Top Artificial Intelligence Startups in 2026

GumGum is an artificial intelligence company, with particular expertise in computer vision. Its mission is to unlock the value of images and videos produced everyday across the web, social media and broadcast television. Since 2008, the company has applied its patented capabilities to serve a variety of industries from advertising to professional sports.

Our mission is to make technical advances towards robots and humans working together side by side, with an emphasis on human-centric design. Diligent Robotics is developing a suite of artificial intelligence that enables robots to collaborate with and adapt to humans in everyday environments. Our first product is a hospital service robot that can assist clinical staff with logistical tasks, allowing them to spend more of their time on direct patient care, improving patient satisfaction, quality of service, and safety.

Madhive is the leading technology company engineered for modern TV advertising. Through its self-service platform, advertisers can seamlessly customize and automate the buying process into one operating system. This allows advertisers to plan, target, activate, and measure their campaigns with greater simplicity, accountability, reach, and control. Powered by an industry-leading bidder and device graph that processes 260 billion available ad opportunities per day, Madhive delivers precise, brand-safe audience connections efficiently at scale. The company is trusted by the leading local content owners, creators and distributors, including FOX, Scripps and TEGNA's Premion, as well as national agencies and brands, powering more than half a billion dollars in media across 12,000+ daily campaigns. To learn more, visit madhive.com.

testRigor helps companies to quickly build test coverage as well as spend less than 0.5% of the time maintaining tests compare to Selenium/Appium.

Kalepa is the Professional Grade AI underwriting platform trusted by top-tier insurers to accelerate profitable premium growth. We automate what slows underwriters down and amplify what makes them exceptional - covering the full workflow from submission intake and triage through to risk evaluation, quote and bind, and portfolio steering. Our clients include Berkley, Munich Re, Bowhead, Canopius, Paragon, and Secura. The results are measurable: 40% faster quote turnaround, 5–15% improvement in bind rates, and 960+ basis points of combined ratio improvement. Working at Kalepa means working on a genuinely hard problem - and seeing your work go live quickly and directly benefit clients. There's no such thing as boredom here. Every day brings something new, and there's always an opportunity to make a meaningful impact. The culture is built on hustle, grit, and transparency. We hire exceptional people who take pride in their craft. If you're energized by our mission and share our values - get in touch.

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!

Reliable and automated forecasting, planning, and purchasing done for you out of the box.

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.

We have built an AI powered food and exercise as medicine platform to improve treatments for Metabolic Syndrome and Reduce Readmissions.

In July 2018, ZappyHire was born at the Kerala Startup Mission premises in Kochi. ZappyHire gives companies the flexibility on what tools they would like to use, based on their hiring requirements - assessment, candidate profiling, etc. The startup also helps a company speed up the onboarding process. ZappyHire started creating a robust tech platform to integrate various assessment engines available to have a more holistic picture of the candidates. It also introduced games on their platform to make it more engaging for candidates and lead to better assessment for the recruiter.