Startups to watch
Smaller AI companies that are hiring fast right now. Good places to get in early. Updated Oct 19, 2026.
- ELElevenLabs
Create lifelike speech with our AI voice generator and voice agents platform.
Valued at $22B in Sep
- PIPrime Intellect
Train, deploy, and continuously improve your own models on an integrated compute, training, inference, and sandbox stack.
Hiring much faster than last week
- SASardine
The top agentic risk platform used by leading banks and merchants worldwide to stop fraud in real-time, prevent AI-driven attacks…
Hiring much faster than last week
- BRBedrock Robotics
Advanced Autonomy for the Built World
Hiring much faster than last week
- FIFieldguideNew on AI Open Roles
Fieldguide is the agentic AI platform for audit and advisory firms.
Hiring much faster than last week
- HCH Company
H Company is an AI research lab and agentic platform that works across any system without rebuilding your stack.
Just started a design team in Paris
- WAWayve
Hiring mostly in engineering and operations.
Opened a new Application Software EU team
- ASAssemblyAI
With AssemblyAI's industry-leading Speech AI models, transcribe speech to text and extract insights from your voice data.
New roles this week, mostly in sales
- NCNormal Computing
Normal Computing is an applied AI company solving the hardest problems in AI and silicon.
New roles this week, mostly in silicon engineering (seg)
- RURunPod
AI infrastructure with on-demand GPUs and serverless compute.
Opened a new Accounting & Finance team
- LALanceDB
The multimodal lakehouse for AI, accelerating large-scale data curation and feature engineering so teams can build better models faster.
New roles this week, mostly in engineering
- LALangChain
LangChain enables every company to own their intelligence.
Opened a new Sales Development Representative team
- AHAssort Health
AI voice agents for healthcare.
New roles this week, mostly in sales & gtm
- VOvoizeNew on AI Open Roles
Purpose-built for skilled nursing and elder care.
Opened a new Training team
- JUJuiceboxNew on AI Open Roles
Find, verify, and email perfect-fit candidates in one prompt.
New roles this week, mostly in sales & gtm
- DMd-Matrix
d-Matrix is redefining AI inference with memory-centric compute built for ultra-low latency, greater efficiency, and scalable AI…
New roles this week, mostly in inference execution
- TUTuring
Hiring mostly in engineering and sales & gtm.
New roles this week, mostly in enterprise ai engineering
- ETEtched
Co-designed chips, racks, and software to push the pareto frontier to best-in-class throughput and interactivity.
Just started hiring for AI research
- LALambda
Train and scale AI on NVIDIA VR200 NVL 72, GB300 NVL 72, B300, B200, H200, H100, and more GPUs.
Secured $1B in debt in Aug
- FRFractile
Fractile is designing AI compute systems that will enable the next generation of AI scaling: frontier model inference, 25x faster, at…
New roles this week, mostly in engineering
- COCommure
Commure turns labor into software with AI-powered inbound and outbound calling, intake, documentation, coding, claims, and payment…
Building a new team in Salt Lake City
- GAGamma
Hiring mostly in engineering and sales & gtm.
New roles this week, mostly in engineering
- GRGranola
The AI notepad for back-to-back meetings.
New roles this week, mostly in engineering
- FAFactory
Build faster with AI coding agents.
Opened a new Federal team
- COCodeRabbit
Ship more software, faster, with code you trust.
New roles this week, mostly in sales & gtm
- SRServe Robotics
Why move a 2-pound burrito in a 2-ton car?
New roles this week, mostly in operations
- COCohere
Cohere builds powerful models and AI solutions enabling enterprises to automate processes, empower employees, and turn fragmented data…
Hiring much faster than last week
- DADistyl AI
Architecting the AI-Native Enterprise.
New roles this week, mostly in engineering
- ARAgility Robotics
Agility's humanoid robots are deployed today in manufacturing, distribution, and logistics.
New roles this week, mostly in operations
- TETennr
Tennr is a patient orchestration platform that helps providers get the right patients into the right care settings at the right time.
New roles this week, mostly in sales & gtm
- SASaronic
Providing the most advanced and capable autonomous vessels in the maritime domain.
New roles this week, mostly in port alpha
- NUNuro
Driving the future of autonomy with the most scalable AI driver.
Hiring much faster than last week
- FAFireworks AI
Fireworks’ state of the art training and inference platform take you beyond the frontier, transforming open models into your specialized…
Just started a risk & compliance team in San Francisco
- SYSynthesia
Official Synthesia site. The AI video platform trusted by 90%+ of the Fortune 100 to communicate, train, and upskill teams in 140+…
New roles this week, mostly in pre-sales
- TATogether AI
Build what's next on the AI Native Cloud.
New roles this week, mostly in engineering
- PIPhysical Intelligence
Physical Intelligence is bringing general-purpose AI into the physical world.
New roles this week, mostly in operations
How the ranking works: 50% new roles in the last 7 days relative to open roles, 20% new-team signals in the last 14 days, 15% a funding headline in the last 90 days, 15% smaller size (TechCrunch and Crunchbase News headlines that name the company; the headline is linked on each company page). "What they do" lines come from each company's own website. Giants, public companies, subsidiaries and generalists where we only track AI roles are left out. Methodology.