New and recently funded AI Startups
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Country: USA | Funding: $594.9M
Kodiak Robotics is an autonomous vehicle company developing self-driving solutions for long-haul trucking to enhance safety and efficiency.
Kodiak Robotics is an autonomous vehicle company developing self-driving solutions for long-haul trucking to enhance safety and efficiency.
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Country: USA | Funding: $20.1M
Vapi is a voice AI platform that allows developers to build, test and deploy voice agents for phone calls and customer support.
Vapi is a voice AI platform that allows developers to build, test and deploy voice agents for phone calls and customer support.
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Country: USA | Funding: $73M
Otter.ai is an AI assistant for video meeting transcription, note-taking, searching and sharing recordings of meetings, lectures, and live streams. You can add Otter directly to a video conference or grant it access to recordings, and it will transcribe the entire conversation, capture highlights, and automate follow-up actions. Otter's AI-powered chat combines meetings and connected apps, instantly answering questions and helping you create follow-up actions, reports and content using LLM models like ChatGPT, Claude, and others via the MCP server. The assistant supports numerous integrations with tools like Slack, Zoom, Google Meet, Salesforce, Google Drive, and many others.
Otter.ai is an AI assistant for video meeting transcription, note-taking, searching and sharing recordings of meetings, lectures, and live streams. You can add Otter directly to a video conference or grant it access to recordings, and it will transcribe the entire conversation, capture highlights, and automate follow-up actions. Otter's AI-powered chat combines meetings and connected apps, instantly answering questions and helping you create follow-up actions, reports and content using LLM models like ChatGPT, Claude, and others via the MCP server. The assistant supports numerous integrations with tools like Slack, Zoom, Google Meet, Salesforce, Google Drive, and many others.
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Country: USA | Funding: $81M
Read AI creates a virtual assistant for work that summarizes emails and meetings in Google Meet, Slack, Zoom, and Teams. It also generates insights and instant responses, and provides AI-powered smart search that combines information from meetings, emails, chats, CRM, and workflows. The company offers desktop and mobile apps and a Chrome extension.
Read AI creates a virtual assistant for work that summarizes emails and meetings in Google Meet, Slack, Zoom, and Teams. It also generates insights and instant responses, and provides AI-powered smart search that combines information from meetings, emails, chats, CRM, and workflows. The company offers desktop and mobile apps and a Chrome extension.
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Country: USA | Funding: $765.5M
SiFive is a semiconductor company that created an open source CPU chip design for AI data centers. SiFive’s RISC-V open chip design is based on the RISC processor, not Intel’s x86 or ARM, the two major types of CPUs that currently feed Nvidia’s GPU computer system AI empire (Nvidia is primary investor). SiFive licenses its chip designs to those who modify them for their own needs and does not sell the chips themselves.
SiFive is a semiconductor company that created an open source CPU chip design for AI data centers. SiFive’s RISC-V open chip design is based on the RISC processor, not Intel’s x86 or ARM, the two major types of CPUs that currently feed Nvidia’s GPU computer system AI empire (Nvidia is primary investor). SiFive licenses its chip designs to those who modify them for their own needs and does not sell the chips themselves.
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Country: USA | Funding: $712.2M
Fluidstack builds specialized data centers for AI companies. It provides cloud infrastructure for AI with GPU clusters, orchestration, and monitoring for intensive workloads.
Fluidstack builds specialized data centers for AI companies. It provides cloud infrastructure for AI with GPU clusters, orchestration, and monitoring for intensive workloads.
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Country: USA | Funding: $34.5M
InsightFinder specializes in AI-powered observability and predictive analytics for IT operations.
InsightFinder specializes in AI-powered observability and predictive analytics for IT operations.
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Country: China | Funding: $4.8B
MoonShot is an AI lab developing the popular Kimi series of open-weight large language models. Moonshot’s Kimi models compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and Anthropic’s Claude, as well as ByteDance’s Doubao, Alibaba’s Qwen, Zhipu’s Z.ai, and DeepSeek.
MoonShot is an AI lab developing the popular Kimi series of open-weight large language models. Moonshot’s Kimi models compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and Anthropic’s Claude, as well as ByteDance’s Doubao, Alibaba’s Qwen, Zhipu’s Z.ai, and DeepSeek.
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Country: USA | Funding: $12.8M
Antioch intends to be the Cursor for physical AI - it's building simulation tools for robot developers. Its platform allows robot builders to spin up multiple digital instances of their hardware and connect them to simulated sensors that mimic the same data the robot’s software would receive in the real world. These environments allow developers to test edge cases, perform reinforcement learning, or generate new training data. The company starts with models built by Nvidia, World Labs, and others, and builds domain-specific libraries to make them easy to use.
Antioch intends to be the Cursor for physical AI - it's building simulation tools for robot developers. Its platform allows robot builders to spin up multiple digital instances of their hardware and connect them to simulated sensors that mimic the same data the robot’s software would receive in the real world. These environments allow developers to test edge cases, perform reinforcement learning, or generate new training data. The company starts with models built by Nvidia, World Labs, and others, and builds domain-specific libraries to make them easy to use.
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Country: USA | Funding: $1.6B
Sierra develops a platform for creating, managing, and optimizing enterprise AI agents. Its agents accurately simulate the nuances of human interaction, enhance customer satisfaction, and always adhere to the brand style. Agent Studio allows for easy customization of customer scenarios without coding. The company also provides an Agent SDK for developers, enabling the rapid creation of agents using pre-built composable skills, fine-tuning capabilities, and advanced developer tools. Agents support voice recognition and speech generation and are suitable for automated phone support. The platform also assists live agents by providing real-time recommendations and automatically prepared responses.
Sierra develops a platform for creating, managing, and optimizing enterprise AI agents. Its agents accurately simulate the nuances of human interaction, enhance customer satisfaction, and always adhere to the brand style. Agent Studio allows for easy customization of customer scenarios without coding. The company also provides an Agent SDK for developers, enabling the rapid creation of agents using pre-built composable skills, fine-tuning capabilities, and advanced developer tools. Agents support voice recognition and speech generation and are suitable for automated phone support. The platform also assists live agents by providing real-time recommendations and automatically prepared responses.
