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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    Autonomous construction on Earth and beyond

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    Extrapolative AI to unlock First-in-Class drugs

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    Clinically Integrated Group for Mental Health

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    Least cost routing system to reduce 80%+ token spend

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    Predictive maintenance on your plant data and sensors.

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    Building drone swarms that hunt drone operators

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    Effortlessly deploy cloud software factories.

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    Expert computer-use data for frontier AI labs

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    ParasmaHiring

    Training human brain cells for AI compute

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    Agentic Hotel Operating System

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    Nervous System for Physical AI

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    AI-native materials discovery powered by unpublished experimental data

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    Building the future of advanced chip manufacturing.

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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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    debit cards for AI agents.

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    Product Analytics for Conversational Agents

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    The Github For Coding Agents

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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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    The AI that knows you

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    OpenRouter for Agent Capabilities

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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 trading terminal for perps, memes, and stocks.

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    API sandboxes, built for AI agents

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    AI Coworkers for IT teams

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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

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    Floating nuclear powered data centers at sea.

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    AI-native debt collection

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    The AI-powered operating system for radiology networks

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    Boutique Hotels that run themselves

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    AI chips for ultra-fast training and inference

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    The easiest way to make private AI models

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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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    Agentic supply chain optimization

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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 collections agency for late stage portfolios

  45. 45
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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 don't want to have hacked

  48. 48
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    AI that finds value creation opportunities across enterprise…

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    find, qualify, & win contracts with AI

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    Research services for ChatGPT and Claude

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    The AI Coach for in person sales reps.

  52. 52
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    The biggest crowdsourced benchmark for Computer-Use

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    Tool call compression for agents.

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    Exchange for Physical Compute

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    We give AI agents realtime web context.

  56. 56
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    Financial infrastructure for family caregiving

  57. 57
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    RL post-training for science reasoning and performance engineering

  58. 58
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    AI-native test infrastructure to accelerate hardware companies.

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    Secure training data shaped by experimentation

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    Automatic Diagnosis & Fix for Industrial Automation Cells

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    The Agent Control Plane for IT teams

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    Real-world data network for robots & world models

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

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    Dental Insurance

  65. 65
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    Agents for Industrial Supply Chains

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    The AI-native contact center.

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    AI-controlled optical switching for AI clusters

  68. 68
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    Multiplayer workspace for AI teammates and humans

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

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    Pocket-sized AI cameras that catch asset damage.

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    Drone swarm defence at a small-unit level

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    Military exoskeletons

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    A Quant Neolab building self-improving agents from quant trading

  74. 74
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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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    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.

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    Voice agents that accelerate care coordination in workers' comp

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    The open source tool gateway

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    Building a sovereign alternative to Starlink

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    Open source OpenRouter that turns your traffic into a better model

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    The world's frontier hacker for AI agents.

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    Real-Time AI Dubbing. Neolab for World Translation.

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    Connect your agent to the stock market

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

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    Florin is the insurance carrier with zero underwriters

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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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    Scalable Personalised Cancer Treatment

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    The Git forge for the next hundred billion commits

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    Institutional Learning Layer for Every Agent in Your Company

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    On-device knowledge graph engine for enterprises

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    Robots for waste manipulation

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    AI brain that runs content for creators

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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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    Open source SDK for building quality control pipelines for Physical AI

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    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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    Rocket cargo delivery to contested environments

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    Retrieve records other APIs can't

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    The runtime data layer for agents to monitor and debug apps

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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

  112. 112
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    AI-Native Social Platform, Starting with Games

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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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    The harness company

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    Making health insurance invisible

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    Making Diamond Engineerable

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    Making the field queryable

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    Lightning fast chips with hardcoded AI models

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    Agent-native accounting firm.

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    Agentic deal diligence for institutional investors

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    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

    AI agents that help companies and governments work together.

  126. 126
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    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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    Cloud computers for AI agents

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    Monetize your agent's traces.

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    Simulating Agents Running Industrial Companies

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    Deployment-ready robotic labor for the supply chain industry

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    The autonomous back-of-house for restaurants.

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    AI-Native Engineering Firm designing Data Centers

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    Platform and FDEs for rebuilding businesses 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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    Infrastructure for Physical World AI Agents

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    1 Minute Anime

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    Resistance free pesticides.

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    Defining the frontier of multiplayer AI.

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    Research lab for physical AI

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    World models that train and test robots in sim, #1 on Physics-IQ

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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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    Claude Cowork for high volume GTM workflows

  149. 149
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    American Humanoid which costs 3% of the competition

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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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    Give every employee a secured, sandboxed pro assistant agent

  153. 153
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    The cheapest, fastest lightweight inference.

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    Ooak DataHiring

    We turn company data into training data

  155. 155
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    Distributed, hardware-agnostic AI inference

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    Model Agnostic Claude Tag

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    The new interface for investing.

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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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    AI advanced planning and optimisation for manufacturers.

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    OS3Hiring

    Deploying US-Built Robots & Training Video Action Models

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    AI growth engine for corporate law firms.

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    The intelligent development platform for robotics

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    Mass-producing and financing micro data center incredibly quickly.

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    An AI-Native Media Platform

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    AI sales agents that run your marketplace

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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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    The World Model for Corporate Governance

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    We make law firms AI-native.

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    Internal industrial company data for frontier labs

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    Voice agent that learns about professionals and makes them searchable

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    Host a Poker Club and Make Money

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    Turns every company into a data vendor

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    Health insurance for the age of abundant intelligence.

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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 foundation model for quantitative finance.

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    Building autonomous data centers

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    Fast-turn, American made PCBs

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    Legora for commercial insurance carriers

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    The AI-native radiology practice

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    AI for fintechs & banks

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    Making chemicals 100,000x faster

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    RationalHiring

    AI Employees for In-House Enterprise Accounting

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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 valuable supply-secure chemicals

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    Insurance for Frontier Tech

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    Real-world evals for robots

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

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    Deploying robots for inspections in hazardous spaces, like nuclear.

  197. 197
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    Turn your company's computer work into AI agents.

  198. 198
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    The agentic origination desk for supply chain risk.

  199. 199
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    Robots that learn on the job

  200. 200
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    AI agent that handles frontline operations over text

  201. 201
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    Autopilot for Flight Operations

  202. 202
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    AI-native procurement services for the physical economy

  203. 203
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    We are a multi-strategy trading firm that trains AI traders.

  204. 204
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    OpenRouter for Voice AI: one API, every call on the best speech model

  205. 205
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    Teaching AI to Design Chips

  206. 206
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    A primary care clinic where AI earns clinical autonomy

  207. 207
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    The market behind AI hardware.

  208. 208
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    Applied AI for Governments.

  209. 209
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    Accurately simulate market response at scale

  210. 210
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    Autonomous rovers to make the ‘Google Maps’ of underground utilities

  211. 211
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    SunflowerHiring

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

  212. 212
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    New semiconductors that merge compute and vision

  213. 213
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    Vaccines for any cancer or infection in weeks.

  214. 214
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    Supply chain compliance and cost savings

  215. 215
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    The investment platform for sports & trading cards

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    AI workers that attribute the outcome back to the token spend

  217. 217
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    Robotic factories that build robots.

  218. 218
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    TorusHiring

    Legora for physical engineering firms

  219. 219
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    Market for future inference capacity

  220. 220
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    AI iOS assistant that instantly uses voice and video to take action

  221. 221
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    AI agents for compliance at institutional trading firms

  222. 222
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    Securing AI native apps directly on devices

  223. 223
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    Combining open-source AI models for better answers at lower cost

  224. 224
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    Autonomous offensive security agents. The best defense is offense

  225. 225
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    AI FDE that deploys custom AI agents into ERPs

  226. 226
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    Local creators for local businesses

  227. 227
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    AI career agent that turns your professional footprint into offers

  228. 228
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    Manufacturing the metal parts the world runs on faster, cheaper, safer

  229. 229
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    Self-optimizing neocloud that cuts LLM bills by 80%

  230. 230
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    AI native TPA starting with workers comp

  231. 231
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    Let your users build their own features on top of your product

  232. 232
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    AI-native planning & permitting software for local gov

  233. 233
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    AI cybersecurity for financial institutions' digital assets

  234. 234
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    Autonomous radar guidance for interceptors

  235. 235
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    AI native platform for real estate closings

  236. 236
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    Agents for robotics control.

  237. 237
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    WaybillHiring

    Managed procurement & inventory for hardware teams.

  238. 238
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    AI Operating System for Wholesale Distribution

  239. 239
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    Duolingo for learning anything

  240. 240
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    Computer-use agent swarms for financial back offices

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    AI Workforce for lenders

  242. 242
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    Conversational surveys that replace Qualtrics for large brands

  243. 243
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    Helping AI understand the physical world