Top 15 AI startups in Santa Clara
Mar 30, 2026
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Funding: $588.9M
Celestial AI develops optical interconnect technology for compute-to-compute, compute-to-memory and on-chip data transmission.
Celestial AI develops optical interconnect technology for compute-to-compute, compute-to-memory and on-chip data transmission.
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Funding: $451M
SoundHound develops voice-enabled AI and conversational intelligence technologies. It provides Speech-to-Meaning engine and Deep Meaning Understanding technology that can be built in other services and devices. It also develops app for music recognition and voice assistant for search.
SoundHound develops voice-enabled AI and conversational intelligence technologies. It provides Speech-to-Meaning engine and Deep Meaning Understanding technology that can be built in other services and devices. It also develops app for music recognition and voice assistant for search.
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Funding: $424M
Eightfold develops a platform that helps companies find, hire, and retain talents. Specifically, it features an AI Interviewer, which automatically conducts conversational video-interviews and analyzes candidates, highlighting those who best meet hiring criteria. The developers claim the AI understands context and nuance in over 22 languages to ask thoughtful, insightful questions - just like your most experienced hiring manager. The platform also integrates enterprise data, market trends, and real-time job signals to create a dynamic understanding of your workforce. By modeling the skills, capabilities, aspirations, and work people perform every day, it helps you anticipate talent needs, close skill gaps, and improve productivity.
Eightfold develops a platform that helps companies find, hire, and retain talents. Specifically, it features an AI Interviewer, which automatically conducts conversational video-interviews and analyzes candidates, highlighting those who best meet hiring criteria. The developers claim the AI understands context and nuance in over 22 languages to ask thoughtful, insightful questions - just like your most experienced hiring manager. The platform also integrates enterprise data, market trends, and real-time job signals to create a dynamic understanding of your workforce. By modeling the skills, capabilities, aspirations, and work people perform every day, it helps you anticipate talent needs, close skill gaps, and improve productivity.
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Funding: $162.9M
EnCharge AI delivers a battle-tested computing platform to unlock the best AI computing, from the edge to the cloud.
EnCharge AI delivers a battle-tested computing platform to unlock the best AI computing, from the edge to the cloud.
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Funding: $140M
Collaborative Robotics is a team of innovators and builders redefining the future of human-robot interaction.
Collaborative Robotics is a team of innovators and builders redefining the future of human-robot interaction.
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Funding: $126M
EdgeQ intends to fuse AI compute and 5G within a single chip. The company is pioneering converged connectivity and AI that is fully software-customizable and programmable.
EdgeQ intends to fuse AI compute and 5G within a single chip. The company is pioneering converged connectivity and AI that is fully software-customizable and programmable.
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Funding: $107M
Ushur is a cloud-based AI company that automates service workflows in both the backend process and conversational interfaces.
Ushur is a cloud-based AI company that automates service workflows in both the backend process and conversational interfaces.
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Funding: $87.1M
AiFi is an information technology company that specializes in developing store automation systems.
AiFi is an information technology company that specializes in developing store automation systems.
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Funding: $77.9M
Qubole delivers a Self-Service Platform for Big Data Analytics built on Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Oracle Clouds.
Qubole delivers a Self-Service Platform for Big Data Analytics built on Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Oracle Clouds.
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Funding: $53M
Espressive specializes in providing companies with artificial intelligence support for employees.
Espressive specializes in providing companies with artificial intelligence support for employees.
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Funding: $16M
LevelOps's mission is to bring AI-driven excellence platform to the engineering discipline
LevelOps's mission is to bring AI-driven excellence platform to the engineering discipline
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Funding: $10M
Ambient Scientific is a leading developer of industry’s lowest power programmable AI processors designed to address the explosive demand for Inference and Training in endpoint, edge and Battery-operated AI devices giving both connected and unconnected devices and appliances their own personalities. Ambient’s AI processor and microcontroller products and software libraries are designed to bring a plethora of exciting new innovative products to the market quickly.
Ambient Scientific is a leading developer of industry’s lowest power programmable AI processors designed to address the explosive demand for Inference and Training in endpoint, edge and Battery-operated AI devices giving both connected and unconnected devices and appliances their own personalities. Ambient’s AI processor and microcontroller products and software libraries are designed to bring a plethora of exciting new innovative products to the market quickly.
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Funding: $2M
Deepen AI is an autonomous development tooling company. Its product solution utilizes advanced deep learning and computer vision AI algorithms to accelerate and simplify high quality labeling of camera, LiDAR, and radar data. Deepen AI's typical customers are Autonomous AI vendors, OEMs, Tier 1 suppliers, sensor providers, and HD mapping companies.
Deepen AI is an autonomous development tooling company. Its product solution utilizes advanced deep learning and computer vision AI algorithms to accelerate and simplify high quality labeling of camera, LiDAR, and radar data. Deepen AI's typical customers are Autonomous AI vendors, OEMs, Tier 1 suppliers, sensor providers, and HD mapping companies.
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Funding: $1.5M
The Style Filter, by YesPlz AI, guides shoppers to find their favorite fits and silhouettes, while using a virtual mannequin to search. Behind the scenes, powerful fashion AI tags new product attributes in lightning-fast time, resulting in an innovative, unique way to search.
The Style Filter, by YesPlz AI, guides shoppers to find their favorite fits and silhouettes, while using a virtual mannequin to search. Behind the scenes, powerful fashion AI tags new product attributes in lightning-fast time, resulting in an innovative, unique way to search.
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HaloITSM is a cloud based AI-powered platform that specializes in IT service management solutions.
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