Top Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning Startups in 2026

Applied XL’s event detection engine monitors clinical trials, scientific papers, and company announcements, turning unstructured data into actionable trends and insights.

To facilitate successful implant procedures by providing detailed planning and fabrication services that allow dentists to place implants faster and with more precision. This system improves success rates and saves an average of 24 minutes per surgery. Our services allow dental practices to grow their offerings and reputation for quality outcomes, as well as the ability to accept more patients. EVERYONE DESERVES TO LOVE THEIR SMILE.

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Portify is building an AI-powered client collaboration platform for agencies and freelancers to manage clients, deliverables, approvals, and communication in one place. Today, client work is scattered across email, Slack, WhatsApp, and shared drives. This creates confusion, delays, and a lack of professionalism. Portify brings everything into a single, structured workspace, helping teams operate clearly and efficiently from the very first interaction. We are an early-stage startup focused on building fast, learning from real users, and acquiring our first set of paying customers. Our goal is to become the default client workspace for modern service businesses. We are currently a lean team, combining product development with AI capabilities to simplify workflows, improve communication, and support better decision-making for teams and their clients. We are looking to work with people who are comfortable with ambiguity, take ownership, and want to build something from the ground up.

At Reltio, they believe data should fuel companies’ success, not hold them back. Their first-of-its-kind, cloud-native platform synthesizes multi-source, complex data into a single source of trusted information. Agile enough to fit any company’s needs, it can flex at will—for accelerated data value creation and ongoing effectiveness. It’s also fully compliant and secure, so data can be acted upon with confidence. Our diverse set of customers—from start-ups to large enterprises in more than 140 countries spanning multiple industries—rely on our award-winning platform to fuel their success. To learn more about Reltio, visit reltio.com.

Our approach to investing is simple. We look for scalable opportunities (ScOps). We want companies that fill a fundamental consumer or business need in the most efficient way. Cool technology just doesn't cut it - your product has to solve a real problem. We seek management teams that are smart, competitive and aggressive. We want to find people who love what they do and need to make a profound impact. We primarily focus on SaaS companies who have some proof of market validation which typically means between $500k+ in ARR. You still aren't at the "growth stage" yet - you still have plenty to figure out and need to build a highly scalable team. We will entertain seed stage investing from proven entrepreneurs. scopvc.com

DeepHealth uses machine learning to distill lifetimes of insights from medical experts into software to assist radiologists. Our mission is to enable the best care by providing products that clinicians and patients can trust, through rigorous science and clinical integration.

AltaML is an award-winning AI software company driven by a purpose to elevate human potential through applied AI. AltaML helps organizations identify productivity or process challenges that can be solved with applied AI, and works as an invested partner, bringing its deep AI expertise together with partner domain expertise to develop and deploy AI solutions and products. AltaML’s customers are primarily enterprise-level organizations undergoing digital transformation and looking for predictive value from their data. In 2020, AltaML was named one of Canada’s Companies-to-Watch in Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50TM awards, was named a 2020 Responsible AI Award winner by the Responsible AI Institute, and was the winner of Start Alberta’s “Most Significant Cross-Community Collaboration of the Year” award for the AltaML Applied AI Lab data science internship program. AltaML has offices in Edmonton, Calgary and Toronto.

The average company manages thousands of active contracts—but most can’t track terms, deliverables, or renewals in one place. Manual review is slow, inconsistent, and costly, leaving risks and missed opportunities buried in the fine print.