S26 Power Rankings
Community ranking of the YC Summer 2026 batch. 61 companies and counting as the batch is announced. Vote the ones you believe in up, the rest down.
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A nervous system for physical AI
RoboticsBig DataAISan Francisco, CA, USA - 22
Discovering the atlas of disease biology using virtual cells.
AI-powered Drug DiscoveryDrug discoveryBiotechnologySan Francisco, CA, USA - 32
Agentic harness for financial markets
FintechGenerative AIConsumerSan Francisco, CA, USA - 42
Autonomous construction on Earth and beyond
Hard TechRoboticsConstructionSan Francisco, CA, USA - 51
Solving AI pricing
Artificial IntelligenceInfrastructureSan Francisco, CA, USA - 60
debit cards for AI agents.
FintechSan Francisco, CA, USA - 70
The improvement loop for AI agents
Artificial IntelligenceDeveloper ToolsAPISan Francisco, CA, USA - 80
AI training chips and developer platform
Hard TechHardwareAISan Francisco, CA, USA - 90
AI-powered mastery learning for K-12
AI-Enhanced LearningArtificial IntelligenceEducationSan Francisco, CA, USA - 100
Guarantee your agents use the right evidence before they act.
SaaSComplianceSecuritySan Francisco, CA, USA - 110
AI agents to run primary healthcare operations
SaaSHealthcareAISydney, NSW, Australia - 120
Aggregate company knowledge and make inferences
Artificial IntelligenceSan Francisco, CA, USA - 130
Building the future of knowledge work, RPA and SOPs using computer use
AIOpsDeveloper ToolsWorkflow AutomationSan Francisco, CA, USA - 140
Systems log compression for agents.
Developer ToolsSan Francisco, CA, USA - 150
We give AI agents realtime web context.
B2BAPIsNew York City, NY, USA - 160
Control and Monitoring of Industrial Operations
Workflow AutomationMonitoringIndustrial - 170
AI-Native Home Care Agency
Artificial IntelligenceConsumer Health ServicesHealthcareDetroit, MI, USA - 180
The dental practice that runs itself
DentalHealthcare ITAISan Francisco, CA, USA - 190
Infra for enterprise voice agents.
B2BCustomer SupportSan Francisco, CA, USA - 200
Energy world models that fix energy waste before it becomes expensive.
Deep LearningB2BEnergySan Francisco, CA, USA - 210
Building Autonomous Research Agents for Trading
Consumer FinanceBoston, MA, USA - 220
World models for agents
Artificial IntelligenceInfrastructureSan Francisco, CA, USA - 230
The financial operating system for the companies building the future.
Artificial IntelligenceBanking as a ServiceFintechSan Francisco, CA, USA - 240
AI for Construction's Back Office.
SaaSConstructionWorkflow Automation - 250
Unified organizational context for agents and humans
Artificial IntelligenceGenerative AIB2BSan Francisco, CA, USA - 260
Manufacturing the future of autonomous swarm warfare.
HardwareRoboticsDronesSan Francisco, CA, USA - 270
AI-Native Defense Contractor Reshaping the Defense Supply Chain
Artificial IntelligenceComplianceManufacturingNew York, NY, USA - 280
Hop AeroHiringRocket cargo delivery to contested environments
Los Angeles, CA, USA - 290
Give your AI agents email, phone, iMessage and an internet address
Developer ToolsInfrastructureAIBoston, MA, USA - 300
A benchmark for synthetic video
Generative AIRoboticsData LabelingSan Francisco, CA, USA - 310
The AI-Native Decision Infrastructure for Health Insurance
Artificial IntelligenceHealth TechAutomationSan Francisco, CA, USA - 320
Mass-produced AI strike systems and Counter-UAS
Artificial IntelligenceSwarm RoboticsUnmanned VehicleFlorida City, FL, USA - 330
Agent-native research and simulation platform for investors
B2BInvestingMarket Research - 340
Persistent & powerful cloud VMs from your CLI
Developer ToolsCloud ComputingSan Francisco, CA, USA - 350
Infrastructure for Physical World AI Agents
Artificial IntelligenceGeographic Information SystemLocation-basedSan Francisco, CA, USA - 360
Biopesticides that are safe for humans and bees.
Synthetic BiologyBiotechSustainabilityToronto, ON, Canada - 370
An AI-native cybersecurity company
CybersecurityAIVancouver, WA, USA; Remote - 380
Sub-1500$ robot anyone can program
Hard TechHardwareRoboticsNew York City, NY, USA - 390
OperonHiringAgentic data layer for manufacturing & process industries.
Computer VisionManufacturingInfrastructureSan Francisco, CA, USA - 400
Intelligence and Machines for Physical Labor
Artificial IntelligenceHardwareRoboticsSan Francisco, CA, USA - 410
We find new matter opportunities for corporate law firms.
Sales EnablementLegalTechAISan Francisco, CA, USA - 420
Agentic OS for e-commerce operations
LogisticsE-commerceRetailStockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden - 430
ParasmaHiringTraining human brain cells for AI compute
Machine LearningNeurotechnologyAISan Francisco, CA, USA - 440
An event-driven AI engine that turns real-world signals into action.
Artificial IntelligenceB2BAutomationSan Francisco, CA, USA - 450
PetrarchHiringMarketplace for specialized data assets
MarketplaceB2BData EngineeringSan Francisco, CA, USA - 460
Turns every company into a data vendor
Hard TechReinforcement LearningRobotic Process AutomationSan Francisco, CA, USA - 470
Healthcare for the age of abundant intelligence.
Health InsuranceInsuranceBoston, MA, USA - 480
Internal tools, built by the people who use them.
Developer ToolsSaaSProductivitySan Francisco, CA, USA - 490
AI-native OS for Real Estate Brokerages
Artificial IntelligenceReal EstateEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, CA, USA - 500
AI Operations Partner for Enterprise Order to Cash
B2BEnterprise SoftwareAILondon, United Kingdom - 510
AI-powered catastrophe risk modeling
Machine LearningB2BClimateSan Francisco, CA, USA - 520
We deploy robots for inspections in hazardous spaces, like nuclear.
Hard TechRoboticsIndustrialAustin, TX, USA - 530
Voice agents that represent people's careers
MarketplaceAICareersNew York City, NY, USA - 540
The autonomous back-of-house for restaurants.
SaaSRestaurant TechAINew York City, NY, USA - 550
TsentaHiringWe match you with jobs and apply automatically
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AI-native land-use permit management for local gov
GovTech - 570
AI Operating System for Wholesale Distributors
Artificial IntelligenceSaaSB2BLondon, United Kingdom - 58-1
AI for every workflow inside a credit team
LendingInvestmentsSan Francisco, CA, USA - 59-1
Data for computer-use ai
Reinforcement LearningData LabelingData EngineeringSan Francisco, CA, USA - 60-1
Helping companies understand why users behave the way they do
Artificial IntelligenceSaaSB2BSan Francisco, CA, USA - 61-1
Your company memory, one text away
EnterpriseSearchAI AssistantSan Francisco, CA, USA