Top Machine Learning 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!

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!

Textio has developed the world’s most advanced workplace language guidance, so you can see where social bias is hiding—and know exactly how to fix it. Now available for both recruiting and performance management!

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.

Galileo is a healthtech startup that re-imagines the doctor-patient relationship. We combine technology with human-centered design to help people live better, healthier lives. Our mission is to provide quality healthcare that is affordable and accessible to everyone, including those underserved by our current health system.

HOVER uses patented technology making it possible for anyone with a smartphone camera to create an interactive 3D model, complete with detailed measurements and powerful design features. The data produced is extremely valuable as it generates a single source of truth for the physical world allowing for more veracity throughout the home improvement and insurance processes. We’ve found an incredibly strong product-market fit across exterior home improvement, insurance, and financial services. What's the secret sauce? Computer vision and an exceptional culture. With our team of investors, including Google Ventures and Menlo Ventures, HOVER is committed to continuing our success and facilitating growth. We believe there is strength in diversity so we hire skilled and passionate people from a wide variety of backgrounds.

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

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

Immuta is the unified data platform for the world’s most secure organizations. Our technology frees data science teams to securely access and work with high-value data. The Immuta platform streamlines data management workflows to solve for the organizational challenges facing modern data science operations. Our customers trust our platform for its precise controls. They depend on it to create secure virtual data collaboration environments on-demand. Immuta was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in College Park, Maryland. Platform customers include global financial institutions, telecommunications companies and national security organizations.