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318 early-stage startups currently looking to fill Lead roles.

11 Tribes Ventures
A stealth startup
launched two months ago already has over 6 figures in ARR. (NYC)
a16z crypto
consumer AI investments team.
Acely
Building an AI-powered test preparation platform. Grown to $10m ARR with an 11-person team. (Remote)
Acorns
Investment and saving platform.
Actively
Their goal is to build “go to market super intelligence.” They just raised $22.5m
Adaptional
Building ai-powered insurance claims review. (SF)
Adaptive ML
Building the post training platform for specialized enterprise agents. (NYC, Boston, Paris)
AgentMail
email inbox API that gives AI agents their own inboxes. (SF)
Airops
A content engineering platform for AI search visibility, analytics, and strategy. (Remote)
Aitan
AI software for drone and robot fleets. (Tel Aviv)
Aligned Marketplace
Building a national, value-based primary care network. (NYC)
AlleyCorp
Company (NYC)
Ambrook
Accounting and financial management tools for family-run businesses. (Remote)
Anchor Browser
an agentic browser automation platform
Anecdote
Building an ai-powered travel concierge. (NYC)
angellist.com
Private markets infrastructure. (SF, NYC)
Anrok
Building an automated sales tax platform. (SF, NYC)
Antares
Building mass-producible deployable microreactors for safe clean energy. (LA)
anthropic.com
n/a (SF, NYC)
Arca
Building the agentic operating system for life sciences, with the goal of bringing life-saving drugs to market dramatically faster. (NYC)
Arena Intelligence
platform where people compare AI models side by side. (San Francisco, New York, Remote)
ARQ
A company focused on sustainability and clean energy solutions. (Remote)
ARQ
A fintech company building a next-century financial system for customer-controlled wealth. (Remote)
Array VC
A remote-first company focused on innovation and scaling. (Remote)
Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company
They certify and insure AI agents so companies can adopt them safely. (SF)
atlassian.com
Attio
building an ai-powered CRM.
Augmodo
Building a spatial computing and retail platform. (Remote)
Augustus
Building a new type of bank. (NYC, Berlin)
Aurora
Building a lifestyle and travel operating system used by execs/founders/people from the NBA, the Premier League, YC, and more. (NYC)
Backops
Building an AI-native automation platform for supply chain and back-office operations. (SF)
Base Power Company
A technology-driven power company building a distributed energy grid network. (Remote)
Basis Research
An AI-powered platform for accounting and financial intelligence. (Remote)
Bastion
building an institutional stablecoin platform
Beam
building an ai assistant and platform for the contracting industry.
Bedrock Robotics
Develops autonomous technology for heavy construction equipment. (Remote)
Beehiiv
surpassed 4M ARR for their platform for newsletter and creator businesses. (Remote)
Ben
just raised 7.5 million to scale their AI-native platform for global employee benefits. (London)
Black Forest Labs
An AI research lab specializing in advanced image and video generation models. (Remote)
Blackbird Labs
Building a rewards platform for restaurants.
Blacksmith
Building an infrastructure platform that lets developers run CI workloads really fast. (SF)
Bluedot
Nonprofit startup that protects humanity by training people in AI safety and biosecurity. (SF)
Bluefish
An AI-powered marketing platform for brands. (Remote)
Board Lens
AI super analyst that helps investment funds.
Bob
Building a refillable all-in-one body wash. (London)
BoldVoice
Accent and speech coaching app. (NYC)
Brain Co
Building AI-native operating systems for large institutions. (SF)
Bretton AI
Automates financial crime investigation work for financial institutions with AI agents. (San Francisco)
Brex
Brex was recently acquired by Capital One. (SF, NYC)
Brick
AI operating system for industrial sectors like data centers. (NYC)
Bright Harbor
Building AI-powered disaster recovery for governments. (Austin)
BRM
ai-powered purchasing platform that helps companies find and manage their tools
Broccoli
building an AI operating system for home services businesses. (SF)
Bunker Hill Health
Partner with leading health systems to design and deploy AI-enhanced clinical workflows. (SF)
Cavela
Automate product sourcing for e-commerce
Centari
Building an AI platform for deal intelligence. (NYC)
Chariot
Payment infrastructure for donor-advised funds. (NYC)
Charta Health
automating chart review with AI
Chime
Building a banking platform. (SF)
Claim
building a rewards and recommendations platform for eating and shopping
Clarion
voice AI platform that helps healthcare clinics automate internal workflows
Clipbook
Building an AI research and analysis tool. (Remote, SF, DC, Melbourne)
Collective
building an all-in-one financial solution for solopreneurs
Collinear AI
Platform for companies to assess, guard, and improve their AI Systems.
Column
Building a bank that offers technology-forward banking solutions. (SF)
Comp AI
Building an AI-powered compliance platform that gets companies audit-ready for SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA and GDPR. (NYC, Miami)
Comulate
accounting automation platform for the insurance brokerage industry
Context
building a “software company to make web3 more fun.”
Corgi
Building a startup insurance platform. (SF, NYC, London, Dallas, Chicago)
Corridor
AI-native benefits brokerage. (SF, NYC)
Cortex
internal developer platform
Cosmos
Place for creatives to discover and share visual inspiration.
Crosby
building an ai-powered law firm. (NYC)
CRV
venture capital firm building AI for venture capital. (SF)
Cursor
Startup. (SF)
Datacurve
coding data platform that sells to foundation model labs
Datadog
David AI
audio datasets for AI labs training speech and audio models. (SF)
David Energy
build a new energy grid
Dealops
optimized deal pricing platform for startups and sales reps
Delphi
Delphi is building interactive digital minds that people can talk to and learn from. (SF)
Develop Health
insurance AI for prescribers
Diadia Health
building an ai-powered medical reasoning platform that interprets complex genetic data and generates personalized protocols
DiligenceSquared
AI agents that run expert interviews and produce market due diligence reports for private equity investors. (NYC)
Ditto
Building a new social app (something like Finsta meets Tumblr meets Notes). (NYC)
Doji
fun shopping platform
Doordash
DashPass team. (SF, NYC, Chicago, Phoenix, LA, Miami)
Dual Entry
DualEntry provides an AI-native ERP platform built to automate finance and accounting operations. (Remote)
Dust
A platform for custom AI agents connected to company knowledge and tools. (Remote)
Echelon
building an AI-powered ServiceNow developer. (SF)
Edexia
Building an AI school operating system. (Remote, Sydney)
Elayne
Building software that settles an estate after a death. (NYC)
Eleven Labs
An AI audio research and deployment company specializing in realistic speech and sound generation. (Remote)
EliseAI
Building agentic AI solutions to improve operations in housing and healthcare. (Remote)
Engine.com
A digital consultancy that builds products and experiences to help clients unlock growth. (Remote)
Equal Ventures
n/a (NYC)
Etched
Designing specialized chips for transformer-based AI model inference. (Remote)
Every
Building a subscription to help people stay on the edge of AI. (Remote)
Exa
A high-performance AI-powered search engine built for developers and autonomous agents. (Remote)
Factory
Factory is an automation and AI software company for industrial and manufacturing operations. (Remote)
Farsight AI
Building an ai platform for finance teams. (NYC)
Faye
Building a modern travel insurance offering. (Remote, Tel Aviv)
Fernstone
insurance brokerage that pairs AI with licensed brokers to get complex commercial insurance for businesses. (NYC)
Fin
An AI-first company providing customer service agents for support, sales, and commerce. (Remote)
Finch Legal
Building white glove operations for personal injury firms. (NYC)
Finny
building a platform that helps wealth managers with prospecting. (NYC)
Firecrawl
Turn the live internet into clean text and structured data for AI models. (SF)
Fishwife
Building a tinned seafood company. (Remote)
Fleek
They run a wholesale marketplace connecting vintage stores and resellers with used-clothing suppliers. (London)
FleetWorks
Building omni-channel agents for freight booking and management. (SF)
Flex
Building a financial system for entrepreneurs and business owners. (Remote)
Flint AI
Building an ai-powered website personalization platform. (SF)
Forage
Building a payments platform enabling SNAP EBT payments. (Remote)
Fundamental Research Labs
Building an AI agent for excel work. (SF)
Fyxer AI
ai-powered email platform
Gamma
building a presentation and website builder. (SF)
Garage
AI-powered marketplace where fire departments, cities, and businesses buy and sell equipment (NYC, Remote)
Get Intro
Warm introduction platform for selling into healthcare institutions
GiveButter
building a platform that helps non-profits fundraise, market, and manage donors in one place.
Glacis
ai-powered supply chain platform
Goodfire
Building an AI interpretability platform. (SF, NYC)
Goodpath
virtual, whole-person care clinic for people with chronic conditions
Goodstart Labs
games to make AI more effective
Govsignals
ai platform to automate the end-to-end process of finding and bidding on government funding
Granola
An AI-powered meeting notepad designed for users in back-to-back meetings. (Remote)
Graphite
AI-developer productivity platform
Greycroft
Hadrius
They use AI to automate securities compliance, scanning emails, texts, marketing and filings for violations. (NYC)
Happy Robot
AI workers for logistics and other enterprise businesses. (SF)
Harper
Building an AI-native commercial insurance brokerage (SF, Atlanta)
Hearth
Automating the entire revenue cycle for contractors. (Remote, NYC)
Heidi Health
AI-powered medical scribe platform that automates clinical documentation for healthcare providers. (Remote)
Hello Patient
building an AI healthcare assistant that’s accessible via voice and text. (Austin)
Imperfect
Building an AI coach for triathletes using wearable data (SF, Remote)
Imprint
just raised 50 million and is building a co-branded financial products platform. (SF, NYC)
Infinite Machine
building alternative modes of transportation (other than cars). (NYC)
Infinite Machines
building “non-cars” like modern 2-wheeled personal electric vehicles.
Infisical
Secrets management platform
Interruptible
building an interactive video platform that turns passive video into a conversational knowledge object that enables better analytics
Jam.dev
a platform to make engineering more productive
Joyful Health
Doubled their team in the past 6 months. Building a revenue recovery platform for healthcare practices. (NYC)
Jude
Building a women’s health platform. (London)
Jump
AI-powered meeting intelligence and automation platform for financial advisors. (Remote)
Kaizen Labs
Building an operating system for American public services. (NYC)
Kalshi
They are building a leading prediction markets platform. (NYC)
Kargo
Building smart infra for the freight industry. (SF, Atlanta)
Kinstead
Building an ai-native platform that helps nurse practitioners start and run their own practices. (NYC)
Knit
Building an AI-native research platform used by dozens of enterprise brands. (NYC)
Kortix
building an open source platform to help you train your own AI agents
Langchain
Builds infrastructure and platforms for developing production-ready AI agents and LLM applications. (Remote)
Latent Health
An enterprise pharmacy intelligence platform powered by a clinical agentic engine. (Remote)
Latitude
Network that lets businesses turn stablecoin payments into local currency. (US, Remote)
Legion Health
Building autonomous healthcare, starting with psychiatry. (SF)
Lenny Learning
building an ai-powered platform to help schools address their students’ behavioral health challenges
Lettuce
Building an automated tax and accounting platform for solo business owners. (Remote)
Lica
generative AI platform for consumer brands
Lightfield
An AI-powered company building CRM and go-to-market operations software. (Remote)
Linkup
A job search engine that sources listings directly from company websites. (Remote)
Listen Labs
Building an AI research platform. (London)
Loop
building an ai-native transportation spend management platform. (SF, Chicago, NYC)
Lovable
An AI-powered platform that enables users to build apps and websites through natural language chat. (Remote)
Luma
has scaled to millions of event registrations every month with just a small team of 7 people.
Magic School
AI platform for schools and teachers with over 4 million users
Marble Health
Building an operating system for teen mental health. (NYC)
Marklo
Building an AI-powered marketing planning platform for Shopify brands. (SF)
Meadow Memorials
a tech-enabled memorial service
Mercury
A banking stack and financial services platform for startups and businesses. (Remote)
Meroka
helps doctors transition ownership of their medical practice to the employees of the business
Method Financial
Building an API that connects apps to people’s credit and loan accounts. (NYC, DC, Austin, remote)
Metriport
They give healthcare companies real-time access to medical records covering 340M people in the US. (SF)
micro1
AI data platform (SF Bay Area and remote)
Mindbloom
psychedelic medicine provider - they have delivered over 700,000 sessions to patients
Modern Treasury
AI Platform for Payments
Monday.com
Monday is an AI work platform. (Tel Aviv)
Monk
Building an AI-native accounts receivables platform. (NYC)
Moxie
Building a platform to help over 700 aesthetics practices scale their businesses. (Remote)
Muse Bio
building around stem cells derived from menstrual blood, creating an ethical alternative to traditional invasive stem cell collection methods. Raised pre-seed.
Mutiny
Unified sales and marketing platform
n8n
Workflow automation platform blending AI capabilities with business process automation. (Remote)
Natural
Building an agentic payments platform. (SF)
Neko
A healthcare technology company offering advanced preventive health scans and diagnostics. (Remote)
Neon Mobile
Building a platform that allows their users to make hundreds (or even thousands) of dollars per year by securely selling their anonymized data. (NYC, Remote)
Newlimit
extend human health span by inventing new medicines
Northwood
A space technology company building satellite data ground stations. (Remote)
Notion
notion. (SF, NYC)
Noto
Building software for lesson based businesses. (NYC)
Novig
Commission-free sports prediction market. (NYC)
Nox Metals
An AI-powered raw metal supplier providing custom-cut aluminum blocks with fast lead times. (Remote)
Obvio
a platform to help city-operations run more efficiently using solar-powered AI sensors
OffDeal
Building an investment bank for small businesses. (NYC)
Okteto
Building a one-click cloud development environment platform. (Remote)
Omnea
AI-native platform for procurement, supplier lifecycle, and spend management. (Remote)
Onboard AI
building an AI platform for the healthcare industry.
Ooak Data
Building software that turns a company’s internal data into a training ground where AI agents are tested on real work. (Paris)
Open Babylon
adaptation platform for LLMs in non-english speaking countries
OpenAI
Building deployed product managers on their new Codex team. (SF)
OpenRouter
A unified API interface for accessing and routing requests across multiple LLMs. (Remote)
Operator
fast-growing companies scale their phone operations (calling, SMS, etc.) with AI agents
Origin
building a platform that helps speech therapists build their own private practices.
Overtone
Dating app. (NYC)
Pace
Building an AI operations partner for the world’s leading insurers. (NYC, London)
Paradigm
building an ai-powered spreadsheet
Paradromics
building a brain-computer-interface
Paraform
An agentic hiring platform using AI agents and expert recruiters to accelerate talent acquisition. (Remote)
Parallel Web Systems
Building infrastructure and solutions for the open web and AI.(Remote)
Paramark
Building software for marketers. (SF)
Patch
A climate technology platform providing infrastructure for carbon credit management. (Remote)
Pathlight Ventures
n/a (NYC)
Perplexity
They last raised $200m at a $20b valuation for their AI search platform. (London)
Physical Intelligence
Developing general-purpose AI and foundation models for robots and physical devices. (Remote)
Pilgrim
Engineer, manufacture, and deploy biotechnology for defense and national security. (Redwood City, DC)
PIN
platform to help founders raise money
Pirouette Pharma
Make a flat, disk-shaped auto-injector with a hidden needle. (Portsmouth, NH)
play.google.com
microsavings app for Indian consumers
PlayAI
conversational AI platform
Pocket Worlds
creator of Highrise
Polymarket
Building one of the world’s largest prediction markets. (NYC, Remote)
Poolside
They just raised $1b from Nvidia. They are building open-weight agentic coding models. (Remote)
Posthog
Dev tools that help product engineers build successful products. (Remote)
Primer
Building AI-native infrastructure for global payments and finance teams. (Remote)
Proxima
Building a frontier AI and data generation company for developing new pharmaceutical drugs. (NYC, Boston)
Prudentia Sciences
ai-powered drug development platform
Prysmic
Building an operations platform for retail, consumer brands, and manufacturers. (Remote, NYC)
Pure
Building a marketplace for rare coins and precious metals. (Los Angeles)
Puzzle
Building an ai-native accounting platform.
Rallyfuel
platform that lets people back college athletes
Ramp
Publish independent research about AI and spend (NYC, SF)
Ravenna
Building an AI-powered helpdesk. (Seattle)
Ravio
Ravio provides real-time compensation benchmarking and market intelligence for companies. (Remote)
Red Sea Ventures
Hiring for two consumer-focused investment roles (one is a senior growth principal and the other is a seed-stage principal).
Reducto
building an agentic document platform. (SF)
Reevo
building a sales automation platform. (SF)
Regal AI
building a voice AI agent platform that’s made over 250 million phone calls
Relling
Building robots for manufacturing. (SF)
Renaissance Philanthropy
organization helps design, incubate, and launch ambitious philanthropic projects
Rentana
Building an AI copilot for the real estate industry. (NYC)
ResortPass
Platform that lets you take a “daycation” — you can book access to pools/spaces at resorts around the world.
Revin
Making it possible for services businesses to staff their front offices around the clock with AI. (NYC)
Rho
Building a modern banking platform built for startups. (Miami)
Rillet
AI-driven accounting platform tailored for SaaS companies. (Remote)
River
Building a new stack for personal AI. (SF)
River Markets
Building a prime brokerage for prediction markets. (SF)
Roame
Building a search engine that finds flights and hotels you can book with credit card points and miles. (SF, remote US)
Robyn AI
building an emotional AI that helps people feel seen and emotionally connected. Raised a seed round
Ropes
building a talent interviewing platform that prevents fraud
Rox
Rox builds AI agents for enterprise sales teams.
Runway AI
An AI research company building foundation models for video and world simulation. (Remote)
Salient
Building AI that automates loan servicing for auto lenders. (SF)
Sandbar
Building a private voice ring. (NYC)
Scale AI
AI data platform. (NYC)
ScorePlay
Sports tech platform.
Scribe
Scribe provides a platform for process documentation and specialized intelligence for teams. (Remote)
Senra Systems
Build electrical wire harnesses. (California)
Service Up
Sesame
Building personal intelligence via products like a smart pair of glasses. (SF, Seattle, NYC)
SF Compute
Building a liquid market for GPU offtake. (SF)
Sieve
Building the video and audio data frontier AI labs use to train their models. (SF)
Sightline
building a supply chain platform for the restaurant industry. (NYC)
Signal Core
building AI decision infrastructure for enterprises. (SF)
Simple Closure
Helped 2500+ founders shut down their businesses in 2025. (NYC, LA)
Sitch
Personalized AI matchmaking service for dating
Slash
all-in-one business banking platform (that integrates with Base)
Slingshot AI
Building Ash, an AI-powered foundation model designed for mental healthcare. (Remote)
Spade
Building a data and AI platform for finance teams (NYC)
Spokeo
people search platform
Stackfix
They are building a platform that helps you quickly compare software to make purchasing easier.
Stealth AI procurement platform
Automating an important process in a legacy industry. (NYC)
stealth investment platform
backed by a tier 1 VC
Stealth startup
rethinking industrial equipment maintenance
Stepful
They just raised $55m to scale their healthcare training platform. (NYC)
Stripe
n/a (SF, NYC)
StudyFetch
AI learning platform used by 8M+ students (Remote)
Suno
An AI-powered music creation platform that allows anyone to generate songs from text prompts. (Remote)
Superhuman
Building an AI productivity platform that owns brands like Grammarly and Superhuman and has over 40 million users. (SF, Remote)
Superpower
Building an operating system for personal health. (SF)
Talos
Building a platform that enables institutions to trade and manage digital assets. (NYC)
Tandem Health
Builds regulated clinical AI for healthcare providers to automate documentation and coding. (Remote)
Tavily
search engine for AI agents
Taxwire
Building a sales tax automation platform. (NYC, Remote)
Terminal
Building a platform that provides telematics data for the commercial fleet industry. (Toronto)
The General Intelligence Company of New York
Hiring a head of agentic marketing and an agents research lead. (NYC)
theraadix
startup at the intersection of personalization, wellness, and AI-powered adaptive intelligence. (NYC, Remote)
Tidio
Building an ai-powered customer service platform. Growing quickly with 350 million+ end users every month.
Tight
embedded accounting platform
Titan
AI-powered holding company focused on acquiring MSPs / IT businesses
Tixel
Building a ticket marketplace. (Sydney, Melbourne)
TLDR
Building a media company with over 6 million subscribers.
tldraw
building a free digital whiteboard
Topology Ventures
Transfyr
Building tools that record hands-on lab work and turn it into data. (Cambridge, MA)
Treat
building a new system aimed at solving disease, starting with pets. (NYC)
Trial Library
building an ai-powered solution for recruitment and retention in clinical trials. (SF, Remote)
TryNearby
Building a subscription for restaurants that brings in nearby creators (LA)
Turnstile
Building a quote-to-cash platform for sales teams. (SF, NYC)
Unifold
Building multi-chain deposit and payment infra. (NYC)
Union Square Ventures
Investment firm. (NYC)
Unit
Embedded finance platform that moves 10b+ annually. (SF)
Unsiloed AI
Building an API to parse unstructured data. (SF)
Unto Labs
Building products that change how people interact with their money, like developing standards for the Thru blockchain. (SF)
Variance
Building their AI agent screening platform. (SF)
Variant
Fund. (NYC)
Vega
Building an AI-native claims TPA. (NYC)
Velium
an enterprise platform for launching AI products
Vellum AI
Venice AI
Building a consumer AI focused on privacy and user sovereignty. (Remote)
Verda
Full-stack AI cloud. (Helsinki, London, SF)
Veris
training infrastructure for enterprise AI agents
Vesta
AI-native loan origination system. (Remote)
Vori Health
virtual healthcare platform
Warp
An AI-native employee management platform for payroll and operations. (Remote)
Westmag
Building motors in America for drones and robots. (SF)
Wexler
building an ai litigation system
Willow
Building a voice to text platform that has 50k+ people. (SF)
Xapien
AI software that runs background checks. (London, Boston)
Yendo
building a credit card secured by your car
Zapier
Building an AI automation platform. (Remote)
Zucca
agentic platform that manages operational complexity for CPG product development teams. (Los Angeles)