, from small-satellite launches to complete satellite systems and components.

Long Beach, CA · Public — NASDAQ: RKLB

spacelaunchpublicenriched

SFOX

Jobs ↗

A crypto prime dealer offering institutional trade execution, custody, and algorithmic order routing.

Los Angeles, CA · YC S14

fintechtradingcryptoyc-s14

Sift

Jobs ↗

Makes a telemetry and observability platform that helps aerospace and hardware companies monitor and debug their machines.

Marina Del Rey, CA · Series A · $17.5M (~$25M total)

enriched

Sorting Robotics

Jobs ↗

Builds robots that automate manufacturing for the cannabis industry.

Los Angeles, CA · YC-backed

roboticsyc

SpaceX

Jobs ↗

Designs, builds, and launches rockets and spacecraft, including the Falcon and Starship vehicles and the Starlink satellite internet network.

Hawthorne, CA

aerospaceinfraus-citizen

SpinLaunch

Jobs ↗

Developing the Meridian broadband satellite constellation alongside its original kinetic (spin-accelerated) launch system.

Long Beach, CA · ~$203M raised

spacelaunchenriched

Splash Inc

Jobs ↗

Builds autonomous surface vessels — self-driving boats — for national-security missions.

El Segundo, CA · YC W25 · ~9 people

roboticsdefenseyc-w25

Stackup

Jobs ↗

Crypto infrastructure for account abstraction (ERC-4337) — tools that make blockchain wallets easier to build and use.

Los Angeles, CA · YC S22

fintechcryptodev-toolsyc-s22

Starpath Robotics

Jobs ↗

Early-stage company building robotic systems for lunar propellant production and space-based solar power.

Hawthorne, CA · Seed · ~$12M raised (founded 2022)

spaceroboticsearly-stageenriched

The Aerospace Corporation

Jobs ↗

Nonprofit research center that provides independent technical expertise to the U.S. government on space and national-security programs.

El Segundo, CA · Nonprofit FFRDC · ~4,600 staff · ~$1.4B revenue

spacenational-securityus-citizenenriched

Turion Space

Jobs ↗

Space domain awareness company building spacecraft and software to track objects in orbit.

Irvine, CA · YC S21

spacedefensebackendyc-s21

Varda Space Industries

Jobs ↗

Manufactures pharmaceuticals in orbit and brings them back to Earth in reentry capsules, with multiple reentries already flown.

El Segundo, CA · Series C · $187M (Jul 2025) · ~$329M raised

spacemanufacturingenriched

VAST

Jobs ↗

Building commercial space stations — its first, Haven-1, is designed to host astronauts in orbit.

Long Beach, CA · ~$1B raised incl. $500M Series A

Wardstone

Jobs ↗

Works on space-based missile defense, building real-time GPU-powered sensing and perception systems.

El Segundo, CA · YC F25

defenseml-infraperceptionyc-f25

Whatnot

Jobs ↗

A live-shopping marketplace where sellers auction collectibles and goods over livestream, processing thousands of transactions per second.

Marina del Rey, CA · YC W20 · unicorn

paymentsbackendinfrayc-w20

San Diego 4

comma.ai

Jobs ↗

Builds openpilot, an open-source driver-assistance system that adds semi-autonomous driving features to everyday cars.

San Diego, CA

ml-infraself-drivinggpu-cluster

Finni Health

Jobs ↗

Healthcare software that helps autism-therapy (ABA) providers run their practices.

San Diego, CA · YC W23 · ~$3.2M seed

healthtechbackendyc-w23

Firestorm Labs

Jobs ↗

Makes modular drones (Tempest) and portable manufacturing systems so militaries can build aircraft close to where they're needed.

San Diego, CA · Series A · $47M

enriched

Shield AI

Jobs ↗

Builds AI pilot software and autonomous aircraft for defense, including work on the Air Force's collaborative combat aircraft program.

San Diego, CA · Series G · $1.5B @ $12.7B valuation

enriched

Seattle 1

Overland AI

Jobs ↗

Builds off-road self-driving software (OverDrive) and the ULTRA ground vehicle so military trucks can navigate rough terrain without drivers.

Seattle, WA · Series B · $100M (equity + debt)

enriched

Denver / Boulder 2

Palantir

Jobs ↗

Builds data-integration and AI platforms used by governments and large companies to analyze data and run operations.

Denver, CO · Public — NASDAQ: PLTR

defensedata-infranational-securityenriched

True Anomaly

Jobs ↗

Builds spacecraft and the Mosaic software platform for space security and defense missions.

Denver, CO · Series D · ~$650M at $2.2B valuation

spacedefensenational-securityenriched

Austin 3

Allen Control Systems

Jobs ↗

Makes Bullfrog, an AI-powered autonomous gun turret that detects and shoots down hostile drones.

Austin, TX · Series B · $200M @ $2.2B valuation

enriched

Saronic

Jobs ↗

Builds autonomous unmanned boats — sea drones for the Navy and maritime defense.

Austin, TX · Series D · $1.75B @ $9.25B valuation

enriched

Tenstorrent

Jobs ↗

Designs AI processors and an open, RISC-V-based software stack, led by chip architect Jim Keller.

Austin, TX · Series D · ~$2.7B valuation

enriched

New York 15

BlueCargo

Jobs ↗

Makes software that helps shippers track containers and manage port logistics and fees.

New York, NY · YC S19

infrabackendyc-s19

BoldVoice

Jobs ↗

Makes an app that coaches people on English pronunciation and accent.

New York, NY · YC S21

infrayc-s21

Confido

Jobs ↗

Makes finance and revenue-operations software for consumer packaged goods brands.

New York, NY · YC S21

fintechinfrayc-s21

CoreWeave

Jobs ↗

GPU cloud provider that supplies large-scale computing power for AI training and inference.

Livingston, NJ · Public — NASDAQ: CRWV · ~$60B market cap

gpu-clustercloud-infrapublicenriched

Forage

Jobs ↗

Builds payments infrastructure that lets online stores accept EBT/SNAP benefits at checkout.

New York, NY · YC-backed

fintechinfrayc

Hugging Face

Jobs ↗

The open-source hub where the AI community shares and runs models, datasets, and apps.

New York, NY · Series D · $4.5B valuation

enrichedtransformersTGIaccelerate

Lightning AI

Jobs ↗

Creators of PyTorch Lightning; offers a development platform and GPU cloud for building and training AI models.

New York, NY · ~$2.5B valuation (post-Voltage Park merger)

enriched

Method Financial

Jobs ↗

Builds APIs that let apps connect to consumer financial data and manage debt repayment.

New York, NY · YC-backed

fintechinfrayc

Modal

Jobs ↗

A serverless cloud platform that lets developers run code and AI workloads instantly without managing servers.

New York, NY · Series C · $4.65B valuation

enriched

OneChronos

Jobs ↗

Operates an electronic trading venue — a "smart market" where institutional investors execute trades.

New York, NY · YC S16

fintechinfratradingyc-s16

Pinecone

Jobs ↗

Makes a vector database — specialized storage that lets AI applications search and retrieve information by meaning.

New York, NY · Series B · ~$750M valuation

isRemoteenriched

Reflection AI

Jobs ↗

AI lab founded by ex-DeepMind researchers building Asimov, an AI agent that reads and understands large codebases.

New York, NY · Series B — $2B at $8B valuation

enriched

Runway

Jobs ↗

AI research company building video-generation models and creative tools for filmmakers and artists.

New York, NY · Series E — $315M at $5.3B valuation

enriched

Triomics

Jobs ↗

Applies AI to clinical-trial workflows, helping match patients and speed up trial operations.

New York, NY · YC W21

agentsaifdeyc-w21

Voiceops

Jobs ↗

Builds AI that analyzes and improves call-center conversations.

New York, NY · YC W17

agentsaiyc-w17

Boston 1

Suno

Jobs ↗

AI music generation company — its app turns simple text prompts into complete songs with vocals and instruments.

Cambridge, MA · Series C · $250M @ $2.45B valuation

aigenerativemusicenriched

Other US 4

Podium

Jobs ↗

Makes communication and AI tools that help small businesses message customers and win business.

Lehi, UT · YC W16

agentsaiyc-w16

Runpod

Jobs ↗

A serverless GPU cloud that lets developers rent graphics chips on demand to run AI workloads.

Moorestown, NJ · Seed · ~$22M raised

enriched

Skild AI

Jobs ↗

Builds a general-purpose robot foundation model — an AI brain that can control many kinds of robots.

Pittsburgh, PA · ~39 people

Soraban

Jobs ↗

Builds AI-first automation software for accounting firms.

Chandler, AZ · YC-backed

agentsaiyc

Remote 10

Cohere

Jobs ↗

AI lab building large language models and an agent platform (North) aimed at enterprise and secure deployments.

Toronto · $500M round (2025) · ~$7B valuation

enriched

GitLab

Jobs ↗

Makes the GitLab DevOps platform — one application for planning, coding, testing, and shipping software, with built-in AI features.

Public — NASDAQ: GTLB

dev-toolsinfraremoteenriched

GoGoGrandparent

Jobs ↗

Provides on-demand services like rides and deliveries for older adults.

YC-backed

infrabackendyc

Instrumentl

Jobs ↗

Helps nonprofits discover, track, and manage grants in one place.

YC S16

infradatayc-s16

Jiga

Jobs ↗

Runs a platform that helps companies source custom manufactured parts and hardware.

YC W21

infrayc-w21

Nebius

Jobs ↗

A public AI-cloud company building large GPU data centers where customers train and run AI models.

Public — NASDAQ: NBIS

enriched

Numero

Jobs ↗

Modern fundraising software for political campaigns and nonprofits.

YC-backed

infrabackendyc

Postscript

Jobs ↗

Makes SMS marketing software that helps e-commerce brands text and sell to their customers.

YC W19

infrabackendyc-w19

Sourcegraph

Jobs ↗

Code search and intelligence platform that helps developers understand large codebases, plus tools that let AI agents work with code.

Series D ($125M, 2021) · $2.6B valuation

enriched

Wasmer

Jobs ↗

Develops the Wasmer WebAssembly runtime, letting the same code run fast and safely anywhere.

YC-backed

infrarustyc