Top Artificial Intelligence Startups in 2026

Founded in 2012 by Mike Henry and Dave Fick, and based in Austin, TX and Redwood City, CA, Mythic is creating a unified hardware and software platform that relies on unique analog compute-in-memory technology to deliver revolutionary power, cost, and performance that will shatter the limits restricting AI innovation. Mythic is making it much easier and more affordable to deploy powerful AI solutions, from the data center to the edge device.

We're Fireflies.ai, and we're on a mission to make all meetings more productive. You know those moments when you wish you could remember that key insight from an important conversation? That's the itch we're scratching. We created a smart meeting assistant that quietly joins your meetings, records conversations, transcribes them and summarizes everything. It then automatically organizes the information into a searchable archive. Fireflies is the super-powered note-taker you've always wanted! Our goal is simple - help teams cut down on redundant conversations and unlock more value from their meetings. We integrate tightly with tools you already use like Zoom, Google Meet, Slack, Salesforce, and more so it feels seamless. Excited yet?

WE ARE HIRING! Check out our new open positions across the US here: Sifive.com/jobs, and apply directly. The explosion of data from the first wave of IoT devices has demonstrated the need for on-device data processing and decision making. SiFive’s mission is to help companies of all sizes turn their idea into silicon with our powerful methodology and help our customers declare silicon independence and unleash their product roadmaps. SiFive market opportunities include fast-growing new markets in IoT, storage, enterprise, and datacenter accelerators, as well as mature markets for low-power, highly-efficient embedded devices. SiFive was founded by the inventors of RISC-V, a free and open instruction set architecture rapidly being adopted worldwide. SiFive is led by a team of seasoned industry executives, and is the leading commercial provider of RISC-V IP, with a robust portfolio of processor IP, SoC IP, and silicon expertise. SiFive has 16 design centers worldwide, a global network of IP partners, and backing from Sutter Hill Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, Spark Capital, Osage University Partners, Chengwei, Huami, SK Hynix, Intel Capital, and Western Digital. Join us as we empower the innovators of the future.

We’re building full-stack foundation models and products that are changing video creation, production and editing more broadly. Over 20 million creators and businesses use Mirage’s products to reach their full creative and commercial potential. We are a rapidly growing team of ambitious, experienced, and devoted engineers, researchers, designers, marketers, and operators based in NYC. As an early member of our team, you’ll have an opportunity to have an outsized impact on our products and our company's culture.

FlytBase, Inc. – a venture-funded technology enterprise – was incorporated in 2016 with the intent to help enterprises automate and scale their drone operations. A firm conviction in the commercial drone opportunity – coupled with deep expertise in automation software, robotics, control systems and machine intelligence – underpins the company’s creation, investor support, revenue traction and growing customer base. FlytBase is a Silicon Valley (California, USA) company and has offices in Pune, India. With customers in North America, South America, Europe, Japan, ANZ and SE Asia, FlytBase continues to build a global footprint, driven by its intelligent, API-enabled, highly scalable software platform for UAVs. FlytBase won the Global NTT Data Innovation Contest 2019 in Tokyo, Japan. FlytBase had graduated from Cisco LaunchPad Accelerator Program in 2017 and was awarded the TiE50 Top-Startup award by TiE Silicon Valley.

SourceIQ is a cutting-edge tech startup dedicated to revolutionizing supplier sourcing through automation. Our flagship product is a cloud-based enterprise solution that streamlines procurement and supplier management.

BoldVoice (YC S21) is the AI-powered accent and speech coaching app that empowers the 500+ million non-native English speakers in the global workforce to speak English clearly and confidently, in order to succeed professionally.

Mosaic is the AI-Powered Workforce Management software that's radically changing how companies are managed. We helps companies manage the skills of their workforce and uses AI to prevent burnout, empowering teams to do their best work while still having a life. Mosaic provides the tools needed to connect and manage a modern distributed workforce.

Zowasel leverages data science, nature-based solutions, and technology to improve smallholder farmers' productivity, sustainability, and profitability across the value chain. The company works with corporate organizations, from processors to manufacturers, breweries to FMCGs, financial institutions, DFIs, and agricultural research institutions, committed to sustainable agriculture and transforming agriculture from a carbon source to a carbon sink. Zowasel provides farmer cooperatives and agribusinesses with technology and alternative finance and guarantees markets across national, regional, and global markets needed to earn more for their crops. Founded 2014 in Lagos, Nigeria, Zowasel is on a mission to develop sustainable value chains across communities, people, and the planet. Visit zowasel.com to learn more.

Voicera is building the data layer for trust analytics, empowering People to score sincerity in human communication objectively at scale. Why now? Trust is the new currency. • Problem: All video meetings are recorded and processed by LLMs. How people communicate is lost in transcription, causing misinterpretation, and bad decisions. • Solution : Sincerity™ by Voicera analyzes people's behavior to assess how truthful they are from non-verbal cues with 80% accuracy. • Use Cases: Sales (customer insights, revenue forecasts), Training, HR (recruitment), Internal Fraud Investigations… • Outcomes: Voicera empowers customers to make more informed, ethical decisions in situations where trust is critical.