Startups to Follow

Borrowed from Ishan’s blog post §

Foundation Models

• OpenAI

• Anthropic
• Adept AI
• Cohere
• Sakana
• xAI

Robotics

• Figure
• 1X
• Clone
• Prosper
• Reason

Open Models

• Nous Research
• Mistral
• ggml
• Skunkworks

Alignment

• Conjecture
• Apollo Research

Finetuning

• Glaive

Hardware

• Atomic Semi
• Etched
• Extropic
• Factory
• Impulse Labs
• Lightcell
• Dirac

Wearables

• Tab
• Rewind
• Rabbit
• Humane

Search

• Perplexity
• The Browser Company
• Exa
• Glean

Browser Automation

• MultiOn
• Minion
• Induced

Code

• Cursor
• Continuum
• Cosine
• Magic
• Grit
• Codegen
• CodeSee
• Mentat
• Morph
• Trace

Cloud Compute

• Lambda
• Modal
• Exafunction
• SF Compute
• Together
• Anyscale
• Fal
• Banana
• Brev

Neural

• Neuralink
• Prophetic
• Neurable
• Neurosity

Productivity

• Essential
• Julius
• Hebbia
• Nomic
• Lindy

Education

• Synthesis

Community

• Ordinary
• Buildspace
• Circle Labs
• Plexus Earth

Vector DBs

• Chroma
• Turbopuffer

Speech

• ElevenLabs
• Sindarin Persona

Art / Entertainment

• Dingboard
• Midjourney
• Pika
• Suno
• Luma Labs
• Runway
• Lexica
• Playground
• Krea
• Starlight Labs
• Figura Labs
• Cartwheel