Top 28 AI startups in San Jose
Apr 29, 2026
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Funding: $181.3M
LiveKit provides a cloud platform that enables developers to build, deploy, and manage real-time communication and AI-driven applications.
LiveKit provides a cloud platform that enables developers to build, deploy, and manage real-time communication and AI-driven applications.
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Funding: $3.2B
Lambda is building a network of data centers focused on AI workloads. The company uses a proprietary design for rapidly deploying these high-density, high-cooling AI factories to meet modern AI requirements and maximize the performance per watt. Lambda's AI factories are modular: new GPUs, interconnects and cooling slots are integrated as they are delivered. Companies can lease capacity in these AI factories for model training and inference. Lambda also provides its own software for orchestrating AI workloads and a stack of software packages widely used in machine and deep learning. Each package is tested for compatibility with all Lambda's systems.
Lambda is building a network of data centers focused on AI workloads. The company uses a proprietary design for rapidly deploying these high-density, high-cooling AI factories to meet modern AI requirements and maximize the performance per watt. Lambda's AI factories are modular: new GPUs, interconnects and cooling slots are integrated as they are delivered. Companies can lease capacity in these AI factories for model training and inference. Lambda also provides its own software for orchestrating AI workloads and a stack of software packages widely used in machine and deep learning. Each package is tested for compatibility with all Lambda's systems.
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Funding: $323M
Frore makes liquid-cooling systems for AI chips and systems. Its products work with various Nvidia chips and boards. The company has also developed products for Qualcomm and AMD.
Frore makes liquid-cooling systems for AI chips and systems. Its products work with various Nvidia chips and boards. The company has also developed products for Qualcomm and AMD.
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Funding: $154M
Ethernovia produces Ethernet-based processors that help collect data from sensors located throughout the system and quickly transmit it to a central computer. Thus, Ethernovia enables physical AI platforms to operate as integrated, real-time intelligent machines. Single-pair Ethernet PHY processors enable real-time sensor data aggregation and deterministic computing networks for AI. They support centralized and zonal architectures, as well as software-defined intelligent platforms.
Ethernovia produces Ethernet-based processors that help collect data from sensors located throughout the system and quickly transmit it to a central computer. Thus, Ethernovia enables physical AI platforms to operate as integrated, real-time intelligent machines. Single-pair Ethernet PHY processors enable real-time sensor data aggregation and deterministic computing networks for AI. They support centralized and zonal architectures, as well as software-defined intelligent platforms.
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Funding: $355M
SiMa.ai is building an ultra low-power software and chip solution for machine learning at the edge.
SiMa.ai is building an ultra low-power software and chip solution for machine learning at the edge.
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Funding: $352.5M
Vectra enables enterprises to immediately detect and stop cyberattacks across cloud, data center, enterprise and IoT networks.
Vectra enables enterprises to immediately detect and stop cyberattacks across cloud, data center, enterprise and IoT networks.
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Funding: $280.6M
AppZen offers an artificial Intelligence powered SaaS solution for automating enterprise back office processes.
AppZen offers an artificial Intelligence powered SaaS solution for automating enterprise back office processes.
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Funding: $156M
SECURITI.ai is the leader in AI-Powered PrivacyOps, that helps automate all major functions needed for privacy compliance in one place.
SECURITI.ai is the leader in AI-Powered PrivacyOps, that helps automate all major functions needed for privacy compliance in one place.
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Funding: $122.5M
Dtex Systems utilizes user behavior intelligence to help enterprises detect cybersecurity threats without compromising privacy.
Dtex Systems utilizes user behavior intelligence to help enterprises detect cybersecurity threats without compromising privacy.
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Funding: $105M
Axiado Corporation is a security processor company redefining hardware root of trust with hardware-based security technologies, including per-system AI.
Axiado Corporation is a security processor company redefining hardware root of trust with hardware-based security technologies, including per-system AI.
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Funding: $94M
Fetch Robotics provides the market’s only cloud-driven Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR) solution for warehousing intralogistics environments.
Fetch Robotics provides the market’s only cloud-driven Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR) solution for warehousing intralogistics environments.
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Funding: $78.5M
Elisity Cognitive Trust is a new security paradigm that combines Zero Trust Network Access and an AI-enabled Software Defined Perimeter.
Elisity Cognitive Trust is a new security paradigm that combines Zero Trust Network Access and an AI-enabled Software Defined Perimeter.
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Funding: $75M
Habana Labs unlocks the true potential of AI by providing an order of magnitude improvements in processing performance, cost and power consumption. The company develops AI processors from the ground up, optimized for the specific needs of training deep neural networks and for inference deployment in production environments.
Habana Labs unlocks the true potential of AI by providing an order of magnitude improvements in processing performance, cost and power consumption. The company develops AI processors from the ground up, optimized for the specific needs of training deep neural networks and for inference deployment in production environments.
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Funding: $65.4M
Mendel.ai automates matching cancer patients to clinical trials through personal medical history and genetic analysis.
Mendel.ai automates matching cancer patients to clinical trials through personal medical history and genetic analysis.
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Funding: $57.5M
The OpsRamp IT operations platform discovers, monitors, manages and automates hybrid IT infrastructure.
The OpsRamp IT operations platform discovers, monitors, manages and automates hybrid IT infrastructure.
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Funding: $58.2M
Neuron7.ai is a service Intelligence platform that enables companies to deliver crucial service outcomes. Neuron7 uses natural language processing to guide users step by step, analyzing metadata from knowledge bases, product documentation, customer support call logs and transcripts to create a “collective intelligence” that can help diagnose and solve problems.
Neuron7.ai is a service Intelligence platform that enables companies to deliver crucial service outcomes. Neuron7 uses natural language processing to guide users step by step, analyzing metadata from knowledge bases, product documentation, customer support call logs and transcripts to create a “collective intelligence” that can help diagnose and solve problems.
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Funding: $44M
Coactive AI is a machine learning platform that unlocks analytics and insights from unstructured image and video data.
Coactive AI is a machine learning platform that unlocks analytics and insights from unstructured image and video data.
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Funding: $42M
NEX Team Inc. is a mobile artificial intelligence company. Using phone cameras and image recognition on the back end, its primary app HomeCourt helps to improve basketball shots.
NEX Team Inc. is a mobile artificial intelligence company. Using phone cameras and image recognition on the back end, its primary app HomeCourt helps to improve basketball shots.
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Funding: $27M
Matellio is a software engineering studio with a decade-long experience and knack for providing innovative and leading-edge AI solutions for Enterprise.
Matellio is a software engineering studio with a decade-long experience and knack for providing innovative and leading-edge AI solutions for Enterprise.
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Funding: $25.5M
Bonsai Robotics provides vision-based automation solutions for off-road vehicles, such as agricultural machines.
Bonsai Robotics provides vision-based automation solutions for off-road vehicles, such as agricultural machines.
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Funding: $26M
Wrike’s award-winning Work Intelligence solution is a self-learning AI and automation engine built for work. It leverages our industry-leading data model to make recommendations, reduce mundane tasks, and predict outcomes.
Wrike’s award-winning Work Intelligence solution is a self-learning AI and automation engine built for work. It leverages our industry-leading data model to make recommendations, reduce mundane tasks, and predict outcomes.
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Funding: $21.2M
XL8 is an AI company that offers NLP services, specialized in the media localization area, including machine translation and ASR.
XL8 is an AI company that offers NLP services, specialized in the media localization area, including machine translation and ASR.
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Funding: $21M
Quartic.ai is helping process manufacturing move to autonomous manufacturing. It provides a suite of purpose-built applications and workflows for batch and continuous manufacturing to increase adoption by users in Life Sciences, specialty chemicals, advanced materials, and energy. Quartic.ai has built proprietary sample-efficient AI to overcome the lack of large data needed for traditional machine learning.
Quartic.ai is helping process manufacturing move to autonomous manufacturing. It provides a suite of purpose-built applications and workflows for batch and continuous manufacturing to increase adoption by users in Life Sciences, specialty chemicals, advanced materials, and energy. Quartic.ai has built proprietary sample-efficient AI to overcome the lack of large data needed for traditional machine learning.
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Funding: $4M
Protecto.ai focuses on ensuring privacy and data security across the AI lifecycle, prioritizing safety in GenAI interactions
Protecto.ai focuses on ensuring privacy and data security across the AI lifecycle, prioritizing safety in GenAI interactions
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Funding: $200K
HULI creates human-like virtual agents powered by GenAI, that seamlessly integrate into any business and any languages, optimizing communication and improving customer service.
HULI creates human-like virtual agents powered by GenAI, that seamlessly integrate into any business and any languages, optimizing communication and improving customer service.
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Dhisana AI is the Cursor for sales. Its agentic flows bring together lead discovery, outreach, conversation intelligence, and revenue intelligence to automate the entire sales journey, so teams can focus on closing more deals.
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My Ally is a cutting edge B2B SaaS company focused on implementing AI to optimize recruiting. Their AI assistant Alex takes care of calendaring and coordinating, buying time for your talent team to focus on other challenging tasks.
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