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 🔥
Useful general intelligence.
Built by @anmol01gulati @Maxwell_Nye @KelseySzot
Highlight the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. A social learning log for wisdom seekers.
Built by @kazuki_sf_
Efficient deep learning at scale.
Series A
AI memory assistant for researchers.
Built by @samiur1204 @SamDeBrule
Automatic knowledge organizer.
Built by @kevinfmoody
Series A
Knowledge work power-tool. ML-powered web browsing. Generative critical thinking & creativity. Deeply connect your thought.
Built by @JvNixon
AI productivity coach that learns how you work, remembers what you worked on, and gives intelligent suggestions to help you be productive.
Building a more natural way to interact with technology with neural-interfaces.
Tesla-grade data engine
Built by @atroyn @jeffreyhuber
Metaphor (@metaphorsystems)
Search the web using large language models
Built by @scikud @WilliamBryk @apagajewski
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
Harnessing AI, satellite data and carbon markets to drive funding to effective reforestation and conservation.
Series B
Perennial uses satellite imagery and AI to assess soil carbon, scaling monitoring and verification.
Series A
Windscape.ai provides smart control for wind turbines with AI and sensors.
Seed
Using AI to accelerate grant writing & management for climate tech.
Pre-seed
Built by @helenamerk @douglasqian
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.
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
Generative AI for consumers.
Seed
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.
The virtual product photography studio for e-commerce sellers.
Simplifying reading confusing academic papers.
Built by @amanjha__ @functionofjade
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
ChatGPT for Research
Built by @saikiranchandha
TuLearning
Offering tutors as a service via AI Avatars
Built by @kevinkim @rishabhbanga
AI + Data 🩺
The data platform for AI. High quality training and validation data for AI applications.
Series E
Search and analytics engine integrated into your website or application. Tensor-based.
3k+ github stars.
Built by: Jesse Clark & Tom Hamer
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
A no code end to end MLOps platform.
Serverless GPUs for ML inference.
Built by @erikdunteman @kylejohnmorris
Seed
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.
Training computer vision models from images.
Built by @josephofiowa
Series A
No code platform for data entry.
Built by @ankrgyl
Series B
Process. Understand. Search. Video.
Built by @mokshith_v @thpicy
Seed
Mosaic turns company data into domain-specific models.
Built by by @Navean
Series A
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 helps you improve your ML products with analytics, alerting, and human feedback.
Built by @vmcheung
The data management system that redefines how big-visual-data is stored and accessed for Machine Learning.
Built by @vishakha041
Seed
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
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
The Natural Language Interface for Databases
Built by @its_jared_zhao
Mage is an open-source tool for building and running
data pipelines that transform your data.
Built by @TommyDANGerouss
Seed
Platform for real-time machine learning.
Enabling Process Excellence with AI platform
Easily find the right machine learning/AI models, techniques, and code to experiment & build rapidly
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.
Cloud-based AI solutions for businesses.
AI generated clips for podcasters.
Scop Network (@ScopNetwork)
The Scop Network will transform the publishing industry by creating an immutable and distributed ledger for creative works and media creation.
The one-stop-shop for product ad creative and optimization powered by Generative AI || Generate ads in minutes!
Built by @mickeyxfriedman
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.
I use AI to help you write stories without crying. Because writing is hard but important.
Built by @jamesjyu
High-quality AI voice generator that captures human emotion- as seen in #TheAndyWarholDiaries on Netflix.
Built by @theonlysaqib
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
Digits (@digits)
AI-powered accounting tools for accountants and business operators of SMBs
Built by @jeffseibert and @wayne
Series C
Flowcast helps financial institutions make smarter financial decisions.
Built by @ken_so
Arta Finance (@arta_finance)
Financial management AI.
Series A
Contact center AI: drive better cx, sales, and revenue performance.
Series C
Predicts ad attribution to sales & growth.
Built by @adaya_ceo
GoCharlie (@GocharlieAI)
Charlie is the first commercially available multimodal AI purpose built for marketing.
Marketing AI
Built by @RushShahani
Deploy Predictive AI for anonymous, intent-based personalized emailing to web visitors.
Built by @nyceane
Seed
We use AI to help ecommerce brands more efficiently spend their marketing dollars
AI-powered cloud platform that enables you to unlock revenue with messaging.
Built by @yandongliu
Seed
Omneky utilizes state-of-the-art deep learning to personalize advertising creative across all digital channels.
Built by @hisenju
Seed
HireEZ is an award-winning, intelligent end-to-end outbound recruiting platform helping over 5,000 leading recruiting teams proactively connect jobs to people.
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
Github for AI
Built by @ClementDelangue
Series C
Automating and scaling open-ended reasoning
Built by @stuhlmueller
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
Playfair (@playfair_app)
Verify information on social media for the first time. Ever.
Built by @databoy97
Automate repetitive tasks without code right from your browser.
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
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
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
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
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
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
Faster, friendlier, & more efficient customer service for the restaurant & retail industries.
Built by @superdj56 @KabahKConda
Seed
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
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
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
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
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_