Hello friends! 👋Stemming from all of the recent hype around AI taking over tech & VC, I decided to use the magic of twitter to crowd-source an ultimate list of AI startups based here in SF. This is an open-source database, so feel free to add sections on any companies I missed or more information about listed companies using the comment feature.

I’m excited to circulate this around and grow it into a market map of all of the exciting things folks are building! If you have any more thoughts to share, please feel free to reach out on twitter at @wetarynitup

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AI Startups in SF 🔥

AI + Knowledge 💭

Adept (@AdeptAILabs)

Useful general intelligence.

Built by @anmol01gulati @Maxwell_Nye @KelseySzot 

Glasp (@_Glasp)

Highlight the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. A social learning log for wisdom seekers.

Built by @kazuki_sf_ 

Exafunction (@exafunction)

Efficient deep learning at scale.

Series A

Heyday (@heyday_hq)

AI memory assistant for researchers.

Built by @samiur1204 @SamDeBrule 

Mem (@memdotai)

Automatic knowledge organizer.

Built by @kevinfmoody 

Series A

Omni (@omniscience42)

Knowledge work power-tool. ML-powered web browsing. Generative critical thinking & creativity. Deeply connect your thought.

Built by @JvNixon 

Magicflow (@magicflowHQ)

AI productivity coach that learns how you work, remembers what you worked on, and gives intelligent suggestions to help you be productive.

Wispr AI (@WisprAI)

Building a more natural way to interact with technology with neural-interfaces.

Chroma

Tesla-grade data engine

Built by @atroyn @jeffreyhuber

Metaphor (@metaphorsystems)
Search the web using large language models

Built by @scikud @WilliamBryk @apagajewski 

Paravision (@ParavisionAI)

Mission critical computer vision

Rewind AI (@RewindAI)

The search engine for your life. Find anything you’ve seen, said, or heard.

Built by @dsiroker @brettbejcek

Seed

AI + Climate 🌲

Pachama (@pachamainc)

Harnessing AI, satellite data and carbon markets to drive funding to effective reforestation and conservation.

Series B

Perennial (@perennialearth)

Perennial uses satellite imagery and AI to assess soil carbon, scaling monitoring and verification.

Series A

Windscape AI (@windscape_ai)

Windscape.ai provides smart control for wind turbines with AI and sensors.

Seed

Streamline (@streamclimate)

Using AI to accelerate grant writing & management for climate tech.

Pre-seed

Built by @helenamerk @douglasqian

AI + Health 🩺

Mednition (@mednition)

Clinical accuracy AI to improve decisions, patients and organizational outcomes.

3852.ai (@3852ai)

3852.ai creates combination therapies for hard to treat diseases using predictive artificial intelligence, automated design of experiments, and robotics.

AI + Design 🎨

Mirage (@mirage_ml)

Mirage is enabling anyone to create 3D environments

Built by @SreeTrips @_mayankkishore @_amankishore 

DreamzAR App (@dreamzar_app)

Landscape Design App for iPhone and iPad. 2D Design (Photos) + 3D Design (AR) and AI-Powered Landscape Design Idea Generator.

Built by @akhileshjoshi

Wombo (@WOMBO)

Generative AI for consumers.

Seed

Claid (@ClaidAI)

Enabling businesses to scale with next-gen AI image editor for UGC.

Built by @Sofi_Shvets 

Magic Prints (@magicprints_ai)

Merchandise design powered by artificial intelligence.

Seed

GrowthBar (@growthmktingpro)

Make SEO-friendly content with AI.

Stylized (@stylizedai)

The virtual product photography studio for e-commerce sellers.

AI + Education 🧑‍🏫

Explain Paper  

Simplifying reading confusing academic papers.

Built by @amanjha__ @functionofjade

DeepAI (@Deep__AI)

DeepAI offers an A.I. agent that anyone can quickly teach to perform a visual task in addition to making the latest research & information more accessible.

Built by @KevinBaragona

Seed

Scispace (@scispace_)

ChatGPT for Research

Built by @saikiranchandha

TuLearning
Offering tutors as a service via AI Avatars
Built by
@kevinkim @rishabhbanga

AI + Data 🩺

Scale AI (@scale_AI)

The data platform for AI. High quality training and validation data for AI applications.

Series E

Marqo.ai 

Search and analytics engine integrated into your website or application. Tensor-based.
3k+ github stars.

Built by: Jesse Clark & Tom Hamer

Tiyaro.ai (@tiyaroAI)

AI as a Service Platform for Businesses to start searching, exploring, comparing,  retraining  and using the best AI in the world instantly.

Built by @mahpat 

Matrice AI (@Matriceai)

A no code end to end MLOps platform.

BananaDev (@BananaDev_)

Serverless GPUs for ML inference.

Built by @erikdunteman @kylejohnmorris 

Seed

Featureform (@FeatureformML)

The open-source virtual feature store.

Built by @simba_khadder 

Graft (@GraftInc)

A cloud-native platform that aims to make the AI of the 1% accessible to the 99%. Wield the most advanced techniques for unlocking the value of data, including text, images, video, audio, and graphs.

Roboflow (@roboflow)

Training computer vision models from images.

Built by @josephofiowa 

Series A

Impira (@ImpiraHQ)

No code platform for data entry.

Built by @ankrgyl

Series B

Sieve (@sievedata)

Process. Understand. Search. Video.

Built by @mokshith_v @thpicy 

Seed

MosaicML (@MosaicML)

Mosaic turns company data into domain-specific models.

Built by by @Navean

Series A

Relyance AI (@relyanceai)

Manage privacy, data governance, and compliance operations seamlessly, all on a single, intuitive platform.

Built by @abhisharma_b

Series A

Galileo AI (@rungalileo)

Building the data intelligence toolchain for machine learning developers working with unstructured data.

Built by @vikramchatterji

Series A

Gantry (@gantry_ml)

Gantry helps you improve your ML products with analytics, alerting, and human feedback.

Built by @vmcheung

ApertureData (@ApertureData)

The data management system that redefines how big-visual-data is stored and accessed for Machine Learning.

Built by @vishakha041

Seed

Protecto.ai

Protecto untangles complex data stores for enterprise companies and identifies data protection risks in minutes.

Built by @amarkanagaraj

Spring Discovery (@SpringDiscovery)

Building software tools and AI algorithms which give scientists superpowers!

Built by @kamens @bwhite5290

Series B

Robust Intelligence (@robusthq)

Eliminate machine learning failures with an end-to-end ML Integrity solution.

Built by @kojinoshiba @yaronsinger 

Series B

Replicate (@replicatehq)

API for running open-source machine learning models in the cloud.

Built by @bfirsh

Let’s Enhance (@letsenhance_io)

Powerful AI to increase image resolution without quality loss

Built by @Sofi_Shvets 

Ask Edith (@AskEdithHQ)

The Natural Language Interface for Databases

Built by @its_jared_zhao 

Mage (@mage_ai)

Mage is an open-source tool for building and running

data pipelines that transform your data.

Built by @TommyDANGerouss 

Seed

Claypot AI (@ClaypotAI)

Platform for real-time machine learning.

Perceptif AI

Enabling Process Excellence with AI platform

CatalyzeX (@CatalyzeX)

Easily find the right machine learning/AI models, techniques, and code to experiment & build rapidly

Labelbox (@labelbox)

Build better AI products fast with data curation, AI-assisted labeling, model training, model diagnostics, and labeling services — all in one platform.

Built by @DMokNow 

CommerceIQ (@commerceIQ1)

The algorithmic platform that helps consumer brands win in e-commerce by leveraging machine learning, analytics, and automation across the supply chain.

Hive.ai 

Cloud-based AI solutions for businesses.

Clip.fm (@clippedbyai)

AI generated clips for podcasters.

AI + Content ✍️

Scop Network (@ScopNetwork)

The Scop Network will transform the publishing industry by creating an immutable and distributed ledger for creative works and media creation.

Flair (@Osmosis_Studio)

The one-stop-shop for product ad creative and optimization powered by Generative AI || Generate ads in minutes!

Built by @mickeyxfriedman

Letterdrop (@letterdropco)

Produce 32% more content faster by automating your content operation. Grow leads today, not next quarter. Content operations.

Rephrase AI (@Rephrase_AI)

We create digital avatars & hyper-personalized videos for businesses across the world. Driving customer journey with cutting-edge AI.

Sudowrite (@sudowrite)

I use AI to help you write stories without crying. Because writing is hard but important.

Built by @jamesjyu 

Resemble AI (@resembleai)

High-quality AI voice generator that captures human emotion- as seen in #TheAndyWarholDiaries on Netflix.

Built by @theonlysaqib 

Overlooked (@OverlookedInc)

Overlooked is The Social News Network for trusted newspapers and writers.

Built by @sehtoshi 

The Culture DAO (@theculturedao)

Building the Disney of AI (AI Comics, Games, Movies, Characters, Holodeck).

Built by @virtualbeings1 

AI + Finance 💸

Digits (@digits)
AI-powered accounting tools for accountants and business operators of SMBs
Built by
@jeffseibert and @wayne
Series C

Flowcast AI (@flowcastlab)

Flowcast helps financial institutions make smarter financial decisions.

Built by @ken_so 

Arta Finance (@arta_finance) 

Financial management AI.

Series A

AI + Marketing 💋

Observe AI (@observeAI)

Contact center AI: drive better cx, sales, and revenue performance.

Series C

Adaya.ai

Predicts ad attribution to sales & growth.

Built by @adaya_ceo 

GoCharlie (@GocharlieAI)

Charlie is the first commercially available multimodal AI purpose built for marketing.

ViralCopy (@getviralcopy)

Marketing AI

Built by @RushShahani 

SiteMana (@sitemanaAI)

Deploy Predictive AI for anonymous, intent-based personalized emailing to web visitors.

Built by @nyceane 

Seed

Northbeam (@northbeam)

We use AI to help ecommerce brands more efficiently spend their marketing dollars

Connectly (@ConnectlyAI)

AI-powered cloud platform that enables you to unlock revenue with messaging.

Built by @yandongliu

Seed

Omneky (@omneky)

Omneky utilizes state-of-the-art deep learning to personalize advertising creative across all digital channels.

Built by @hisenju

Seed

hireEZ (@hireez)

HireEZ is an award-winning, intelligent end-to-end outbound recruiting platform helping over 5,000 leading recruiting teams proactively connect jobs to people.

AI + Research 🔍  

Anthropic (@AnthropicAI)

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that’s working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Series B

Generally Intelligent (@genintelligent)

An independent research lab building AI agents that can learn & understand like humans, so they can be safely deployed.

Built by @kanjun and @joshalbrecht

Hugging Face (@huggingface)

Github for AI

Built by @ClementDelangue 

Series C 

Ought (@oughtinc)

Automating and scaling open-ended reasoning

Built by @stuhlmueller 

Rain (@asantalo)

Rain is building artificial brains that will enable intelligent machines to learn, perceive, and adapt the way human brains can. They will be 100 –100,000x more efficient than AI run on GPUs and enable human-level intelligence everywhere.

Built by @GordonWilson

Series A

AI + Biz Tools 💼

Playfair (@playfair_app)

Verify information on social media for the first time. Ever.

Built by @databoy97

Bardeen (@bardeenai)

Automate repetitive tasks without code right from your browser.

Built by @hartem @pcwein 

Series A

Credo AI (@CredoAI)

A governance platform to help your teams deliver Responsible AI.

Built by @navrinasingh

Series A

Cresta (@cresta)

Cresta is real-time intelligence for the contact center.

Built by @timshi_ai 

Series C

Machinet (@Machinetnet)

Unit Test AI-developer. We help developers write quality code.

Built by @Fortune_VY

Pre-seed

Weights & Biases (@weights_biases)

The machine learning platform for developers to build better models faster – experiment tracking, dataset & model versioning, and model evaluation.

Built by @l2k @shawnup @vanpelt

Series C

Civixa (@Civixa2)

We enable AI-based companies to adapt AI-first approach. Our target is to take all the CV datasets and provide labeled ones with our tools and AI algorithms.

Dreamer AI (@_DreamerAI)

Dreamer AI is a codegen startup focused on both developers and designers. Our belief is the future is not an app-store but generative interfaces.

Built by @jordantplows

Unreal Speech (@UnrealSpeech)

Text-to-speech that's better & 8x cheaper than AWS. Trying to help improve the lives of billions: the dyslexic, the vision-impaired, auditory learners, etc.

Built by @automationism 

Openlayer (@openlayerco)

The testing and debugging workspace for machine learning

Kodezi (@KodeziHQ)

Kodezi is an AI-assisted development tool that automatically corrects code. It's Grammarly for programmers. We’re on a mission to 10x productivity in programming.

Built by @ishraqkhann

ETC 🤪

ConnectHear (@connect_hear) 

Building the Google Translate for sign language to enable sign language literacy and Deaf accessibility across the world!

Built by @arhumishtiaq @azimadhanjee 

Seed

The Simulation (@fablesimulation) 

The Simulation is an AI-only metaverse with No Humans Allowed!

Built by @virtualbeings1 

Encounter AI (@encounter_ai)

Faster, friendlier, & more efficient customer service for the restaurant & retail industries.

Built by @superdj56 @KabahKConda 

Seed

Accent (@accentshopco)

 Using AI to bring better gifts and swag to the modern workforce. We want to make gifting more easy and inclusive for all types of identities and cultures!

Built by @zoykskhan @Afrootiee @omama_qureshi

Luminai (@luminai)                                

Helping customer service organizations automate internal workflows by making any kind of multi-click process one click by recording a video.

Built by @kesava_kirupa

Series A

Aquabyte (@aquabyteai)

Applying is machine learning & computer vision to fish farming.

Built by @brytonshang 

Series B

Helios Life Enterprises (@MercuryByHLE)

Voice tone intelligence for wall street.

Built by @stlgotmynikeson 

Fitimage (@fitimageApp)

Fitness tracker base on your images. Check your body measurements & bodyfat from your image instantly.

Built by @sam_cyrus1 

Swing Vision (@SwingVisionApp)

Automated stats, highlights & line calling... using just your iPhone!

Built by @_swupnil_

Methid AI (@MethidAI)

Stealth

Built by @APVanDevender 

Buzz Solutions (@BuzzSolutions1)

Artificial Intelligence, Actionable Insights and Predictive Analytics for asset fault detection and inspections of power lines and grid infrastructure

Built by @KAlbertoli

Aragon AI (@aragon_AI)

AI-generated professional headshots

Built by @wesleyytian 

Contributor @s 🔥

A MAJOR thank you to everyone who helped source this list. If you’d like to be added, please drop your name and the company you referred to this list. Let’s keep growing SF’s AI scene together :)

@vishnaga 

@thesangle 

@monica_bzaar 

@tweetsreez 

@LM_Braswell 

@christinaguo16 

@CatOrman1 

@TejasKumthekar 

@NaderLikeLadder 

@databoy97 

@afehrenbacher 

@Sofi_Shvets 

@wesleyytian 

@AkiK 

@Matt_Donne 

@ali_wetrill 

@jamesjyu 

@jr_sachdeva 

@nickarner 

@anshnanda_ 

@jasoncbenn 

@kazuki_sf_ 

@Shabbyjooon 

@automationism 

@yash14700 

@zoykskhan 

@gragtah 

@fablesimulation

@anishk25

@bcog55

@lcatino 

@jonbischke 

@hannahbjian 

@cameronsmith 

@growthmktingpro 

@sam_cyrus1 

@AstasiaMyers 

@vikhyatchaudhry 

@parthi_logan 

@kishan22504 

@akashbhatia 

@hanneshapke

@hisenju 

@adaya_ceo 

@MercuryByHLE 

@mkobach 

@KevinBaragona 

@yrahimov 

@MarcHustvedt 

@r_strategic 

@goth600 

@APVanDevender 

@derrickljohnson 

@Zazzy_Jer 

@WHinthorn 

@theonlysaqib 

@stlgotmynikeson 

@roan0x1 

@Marinperez 

@krystoferivanov 

@nikkiandthenews 

@samirb 

@Rana_Banerji 

@amarkrishna 

@DMokNow 

@pranavwadhwa24 

@ohneka_