Top Artificial Intelligence Startups in 2026

We're building the data platform to power safe and fair decisions. Checkr provides fast, accurate information to power informed decisions. Our innovative technology and robust data platform help customers assess risk and ensure safety and compliance to build trusted workplaces and communities. We’re a team that thrives on solving complex problems with innovative solutions that advance our mission. Come join us!

At Mashgin, we are developing the future of checkout experiences. We aim to reduce the friction between customer desires and their ability to be on their way. Our ecosystem is anchored by the only 3D computer vision and deep learning based checkout system in the world. With customers across a wide spectrum of verticals including the NFL, MLB, and Aramark, our company and product adoption are growing at a rapid pace.

6sense is a B2B predictive intelligence engine for marketing and sales. Using its private network of billions of time-sensitive intent interactions, 6sense uncovers net-new prospects at every stage of the funnel and determines which existing prospects are in market to buy. 6sense predicts what products prospects will buy, how much they will buy, and when. 6sense is backed by Bain Capital Ventures, Battery Ventures, Venrock, and Salesforce and is based in San Francisco. 6sense.com

People.ai is the only revenue intelligence platform for go-to-market teams. We help sales, marketing, and customer success teams uncover every revenue opportunity from every customer. Companies like Lyft, Gainsight, Tanium, and Palo Alto Networks choose People.ai to capture contacts, activity, and engagement and drive actionable insights across all their revenue generation. Founded in 2016, People.ai is based in San Francisco and is backed by Y Combinator and Silicon Valley’s top investors, including Lightspeed Venture Partners and Andreessen Horowitz.

AssemblyAI is a remote-first company building powerful AI models for developers, startups, and enterprises to transcribe and understand their audio data. Our mission is to make production-ready, state-of-the-art AI models accessible to developers and product teams at extremely large scale through simple APIs. Customers, including Spotify, Algolia, Dow Jones, Happy Scribe, BBC, The Wall Street Journal, and NBCUniversal, use our APIs to transcribe and understand millions of videos, podcasts, phone calls, and zoom meetings every day. Our APIs power innovative products like conversational intelligence platforms, meeting summarizers, content moderation, and automatic closed captioning. We're growing at breakneck speed, and recently announced our Series B round. We've raised $63M in total funding, backed by leading investors including Insight Partners, Accel, Y Combinator, Patrick and John Collision (Founders of Stripe), Nat Friedman (Former CEO of GitHub), and Daniel Gross (Entrepreneur & Investor in companies including GitHub, Uber & SpaceX). Our team is made up of problem solvers, innovators, and top AI researchers from companies like DeepMind, Google Brain, Meta AI, Amazon and Apple. They conduct cutting-edge AI research and develop novel algorithms and techniques to continually push the state-of-the-art in speech recognition and NLP. Join our world-class, remote team and help us build an iconic deep learning company!

KeepTruckin is a San Francisco-based company that serves more than one million drivers and over 100,000 businesses that power the physical economy by equipping them with the technology needed to improve the safety and efficiency of their operations. Shoaib Makani and his co-founders Ryan Johns and Obaid Khan founded the company in 2013 to serve the trucking industry, a workforce that is essential to the economy but underserved by technology. Today, KeepTruckin’s 400,000-strong network of connected vehicles, ranging from small trucking companies to Fortune 500 enterprises, is one of the largest in North America. The products that KeepTruckin builds deliver integrated value for a diverse range of industries, from construction and oil and gas to distribution and moving and storage. At every turn, KeepTruckin provides cutting-edge hardware and software that leverages the latest advancements in AI and computer vision to solve a broad range of problems for businesses with vehicles — spanning video-based driver safety, Electronic Logging Device (ELD) compliance, GPS tracking, dispatch, and fuel and maintenance. KeepTruckin’s series E round valued the company at $2.3 billion, and it currently employs more than 2,400 people worldwide.

We offer machine driven closing programs to facilitate your real estate business. This first-of-its-kind solution will remove 80% of friction, cost, expense from title and escrow to increase productivity and networking. Headquartered in San Francisco, CA, States Title Holding, Inc., is one of the top 10 largest real estate settlement services in the United States. Handling both residential and commercial transactions, the company’s extensive network is able to coordinate settlement and underwriting services spanning across all 50 states.

Grammarly is the trusted AI assistant for communication and productivity, helping over 40 million people and 50,000 organizations do their best work. Companies like Atlassian, Databricks, and Zoom rely on Grammarly to brainstorm, compose, and enhance communication that moves work forward. Grammarly works where you work, integrating seamlessly with over 500,000 applications and websites. --- Grammarly stands with Ukraine. We invite you to do the same. Here are some ways you can help: gram.ly/WeStandWithUkraine

Our company is used by the largest, fastest-growing companies in the world. Powered by AI technology and leveraging advances in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning in particular, our company is a revolutionary search engine that delivers superior results—helping agile teams make better strategic decisions and gain a competitive edge.

Fictiv is a Digital Manufacturing Ecosystem that rapidly delivers custom parts on-demand, to help companies accelerate new product introduction. From early-stage companies to large enterprises, thousands of companies use Fictiv to innovate with agility, de-risk their supply chains, and get products to market faster. Fictiv works with companies like Tesla, Honeywell, and NASA to build the next rockets, self-driving cars, and live-saving robots. We're transforming how teams design, develop, and deliver the next generation of hardware products. For more information about Fictiv or to learn about hardware manufacturing best practices, visit fictiv.com