Startups worth knowing, with sources

Remote-controlled robotics for pipefitting and bolt management

Voice intelligence platform offering transcription, emotional analysis, and deepfake detection for enterprises.

Software and hardware platform designed to monitor and secure AI agents within isolated runtime environments.

A developer of deep learning models designed to understand physical reality.

AI inference infrastructure provider

Software mapping and securing SaaS and AI platforms for enterprises.

A maritime intelligence startup that uses weather-hardened sensors to capture real-time data and generate insights for maritime activity.

AI-powered platform to automate administrative tasks for insurance agencies and brokers

AI-powered autonomous supply chain management and decision-making platform.

Developer of wearable bionic devices designed to restore natural-sounding speech for laryngectomees.

Space insurance brokerage for the aerospace industry

An AI-powered messenger that allows users to create on-demand apps for productivity.

Airbnb has expanded its use of OpenAI's frontier AI models to support engineering, product development, and customer-facing features.

Durable workflow infrastructure and execution engine for managing AI agent processes.

An AI intelligence layer for orchestrating human workers and robots in logistics environments.

A women’s health platform providing at-home vaginal microbiome testing and data-driven clinical insights.

Agentic platform for security and compliance.

Venture division of private equity firm Bain Capital.

Body scan startup using advanced technology to screen for issues in the blood, skin, and metabolism.

Johannesburg-based AI model builder.

Always-on agentic swarms for enterprise security defense testing.