69 Best Machine Learning Startups to Watch in 2025

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment platform.

Neuralink is a company that develops brain-computer interface (BCI) devices to assist people with paralysis and blindness and technologies that may expand the abilities of humans.

Numerai is a hedge fund with stock market trades determined by crowdsourced artificial intelligence models. The best models receive rewards in the form of a cryptographic token called Numeraire (NMR) on the Ethereum blockchain.

Wavel.ai is a voice AI solution for scaling and localizing video content.

DeepSig is an early-stage startup that develops deep learning software to reinvent wireless communications.

Charles River Analytics is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based R&D solutions provider in 1983.

Pachama is a company estimating carbon storage in forests and predicting future deforestation or potential for forest restoration with the use of satellite images.

Luminar Technologies is an Orlando, Florida-based automotive industry company.

Mistral AI is an AI-driven LLMs platform founded in 2023 by Arthur Mensch, Timothée Lacroix and Guillaume Lample.

Hugging Face is an open-source hosting platform for natural language processing and machine learning domains, such as computer vision and reinforcement learning, and for developing and deploying machine learning models for various applications.

Cropin, also known as Cropin Technology solutions, is a company that offers an intelligent and self-evolving system that delivers farming solutions to the agricultural sector.

Perplexity AI is a company developing an AI-based search engine platform.

Sky Engine AI is an advanced data science technology and research company that develops evolutionary AI platform for deep learning in virtual reality for any computer vision applications.

Kasisto is a company that develops conversational AI for financial institutions.

Humanloop is a platform for annotating, training, and deploying natural language processing (NLP) models.

C3 AI is an enterprise artificial intelligence software company providing a family of integrated products for accelerating digital transformation.

Salesken.ai is a conversational intelligence platform.

Paravision is a San Francisco-based provider of facial recognition and activity monitoring software. Paravision was previously known as Ever AI.

Krisp is a technology company developing an AI-powered app designed to eliminate background noise during online communications.

Augury is a B2B company developing hardware and software solutions to help monitor and diagnose a machine's health through wireless sensors and artificial intelligence capabilities.

Clearview AI is a software company offering a computer vision system using artificial intelligence for serving the law enforcement industry.

Inflection is an AI studio developing personal artificial intelligence (AI) with its first product, Pi (personal intelligence), a supportive and empathetic conversational AI.

DataRobot sells a machine learning platform that helps users build and deploy accurate predictive models. The Boston-based company was founded in 2012 by Jeremy Achin.

Interos is a Virginia-based company developing a logistics assurance platform designed for supply chain risk management, through a breakthrough AI SaaS platform.

Aura Vision is an AI computer vision company for generating insights into shop floors. Aura Vision uses existing security cameras in stores to provide customer demographics and behavior data.

Owkin is a medical treatment and therapeutics company founded by Thomas Clozel. They develop artificial intelligence and machine learning tools to augment and develop medical and biological research.

Viome is a longevity and preventative healthcare company that offers oral microbiome and gut microbiome testing services, founded by Deepak Savadatti and Naveen Jain.

Iterative.ai is a machine learning and artificial intelligence training platform provider.

Writer is an AI writing assistant developed for content teams. It provides individuals, teams, and companies the ability to create and enforce a writing style guide to help them improve their branding.

AppZen is a San Jose, California-based company that provides an AI-based auditing platform for finance teams.

Insilico Medicine is a drug discovery, artificial intelligence company that looks to treat cancer and age related diseases

H2O.ai is the creator of H2O, an open-source machine learning and artificial intelligence platform.

Hypergiant Industries is a machine learning and artificial intelligence company offering client-focused services and research and development in various fields. The company was founded by Ben Lamm and John Fremont in 2018.

AirMap is a California-based drone industry company improving low-altitude-airspace infrastructure to help drone operators fly safely and legally.

Scale AI is an artificial intelligence company making an API for validating and training data for applications.

Kofax is a robotic process automation company that digitizes complex and information-intensive workflows.

Toyon Research Corporation is a Goleta, California-based company that researches and develops radio frequency and antenna systems that was founded in 1980.

Gowin Semiconductor Corp. is a manfucaturer of programmable logic devices based in Shanghai.

Intelistyle is a London-based artificial intelligence company founded by Michael Michelis and Kostas Koukoravas.

UBiome was a biotechnology microbial genomics company based in San Francisco.

Blue Hexagon is a San Francisco-based cybersecurity company offering an on-device machine learning based malware detection product.

Kite.Com is a San Francisco-based company that builds AI-powered auto-complete features for developers.

FogHorn Systems is a Real-Time Edge Intelligence for Industrial IoT founded in 2014 by Sastry Malladi.

PolyAI is a company building an enterprise conversational platform with AI-generated voice assistants to improve customer experience.

Forethought is a San Francisco-based company providing customer service automation using generative AI technology.

Algolia is a company designing and building search and discovery API for websites and mobile apps. It participated in the W14 cohort of Y Combinator.

Adarga is a UK-based artificial intelligence software provider working with customers across defense, national security, and commercial organizations.

Tecton is a machine learning DevOps platform for data scientists.

Postmates is a food delivery service company operating a network of couriers for local goods delivery.

Adept AI Labs is a machine learning research and product lab building general intelligence systems

Replit is a San Francisco-based IDE and software development environment company making a browser application platform for coding in over fifty programming languages.

Rain AI is a company developing a new AI compute platform by co-designing every layer of the AI stack.

Tenstorrent is a Canadian artificial intelligence and machine learning technology company specializing in AI architectures focused on scalable deep learning and adaptability.

Sight Machine's manufacturing software platform uses an artificial intelligence (AI) platform to help improve quality and efficiency across a manufacturing enterprise.

4Paradigm is a China-based artificial intelligence start-up company developing machine learning software.

A company offering an audio word processing platform that enables editor and producers to edit sound files while a writer would edit its lyrics.

Spice AI is a Seattle-based start-up company building a developer-first platform to create artificial intelligence/machine learning-driven applications that harness time series data.

Human Longevity is a genomic-based, health intelligence company empowering proactive healthcare and enabling a life better lived.

Driverless truck company based in San Francisco, California.

Waymo is a technology company developing autonomous car technology and is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.

Metropolis is a Santa Monica, California-based company focusing on artificial intelligence technology for checkout-free transactions at parking lots.

Iguazio is a Tel Aviv, Israel-based data science company providing a multifunctional MLOps and machine learning automation-based solution for businesses in a variety of industries.

An engineering and robotics design company founded in 1992 and headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. The company is engaged in the creation of robots and the development of software to simulate human behavior. Among the clients are SpaceX and the US Army.

Zilliz is a vector database company providing products for enterprise-grade AI.

Haptik is a company developing conversational AI for customer experience.

An AI company for professionals to manage jobs and finances.

BenchSci is a biotechnology company with a machine learning platform for researching biological compounds. It was founded in 2015 and is located in Toronto, Canada.

ScaleFactor is an Austin, Texas-based SaaS company offering services in bookkeeping and accounting.

Nillion is a decentralized privacy solutions provider founded in 2021 by Andrew Masanto.