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Startup Intelligence Database
Discover what the world's best startups are building before it's announced publicly.
Model Evaluation
RAG
Workflow Agent
Data Extraction
Optimization
Hedge
Automates wholesale specialty insurance placement for retail brokers
Hedge turns the manual E&S wholesale layer into software-mediated placement, with founders who have built AI brokerage and AI ops systems.
Workflow Agent
Computer Vision
Fraud and Risk Scoring
Personalization
Multimodal AI
Surtr Defense Systems
Fuses counter-UAS sensors and effectors into an open defense OS.
ParallaxOS is a YC-backed bet that counter-drone defense needs neutral software, not another closed hardware stack.
Model Evaluation
Workflow Agent
Data Extraction
Speech AI
Fraud and Risk Scoring
Korso
AI agents that execute manufacturing back-office workflows.
ERP replacement is a hard sell, so Korso’s wedge is an agent layer that makes legacy manufacturing systems act together.
Model Evaluation
RAG
Workflow Agent
Data Extraction
Computer Vision
Klarify
Turns therapy sessions into notes, plans, claims, and client context.
Klarify has a narrow wedge into therapist workflow, then expands into the admin and clinical context layer around each client.
Model Evaluation
RAG
Workflow Agent
Computer Vision
Speech AI
PerfectBit
Builds verifier-grounded training data for frontier AI labs
Verifier-grounded data is a timely wedge into frontier lab budgets as model gains shift from web scale to correctness.
Model Evaluation
Workflow Agent
Simulation
Anomaly Detection
Scope
Simulates how AI agents find and use software products.
The pitch is early agent-distribution infrastructure: teams will need to test how agents choose, use, and fail on their products.
Model Evaluation
RAG
Workflow Agent
Computer Vision
Optimization
Matforge
AI scientists for semiconductor materials discovery.
The bet is that a closed loop between agentic design and lab validation can compress semiconductor materials discovery into a venture-scale platform.
Workflow Agent
Optimization
Fraud and Risk Scoring
Personalization
Chert
Send and automate trusted iMessage conversations at scale.
Chert turns iMessage into a programmable GTM and support channel at a moment when email, LinkedIn, and A2P SMS are crowded or constrained.