AI Startups

1. webAI

Location: Austin, Texas

Funding: Series A, $43 Million

Investors Include: Forerunner Ventures, Mike Abbott, David Beirne, and David Shuman

webAI empowers businesses to harness the power of AI directly on their own devices, eliminating the need for cloud infrastructure and ensuring complete data privacy. With a focus on enterprise-grade applications, webAI enables companies to build, deploy, and control advanced AI models. By leveraging existing hardware, webAI offers cost-effective, scalable solutions that keep data secure, reduce operational costs, and deliver real-time insights—even offline.

2. Suno

Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts

Funding: Series B, $125 Million

Investors Include: Lightspeed Venture Partners, Daniel Gross, Founder Collective

Suno is an AI music generation startup that allows users to create original songs with AI. The company’s platform enables users to generate custom music by providing text prompts or musical parameters. Suno’s technology combines deep learning models with music theory to produce high-quality, royalty-free tracks for various applications.

3. Flyfin

Location: Silicon Valley (San Jose, California)

Funding: Series A, $10 million

Investors Include: Accel, Alpha Wave Global

Flyfin is an AI-powered tax preparation and filing service. This fintech startup combines the expertise of real certified public accountants (CPAs) and AI to provide an expedited, automated tax solution for self-employed individuals.

4. Cohere

Location: Toronto, Canada

Funding: Series D, $940 Million

Investors Include: Index Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Cisco Investments

Cohere provides natural language processing (NLP) models to improve human-machine interactions. The company aims to differentiate itself by focusing on developers who need easy-to-use language tools for more than one task and by allowing companies to bring their own language data tailored to their industry.

5. Kore.ai

Location: Orlando, Florida

Funding: Series D, $296 Million

Investors Include: Hercules Capital, FTV Capital, Beedie Capital

Kore.ai is an enterprise AI platform that specializes in conversational AI and process automation. The company offers a range of AI-powered solutions (e.g., virtual assistants, chatbots, and intelligent process automation tools) for businesses across various industries. Kore.ai’s platform aims to enhance customer experiences, streamline operations, and drive digital transformation for organizations.

6. Overjet

Location: Boston, Massachusetts

Funding: Series C, $134 Million

Investors Include: General Catalyst, March Capital, Harmonic Growth Partners

Overjet uses Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-cleared AI technology to help dental providers enhance clinical care and administrative efficiency. The company’s patient-centric platform leverages machine learning (ML), computer vision, and NLP to increase diagnosis precision, treatment accuracy, and practice automation.

App Startups

7. Glide

Location: Tiburon, California

Funding: Series A, $23.8 Million

Investors Include: Benchmark Capital Holdings, First Round Capital, Idealab

Glide is a platform that allows users to create mobile and web applications without coding. It enables people to transform data from spreadsheets into fully functional apps through a user-friendly, drag-and-drop interface. With Glide, individuals and businesses can quickly build custom apps for various purposes, including inventory management, customer databases, and project tracking.

8. Realworld

Location: New York, New York

Funding: Seed, $7.92 Million

Investors Include: Techstars, Bezos Expeditions, Purple Sage Ventures

The Realworld app is a game-changing innovation for the next generation of adults. With this easy-to-use app, Realworld provides resources and tools that help young adults to navigate adulthood in nearly every way. From tax filing assistance to everything users need to know about getting their first pet, Realworld lays the foundation for organization and success.