Top Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning Startups in 2026

Incode Technologies is an omnichannel biometric identity company that builds secure, top-rated solutions for frictionless banking, hospitality, and retail experiences. Incode sets a new standard in convenience and security in order to enhance customer experiences and build a global database of identities using the world’s fastest edge-facial recognition technology as recognized by the United States Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Incode’s anti-spoofing technology, LiveBeam, doesn’t require any user interaction and is the first passive facial liveness system in the world to achieve Level-1 certification for NIST iBeta Presentation Attack Detection (PAD) testing. The company’s web and mobile solutions are adopted globally for a variety of applications, including onboarding, identity & ID verification, and transactions by some of the world’s largest financial institutions, governments, and retailers. Founded in 2015 by a passionate serial-entrepreneur and a group of hard-working individuals, we seek out people from diverse backgrounds and encourage them to take risks and approach new challenges unconventionally. We believe brilliant minds have the power to do great things! We’re a fun-loving, goal-crushing team who are immensely proud to be part of a common goal: to map the identity of humankind. Headquartered in San Francisco, the company operates globally with additional offices in Latin America and Europe.

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AMP Robotics is modernizing the world’s recycling infrastructure by applying AI and automation to increase recycling rates and economically recover recyclables reclaimed as raw materials for the global supply chain.

Orchard Robotics is a Series A startup backed by top VCs like Quiet Capital, Shine Capital, and General Catalyst. We're securing America’s food supply by building the AI farmer that automates our nation’s farms. We start by collecting the most valuable data for farmers, telling them everything about what is growing on their millions of trees, across thousands of acres of farmland. We do this using advanced camera systems we build, that take pictures of every one of the billions of fruit in a farm. This data lives in our cloud data platform, FruitScope, that we've developed from the ground up to help farmers manage their crops with precision. Farmers across the nation use our industry-leading software to look at their data, make critical decisions, and command farming operations on a daily basis. Our technology is used today across some of the largest farms in the nation.

Littledata is the data layer for Shopify, making it ridiculously easy for DTC brands to connect marketing channels with customer data to accelerate growth.We power thousands of data-driven brands with accurate ecommerce data into Google, Meta, Klaviyo and more. We have been remote-first since the beginning and maintain a thriving startup culture; we are proactive, curious and inspired by data. Join us as we take over the (data) world!

At Giskard, we are building the first collaborative & open-source Quality Assurance platform for AI models that complies with upcoming AI regulations & standards. Founded in 2021, we are an emerging leader in the new market of AI Quality. Giskard helps AI & Business teams collaborate to evaluate & test AI models. We help organizations increase the efficiency of their AI development workflow, eliminate risks of AI biases and ensure robust, reliable & ethical AI models. Our platform is used by dozens of AI teams across industries, both at enterprise companies & startups. We recently raised our first round of 1.5 million euros, led by Elaia, with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners and notable angel investors. To read more about this fundraising and how it will accelerate our growth, you can read: giskard.ai/knowledge/news-fundraising-2022 We are assembling a team of champions, and we help each other achieve high standards & goals!

We're building a new video based experience for marketing and product teams. We make personalized video outreach scalable with AI. Record a video once, and send it to thousands instantly completely customized to them.

As the super-platform for non-professional football in Europe, we bring pro-level experiences (news, data, gamification) to the mega community of +190mn football fanatics in the non-pro ecosystem.

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BrandBrahma is an agentic AI platform from India that helps entrepreneurs discover, build, and scale their brands — offering four integrated systems: AI Naming OS for business name discovery, AI Branding OS for generating brand identity materials, AI Marketing Suite for scaling with AI-driven campaigns, and a Marketplace for premium brandable domains and assets.