Top Artificial Intelligence Startups in San Francisco, CA

Today Sudowrite is an AI assistant used by novelists, screenwriters, essayists, and more. It helps writers get unstuck and suggests language, character backstories, and plot points, all while following the tone and narrative arc of the manuscript. Tomorrow, Sudowrite will be the writer's most-trusted collaborator, always available to brainstorm and co-write their best possible story. In ten years, we imagine a suite of AI-powered tools to augment and accelerate human creativity. We believe all creative work will eventually be a collaboration between human and AI. That said, Sudowrite will be our focus for quite some time.

Clientell is an AI-powered Salesforce automation platform built for RevOps teams, Salesforce Admins, and CRM Managers at mid-market companies. The platform lets users execute complex, multi-step Salesforce operations through plain English commands, with a human approval gate before anything runs. No scripts. No tickets. No waiting on a developer. Salesforce teams at companies with 800 to 3,000 employees use Clientell to automate CRM workflows, reduce manual admin overhead, and move faster on data operations that typically take days. What Clientell does: Translates natural language into validated Salesforce actions across Objects, Flows, and Records Executes bulk operations, field updates, and data migrations without code Surfaces CRM intelligence so RevOps teams can make accurate, data-backed decisions Connects directly to Salesforce orgs with enterprise-grade security and audit trails Who works here: Clientell is built by a team obsessed with removing the complexity that slows Salesforce teams down. We hire Salesforce engineers, AI/ML engineers, product managers with CRM domain expertise, and GTM operators who understand the mid-market RevOps stack.

Better data leads to more performant models. Performant models lead to faster deployment. We help deliver value from AI investments faster with better data by providing an end-to-end solution to manage the entire ML lifecycle.

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.

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.

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!

Core technology for decentralized trust, and specific applications thereof. We have won grants and awards for Impact Evaluator development, for developing a Fair Trade Content Moderation platform, and for Linked Trust in the area of worker reputation. We also have a live community event platform. All team members receive tokenized equity via Fairmint on our investment platform. Currently pursuing B2B contracts in the area of impact certification. See also cooperation.org

We are providing a complete “business in a box” solution for owner-operators and small trucking carriers at a much lower cost using software engineering, data science and world class operations processes. Our mission is simple — to put more money in the hands of truck drivers and reduce their headaches. CloudTrucks will improve the three core metrics that every truck driver cares about — revenue, cash-flow and costs. We focus on the owner-operator and small trucking companies because they are the lifeblood of the industry and facing the largest pressures with fast rising insurance rates, predatory factoring options and a quickly changing landscape. It’s more important than ever to have someone in their corner whose incentives are 100% aligned with theirs.

Opal Security is intelligent access management that empowers enterprises to move fast while staying secure. Our mission is to bring clarity, control, and confidence to complex enterprise environments, helping teams govern access without slowing down innovation.

Squint is a Silicon Valley based software company backed by Sequoia Capital (investors in Apple, Google, Instagram, and more) and Menlo Ventures (investors in Uber, Siri, and more). Our team has deep expertise in Augmented Reality — over 45 foundational patents and past work featured in Apple Event keynotes. Squint’s mission is to accelerate human potential by bringing digital knowledge into the real world. Our team has developed the only AR product in the world that is truly “open world” — that is: it can be created anywhere, on the spot, and doesn’t require a QR code or a 3D model to detect objects and orient itself precisely.