Series A Startups in 2026

AI-powered procurement platform that deploys autonomous agents to handle enterprise purchasing workflows. Automates vendor sourcing, negotiation, and purchase order management. Graduate of Y Combinator Summer 2023 batch.

Enterprise data quality platform that uses machine learning to automatically detect, alert, and fix data quality issues. Helps companies ensure their data pipelines produce reliable data for AI models, analytics, and business-critical applications.

Space habitat company developing the world's first commercial space station, Haven-1, designed for both crewed missions and in-space manufacturing. Founded by Stellar co-founder Jed McCaleb, the company is building a 100-meter-long rotating space station to enable long-term human habitation in orbit.

Clinical-stage biotech developing PRO-203, a potential best-in-class CD20xCD3 T-cell engager for severe autoimmune diseases including systemic sclerosis and lupus.

Smack Technologies is a frontier AI lab for national security, co-founded by MARSOC veterans. The company builds domain-specific AI models powered by deep reinforcement learning to deliver 'Decision Dominance' to the U.S. Department of Defense, allies, and partners. Its Omega and Alpha product suites enable campaign-informed planning in seconds across all time horizons.

IoT-based smart building platform providing wireless, cloud-based access control, attendance tracking, and visitor management. BLE mesh architecture replaces traditional wired systems with smartphone-based contactless entry. Product suite includes Bluetooth/NFC readers, QR scanners, biometric systems, and AI-powered video surveillance. Serves 500+ enterprise clients across India, US, and Middle East with 500,000+ users across 24M sq ft of real estate. Holds 7 patents.

AI-native defense company developing AI-powered orchestration for autonomous systems. Creates the cognitive layer enabling autonomous defense systems to work together across different vendors and platforms. Builds novel algorithmic weapons and tactics orchestration for all-domain, cross-vendor systems serving Department of War and UK Ministry of Defense.

AI-native HR platform that combines senior HR executives and AI engineers to transform compensation management, recruiting, and performance review processes. Embeds 'forward-deployed' experts (former HR leaders from Nubank, XP, IBM) who work alongside AI engineers to design customized HR policies and bespoke software tools. Provides real-time compensation benchmarking data from over 1,000 companies. Serves 150+ Brazilian companies including Nubank, QuintoAndar, Creditas, and iFood.

Agentic AI decision intelligence platform built for retail. Unifies retailer strategy, internal data, and external competitive signals to deliver prioritized, explainable recommendations across pricing, promotions, inventory, marketing, and assortment. Serves retailers from $20M to $100B in revenue across three continents. Incubated within Landing AI (Andrew Ng).

AI-native intelligence platform helping businesses navigate and win government contracts. Makes public sector data accessible and actionable across 110,000+ agencies (cities, counties, state agencies, schools, special districts). Provides predictive intelligence on government purchasing decisions and automates public record requests at scale.

B2B cross-border payments infrastructure platform for Indian businesses. Provides API-driven infrastructure enabling SaaS companies, global capability centers, IT/ITeS exporters, and goods exporters to collect overseas payments, manage foreign exchange, and settle funds locally. Supports payments from 100+ countries across 25+ currencies, serving nearly 15,000 businesses with $1B in annualized cross-border payments.

AI platform that accelerates financial services decision-making using proprietary data. Connects structured and unstructured firm data across legacy systems (memos, models, accounting systems) and applies finance-specific intelligence to automate high-stakes decisions. Deploys directly into customer environments for data control. Institutions managing hundreds of billions in assets use it for portfolio monitoring, cross-cycle analysis, and credit optimization.

AI-native enterprise resilience platform that delivers verifiable, continuous data protection. Connects to all environments, security solutions, and backup tools to autonomously map infrastructure and backup data, uncovering gaps that break recovery plans. Turns data resilience from manual backup processes into automated, AI-powered capability for CISOs and IT leaders.

AI-native commercial insurance brokerage automating the insurance buying process for mid-sized businesses. The platform matches buyers to over 160 carriers across workers' compensation, general liability, professional liability, cyber, commercial auto, and bonds, using AI to route quotes, handle documents, and manage underwriter follow-ups. Serves 6,000+ customers across 35 states with a 98.78% retention rate.

AI training gym platform that provides infrastructure and environments for training, fine-tuning, and evaluating machine learning models. Offers standardized benchmarking and optimization tools for AI developers and researchers.

7Rivers is a technology services company and certified Snowflake Elite Partner that helps enterprises harness data and AI for real business value. Services span data migration, Data Vault 2.0 implementation, generative AI solutions, data science, and managed services across insurance, banking, software, manufacturing, and healthcare.

Coral Care is a pediatric therapy platform connecting families with licensed speech, occupational, and physical therapists who deliver insurance-covered services in the home. The platform supports clinicians in building flexible private practices through integrated infrastructure spanning credentialing, scheduling, documentation, and billing.

Builds an AI-powered platform for enterprise finance teams that automates the month-end close process. Uses agentic AI to handle reconciliations, journal entries, flux analysis, and variance reporting. Integrates with ERP systems like NetSuite and serves over 30 enterprise customers globally.

AI-native vulnerability management platform that deploys autonomous AI agents to investigate, prioritize, and remediate security vulnerabilities across the full lifecycle. Founded by ex-Abnormal Security and Coinbase engineers, Cogent works with dozens of Fortune 1000 companies and reports a 97% reduction in exposure windows for critical issues.

AI-native operating system for financial institutions, designed to systematize client data, onboarding, and servicing at scale. The platform unifies fragmented financial technology stacks into a single intelligent layer, integrating with CRMs, custodians, portfolio management tools, and underwriting systems.

ChipAgents (Alpha Design AI) is an agentic AI platform for semiconductor chip design and verification. The platform deploys coordinated AI agents that plan, reason, execute, and continuously improve across complex silicon programs, helping RTL design and verification engineers accelerate workflows by up to 10x. The company serves 80 leading semiconductor firms with multi-year licensing agreements.

Builds plug-and-play, system-level power management solutions for AI data centers and cloud infrastructure, designing configurable platform-based power architectures that span from grid to core.

Humanoid robotics company building the Apollo general-purpose robot for manufacturing, logistics, and retail. Spun out of the University of Texas Human Centered Robotics Lab in 2016.

Ricursive Intelligence is a frontier AI lab building AI systems to transform semiconductor design, founded by the co-creators of Google's AlphaChip.