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2026-02-26 Series A Comp HR total rewards software article ↗
2026-02-25 Series A Abram Scientific Coagulation diagnostics medical device article ↗
2026-02-18 Series A Avantos Client onboarding and servicing AI article ↗
2026-02-17 Seed Intrinsic Foundries Convert industrial waste to biochemicals article ↗
2026-02-17 Pre-Seed Lexi Building energy management article ↗
2026-02-14 Series B LeoLabs Low earth orbit mapping article ↗
2026-02-04 Seed Adaption Labs AI that adapts to real world article ↗
2026-02-04 Acquired Veda Trials Clinical trial operations article ↗
2026-02-02 Series G Varo Bank Financial inclusive bank article ↗
2026-01-30 Series B Epikast Engage patients and health providers article ↗
2026-01-30 Seed Uplift AI Voice AI for underserved languages article ↗
2026-01-29 Series A Pranax Develop exosomes for longevity article ↗
2026-01-29 Pre-Seed Arkero AI for professional sports teams article ↗
2026-01-29 Series B Sixfold AI Generative AI for insurance underwriting article ↗
2026-01-28 Acquired Propolis AI for software testing article ↗
2026-01-27 Pre-Seed Soundskrit Directional microphones article ↗
2026-01-27 Series B Northwood Space Space satellite infrastructure article ↗
2026-01-27 Seed Midship Extract documents into spreadsheets article ↗
2026-01-21 Series D OpenEvidence Organizing the world’s medical knowledge article ↗
2026-01-21 Seed AheadComputing Faster computer processor article ↗
2026-01-13 Series A Flip CX Voice AI for customer service on the phone article ↗
2026-01-09 Series A Cloudforce Microsoft cloud solutions article ↗

Startup Directory

startups

Anaconda Series C

Open source AI platform

Peter Wang ’99 · Austin, TX

AnalyticsArtificial IntelligenceBig Data
Liquid AI Series A

Foundation models from first principles

Daniela Rus, PhD ’93 · Cambridge, MA

Artificial IntelligenceGenerative AIInformation Technology
Arize AI Series C

LLM evaluation platform

Aparna Dhinakaran, PhD Dropout · Mill Valley, CA

Artificial IntelligenceInformation TechnologyMachine Learning
Samaya AI

AI knowledge domain expertise for financial services

Maithra Raghu, PhD ’16, Jack Hessel, PhD ’20 · United Kingdom

Artificial IntelligenceInformation TechnologyMachine Learning
Kumo.AI Series B

Query large scale data warehouses

Jure Leskovec, PostDoc ’09 · Mountain View, CA

Artificial IntelligenceBig DataBusiness Intelligence
Vivun Series C

Technical copilot for the sales team

Joseph Miller, PhD ’18 · Dover, DE

Artificial IntelligenceB2BCRM
Openlayer Series A

Quality assurance for AI and ML

Gabriel Bayomi Tinoco Kalejaiye ’17 · San Francisco, CA

Artificial IntelligenceDeveloper ToolsInformation Technology
Revv Series A

SaaS solutions for the automotive industry

Rashmi Sinha, MS ’22 · New York, NY

Artificial IntelligenceAutomotiveB2B
AKASA Series C

Generative AI solutions for the healthcare revenue cycle

Malinka Walaliyadde ’12 · San Francisco, CA

Artificial IntelligenceHealth CareMachine Learning
Boosted.ai

AI productivity for investment managers

Jon Dorando, PhD ’10 · Canada

Artificial IntelligenceFinancial ServicesFinTech
Petal

Credit card for financial opportunity

David Ehrich ’85 · New York, NY

Credit CardsFinancial ServicesFinTech
BuildWithin Pre-Seed

Workforce onboarding

Michelle Rhee ’92 · Washington, DC

EdTechInformation TechnologyMachine Learning
Numerion Labs Series C

AI drug discovery

Abraham Heifets ’01, MEng ’02 · San Francisco, CA

Artificial IntelligenceBiotechnologyHealth Care
Numerai Series C

Long/short global equity strategy hedge fund

Richard Craib ’12 · San Francisco, CA

Artificial IntelligenceFinancial ServicesFinTech
Eventual Series A

Data warehouse for ML and AI

Jay Chia ’18 · San Francisco, CA

Artificial IntelligenceCloud ComputingMachine Learning
Blumind Series A

Semiconductors for edge AI

Niraj Mathur, MBA ’11 · Canada

Artificial IntelligenceMachine LearningSemiconductor
retrain.ai

Hire and retain knowledge workers

Shay David, PhD ’07 · New York, NY

Artificial IntelligenceDeveloper APIsHuman Resources
Crayon Series B

Competition monitoring for sales teams

Jonah Lopin ’00 · Boston, MA

AnalyticsArtificial IntelligenceBusiness Development
Exostellar Series A

Reduce cloud costs by CPU and GPU optimization

Zhiming Shen, PhD ’17, Hakim Weatherspoon, Professor · Ithaca, NY

Artificial IntelligenceMachine LearningSaaS
Grabango

Checkout-free tech for grocery stores

William Glaser ’87 · Berkeley, CA

Artificial IntelligenceComputer VisionMachine Learning
Abstractive Health Seed

Medical clinical notes AI assistant

Vince Hartman ’08, MS ’22, Ritika Poddar, MS ’22 · New York, NY

Artificial IntelligenceElectronic Health Record (EHR)Health Care
OfferFit Series B

Replace A/B testing with AI

George Khachatryan, PhD ’11, Victor Kostyuk, PhD ’11 · Boston, MA

Artificial IntelligenceMachine LearningMarketing Automation
Makora Seed

AI model deployment

Mohamed Abdelfattah, Professor · New York, NY

Artificial IntelligenceMachine LearningSoftware
Avallon Labs Seed

AI for insurance claims operations

Cornelius Schramm, MEng ’25 Dropout, Bryan Guin, MEng ’25 Dropout, Jet Semrick, MEng ’25 Dropout · New York, NY

Artificial IntelligenceDocument ManagementMachine Learning
AgShift

Food inspection AI

Miku Jha, MBA ’11 · Costa Mesa, CA

AgTechArtificial IntelligenceComputer Vision
Miso

AI search engine for businesses

Lucky Gunasekara ’05, Andy Hsieh, PostDoc ’17 · San Francisco, CA

Developer APIsMachine LearningNatural Language Processing
Redica Systems

Biotech regulatory software

Tony Chen ’97, Oliver Yu ’97, MEng ’98 · Pleasanton, CA

AnalyticsArtificial IntelligenceBig Data
Themis AI

Derisk AI models from unreliable outputs

Daniela Rus, PhD ’93 · Cambridge, MA

Artificial IntelligenceInformation TechnologyMachine Learning
Dresma

Marketing images created by AI

Siddharth Sinha ’01, Abhishek Kirti, MEng ’11 · Cupertino, CA

Artificial IntelligenceE-CommerceMachine Learning
Ceretype Neuromedicine Pre-Seed

fMRI for neuropsychiatry

Emily Stern, MD ’87 · Cambridge, MA

BiotechnologyHealth CareLife Science
RayIoT Solutions Inc. Seed

Monitor health and well-being

Sanchi Poovaya, MEng ’09 · Delaware City, DE

Artificial IntelligenceConsumer ElectronicsInternet of Things
Spiral

AI to identify customer issues

Elena Zhizhimontova, MEng ’18 · Seattle, WA

Artificial IntelligenceB2BCustomer Service
Zengines Seed

Software data conversion

Carl Drisko ’81 · Bedford, MA

Artificial IntelligenceInformation TechnologyMachine Learning
Leash Bio Seed

Unleashing machine learning to solve medicinal chemistry.

Andrew Blevins ’10 · Salt Lake City, UT

Health CareMachine LearningMedical
Scope Computer Vision Technologies

Utility lines quality inspection

John Hohm, MS ’16 · Sugar Land, TX

Artificial IntelligenceMachine LearningSoftware
CytoHub Inc. Pre-Seed

Cellular therapies for heart health

Frank Teoh, MEng ’13 · San Diego, California, United States

Artificial IntelligenceBiotechnologyLife Science
Collimator Seed

Modeling and simulation software built for the cloud

Reda Dehy ’04 · Denver, CO

Communication HardwareInformation TechnologyMachine Learning
Charles River Data Seed

Bespoke data science consulting

Michael Dezube ’12 · Boston, MA

AnalyticsArtificial IntelligenceBig Data
Smartfluence Seed

Connect brands and social media influencers

David Ko ’15 · New York, NY

Machine LearningSocial MediaSocial Media Advertising
CreatorML Pre-Seed

AI to help YouTube creators choose topics, titles, and thumbnails

Charles Weill ’12, MEng ’13 · Boonton, NJ

Content CreatorsMachine LearningProductivity Tools
Testworks Series B

High-quality data sets and validation solutions for safer AI

Dale Sukwon Yoon, MS ’04 · South Korea

Artificial IntelligenceInformation TechnologyMachine Learning
Birth Model Pre-Seed

AI for labor and delivery

Anish Shah ’11 · New York, NY

Artificial IntelligenceMachine LearningPredictive Analytics
Swayable Seed

Advertisment performance testing

James Slezak, PhD ’07 · San Francisco, CA

AdvertisingAnalyticsArtificial Intelligence
FeatureByte Seed

AI data scientist

Razi Raziuddin, MBA ’01 · Shrewsbury, MA

Artificial IntelligenceMachine Learning
Amesite

AI-driven applications

Ann Sastry, PhD ’94 · Detroit, MI

Artificial IntelligenceComputerMachine Learning
Estimated Inc.

Brand loyalty customer data platform

Brian Bendett ’13 · New York, NY

AppsLoyalty ProgramsMachine Learning
Taiyo.AI

Planning software for infrastructure projects

Timothy Gee ’88 · San Francisco, CA

Artificial IntelligenceConstructionInformation Technology
Ficc.ai

Real-time pricing for fixed income bonds

Charles Elkan, PhD ’90 · Seattle, WA

FinTechMachine Learning
Spatial9 Inc.

AI to create immersive audio

Katie Cummiskey ’13 · —

Artificial IntelligenceAudioMachine Learning
Kquika, Inc

Prediction analysis for airports and aircrafts

Victor Oribamise, MS ’21 · New York, NY

AerospaceArtificial IntelligenceBig Data